Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-06-24
POLITICAL TALK OF THE DAY.

The Reason for the Anti Harrison Meeting
In Observation-Disclosures i'm Convention.
special from Cleveland. Ohio, says: The
motive of the Indianapolis and Harrison meet
ing is now confessed A. L. Conger of Akron.
who prominent factor in the movement.
is in the city and admits that he il fighting
Harrison because the President disregarded his
wishes in appointing a postmaster at Akron
last winter 1t is now anybody to beat Harri-
son with him.
NORTH DAKOTA FARMERS.
The State Farmers Alliance of North Dakota
convened at Grand Forks yesterday morning
at 10 o'clock. Three hundred delegates are in
attendance. being representative alliance men
from all parts Of the state. The meeting will
continue at least three days. The business will
include the election Of officers, OF delegates to
the national convention in 1892 the adoption
OF constitution, bylaws. aud platform.
Radical and conservative views are both
strongly represented. Intense interest centers
on the question of Walter Muir's eligibility to
reelection president Muir represents the
radical men, who wish to indorse tho Cincin-
natl platform, favoring unlimited silver COIN
age and government per cent loans. There ia
strong opposition to Muir and the Cincinnati
platform.
THE NEW YORK FARMERS.
At a meeting of the officers of the New York
State Farmers League in Albany yesterday the
third party movement was unanimously de-
nounced. A committee was appointed. of
which President Armstrong is chairman. to
call delegates meeting of the state league. to
be held in Agricultural Hall, Albany, in the
early part of August, TO discuss future Iegisla-
ton and political &C ton.
PENNSYLVANIA CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS
Both the bills dividing the state of Pennsyl-
yania into congressional and legislative dis
fric.s were vetoed last evening by the governor
He gives his reasons in extenso his main objec-
ton to both bills being that they are unfair
and contain many irregularities contrary to the
constitutional requirements He Is willing he
says, TO postpone the reapporIionment of the
state to legislature which shall be elected by
the PEOPLE. thoroughly awakened to a sense of
how their representatives. have failed to meet
this duty.
PEOPLES PANTY IN crAH.
In an interview yesterday President Wood
ruff and George Q. Cannon of the Mormon
church asserted that there truth in the
charge that the so-called peoples party of
Utah, the membership of which was wholly
Mormon, was dissolved by the church. Presi-
dent Woodruff said that he disclaimed the right
to control the political action of the members
OF the church. He also said that he favored
the separation of the church and state.
COOPERATION IN POLITICS.
Van Buren, Prather, state lecturer of the
Kansas alliance, has addressed communion
ton to the Congressional Alliance, setting the
plan for organization in compliance with the
plans the national council formulated at WASH
ington last February.
The address is important in that it gives the
first official declaration showing that the sys-
tenn of cooperation is to hereafter be the
substructure of the alliance government. On
this point the address says:
I'VE have been working upon the COMPETE
tive plan until we are nearly a nation of wealth.
producing paupers. Others have been working
upon the cooperative plan and are wealthy.
Show the difference to our people. We are the
masters of the situation not only politically but
from business standpoint, buying or selling
if We will only learn the great lesson of cooper
ation- would advise not less than two days
for lectures and schooling upon the different
topics for discussion. Present an unbroken
front and march on to victory by following the
principles of cooperation. Then millions of
wage slaves viii soon be emancipated and hap
piness and prosperity will be our reward. The
laborer is worthy Of his hire, and by the eter-
nal he shall have it"