Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-08-20
ANTI-THTRD PARTY.
Call Issued For a Meeting Of ALI
ance Men.
OPPOSITION TO SUB-TREASURY PLAN.
The Convention to Assemble at st. Louis,
September 15-The Fort Worth ResOIu-
tlOns the Proposed Basis of Action
Railroad and Hotel Rates.

JEFFERSON CITY, No, Aug. 1s.-The
following circular, which explains
itself, was made public by Hon. Q. S
Hall, president of the Missouri Farmers
| Alliance:
| To the Members of the Farmers Alliance and
| Industrial Union and of the Farmers and
| -Laborers' Unions OF. the United States:
HUBBARD, Randolph County, No, Aug. u.
| -BrOthers: This communication Is for the
| purpose of informing you that there will be
held in the city Of st. Louis, state of Missouri,
on the third Tuesday Q5th day) of Sept .m-
| Der meeting of the alliance brothers of
| the United States who are in accord with the
resolutions passed at a meeting recently
held in the city of Fort Worth, Tex.
The objects of the Fort Worth meeting are
fully set out in the resolutions adopted by
that body. The undersgne were elected
an executive committee TO make a i arrange
inents nescssary for the convention referred
to above.
We have corresHOnded with the general
managers of number OF railroads and find
that they are willing to give greatly reduced
rates upon their roads to all delogate-
tending this meeting.
\ basis Of representation - at
three delegates fromea~
in the jurisdiction al be fixed at
Reduced bc. IN and every county
city Of @ ., r,,d. ii the hen national alliance
80 Louis, and ali members of the or
-. are cordially invited to take part in
making this manifestation of the farmers of
| this country grand success.
This meeting, as will DC seen from the Fort
Worth resolutions, is a protest on the
| part of ths lovers of the constitu
ton OF the alliance against seeing that
organization prostituted by a body of men
VINO nave no interest in farming and whose
love Tor the organization is limited by the
a n nm Trsf q Il
H. This Is an effort on the part of the con-
servative members and real farmers of our
order to emancipate the Farmers Alliance
from the control of scheming politicians and
assigning demogogucs. That we will sue
ceed in this effort we have no doubt
Communications addressed to Hon. W. 5
McAlister, Canton, Miss; Hon. VIII L.
Sargent, Rayner, Tex, or to L. $ Hall at
Hubbard. Randolph county, Mo, viii be
promptly answered Yours fraternaIIv.
U. ;. HALL, Chairman, Hubbard, Mo.
W. 5 MCALLIsTER, Canton, Miss
W. l. SARGENT, Rayton, Tex,
Committee.
THE FORT WORTH RESOLUTIONS.
The circular is followed by a copy of
the resolutions adopted at the meeting
IN Fort Worth, Tex. These arraign
the National Farmers Alliance for de-
barring persons from membership and
Office for opinions sake; for putting
dishonest, mercenary and corrupt men
IN office; for trying to turn the order
from the curse of the protective tariff |
system and to commit them to the |
curse OF class legislation; for placing in |
the highest official positions men who |
are not farmers and who seek only 70 J
keep the farmers depressed; for usir
the order for personal aggrandizep> g
md for changing the order j. ent
partisan political body. Lto a
The resolutions denouuc'
treasury and bond loan : the sub
he proposal for govern schemes, and
II lands, and especis' Aent ownership
Ind his corrupt met rly c. w. Macunc
he acts of his too Iods, together with
icing 2 aisrrac ) and henchmen, as
tench to ther/ e to the order and
7ho know e. Iostrils of all honest men
air and f their corruption and vii
- thus point out to the order
" sinuiDg such men as this in
r they are enabled, by betraying
= 10 and our interests, to most effectual-
y chain us TO the Juggernaut cars of
monopoly.
The resolutions closed: eve further
demand that these men who are not
farmers be removed IRON the national
and state offices of our order, and that
none but those who have their interest
in farming be allowed to fill such
places, to the end that the legislatures
of our government may know that
when the alliance speaks it is the voice
of the farmers and laborers of our
land, instead of the wish of some paid
tool of monopoly and corruption.