Evening journal., 1891-11-18
AN ALLIANCE SCANDAL
A Trust Said to Control Its
State Agents.
SECRETARY TILLMAN BACKS DOWN,

It Is Alleged That He Went to the Con.
ventIon Determined TO Attack the Third
Party Movement but Altered His Print.
ed Speech Through Fear.
INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 1s--A sensational
scandal in connection with the Farmers
Alliance has developed here. Kelly. Of
New York, charges that a ring has been
formed by the state agents Of the Alliance |
Of the jute trust the Union Cordage com |
pany and the National union. The jute
trust controls the raw material from which
cotton hagging, the binding twine and
other products which the farmer is inter
ested Is made, and the Union Cordage com
pany controls the manufactured product.
Kelly says that the state agents have en-
tered into a combine with these two enc
mics OF the farmers TO control the Alliance,
and that the scheme has been working foi
some time. Kelly proposes 70 bring the
matter before the council and demand an
investigation.
Wilson Suggests Blackmaii.
State Agent Wilson, OF New York. in an
4 interview said he did not know on what
Kelly based his charges, but he had been
credibly informed that Kelly had ap
preached members OF the National union
and intimated that he could be induced Go
withhold the evidence and prevent the pro.
posed scandal The Alliance leaders say
that an investigation will be made II there
appears any evidence whatever upon which
to base IL.
The Third Party Movement.
The third party sentiment is believed to
be growing Secretary Tillman even is
said TO have fallen victim TO the preva.
lent contagion. He came here with his
address already printed.
Not "a Third Party.
In speech sent out before the meet.
ing Secretary Tillman said that he was
not here in the interest OF any third
party, nor TO promote the fortunes OF any
political aspirant He called attention to
the so called "billon dollar congress,
which had expended, he said an amount
equal TO sixty dollars day since the birth
. of Christ
He said the tariff must come down to a
! reasonable basis Of taxation, and reckless
expenditure must stop, or they woule
change the personnel Of every congress
Two sets OF initial letters-T and 9. com
prise the unwritten oath OF the Alliance
transportation, tariff, trust, crush, chang
and control, and they must crush th
q trust by change in the tariff and contro
Of transportation.
4 Tiliman fell with a number Of the mos
n prominent advocates Of the third party
a and when he delivered his address q eau
= tic reference 10 them aud their policy
N turning the Alliance into political part
n was studiously omitted. After the addres
y was delivered he revised the copies whic
had been given out, and made them cor
Il form to his utterance in the meeting
n Some Of the Alliance men believe that b
' was afraid that he would make enemit
IA and jeopardize his reelection II he deli'
II cred the address as originally proposed
p but others think that be has been conver
a. cd to the third party idea
To Follow Hampton and Ingalls,.
"a In conclusion Tillman said: awe are q,
re ing to succeed in our efforts 10 obtain
le large circulating medium. We must hay
ii more currency, and will have il. Th
" farmer north, who wore the blue, ha
be reached the south and taken the souther
le farmer, who wore the gray by the han
M and said to him, we have never aske
he you TO surrender to king monopoly an
partial legislation, but only to preserv
at the Union alike good for all;' and II
such circumstances
Sectional strife and partisan prelude
are buried face downward to scratch o
he to Hades. And the politician who raise
ht such issues in the future will 60 lik
e. Wade Hampton and John J. ingalls,.
al A Non-Partisan Organization.
IS "The Farmers Alliance numbers in q
IS operation near 400, 600, and it has come
Nd stay and will be held intact as a mol
he partisan organization. Members OF a
ed political parties may join the organizatio
On and it will never become a third politics
~ party. There is big political signihcan,
In IL, but not party political significanc
because that would mean hopeless ruiz
We have already taken party extreme
on out Of the United States, made few go
he ernors and forty-seven congressman an
". bid fair for 200 next year"
nd Addresses were also made by Genera
al Weaver, Congressman Jerry Simpson
he President Wilson, Of the Kansas Allianc
Ie and others.
y President Folks Address.
y President Polk in his annual address r
'h viewed the grievances Of the farmers, sa!
ing that the gross inequalities and di
examinations against them had caused
! rapid decline Of agriculture. The d
J, mands OF the farmers, he said, were Il
NJ more currency, government control OF tf
Y railroads, retention Of the public domai
i. for the people, prohibition OF gambling
~ futures, free coinage Of silver, election
- United States senators by popular vote,
~ graduated income tax, and, greatest of al
y the abolition Of the national banking sy
tenn.
National Grange Ohicers.
- SPRINGFIELD, o., Nov. ls.-The Nation
IA. Grange elected officers as follows: Maste