The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1890-11-22
THE ALLIANCE MOVEMENT,
POLITICAL PLOUGHMEN MAX.
ING DEEP BURROWS THE
FIELD OF POLITICS.

avail L EAOCIH M EN- M n
ING DEEP BURROWS IN THE
FIELD OF POLITICS.
Farmers Alliance Leaders Confident
OF the Growing Strength of Their
Movement in the Country-.They Have
High Hopes for lSS9-.Already Claim
ing All the Agricultural States and
Their Faces Set Against Any Idea of
Fusion.
(New York Herald)
The spectre OF the Farmers Alliance
overshadows all other political consid-
erations here. Clever politicians esti-
mate the vote polled by that organiza-
ton In the recent election at not less
than 100000 The Alliance people
themselves are saying nothing that can
be construed as an indication Of their
future purposes. The expectation is that
their party will Increase so rapidly dur
ing the next two years that their voting
strength in 1892 will not fall much, if
any, short Of 100000. In that event
they will undoubtedly place Presiden-
tial ticket in the field, with moral GER
tainty of Carrying half dozen Southern
and Western States. Already they are
claiming all the agricultural States in
| 81. This is OF course, an exaggerated
and over sanguine view of the situation,
| growing out OF their recent success, but
they have reasonable probability of
carrying North and South Carolina,
South Dakota, Kansas, Nebraska and
Minnesota. am told by their leaders
here that not only will they continue to
develop strength in the States where
they have already shown unexpected
power but that Ohio, Pennsylvania, New
York, New Jersey and Massachusetts,
offer them an equally promising field.
The work of organizing will go on
rapidly in these States from this time,
with the possibility of bringing one OF
more of them also under their domina.
ton.
Will Fuse With no Other Party.
1t is obvious to any student of pali.i
cal affairs that the Alliance people are
"feeling their OATS" as they fgurative
ly put it. They organized originally fol
mutual benefit, but they have drifted
into politics almost imperceptibly from
the start, and their manifest purpose
now is to secure control Of the country
or at lea It develop such strength as viii
enable them to hold the balance of pow
er between the two great parties. 1t i
not their intention to consolidate wit
either. Their leading men tell me the,
| wplcnDon w
may choose to enter their ranks, bu
they can only be admitted by renoun
cling forever their former political affilia
tions. II is only as distinct organiza
ton with distinct aims and purpose
that they can hope to win, and fror
!, this course they will not swerve hairs
breadth.
Tue Alliance people are claiming fifty
FIVE votes in the next House. Of th
number forty are straight-out Alllanc
. Representatives and fifteen others hav
committed themselves in writing to tn
4 measures advocated by them. The NOR
s important of these measures are tie FIRE
q coinage of silver and Sub Treasury bill
They will not stop, they say, until the
accomplish the passage of both Jud!
$ ing from their conversation they expe
}, to do this before the close of the Flft,
second Congress.
O Opposed to Sectionalism.
d There is one tenet Of their polite
). faith which fair minded men, witho1
regard to other considerations, W
= cheerfully indorse They are oppose
a to scctionalism and to the statesmt
|. who support such doctrines. They tt
;. me seriously that their principal oppos
ton to Senator Ingalls, arises from b
malevolent and repeated efforts to wide
q the breach between the North and t
South His other sins they could fc
give, but this they regard as unpardo
able l asked them what, in that Gas
they purposed doing with Senators Ho
and Chandler. They replied that as so
as the organization became stronger
70 Massachusetts, and New Hampshire the
lie gentlemen should be Immediately turn
as down, unless their "brigadier scaipin
,e tactics, as they term them, are aba
:, doned.
Is The General Council of the Altar
OF will hold it's annual meeting at Oca
er Fla, December next. About two hr
ey dred and fifty delegates and fifteen hi
dred other leading members Of the A
ance will be in attendance. The cont
ence will be an important one, a
before it's close the aims and purposes
the Alliance for the future will no dol
W. be better understood.