Morris tribune., 1891-03-18
County Alliance Meeting.

County Alliance Meeting.
: An adjourned meeting of the ste
vens County Alliance was held at the
court house in this city last Saturday
! afternoon.
There were about twenty-five mem
bers of the Alliance present, includ-
ing President Sax and Secretary Rior-
dan.
j The meeting was called to order by
the president. who stated the object
of the meeting to be the consideration
of the advisabilty of sending dele
gate to the Cincinnati convention, the
purchasing of the Great West by the
executive committee of the state ALI
/ ance. and also the establishing of an
Alliance paper in Stevens county.
After considerable discussion req
olution was adopted, declaring that in
the opinion of the Stevens County Al
lance it was not advisable to purchase
the Great West.
1t was decided by the meeting that
it was not best for the Stevens County
Alliance to send delegate to Clncin-
natl, but would be better to send del
egates from each of the congressional
districts.
A committee, consisting of the pres
ident, secretary and L. j. Schlattman,
was appointed to prepare resolutions,
recommending an independent move
ment on the part of the Alliance, said
resolutions to be forwarded by the
delegates from this state to the Gin
cinnati convention.
l.. ]. Schlattman read the report of
the committee on starting an Alliance
paper in Stevens county, in which the
papers in Morris were most unmerci-
fully scored for adhering SO closely to
the principles of their respective par
ties and for abusing the Alliance and
misrepresenting its principles.
Mr.. Schlattman said that perhaps an |
apology was due the editors of the |
Morris papers for the severe manner
in which the committee had criticised |
their course; that it was not intended
to say anything against them person.
ally as gentlemen, but simply to de-
nounce the principles which they ad-
vOcated.
The report was adopted and vote
of thanks extended to the committee.
Friend Whiteley of the Sun asked
permission to be heard, which was
granted, and he took occasion to de-
nounce the report of the committee
as slanderous, uncalled for and un-
true.
The editor of the TRIBUNE remark
ed that if he never received any worse
abuse than was contained in said re- /.
port he would not get mad, but on the
contrary would consider himself de-
cidedly lucky.
This little tilt between the editors
and the Alliance tended to make the
meeting far more interesting than
Alliance meetings unusually are.
Frank Smith read long letter from
G. w. Foote, late publisher of the
Browns Valley Footprints, proposing
20 purchase the Morris Sun and MAX
ng an Alliance paper of it-''a paper"
ne said, independent of the Stevens
county ring and the royal family"
To this letter Mr.. Whiteley replied
hat he did net propose to sell the Sun
% Mr.. Foote, and that he could run
H II A A lliaiiee paper just as weif H as an
1t was finally decided to put off the
natter of starting an Alliance paper
n this county until October, Mr..
Schlattman stating that only about
5000 of stock had been pledged, $40
If which was in the town of Scott, /
md $40. in Pepperton. He said that
he farmers were willing to subscribe
or the paper, but were not disposed
% take stock, owing to hard times. but
thought they would be in better con-
lition in the fall and would then SUBJ
scribe more literally. |.
On motion adjourned to the day of
.he next regular meeting.