Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-06-11
ALLIANCE NOTES.
NEWS OF THE ORDER AND ITS
MEMBERS.
What is Being Done in the Various
Sections for the Advancement
OF the Great Organization
A stM1-oYrfcfAt ENboRsExRNr.

conducted at Washington by the national
legislative council of the Farmers Ali
ance and Industrial Union, is interesting
in that it shows semi official endorse
ment of the Cincinnati convention and
the new Peoples Party. The letter is
as follows.
"The great Cincinnati conference Is d
thing of the past 1t has made history.
In the United States of Aineri ca the first
step toward the formation of a new great
political party. is taken, the chief corner
stone being Equal rights to all, special
privileges to none, y and this party stand
ing on this foundation is one against
which the united cohorts of greed,
avarice and monopoly shall not prevail.
1t must win and will rule. Tho prepara-
ton for and the gathering of that con-
ference was watched by the country at
large with mingled interest, anxiety
and contempt. Drones and those
who are barnacles on the body
polite WERE AROUSED to some interest.
men and PATRIOTS who have lohg and
earnestly been trying to ihaiigurate d
revolution that would restore to the
whole people their individual privileges
and protection were anxious painfully
anxious-lest there might be some mis-
step by which all their painstaking ef-
forts might be injured OF nullified.
Those who hate and try to crush every
thing but themselves, composed the ele-
ment which tried to brand the conference
with contempt. The large gathering pre-
scented the uniisttal spectacle Of political
assembly in which there was. no packing
and in which there was no effort or puf:
pose to buy or sell. Many men of widely
divergent views and strong convictions
composed the body. But with all this
concession" and not s'obstinacyn was
the characteristic feature. There was
friendly and earnest consultation which
soon concentrated and crystalized itself
into the shortest, but grandest and most
comprehensive platform promulgated by
any political arty in a third of a
century. The work of the convention
was a confounding surprise to all
partisan and sectional politicians They
predicted that the platform
would be rotten with numerous and i'm
possible ''isms." They misjudged the
men whom they were trying to condemn,
and they failed to realize that politicians
and great newspapers do not possess all
the brains of the country. The work of
the. convention has either caused ominous
silence or conservative expression among
them. The Cincinnati convention is to
be followed by another great meeting
next February, which will be a conven-
ton officially authorized by the great ag-
Iicultnral and labor organizations Of the
country. More than five millions of
American citizens will be represented
TIE platform of the peoples party
launched at Cincinnati, embodies all the
principles which these organizations have
supported and pressed into national
prominence despite railery, villifcation
and vitupelation from so called leading
men WHO ought to have been their friends
and not their enemies. The primary OBJ
ject of the last meeting is
to be virtually the same as was
that of the first. The national
committee of the peoples party will at
tend the February convention for con-
ference; and in that conference the Ali
ance and other organizations will take
the peoples party by the hand, and their
i'S ih'AiCho VI iuCnOVio Cdu anu Will say
through their representatives. Your
principles are our prin ciples, your plat
form is our platform; we are yours; we
are with you, and will stand by you to
the end 1t may be mentioned in pay
ticnlar that the platform OF the peoples
party is substantially, if not wholly, the
platform and demands enuncated by the
National Farmers Alliance and Indus
trial Union at ST. Louis in 1889, and
emphasized and reaffirmed at Ocala, Fla,
In 1890, and by the National Farmers
Alliance at Omaha, in 1891. And that
there might be no lodging or misunder-
standing about what might or might not
have been meant, the sub-treasury plan
was specially emphasized and endorsed
Another particular to be noted
with total unanimity and amid the
most glorious enthusiasm. Still
another particular to be noted is that
large number of the delegates to the con-
vention were not members of the Farmers
Alliance, and not eligible to membership.
Friends of the sub treasury plan may
freely dismiss all doubts or uneasiness as
to the ultimate victory. 1.-THE particulars,
as now proposed, are not put in opera
ton, the principle involved will eventu.
ally be established if nothing better can
be found. There must be some short and
easy way of designating a member Of the
third party. To say he is member of
the peoples party would be comprehen-
sive enough. but would take, too much
time. Henceforth follower and affili-
ator Of the peoples party is 'Populist;'
for new party needs and deserves new
term"
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THE DEMANDS ALL-sUFFICIENT
The Formers Adv0cdte (Tarboro, N.
O. is red hot on the side Of the Ocala
demands and says: ssThe Alliance de-
msnds adopted at Ocala, Florida, are as
plain and simple as the English language
can express them. They are put up in a
business way, and their authors have
plainly shown that they meant business.
These dema DIS are made by people who
feel the need of them
The laboring classes, BY the aid Of
their leaders, have published their wants
and fo1I ~, III % ~ a ,,sJ l.