The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1890-12-11
AGAINSTTH + FORCE BILL
THE CONVENT, ON OF THE FARMERS
ALLIANCE HELD AT OOALA.
Delega les from the North, East, West ard
South Speak Against the Passage Of The
I,farous Bill With One Voice.

South Speak Against the Passage Of The
Irfarous Bill With One Voice.
That was great meeting of the
Farmers Alliance at Ocala, Fla, last
week Sectional lines were abolished
ard the bloody shirt flung to the
Winds. They showed themselves q
lie patriots working to1e.her for the
common good of the whole country.
The Alliance is murching on and the
end is not yet
The proceedings of the c,nvention
we're not given ts the press until they
had passed through the hands of q
Press Committee Of which Mr.. Stokes,
of South Carolina, is the chairman.
A special committee was appointed
to promote the union of the kn'gh:s of
labor and other organizations with a
view to the formation of Peoples par
ty in 1892. The Western delegates
were strongly in favor Of the forma
ton of another party, but the South
ern men were more conservative and
wished to fight the battle within the
lines of The Democratic party. Hon.
Jno Davis, journalist and Knight Of
Labor, who was elected to Congress
from the Fifth Kansas district, ex-
pressed the opinion that third party
will surely arise outside Of the Alli-
ance and Knights of Labor.
All the Kansas delegates say that
Ingalls, is beaten beyond a doubt and
that the opp sition to him is not 30
divided as it seems.
Speaking of the third party, Presi-
dent Polk said such a movement was
8. open to the people of the Uni,ed
: .ates, who entertain labor reform
ideas. as to those who have Other re
f., m ides-, as tariff reform, civil ser
vice reform ideas erc.
Because of certain reports in the
newspapers that corrupt methods had
been em .,loyed in the recent Georgia
Senatorial contest by Macune, Liv-
ingstone and Polk, these gent emen
denounce the rumors as false and de-
manded thorough investigation of the
charges. A committee was appointed.
consisting of one delegate from each
State, who were instructed to sift the
NJ, tier to the bottom and not to bring
in any "whitewashed" report. The
charges were pronounced untounded
and malicious.
The sentiment of the convention was
uuited against the Force bill.
Delegate w. s. McAllister, of Mis-
sissippi, introduced the following pre-
amble and resolutions, which were
adopted:
"Wnereas the President of the Uni
ted States, in his annual message to
Cong, ess, recommends and urges the
immediate passage of the measure
known as the Lodge election bill; and
"Whefeas said bill involves radical
revolution in the election machinery
of The Union, both State and national,
and its passage will be fatal to the
autonomy of the States and cherished
liberties of the citizens; and
aWhereas said bill is partisan in
spirit and will be partisan in it's ap
plication, thus revitalizing the CORY
ghost of sectional arrangement; and
whereas, in the holy war which we
have declined against sectionalism,
the firesid-s of the farmers of tho
North, East, South and West are the
citadeIs around which the heaviest
bettles are being fought, and to the
end that victory may crown our cru
ssaoe, let fraternity aud unity reign:
Therefore be it '@
"Resolved by the National Farmers
Alliance and Industrial Union Of
America, in national council Assem-
bled, That we do most soiemnly pro-
test against the passage of said Lodgs
election bill, and we most earnestly
petition our Senators to employ all
fair and legal means to defeat this un-
patriotic measure, which can result in
nothing but evil to our common and
beloved country.
this preamble and resolutions be for
warded to each Senator in Congress" !"
DISCUSSED AND PASSED.
p Mr.. McA lister took the floor in sup
port of the resolutions, and at the end
OF a stIong speech moved their adop-
ton. As he sat down there was a
Stiffness and hush in the convention
which foreboded storm, and every
body expected it to burst from the
Western or Northwestern delegation,
but no storm came.
After a few moments of suspense
Delegate Demipg, of Pennsylvania,
arose and said that he regarded the
introduction of the resolutions as un-
timely; that there was largely preva-
lent at the North feeling that the
Farmers Alliance was Southern or
ganization, its members being satura
ted with Southern sentiments, and
that the passage of these resolutions
would strengthen this opinion aud
check the growth of the alliance in
the North and East. His language
was very temperate and conciliatory,
aud 2 ripple Of applause greeted the
close of his speech.
President McGrath, of the Kansas
State Alliance, moved the adoption of
the resolutions without reference to
any committees and without debate
which was lost,
"A delegate from Illinois expressed
practically the same sentiments
az Mr.. Deming, of Pennsylvania.
He feared that the adoption of the
resolutions at this time would confirm
the chafxe sometimes heard that the
Farmers' Alliance is q partisan body.
The alliance, he said, is fhst getting .