The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-04-22
A FARMER ON TIE ALLIANCE.
He Has Had Enoug Of it to Last a
Lifett1e,

He Has Had EnOuG OF 1t to Last
Lifetle.
WAYcRoss, GA, Afil 2I.-Ths MORN
ING News correspondent had the following
interview with a forIer member OF the ALI
ance:
81 learn that the Glance OF the Eleventh
congressional distrit Is 70 meet at Bailey,
o. On Saturday, April 20, to rs0rgenizs
tba alliance. Who do you think Of it'll"
81 tbiuk it will be failure, for l am
,o,fdent that moo Of the former members
are ike myself, bey have already paid out
os much money q they want TO for the al
Tance unless thee were some profitable re-
snlfs" Don't puIthink it ,paid to be an
eiiapceman2 Va were an enthusiast upon
the subject
1attended everYneeting, and paid ell dues
rromptly, and / never realized a cents
36roft. On the other hand, lost money
and time. 1 Bst many days time when
ought to have cen attending to my work"
@The alIianc was to do the farmer good
socially and financially, was it not!n
That is whit the organizers said, but let
me tell YOU a Aw things that perhaps you
don't know. There were many promises
made, but few if any kept"
ain the fiBG place, We were told wieh
much emphasi that being member should
not conflict with our religious or political
views, aud just as soon as the
order though we were strong enough
they went int politics, and wanted to dis
franchise ell cher citizens from holding
any Office, or even from having anything
70 say or do with selecting any
candidate. Every RllianCeman was expected
to vote for The candidate selected by the
order"
DO you think the organization was in
tended to elevate the southern farmergn
II thought 60 when joined it, but it is
plain to any thinking man now that Ma
oune and perhaps few other
republicans got up the alliance to
see if they could break the
solid vote of the south. and not to help the
southern farmers as was pretended.n
why do you think it was intended to
break the solid vote of the southg'
Because the evidence is too plain and
preponderous to De misleading. First, as
have already SAID, there we're to be no poll
tics in it. Secondly, we were
told if we did not go into poll
tics and elect alliancemen 60
fill the various offices we could hope for
nothing, that we must send alliancemen to
the legislature to make laws and let them
reform things. We sent them, and they
were elected as retormers, and let me ASK
where is the reformH
Then the bosses thought proper TO call a
great national alliance convention, and seH
lected Ocala, Fla, as the place. Our south
ern alliance went to Ocala standing squarelY
on the democratic platform, aud came back
standing with both feet on the Ocala plat
form. Nearly every liz not ell county
called conventions soon afterward and
passed resolutions about as follows: We, the
allfaupa of E1id " in
this day assembled herewith do most SOL
eInnly pledge and affirm that we will
not support any candidate for
office, either county, state or
national. who do not stand on the
Ocela platform with both feet. YET there
wes to be no politics in the order.
You noticed just as soon as the re-
publican bosses thought they had
succeeded in getting our southern alliance
Ocala platform with both feet,
they wanted to get them
further from democracy, so q st. Louis
convention was planned and when they met
at st. Louis the Ocal2 platform was de-
molished and the 8o-called ST. Louis, or,
more appropriately speaking, the third
platform was erected, and some
Of cur alliaucemen came back
from st. Louis singing, Good
more endghten alliance began to sing,
Give me that old-timo democracy, it Is
good for Turner and Lester, and
it ia good enough for me-
and l am pleased to state that under that
tuue we marched to the polls in October last
and in thunder tones we said to the third
party men and to the world that old Geor-
gia is democratic to the tune Of Il Geo mo-
JoTity."
You say you swill not join the reor-
ganized alliance"
mo sir, l will not Those who wish to
fool with it again can do 80, but will not.
l will stay at home and try
to make crop instead Of keeping
my horse tied up all day
at some school house. attending some meet
ing that will never put g dollar in my
pocket nor help clothe my children"
The alliance, perhaps, will not enter
politics ii they reorganlze DO you think
they willm
Yes; reorganization means politics"
Do you think we will have to defeat that
party again"
II don't know but if we do propose TO
sink them beyond resurrection"