The Brookhaven leader., 1891-07-02
"Thc INVADERS"

Z AliidHCt IlVH' -. H. "Nl'uNtii' w.
ident of the Tennessee State Alliance;
and Hon. J. J. Willitts of Kansas, Ma
tional Lecturer, have concluded their
list of Alliance mass meeting in this
State and the order has experienced a
genuine revival and uplifting WHEREBY
er they have spoken.
The editor of the LEADER enjoyed
the pleasure of meeting and hearing
Mcssrs. Polk, Livingston and Nc
Dowell during the two days meeting
at Hazlchurst and can speak from per
sonal observation of the effects of
their visit there.
The selection of President Polk as
| the head of the Order was aSsurcdly
wise and discriminating one. He
has been farmer all his life, has new
er held political office, though fire.
quently urged to accept such posi-
tons, is thoroughly informed on all
national questions, has the courage of
his convictions, and with all these,
combines the elOqucncc of Il PrcntisS
and the personal magnetism of Wal
thall. Moreover, underlying all this,
he is man of deep moral and rcli-
gious convictions, and as free from
the tricks and deceit of the demagoguc
as a child. No wonder the Alliance
men all over the country flock to hear
him and hang on his words while the
political dcmagogues who are trying
to mislead them for their own gain
stand back in silent dismay or open
their mouths only to SANDER and mis-
represent the great Alliance leader.
Col. Livingston is a practical farmer
and one of the Democratic Congress
men- elect from Georgia. HIS speech
at Hazlchurst in support of the prin-
ciples of the Alliance and the Sub
Treasury bill was pronounced by COM
petent judges, to be one of the ablcst
and most statesmanlike ever heard in
the court house or any occasion.
Hon. J. ii. Mcdowell is a Tennes-
see farmer who formerly raised cotton
but now raises grain and stock, and
his exposure of the way the grain and
cotton markets are manipulated by
Spectators at the expense of the pro-
Queer and consumer, was something
that should have been heard by every
Alliance man in the State.
A big clatter has been raised by the
anti -Alliance Democratic press to
make it appear that the visit of these
distinguished Alliance leaders to Mis-
sissippi at this time, was specially
planned and designed for the purpose
of interfering in the Senatorial con
test to defeat Senator George and
other nti-Sub-Treasury candidates.
President Polk stated that this was al
together unfair and untrue. Early in
the year in arranging for the carrying
out of the Alliance lecture system, it
was decided to hold Il number of AL
lance mass meetings such as these in
each State, and Mississippi being
among the first States to send in a re-
quest for such meeting, she is among
the first to be accommodated
President Polk announced that the
Alliance is now organized in SO States
Of the Union, with a membership of
5000, 1000, which is rapidly increasing.
He spoke of how the politicians of
both old parties had jumped on the
Sub-Treasury and attacked the details
of the bills introduced in Congress be-
cause they thought that the weakest
place in the Alliance chain, but that
they would not stop there if allowed
to succeed, but would go on fighting
other demands until they had defeat
ed them and disorganizcd the order.
The Alliance is not particular about
the passage of the Vance bill or the
Picker bill, he said, but it stands
firmly upon the principles of the Sub
Treasury plank of the Ocala platform
and would continue to stand there and
insist upon relief to the tOiling masses
of the country until a measure is
adopted that will accomplish three
things: a. The abolition of the Ma
tional banking system (2D the expan-
sion of the volume of currency suf1i-
cient to meet the demands of the bus
mess of the country, and (3l the is
snance of money directly to the peo-
pie at cheap rate of interest. When
some statesman comes along and pro-
poses bill to the Alliance that will
accomplish these three things, he
pledges the order, as its President, to
burn up the Sub Treasury bills and
never resurrect them again, but not
otherwise.
He showed with what little cOnsid-
Grafton the representatives of the AL
lance were treated by the last Con-
gress, and how the committee of
neither house could be induced to dis
cuss the Sub-Treasury bills or make a
report on them either adverse or 9th
erwise. Senator George being present