The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-04-04
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other corporations in excess of their actual
needs, and all lands now owned by Aliens should
be reclaimed 6y the government and held for
/ actual settlers only
| TO- Transportation being means of ex-
change and public necessity, the government
should own and operate the railroads in the in
| terest OF the people
! II. The telegraph and telephone, like the post
| ONCE system, being necessity for transmits
sion of news should be owned and operated by
| the government In the interest of the people.
| II. We demand that the government issue
| legal tender notes and pay the union soldiers
| the difference between the price of the depre-
ciated money in which they were paid and gold
IT MADE NOSES BOLT.
| As soon as the platform was read there wers
numerous motions that it be adopted as q
! whole. got up and retired from the hall to
the lobby in the rear The representative OF
| the New York Herald followed me out and
asked me IL had bolted the con ference. told
| him had, and asked him to bear witness to
! the fact. as some liar might say was there
| and was bound by the action. ] stated TO him
| the following as my reasons for leaving:
/. They sought In the preamble to commit
| the alliance to q particular political party in
defiance of its organic law.
2 That no southern man could stand on the
| platform reported. because
The south is already taxed to death TO pay
| federal pensions, and now they propose 20 break
me Gamers back by piling uo untold millions Of
| back pensions.
| Again, We could not swallow the socialist land
| PLANK which said that land should not be held
by any one forspeculative purposes.
Again, at the bidding OF the republican con-
| tingent they had thrown out the tariff question,
and had cut out the OcalA plank that tone in
dustry should not be taxed to build up another"
and demanding a reduction in the tariff In the
north they will swear the tariff is not tax and
that the government is not now receiving any
more revenue than Is necessary to meet its ex-
| penses This was the fine hand OF the Knights
of Labor.
They refuse to condemn the Mckinley law
and the ''forcs bill " This is supposed to be
due to the influence of Taubeneck the chair.
| man Of their national executive committee, who
is now calling upon our people TO rally to his
standard. Tauoenecs is the ''decoy duck" OF
failed to elect Force Bill" Streeter to the
| United States Senate over senator Palmer.
II the government must own the railroads,
telegraphs and telephones because they are a
| public necessity >" then we must also own all
| the shipping, all the public hacks and draws
| and st 'eet car lines; il the postoffice is the
| pattern, We must put government carriages and
| freight wagons on all the public highways and
| post routes throughout the land. We must have
government doctors, lawyers, preachers
| churches and colleges. for they are public
nece ssty." When we have taken charge of
the land, and all the natural sources of wealth,
| as the heritage Of all the people, and made
| them as free rs the air and sunshine, them as
| there will be no incentive to individual ex-
ertion, and as everybody who eats must
work. we must have government overseers in
every shop bawick to see that every man
works, then for fear some man will eat more
| than he sweats we must set the public table as
they did in ancient Sparta, and give every one
his rations We must have government mills
factories aud stores, that goods may be ISSUED
| at cost" TO the people. Then Utopia has comet
Then Bellamy is no longer Looking Back
ward" But you have destroyed the American
citizen. u may appear to the honest and I'M
| suspecting farmers that am testing but as.
| sure them that the socialist element at vt.
Louis sees all this and more in the glorious
| declaration"
THE OUTRAGEOUS PENSION PLANK.
Now as 70 the different reports as to what the
| platform is The platform was read and
adopted as given above III copied Il from the
knights of Labor journal Of March 3, published
ten days after the meeting. The seoretary of
| the Knights Of Labor was the secretary of the
convention. 1t was SO published in nearly all the
alliance papers In the country. have letter
| before me written by Miss Willard the president
| of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union,
| whose reputation for truthfulness is recognized
| throughout Chrstendom. She was a member
| OF the platform committee. In this letter she
states that the pension plank was adopted
! in the committee and in the conference
| as O part OF the Platform Jerry Simp.
son bad sidrepeatedly here, that, not only is it
O part of the platform, but that it has been in
! every Kreenbsck platform since the war. The
editor OF the NattonGt Eeonomist in the Issue
| OF March ~ admits that 1.-The division (of the
| PLATFORM into three plans has been done since
the adjournment of the convention" and that
he did it at the suggestion of Marion I}ueer of
| North Carolina. The truth of the matter is
| when they saw the south would not accept IT,
patched i up and issued a special
don't deny the pension plank III the
| north and west. Mr. Turner, the secretary
says he favors 1t. Why do they want to deny
Il? The third party congressman favor it. Just
the other day eight of them voted TO add about
| 100000 more to pension bill that was
already too large.
ONLY SIX VOTES WITH LON.
The alliance Of Georgia was given six votes.
| counting President Livingston. On this basis
the ten southern states had sixty votes in a con
| veutioR of over SEQ votes Humphreys Of Texas
| claimed to represent .000OO1 negroes, and the
| committee gave him ninety seven votes TO ba
| placed where they would do the most good.
| Who Is Humphreys? A political preacher of no
| standing in Texas. have been told by good
men he would not be believed on his oath
| by his neighbors. He is the creature
who tried to get the negroes OF the south
picking cotton. have seen q letter written
| by him to O colored man in Georgia on that
| subject, 10 which he said Thank God, south
ern white men can no longer take shotguns and
drive colored people into their fields to work for
| half wages He placed eleven of his votes in
| Georgia. In whose hand did he place them?
| Richardson, the president Of the Georgia COL
| ored alliance, was there, but he would not let
Richardson have them because he would not de-
clare for third party. According to Ri harrison.
\ he initiated q white man named Gilmore con
| LEdEy W tue ID" anu kANS nm Tue NOISS. tl-
more, l understand. is another political
preacher, who Is a foreigner of no fixed abode,
| and who has been turned out of his church
| This man contr oiled the voice of Georgia
| BY his help Post elected over Vice Pres-
| dent Wilson a member OF the platform com
| mittee. When some one moved that colored
| man be elected assistant clerk, Gilmore
shouted "that suits us fellows in Georgia"
| For fear Gilmore might not be able to
control things In Georgia, the Nat
| ional Citizens Alliance came to his
NAV ao1la al fVrn W.
these, three were placed in Georgia in the hands
| Of Ellington Branch, Parker, and one of them
| put on the credential committee to soc that
| Post and KENO we're seatod. Is there any citi-
zens' alliance In Georgia. Why should three
votes be given Georgia when other states had
none? The citizens alliance of Georgia what.
ever that be- had as many delegates as tho
farmers alliance, The backbone of Georgia"
you see. had TO be broken.
It is but fair TO the president Of the colored
alliance of Georgia to say that he repuiiated
these schemes, and went home to tell his people
that he was deemed unworthy TO represent
Louis that he and his people must follow Post,
because Post was from the north and saw their
best friend.
| 81 AM TELLING THE TRUTH"
gave the list of organizations said 10 be re.
presented. Powderly said some of them ex
| listed only on paper. Others had authorized no
| one to represent them, For instance, the
| secretary OF patrons of husbandry or grange,
| ence; and everybody knew that Humphreys
had no right to 81 votes
| | have now given true statement of facts.
| have tried to do so in a non partisan manner.