Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-18
FARMERS In COUNCIL.
The Ohio Alliance Indorses the st.
Louis Platform.
OFFICERS ELECTED FOB TIE YEAR.
The Third Party Movement Fails Of
Recognition.
POLITICAL VIEWS OF PRESIDENT POLK

ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DrsPArcH.I
COLUMBUS, April 17.-At the State meet
ing of the National Farmers Alliance and
the greater part of the day. It is in con-
formance with the provisions of the national
constitution. In the clause with reference to
the admission of delegates, the word "white''
was stricken out. In the South the white
and colored people have separate Alliances
and their constitutions specify the color Of
the delegates to be admitted. The Ohio
Alliance has decided on admitting both
colors.
constitution contained the word white, but
that it was changed this morning. The re-
port of the Committee on Platform and Res
olutions was as follows!
Resolved, That we heartily indorse the plat
form of the N. F. A. q l. U. as adopted at St
Louis in 1889 and reaf1rmed at Ocala-
Second-Each county to have the right 20
FIX its own officials salaries;
Third-That we demand the election of the
Dairy and Food Commissioner and his assist
ants by vote of the people, instead Of being
appointed TO pay political debts.
FOurth-A uniform system of school books as
cost of publication.
Australian Ballot Law Favored.
Fifth-We favor the Australian system Of
ballot
Sixth-The reduction OF railroad passenger
rates to cents per mile, and proportionats
reduction of freight rates.
STANDARDIZATION of all finished products
and raw material in manufacturers hands.
Eighth-That we condemn the present system
of taxing real property as unjust, and that all
real estate shall be taxed according TO its as
sessed value, less the mortgage Indebtedness.
Ninth-We demand that all honorably dis
charged soldiers. their widows and their
orphans be pensioned. and thar all pledges
made to them by the Government be as fully
complied with as in the case of the bondholders.
The resolutions were adopted separately,
each being discussed thoroughly. The plat
form adopted at st. Louis and reafirmed at
Ocala was indorsed by this meeting.
The following officers for the State organ
ization were elected: President, Alya
Agee, Gallia county; Vice President, II.
W. Loomis, Scioto county; Secretary,
Harry Parker, Brown county; Treasurer,
Albert Sperry, Fairfield county; Chaplain,
W. r. Parsons, franklin county; Lecturer,
A. d. Foster, Adams county. There was
no official action with reference to the COM
ing conference at Cincinnati on May 19,
which is known as the third party move
ment, but everyone is talking about il.
Views of President Polk.
President L. L. Polk, of the Ma
tional Alliance, has some good views on
the matter. He says that there should not
be permanent organization formed at the
Cincinnati meeting, but platform of prin-
ciples adopted; that if third party is to be
formed let it be at the meeting in February.
Mr.. j. H. Todd, of Kansas, a lecturer for
the Alliance, who ls present at the meeting,
says that in his opinion a simple, strong and
well written address or appeal will be issued
by the conference at Cincinnati asking
them to unity their efforts to secure the
desired end. ''If they unity" said he, "all
the devils this side of purgatory cannot keep
us from it." Mr.. Todd will be delegate to
the conference. He says that the delegates
will be better class and a more conserva-
tive body of men than there usually Is at
such meetings; that they will not act radi-
cally and unwisely.
In his opinion the agitation of g., 900, 900
of people from Maine to California and
from Canada to the Gulf, means something.
It is not the men that must be reformed, but
the conditions; that conditions reform the
men.