The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-05-12

reform organizations, 1T would be well
for everybody to be on guard.
OFFICIAL MANIFESTO.
President Polk has issued an official
manifesto in which he emphatically
states that no paper which has been
constituted an Alliance organ. and no
man who retains membership in the
Alliance, has the right to assail Ali
ance principles or members of the ALI
ance publicly. The President says
that the fullest discussion of all mat
tiers is invited and urged in Alliance
councils, but the will of the majority
is the law of the order, and if any one
feels hat he can not acquiesce in the
decision of the majority, and feels that
he is conscientiously impeI1ed to go
before the public and assail our princi-
Piles, he should first divest himself of
Alliance uniform. The president holds
that any paper vested with authority
to represent the order, which assails
Alliance principles should be promptly
repudiated; and that any member
who assails another publicly, while
both are Alliance members, violates
his obligation, and such an offense
merits expulsion. The manifesto will
be sent to the Alliance and reform
press for publication.
NEW YORK WELCOMED.
New York is the last State to join
the Alliance ranks. a State organiza-
ton was affected at Hornellsville on
the 22d, President Polk and Lecturer
Willetts being present. This makes
thirty-One State Alliance organizations
i'll the Union, with three more States
about ready for organization, while
the work is being pushed forward in
six other States. The Empire State
brings in a grand battalion of twenty
five thousand members, and new ALI
ances are being organized at the rate
Of n every day, while organizations
already existing take in new members
at every meeting.
MISSISSIPPI CAMPAIGN.
The Mississippi senatorial canvass
will open at Senatobia, on May 5.
Senator George. who has been making
a violent and bitter fight on the Sub
Treasury plan, will open the campaign.
1t is expected that he will attack the
Sub. Treasury in his canvass, and being
under this apprehension, the Alliance
will have a good man on the ground
who will easily answer and annul all
objections the Senator may offer.
IN OHIO.
National Lecturer Willets Is now
making an Alliance campaign in Ohio.
The n. f. A. and l.. u. has been
enthusiastically received lii that State
and is making phenomenal progress.
The National Alliance also works in
that State, and has formed 125 new
Alliances since the first Of February.
LONE STAR STATE.
= DR.. c.. w. Macune, chairman Of the
National Executive Committee, has
Just returned from Texas, where he
attended large Alliance meetings.
There is a determination in that State
to make the Alliance a power, and that
determination is winning. There were
four hundred delegates at the Waco
meeting, which was one of the best
meetings ever held in Texas. The
delegates were from all parts of the
State, and every n went home ready
for honest, earnest and serious work.
They were permeated by an enthusi-
asm which will make every county in
the great State ring with Alliance
principles. About $50 SURVEILLANCE
have been organized since January
the first.
VIGOROUS WORK IN INDIANA.
President Thos. w. Force, Of the
Indiana State Alliance, saysh his State
must stand in the front rank of the
organization. There are now over six
hundred Sub-Alliances in the State.
Thirty, counties are organized and
eight more are ready for organization.
Twenty deputy organizers are In the
field and they are achieving great
success in the matter of'waklng the
farmers and labOrers up. The State
Alliance has no debt and has a little
surplus in the treasury.
PATRONS OF HUsBADRY AND THE ALL
5- ANCE.
In Gratiot county, Mich. the Patrons
of Husbandry are about $500 strong.
The secretary, Mr.. J. r. Salisbury,
has made application for a coalition
with the Alliance, and asks that a
Union be effected some time in June.
Proper steps have already been taken
to effect the coalition.
IN THE golden GATE" STATE.
Advices from California continue to
be encouraging. The Alliance is max
ing a progress which is dumb founding
the old time fossils and politicians.
President Cannon already has twenty
nine ont of the fifty-three counties In
the State organized. There are already
more than twenty-five thousand active
members, and thirty eight deputy or
ganizers are at work with gratifying
success. The Alliance is the most pop
ular movement ever begun in that >