Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-21
ISSUES ITS MANIFESTO,
Relying Largely on the Aid of All
the Labor Organizations.
ALLIANCE DEFEATS EXPLAINED.
Only Whipped in the West by COmbina-
ton of the Old Parties.
ANTI SuB-TREASURY MEN FULLY OUT

pleted their work anG final adjournmen
Of the Supreme Council of the Alliance
which is holding out the longest, will prob
ably finish its work tomorrow
To-day the F. NJ b. A. adjourned afte
amending its constitution so as to admit Il
membership women and men over Is year
Of age. 1t resolved not to amalgamat;
with any other organization until the Feb
ruary meeting. The f. NJ B. A. also re
elected Treasurer Haines and chose board
Of trustees. The delegates to the February
meeting were instructed to vote for inde
pendent political action.
The Alliance to-day changed its consti.
tuition to admit women. The anti-sub
Treasury people, after issuing a call for a
convention st Memphis December 16, pub
lished a two column card charging Mr..
Macane with wrecking the Texas Alliance
Exchange and making big money thereby,
and with trying to sell out the Alliance to
the old political parties. Most of these
charges were made at the Ocala meeting.
A KICK Against Cooperative Stores.
The Reform Press Association threatens
TO bolt the Alliance if the State Agents
Association carries out its purpose of max
ing all purchases through the National
Union Company.
The Peoples party men are the best sat-
isfed 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 Peoples
party OF the United States deem it proper to
lay before their constituents some state
ment of the results of the conference held
by them with various representatives of or
panized industry 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 l, 1892, nominated by the
Peoples party.
1t seems TO us very plain that the time has
come when no influence of the old political
organizations ard no po-er of aggregated
capital can prevent the hearty 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 impor-
uant event in the history of the nation and
OF civilized man.
The Producers and the Nom Producers.
The producing classes of the United
States are the nation-all others simply live
by the tolls imposed on the industry of the
workers. We make no war upon the non
producers, as such. Some of them tender
the people full equivalent of services for
5ll they receive; others are robbers and
plunderers, who, through the imperfection
of our laws, strip toll Of its possessions and
yet escape the penitentiary.
The people have beheld with growing
alarm the continual advance of conditions
which every day carried us farther and
farther away from the principles and tradi-
tions of the founders of the Republic, and
nearer and nearer to an abvss in which we
oigarchy or the dreadful alternative of
revolution and anarchy 1t is for the pur.
pose of saving free institutions by the peace
tul instrumentallt1es of education and the
ballot that the Peoples party of the United
states has been organized.
No honest man can fail to acknowledge
for such movement. We have seen the
SHADOW of plutocracy spreading steadily
over our land. We have seen the railroad
corporations grow from humble beginnings,
the mere servitors OF the people, into vast
and powerful conspiracy which controls our
elections, corrupts our legislatures, de-
bauches our juries and casts the slime of its
rottenness over the very judges of our
Hot Shot for the Bankers.
We have seen the banking associations
from being at first mere conveniences for
the accommodation OF the people swell into
P lordly National Confederation, holding all
business in its grip, able to make or wreck,
as their own interests may dictate, tie pros
perity of all classes. while not a dollar of
currency is able to find its way to the people |
from the Government that does not repre-
sent dollar of debt to the money-manipu- |
lating class.
Nine-tenths OF the population OF this
in consequence of the gross mis- |
representations of the press believe that |
the Peoples party vote OF Kansas in 1891 fell |
of very greatly from their vote in 1890 The |
official publication of the vote taken this |
year shows that. although the total vote of |
all parties in Kansas WAS about 30 900 less |
than il was year ago, the Peoples party |
vote was actually increased about liz per |
cent over its vote in 1890, or AZ per cent of |
the entire vote. |
The Republican majority in South Da-
kota was reduced from II, 600 in 1890 to a7O0 |
in 1891 while in Nebraska the Peoples party |
came within 5000 votes OF defeating the |
power of both the old parties and |
elected IL District Judges. 1t is true, in |
some Judicial districts of Kansas tie Peo-
pies party candidates were defeated but it |
was only by an unholy union of the Demo-
cratic and Republican parties against them |
Old Parties Combine Against Them.
The hereditary enemies OF half century |
gave up their sham battle, and under the in
spiration of the money power rushed into
each others arms, and in one fond embrace |
resolved to forget protection, reciprocity. |
the silver question and everything else il |
they could only prevent the oppressed peo- |
pie of Kansas from obtaining the govern |
mental reforms which they sought In this 1
sct they concIusfvely demonstrated that |
they are the two DromIos of plutocracy, and |
hat only the difference of a feather distip- |
yuishes them from one another.
The people perceive that there is room in |
this country for only two political parties |
party which represents the people and a |
party which represents the plunderers of |
The people. Before the close of the election |
Dr 1892 we expect to see the two old parties /
with all their banners and war cries. march |
ing together in defense Of the iniQuities /
which have covered the land with mort
yages and driven the Republic to the verge |
Jf destruction.
And SO. under auspicious circumstances.
cheered by an abiding faith in our triumph |
Df 1892 at the ballot box, fighting for the /
lomes Of free people, for liberty, union, |
Industry and justice, we confidently appeal |
10 every honest man in the United States to |
'ome forward and help us bury the monster, |
1lutocracv, so deep that he will never arise 1
gain.
Closing Appeal to All.
DO not wait to be summoned to action.
This fight is every mans fight 1t is a fight
or the rooftree and the babe in the cradle. |
t is fight TO determine whether our pros
oerity shall be reduced to Old World condi-
ions or shall advance along the line of the
declaration of Independence and the Con-
titution to greater prosperity and higher
Wherever this appeal catches any man,
ct him call his friends and neighbors to-
.ether at once, organize a Peoples club and
eport to our Secretary, Robert Scbilling, of
Milwaukee. Let the watchword be, e'organ- |