The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-09-04
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70: but thev have discovered the colos:
sal error under which they were labor
ing, and now at least n of them has
acknowledged as much, andhas SO farfor-
got itself as to actually suggest that the
demands of the Alliance ssnow be dis
cussed in q fair way"
Y \ "
The Reform Press Bureau has already
stated that the state Alliances of North
Dakota, Maryland, South Carolina,
North Carolina, Louisiana, Alabama
and Tennessee have held their annual
meetings and enthusiastically Endorsed,
without reserve, the Ocala platform, in
GLIDING the subtreasury plan.
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The four states which held their meet
'ings last week were Virginia, Georgia,
Texas and Arkansas.
The Virginia meeting had representa-
tives from every county in the state ex-
cept 1t was a splendid body Of men
one Of the best and grandest that ever
assembled in the "Old Dominion" The
Ocala platform, including the subtreas-
ury plan, was unanimously Endorsed,
and a resolution was passed by the ALI
ance giving vi senators and congress
men to understand that we demand the
enactment into law of the ~subtreasury
plan or something better"
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The Georgia Alliance had the grandest
meeting it has Eve known. There was
a representative present from every
county in the state. Hon. l.. F. Living
ston was unanimously re elected presi-
dent of the state Alliance, and the SUBJ
treasury plan was Endorsed by every per-
son at the meeting-male and female
amid the most unbounded enthusiasm
and earnestness. Among other actions
taken by the Georgia Alliance was one
asking Senator Gordon to come before
that body Che was elected by Alliance
votes and afterward Joined the Alliance)
and define his position on the Alliance
demands. But the senator shirked the
matter in a way that did not evince
statesmanlike manhood. The Alliance
people of two or three states allowed
themselves to be imposed on in the last
years elections, but they won't do it
again.
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The Alliance of the great state Of
Texas met last week with representa-
tives present from 121 counties. This is
the state in which that famous, or rather
infamous. anti-subtreasury convention
was held some weeks ago at Fort Worth.
This was the meeting which the partisan
press of the country represented as the
Texas state Alliance meeting, and which
they said was attended by 1, 100 people.
The truth is, that meeting was not an
Alliance meeting. 1t was intended to
be a great interstate meeting, but the
only people present, outside of Texas,
We're a man from Mississippi and one
from Missouri. There We're only thirty
seven men at that meeting. And yet
column after column of t~elegraphic dis
patches was sent all through the coun-
try stating that this convention had re-
pudiated the subtreasury, and that the
Alliance was going all to pieces over the
matter.
Now, just see the work of the real AL
lance meeting. Out of the 121 counties
represented there could not be found a
dozen men who opposed the subtreas-
ury, and its Endorsement was practically
unanimous by the entire state. Hon.
Evan Jones, who is an ardent and ear
nest supporter of the subtreasury, was
unanimously reelected president, and
there was a grand unanilmity in every
thing. A maj ority of Alliance men in
many countiesin Texas are outspoken in
favor of a lew political dispensation.
The Arkansas state Alliance also met
last week, and with a very large repre-
sentation showed itself enthusiastically
and unanimously in line with all her
sister states in indorsing the Ocala plat
form, including the subtreasury.
So far eleven of the Alliance states
have declared u~nequivocally in favor of
all the Alliance principles and demands.
How, then, is the Alliance going to
pieces: The Alliance now is waiting
with son1e curiosity to see what the next
step will be on the part of the partisan
and plutocratic press to make the trust
ing and unsuspicious city public believe
that it is going to smash.
II. W. AVER,