Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-11-28
A SPLIT.

Secede from tho National Farmcrs' AL
iinnce and Call u Convention to Meet
In Memphis, December 18-Tho Peoples
Party Issues an Address to tho Nation.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Nov. 2l.-Chair.
man w. S. McAllister has issued a call
for national convention of all anti
ub-treasury alliance men to be held ut
Memphis, Tenn, December 10. This
Is the first move to organize an opposi-
ton to the alliance-F. M. B. A.-peo-
ple's party combine, and is the direct
result of the refusal of tho alliance to
hear the protest of the McAllister fac
ton. The call is as follows:
Headquarters of the antisub.treasury ma.
tional executive committee Indianapolis, Ind,
November Goa call for national copven-
ton OF anti-subtreasury alliance men.
whereas, International committee of the
convention of the anti sub-treasury alliance
men held in the city of st. Louis Mo-, on the
18th and 10th of September, 1901, ap-
pointed to present to the supreme council Of
the National Farmers Alliance and Industrial
union when assembled in Indianapolis Norom.
Der IL, 1891. memorial and protest against the
'sub-treasury and land loan schemes and pro-
posed governmental control OF railroads and
telegraph lines, have In due form and respect.
ful manner appeared to present said protest
TO the supreme council; and,
whereas, The supreme council aforesaid
has declined to hear said protest; and.
whereas, The committee was empowered
and instructed by the said st. Louis conven.
tion to call another national convention to
hear nnd consider the report Of said
committees; now, therefore, the national
executive committee of the St. Louis
convention. truly issue this call for
sub treasury alliance men in the United States
to be held in the city Of Memphis, in the state
of Tennessee on the 10th day Of December,
1891. to hear and consider this report OF the
committee and take such final action in the
premises as may seem proper and best for the
general welfare.
Let all organizations of the Farmers Alli-
arce, and industrial and other farmers and
Industrial organizations send full delegations,
the number from each such local organization
TO be determined by itself. Signed,
CIVILIAN S. McALLIsTER, Chairman.
"RoBERT w. NICHOLS, Secretary"
Friday night W. S. McAllister made
public his long threatened expose of C.
w. -McCune's alleged rascality. Nc.
Z Allister says he wrecked the Texas ex-
change and spent money in the Georgia
Legislature in an effort to elect Pat Col
burn, Jay Gould's candidate for United
States senator. The fight between the
two men is very bitter.
+. NJ. Is. A.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Nov. 21.-The
various farmers organizations have
nearly completed their work. Friday
the Farmers Mutual Benefit associa-
tion adjourned after amending its con-
stitution so as to admit to membership
women and men over Is years of age.
1t resolved not to amalgamate with
-. Al.
ruary meeting. The Farmers Mutual
Benefit association also reelected
Treasurer Haines and the following
board of trustees: Z NJ. Poe. of
Missouri; T. w. Wilson, of Illinois;
William Reed, of Illinois; j. L. Reed,
of Ohio, and l. N. Miller, of Indiana
The delegates to the February meet
ing were instructed to vote for indie
pendent political action. The alliance
has changed its constitution to admit
women.
sg~.l 49, Third-Party Mon Jubilnnt.
\ 5 The peoples party men are the best
satisfied of all those who have gath
'-ered here. They claim to have secured
all they came for and even more. Fri
day night the national executive COM
mittee issued an address to the people
of the United States. 1t is in part as
follows:
i There is no longer any doubt that candi.
dates for president and vice president will be
in the field before June !, 1892, nominated by
the peoples party. II seems to us very plain
that the time has come when no influence OF
= the old political organizations and no power OF
aggregated capital can prevent tho hearty and
unanimous coming together and cooperation of
oil the labor forces in the United States,
whether employed in the workshop or In the
mine or on the farm
This % an important event in the history OF
the Gation and of civilized man. There has
heen no precedent for 1t in any of the past ages.
The producing classes have hitherto remained
impoverished in the midst OF the very
plenty which they created; those who
toiled not have possessed the wealth OF
the world while those who toiled have too
often suffered for the necessaries of life. But
the advance Of civilization and universal edu.
cation have flooded the minds of the multitude
with an ocean of light and taught them the
supreme necessity for cooperation in defense
of the inborn rights OF humanity.
"We have the shadow OF plutocracy
spreading steadily over our land. We have
seen the railroad corporations grow from
humble beginnings the mere servitor5 OF the
people. into vast and powerful conspiracy
which, for the protection OF its bogus capitali-
cation, controls our elections, corrupts our
Legislatures, debauches our jures and casts
the slime OF its rottenness over the very judges
of our courts, the last resort OF justice earth
We have seen the banking associations, from
being at first mere conveniences for the accom-
mediation OF the people, swell into
lordly confederation, holding all business
In its grip, able to make wreck, as
their own interests may dictate the prosperity
OF all classes, while not dollar OF currency is
"a able to lind its way to the people from the gov
ernment that does not represent dollar of debt
to the money manipulating class We have seer
the daily newspaper press, instead of being as II
should be in this nineteenth century and in this
free America, the champion and defender o.
popular rights against oil corners. coerced by
its business necessities into becoming the
ready dy'instrument to bind the shacSles of serf
dom on the limbs of free people, to confuse
their minds by sophistry, to I'LL their ears
( with falsehoods, to uphold everything that 1:
destructive TO public good and to crush every
thing that would help the people
awe confidently appeal to every honest mar
In the United States to come forward and hell
us bury this monster, plutocracy, so deep tha
he will never rise again to trouble tht
children OF liberty. Do not wait to be
NH.