The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1891-06-19
The Cincinnati Meeting.

The Cincinnati Meeting.
This meeting and the platform there
adopted are now matters of history. But
public opinion of the present day seems
to have a very poor conception of the far
reaching importance of the events which
TRANSFERRED Cincinnati last week. The
daily and weekly press of the country,
both partisan and independent, which
are not committed to the new movement
are either silent editorially or take very
superficial views and comment on detail
or predict results without presenting the
true principles involved. There are many
views which can be presented of the
causes for the meeting, the work of the
body assembled, its methods and the inn
mediate effect and ultimate results of the
action, all worthy to challenge the most
careful thought and consideration on the
part of every loyal and true citizen of
this country.
1t was not an Alliance meeting. Those
who called it did not desire or intend
that it should be an Alliance meeting
The Alliance at its last national session
at Ocala, Florida, had provided for a gen.
eral conference of all organizations of
producers willing to cooperate to secure
political reform, to be held in February,
1892, and agreed that delegates from all
such organizations should meet at time
upon an equitable basis of representation
and agree upon set of demands and up.
on method for enforcing such demands.
This action was adopted unanimously by
the Supreme Council ut Ocala, and the
detail of putting the plan into execution
was referred to the committee on confed-
Grafton. That committee in January last
met a like committee from the Knights
of Labor, the National Citizens Alliance,
and the National COlored Farmers Ali.
ance and Cooperative Union, and organ
lied themselves into the confederation of
industrial organizations, accepting the
Ocala platform with slight notifications,
and provided for thorough expression
from the rank and file of the people 10y
thorough organization for that purpose,
by means of central committeeman, ma
tional, State, district and county. Their
action has since been ratified by the Ma
tional Farmers Alliance at Omaha Thi'
is perfect rs far us it goes, but it did not
reach large class of citizens who are az
truly devoted to reform, but do not be-
long to any industrial organization hence
the necessity for a general conference.
As a large per cent of the people inter
ested in reform would not be eligible tt
representation in the February, 1892
meeting, an expression from them wa'
necessary. The meeting in February
1892, will not be an Alliance meeting
but the membership of the Alliance will
be represented ~ individual citizens fOI
the purpose of agreeing upon set of ma
tiOnal demands and upon the best meth
cd of enforcing them. II those delegates
at that time, after full discussion OF
the subject, shall decide on independent
political action the membership of the
Alliance or Others who selected and au
thorized the delegates to represent then
will be bound by such decision, but thu
Alliance as an organization will pursue
its course, as now, nOn-partlssn. Ih'
Economist, as the national official organ
of the Alliance, opposed the policy OF
holding the Cincinnati meeting on the
ground that it would conflict with the
proposed meeting in February, 1892, bu
the course pursued by the meeting ha'
been so wise and conservative that in
stead of conflicting it is destined TO prove
an actual benefit and supply the linl
that will unite the farmers with all 9th