The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1892-02-25

''At no meeting of the alhaGse 1l9cl~
bers of congress was there moGlD:s ID
suggestion that they should Jniq ~
democratic party or cast their lot v h il
"Some congressman thought the e5as
test should be made through the old. reg.
lies and others thought In lependenE
political action was necessary.
"There has been no split between the
peoples party representatives.; we are
united and the only dissension that has
come among the alliance members, came
when we had conference with congress.
men who adhere to the old party lines.
The card is signed by Thomas E. Watson,
w. G.. McKeighan, John G.. Otis, r.
Halverson, 0. NJ. Kerr, Jerry Simpson,
John Davis, William Baker and E. 2.
Glover.
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WHAT IS THE ALLIANCE1
Under the above caption the Southern
Alliance Farmer (Atlanta, Ga.,) gives
what it believes to be the true work and
status of the Farmers Alliance as an or
ganization. We. quote as follows:
'"This is question for the considers
ton of all honest citizens, but especially
is it of direct Importance TO the members
of the order, some of whon though zeal
GUS and faithful in the discharge of what
they consider the duties and obligations
of alliancemen. have yet but an imper-
feet knowledge of the organization as it
was founded or exists, and it behoves us
in view of the very great importance Of
the subject to study it closely and delib-
erately and to reflect upon the nature Of
our order and its relations to the politi-
cal world as we'll as the ma ational govern
ment. The nature of our organiza-
ton is fraternal one; this implying
peaceable and united body; o freedom
from prejudice or antagonism, in other
words brotherhood in which mutual
interest and mutual regard is estab-
lished, founded upon the principle OF
justice and formed for the relief a. =
down-trodden, oppressed and impovet-
ished people. This is, then, the outline
survey of the alliance. Now its political
character, or rather its relation to the por
litical world. To this it is an alien foae
eign in 1ll its Bearings and laws. II it,
v6ty foundation stands the pillar e. 4 COZ
Ror stSne d5laFiHg It's non paftfsdn pf1lI
cipes, by virtue of its extent and the ter
ritory it invades it can carry no atom OF
partisan politics in it's structure. 1t gathers
member from the ranks OF democracy
and another from the republican camps,
and it pledges its honor to these opposing
elements, thus assuring them that it is
not political party and has no fealty
with politics, it is positively non-parti-
san, it advcrtises itself as interfering with
no mans religion or politics; he that is
Democrat may be Democrat still; he
that clings to the tenepts of the Repub-
lcan party may still hold his allegiance
to it. We invite them TO join us, not to
interfere with these things, for over these
issues we take no surveillance. We ask
them to come into our brother
hood, true Alliance, formed and
established upon the Ocala platform
and above all party prejudices or "a
vors, above the preferment Of factions,
platform that is built upon principles
fixed and immutable as truth. King
doms shall be overthrown, dynasties pass
Hway, principalities and powers shall feis.
.nvnarcnles b. Jst ana empires becon.~
but the principles upon which
the doctrines of the Alliance are built can
never fail. Men may tower like intel
lectual giants above their fellowmen and
yet they must be laid low and sleep the
sleep of death, measures may succeed for
a while and then fail, political factions
may flourish and triumph for while and
then fall and sink into oblivion, but the
grand principles that propagated the
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old as the creation and came with the
breath of immortality that made man a
living soul, and is as firm as the ever
lasting hills and the adamantine rocks.
The organization through the incapacity
of man to grasp and maintain the idea,
or through his weakness to govern his
or his inability to comprehend
its vast and noble designs, may be dis
Iupted and fail to accomplish the object
for which it was originated, but its prin-
ciples are fixed and can never fail, and
from time to time they will gather them
selves into force and organize for
action, and the day will come when
ruth rising superior to error will as
sert itself and be recognized. Sooner OF
later the Alliance will triumph and it
now remains with you brethren to say
it shall be this year or next or
lecade of years. If you are true to your
selves, true to your obligations and true
20 the great aud mighty principles upon
which our order is established, the milen-
alum morn for the farmers is even now
lawning But if you get up dissensions
n your family forgetting the principles
If your order and trying to establish fac
ions and parties and to set up Idols of
lay, we are lost and ruined for this time.
You will be sleeping in the city of the
silent when the Alliance awakcs from
he bale[ul influence and arraying
tself with the principles for which it
vas organized stands out conqueror.
We have right to be represented in the
rational government and we will be-.
Ne have men there to whom we have
,lghted our faith and from whom we
ave vows of constancy; they are repre-
enting us there. Shall we wrest the
natter from them and turning our backs
lpon them, brand them as traitors Or