Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-02-25
THE FIRST GUN.
The Industrial Forces Are Marshalling |
Their Hosts For the Impending Struggle |
Between Humanity and Gold.

The Industrial Forces Are Marshalling
Their Hosts For the Impending Struggle
between Humanity and Gold.
The National Farmers Alliance,
known to distinguish 1t from the Ma
tional Farmers Alliance and Industrial
Union as the Northern Alliance"
met in National council at Omaha last
week with many States represented. 1t
entered politics in a non-partisan spirit
by resolving for Presidential ticket in
1892. 1t resolved that a convention of
one delegate from each State should be
held February %, 1892, which conven-
tion shall fix time and place of hold
ing a convention to nominate candi-
dates for President and Vice-President.
The following are the resolutions on
the subject:
Whereas, Owing to the oppression that has
been heaped upon US by monopolsts, trust
and combines, we believe 1t time for action.
Whereas, The National Farmers Alliance
in convention assembled does most en-
phatically declare against the present sys-
tenn of government as manipulated by the
Congress of the United States and the men,
bers of the Legislatures of the several States !;
therefore,
We declare in favor of holding a conven-
tion February %, 1892, to fix date and place
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candidates for the oficoS OF President and
Vice President of the United States.
We declare that in the convention to be
held on February 70, 1892, that representation
shall be one delegate from each State In the
Union.
Resolved, That the Alliance shall take no
part as partisans in a political struggle as
afrliatng with Republicans or Democrats.
This is the right kind of a move It
looks like business. The convention of
February 22 1892, or committee meet
ing it might probably be called, can is
sue a ringing call for a convention,
some time in May we would suggest,
which will be earlier than the old par
ties usually hold their conventions.
Let the n. F. A & L. u, the f. NJ. B.
A, the Grange, the X. of L., and other
industrial organizations, and the Citi-
zens' Alliance join in this call. This is
the way to do it. This is the way the
Kansas Peoples party was formed.
The State Alliance, officially, at it's
State meeting called the Peoples con-
vention and offered the door to all re-
formers.
We congratulate the reformers every
where upon the good start the National
Alliance has given to the campaign of
1892. Outside of the victories in Kan
sas and Nebraska, nothing has occurred
that has made us feel as hopeful as this
action of the National A1liance.-Mis-
souri, World.
For once, the Missouri World has
been caught mapping, as it were. The
National Farmers Alliance took the
step as narrated above in compliance
with request or memorial sent them
by the hands of delegate from the
Confederation of Industrial Organiza-
tions which was forwarded on January
% by the n. F. A. & I. o., the F. NJ.
B. A., the K. of L., the Colored Farm
ers' Alliance and the National Citizens
Alliance. The forces are now all in
line, and as students in the school of
political economy will be educated and
drilled by February, 1892.
GEORGE G. WARD.