The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-01-22
FARMERS ALLIANCE
General Call for the Annual Ma.
tionaI Convention.
Doings and Opinions of the Peoples
Party in the State and
Nation.

Nation.
Whereas, in unity there is strength,
therefore it is desirable that there
should be a union of all the v~ariously
named organizations that stand on COM
mon ground.
To this end, and in accordance with
recent suggestions of the general as
sembly of the knights of Labor, and
the general wish of all progressive re-
formers, this call is made for a national
conference to be composed of delegates
from the following organizations, viz:
The Independent Party;
The Peoples Party, by its representa-
tives;
The Union Labor Party, by its represen-
tatives;
The late Federal and Confederate SOL
diers, by their representatives;
The Farmers Alliance.
The Farmers Mutual Benefit Associa-
ton;
The Citizens Alliance;
The knights of Labor;
The Colored Farmers Alliance;
And all other organizations that sup
port the principles of the st. Louis
Agreement of December, 1889. Each
state organization to send one delegate
from each congressional district, and
two from the state at large; and each
district organization to send not less
than three delegates, and each county
organization not less than one delegate
to be chosen according to the custom
Of each respective organization, during
the month of January, 1891: also that
the editor of each newspaper is hereby
invited as a delegate, that has advo-
Gated the principles of the st. Louis
! agreement and supported the candidates
nominated thereon in 1890.
The delegate to meet in the city of
Cincinnati, o., on Monday, the 23d day
of February, 1891, at 2 o'clock D. M, for
the purpose of forming a national union
party, based upon the fundamental ideas
of finance. transportation, labor and
land, and the transaction of other legit-
innate business in the furtherance of
the woIk already begun by those organ.
izations, preparatory to a united strug-
gle for country and home. in the great
political conflict now pending that must
decide who, in this country, is the SOW
~ereign-''the citizen or the dollar"
All papers friendly to this movement
will please publish this call.
Liberty Bell: Congressman Cannon,
of Illinois, says a good many things,
good, bad and Indifferent, true and I'M
true. When he remarked the other
day that sit would be the best thing for
the finances if this congress could end
n1, - hn fold n ~~Dl I@,1 F 4u,41 IJ.l
he said that the best thing for the
finances, would have been for this SON
gress never to have met at all, he would
have told vastly more truth.
been fooling with a Kansas cyclone
a large part of his professional
career, by ignoring or openly betraying
the rights of the farmers in his state.
Now that the time has come for another
senatorial election the tables are turned.
The cyclone has got hold of the s'irri-
descent statesman" but there don't seem
to be much fooling in the way he is be-
ing knocked out.
Liberty Bell: The Sioux City journal
has been doing a considerable amount
of growing about State Labor Commits
sioner j.. r. Sovereign. AS the Journal
has never suggested any reason for it.
we presume it is merely another in.
stance of Sovereign's good luck.
Liberty Bell: Another trouble is
that upon most of the important issues
of the day, the two old parties will be
likely to agree, and hence the four in,
dependents, while nominally holding
the balance of power in the senate, will
really have comparatively little outside
of what they can secure by their assis.
lance in the division of the ~''loaves and
fishcs,' in other words, the selec.
ton of senatorial clerks, etc. The i'm.
portance of securing, if possible, the
return of a senator from Illinois. who
will pledge himself not to be controlled
by an old larty caucus, is, therefore,
plainly apparent, and in case the indie.
p%endents in the Illinois legislature can.
not secure that concession, then they
should work to secure the nomination
by n or the other of the old parties OF
a man as much in sympathy with the
peoples interests as possible, and
support him. AS a last resort,
wnen all other means have been
tried without avail, they have
left the opportunity of nominating a
candidate of their own and supporting
him to the last; not because the selec,
ton of a senator is unimportant, for Of
course, We do not assume that the three
independent members, who are re.
ported to constitute the full indie.
pendent strength in the Illinois
legislature, can select the successful
candidate, but because as between two
enemies of American institutions, they
have no choice.
But above all, let no one forget the
Importance attaching to a choice of
United States senator under our method
of government.