The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-12-14
SCHEMING LEADERS.
Inside Facts About the Ma
tional Farmers Alliance.
sUB-TREAsuRy PLAN HOPELESS.
when Politicians Put Their Hand to the
P1ow They Look for Fat Harv-
est Of Omce-Sectionalism.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, The Times Union
will publish tomorrow lengthy article
concerning the recent Farmers Alliance
convention. II says, in part:
since the final adjournment at ocala, final and
incontestable proof has been brought out 70
show the existence OF gigantic plot TO use the
national organization as means OF promoting
party scheme. A significant fact Is the vote of
the Northwestern Alliance men, who are mostly
Republicans, and Who came 70 Ocaia with the
purpose OF forcing the Alliance TO indoTse their
pet scheme for a third party. IL soon became APP
parent, however, that an Endorsement could not
be secured and when the sub-treasury scheme
came up the Northwestern men were found solid
in their support OF IL, although their political al
citations and the sentiment OF the people they
are supposed to represent would naturally have
led TO open opposition to this measure. The
leaders in the third party movement from that
section are: MeGratb, OF Kansas; Loucks, OF
North Dakota; WardeIl, Of South Dakota; and
Willets, of Kansas, and they are warmly sup
ported By the delegates fromwisconsin and other
rear by states.
During the tour of the state, which has been
In progress the past fouT five days, this third
party coterie have unbosomed themselves to
certain extent in conversation with their fellow
excursionists, and their admissions have laid
bsrc the political scheme which has prompted
their every act. Their statements to this
effect: They are really opposed 70 the sub
treasury bill, and regard it as wrong In prinei-
only in financial ruin 20 the farmers
and to ever other industrial class: that
the people Of their section ere opposed
20 IL and that they, as delegates, were particu-
larry charged with the mission TO defeat this
measure when they left their homes. They say
also that upon their return they viii explain
their action In this way: That the sub-treasury
demand is of such nature that It can never
gain the support OF the Democracy of the South
err states. and that the attempt TO secure such
democrat support can end only in split in the
viii break up the solid south. and this is the end
they had in view.
In support OF this general policy several of
these piotters have been placed upon record.
President MeGrath, Of Kansas Is quoted as say
ing: "We saw that by making the subtreasury
bil an iss,ie in the South, we could break up the
quoted as saying: ave supported the sub
treasury bill to divide the south and break up
the Bourbon Democracy"
The Reform Press Association is also
dealt with at great length. The article
states:
A meeting OF third party men vas held yes
terday On the steamer going to Louisville, when
II was resolved to shut out all newspapers which
do not advocate the sub-treasury bili, and pro-
vidiDg for the organization OF legislative board
to designate from time 10 time measures and de-
mands 10 be advocated by the reform pres.
The article goes on TO say that conserya-
tive Alliance men were excluded from this
meeting, and that the reform press COM
bination is only one Of many means by
which the third party issue is TO be forced
npon the Alliance with the hope of divid-
ing the Democratic party of the South.
The Times Union says that the determi-
nation is strengthening among Southern
Democrats in the Alliance that desperate
effort must be made to pull the Farmers
Alliance away from the sub-treasury folly
before the next annual meeting. A long
interview is published with one of the
conservatives" who was excluded from
the association, in which he states that the
Reform Press Association is made up of
third party men.