Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-08-12
I'd EDITION.
BROWN NOT INDORSED
The Maryland Farmers Stand Aloof
From Politics.
KANSAS ALLIANCE CLAIMS GAINS.
Amendments to the Texas Consti-
tuition Are Carried.
THE +. NJ. B. A. OF ILLINOIS.
KANSAS ALLIANCE CLAIMS GAINS.
THE +. NJ. B. A. OF ILLINOIS
THE MARYLAND ALLIANCE.


the Farmers at Baltimore.
BALTIMORE, Nd, August 12.-Soon after 8
O'Clock this forenoon. with the thermometer
marking SO degrees (9l was the figure at the
corresponding time yesterday, the third con-
ven,ion of the Farmers Alliance or peoples
party began its second and, hoped for, last days
session. Mr.. Hugh Mitchell. the president of
the state alliance was in the chair, and MIR. j.
Garfield Jenkins was secretary.
There was much complaint of the great heat
The delegates who went home 70 look aftor the
gathering of the fruit crop did not return to-
day to the convention There are only few
of these however. and their al sence was hardly
noticeable. Delegates land aside their coats to-
day and took up fans, and thus equipped en-
deavored to keep cool, or as COOL at any, rate as
the requirements Of political convention
would admit.
As soon President Mitchell tapped the
desk with his gayel he gave tee order to clear
the hall of all outsiders and reporters. This
was duly done, whom delegates we're examined
and cards OF admission carefully vised. The
convention was then tiled with all the rigor of
a Masonic communication, and business of the
first session OF the second day was begun. A
recess wds announced for 1890 pm, when by
the grace Of the Committee on publication"
something may be given out for publication.
The debate on the resolutions carried the
session up Till o'clock, when recess was taken
TIL 2:30.
The resolutions adopted are as follows:
Be IL resolvedby the Farmers Alliance Of the
state of Maryland That every citizen has a
right to stand on a footing of exact equality be-
fore the law with every other citizen.
That. therefore. the burden of all taxation
all property of whatsoever kind, both personal
and real, without distinction and discrimina-
ton.
THAT every exemption from taxation is
equivalent to direct appropriation for the
benefit OF the owner OF exempt property and
an increase levy on the property OF those who
pay taxes.
That no tax law which provides for the ex-
emption of any property Of any kind can be
either expedient or just.
That nc law, 10 contract, no device which
by any means, directly or indirectly imposes
the payment Of any part of any tax upon any
man not The hon aide owner OF that property
ought to be tolerated.
THAT such law. contract or device ought to
be illegal and void.
That the proposed amendment to the con-
stitution OF the state to be submitted to the
voters at the ensuing election for their ap-
prevail. and which Is in the nature OF a substi-
t1te for article &c OF the bill Of rights. while
ostensibly providing limitation OF exemptions
from taxation does in fact lodge with the legis-
emptions and Determinations at its pleasure, and
that therefore it ought not to be approved or
accepted by tine people.
That debts secured by mortgages at legal
interest are among the best and most pro-
ductlve forms of property and should be taxed
where the mortgages are recorded, and that
therefore the proposed amendment to the Con-
stitution in that behalf is eApedient. right.
wise and just and ought to be approved and
adopted by the people
That non-residents Of the state ought not to
participate in the use and enjoyment Of the
puoLc property Of the people OF the state, and
that therefore. the oyster and other fisheries
OF Mary land ought to be preserved by law for
the sole use and benefit of the people of
Maryland. aud that the fishery and other
water rights OF riparian aud other
citizens ought to be clearly defined by explicit.
statute: that no natural oyster ground, now
productive, ought to be cold or leased by the
state; that no single person or corporation
ought to be allowed to acquire control Of suffi-
cicnt oyster ground TO erect thereon any mo-
nopoly destructive Of rights heretofore enjoyed
by the public. And that therefore il is neces-
sary to limit strictly by law the quantity which
any citizen or corporation can acquire.
OPPOSED TO A THIRD PARTY.
That the Farmers Alliance and Industrial
Union is not and cannot become q political
party. The proper work Of the order is
educational only, and its members are
free each for himself to decide with wha.
party he will act. 1t is on
managers thereof each for themselves to de-
termine what they will do to deserve the moral
support Of the order or the votes of its mem
bers.
That the Farmers Alliance and Industrial
Union of Maryland doth indorse and doth
hereby for itself Ieaffrm the principles and
demands OF the national order US set forth in
the Ocala demand"
The last resolution was adopted unanimously
and without debate.
The resolution in reference to the oyster
question was adopted unanimously by q rising
vote.
FRANK BROWN NOT ISDoEsED.
A resolution offered commencing the
candidacy of Frank Brown, the democratic
nominee for governor, to the farmers of Mary
land. motion to lay the resolution on the
table defeated by the vote of the chairman,
which made the vote a tie. The resolution was
then rejected. But Frank Brown will get our
votes, declared a delegate.