The Brookhaven leader., 1890-12-11

THIRD PARTY MOVEMENT.

tIonaI AIIiance-ConsoIIdation of DIrerent
OrganLzations-Can For Third Party
| Conference.
OcALA, Fla, Dec. 6.-Dr. G. w. Ma
cune, chairman Of the National execu-
tive committee of the Farmers Alli-
ance, said yesterday in regard to the
third party movement being engineered
by General John II. Rice. Congressman
elect John Davis and Editor Vincent Of
Kansas: II told the delegates that the
people in the Southern States were not
prepared to embark in the third party
movement; that they had not elected
| delegates to this convention; that the
| people of the Western and Northwest
ern States had already embarked in the
movement and considered that the
prosperity Of the order demanded some
action of that kind to sustain them In
their efforts. In this emergency there
was a great necessity for COM
servatism and caution. We should
not forget that we were rep
resenting the people at home and not
our own likes and dislikea recon-
mended as compromise that would
carry out the end sought to be achieved
by the West and Northwest II it met the
| appreciation OF the South that conven-
tion be called to meet in February,
| 1892; that the convention be composed
OF delegates OF all associations OF pro-
| ducers; and that the next annual ses-
| sion Of the supreme council elect dele
gates to represent this order in that
convention. l sustain this by saying
that it did not commit the people
but provided means whereby they
could express themselves on the
secret question through subordinate
county and State organizations during
the coming year. When the great con-
vention meets the said delegates will
come there with authority and instruc-
tions from their people. If their re-
ports decide in favor Of independent
party action it will prevail If not the
cause will still be benefited by the con.
ference and there will be better up-
derstanding of the object which the
laboring classes are seeking to achieve
This is the basis of all recommend,
but it has taken a wonderful hold upon
them and it will satisfy both sides"
| At the morning session OF the Ma
tional Alliance convention Colonel
| Livingstone, of Georgia, from the COM
mittee on organization, made O report
which is to furnish the basis for an ultt-
mate union between the National Farm
ers' Alliance and Industrial Union and
| the Farmers Mutual Benefit Associa-
| ton which has an organization with
large membership in the Western States
| The report was explained at length
| by Chairman Livingstone. Under this
| proposition the Mutual Benefit Associa-
tion is still to maintain its separate or
| ganization, but to be entitled to repre-
sentation in the National Alliance coun-
Gil and the executive committee Of each
organization is to meet hereafter and
arrange the details of this union
! At the conclusion of Colonel Living
stones remarks, which occupied nearly
an hour, the report was adopted with
out dissent
Colonel Livingstone also offered q
| resolution providing for the adoption Of
the St Louis Alliances platform of
1889, inasmuch as there had been o
question raised as to the unanimous in
dorsement of tho demands therein con-
tanned by all State delegations of a year
ago. His idea was to call out any OBJ
absolutely unanimous Endorsement
An amendment was offered by Mr..
Loucks, of North Dakota, providing for
the ownership Of all railroad and tele-
graph lines by the National Govern
ment Mr.. Livingstone opposed this
and offered as a compromise measure
resolution providing that the liberty to
control and operate all such lines should
vest in the Government; and If after
a fair trial of this system it should be
found that it did not afford relief dur
ing it's effect or effect reforms in the
management of them, the Governments
ownership should be complete. This
was adopted after some discussion.
Mr.. Clover, one of the Kansas dele
gates introduced and had passed a rese-
luton reciting that the United States
census returns with respect to farm
mortgages was grossly incorrect and
calling upon all county and sub-alli-
ances in all States of the Union to make
efforts toward securing reliable statis-
tics from the county records and make
prompt reports thereon.
Following is the call for the third
party conference signed by General
Rice and John Davis, of Kansas, and by
about seventy-five other Alliance men:
Whereas, In unity there is strength, there
fore it is desirable that there should be a
union of all the variously named industrial
organizations that stand on common
grounds to this end. The individuals from
various States whose names are hereto
signed make this call for a National confer
ence to be composed of delegates from the
following organizations, viz; The Farmers
Alliance, the Farmers Mutual Benefit Asso-
citation, the Citizens Alliance, the Knights of
Labor and all other industrial organizations
that support the principles of the St. Louis
agreement of 1889. Each State organiza-
tion to send one delegate from each Con-
gressional district and two from the State at
large, and each district organization to send
not less than three delegates, and each
county delegation not less than one dele
gate, to be chosen according to the customs
of each respective organization during the
month of January, 1891. Also that the editor
of each newspaper is hereby invited as a
delegate, that has advocated the principles
of the st. Louis agreement and supported the
Alliance candidates nominated in 1890, the
delegates to meet in the city of Cincinnati,
o., on Monday, February %, 1891, at O'Clock
p. m., for the purpose of forming National
union party based upon the fundamental
ideas of finance, transportation, labor and
land in furtherance of the work already be-
a united struggle for country and home in
the great political conflict now pending that
must decide who in this country is the SOW
ereign, "the citizen or the dollar"
DeIamater q Co. Assign.
D. H. nnla