Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-01-30
THEIR DEMANDS.
Resolutions Adopted by the Ma
tiOnal Farmers Alliance.
The Present System OF Government
Denounced
No Fusion With the Democrats
or Republicans.
THEY'LL HAvEMgT HEIR OWN CAM
DlDATMg IN 1892.
PRELIMINARY CONVENTION TO BE
HELD EARLY NEXT YEAR.

They Favor the Election of President,
Vice President and Senators by Popular
Vote--Their Stand on the Liquor Ques-
tion-woman Suffrage and Free Coin
age Favored-FuI Text of the Resolu-
tiOns Adopted at Omaha.
OMAHA, Jan. 30-The Farmers ALI
ance convention Wednesday began the
revision of the constitution.
An amendment proposed, making
all laboring men eligible to men,
bership provokeda heated debate, during
the course of which President Powers
said that such an amendment would
break up the organization. He said:
I'VE want to carry the next election,
and if we extend the qualifications be-
yond farmers the cities will take advan-
tage Of their point New York city
could send T1,OO0,000 to Omaha to
pay initiation fees, and, in few months
designing politicians would hire enough
men to Join the order so that Nebraska
would be in the hands of the ring. The
same would be true in other states. 1t
would result in the capture of the Ma
tional Alliance, body and soul. This
movement started among farmers and
should be kept there
In the afternoon the report of the
committee on resolutions was presented,
and was considered by paragraphs. The
following were adopted:
WHEREAS, Owing to the oppression that
has been heaped upon us by mOnopOlsts
capitalists, trusts and combines, we be
lieve it is time for action, and
WHEREAS, The National Farmers All-
anca in convention assembled, does most
emphatically declare against the present
system Of government as manipulated by
the cor g,css of the United States and the
members OF the legislatures of the several
states; therefore,
We declare in favor of holding conven-
tion on Feb %, 1892, to fix a date and
place for the holding Of a convention to
nominate candidates for the Offices of pres
ident and vice president of the United
States. We declare that i'm the convention
to be held Feb Y, 1892, that the repre-
sentation shall be one delegate from each
state in the Union
RESOLVED, That we favor the abolition
Of all National banks and the surplus
funds be loaned to individuals upon land
security at q low rate of interest
RESOLVED, That we are unaltcrably in
favor of the Australian ballot law
RESOLVED, That wedcmand the foreclos-
ure of mortgages that the government
holds on railroads.
RE oLyED, That we discountenance
gambling in stocks and shares.
RESOLVED, That this is an admiuistra-
ton of the people, and in view of that fact
the president and vice president of the
United States should be elected by popu-
lar vote instead by an electoral college,
RESOLVED, That as the farmers of the
United States largely outnumber any
other class of citizens they demand the
passage of laws of reform, not as party
measures, but for the good of the govern
ment.
RESOLVED, That the Alliance shall take
40 part as partisans in political struggle
ms ahilaling with Republicans or Demo
Gratis.
RESOLVED, That the National Farmers
Alliance demands that the interstate com
merce law be so amended and enforced as
to allow all railroads a reasonable income
on the money invested, and we demand
that the mortgages on the Union and
Central Pacific railroads be foreclosed mt
once and the roads taken charge of by the
government and run in the interest of the
people, with "a view to extending both
lines to the eastern seaboaad.
RESOLVED, That we favor the free and
unlimited coinage of silver, and that the
volume of the currency be increased to so
per capita. We further demand that all
paper money be plaeedon an equality with
gold.
REsoLyED, That we, as land owners,
pledge ourselves to demand that the
government allow us to borrow money
from the United States at the same rate
of interest as do the banks.
RESOLVED, That all mortgages, bonds
md shares Of stock should be assessed at
the face value.
RESOLVED, That senators of the United
States shall bc elected by vote of the peo-
pie.
RESOLVED That laws regarding the liq-
nor traffic should be so amended as to Ire-
vent endangerinp the morals of our chill
dren and destroying usefulness
RESOLVED, That we favor the passage of
the Conger lard bill
RESOLVED That we believe that women
have the same rights as their husbands TO
hold property, and we are in sympathy
with any law that will give our wives,
sisters and daughters full representation
at the polls
RESOLVED, That our children should be
educated for honest labor, and that agri-
cultural colleges should he established in
every state.
RESOLVED, That we favor n liberal sys-
TEN for reusioning all survivors of the
late war.