The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1891-11-26
taE ALLIANCE IN SESSION..

Ths sSuprerne. Council of the National
sA Lie bee met in indianapolis, Ind, on
Tues day OF last week. The Farmers Mu-
t1sl Benefit Association was in session in
city at the same time. The third
people were there in large num-
yers with thu declared purpose Of get
6fr he Aniance and other labor organi-
$50 hs to j6Sn. their party.
hs fsatdres Of the meeting that have
EkSEs Es6 the most interest were the posi-
tion the Alliance would assume politi-
call and the action that would be
ladapteds sby the anti-sub-treasury Alli-
ncss party, whose chief exponents are
sSy McAlister, Of Mississippi, and ex-
slient Hall, Of the Missouri Alliance.
Asso this latter, the anti-sub-treasury,
ssnen1hers were not allowed to participate
Sir. the sessions Of the Supreme Council,
4 ssand for this reason Messrs. McAllister,
Hall Nichols and other prominent
sansis, withdrew from the Alliance as it
now exists, and, have issued call for a
aCohYention Of Alliancemen who are op-
posed to- the sub-treasury scheme to
lfReef IN Memphis, Tenn, on 10th Deem
next. THUS, the Alliance leaders
1aye: eaussd split in their own ranks,
and alienated an Intelligent and impor-
tant elementof the order from them by
insisting in season and out Of season that
gan members swallow bodily the SUBJ
treasury plank of the Ocala platform.
: y; There can be little doubt that there was
astrongst third party sentiment prevail
ing An the Council, and except for the
sjgorous opposition of President Living
sston, Of the Georgia Alliance, the third
party might possibly have captured the
Council outright. The following reso-
tuition was adopted by the Alliance, and
shoWs:strongly the drift OF that body:
.fWereqnest the members of Congress
elected through Alliance influence not to
5 entex any caucus for the selection Of
speaker unless the principles Of the Ocala
platform are mede the test Of entrance to
that caucus
= The word "instruct' was used in the
place Of request, in the original reso-
Slution, oil which Congressman Tom Wat
son, OF Georgia, is said to be the author,
Hbut Livingston stoutly fought the reso-
I luton, and q compromise was reached by
making the substitution above referred
to.
President Polk was reelected Presi-
dent, nnd J. 81. Louks, OF South Dakota,
fwas electsd Vice President. Louks Is a
tmember Of the National Committee of
the Peoples party, ana therefore his cleo
ton as Vice President of the Alliance is
/ gratifying to the third party people.
On Friday the National Committee Of
1.-The Peoples Party issued a jubilant adj
edress, saying that their party would put
candidates. for President and vice-Presi-
pnt In tho field before June l, 1892, and
THAT the "',oraing together and co-cpera-
.tion of all the labor forces of the United
eetates, whether employed in the work
gshops, sor in the mine or on the farm,"
cannot be prevented by any "influence Of
the old political organizations, nor by any
spower of aggregate dcapital." If there bs
any hereahouts who are tired of the true
and tried Democracy, and who have been
too timid to join the Republicans, such
can now find tfsir proper sphere, doubt
/ less, among the ranks Of the boastful
/ Peoples Farty-an aggregation Of the
sdisgfuntled and disappointed elements of
gn political bodies.
Carolina may furnish some re-
,sscruits for this ring-streaked, speckled
|kpd spotted party, if certain of the Alli-
leaders can exertthe influence they
they possess, but the rank and file
Alliance will stand in solid phal-
With the Democracy and remain as
0 to the principles Of that party as did
laey and their fathers In the stormy times
of ,7e. when mems souls were tried as
raver since the Civil War was fought.
0nr people are Democrats from princi-
nile. and cannot be led or driven by the
dictaton Of every man that Is self-ap-
pointed ieader.
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