The Iola register., 1891-01-23
CITIZENS. ALLIANCE.
A New National Organization at Topeka
The Officers Elected and Resolutions
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A New National Organization at Topeka
The Officers Elected and Resolutions
Adopted.
TOPEKA, Kan, Jan. 17.-As the result
of the three days secret conferences of
$50 delegates from sub-alliances of Citi-
zens' Alliances in Kansas and other
States, the Citizens National Industrial
Alliance was launched on the ocean of
politics yesterday.
After the National constitution had
been adopted, a declaration of princi-
Piles agreed upon and ritual and secret
work prepared, officers were elected as
follows:
President-Thomas Gilruth, of Kan
sas City, Mo.
Vice-President-Noah Allen. of Wich-
tia
Secretary-W. F. Rightmire, of To-
peka.
Lecturers. II. Snyder, of Kingman.
Inner Watchman-J. T. Olmstead, of
Marion.
Outer Watchman-S. ]. Fulkerson, of
Topeka
Board of Trustees-H. C. Vrooman of
Independence, C. o. Lee of Leaeen-
worth, John III. Reel of Fort Scott, o.
ii. Drinkwater of Cedar Point, G. III.
Flintham of Topeka.
Board of Judiciary and arbitration
Mrs. Anna E. Diggs of Topeka, S. N.
Wood of Woodsdale. P. n. Gish of Fort
Scott.
Financial Board-W. II. Bennington
of Topeka, John Y. Uric of Carbondale,
DIR. Warner of Topeka.
The board of trustees selected ma
tional organizers as follows: Captain C.
A. Power, Terre Haute, Ind: Ralph
Beaumont, Washington, ID. c.; Mrs. NJ.
E. Lease, Wichita, and S. N. Wood,
Stevens County.
District organizers were appointed as
follows: First Congressional district of
Kansas, c. o. Lee, Leavenworth; Sec
ond Kansas district and Southwest Mis-
souri,, Robert Osborne, Fort Scott;
Third Kansas district and Indian Terri
tory, Van b. Prather, Columbus, Kan. !;
Fourth district, c. w. Marsh, Topeka;
Fifth district, w. A. Birch, Abilene;
Sixth district and Nebraska, S. A. Will
son, Superior: Seventh district, F. E.
Bailey, Kingman.
At the session yesterday morning the
following resolutions were adopted by
rising unanimous vote:
Whereas, During the past twelve years
John j. Ingalls, has been the willing, faith
full servant and tool of the Eastern monopo-
lists and plutocrats, and during those years
his voice has not once been heard in defense
of the Industrial classes of this county or
his constituents in Kansas; and
Whereas, On January l3, 1891, in his Senate
speech he made>an attack upon his monopo-
listic masters and seems to have had mrac-
ulous conversion and awakening and can
now tell a portion of the truth about the con-
dition of the laboring and producing classes
of this country: therefore be it
Resolved, by the National Citizens Indus
trial Alliance, in convention assembled,
That we rejoice that the said John j. Ingalls,
is soon to be retired from the Senate of the
United States that lie will have time to re-
pent of his treason in the betrayal of the
trusts reposed in him by the people of the
State of Kansas during the past twelve years
That we believe in the honor and integrity
OF the present Legislature of the State of
Kansas, belonging to the Peoples party, and
that all the wealth of said Ingalls, Jewish
masters can not purchase his re election,
and that the said members retire this po
ktlcal cnalneieOn 10 tnc sndues OF pOllIiCdt
hades; for recognizing the wrongs that have
been heaped upon us by class legislation. no
repentance now can atone for twelve years
of political treason of said ingalls,. because
in the agonies of his political death he has
unconsciously told the truth
That we densunce the plutonic hirelings
known as PinkertOn police, and demand of
our present Legislature laws that will abso-
lutely exclude them from our State, and pro-
vidng that any corporations bringing any
body of armed men thin this State for the
protection of private or corporate property,
shall forfeit its charter by said act
That National conference of refOrmers
be held at Cincinnati between May 10 and 20,
1891.
The convention elected delegation
composed of twenty-five persons, con-
sisting of Mrs. Diggs as chairman. Mrs.
Crumb, Mrs. Lease, the National Off
GERS and other members to attend the
conference above referred to.
A meeting was held in the afternoon
to confer the secret work upon MEM
bers who were not present when the
same was conferred. The National
Assembly then adjourned to meet on
the first Tuesday in January, 1892, at a
place to be designated by the National
board of organization.