The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-01-01
NOTICE TO DELEGATES
To the Annual Meeting Of the State
Farmer Alliance.

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To tho Annual 1reeting Of the State
Farmer Alliance.
/ respectfully request each delegate
to have his credential card in his
hand when he gets to the door, each
and every time he wishes to enter the
hall.
After your card has been signed by
the chairman of the committee on
credentials please hold the side with
the signature uppermost.
Comply with the above request and
avoid delay and a jam at the door.
No one excepting the officers OF the
State Alliance, will be admitted with
out exhibiting his credentials.
Remember that, no matter how
many times you have shown your
card or how well the door-keeper
knows you, shall insist upon an ex-
hibit of your card each time you
come into the hall, unless / am other
wise ordered by superior authority.
II. A. SWAIN,
Sergeant-at-Arms.
To the above Mr.. Swain adds the
following suggestions:
To THE DELEGATES TO THE STATE
MEETING:
You will soon meet in annual con-
vention.
Do you intend to attend strictly to
business-to have no side talk while
in session-but listen carefully to the
man who has the floor?
Do you intend to try to detect the
difference between sophistical plati-
udes-eloquent, well turned, but
meaningless phrases-and plain
straightforward honest opinion.
Do you intend to let a willy politi-
clan and an oily tongued stranger
scare you by yelling "lard' at you,
sothat you will not dare to let your
brothers in other states understand
that you know that they have been
at work on the same lever with your.
self, and that you are ready to agree
upon time when you will take hold
with them, and, all bearing down to-
gether, try to lift Humanity a notch
higher?
Do you intend to thoroughly dis
cuss the report of your committee on
resolutions and adopt a set of de-
mands that call for exactly what
you want?
Do you intend to require every can
didate to publicly, and without eva
sion, pledge support to- all your de-
mands, and your constitution?
Dou you intend to remodel, your
constitution and make the alliance
an organization that will command
the pride OF it's friends and the respect
of it's enemies?
Do you intend to provide for pay
ing your state lecturer a salary sufR
Gent to guarantee him good living
for the next year, and order him to
go to work, under the direction OF
the Executive Committee, and work
three hundred, and twelve days for
the alliance?
Do you intend to elect your Con
gressional District lecturers at tbs
same time you do you Vice Presi-
dents?
Do you intend to have your Cong'l
Dist. lecturers, state lecturers, and
president constitute an Educational
Board, and provide means for them
to at once commence a school house
campaign of alliance lectures?
Do you intend to require a nomin-
ting ballot for each Office, and thus
do away with the ring and CLIQUE
method OF pushing men forward by
nominating speeches?
Do you intend to prohibit the use
of printed ballots at the annual
meeting?
Election of officers is now by call
of county chairmen and not by bal
lot-E. W. F..
If you will adopt the reforms sug-
gested in the foregoing: questions,
then l will pledge one dollar per
month to the Alliance Educational
Bureau, for the next year.
f.. A. SWAIN,
Rice County
President Donnelly informs us that
he will call the State meeting to or.