The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1891-12-04
WASHINGTON LETTER.

The great meeting at indianapolis, where
the farmers and wage-workers Of the United
States were represented to the number of
A ,00O, 900 voters, has adjourned. A prac-
tical unicn between the Farmers Alliance
and the Farmers Mutual Benefit Associa-
ton was made, and the thirty-fou States
represented unanimously endorsed the Ocala
platform, declaring in favor Of the Sub
Treasury plan and the Land Loan plan.
The representatives of all the labor organ
izations, who were present, met in commit
Tee with the farmers, there being six
organizations represented, and they agreed
npon a meeting TO be held on the 22d Of
February, which will probably be held
either at Cincinnati or ST. Louis, at which
each of the organizations was TO be repre-
sented by twenty-five members, making
one hundred and Fifty, and there was to be
one other member from each organization
for every 10000 of membership, and this
will probably increase this conference to
between 400 and 500 members.
The conference is restricted, when it
meets, 10 the preparation OF declaration Of
principles, and the appointment Of commit
tees to submit this declaration 10 each of the
old parties asking each of them to endorse
the platform thus prepared.
As it is certain the conference will adopt
the Ocala platform as the foundation of it's
action, it is also certain that each of the old
party conventions will reject the PROPOSE
tion to endorse. There is then but one
course left for the representatives of the
100000 who composed the indianapolis
organization.
All these people have definite ideas as TO
what legislation is needed for the country.
These ideas will be set forth in the report
of the conference on the 22d of February.
Most OF the people belong 10 either one or
the other Of the old political parties, that is,
they are either Democrats or Republicans.
When these great parties, which have ruled
the country SO many years alternately re.
fuse, as they will refuse, to accept the ideas
presented 10 them the only possible course
left for the men who believe honestly md
sincerely in the doctrines of the Ocala plat :
form will be TO leave these parties and or
ganize themselves into a party national and
state. They will use all their efforts to
have their principles incorporated into the
laws of the land
This will result in the calling of a con-
vention next July, after each of the other
conventions has adjourned, which will
place its candidates before the people for
such official positions as give power 10 make
and execute law-that is, for Congressman,
for Senators and for President. The result
may not be victory in 1892, but as the
farmers alone have power to control "A
States and $50 Congressional Districts, with
2S2 votes in the electoral college, and as
with the working. men, who will be united
with them. they can control ten other
States, it is only question of time when
this third party, call ii by what name you
please, viii. elect President, majority Of
the Senators aud Representatives. the Gov
arnors and legislators of more than two
thirds Of the States, and then the legislation
demanded by the people for the people will
be made into laws; then the country can
enter upon an era of prosperity, because
when the farmer, who is the ground work
ofsociety, is prosperous; when the wage
worker, whose sturdy arms bring from the
bosom Of Mother Earth the minerals, which
the skilled artisan turns into all the Inn
rlements Of fertilization, will the nation be
prosperous. This prosperity can only come
through the adoption of the measures
demanded by the OcaIa platform; there
must be money and money in abundance 70
make the country affiuent and put it once
more in thriving condition.