Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1892-01-28
A NEW CONVERT.


oppressive and discriminating legisla-
ton there is unparalleled depression in
the agricultural and other industrial
and business interests of tho country;
And whereas, The great patriotic or
ganization known as the Farmers Al
lance and Industrial Union has sub
mitted certain demands for the re-
moval of these enormous evils, in sub
stance as follows: The abolition of the
National Banking system as an instru-
mentality of furnishing circulating
medium the increase of the money i'm
circulation to not less than $50 per
capita by the free and unlimited coin
age of silver and the issuance
OF money by the Federal gov
eminent upon secure basis
by the plan prescribed by said
Farmers Alliance and Industrial
Union, unless some better method can
be promptly devised and executed I;
the effectual suppressing Of gambling
in the products of the country called
option" dealing; the prohibition of
the alien ownership of lands by non
resident aliens; the reclamation of I'M
earned land grants to corporations
the passage of a graduated income tax
equalizing the burdens of government !;
the reduction of the tariff tax so as to
collect no more revenue from the people
than is needed for the economical ad-
ministration of the government; the dis
continuance of bounties, subsidies, sin
ecures and other special privileges; the
enforcement of the laws for the super
vision of corporations and their change,
if necessary, for the protection of the
public against extortion and discrim
nation and,
Whereas, These demands are just
and reasonable and strictly accordant
with the constitution of the United
States, and their execution is abso-
lutely essential to the removal of adj
mitted and intolerable evils there
fore.
Res0lred. That it is our duty to use
all honorable and legitimate means to
secure representation in Congress
pledged to carry out the foregoing de-
mands. Platform adopted by the Ser
eHH District Alliance at its meeting IN
Jackson, Jan. 10, 1892.
After copying the above deliverance
of the Alliance from last weeks LEAD
Err, the Clarion in it's issue of the %
inst. adds:
There is, of course, nothing to which
all Democrats may not subscribe in the
foregoing political demands. There is
ample latitude about the verbiage of
the call for increase of the circulating
medium to admit Of differences of
opinion, without division of the party
forces. 1t is to be assumed, of course,
that the fair and honorable means to
secure representation in Congress-
the object expressed in the last para
graph -means the introduction of the
resolutions before the county and dis
trict Democratic conventions for dis
cussion and adoption. The whereas"
of these resolutions would have been
more complete had it stated that the
legislation complained of was enacted
by the Republican party and opposed
by the Democratic-that the latter
party is animated by and exists upon
the pledge for it's repeal or modifica-
ton.
When it is remembered that Mr.
McNeily, the present editor of the
Clarion, has been one of the most stall
wart opponents of the Ocala platform
and was among the extremists who
favored condemning the Treasury
by the last Democratic State Conven-
ton, his present conversion to the AL
lance demands is as startling as it will
certainly be gratifying to every Sub
Treasury man in the State.
Mr.. McNeily says that there is moth
in the demands of the Seventh Dis
trict Alliance, ito which all Democrats
may not subscribe" and that 'there is
ample latitude about the verbiage Of
the call for increase of the circulating
medium to admit of differences of
opinion, without DIVERSION of the party
forces"
That is what Sub Treasury Demo
Gratis in Mississippi have contended all
along, but their opponents persistently
refused to see anything in the Alliance
platform except the ware house, which
was not in it at all.
Such a concession, therefore, coming
from the late Chairman of the State
Democratic Executive Committee,
amounts to confession of past error,
and though it comes after the Sena-
torial contest is over, it is but an act
of tardy justice to Major Barksdale
and others who made the fight with
him.
The supporters of the Ocala demands
will no doubt accord to Capt McNeily
and the Clarion cordial welcome to
their ranks and allow them ample
standing room on their platform to
make themselves comfortable. Next.
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A COQUETTISH SENATOR.
Senator Harrison, of Lowndes, seems
to be coquetting with both Prohibition
lists and liquor men. During the pro-
tracted consideration of the new code
chapter on 'dramshops" in the Senate,
he was conspicuous as an opponent of
number of the best portions of that
measure and supported several amend
ments to weaken it in favor of the
whisky traffic. Saturday evening after
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