The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1893-02-24
ALLIANCE DEPARTMENT.
Official Letter From President II. S.
LOucks.
''To the Brotherhood In the Southern
States"

Office of ii. L. Loucks, President Ma,
tional Farmers Alliance and Industrial
Union, Washington, ID. G.
Dear Brethren: Il am reliably in
! formed that an attempt will
be made in the near future to divide
the Alliance on sectional lines. The ap.
| penl is to be made to the South alone and
| will be made on what is known as a
| non-parti an issue. l am not posted on
| the det ills. bu: know that that is the gen
tA~."l ,dnn- -Prnparation for this has beln
maoe, ana is being fostercd by trying to
factions in the Allianc. on the question
OF non-partisauship; that the domina'
faction arc in favor of trying TO cocrcc
the Alliance into endorsing the Peoples
patty, etc This is not only uufair, but
absolutely untrue. defy any one to
point to the record ard show where any
such attempt CIV r was made at any session
OF supreme council either by speech or
rcso ution, or to any prominent Alli-
nnccman who fa'ors it. IL there ever
wns thing on which VIC was more
firmly united tian n.othcr it is that
the Allianco should remain "non- par.
;isan.' This is t'e sentiment, l am
tnrc, OF every ono % the present officers.
l know 1t is of tho executive committee.
nc movement is being engineered by
those who arc Democrats first 1t is n
partisan move for the pur, 0 C of de-
stroying tho power of the Alliance by
dividing US once more on s. ctioual lines.
l want you to seriously consider the
c1tcct In case tbcv are successful to any
great extent. know they cannot be
wholly. for know thcrc arc a host OF
true Alllanc men in tho Sou Ii who will
resent tho attempt. To those who arc
about to b, influence b. this partisan
movement, beg of you to consider well
the consequences that would follow if it
were successful. You k~ow how m
estly your representa- V plead with us
to bury The bloody shirt; to fill up the
Shastly ch SIN that divides us; t, 'oblit-
crate tho. sectional barricrs that had kent
us apart for thirty years, leaving MS an
easy prey to our common enemy, the
money power.
The grandest work, the crowning glory
OF Brother Polk's life, was the success Of
his mission in rcnniting us. When he
came North with your fratcrnal greeting,
with the message from the brethren in
tho South, fu'l of brothcrly love, inviting
us to unit: with you, VIC accepted, un.
ccopait.pnally- a-f.,s-----<ss-s
!, $ Grand work shall be DESTROYED for
paris1h purposesy
Our opponents in the North CLAIMED
and insist d that the objects Of the
Southern Alliance, as they called the
+. A. and I. U., was to mi,lcad the
Northern Alliancemen away from their
Republican moorings that the Demo
c'atic party might come into pow,r.
We know that in our work we prcssc
our principles regardless of the effect on
political parties, but the result has been
to the advantage of tn, Dcmocra' ic party
as predicted. Should the present scLcm
Of disruption succeed, it would confirm
the claim that was their object Con-
s;der this WELL as it affects yourselves.
You need the aid of your co-laborcrs in
the North and West. We have had not
only to meet the contention that we are
Democratic aid society,"" but that it
was Southern Alliance, ofiiccred and
msnaged by S, uthcrn men. We re.
sen'cd the insinuation, knowing ell that
1t had been a question of fitness for
office, and not of location. Now, when
the hanu OF death has removed him
whom we delighted to honor and man
from the Northwest happens to b, elected
your president, should division come it
will place us in doubiy embarrassing
rosito ons. God knows, and your dele.
gates at mphis know that made o
effort to. secure the place l asked Brother
Ellington, of Georgia, who placed me in
nomination to withdraw my name. lie
and other delegates from the South in
sisted that should rot. In dc 'crcncc
to their wishes 1 accepted. Should the
| blighted ambition OF one man, or of n
thousand men, shattcr our forces and
stay our rrogress2 God forbid. The
men who nre attempting it are com
mitting crime against humanity. Cloee
up the ranks, we are in the fight to win.
Men are nothing, the cause we love is
everything.
Yours fraternaly,