The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-11-27

ton until the February meeting. The
f. NJ. B. A, also reelected Treasurer
Haines and the following Board of
Trustees: G. M. Poe, of Missouri; T. w.
Wilson, of Illinois; w. M. Reed, of
Illinois; J. It. Reed, of Ohio, and I. N.
Miller, of Indiana. The delegates to
the February meeting were instructed
to vote for Independent political action.
The Alliance to-day changed its con-
stitutiOn to admit women.
The anti-sub-treaSury people, after is
surfing a call for convention at Mem
phis, Dec. Is, published a two column
card charging Macune with wrecking
the Texas Alliance exchange, and max
ing big money thereby, and with trying
to sell out the Alliance to the old politi-
cal parties. Most of these charges were
made at the Ocala meeting.
The Reform Press Associations threat
ems to bolt the Alliance if the State
Agents Association carries out its pur-
pose of making all purchases through
the National Union Company.
The Peoples Party men are the best
satisfied of all those who have gathered
here. They claim to have secured all
they came for and even more. Tonight
the National Executive Committee
issued an address to the people of the
United States. 1t is as follows:
"The National Committee of the Peo-
pies party of the United States deem it
proper to lay before their constituents
at this time statement of the results
of the conference held by them with
various representatives of organized
industries in this city during the past
few days. Those results have been in
every respect most satisfactory. There
is no longer any doubt that candidates
for President and Vice President will
be in the field before June 1, 1892, nomi-
mated by the Peoples Party. 1t seems
to us very plain that the time has come
when no Influence of the old political
organizations, and no power OF agRre-
gated capital can prevent the hearty
and unanimous coming together and
cooperation of all the labor forces of
the United States, whether employed
in the workshop, or in the mine, or on
the farm.
"This is an important event in the
history of the nation and of civilized
man-there has been no precedent for 1t
in any of the past ages. The producing
classes have hitherto remained impover-
ished in the midst of the very plenty
which they have 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 education have flooded
the minds of the multitude with an
ocean of light and taught them the SUI
preme necessity for cooperation in de-
Tense OF the n-born rights of humanity:
The producing classes of the United
States are the nation; all others simply
live by the tolls imposed on the in
dustry of workers. We make no war
upon the nOn-producers as suchi some
lent of services for all they receive; 9TH
ers are robbers and plunderers, who,
through the imperfection of cur laws,
strip toll of it's possessions and do not
90 to the pepitentiarY.
"The people have heheld with grow
ing alarm the continual advance of con-
ditions which every day have carried us
farther and farther away from the prin-
ciples and traditions of the founders of
the republic, and nearer and nearer to
an abyss in which we can see only the
separation of crushing QligarGhy or
the dreadful alternative of revolution
and anarchy. 1t is for the purpose OF
saving free institutions by the peaceful
Observation-Disclosures of education and the
ballot that the Peoples Party of the
United States have been organized. No
honest man can fail to acknowledge the
overwhelming necessity which exists
for such movement,
1--WE have seen the shadow of plutoc-
racy spreading steadily over our land.
We have seen the railroad corporations
grow from humble beginnings, the mere
5ervitOrs of the people, into q vast and
powerful conspiracy, which, for the
protection of its bogus capitalization,
controls our elections, cOrrupts our
Legislatures, debauches our juries and
casts the slime of its rottenness over the
very judges of our courts, the last re-
sorts of Justice on earth.
ave have seen the banking associa-
tons, from being at first mere C, n
VenieuceS for the accommodation of the
people, swell into lOrdly national con-
declarations, holding all business in its
grip, about to make or wreck ss their
own interests may dictate the prosperity
Of all classes, while not dollar of cur
rency is able to find its way to the
people, from the Government that does
not Representa- dollar OF debt to the
money-mantpula ting class.
awe have seen the daily newspaper
press, instead of being as 1t should be
in this nineteenth century, and in this
free America, the champion and de-
fender of popular lights, against all
corners, oOeroed by its business ne
cessities, into becoming the ready in
strument to bind the shackles of serf-
dom on the limbs of the free people; to
confuse their minds by sOphistries; to
| fill their ears with falsehoOds; to up
,old everything that is destructive to
ublic good, and to crush everything
nat would held the people. As strlk-
ng illustration of the colossal lies with
Which the people are fed and misled,
We would point to the vote OF the
'eOple's party this year in the State OF
Kansas. Nine-tenths of the population
# this country, IN consequence of the
gross misrepresentation of the press,
believe that the Peoples party vote of
KANSAS in 1891 fell off very greatly from
heir vote in 1890; while the offlcial pub
iication of the vote taken this year
shows that although the total vote of all
parties in Kansas was about 10000 less
than it was year ago, the Peoples
party vote was actually increased about
1Ih per cent. over Its vote In 1880, or AZ
per cent. of the entire vote.
"The Republican majority In South
Dakota was reduced from 10000 in 1890