The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-10-09

Alliance and Alliance officers was par
sticularly terrific and sulphurous last
week. The Morning Advertiser, a third
rate partisan paper Of New York, sent. al
man down south to collect evidence and
slander againstD DR.. Macune. He couldn't
find 1t, and he had to content himself
with trying to revivify the old Lies and
ISLANDERS that were put out year ago.
And Alliance men and all decent people
are regarding The Advertiser with a
kind Of pity, and significantly touching
their heads, which is a polite and gentle
way Of saying The Advertiser has come
to be driyeling idiot. Poor thing.
The western liars did some fine work
On their end fethssli calaet s:Weak
said President Polk had apnlogiz for
having been III the Confederate army,
and that he did this to win western sym
pathy and votes. They said he had been
brutally cruel toward Union prisoners
while he was in command of Salisbury
prison as brigadier general. But all
these have gone to join that lie about
his having ordered Union prisoners shot
at Gettysburg.
The people who heard President Polk
speak know the first charge is false. As
to the second charge, he was never in
command Of a prison, and never ranked
higher than third lieutenant. He doesn't
want to make votes, for he is not can
didate for any political Office that ever
existed or ever will exist under the sun.
He said in a speech at Wichita, Kan:
81 am charged with mistreating Union
prisoners during the war, and I want to
say that in its conception, in its utter
ance and in its spirit it is a malicious,
premeditated and base lie, and I dare
the man who said it to stand up in this
audience and repeat it. never cap
tured but one Union prisoner in my life,
and if he were here tonight he would
bear testimony to the fact that treated
him as if he were my brother"
The public has read something about
Halls anti-subtreasury convention at
st. Louis a'few days ago. That conven-
ton G9 had the full assistance of the
Demo Republican press in the matter Of
flaming headlines and windy predictions
of greatness. It was to be a meeting Of
men from all the states, and 400 dele
gates were to be there.
Well, the great convention met. The
o. P. press announced that not more
than half the delegates expected were in
attendance.
All told, there were just twenty-five
delegates G9 at the convention. On the
second day when three new ones came
in, it was flashed over the wires that 100
had arrived.
The convention proceeded to denounce
things generally and wound up by ap.
pointing a committee, and saying, "And
that they be authorized to file our unal-
terable and unending objection to the
passage Of any resolution whatever bind
ing the individual membership of the
Farmers Alliance to any political course
of action whatever, and we protest
against such action at any previous
meeting infringing or infracting upon
the individual political rights of any
member Of the order"
And right here they found a "mare's
nest" They presumed that the Alliance
was going to become partisan, and they
didn't seem to have sense enough tc
know that no voluntary organization il
this country can force free man to ac
in political matters contrary to his in.
clinations Corporations may do so, but
nothing else can.
The whole convention was farce ani
a 6asco.
II
Here is a little telegram going th'
rounds of the press:
ssThe Farmers Home Journal, for ,
year the official organ Of the Alliance il
the state of Missouri, has cut loose from
that organization because the Allianc
is mixing in politics."
Obi This is Mr.. U. 8. Halls organ
It wanted to be Endorsed as the stat
Alliance organ, but the Alliance woul,
none Of it. Now do you see the reason
why it has "cut loose from the organiza
tionP'
The great reform movement is inter
esting the good women of the land, an,
they are organizing for work Here is
dispatch from Kansas:
Shortly after the election in this stat
last, fall Miss Fannie cCormick, tn
Peoples party candidate for superin
tendent of public instruction, declare,
in speech that if the farmers wive
had been properly organized the Allianc
would have elected its entire ticket.
Yesterday the charter of the Nationa
Woman's Alliance, with Miss Fanni
Mccormick as its president, was file
with the secretary of the state. The in
corporators include the wives Of each 0
the Alliance congressman, and Mrs. Ser
ator PETER heads the list. The organ
cation is national, and a vice presiden
is named for every state in the Union
Lecturers viii be sent into the field toes
tablish sub-Al lliances to operate with th
Farmers Alliance. The object of th
association is to establish bureau 70
the better ed ncation Of If the women o
economic, social and political questions
and 10 make and develop a better stat
mentally and financially, with full an
unconditional use of the BALLOT
N
Duarte Farmers Alliance, California
fires the first gun in favor of the Pee
ple's party convention. The presiden
called the Alliance to order and rea
the proclamation of President Cannon
and then said, s.If there is a single OF
jectionsto the election of our delegates i
open Alliance it should be made now"
There was a unanimous wish that th
delegates to the Peoples party conven
ton should be elected in the regula
meeting of the Alliance. and it was don
accordingly.
A Castle Built for Fourpence.
The castle Of Monlkstown, near Cor
is reported by popular tradition to ha7
been built in the year 1886 at the cost