The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1890-12-06
y COL. POLK REFLECTED
p OF THE NATION
FARMERS' ALLIANCE AND
LABORERS' UNION.

mous--The COlOred Alliance Con.
dennis One Action of Their White
Brethren on the Force Biil..but The
White Alliance is Unalterably Oppo-
sed 10 that Measure.
Especial to STATE CHRoN1CLE.I
OCALA, Fla Dec. 5-Col L. T. Polk
was today reelected President of the
National Farmers Alliance audLaborers'
mon. He was nominated by Kansas
The nomination VAS seconed by every
State in which the Alliance is organized,
and the election was wholly unanimous
amid the widest applause.
The Force Bill Condemned.
(By United Press.l
OCALA, Fla Dec. 5.-At the meeting
of the National Colored Alliancemen last
night,a resolution was offered condemn
ing the action Of the white Alliancemen
in passing resolution on Wednesday
In opposition to the Federal eection bill,
because such action has no reference
whatever to the aims and purposes of the
organization, and was calculated to
check the growth of the Alliance.
The resolution will in all probability
be passed today.
A resolution was introduced by Dele
gate PatiiIo, Of North Carolina, concern
ing the Conger lard bill, which recites
the Injustice and opposition of the
measure now before Congress.
After long preamble the resolu ton
closes as follows:
Favoring the Pure Food.
"Therefore favoring the doctrine Of
equal rights for all and special privileges
for none, land being opposed to the abuse
and proclamation of the taxing power
of the government, and the enactment
OF class legislation by which industry is
fostered aud built up at the expcn.e Of
another, we protes against the passage
Of the Conger lard bill, while in the in
terest of public health and morals, aud
to secure pure food and pure drugs we
favor and pray for the passage of the
Paddock pure food bill"
The resolution was unanimously adopt
ed.
The Colored Alliance speakers claimed
that there are IS, 900 negroes employed
in the production Of cotton seed oil, and
that if the Conger bill passed, it would
deprive them of their wages.
Owing to the difficulty in securing in
formation from the National Alliance,
the position of President Hall, of the
Missouri Alliance, on the election bill
resolution was misstated in Wednesdays
press report. The Alliance press COM
mittee requests the publication of the
following
Unalterable Opposition to the Force
Bill.
"Mr. II. S. Hall, president of the
State Alliance of Missouri, made a
strong speech in favor of the resolution
condemning the Lodge bill After the
resolution was duly carried and without
single person expressing himself per
sonally opposed to it, Mr.. Hall moved to
reconsider the resolution, which motion
being seconded, he then moved to table
the motion to reconsider, and this last
motion being carried, the resolution was
carried, never to be reconsidered, and
theorder was thus unalterably committed
: agains, the bill"
Advocating a Reduction of the Prcsi.
dents Salary.
, n OCALA, FLA, Dec, 5, 1890.-The fea
!, ture which consumed most Of the fore
moon session of the Alliance convention
! was resolution byColLivingston ofGeor
gia, to endorse the St. Louis platform
After much discus sion and one amend
. ment to the platform, the resolution
passed unanimously. Chairman Macun'
:. of the executive committee next mad
- his report. In it be advocated econom,
and the reduction of the Presidents sal
. arv and the removal of the President
residence from Washington. Macun
g spoke against third party movement
>. - He suggested that convention be calle,
~ for February, 1892, to consider the mat
- ter.
. Not to Open the Worlds Fair on Sun
~ days.
~ A resolution has been passed request
!. ing the worlds fair commissioners nc
~ to open the fair on Sundays. Powderl
arrived this afternoon and will delive
N an address tomorrow.
Call for a Third National Party.
OcALA, Fla, Dec. ga call signed b
Gen. Rice and John Davis, Of Kansa
and about seventy.five other member
of the Alliance, has boen issued for n:
D. tional conference to meet at Clnclnna
on the Sd of next February. The ca
invites delegates from the farmers All
ance, the Citizens Alliance, the Farm
n ers' Benefit Association, the Knights
I'd Labor and all other industrial organ
-. cations that support the principles
- the St. Louis agreement, to meet for Il
&c purpose of forming a ''National Unie
Party" upon the fundamental ideas
on finance, transportation, labor and Ian
"a: in furtherance of the work already begr
1t' by these organizations, preparatory to
no united struggle in the political confll
81 now opening to decide which in th
as country is the sovereign, "the citizen
{, the dollar"
oo The Colored Movement.
- In order to show the significance OF
colored Farmers Alliance, l give
rse interview with President Humphrey
ket He is white man, a Texas Bapt
en- preacher, who spent some years In m
he sionary work among the negroes. VIII
yht their Alliance began to assume prop'
her tions, they asked him to take charge
will the national organization, both becar