The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-11-13
THE KANSAS ALLIANCE.

EMPORIA, Kan. Nov. IA call has
been issued for a meeting of the state CEN
| trail committee of the Peoples party OF
Kansas at the Dutton house, in Topeka,
Nov. a.
TOPEKA, Kan, Nov. 12-The national
convention of the Farmers Alliance and
Industrial Union will meet in lndlanap-
oils next Tuesday and will be IN session
| up to and including Tuesday, Nov Il.
Many auxiliary organizations have called
national meetings in the same city Tor
next Monday. among them being the Ma
tional Citizens Alliance, the Confedera-
ton of Industrial Organization, the ma
tional executive committee OF the Peoples
party and the national Peoples party GEN.
trail committee.
President Biddle OF the Kansas Farmers
Alliance requests all Kansans who wish TO
accompany the official delegation to meet
at the Blossom house III Kansas City Sat
urday evening. The official train will
leave Saturday night
There are seven delegates from Kansas
TO the national convention. They were
elected at the Salina state convention and
are: First district, L. II. Gest OF Jefferson
county; Second district, Mrs. Laura Lowe
OF Lynn county; Third district, ". A.
Householder of Cherokee county; Fifth
district. A. Shearer of Marshall county;
Sixth district, Joseph Darling of Mitchell
county, and Seventh district, Mrs. Meteor
mick OF Barton county.
President Polk made an earnest appeal
to the Kansas Alliance to elect strong
representative delegation to the national
convention, but the delegation Is the weak
est that has ever been sent to the national
convention by the Farmers A lance
Ex-President Frank McGrath at the
time of the election expressed his disap-
provo of the choice made and predicted
that Kansas would practically have no
voice in the national council. The attend
anCe from Kansas at the convention VIII
be much smaller than at the Ocala conven-
tion last year.
The Kansas Farmer, Senator PETERS
paper, In reviewing the result of Tuesdays
election in Kansas, takes a cheerful view
OF the situation aud looks into the future
in very hopeful manner Itsays:
'The vote of the state was not heavy.
there being not thing of general interest to
bring out a full vote. The only contest of
Importance was the united aud determined
effort of the leading parties to break the
strength and growth OF the Alliance, be-
cause the organization has caused relax
alton of party discipline and Alliance men
have contracted the habit of voting with
the utmost independence. The party whip
has ceased to be a terror to the Kansas
farmer. He does his own thinking and
voting and men and principles are para
mount to party with him
''Tbe contest in the state was mainly be-
tween the Peoples party and the Republi-
can party. The Democratic party was
mainly passive quantity except where it
fused it'll the Republicans, especially for
judges The exact returns are not all
complied for the whole state but the Re-
publicans and Democrats have about two
officers to the Peoples one. They also
have elected seven of the nine judges.
Another result of the recent election is the
benefi lent effect on the Alliance OrganiZa-
tion Kidding 1t of an element that was cal
culated to breed discord and leaving it
absolutely free from any political en-
The Alliance of Kansas to-
day is strictly farmers organization and
absolutely free from any political embar-
rassment. Notwithstanding the efforts of
the old parties to make it appear that tn
Alliance and Peoples party were one and
the same, for had that been the case they
would have captured 50 per cent. of the
offices. The Peoples party and the ALI
ance are as distinct and Independent of
each other as the Grand Army of the Re
public and the Republican party or the
Knights of Reciprocity and the Demo
cratic party,