The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1891-09-02
MEASLEY METHODS
More About Polk, Macune j. Co.'S
Great Business.
What They Do and How They Manage
to Do Ii.
ABOUT THE FLOWERS THAT BLOOM
The Way to Handle ker-thank-you-m M
in the Month of September,
Which Is Now.

Another special from Washington 10
the New York Advertiser reads as fol-
lows, and shows the villainy of the Polk
crowd:
1t is pleasure to discuss national ALI
ance matters with Secretary Turner
His frankness is charming. He told the
Morning Advertiser correspondent yes
terday that farming didn't pay, and that
any one who could do anything else was
foolish to stay on farm.
"Is that the reason so many farmers
alliance leaders have sold their farms ~
Il guess it is" answered the secretary.
Have you sold yours yet:'
mo, | still own mine"
"Congressman Tillman says that Lee
turer Terrell had a farm, but sold it be-
cause the sun was too hot in Texas for
that kind of work. Is that true?'
The secretary laughed. mo, it is not
true ought to know, for Pm helping
him pay off the mortgage on it,"
Secretary Turner admitted that the
alliance lecturer, who held on to his farm,
if he had one, was wise man, and that
if other alliance leaders who had farms
would stop selling them, and those who
didn't have them would speedily acquire
them, they would be spared lots Of trou-
BILE
There are now thirty-sX state alliances,
in the neighborhood Of 1000 county or
CARNATIONS, and local lodges enough to
poll over a million male me nbers on
whom the five cents per-capita tax for
the support of tie national organization
is placed. The officers Of these local
lodges are Secretary Turner's customers
in the general supply business. 1t is q
sure thing. The farmers are terribly in
earnest. They take over one hundred
thousand copies of Macune's paper, in
which every charge against the leaders
is overwhelmingly refuted, besides huge
stacks Of the reprint pamphlets, in all
of which each member of the national
alliance happy family advertises his
special scheme. AS they say in Texas,
in language which Macune would un-
derstand, it is a dead cinch. Nobody
else has the farmers ear. Macune got
the national alliance convention to pass
a resolution advising all alliance mem
bers to read his paper, and they are doing
it, Thirteen state annual meetings have
indorsed the sub-treasury scheme. All
that the heavy leaders have to fear is
each other. This is what the opposition
is counting on. Polk and Macune in
the national organization, and the presi-
dents Of the most of the prominent state
alliances, are pressed on all sides by en-
viOus rivals who know what these posi-
tions are worth. In the government de-
partments, these quarrels and the protita-
BILE schemes which cause them are
watched with the greatest interest, for
they are recognized as the forces which
will operate TO destroy the political power
of the organization. On this subject
members of. the cabinet and those around
them cannot speak for publication, but
the statement is authorized that the
present administration fully understands
the motives which actuate the alliance
leaders, and knows what the result OF
their unbrided rapacity is likely to be.
TIE o0r-0M MhpkET