The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-02-20
COL. TASON'S POLITICS.

COL. TASON'S POLITICS.
The editorial remarks of the FLOR
IDIAN last week seem to have greatly
stirred up Col. Vason; and his mex
riend and fellow-compatriot, Mr.
William B. Schrader, president of the
Leon County Farmers Alliance and
Industrial Union, tries to explain his
position in the following communica.
ton:
EDITOR FLORID1AN My attention hav-
ing been called to an editorial and a dis
patch from Ocala in your paper of the
18th inst, desire, if you will permit me,
to correct a wrong impression which the
dispatch would give and also the injustice
done to an enthusiastic brother of our
order by your editorial
To one acquainted with the facts of the
case the information contained in the dis.
patch would be amusing if not ludicrous,
were it not doing gross injustice to a
brother.
In the first place, if there was a meet
ing of the third partyites in Ocal aon Feb
ruary 8, the managers displayed vast
amount Of ignorance as to the object OF
the St. Louis conference if they elected
any delegates at all To show you that
speak with some knowledge on tt is SUBJ
ject will quote an article from the Ma
tional Advance, written by the national
secretary of the peoples party:
There seems 10 be general misunder-
stand ing as to the objects of the meeting
at st. Louis on February %. The meet
ing, which is held under the auspices of
the various reform organizations and not
of the peoples party, was originally
called for Washington, D. c., but owing
to many protests from the West the COM
mittee changed the location to St. Louis
It is not convention to nominate presi-
dental candidates, but conference be-
tween the delegates of various reform
organizations to decide what action they
are to take politically. It was called orig
inally at a meeting of officials Of the
various Alliances and the Knights of
Labor at the National Alliance meeting
in Ocala, Fla, in December, 1890.
''The date was too late to give the old
parties chance to show what they would
do for the people at this session of con-
gress. Of course it is impossible to fore
shadow the action of this conference,
which will be composed Of delegates only
from the great reform organizations, such
as the various farmers and citizens ALI
ances, the Knights of Labor, the Patrons
of Husbandry and number of trades
unions, but the alton of the State presi-
dents of the Farmers Alliance and In
dustrial Union who met at Washington
ON February may indicate the result.
They adopted the following resolutions :
"Res0lued, That it is the sentiment and
desire of the conference OF the presidents
of the Farmers Alliance and Industrial
Union that the delegates for the F. A. s.
I. q. who atteRd the industrial conference
to be held in St. Louis February %, 1892,
use their influence and votes to establish
and maintain perfect fraternal relations
with the labor organizations represented
in said meeting, with the Ocala demand
as basis for a platfor Il of principles,
and that such platform be presented to
the national conventions of the demo
cratic party, the republican party and the
peoples party this year, with an earnest
request that the principles involved be
engrafted into the platform for 1892; but
that they carefully refrain from commit
ting our order, as such, to utilization with
any political patty" -
1t appears 10 me that the above extract
effectually kills the differences which are
intended to be drawn from the dispatch,
viz: that the peoples party of this State
could send any delegates to the st. Louis
conference, and that one man, whether
he was editor or not of the Farmers AL
lance official organ, could carry the order
into politics.
The sender of the dispatch rather over
reached himself again when he coupled
Col Vason's name with Messrs. Sutton
and Shields. It is not three months since
Col Vason was taken to task by a COM
mittee Of the Marion county alliance, of
which Sutton was the moving spirit, for
being partisan democrat"
also know that Col. Vason was not at
Ocala on the date mentioned, and which
is intimated by .he Times Uuion while
he holds the right of expressing himself
as his mind dictates, he has favored 10
curing the rights for which the alliance is
battling through the democratic party.
1t is to be regretted that newspaper
protesting to be democratic should con.
tinually strive to keep alive the various
factions in the party.
If the party Is to have success at the
coming election it must be united, and no
good can come from::suc attacks as made
in your editorial Of the 18th inst.
Yours truly,
WIN B. ScHRADER,
President Leon County F. A. & I. U.
WAvERLY FARM, February Is.
The FLoRIDIAN is perfectly famil-