The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-01-30
METHODS OF THE ALLIANCE
Mr.. Livingstone Describes the Situation
in Kansas Before PETERS Election.
He Expected Blood to Flow and Left the State
in q Hurry-All Farmers and Laborers
May Pool Issues-Bolt in Illinois.
BLOOD MAY FLOW IN KANSAS.

Graphic Picture by Farmer Livingstone Of the
Political Situation I'm the Granger Ssste,..
CHICAGO. Jan. 29.-'I can see nothing but
destruction for the State of Kansas. /
would not be surprised if blood were to
flow freely within the next few days. The
excitement there to-day is as intense as
that which went before the French revolu-
ton. Some of the leaders of the Farmers
State Alliance there are Anarchists. and are
in daily communication with the editors of
the Voice. which is known to be in sympa-
thy with anarchy"
These were the words of John Living
stone, president of the New York State AL
lance, who is registered at the Grand Pa
cific Hotel. to a Tribune reporter yesterday.
Mr.. Livingstone had just arrived from the
seat of the excitement. There is more pol
itics to the square inch in Kansas at the
present time han in any other place In
the world" continued President LIVING
st0ne. IAN outbreak is ~momentarily ex-
pected. If anybody is hurt it will be
q signal for an uprising. The ghost-dance
is not q circumstance to the excitement
there. Every farmer in the State is taking
a personal interest in the tight. Every
member of the House is Swallowed con-
stantly by q committee of three. They do
not trust one another. An Alliance member
is not permitted to eat. sleep or do anything
else except when his guards or detective s
are at his very elbow. The Alliance in
Kansas is more of a secret organization
b anything else, and the members are
sworn to secrecy every day. When / reached
Topeka i went to the Copeland House.
Within half an hour / was waited upon by
q crowd of Alliance men who told me / was
in a den of thieves and insisted on my NOV
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disturbance l left Ingalls's headquarters.
Il went to Kansas from New York to
speak in behalf of Ingalls,. but it was not
until last Saturday night that the farmers
discovered my intention, and in the mean
time you can wage all you have / just
about learned all that was going on in their
secret camps. The Alliance of my State
~repudiated the sub-treasury scheme as VS.
ionary and impracticable. and the Pennsyl-
vania Alliance did the same. AS the sub
treasury clause is in the platform of the
Kansas Alliance. the reputation of it
amounted TO q refusal to recognize the
farmers organization in that State.
A ROTTEN ORGANIZATION.
1.-THE Alliance there Is so rotten that the
decent farmers are Disguised. and a new
organization has been started in the good
work. The society Will be organized with
bylaws and platform similar to those of
the New York Alliance. ] received forty or
fifty letters from all parts of the State,
during my stay of one week there,
asking for copies of our constitution
and bylaws, and / look upon that as
an indication that the days of the first Al
lance organization in the State are num-
bered. The trouble with the old organiza-
tion is that it is in league with and con-
trolled by Livingstone of Georgia, McCune,
of Texas, and such rebel brigadiers as Polk
and others. / attended an Alliance meeting
the second day after reaching the State.
Willetts, one of the leaders. made a speech,
in which he said: We are going TO bury j.
SO deep that the day of resurrection won't
find him. A rebel yell followed this re-
mark. and an old confederate planter got
up in open meeting and presented the
speaker with 81. 800 to help 10 defray the ex-
penses of the campaign.
Clean Republican papers are boycotted
by the Alliance. Every member has been
made to swear ne will not read them. The
members are oath-bound and riveted to-
gether to such An extent they are not per-
mitted to read anything except what is
known as reformed literature This re-
formed literature consists OF the National
formist. Voice. and similar journals.
Last Saturday when went TO the Grand
O~pera-house and made my speech for In
gals | just about took my life in my w
hands My praise of Ingalls, and the repu-
diatioD of the Kansas Alliance created q
frenzy of excitement. j was invited to
leave the city when it was discovered that
entreaty would not win me over to the Alli-
ance side. and when / expressed a desire to
remain IN the city. was Threatened. By
night and BY day ! was Swallowed On the