Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-11-17
FEDERATION TALK.
A Great Combine OF Farmers
and laborers.
ALLIANCE MEN AT INDIANAPOLIS.

Many Schemes Mooted That Will Pro-
woke Discussion and Perhaps Dissr-
ganixation-The >ub-Treasury Idea Not
Unanimously Approved = Opposition
from the Northwest - No Alliance
Votes for Cleveland, Harrison or Stan
ford.
INDIANAPOLIS, Nov 17.-There are in
fluences az work among the delegates to
the supreme council of the Farmers ALI
ance which met here today, which if not
checked bid fair to disrupt the organiza-
tion. The first of these influences was set
to work yesterday when delegation CT
seven men. headed by y. S. Hall, of Mis-
souri,, arrived as the committee from the
national anti-sub-treasury element of the
party and announced that they would
present an address to the council asking
that the sub-treasury plank be omitted
from the platform and that it be uneeuiv-
oeally disapproved. The committee was
charged with this duty by convention
held some time ago at Columbia, fuo and
its members are unanimous in the senti-
ment that refusal on he part of the
council to comply with the demands will
divide the organization and result in two
factions, one representing the south and
the other the northwest.
Third Party Issue To BE Forced.
With the lapse of time the determine
ton of the third party advocates to force
the issue upon the council becomes more
pronounced, and they are gaining
strength where the Alliance least expected
it. Yesterday an important conference Of
the third party advocates was held at the
hotel headquarters. Mr.. Taubeneck, of
Illinois, presided, and general discus
sion of the subject of turning the Alliance
into political party was engaged in. To
the surprise of the Alliance leaders Post,
of Georgia; Stewart, of Texas, and a large
number of delegates from the west and
south attended the meeting and took part
in the conference as advocates OF the
change. While the west and the north
west were known to have strong sympathy
for such movement the south was sup
posed to be solid against it.
Are Going to Work in Earnest.
The meeting determined to present a
proposition to the Alliance for a union
between the Peoples party and the coun-
cil anu auJOUf,neu tlli lHurSuav 10 dWalI
further developments. In the meantime
the members of the conference pledged
themselves to canvass the delegations and
do all in their power to increase the senti-
ment for Il third party. The Alliance
leaders. those who favor con filming the or
ganization to its present sphere, confess
that she outlook is gloomy, but express
the hope that second sober thought will
find the delegates true to the pledges
made their constituency, and that the
proposition when made will be rejected.
The Reform Press Association.
A third influence at work is the Reform
Press association. 1t held meeting yes
terday TO consider that clause in the con
stitution which provides that all papers in
| the association shall advocate all the de-
mands of the Alliance. Objection was
urged to this clause that it practically de
stroys the Independence of the mem bers,
making them mere machines. and that so
long as such clause is adhered to the pa
pers cannot possibly exert any influance
in the Alliance. The real object of the
change, it developed, is to admit the pa
pers of the Peoples party. These DO not
indorse the sub-treasury scheme and Can
not become members of the press associa-
tion as the constitution now stands.