The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-01-30
ALLIANCE DEPARTMENT.
Senator Gordon, of Georgia, Inter.
viewed By a Reporter.
His Attitude Toward the Farmers
Alliance He Says is Friendly,
and Will Now Join the
Organization.

"en. J0hn Is. Gordon came to the CITY
from his Taylor county stock farm, writes
an Atlanta. Ga. reporter, looking ruddv
ana somewhat sunburnt. in excellent
health and spirits
Inc reporter caught him on the wing,
as II were, and asked him if he was will.
| ing 10 make public his intentions in ref
ea,' GO Joinfng the Farmers Alliance
ihe 9enerai promptly replied:
| certainly. i have not the slightest
Ssa68s sssiaGss sahss a. NssFsss -
+. He was asked titsnS s'aDS YOU 10
join the Alliance r. ~ y
eyes. shall join the Alliance he re-
piled. "As often stated in my public
speeches during the campaign which has
Just ended. ami and have long been in
:ullest sympathy with the great objects
ior which the Farmers Alliance was or
ganized-namely equal rights to all and
| special privileges to nouc-an abundant
supply of currency under improved sys
TENS that shall make that currency avail
able to the producers and masses at less
cost or interest. and so managed that at
the season of gathering and marketing
the great crops Of the country the supply
shall be Increased in proportion to the tn
creased demand created at these seasons.
|
TEN that shall make the currency elastic
in character and adequate in volume at
all seasons to meet the special exigencics
Of the those seasons.
''How would YOU accomplish this
end ~
ITO answer that question will iequrc
a very long discussion. altogether out of
place in such talk as this. but will
'ay generally that ] nm not particularly
welded to any plan, and rs have said
in my speeches before the Senatorial cleo
tion. repeat now that shall favor that
plan which the combined wisdom Of the
friends of financial reform may agree up
on as most practicable and effective. Tou
will remember that I have steadfaStly
maintained that the wise course is for all
the friends of financial reform to co -opcr-
ate for the general result and agitatc un-
til the whole country is aroused. ana
then, after the victory is won. to counsel
together and agree upon the plans.
1T is easy enough to find the way.
when we have men enough who have the
will to accomplish the result.
'tln reference to the circulating medium
/ l will say that as, the gpysrnmept. OF
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/ foSaTe = sssss.-ssts.e, I, Ennnss tns.s the
country. it is bound. by every considera.
tion of justice, Of good conscience and Of
wise policy to supply the people with all
tic currency necessary for conducting all
business without involving the country
i'll these periodical seasons of financial
s:ringency and without inficting sucl,
periods of depression on the productive
energies of the masses
'Do you wish to say anything about
| irl Dn,Ax
II am uncompromsingly and uncondi-
tionally opposed to it,"
do you then oppose the movement
being made for a peoples party in the
Western States 2"
mo; think it is probably the best
course the Western farmers can now be
induced to take. - The success oc
this movement in the West means th.
restoration of fraternal relations between
the South and West and closer alliance
of Industrial classes who arc especially
and most largely interested in agricultur
al success and independence.
''At the South, however. we have II
condition of affairs which forbids any di
visions OF disscnsions in our ranks. We
must hold together for the preservation
OF our States and in order to conserve our
social aud material, AS we'll as political
interests. Dissensions with us mean hit
ter political feuds, ending perhaps in tic
triumph of the worst elements and in so.
cial and material retrogression,
Have you heard that some of your Al.
lance friends are talking of you in con
nection with the presidency of the State
Alliance 2"
eyes. have been approached ON the
subject; but | wish TO say most positive
ly and with emphasis that would not
accept that OF any office in the Alliance,
so long as ! hold any political office or
am candidate for political position.
agree most fully with Col. L. L. Polk in
the opinion that the officers of the Ali.
ance ought to be ineligible to political
office and freed from the temptation to
use the Order for personal ends so long
as they hold positions of trust and inf1u
ence in the brotherhood SO far as am
concerned, as long as am in political
life shall labor as a layman in the ranks
for Alliance principles.
whatever influence shall be able to
WELD will be excrted in the direction OF
conservative counscls and harmony inside
the Order but for vigorous and aggres
sive policy against sectional agitation and
class legislation which have proven 50
hurtfui to the farming interests in the
past"
will you Join soon p
eyes should have belonged to the
Order long ago. but ss | was candidate,
or expected to be candidate, for politi.
cal office, feared my motives might be
misinterpreted. Now, however, that
have six years OF official life before if
shall live that long, there is now no pos
sibility of my action being misconstrued
or nisfnterpretcd as dictated by any per-
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