The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1891-11-20
NOTES FROM THE FIELD.
THE HOT Fight is TURNING TO
THE PEOPLES ADvANT seE.


Weakening.
The campaign of thunder against the
Alliance and Alliance officers was par
ticularly terrific and sulpharous last
week. The Morning Advertiser. third
rate partisan paper of New York. sent a
man down south to collect evidence and
Islander against DR.. Macune. He couldn't
find it. and he had to content himself
with trying to revivify the old lies and
ISLANDERS that were put out year ago
And Alliance men and all decent people
are regarding The Advertiser with .
kind of pity. and significantly touching
their heads, which is polite and gentle
way of saying The Advertiser has come
to be driveling idiot Poor thing.
The western liars did some fine work
on their end of the line last week. They
said President Polk had apologized for
having been in the Confederate army.
and that he did this to win western SYM
pathy and votes. They said he had been
brutally cruel toward Union prisoners
while he was in command of Salisbury
prison as brigadier general But all
these have gone to join that lie about
his having ordered Union prisoners shot
at Gettysburg.
The people who heard President Polk
speak know the first charge is false. AS
to the second charge. he was never in
command of prison. and never ranked
higher than third lieutenant. He doesn't
want to make votes, for he is not a can
didate for any political Office that ever
existed or ever will exist under the sun.
He said III speech at Wichita. Kan.
II am charged with mistreating Union
prisoners during the war, and want to
say that in its conception. in its utter
ance and in its spirit it is malicious,
premeditated and base lie. and dare
the man who said it to stand up in this
audience and repeat it. | never cap
tured but one Union prisoner in my life,
and if he were here tonight he would
bear testimony to the fact that treated
him as if he were my brother.
The public has read something about
Halls anti-subtreasury convention at
st. Louis few days ago. That conven-
ton (?) had the full assistance of the
Demo Republican press in the matter Of
flaming headlines and windy predictions
of greatness. 1t was to be a meeting of
men from all the states, and 400 dele
gates were to be there.
Well. the great convention met. The
o. P. press announced that not more
t1,o, r hf, Ia1e +<,o Tod
attendance.
All told, there were just twenty-five
delegates q at the convention. On the
second day when three new ones came
in, it was flashed over the wires that 100
had arrived.
The convention proceeded to denounce
things generally, and wound up by ap-
pointing a committee, and saying, "And
that they be authorized to file our unal-
terable and intending objection to the
passage of any resolution whatever bind
ing the individual membership of the
Farmers Alliance to any political course
of action whatever. and we protest
against such action at any previous
meeting infringing or infracting upon
the individual political rights Of any
member of the order
nest" They presumed that the Alliance
was going to become partisan, and they
didn't seem to have sense enough to
know that no voluntary organization in
this country can force free man to act
in political matters contrary to his in
clinations Corporations may do SO. but
nothing else can.
The whole convention was farce and
fiasco.
Here is little telegram going the
rounds of the press.
1.-THE Farmers Home Journal, for q
year the official organ of the Alliance in
the state of Missouri, has cut loose from
that organization because the Alliance
is mixing in politics."
Obi This is Mr.. o. S. Halls organ
1t wanted to be Endorsed as the state
Alliance organ, but the Alliance would
none of it. Now do you see the reason
why it has ''cut loose from the organize
tion?'
The great reform movement is inter-
esting the good women of the land, and
they are organizing for work. Here is a
dispatch from Kansas:
Shortly after the election in this state
last fall Miss Fannie Mccormick, the
Peoples party candidate for superin-
tendent of public instruction. declared
in speech that If the farmers wives
had been properly organized the Alliance
would have elected its entire ticket.
Yesterday the charter Of the National
Woman's Alliance. with Miss Fannie
Mccormick as its president, was iled
with the secretary of the state The in
corporators include the wives Of each Of
the Alliance congressman. and Mrs. SEN
ator PETER heads the list. The organi-
zation is national, and vice president
is named for every state in the Union
Lecturers will be sent into the field to es-