St. Paul daily globe., 1892-11-19
MACUNE PULLS OUT.
Gets Discouraged and With
draws From the Farm
ers' Alliance.
The Order Is Being Made, "a
Tail to the Third Party
Kite,
Which Means That Non-Pap-
4
tisan Members Cannot
Remain Longer.
H. L. Loucks, OF South Da-
kota, Is Reelected
President.

MEMPHIS, Tenn, Nov. 1S.-The Farm
ers' Alliance and Industrial union re-
convened this morning. Z. w. Maenne
became discouraged. and withdrew
from the order. Tie following officers
were elected: H. ID. Loucks, South
Dakota. president; Marion Butler,
North Carolina, vice president; Ben
Terrill, Texas, national treasurer; Ed
itor Taylor. of Nashville, secretary.
The following executive board was also
chosen: L. L. Leonard, Missouri;
Mann Page, Virginia; l. E. Dean, New
York; Ii. e. Deming, Pennsylvania.
Macune is very disconsolate, and to
an Associated Press reporter said: u
resigned because 1t is being diverted
from its original purposes. and made
the tail to the third party kite. Ihls
means that the non-partisan Alliance
members cannot longer remain III the
order"
The closing session of the Alllanc
convention was neld at 9 O'Clock, when
the newly elected officers were Installed
in the presence of about one-half the
delegates. The others were so much
disguised at the result of the contest
for the Offices that they remained
aWay from the hall. A number
of these delegates insist that as
soon as they return to their
homes and announce the result OF the
action of the convention to their state
Alliances a withdrawal from the
national body will at once take place
and
A New order
will be formed. The announcement OF
the election of Loucks was the last
straw with his opponents, and they at
once began action. A room was ST.
cured in the GayoSo hotel, and the FOL
lowing manifesto was prepared:
I'VE deplore in unmeasured terms
the false, cruel, unjust warfare which
has been Waged upon Brother Z. Nj.
Macune by partisan leaders throughout
the country, whose chief object was the
destruction of our noble order. We do
here and now assert our full confidence
in Brother Macune and in the belief
that he has been slandered in the most
cruel and wicked manner without a pre-
cedent in political partisan warfare of
this country, and by the enemies OF
organized labor and the productive
industries.
Second-We deplore the fact that
these emiSsaries and minions, who are
not even members of the order, have by
their assumed access to the secret ac-
tiOnS of this body sought to degrade
this supreme council in the public mind,
and to produce diScOrd and strife among
the membership ill order to impair Its
usefulness. and to produce
Hts Ultimate Ruin.
"Third-The efficiency aud usefulness
of this bodyyhas been impaired by these
unfortunate agencies and the wicked per-
versions of the facts. While we believe
the majority of this body to be sine ere
and In earnest, and to have at heart the
good of the order, yet we do most
earnestly protest against the course
that some of Its members have
pursued against our brother, Dr.
Macune; that, while we as delegates
shall remain and participate in the pro-
ceedings of this body, if these condi-
tions are persisted in by future coun-
ellis, we feel tnat the alliances of the
aggrieved states will be driven from
this organization. All of which we do
respectfully submit and ask to be filed
in the minutes of this body"
The manifesto is signed by nearly all
the Southern delegates, headed by Ben
Terriil. of Texas. Parks. Of Texas, took
the document to the convention hall at
3 O'clock and read it to the delegates.
His demand that it be placed on the rec
ords of the Alliance was
Protested Against
by members in sympathy with LouckS,
but after a stormy debate Parks carried
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| hotel, and after a short time a num-
Der of the friends of Macune
gathered in his room and discussed
| future operations. Among them were
| John Mcdowell, Gov. Buchanan, Ben
Terrill. of Texas, and Secretary Tay-
lOr. Terrill and Taylor. although elect
ed to Office, are in sympathy with Ma
| cune, and as soon as the signal is given,
theta friends assert, they will cast their
fortunes with the new body. Their
election was an attempt to conciiate
| the Macune faction but it was failure.
Tonight the officers were installed in
| one room. while in another an open AL
lance meeting was held. The friends
of the third party regarded it as a third
| party meeting and third party
! principles to the exclusion of Al
| lance doctrines. Macune finally
| came lHtO Tie nall ana. dnlu
great cheering, rose to address the audi
ence. The Alliance convention was
| practically finished when the officers
were installed tonight. The majority
of the delegates will leave for their
home tomorrow morning, but number
of the Northern members of the Alli-
ance will take trip through the South
| elm states.
Important among the demands formu-
| lated yesterday is one for ar ilroad
from British America through Nebras-
| ka, Kansas, Missouri, Indian Territory
| and Texas to some point on the gulf,
probably Galveston. The road is to be
chartered by the national government,
and the people of each state along the
! line are expected to help. tlt