The state chronicle., 1891-07-15
:. Ry irving to direct and turn

5. By trying to direct and turn
he organizations Of the farmers {
md laborers of our land from one {
If the greatest curses of the age s
he protective tariff system-and to
commit them to the national cares
Of class legislation. II
6. The placing in the highest
official positions of our national and
state orders men who are not far
mers, nor have any interest in farm
ing, but whose only interest and
ambition is to keep the farmers in
the depressed condition they now
are, to the end that they may draw
their salaries from them, knowing
that the depression of the farming
class is necessary to keep up an or
ganization of this character.
Z. BY some Of the leading officers
of the order, both state and nation
al, consorting with the enemies OF
good government, against the true
interests of the people, and corrupt,
by endeavoring, by dishonest meth
DDS, to fasten upon the people the
protective tariff and railroad COM
bination, two of the evils that the
Alliance was created to put down
and destroy.
8. By private individuals in the
Alliance, through corrupt and mer-
cenary motives, buying up the State
and National official organs of our
order, thereby centralizing the power
of this organization, and that OF the
millions of farmers in it, for the
purpose of the personal aggrandize-
ment and political ambition and cor
rupt ends of these men.
9. By changing our order from
its non-partisan character into a
} partisan body, by applying partisan
political tests to membership and
) office-holding in our order, and by
, declaring, in statute passed at
Ocala, December, 1890, and proc
lamation of our National President
that when the majority of the Ma
tional Alliance promulgated any
political principle or demand, tha
every Allianceman must subscribe
to and conform to such politica
: principle Therefore, be it
Resolved, That we denounce tn
Z Sub-Treasury and land loan schemes
and governmental ownership of rail
roads, as violations of the first prin
;. ciples of good government, as patel
= nal in their character, as centraliz
= ing in their tendencies, and if en-
: acted into law, would create such
= horde of officeholders as would fax
: ten the clutches of the perty i
! power upon the throats of the pei
- pie so strong gly that the voices
y " honest, patriotic citizens would n
y longer be heard in the control I
V governmental affairs. We furthe
denounce these measures as being
violation of the constitution of OF
~ beloved order.
of That we denounce G. w. M
r. cune and his corrupt methods, t
gether with the acts ofhis tools al
,n henchmen, as being a disgrace
m the order and a stencil in the nc
Is trils Of all honest men, who know
or their corruption and villainy, a,
Mt thus point out to the order, by co
on tinuing such men as this in powe
they are enabled, by betraying
at and our interests to most efectual
ed chain us to the juggernaut cars
re monopoly.
to The following resolutions we
on also adopted in open convention:
he Resolved, That we most hearti
endorse the course of Hon. u.
he Hall, president of the StateAllian
ler of Missouri, in refusing to concur
nj the whitewash of c.. w. Macune
his Ocala, and also in opposing the s,
in treasury scheme, and the infame
efforts of said Macune and
in henchmen to use our noble orc
on for his own and his servile ALI
ar personal aggrandizement.
md earnestly pledge him our support
tai the noble and manly effort to
the order, both state and nation
ON of such men as Macune and bod
ms who have attempted in this a
other states to sell our dear