Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1891-03-24

would be pre-eminently = peoples con-
vsDtioa, and might 90 . grand woTx
schemes and plans and esn3loate may
be set APP by organized soesst asi
committees, bat under this plan % or
game the units they could not We
care nothing for men. parties OF soeie-
ties We want 70 see = peoples inde-
pendent national convention IN SEA
that viii nominate peoples ticket,
without any fusion or com binatlon with
any party whatever. Such s ticket viii
sweep the country. Organize the
units Lincoln. (Neb.) Farmers Al
lance.
Commenting on the above | would
SAY that il II hard u understand what
Brother Burroughs means by the
~ Washington junta" Does he mean 70
apply the term - the president Of the
National F. A ana l. Us or the chair
man aud secretary Of the national ex-
ecutiYe committee and the officers Of
the order? II 50, how would il do 10
call President Powers and Editor Bar
roughs the Lincoln janta." SO far as
the statement Is concerned that the
w 4eAtAI4- t~A4 NCA4A.<-A~~tR A1NNttAAb
amounted 10 nothing, and the further
statement that less than dozen per-
sons attended il, II might be well for
Brother Burroughs 10 remember that
at tie convention 20 be held on Febru-
airy "a, 1892. 10 which the National
Farmers (northernl Alliance is com
mitted, the whole OF said order Will be
represented by only tca delegates, as
will be seen by the resolution adopted
By tie order at the Omaha convention,
which provides that each state shall be
represented by one delegate. More
over, if | am not mistaken IN the
premises. il was II the ear
nest solicitation of delegation
appointed 10 wait upon the Omaha con-
vention. by this very Identical Washing
ton conference, or committee meeting,
that the National Farmers Alliance
adopted the resolution declaring for
convention on February 20, 1892; the
day already designated by the Wash
iDgton conference. The Washington
conference, or committee meeting, WAS
held in Washington February -, 1891,
in pursuance of basis for confedera-
ton between the Farmers Alliance and
Industrial Union, National Alliance,
Knights of Labor and the Farmers
Mutual Association, agreed upon at
Ocala. and approved by the supreme
council of the Farmers Alliance and
Industrial Union, and the Colored Ma
tional Farmers Alliance and an execu-
tive committee from the Farmers Mu-
III,
of Labor, constituting also an executive
board TO represent each organization
above specified of five members each,
of whom the following were present:
l.. +. Livingston, of Georgia, and Ben
Terrell, of Texas, for the Farmers AL
lance and Industrial Union; 7. V. Pow
DERBY, John w. Hayes and a. w. Wright
for the Knights of Labor: Il. NJ.
Humphrey, of Texas, and j. j. Rogers,
OF North Carolina, for the Colored
National Farmers Alliance; Ralph
Beaumont and l.. Z. Wild, of Washing
ton, ID. c., for the Citizens Alliance. a
temporary organization was had by
electing Ben Terrell chairman and l..
p. CAN'T, of Georgia, secretary.
On motion a confederation was agreed
upon to be known as 1.-The { nfedera-
ton of Industrial Organizations" upon
the basis agreed upon at Ocala. Febru-
airy, %, 1892, was fixed as the time for
the next meeting and the place left to
the executive board, to be published six
months previous to the annual meeting.
At the meeting the National Farmers
Alliance will be represented by one
delegate from each state. So far as the
conference called for May, IS, 1891, is
concerned, in an interview published in
the Kansas City Star, on February IL,
expressed the opinion that many of
the signatures to the call for such con-
ference were affixA thereto without
the consent of the parties, and named
Dir. Powers, Mr.. Ignatius Donnelly and
Mr.. K. NJ. Humphrey as three whose
names were affixed without their con-
sent. Time will prove that was cor
rect in my surmises.
GEORGE c. WARD.
Kansas City, Mo.