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ly in reply to how it was done. I say in


a legal manner.
As to the publication above quoted,
will simply say it is false from begin
ming to end. There has never in any
sense of the word been any conflict be-
tween Mr.. Hall and myself for that or
any other position, either direct or indi-
rect. In support of this present the
following certificates:
We the undersigned hereby certify that
there has been no conflict of any kind what.
ever between Brothers c. w. Macune and q.
Hall for place on the legislative commit
tee or any other place, ahd that Brother Ma
enne was not eligible to membership on the
legislative council or the legislative com
mittee because no person except q president
OF state or the National Alliance can be
elected to that position. And further IL was
the avowed and expressed purpose of the
legislative council to insist. upon the sub
treasury plan, and all demands for financial
reform in the ocala platform, and demand
their passage l. 1. POLK
President n. F A. &LU
j. II. TURNER,
Secretary n. FA &IU
ALoNZo WARDALL,
J. FoUNT TILLMAN,
Members Executive Board.
Z. COLE,
OF Legislative Committee
There never has been any foundation
whatever for these false statements
and reports They are deliberate false
hoods invented for the express purpose
of trying to produce discord in the
order. 1t is the same old game of the
corrupt and unscrupulous opposition
presented in a new form. It matters
not that they have selected me as the
target at which they will discharge all
their spleen and malice If were not
here some one else would be honored
In the same way. A little obscure
mississippi paper recently published a
violent attack upon the National Econ
omist, saying that it had advocated
the force bill and making other false
accusations against the paper and my
self. There is certain class of papers
all over the country that will copy such
stuff. The readers of the Economist
and other members of the order who
keep posted on the work being done at
once recognize this stuff as false and
clearly see that these falsehoods all
emanated from the same source The
sub-treasury plan is the emancipation
proclamation for productive labor,
and the paid tools of monopoly are
not only ready, and willing, and anx-
1ous to lie to defeat it, but will go to much
greater length as the struggle wakes
warmer. The character of articles in
regard to the alliance which the St
Louis Republic has for the last year
published purporting to come from its
(slander) bureau here, shows to what
depths of degradation morally human
being may sink, in the servile attempt
to assist the unscrupulous advocate of
corrupt wealth in its nefarious scheme
to perpetuate the present discrimina-
tions against agriculture. The only
trouble about such publications
Is that they are sent out in
every direction and published
in hundreds Of papers simultane-
ously, and must therefore reach many
people who know very little of the
matter and never seeing any denial be-
lieve it. There is only one way to meet
this, and that is for the mem bers of the
order to work as hard for the order as
these people do against it. If knew
of another visionary scheme" that was
calculated to help labor as much and
hurt monopoly as badly as the sub
treasury plan is, would certainly ad-
vocate it, even If l knew that they
would assassinate me in twenty-four
hours.
l could not have accepted a position
on the legislative committee had it been
rendered me at Ocala, because in INV
address l took the position that while
we had done great good In that capacity
during the past year, when we had
practically no friends in congress, there
was no use of mourning the expense
necessary to perpetuate the committee,
because In the next congress we would
have about forty alliance men. and a
either to watch them or to
formulate bills in accordance with the
wish of the supreme council would
be entirely superfuous, as con-
gressmen are elected for that pur,
pose, and the government prints all
necessary bills, and congressman can
send them out without postage. was
also opposed to the resolution which es-
tablished the Legislative committee, be-
cause 1T disfranchised million or more
members of the order and made a spe-
clal class (state presidents) alone eliri-
BILE to membership in the Legislative
council, and required that from
them should be chosen the lepis.
iat1ve committee. State presidents
are usually 5 the best men in
the order, and are chosen for that
reason, but 1t does not follow that they
alone are capable of serving on the Leg
lslative committee. We frequently con-
tend Tor equal rights to all and special
privileges to none, and l think wisely.
l feel free to say all this, because | on
posed having any committee and IA
vored putting the work of that commit
tee on the congressmen-elect that be-
long TO our own order. Hence. I could
not have accepted the position had #
been rendered me, and had ! been
eligible.
Now, In conclusion, / desire to say.
the brotherhood may rest assured that
the wishes of the supreme council. an
expressed at Ocala, will be strictly car
ried out, and if any member or officer
OF the order places himself IN conflict
with them, it will be duty of the nation
al executive board to exercise the full
power of the supreme council if neces-
sary to protect the order.
shall believe and maintain, and I
want every brother in the order to be-
lieve and maintain, that Brothers Polk.
Hall and Cole will perform every duty.
both expressed and implied, that the
supreme council desired, and contend
for that belief until thsle Is better evi
1ence to the contrary than the state
nents OF papers published in the In
serest OF the opposition.
{. w. MACUNE,
Chr. Nat Ex. Board.