Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-07-17
FARMERS ALLIANCE.
The Great Rally 10 the State Of
Georgia.
WEAVER POLK, AND SIMPSON.
Sam Small. Also, on the Issues - The
Third-Psrty Iica-A Bitter Attack
on Cleveland.

Third-Psrty Idca-A Bitter Attack
on Cleveland.
ATLANTA, Ga. July 15.-Atanta was the
central point of the great Alliance rally to-
day, thousands of people being present at
the Piedmont Exposition-Grounds. The
audience was noticeably al agricultural
one. hundreds Of farmers coming many
miles and thousands from this and sur
rounding counties to hear the distinguished
speaker.
Mayor Hemphill welcomed the multi
tude TO Atlanta in an address which was
enthusiastically received. Colonel l.. +.
Livingstone. president of the Georgia AL
nance and congressman from this district,
presided.
GENERAL WEAVER.
The lrs. speaker was General J. b. Weaver,
Of Iowa. He declared in the beginning that tho
Alliance movement WAS greater than the Repub-
| lican party, the Democratic party, or the Peo-
pies party, because Il WAS the people. He as
serted that the pools and trusts Of america were
skinning Republicans and Democrats alike
There was no politics IN trusts; II was with them
as 1t was with the Dutchman who was asked
what his politics were, and whose reply was: Fit
ty cents n bushol for corn and I'VE cents glass
for Iager-beer. Ny politics IL busincss-' He
said 1t was high timo for formers 10 mako their
politics their business. Il am follower OF
| Thomas Jefferson" continued the speaker. :"
worship at his shfne, politically. Wien he said
eternal vigilance was the price Of liberty he did
not mean tho vigilance Of politicians. but the
| vigilance Of the people"
WEAVER WILDLY APPIAUDED.
| General Weaver brought forth the wildcat ap-
| plause from his bearers by declaring that there
| are now thirty-eight million more people here
| than there were twenty-five years ago, but
| IT hundred
| million dollars less OF money. Helaughed az tho
farmers for saying that times were dull and ask
ing each other what made them dull. lilo told
them 10 feel In their kets and they coulG an
swer that question for themselves 81 feel
| said the General, d" that the time has come when
we don't care banbee nor n ig for any party.
tApplausel ave know what we want and We
are going tohaye il. If the old parties get in our
| way, why we'll run right square over them
There won't be as much Of them left as there was
| Of the Republican party In Kansas last fan
Continuing, General Weaver exclaimed: /" ]
tell you, my friends, the industrial people OF this
country cannot afford 10 lose another presiden-
| tiai election" [Wild applause.l I'VE must
| meet the capitalists OF this country In the open
field and we must conquer them. II we are kept
| for another five years under their laws, now III
operation, we shall be the veriest slaves to a lot
! OF plutOcrats."
| lie advocated the free coinage Of silver, and
| concluded with n frnternal message from the
northern Alliance men &c their southern brethren
PRESIDENT POLK.
Colonel Livingstone then introduced l.. l..
Polk, president OF tho Alliance. lie began by
| saying be believed he knew. before God, that the
farmers had Just cause for complaint. They had
Mt last awakened to the fact that they had been
for years systematically deceived by designing
politicians and demagogues. He declared that
the day had passed when the farmers could be
deceived, for they had gone deep down into the
question and found that the trouble with them
YVES in the rotten. wicked financial legislation OF
the country.
| Colonel Polk called forth enthusiastic applause
| by drawing q picture of the sufferings OF this
| southern land after General Sherman had laid
IL waste with the sword and torch. He elected
| additional applause by declaring that these sur
ferings were nothing rs compared 70 the suffer-
| ings caused by John Sherman. whose blighting
| influence had been felt In every hovel IN America
| and In the home Of every honestlaboring me-
| chanic.
| PETITIONS WITH BRAINS AND BOOTS.
1.-THE Georgia farmers have sent petition
after petition 10 the halls OF legislation, every
one OF which was returned with scorn; ana now
| they propose TO make a change In the form 81
| the petitions. They are going 70 send petitions
| there In future about six feet long--petitiOns
with brains at one end and boots at the other.
tLong-cOntlnued app!ause.l
| Turning 20 General Weaver, Colonel POLK ex-
claimed snow, General, 80 home and tell your
| boys that our boys who wore the gray and
faced them midst the blaze Of battle have joined
hands with them to strike the shacEles rom me .
arms of fifty millions Of industrial people:
| Voices from the people: "We1l do 1t! Wen do
| itl"l In the midst Of the enthusiasm General
Weaver advanced to Colonel Polk with out
| stretched palm: 1--WE arc with you, ColOnel,
| heart and SOUL"
| At this the large audience literally went wild
| THE THIRD PARTY
| 1.-The ghost OF third party haunts the pill
| lows Of many in our land by night. Let me say
that we have had third parties started. bat farm
ers did not start them. They were started by
straightout Jehersonian Democrats and not
| Alliance Democrats. Yct these follows are Won
dcring II the Alliance Is going into third-party
movement. We have good example 10 90 into
third patty, although tho results of those par
! ties arc not very encouraging to us.
| "If there Is a third party inaugurated in the
| South" said the speaker very deliberately, sit
viii he due to the dominating, pros:riptiye, and
| intolerant spirit Of the so-chlled Democratic
| leaders. / have been consistent Democrat
since the war, and now don't want TO interfere
with party lines, but have Just this 70 say-we
want justice and We are going 20 have justice. IL
| we cannot get IL, as true Alliance men, We won't
hesitate to wipe the old parties out OF existence
no more than we win hesitate to wave our hands.
II the third party Is established II will be nothing
! bat the blind work OF the old parties"
BITTER ATTACK on CLEVELAND.
| He bitterly attacked Mr.. Cleveland for sur
rendering, or trying 10 surrender, the people 70
Wall street and the money power and said that
| the Alliance would carry the standard OF the
peoples rights to the front and meet and over
whelm Cleveland and sherman, and all the
other forces that monopoly could muster.
1.-THE s0CKLEss STATESMAN"
Hon. Jerry Simpson was introduced next and
| was cordially received.
He referred 20 bis warm reception here during
| the war and said that Kansan was always sure
| OF being well-receyed in Georgia. A year ago,
on the 9TH Of August, he made his first speech in
Kansas. "Fame and notoriety have said he,
been given me by the other fellows. Born OF
! ridicule, the same spirit has actuated the enc
| mics OF reform in every age" lie said that IN
| France when the French revolution broke out
nta1r tIA nxrnA a Ia
| 25,OO0, boo people In France were slaves sold
| with tho land. "There came a time when there
WAS desire for n better system OF government,
and there came up party OF the people. they
met with the same opposition. Aristocrais
| sneercd mt them, and they were called
tho party without breaches So when this
movement sprang up In Kansas, there was the
| same sentiment from the same class, sneertng at
| this farmers movement. And they said: Why,
| there Ia Jerry Simpson, come up from the farm
| ers, an ignorant farmer; he don't even wear
| socks lGreat laughterl "Some OF our poo
! pie came 20 me and said THAT will never do;
| you VIII have 10 contradict that That Is all
| right said !; lit occurs TO me that while have
! est socks there are many OF my constituents
| who unClAr this system o. society where the rich
get richer and the poor Ioorer, can't get socks.
| don't believe want TO put on style over them,
| and though might be sockless and even shirt
| less the other fellow had them, and was after
| him. not only got his socks but i got his
| Shoes" tGreat laughter and applause.l
| =. Humanity is the same In every age ms
| movement has met with nothing but rluicule.
You are very good people as long as you stay In
the old parties and vote the politicians into
! power, but as soou as you sec wealth begin TO
| steal away from you and you demand new
| deal, they begin TO sneer az you and say you
must leave this to the old party. We are here to
inquire what the old parties have done for US in
| the past and see II there is an excuse for this
| great uprising Of the people,
NEW CONDITION.
| Mr.. Simpson then showed how, with division OF
| labor, n now system Of society sprang up In
! which the factory made the shoes man used TO
| make and great corporations controlled busi-
| ness The laws OF the country must be adjusted
| to the new conditions OF society. The same Is
| true of your banking institutions You surren-
der To them a terrible power-the chance OF
| gathering TO themselves a large part OF the
countrys wealth Under the necessity OF ADJUST
| ing ourselves 10 the new system the farmer
| movements sprang up. The Kansas farmer
thought these things could be gotten
! from the Republican party, but when
We got outside iof that party 1t had a
| good effect. The people now have control
| We have about one hundred and nifty thousand
miles OF railroad, built at cost OF s3,00O0OO,-
| 600, and the railroads have added S600,0O0,-
| 100000 Of watered stocks and bonds They
charge dividends on that and II comes out Of the
| neoDle l saw IL Is a tribute ON the whole people,