The true northerner., 1894-09-21
Has Great Influence.

Tho Farmers National Congress will
meet in Parkersburg, w. Va, Oct. 3,
4, 8, and 6 next. Special rats are
made by the railways and the hotels.
At the annual meetings wide variety
OF subjects is discussed by speakers
from all parts of the county, and at
the coming meeting addresses will be
made by delegates from twenty-one
sifferent Seates. More than thirty
fve States have been represent
ed at each of the last five meet
ings of the congress. The congress
met in loe9 at Montgomery, Ala,
in 1890 at Council Bluffs, Iowa; in 1891
at Sedalia, Mo-; in 1892 at Lincoln,
Neb.; and in 1893 at Savannah, GA.
The congress Is composed Of one dele
gate from each COngle ;sion2l district
and two at large from each State, ap-
pointed for two years by the CO. ernors
or the sex eral States, and one dele
gate from each State Agricultural Col
lege, and one from eacn State Board OF
Agriculture. Delegates from one-half
the States are appointed each year.
The congress meets in annual session
lasting tour days, and has an executive
committee, known as the National
Board Of Agric allure. Th Board is
composed or one memter from each
State and Territory.
The Congress has no political plat
form and does not seek to form po-
litical party. Its delegates come, not
as politicians, but as farmers. This Is
one reason why the Farmers Natl nal
Congress is not so we'll known as the
Alliance or Grange. The annual meet
cd ht-h 1pa If fo
ers not delegates. These meetings are
not unlike the me mcetings of national
farmers institute. The range of sub
jects is wide and the speakers are from
every section Of the country. Those
who are TO deliver addresses at the
Parkersburg meeting are from the
following States-we give them in
the order in which they appear
on the official program. District
Of Columbia, Nebraska, New
York, Ma .sachuset $, Mississippi, Kan
sas, Georgia, California Ohio, Texas,
Michigan, North Carolina, Iowa. Penn
sylvania, illinois, Maine, West ir-
ginia, Alabama, indiana, Missouri.
Connecticut. The addresses are linn
tied strictly TO twenty minutes each.
Several of the speakers are women.
Many OF the delegates bring their
wives and daughters. The Ulcers
elected at the a,t meeting for the en-
suing two years are: Ire ident, Hon.
B. +. Clayton, Indianola, Iowa; Vice
President, Mai G.. M. Ryals, Savan-
nah, Ga; Secretary, Hon. John NJ.
Stahl, Quincy. H.: First Assistant,
Col w. G. WILDLY, Atlanta, Ga;
Second Assistant, capt. L. j. Apple
yard, Sanford, Fla; Treasurer, Hon.
Henry Hayden, Indianola, Iowa
The Farmers National Congre is
working for rural free mail delivery,
legislation against adul' GRAFTON. meas
ures TO stamp out infectious live stock
diseases, the enlargement of the work
of the weather bureau, rural telephone
lines, good roads at bearable cost.
fuller agricultural statistics and relia-
ole crop estimates better supported
and managed experiment stations, The
rational systematic Improvement of
waterways, and leg Station affecting
railways that, while preventing abuses,
recOgnii es that the inte OF farm
els and of railways are closely related
and interdeLendent AS each delegate
is a man Of prominence and infiue zee,
known TO the Congress man from his
district and the Senators from his
State, the national legislature usual Y
grants what the Congrc re ue5ts.
And the character of those prominent
in it is a guarantee that ii will be kept
up to its resent high position.