The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-12-03
THE FARMERS ALLIANCE.
The National Convention o pen
ed by President Polk,
SEvEEAL RECOMMENDATIONS
or importance Made In Ills Annual
Addrcss-T Work of Extend.
ing the Order throughout tho
Country to Continue.

OcALA, FLA, Dec. e.-Tbe Naiiona
Farmers Alliance and Industrial Unior
met in the Opera House at noon to-day
Nearly every delegation has arrived, ant
the house was crowded. Immediatel,
after calling the delegates to order
President Polk began the delivery Of hil
annual address, which occupied over an
hour. The address congratulated the
Alliance on the achievements since the
last meeting, and then reviewed the
cause Of the agricultural depression.
The President declared that this de.
preston is IN anomaly 10 the student Of
industrial progress. "Retrogression in
American agriculture" he said, "means
national decay, and promising as ia this
young giant republic, yet its power and
glory touch not the degradation OF the
American farmer.
The harm incident to Capitalization
OF the money power md upbuilling OF
monopolies was then pointed out and
both political parties were condemned
for forcing aud encouraging this condi.
ton. With reference to the extending
OF the order, tho President urged that
additional organizers be sent at once
into Oregon. Washington, Ohio, New
York, New JerHey, Arizona and other
States. Among his recommendations
was one that an organization be formed
10 be known is the National Legislature,
composed Of the National President and
the Preaidents OF ait. State Alliances,
their duty being to look closely after
legislative reform demanded by the AL.
lance, both in State Legislatures and iu
Congress. He recommended changes
in the Constitution and recited "de.
mauds to be- made in way OF financial,
land, election and tax reforms.' He
deprecated sectionalism and closed with
RI eloquent appeal Tor National har.
mony.
Touching upon the political action Of
the Alliance, President Polk said:
While our organic alton is political it
cannot be partisan or sectional in its &C.
ton. In support OF this declaration, We
proudly point to our whole past and
the recent popular election and
10 the noble and
patriotic bearing Of the brotherhood in
Kansas and South Carolina, President
Polk said the Alliance will demand the
restoration of silver to all the rights and
qualities OF legal tender which gold pos.
sessess among other things the election
Of United States Senators by a direct
vote.
At the conclusion OF President Polk's
address the Alliance resolved itself into
q sort OF love feast, during where @. A,
Power, an old Union soldier, moved TINT
all ex-soldicrs who iudorsed tue senti.
ments expressed in tho speech If the
President in reference to the burial OF
sec!ionalisn, rise up to be counted. The
motion prevailed, and between forty and
fifty stood up amid the widest en-.
thusiasm.
Under the inspiration of this good
feeling, an ex-Union soldier from Wis.
consin stood up in his seat and called
upon all Union soldiers present to give
three cheers for the old Confederates in
the ALLIANCE rhey were given with
will. Then it was the Confederate turn
and they cheercd the old soldiers OF the
Union.