The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-12-06
FOR A THIRD PARTY.
The Farmers Alliance Calls a
National Convention.
ST. LOUIS PLATFORM ENDORSED
scheme TO Unite Laboring Men for Presi.
dsntfai Campaign in 1891 Meets
with Hearty Approval.

mrm mortgages were grossly Incorrect, and
calling on ali county and sub-aliisnces In all
the states take INN. date stems towards
securing accurate statistics from the couAty
Records and make prompt report thereon
resoiusion asking that the Worlds fair be
closed on Sundays WAS passed withou, opposi.
ton.
Nesionai Secretary Turner submitted his an.
nusi report During the past year 1.069 new
chayters were issued 10 sub-aliiaucsa as o lows:
West Virginia, 252 Colorado. l52 Indi ma. 1872:
a'cnigan. lo6: Virginia, s5; Illinois, 81; south
carolina, SS; Ohio 81; Pennsylvania, SO; New
Jersey, 20; Minnesota. B.: Iowa, s: Oregon, /;
Oregoh, / State charters were issued o. follows:
INDIANA, Illinois Colorado. Michigan. Wsst
Vtrginia. Oklahoma and North Dakota
Some question having beeH raised az TO the
unanimous ENDORSEMENT OF the ST. Louis plat
form by The National Alliance last year, Liv-
inkstone, OF Georgia. m we'd its adoption by the
present b'dy Som. bate 10 lowed but the
motion wss adop I'd, with an amendment so ~
todemsnd govern ment control of railroad and
telegraph lines and II this shall not resu Ia re-
to the masses and In rne checking or curiag
exia Ing evilA the government shall become
the actual owner OF such lines This platform
doea not include the sub-treasury bill.
Following 10 the call for thu third party con-
ference. It 10 signed by General Rice ana John
Davis, OF Kansas, and about seventy 1--WE others:
WHxn1As In unity there IL strength, there
tose It 70 desirable that this should be . union
Of al the vafi0usy named industrial organizar
lions that stand on common grounds. To tbs
end the individuals froH the various states
whose names are hereto signed, AK that this
call be Issued for national conference. 70 be
composed Of d legates from the fol owing orgsni.
Stations, namely: The Farmers All iance Fermers'
Autual Benefit Association. Citizens Alliance.
knights OF Labor and al other Industrial or
kanis that support the principles OF tie
81 LouiS agreement OF lSS9 each STATE organ "a
ton TO send one delegate from each ooag es-
sfOnal district and two from the state at large.
and each district organization to send net less
than three delegates. and each county deleRa-
uon 8 less than one dele gate, % be chosen &C
oo9oing TO the customs OF oacn resp ctive organ.
nation. daring the month OF January, 1891; also
that each ed tor OF q newspaper 10 HEREBY IN
vited 70 be delegate thai has advocated ire
principles OF the s.. Louis agreement aud sap
ported the Alliance candidates nominated in
D'4 the delegates 70 NEE in TIE cry OF Gin
cinnatt on Monday February %. 1851, for the
purpose OF forming Q national union of the
party based upon the fundamental ideas Of
dnance. transportation, labor ana land In the
fuftheSance OF work already begun BY these or
ganisatioua and preparatory 70 . united strug-
g1e for country AM home in the great poit Cal
C0n0.c now pending, that must decide VINO in
this country 10 sovereign. the citizens OF the
dollar"
An amendment was adopted that every ALI.
anco locturer. state and nauoual. and newspaper
organisations OF the Ailisuce shsl support inc
platform OF sufSef suspension from the order:
that no candidate for any national political Of
dee shall Be supported by the Alliance unless
he indofsss the platform: that any sub-Alliance
not complying with these resfictions may b
ouspend0d 81 the pleasure Of tn pr silent
The q Louis platform, - thus s.nended was
adopted unanimously upon the call Of the roll
b. stokea
cCmmietoe on organisation, made report to
furnish basis for IN ultimate union with the
National Fafmers' Mutual Benefit Association
Upder this plan the nent Association will
-v6til maintain separate organisation. but will
b entitled 70 representation In the National
Ailiancs. Tho council and executive commit.
- Of each organization will meet hereafter and
arrange the details OF the union. The report
was saoptsd.
d. Aacuns, chairman Of the national execu.
Tive committee. Submitted his annual report
II referred q length TO the suo-trsasury bill
drawn and presented to congress- The COM
mittees mission In this respect was virtually
ended. because the Alliance had elected several
congremnau who would look al Or pushing the
bill thr ugh the national legis ature "Iu q
short ume." he said. congress vail pass the
Dill, II uot willingly, then by compromise"
The report recommended duction IN the sal
airy Of all National Al lance officers, and the re-
movai from Washington City Of the presidents
onlces tnasmuch Is the retention OF II there en-
tails an expense not commemorate with It's
usefulness
Al the conclusion of the report Dr. Macune
addressed the Convention upon the policy Of tue
Aliial &c, especially with ref renee to It's posi-
ton upon leading pubic measures aud its atti.
tude toward the Democratic aud Republicans in
futdre political contesta
After adjournment. Dr. Macune gave the As
ISOLATED Press the fol owing synopsis OF his ut
terances upon the third par question:
II told the delegates that sne people In the
Southern states were net preparei e. EN- bark in
third party movement; thar in this emerge .cy
there was great necessity for conservatism and
caution. recommended as a compromise hs
would carry out the cad sought to b. aoaie ed
BY The West and North. aud meet the approoA-
ton Of the South. that q convention oe called
for February, $780,, 20 be composed OF iegates'
from ali associations OF proiucsrs All
that the next annual session of
the supreme council elect d legstes
10 represent this order IN that conven-
tion. This wouid not commit the people but
provide means whereby they cou d express
themselves tue question through their
county and state organisations during the con-
Ing year When the convention meets the dvle-
gates would come there with authority and Ia.
structons rom their people L. the people de-
eide in favor OF independent party action, it
will prevail n not. the cause Will still be ben
Gifted By the conference, and there will be a
better understanding of the objects labor or
gsnis stions are 50 king to achieve" DR.. Ma
cuue thinks this will satisfy 10Th sidea
In conversation with an Associated Press cor
respondent Colonel Liv stone. of Georgia,
said that II The policy Outlined oy Macune were
adopted, IL conld not fail To have marked
effect II would commit the lance Of the
E1ath almost solidiy against stnird parts be-
fore February, ise4 He said. I'VE small have
achance 10 see winch one tina two leading
parties will snow . willingness 20 acc de to our
demands II neither list ms 10 u.s. then IL will
be time for us TO act independently. | zee no
possible chance for the Republican party 20 &C.
cure the Alliance vote OF the south while i,
stands on the present protective platform. II
viii have to wholly forfeit its present identity a.
political party n order TO cnange that. and
do not see any possible chance OF this coming
about"
sDo you think" said the reporter. "ths Dem.
ocratic party Of the North would join the
Southern Democrats on an Alliance PLATFORM
At do think more. and make he prediction
that the Democratic national convention Of lse:
viii adopt the Allisncs 81. Louis platform In
toto"
The National colored Alliance this mornins
adopted q resolution ufsine congress TO pass ths
Lodge election eil The paragraph crttici.ins
and deuouncing the white National Alliance fol
its opposition e. the bill was elimius ed st last
nights session OF the National Alliance
]. n. Rice, Of Kansas. who Is al sspirsnt fo
the people's nomination Tor senator against
Ingalls,, got the door On q proposition for ID,
Improvement of the Mississippi river, and tool
the occasion 10 deliver violent rolitlca
spcech In which he denounced the Repc olican
marty m unworthy OF ,xlstenceI Tue speech