The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1891-07-23

cv. with Branches, Suggested,
To Be Presented to the
Alliance.
New YORK, July 14.-In a secret
eonclave of representative Farmers
Alliance men from all parts OF lne
country, held recently at an out-o1-tne
way hotel in the vicinity of this city,
s there was concocted daring hnanclai
and commercial scheme which II IS
intended to propose to the farmers OF
the country, and which rivals III us
character and magnitude the SUD-
treasury scheme.
Measures began to be taken in March
to get together a sufficient numoer OF
the leaders in the Alliance movement
to give the project an effective paren-
taee and they were attended with sucn
srccess that over thirty of them were
brought together in this city, June z.
The scheme was the joint inv ention OF
H.H. Balch, secretary of the National
Cordage company (by which the T"lne
and Bagging Trust is Incorporated and
Oswald Wilson, president of the farm
ers' Alliance exchange OF this city,
both of whom hope to secure pleasant
Offices in the projected reorganization.
Mr.. Balch, it IS said, presented to the
eorporation1c1w he is the secretary
such aplalluring picture Of the advan-
taegg to be gained by connection with
the scheme that it undertook to pay
the expenses of the proposed meeting
and the travelling hotel expenses OF the
people attending it. Mr.. Wilson can
yassed the South and West in person
in the interest of the project and Sc
,ected the men to be invited to come IN
on the ground floor. When all Things
were ready and the list had been made
sufficiently influential in appearance 10
suit the concocters, notices were sent 10
the selected individuals to meet at the
Astor House in this city, Sunday, June
2i. Nearly every Invitation orousnt
its man, buta few Of the schemers went
TO another hotel instead of the one ap-
pointed as the general rendezvous and
thereby nearly gave the scheme away
They were corralled by the leaders,
however, and escorted with other del
eeates to Crede's South Beach Hotel,
on the bay shore side of Staten Island,
where the conclave was held behind
closed doors.
GooDLY GATHERING.
Besides Balch and Wilson the fol-
lowing men were present at the meet
ing: Col. W. Peek, of Georgia, presl-
dent of the Georgia Alliance executive
committee; C. w. Macune, editor OF
The National Economist of Washing
Ton. chairman of the National Alliance
executive committee and father OF tn
notorious sub-treasury scheme; D. +.
Allen, of Hornellville, n. Y; J. +.
Tillman, of Tennessee Rev. J. A.
SIGH, Of Newberry, S: G., an Alliance
member of the South Carolina Leglsla-
tu,e: w. W. Holland, of the National
.Cordage company S. Otho Wilson, OF
North Carolina; J. J. Rogers, OF Flr-
ginia, Frank J. Claypole and M. u.
Cofeen, of Kansas A. E. Spfague and
George i. Gowan, of Tennessee
George G. Cross, of Pennsylvania
John NJ. Massay. of Thomasville, ia. ;
G. E. Hamlin, from the West (Nebras-
ka, it was thought); A!sWardall, of
South Dakota; George F. Garther, OF
Birmingham business agent OF the
Alliance for Alabama A. E. Cole, OF !
Florida; J. A. Wickman and William
Dehon, of Florida, N. Barbee, of Ken
tucky; A. T. Mcintyre, of Thomas
Vile, Ga, who expects to be the gen.
eral Southern manager; J.T. Crawford,
Dallas, Tex; IT. A. Clayton, of Louis
lana one Mcintyre, a lawyer OF
Thomasville, Ga, brother of A. 7. Nc
Intyre; W. H Worth, of Raleigh, State
business agent Of the Alliance in North |
Carolina, and G. H. Peck, an attache
of the National Cordage company, as
sistant to Boss Balch.
There were two or three others who
did not register at the South Beach |
Hotel, but who attended all the meet
ings, returning to their hotels in this
city at night. Among them was
representative of the Alliance in Ohio |
and one from Chicago.
The meetings were held in the main |
dining room on the second floor, which |
looks out from broad piazza over the
Atlantic. The Chicago man, whose
name could not be ascertained to-day, |
was elected chairman. Meetings were |
held Monday night, nearly all day |
Tuesday and Wednesday morning,
June y, % and "a Nearly all the
persons attending remained at the
South Beach hotel throughout the
three days. The National Cordage
company is said to have footed the
bill.
A DAZZLING SCHEME.
The scheme which BalCh and Wilson !
launched upon the meeting was for u
national organization of Alliance stores
and exchanges throughout the coun-
try, with a national headquarters in
this city, principal branch establish
ment in Chicago, state central ex-
ohnnnoe l., o1.er1. State district Oroani-