The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1893-02-24
ALLIANCE DEPARTMENT.
0ficial Letter From President H. s.
L0ucks.
ITO the brotherhood In the Southern
States"

Office Of II. L. Loucks, President Ma
tioral Farmers Alliance and Industrial
Union, Washington, ID. &.
Dear Drcthrcn;--I am reliably In.
formed that an attempt will
be made In the near future to divide
tho Alliance on sectional lines. The ap.
peal is to be made to the South alone, and
will be made on what Is known os u
mont -parti.an issue. am not posted On
the det Ills. but know that that is the gen
s---i-s-a>.----pr for this has bern
made, and is being fostercd 10y trying to
factions in the Alliances on the question
OF non -partisapship; that the dOmina.
faction are in favor of tiyiug TO cocrco
the Alliance into endorsing the Peoples
patty, etc This is not only unfair, but
absolutely untrue. defy any ono to
point to the record ard show where any
such attempt CIV was made at any session
Of supreme council either by speech or
rcsO ution, or to any prominent Ali.
nnccman who IA, ors it. II there ever
wns thing on which we was more
firmly united than a. other it is that
tho Allianc, should remain "non. par.
;isan.' This is to sentiment, l am
| know 1t is of Tic executive committee.
The movement is being engineered by
those who nrc Democrats first. 1t is a
partisan move for the purio g of dc.
stroying tho power of the Alliance by
dividing Us once more on s. CtiOual lines
want you to seriously consider the
effect In case tbcv are successful to any
great extent. know they cannot be
wholly. for know thcrc are host OF
true Allianc men in the 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 il it
were successful. You know how c.rn-
estly your representa- V $ plead with us
to bury the bloody shirt; to fill up the
ghnstly ch SIN that divides us; t, 'oblit-
crntc tho. sectional barriers that had kept
us apart for thirty years, leaving us an
easy prey to our common enemy, the
money power.
The grandest work, tho crowming glory
OF Brother Folks life, was the success Of
his mission in rcuniting us. When he
came North with your frntcrnal greeting,
with the message from the brethren i'm
tho South, ful of brothcrly love, inviting
WV" WI w "SSSp'Sut uh-
Gonai.,ona!ly. :. y J, no. q. IS fl n W
Partisan SfiiisSSI IpGHrTposesi HT
Our opponents in the North CLAIMED
and insist d that the objects Of the
Southern Alliance, rs they called the
+. A. and I. U., was to mi:lcad the
Northern Alliancemen away from their
Republican moorinCs that the Demo
c'atic party might come into pow,r.
We know that in our work we prcssc
our principl ples regardless of the effect on
political parties, but the result has been
to the advantage of thu Democratic party
rs predicted. Should the present scheme
OF disruption succeed, it would confirm
the claim that was their object. Con.
s;der this well, as 1t affects yourselves.
You need the aid of your co-laborers 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, oaiccred and
managed by Suthern men. We re,
sen'c the insinuation, knowing " ell that
it had been 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 n doubiy embarrassing
posit' ons. God knows, and your dele.
gates a: bf mphis know that made no
effort to- secure the place. 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'crencc
IN their uishes I accentcd Sbnnl1 IN.
blighted ambition OF one man, or of n
thousand men, shatter our forces and
stay our rrogress7 God forbid. The
mcu who are attempting it are com
mitting n crime against humanity. Closc
up the ranks, we arc in the fight to win.
Men are nothing, the cause we love is
everything.
Yours fraternally,