Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-11-26
THE ALLIANCE.

Closing of the Session at indianapolis
President Polk Re-elected-Third Party
Endorsed.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. Nov. 20-When
the supreme council of the alliance
met yesterday morning all but dele
gates were excluded from the hall.
Then Col Livingston, chairman of the
committee which met the representa-
tives of the anti-sub-treasury element.
rose and said that his committee was
ready to report
The memorial respectfully and earn
estly protests against any action of the
supreme council that proposes to COM
NIT the Farmers Alliance and Indus
trial Union to the proposition that pro-
vision be made by the federal congress
for the government loans of money to
individual citizens upon farm mort
cages as security, or to the demand for
government ownership or control of
railroad property and transportation,
declaring these schemes unconstitution-
al, impracticable. conflicting with the
spirit of the alliance movement and
tending to government paternalism
and state socialism. The government
naturally looks to the citizen for the
supply of its legitimate wants, an in
version of which state of affairs would
make the government an engine of OPP
preston and the citizen helpless and
dependent
The progress and prosperity of the
Individual, the protest declares, as also
the stability and beneficence of social
institutions, must be left by any free
government to individual thought, eff
fort and enterprise. Any other system
wonld dwarf the Individual and alb
normally magnify the government
Any assumption of the rights and duties
of the citizen by government menaces
the truly American principle that gov
eminent is of the people, by the
people and for the people Instead
of relief from present oppression
the measure promises greater evils
In conclusion the committee ex-
presses its desire to cooperate with the
alliance in carrying out its principles,
securing safe currency. Kidding the
land of trusts and monopolies, helping
the farmer and laborer in securing an
honest ballot and fair count in select
ing for places of public honor and
emolument honest and capable men
who regard public office not as a
private advantage but a public trust
The confederated bly, of indus
trial unions, as it is called, will in the
minds of the committee be the most i'm
portant organization of recent years
1t aims for the consolidation OF all Ia
boring classes and the subsequent di-
version of the whole strength of the
gigantic com bination into the ranks of
the third party. It will be composed
of twenty five delegates at large from
such confederated organization and one
delegate for each 1000 or fraction
thereof of members
A committee of four. consisting of C.
w. Macune, II. Baumgarten, E. w.
Gilruth and j. B. Steele, was appointed
to prepare the address to the laboring
people setting forth the objects aud
purposes of the February meeting.
which address is to be published with
in twenty days
President Polk was unanimously re-
elected and j. 81. Loucks, of South Da-
kota, was chosen vice-president; j. II.
Turner was reelected treas.
ury and J. F. Wiletts, of Kansas, ma
tional lecturer.
The reform press association elected
officers as follows: DR.. s. McLallin, OF
the Topeka Advocate, president; vice
P1csioent q. d McDo"ei, OF tne 1en'
nessee Toiler; secretary-treasurer, w.
S. Morgan, of the National Reformer
Of st. Louis. A committee consisting
of 7. Burrows Saffe1 and L. K. Tay-
lor was appointed to organize an adver-
Using agency for the reform press
At the joint meeting last night of the
alliance and the F. M. b A. the third
party movement was Endorsed amid
the widest enthusiasm.
The F. NJ. B. A. elected S. s. Gauge,
of Missouri, president; w. A. Bartlett, OF
West Virginia, vice-president, and J.
p Steele, of Illinois, secretarytreas-
urer.