The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-04-21

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Alliance speakers are to attend each
meeting, and it is proposed to have an
interchange of speakers between the
several sections Of-the country. Among
the States whose presidents and execu-
tive committees have enthusiastically
endorsed the movement, and have al
ready named the times and places for
the meetings, are: Alabama, Arkansas,
Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas,
Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, North
Carolina, North Dakota, Pennsylvania,
South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas,
West Virginia, Indian Territory and
Oklahoma Territory. The States of
California, Iowa, Maryland, Michigan,
Mississippi, South Dakota and Virginia
have all declared in favor of the cam
paign, and are now arranging for the
best times and places for their meet
ings. Nearly every State has urged
President Polk to attend those meet.
ings and he will be at as many of them
as he can possibly reach.
MY MARYLAND.
Maryland is arranging to have one
of the most vigorous and wide-awake
Alliance educational campaigns that
energy and earnestness can inaugurate
and conduct. They see the necessity
of certain economic and political re-
forms and they + going to make a
tremendous effort to bring them about.
They are gathering and educating
themselves for the onset, and the State
never experienced greater stirring up
than it will have this year.
NEW ENGLAND AGAIN.
The entrance of the Alliance into
New England does not receive a favor
able welcome from the partisan press.
That same press which does not know
the Alliance, and which v saw any
part of it even, has raised a dismal
howl, and has already begun to say all
sorts of unmannerly things. One paper
says that VIM. E. Chandler is cat the
bottom of the Farmers Alliances scheme
in New England, and he proposes to
disrupt the Republican party" This,
of course, is intended to put the ALI
ance in the attitude of a ''disrupter,"
"disorganizer" and all sorts of other
"dis"-things. Another paper says:
The people of New England are not
at all anxious to see such a movement
as these agitators propose" But despite
these and similar u~tterances from that
press, the sturdy farmers of New Eng
land are thinking; they are inquiring,
and they are organizing, A national
organizer was sent into New Hamp-
shire last week because the farmers
there asked that he be sent at once;
and now more organizers are being
asked for, and in some places which
cannot be Immediately reached by the
organizers, the farmers are beginning
to organize themselves. The Alliance
is going right on into New England.
WHAT INDIANA IS DOING.
Indiana is working quietly but surely
and effectively. The President of the
State Alliance writes the Bureau as
follows: The work is progressing very
nicely. While we are not increasing
so rapidly as [ would desire, our growth
is solid, and we will be ready in 1892.
ILLINOIS WAKING UP.
Illinois has been easy for a time past,
but heOrder is beginning to getaroused
and are getting ready for business in
earnest. A special State meeting of
the Alliance was recently held at
Springfield which revivified Alliance
men all over the State. The Alliance
organ was put in a position to do effec-
tive work, and the State President
says: Ct believe we are ready for the
great fight that is awaiting u.s."
COLORADO is COMING.
Secretary Starr, of Colorado, says;
"The farmers are calling their num-
bers together, organizing and re-organ-
izing; and you can depend upon it,
they mean business. We have secured
the passage of several reform measures
and defeated several class bills. We
congratulate ourselves on what we
have already done, and yet we have
only begun in this great reform work,
which is the mission of the Alliance
THE CITIZENS ALLIANCE.
The National Citizens Alliance is
finding great favor all over the coun-
try. 1t now has organizations in six
teen States, and applications for organ
izers are being sent in from all over the
Union. The members of this organiza-
ton advocate IN toto the platform of
the Farmers Alliance, the membership
being composed of that element who
annrnva the nlatfnrm h11tara inalioihla