Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-20
1t Is to Be the First Card of
the Peoples Party
Next Year.
PLANS OF THE ALLIANCE.
The Labor Congress to Draw Up a
Platform of Principles as an
ULfIMATUM TO THE OLD PARTIES.
1t Will Not Re Accepted, and Then the New
Party Is to Step In.
ANTE-SUB-TREASURY PEOPLE SECEDE

ANTESUB-TREASURY PEOPLE SECEDE
ISDIANAPoLIs, Nov. 19.-The Peoples
party has captured the Alliance The AL
lance has split on the sub-treasury scheme.
These are the net results of to-day's sessions
of the various farmers organizations now
gathered here.
The evidence of the split was public be-
fore that of the capture. When the Supreme
Council of the Alliance met this morning
everybody but delegates were excluded from
the hall. Even Congressman Jerry Simpson
had to 60
One protest of the anti-sub-treasury
people was taken up, and a somewhat ami
mated debate occurred as to the best means
Of disposing of it with the least possible
friction. Finally, after two hours of wrang-
ling, the committee of the antis was in
formed that they could not be heard unless
they furnished the Council with a copy of
the protest This the antis refused to do
unless they could present their protest in
person, and that ended negotiations.
The Substance of the Protest
The protest, which is very long, was in
substance as follows: 1t sets forth that the
authors are a committee of the Farmers
and Laborers' Union Convention held in st.
Louis in September, appointed to memor-
ialize the Supreme Council, setting forth
objections of the convention to certain
declarations of principles and demands
hitherto made by the Supreme Council.
The memorial respectfully protests
against any action of the Supreme Council
that proposes to commit the Farmers Alli-
ance to the proposition that provision be
made by Congress for Government loans Of
money to Individual citizens upon farm
mortgages as security, or to the demand for
Government ownership CT control of rail-
road property and transportation. These
schemes are unconstitutional, impracticable,
conflicting with the spirit of the Alliance
movement and tending to Government
paternalism and State socialism.
Would Make Government Oppressive.
The Government naturally looks to the
citizen for the supply of all its legitimate
wants, an inversion of which state of affairs
would make the Government an engine of
oppression and the citizen helpless and de-
pendent.
The progress and prosperity of the indi-
vidusl must be left by free Government
to individual thought, effort and enter
prise Any other system would dwarf the
individual and abnormslly magnify the
Government Any assumption of the rights
and duties of Government menaces the truly
American principle, thar Government is of
the people, by the people and for the
people.
The scheme would be partial to certain
classes, involving business details too deep
for the average farmer. The sttendent e1-
pense would make the market price of
money higher, and would open an avenue
for sharpers to trade upon the farmers
hard-earned products The markets would
be overloaded with produce, putting down
the value of commodities and raising taxa
ton.
What Government Ownership Implies.
Government ownership of railroads i'm
plies one of the two other schemes: Either
the Governments must take railroads from
owners by force, or buy them for more than
they are worth 1t would foster political
corruption, and would be an arbitrary inter-
ference with private rights.
In conclusion, the committee expresses its
desire to cooperate with the Alliance in
carrying out its principles in currency, rid
ding the land of trusts and monopolies,
helping the farmer and laborer in securing
an honest ballot and a fair count, and Sc
lecting for places of public honor honest
and capable men.
The Executive Committee of the anti-sub-
treasury party will now proceed to Texas,
where 127 subordinate alliances have
already declared against the sub-treasury
scheme, and will begin the work of organic
ing new alliance. A call for the national
convention will probably be issued to-mor-
row.
The capture of the Alliance bv the Peo-
pies party was practically accomplished
two or three days ago, but the full extent
of the capture was not apparent until to-
dav, when President Polk was unanimously
reelected, and J. H. Louckes, of South
Dakota, was chosen Vice President. J. H.
Turner was reelected Secretary-Treasurer
and J. F. Willets, of Kansas, National
Lecturer.
Polk a Thfrd-Party Advocate.
Mr.. Polk, in his annual address Tuesday
night, so severely condemned the two old
parties, and SO strongly indicated his ten
denotes to the Peoples party move
ment that the election of either one
of the other gentlemen mentioned
would have been regarded as a blow
to the Peoples party, while the election of
II. l. Louckes, of South Dakota, as Vice
President, is regarded as a still greater
victory, from the fact that he is a member
Of the National Committee of the People's
party.
The committee on confederation of the
various industrial organizations met this
morning at the Hotel Denison. This COM
mittee was composed of five representatives
from each of the six organizations and was
chosen by the latter for the purpose of call
ing a congress of all the labor and indus
trial classes. 1t had been decided, previ-
Gus to this gathering, to convene the con-
gress at Washington, February %, but the
South and West made such strong obiec-
jections to that place that it became neces-
sary to 6ecide upon another location. The
duty of the present meeting was to fix this
place.
Location referred to a Committee.
The matter was the occasion of a long dis
cussion, and ended in referring the question
to subcommittee, consisting of Messrs.
Terrell, Taubenek and Baumgarten, with
instructions that either Indianapolis, Louis
vile, Cincinnati, Chicago or Springfield
be chosen. This committee will look into
the accessibility of these places and rates of
transportation that can be obtained, after
which it will report. 1t will make
decision within 20 days.
The political phase of the situation
cropped out in the meeting, consuming
much of the time of the session. The ques-
tion at issue was whether the call for the