The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1891-07-24

'ii''V UANJ AA'hJ NluN ulClI SdluIlcb
from them, knowing that the de-
preston of the farmers is necessary
to keep up an organization of this
character;
"(5) BY some of the leading of
ficers of the order, both State and
national, consorting with the enc
mics Of good government against
the true interests of thepeople and
corruptly endeayoring by dishon-
estmethods to fastenupon the peo-
pie the protective tariff and rail-
road combination two of the evils
that the Alliance was created to put
down and destroy;
"(6) By private individuals in
the Alliance, through corrupt and
mercenary motives, buying up the
State and national official organs
of our order, thereby centralizing
the power of this organization, and
that Of the million of farmers in it,
for the purposes Of the personal ag-
grandizement and political ambi-
tion and ,corrUptness of these men;
"(7) Bychangingo our order from
It's non-partisan character into a
partisan;
"(S) By applying partisan polit-
ical tests to membership and office
holding in our order, and by de-
'claring, in utepassed at Ocala
December, 1890, and by proclama-
tion of our national president, that
when majority Of the National
Alliance promulgated any political
principle, demand or heresy, and
conform to such political principles;
therefore, be 1t
Resolved, Thatwe denounce the
sub-treasury and land loan schemes
and contingent governmental own
} ership Of railroads as violations of
the first principle of government,
} as paternal in their character, as
; centrahzing in their tendencies,
and If enacted into law would GRE
ate such a horde Of national office
| holders as swould fasten the clutches
: of the party in power upon the
: throats of the people 50 strongly
I that the voices of honest, patriotic
t citizens would no longer Zoe heard
in the control of governmental af-
t fairs. We further denomce these
l measures as being a violation of the
g constitution Of our beloved order;
D that we 6enounce C. w. Macune
4 and his corrupt methods, together
c with the acts,of his tools and hench-
men, as beng a disgrace to the OF.
e der and a stencil in the nostrils of
I all honest men who know of their
+ corruption and villainy, and thus
n point out to the order, by continu-
n ing such men in power, they en-
); abled, by betraying us and our in
it terests, to most etfectually chain us
/ to the JuggernautcarsOf monopoly.
: We further demand that these men
y who are not farmers be removed
: from the national and State offices
); of our order, and chat none but
n those who have their interest in
S farming be allowed to fill such
L places, to the end that the legislat-
II ures of this Government may know
e that when the Alliance speaks it is
+ the voice of the farmers and labor
L ers of our land instead of the wish
q of some paid tool of monopoly and
g corruption.
> "We now appeal to all honest
e members of the Alliance through
t, out the United States in behalf of
't the poor and oppressed of our land
D whom these base men have betray-
Q; ed; in the name Of our wives and
ID children, and who must be relieved,
n if it all, by the united action of the
m farmers of this country; in the
he name of good government, to unite
n, with us in pulling down this com.
al mon enemy and disgrace of our OF
n