Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-04-23
Cincinnati, oonference.


When call for a conference was
issued from Ocala last December, it
gave great dissatisfaction, because
called so early that 1t would prevent
the members Of the different Legis-
latures whom we have elected from
attending the same, and it was par
TALLY in compliance with the request
of members-elect of the Kansas, Neb-
raska and the Dakota's Legislature
that the postponment of this confer
ence was made.
Immediately after the conference
was postponed, our enemies and many
misguided friends of our reform
cause, BEGAN working for postpon-
ment of the conference until 1892.
Our friends, believing this postpon-
ment necessary, that the educational
work of the Alliance might be car
ried on more successfully, and our
enemies, working for a postponment
to keep us divided like guerrilla
bands without any unity of purpose
and to keep the third party out of
states like Iowa and Ohio, and from
holding important elections in 1891,
they well knowing that a conference
in 1892 would not allow us time to
unite and form such a harmonious
body that we can gain success in the
Presidential campaign. Hence 1
favor the conference of May 18th
1891, and if we can unite all our
forces and present an unbroken front
and one platform and gather to our
ranks the dissatisfied from all the old
parties, success in 1892 is ours. We
can there confer together and united
" decide on the best methods to
work for the best interest of our in
dustrial masses, and there in mutual
conference, find where the Northwest
stands in relation to the South, and
determine if the South is willing to
form union with us in Sin the mid
die of the road" between the old
parties or whether the South is
working to divide the North and
place Democracy in unlimited power
in our national affairs in 1892,
While we commend the following
words of wisdom of President Polk,
which We quote with great pleasure we
must hold our conference of May 10
to determine whether he voices
the true sentiment of the South or
not.
"We do not hesitate to say, and we
say it most earnestly, that we want
our fellow citizens of the South to
learn the lesson that this great mans
fall teaches. We want them to learn
the lesson without disaster, if they
viii, but learn it they must and shall,
that passions and prejudices begotten
political and social life any longer.
What our brethren of Kansas have
done for Mr.. Ingalls,, we of the South
intend to do for all old war leaders
who show incapacIty to rise above the
sectional questions which have so
long divided and harmed our COM
mon country. We cannot live upon
a regime of hate and spite, and we
shall show to the world that we will
not longer try so to live"
While we hope the words quoted
voice the true sentiment of the indus
trial masses of the South, we are de-
cided When the Southern Alliance
Farmer, of Atlanta, Ga, in its issue
of April z editorially says: eff the
Democrats are wise, they will do like
wise in 1892. Adopt the Alliance
platform as the Democratic platform,
select as your standard-bearers dyed
ln-the-wool free coinage and tariff
reform candidates. and victory is as
sured. Then there will be no third
party. =
The Southern Alliance men don't
want a new party, if Democracy will
give them an assurance of relief; but
if they fail to do this, the party lash
may crack in the air, but Alliance
men will be stubborn as mules. The
farmers will not vote for any ticket
unless it favors free coinage and tariff
for revenue only. This is plain Ian
guage, but the country had just as
well hear it now as late=. Our Geor-
gia Alliance men are democrats; but
they want the genuine, Simon-pure
Democracy, and not a decoction,
mixed upon a platform with a con-
tracted currency and high tax plank
therein" It is to determine the true
position of the South that we place
such confidence in the conference of
May 18th, 1891.
I ask all members of the Farmers
Alliance and Industrial Union r.
meet for a Farmers ="
a.. --.usic Hall. Cincinnati
-Mo, on May 18th, 1891, that we ma.
decide on the course the Farmers Al
lance will pursue before the confer
ence meets. I believe that I voice
the sentiment of the Northwest whei
I say that the Farmers Alliance o
the Northwestern States will be eithel
in union with the South sin the mid
die of the road" In 1892, or tn
I Northwestern States Will return T.
their old time usual maioritles 70