Los Angeles herald., 1891-10-22
VERY MYSTIC.
The Convention of the Alli-
ance Party.
No Business Done of Any Great
Importance.
The Session Occupied with Reports of
Officers and Committees.
No Reporters Admitted--A Deleg ate's
Opinion of the Proceedings-The
Business Transacted Last
Evenings Meeting.

Evenings Meeting.
The state convention of the Farmers
Alliance was continued yesterday at
Turner hall, and tickled itself with a
general enthusiasm session at Hazards
pavilion last evening. The mysticism
of the occult mahatmas of the Thibetan
table-lands is as nought in comparison
with the air of ominous secrecy dis
played by the delegates when they leave
those Teutonic halls where they congre-
gate.
"What has been going on today? ?" one
OF the delegates was asked.
Nothing but talk" was the reply,
and possibly that delegate was right.
The session yesterday was mostly
taken up with the hearing of reports of
officers and committees. During the
morning the annual reports of the sec
retary, the treasurer and the so-called
business agent were listened to. When
ever report is read the delegates ask a
great number of questions, not in a
spirit of antagonism of course, but in
one of Investigation. Secretary G. w.
Pedlar and Business Agent J. NJ.
Moore satisfied all questioners, but
it took time, and when the
reports had been received and filed, an
hour had passed away. At II O'Clock
the Citizens alliance entered the hall
under the leadership of President
Hines, and the interval before the re-
cess was taken up with addresses.
A telegram was received and read
from the state alliance of Colorado, now
in session, and was replied to in strain
of reciprocal congratulation.
The first business at the afternoon
session was to hear the report of the
legislative committee. This committee
has not as yet done any actual work, but
has devised plans for lobbying the legis-
lature in Sacramento. The suggestions
they made as to securing legislation fa-
vorable to the association were received
with enthusiasm and heartily endorsed.
The next business was the report of
State Lecturer J. G. Gilbert, who occu-
pied nearly an hour of the conventions
time with reading the report and yield
ing to demands for information. Mr..
Gilbert is a representative member OF
the alliance, is more conversant with
its principles and purposes than
nine-tenths of the members, and
his report was a most interesting and
encouraging document. 1t deals with
his results as an organizer, and told OF
his success in instructing the producing
classesiof this state. Yet this instruc-
ton seems to have been of very conser-
vative results, for these enemies OF mo-
nopoly have adopted system OF man
agement which gives the monopoly OF
reporting so able an address to class
paper. Not only have no arrangements
been made whatever to spread broad
cast the results of Mr.. Gilbert's work,
but members of the alliance, who, by
reason of their membership, are allowed
in the convention, have stopped to ped
die the news of the convention among
the newspapers of the city, and have de-
manded exorbitant rates for reports. 1t
is gratifying that such extortionate
propositions have not been accepted.
The report of the executive commit
tee, of which Mr.. John S. Dore is chair
man, was the last business of the after
noon session. 1t was incomplete, but
gave full detail of the fnan-
cial affairs of the organization,
with accounts of all receipts and
expenditures during the year. The rest
of their report, which will be of gen.
eral nature, will be rendered before ad-
journment.
At O'Clock the convention adjourned
over today until tomorrow morning.
The reason for emitting today is to give
the members an opportunity to attend
the Peoples convention.
AT THE PAVILION.
The attendance at the Pavilion last
night gave evidence that the third
party movement was nothing new to
Californians. President Polk may feel
highly hattered at the enthusiastic re-
ception. 1t was truly a mass meeting
the first floor of the big building being
fairly jammed and the gallery being
also we'll filed. A portrait of Lincoln
hung in the middle of the stage, while
below it was one of Chairman Cannon
The evening was opened by two songs
by Mr.. Henri Fairweather, which were
well received. Chairman Cannon, after
short address, announced another
song by Mr.. Fairweather. entitled Pat
rlotlc Government, which elected much
applause.
The chairman then introduced the
speaker OF the evening, President L. l..
Polk, saying that he was plain man,
self-made man, who was originally
farmers boy. Mr.. Polk was received
with loud applause. He went to work
to show why the farmers had risen and
what they intended to accomplish.
The speaker said that he would be
false to his teachings and his country
II he did not speak the whole truth.
There were many, he said, in the audi
ence who would see this country stretch
ing from sea to sea, having 100000, 900
inhabitants in the fullest degree of en-
lightenment, or they would see it in
habited by people in low state lacking