The Brookhaven leader., 1891-03-12
THE FARMERS.
HOW THEY ARE ORGANIC
ED THROUGHOUT THE
COUNTRY.
A Clear Analysis of the Farmers
Movement and Its Mani
fest Destiny.

fest Destiny.
An ordinary man is apt to grow
dizzy trying to straigthen out all the
different movements aud understand
the purport of all the different con-
yentions and conferences of the far
ners aud the members of the indus
trial unions. The general impression
In the Fact has been that the farmers
had. during the last year, united all
their forces in great Farmers ALI
anee for political and cooperative
purposes, and were moving on the Ma
ton in solid phalanx.
This, of course, Ia very far from the
truth. There is no union movement,
either In political or any other re-
spect.
There are six distinct national or
CARNATIONS of the farmers, namely !:
The National Grange, organized in 81
| States the Farmers Mutual Benefit
Association, organized in 5 States /;
the Patrons of Industry, with State
organizations in three States; the
Farmers League, with State Organi-
cations in six States and Leagues in
nearly every State the National Col
ored Farmers Alliance, organized in
Is States the National Farmers AL
lance, organized in IL Statesj and
the National Farmers Alliance and
Industrial Union, organized in %
| States.
All these organizations are formed
primarily for educational and cooper
alive purposes. Within the last two
years, however, they have become the
hot-b of political agitation, and the
spring of political movements in the
South, the West and the Northwest
In South Dakota, Nebraska, MinnesO-
tn, Michigan, Iowa, Indiana and Kan
sas, this movement has taken the form
of distinct party; in North Dakota
the movement has become affiliated
with the Prohibition party in the
Southern States the political move
ment has been kept within the Demo
cratic party lines, and worked for the
control of that party.
The results in the Western States,
where the movement has been indie
pendent of old party lines, will be
seen in the following resume of the
vote on Congressional candidates:
1llinois.-The Peoples Party had sepa-
rate candidates in four Congressional dis
tricts, polling an aggregate of 5, 022 votes,
all but 1913 of these being in one district.
Elected, none.
Iowa.-The Union Labor and Alliance
parties had Congressional candidates in
four districts, polling an aggregate vote
of 7,011. Elected, none.
Kansas.-The Peoples Party had Con-
gressional candidates in seven districts.
In three of the seven the Democrats Gu
dorsed the candidates, aud in one other
district the Democrats made no uOmina-
tiOn. In the three district where the
Democrats had their own candidate in
the field the Peoples Party polled the fol-
lowing votes: 7,176. 1928, 49, S2. In
the other four districts, where the Demo-
Gratis had no candidates of their own, the
vote for the Peoples Party was: 24,993,
80 sos, 20,749, %, 492. Aggregate vote in
the seven districts, I40, 766. Elected, 5,
only one of whom, however, was elected
over both Democratic and Republican
candidates.
Michigan The Industrial Party had
Congressional candidates in five districts.
Aggregate vote, 5,755. Elected, none.
Minnesota.-The Farmers Alliance
Party had Congressional candidates in
three districts. In Que of these there was
no Democratic rival; in another the
Farmers Alliance endorsed the Prohibit
ton candidate. In the one district where
the Alliance had candidate separate
from the other parties, the vote was 3, 059.
In the district where the Democrats made
no separate nomination the Alliance can
didate polled 20,306. In the district
where the Alliance endorsed the PrOhibi-
ton candidate he was elected, polling
"a ,514 votes.
Nebraska.-The Independent Party had
Congressional candidates in three district.
Iu one of these the Democrats made no
nomination and the Independent candi-
date was elected, receiving SO, 104 votes
In the other two districts the Independ-
ents polled I3, O66 and 81, 931 votes, elect :
ing i'm one of these districts.
South Dakota.--The Independents had
Congressional candidates in two districts,
polling an aggregate of 1912. Elected,
none.
Out of eight Congressional candi-
dates elected therefore in these seven
States, five were elected in Kansas,
two in Nebraska and one in Minneso-
ia. One of the eight was elected by a
combination with Prohibitionists, five
were elected by combinations with
Democrats, and but two were elected
without combinations.
In two of these seven States, the
new movement called itself the PeO-
ple's party. In two it called itself the
Independent party. In one it called
itself the Industrial party, in one the
Farmers Alliance, and in one the
Union Labor and Farmers Alliance.
There is between the movements in
these different States, under these
different names, no connection what
ever, except such as comes from sym.
pathetic views.
Such are the facts "a tn the IA rmers,