The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-12-04
RALLY OF THE ALLIANCE.
THE CONVENTION FROWN5 ONTaE
FORCE BILL

FORCE BILL
Messrs. Livingston Polk and Macune
Allude tt the Election Scandal-The
Convention Orders an Investigation
/ The D alegates Demand That it S Saall
be an Bo1est and Thorough One.
OCALA, FLA, Dec 3.-Ds,egate VI. S.
McAllister of Mississippi introduced in the
meeting of the farmers alliance to-day the
/ following preamble and resolutions, which
we're adop.ei:
WHEREAS, The President of the United States,
/ III his annual message to congress- recommends
/ and urges the lmme ediate passage of the measure
known as the Lodge election bill; and.
| WHEREAS, Said bill involves a radical revolu-
| tlon in the election machinery of the union
both state and national. and its pas 20 will b.
| fatal TO the autonomy of the states and the
cherished liberties of their tizens; and,
| WHEREAS. The said bill Is partisan in spirit
and will be in its application, thus rsyitalizng
| t1e CORY gnoSt OF sectional es5ran :ement; and
WHEREAS, In the war which we have declared
against sectionalism, the fire ide5 Of the farm
ers of the north, east, south and west, are the
citades around which the first battles are being
fought; and to the end that victory may crown
our crusade, let fraternity and unity reign
! Therefore. be it
Resolved. By the National Farmers Alliance
and Industrial Union of America, in nationa
| council assenbed. that we do most Solemnly
| protest against the passage OF the said Lodge
| election bill; ana most earnestly petition
our senators to employ all fair and legal means
10 defeat this unpatrotic measure, which can
result in nothing but evil to our common aud
beloved country.
Resoired further. That a copy of these pre-
ambles and resolutions be forwarded to each
| senator in congress.
| LOOKED LIKE A STORM.
| Mr. McAlllster took the floor in support of
the resolutions, and at the end of strong
4 CVsnn 1ral NAaF- 1,-k b.
down there was a stiffness and husa in the
convention which forebodsd a storm, and
ybody expected iG to burst from the
western or northwestern delegations, but no
| storm came.
After few moments of suspense, Dele
| gate Dening OF Pennsylvania arose and
said that he regarded the introduction of
the resolutions as untimely; that there was
| largely prevalent at the north feeling that
! the farmers alliance was a southern organ
| ization, its membe being saturated with
southern sentiments, aud that the passage
| Of these resolutions would strengthen this
| opinion and check the growth of the alli-
ance north and east His language was
very temperate and conciiatorv. aud rip
pie of applause greeted the close of his
speech.
M'GRATH FAVORED THEM.
President McGrath of the Kansas state
alliance moved the adoption Of the resolu-
| tions without reference TO any committee
| and without debate, which was lost.
A delegate from Illinois expressed practi-
cally the sa ne sentiments as Mr.. Deming
OF Pennsylvania. He feared that the adop-
ton of the resolutions at this time would
| confirm the charge sometimes heard that
the farmers alliance is a partisan body.
The alliance, he said Is fast getting grip
in the west and in localities where repu b.
lican sentiment is strong This action OF the
national body would tend to t row it into
political disreoute and stop its expansion
over the states Of the west and northwest.
President Hall of the Missouri State Ali
ance moYed that the resolutions be tabled,
but after short intervals, in which there
were several short but temperate speeches
in favor Of their passage, he moved to table
his original motion to table. which was car
ried.
The question then recurred on Mr. Nc
! AllsteI's motion to adopt the res olItions,
q ID it was carried unanimously amid the
widest enthusiasm.
THE PRESS COMMITTEE.
BY a strange misunderstanding the press
| COMMITTEES, as announced last night, was
not the press committee at al. The men,
| bers Of the frateruai relations committee
were notified that they were the press COM
mittee, and as such they have served until
noon to-day, whea the error in the
notification was discovered. The press
committee is now made up as follows:
Messrs. Stakes of Alabama, chairmau Nc
| Dowell of Tennessee, Carey of Indiana,
| Langley of Arkansas, and Crum of Illinois.
| Col. Livingston of Georgia, who has up to
this time acted as the mouthpiece of the
| press committee, has extended every cour-
| tesy to the press, and the newspaper repre-
sentatives here, about thirty in number,
said good-by to him this afternoon vita
regret.
THE REPRESENTATION.
| At the morning session of the convention
| the committee on credentials made final
report, but this does not affect the per-
| sonnel of the dy, except in one or two in
| stances, where the representation from the
| states was cut down. owing to decrease in
memb ership On account of non-payment Of
| dues.
| The following order of business was
| adopted: Calling Of the roll, reading OF the
minutes, committee reports, unfinished
business, new business and reports of
officers.
The reports of the national secretary,
| treasurer, and executive board were not
| submitted at the morning session as prom
ised.
THE STANDING COMMITTEES.
| The following standing committees were
provided for, but the appointments were
not made at the morning session: On
auditing; on legislative demands; on print
ing; on secret work; on institutions; on
fraternal relations and consolidation with
other orders; on finance; on funded inter-
ests: on transportation; on mileage and per
diem; on monetary system; and on good of
| the order.
| Resolu ions were offered browning for
| changes in the constitution as to the eiigl-
| bilIbJ of membership in the order; for the
election OF legislative council as recon-
mended in the Presidents annual address,
and for re-defining the franchise SO as to
make the convention strictly repre- enta-
tive body. The eligibility resolution refers
to mechanics ana laborers in the cities,
about whose eligibility there is some doubt
at present.
| TIE SENSATION OF THE MORNING.
The sensation of Ie morning sess on was
when President Livingston Of the 1eorgia
alliance arose to a question of privilege,
and said that in consequence OF certain
rumors and reports growing out OF especial
| letters punished IN certain newspapers"
before the assembling of this convention, III
situations had been made that corrupt and
| improper methods had been employed IN tae
recent senatorial contest i'll Georgia These
| ms nuations had been aimed at Dr.. Macune
| and himself, and President Polk's name had
| been connected with them also. lie made
a spec b an hour long, in which he de-
! uounced these rumors aud insinuations as
infam )usly false and he dema ded the ep-
pointment of a fair aud impartial commit
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