The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1891-09-23
MORE ABOUT HIM
The Fraud Polk and His Comrades
Exposed.
The Methods Employed to Fleece the
Farmers.
A RECORD THAT is TERRIBLE TO SEE
a Full Account OF the Alliance Eraufs
as They Exist in This Coun-
try To-day.

Try to-day
The following from the Atlanta Jour
nal Of last night gives an idea of how
Lieutenant Polk lives at Washington,
and shows what the alliance folk claim
about Vance. OF course Vance is mis-
represented by the bogus leaders:
The farmers alliance headquarters in
this city is located in the neighborhood
Of the district court house, a locality
quite familiar to Georgia people who
have any sort of knowledge Of Washing
ton.
IN az Imposing red brick Office built
six stories high up an elevator well i've
of these six stories, one finds himself
landed almost in front Of Colonel L. L.
Polk's pretty looking suite Of apartments.
The elevator boy will volunteer to To-
cate the rooms, but you Will not need
his service, for porcelain plate block
lettered bears the name Of the alliance
cheftain.
4 knock and a CHEEKY "come in" from
CHEEKY looking private secretary and
you find yourself in the presence of the
man who wields the imposing strength
of this new and mystic order Of husband
men.
But Colonel Polk was not at home the
day this department called. He was out
west, and his private scribe volunteered
the information that he had all Of his
oratorical gatherings with him.
The quarters of the alliance chieftain
are not gorgeously furnished. On the
contrary, they are severely simple. The
door, shutters and window jambs are
done to represent maple, but the floors
are carpetiess and the desks and chairs
would not tempt ones cupidity at al
| auction sale. The suite embraces three
small chambers, and in the last one Of
the row the click of typewriter and the
presence Of nosegay Of flowers sug-
gested the presence Of one of the fair
sex but how fair one is left simply to
conjecture. The view from Colonel Polk S
windows is very fine. The altitude Of
the building enables him to sweep a vast
stretch of Maryland and Virginia at a
glance. The broad Potomac, with its
shipping, and the Anacostea, with its
| fleet Of buyers and oyster smacks, can be
traced for many miles through the under
| lating green of meadows and fen.
In addition to their headquarters being
| located here all of the principal officers
Of the alliance make their homes here,
and next winter there will be a COM
mittee raised especially charged. with
looking cut for the interest of the al
lance before congress:
The managers claim to have ffty-tive
men in the next house who will vote with
them on all measures they may see fit to
bring forward. They also claim five
senators, PETER, of Kansas Kyle, of
South Dakota; Irby, Of South Carolina
Carbon, of Georgia and Vance, Of North
| Carolina. Senator Vance, it is claimed,
was elacted by the alliance members of
| the Legislature, but not until he had
agreed upon program that was prac-
tically that of the order.
lie subscribed to certain resolutions
formulated by the alliance members of
the Legislature, and the alliance now
claims him as it's own. General Gordon
is an allianceman, they say-not con-
script, but volunteer member-and his
oaths bind him as securely as if they
were steel rivited.