The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-01-30
ALLIANCE DEPARTMENT.
Senator Gordon, of Georgia. Intar.
viewed By a Reporter.
His Attitude Toward the Farmers
Alliance He Says 10 Friendly,
and Will (, ow Join tho
Organization.

and Will & ow Join tho
Organization.
Gen. John b. Gordon came TO the city
from his Taylor county stock farm, writes
an Atlanta, Ca, reporter, looking ruddy
and somewhat sunburnt, in excellent
health and spirits.
The reporter caught him on tho wing,
as IL were, and asked him II he wac viii.
ing to make public. his. e Intentions In ref
5cfnfhg the Farmers' Alliance.
- I'VE oencrsf promptly replied: .----'
SsIssiniy. I have not the slghtes,
Join the Alliance ~ 90 !,
eyes. ! shall join the Alliances" he re-
piled "As often stated in my public.
speeches during the campaign which has
Just ended. ami and have long been in
fullest sympathy with the great objects
ior which the Farmers Alliance was or
yanizcd- namely, equal rights to all and
special privileges To nouc-au abundant
supply of currency under improved SyS
TENS that shall make that currency avail
able tn the producers and masses at less
cost or interest, and so managed that at
the season of gathering and marketing
the great crops Of the country the supply
shall he Increased in proportion to tho tn
creased demand created at these seasons.
That is to say. am in favor of some sys.
tenn that shall make the currency elastic
IN character and sdequatc In volume NJ
all seasons to meet the special exigcnclrs
| of the those seasons.
"Ho~ Snuld- YOU accomplish this
cnd p
TO answer that question will require
a very long discussion, altogether out of
place in sucll talk rs this, but ! will
,ay generally that nm not particularly
welded to any plan, and Us have said
in my speeches before the Senatorial clct
tion. ] repeat now that I shall favor that
plan which the combined wisdom Of the
friends of financial reform may ngree up
on as most practicable aud effective. Yoa
will remember that I have steadfastly
maintained that the wise course is for all
the friends of financial reform to CO opcr
ate for the general result and agitate un-
til the whole country is aroused. anu
then. after the victory is won, to counsel
together and agree upon the plans.
1T is easy enough to find the way,
when we have rnea ehough who have the
| will to accomplish the result.
'.Iu reference to the circulating medium
ID will say that as -tha gossIRmepts 81
1osssiss s ~ 81 3sa a. b IslS$ ila1s S tsoyy 3 s. sl's E
country, IL Is bound. by every conSidera
ton Of justice, Of good conscience and Of
wise policy to supply tho people with all
TIC currency necessary for conducting all
business without involving the country
III these periodical scasons Of financial
s:ringency and without :nfiic:iHg such
periods of depression on the productive
energies of the masses"
"Do you wish to say anything about
the proposed Third Party movement ~
II am uucompromisingly and uncondi-
tionally opposed TO it,"
do you then oppose the movement
being made for peoples party in the
Western States z"
"No; think it is probably the hest
course the Western farmers can now be
induced to take. = The success %!
this movement in the West means the
restoration of fraternal relations bctwcc,
the South and West and closer alliunr,
of industrial classes who arc especially
and most largely interested In agricultur
al success and independence.
"At the South, however, we have q
condition of affairs which forbids any iii
visions OF disscnsions in our ranks We
must hold together for the preservation
of our state. :::! L: ,;.;,i,.. 10 conserve o,ir
social aud material, as we'll as political
interests. Discussions with us mean bit
ter political feuds, ending perhaps in th,
triumph of the worst elements and in SO
cial and material retrogrcssion,
Have you heard that some of your Al
lance friends are talking of you in con
nection with the presidency of the Stat,
Alliance ~
"Yes. ] have been approached ON tho
subject; but wish TO say most positive
ly and with emphasis that | would not
accept that Oh any office in the Alliance,
so long as | hold any political Office o,
am candidate for political position.
agree most fully with Col. l. L. Polk il
the opinion that the officers of the All
ance ought to be ineligible to politica
Office and freed from the temptation tc
use the Order for personal ends so Ions
as they hold positions of trust and infu
cncc in the brotherhood. 80 far as e-
concerned, as long as am in politica
life shall labor rs a layman in the ranks
for Alliance principles.
whatever influence l shall be able u
WELD will be excrted in the direction OF
conservative counscls and harmony inside
the Order, but for a vigorous and aggrcs
sivc policy against sectional agitation and
class legislation. which have proven 50
hurtful to the farming interests in the
past"
"WilI you join soon :''
eyes. I should have belonged TO the
Order long ago, but as was a candidate
or expected to be a candidate, for politi
cal Office, / feared my motives might b,
msinterpreted. Now, however, that
have six years OF official life before, if
shall live that long, there is now no pos
sibility of my action being misconstrued
ormisinterprcted as dictated 10y any per
snl.