Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-06-04
ALLIANCE NOTES.
NEWS OF THE ORDER AND Irs
MEMBERS.
What Is Being Done in the Various
Sections for the Announcements
of the Great Organization
LIVINGSTON INTERVIEWED.


third party convention in Cincinnati and
has been interviewed as to his impressions
of the meeting and the third party move
ment in general. Among other things
he says:
''No one who could witness what took
place in Cincinnati but would be thor
oughly convinced that those people are in
earnest, and while there were few old
political leaders present doing the utmost
to manage and control the convention,
the masses that composed the convention
were from the field and shop-entirely
new element in political conventions.
Their repeated efforts, through the re-
| publican party. to secure free and unlim-
| tied coinage of silver have made them
desperately determined to cut loose from
all utilization with any party, and the
action of few democrats in the last
house, in voting against the measure, has
gone long way towards diminishing the
confidence of western democrats in their
old party. l discovered one thing
in Cincinnati that the masses OF
the northwest have little conf
| dence in the former leaders Of the old
parties. Many seem determined to have
for president western man, and are
more than willing that southern man
should be nominated for vice president.
The opinion is Strengthening day by day
that the only hope for the masses of the
people is to be found in an Alliance be-
tween the northwest and the south. |
found them exceedingly anxious to know
how our people south viewed the politi-
cal situation. They were eager to catch
every bit Of information in this line from
any source whatever, which showed their
intense interest in the political situation
in the south. The masses that composed
the convention in Cincinnati came, many
of them, instructed by their people at
home not to return without setting ON
foot a third party movement. am
clearly of the opinion that this senti-
ment is growing rapidly in the eastern
states and middle states among the labor
ing classes. The sympathizers with
this movement in New York to- day
hold the balance of power in that
state. In my opinion there is no possible
hope for any political party to succeed in
1892 that does not clearly define itself in
favor of these reforms. The south was
represented in the convention to vers
small extent indeed. The call for the
Cincinnati convention was irregular and
unauthorized, so far rs the Alliance is
concerned; and yet there were a few AL
iiancemen present from the southern
states. OF course, their influence was
very limited, and they did not attempt to
leave the impression upon the convention
that the Alliance people of the south
6,rf 1.n,x& al.
any action taken there. In the north
western states the action taken by the
convention will largely stimulate the in
dependent movement Indeed, in my
opinion, it will crystalline it. This will
be clearly seen, think, in the fall cleo
tions in 1891. The old grecnbackers,
the Alliance people, and other
labor organizations, were all
united and combined by the action
of the convention, and if this extends.
as believe it will, to controlling ex-
tent in the Eastern and middle States, it
will either drive the Republican party
out of existence or force them to coal
ltlon with the Eastern Democrats, who,
TO large extent, are against free silver
and IN favor of a protective tariff. 1t
VIII clearly set up one fact for the South
that the Northwestern voters of both
parties are willing to form political AL
lance with the South, offensive and
defensive. What influence this will have
upon the Southern people the future
alone can show, and it is certainly con-
tlngent to great extent upon the action
OF the national Democratic party. The
Southern Alliance people are as clearly
committed and as unequivocally in favor
OF tariff reform, free and unlimited coin
age OF silver, supplemented with a cur.
rency good and stable, sufficient to do
the business of the country upon cash
basis, as are the people of the
Northwest / learned from the
delegates from the Eastern, middle
and Northwestern States that
almost without an exception they placed
the financial question as the one of prime
importance, making tariff reform second
airy This opinion prevails to a much
larger extent among the southern masses
than the public are aware of, and no eff
fort to conduct presidential campaign
upon the single plank of tariff reform can
be successful.
The success of the third party move
ment now rests simply and solely upon
the disaffection towards the two old par
ties. Whether or not it will finally sue
coed must depend upon the immediate
action OF the democratic leaders, and the
democratic press. and the democratic
house of representatives. A fight against
free silver, tariff reform, and an increase
OF the currency, by either or both old
parties, will precipitate successful third
party movement, The reason that the
south had so small representation in the
convention was, in the first
place the call was unauthor-
lied, so far as it concerns the Alliance.
In the second place, at the Ocala con-
vention last December, when our north
western alliancemcn were so clamorous
for third party organization, an agree
ment was entered into that the Alliance,
and all orders having the same ends in
view, should assemble upon proper
basis of representation then agreed upon.
on February 22d, 1892, and perfect and
simplify their demands, and also at that
time agreed to consider the necessity for
. third party movement; or to provide in
s0me other wav fhe means of reliaf Yha