Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1890-11-20
ALLIANCE EXPECTATIONS.


Some Elars of the Farmers in the Present
and Succeeding Congresses.
MINNEAPOLIs. Nov. t9.--The Evening
Journals Washington special has the
following regarding the plans of the
Farmers alliance in the present and
succeeding congresses: Col. L. L. Polk,
president of the National Farmers alli-
ance, now considers himself to be fully
as great d man as President Harrison.
And Col. Polk has some reason for feel
Ing "coltish." In the Fifty-second con-
gress the Alliance viii seat forty-three
mem bers. In addition to this it holds
the balance Of power in several state
legislatures, as a result of the last cleo
ton. It it does not elect two or three
United States senators, it will have
"string" on that many, and, perhaps, a
few more. The Alliance leaders in
Washington are hugging each other
over the great victory. Col. Polk is at
present in North Carolina and
Stands IA Chance to Succeed Vance.
whose successor is to be elected this fall.
The Alliance has two-thirds Of the North
Carolina legislature. II Polk wants the
ohice--so say his colleagues here-he
will get it. But they declare that he
doesn't want it and that ne has said so.
He simply wants Senator Vance to
pledge himself to support the sub-treas-
ury bill that the Alliance introduced at
the last session. If Vance refuses to do
this the Alliance men declare that he
will not come back to the senate. The
Alliance is also after the scalps Of Sen
ators Gordon and Pugh, of Georgia and
Alabama, respectively. r. a. Kolb is
the Alliance candidate against Pugh.
and Pat Calhoun, d grandson Of John
c. Calhoun, is the Alliance choice for
senator against Gordon. The Georgia
contest is a bitter one, as the Gordon
and Calhoun strength is about equally
divided.
What RittenhouSe Expects.
Secretary Rittenhouse is now in charge
of the Alliance headquarters here. He
says he is confident that Kansas, Ala
bama, Georgia and North Carolina will
send Alliance senators to Washington to
succeed the statesmen whose terms ex-
Dire next March. He has an idea, too,
that the South Dakota Alliance will
have great deal to say about the selec-
ton of Senator Moody's successor. He
does not care to say who Senator In
gals successor will be. He predicts,
however, that it will be some Alliance
man who formerly affiliated with the
Republicans. If it were Senator Plumb's
time to retire, that gentleman, he says,
would be the unanimous choice of the
Alliance. Secretary Rittenh0use thinks
the present Republican congress may
grant the Alliance what it asks for.
ShOuld it not do so the incoming Demo-
cratic congress will be requested to do
what the Republicans did not do.
But lie
Believes Republicans Are S,rewd Enough
to fall il line with the Alliance princi-
pies. and that It would be an easy mat
ter for them to pass an absolute free
coinage bill, TO remedy the tariff by re-
ducing the duties On the necessaries
of life, to adopt Blaine's reciprocity idea
in its entirety, and to pass a law like the
slb-treasury bill to increase the circula-
ting medium. Mr.. Rittenhouse says the
Alliance will be INDEPENDENT of both the
old parties in 1892: that ) Geo .0O0 MEM
bers Of tie order voted il the last cleo
ton. He wants Bluiue 10 speak as
bravelv III behalf OF an Increased cur
rency as he did for reciprocity and. if
he does. Secretary RittenhOuse says he
will be an exceedingly popular man in
1892, and that he will meet with 10 un-
kindness from the Farmers alliance.