The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1891-08-27

organizations of the farmers and
laborers of our land from one Of the
greatest curses of the age-the protec-
tive tariff system-and to commit them
to the national curse of class legisla-
ton.
6. By placing in the highest official
positions of our national and state olders
men who are not farmers, not have any
interest in farming, but whose only
interest and mbition is to keep the
farmers in the depressed condition they
now are, to the end they may draw
their salaries from them, knowing that
the depression Of the farming class is
necessary to keep up an organization CT
this ch aracter.
6. BY some of the leading Off GERS of
the order, both state and national,
consorting with the enemies of good
government against the true interests
of the people, and corruptly eudeavor-
ing by dishonest methods to fasteu upon
the people the protective tariff and
railroad combination-two of the evils
that the Alliance was created to put
down and destroy.
s. BY private individuals in the ALI
ance, through corrupt and mercenary
motives, buying up the state and ma
tional official organs ofour order, there
by centralizing the power of this orga-
nization and that of the millions Of
farmers in it for the purpose of the per-
sonal aggrandizement and political
ambition and corrupt ends of these
men.
8. BY changing our order from its
non partisan character into partisan
body, by applying partisan political
tests to membership and ofice-holding
in our order, and by declaring in q
statute passed at Ocala, December, 1890,
and by proclamation Of our national
president, that when the majority Of
the National Alliance promulgated any
political principle, demand and heresy,
that every Allianceman must subscribe
to and conform to such political prin-
cipie; therefore belt
Resolved, That we denounce the sub
treasury and land-loan schemes and
governmental ownership of railroads as
violations of the first principles of good
government, as paternal in their char
acter, as centralizing in their tenden-
cies, and if enacted into law would
create such a horde Of national office
holders as would fasten the clutches Of
the party in power upon the throats Of
the people so strongly that the voice of
honest, patriotic citizens would no
longer be heard in hecontrol ofgovern-
mental affairs.
We further denounce these measures
as being violation of the constitution
of our beloved order.
That we denounce G. W. Macune and
his corrupt methods; together with the
acts of his tools and henchmen, as
being disgrace to the order, and a
stencil in the nostrials of all honest
men who know oftheir corruption and
villiany, and thus point out to the
order by continuing such men as this
in power they are enabled, by betrayipg
US and our interests, to most efectually
chain Us to the juggernaut cars of
monopoly,
We further demand that those men
who are not farmers be- removed from
the national and state Offices of our
order, and that none but those who
have their interest in farming be al
lowed to fill such places, to the end
that the legislatures of our government
may know that when the Alliance
speaks it is the voice Of the farmers and
laborers of our land, instead of the wish
of some paid tool of monopoly and
corruption. We now appeal to all
honest members of the Alliance
throughout the United States in behalf
of the poor and oppressed of our land
whom these base men have betrayed,
in the name Of our ;lives and children,
who must be relieved. if at all, by the
united action Of the farmers of this
country, in the name of good govern
ment, to unite with US in putting down
this common enemy and disgrace of
our order. TO this end we most ear
nestly recommend that the brother
Alliancemen of the United States
would meet in national convention at
St.: Louis, on the third Tuesday of
September, 1891.
DR.. W. B. MORROW,
R. G. BRAGG,
T. NJ. SMITH,
c. c. BELL,
DAVID BUST,
r. n. WEIsIGER,
NJ. D. BURNEY,
D. MCCUNNINGHAM,
WILL L. SARGENT,
J. G.. EAsTERLISG,
A. f. LANDEN,
L. S. HALL,
w. S. MCALLIsTER,
Committee.
Queer Coincidence,
From the Courier-J Journal
WASHINGTON, August 16.-A queer
coincidence is being noted to-day by
the employees of the White House in
connection with the death of Mrs. Jas.
! X. Polk. Yesterday mornings mail