Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1894-09-28
FARMERS WILL MEET.
SOMETHING ABOUT THEIR MA.
TloNAL CONGRESS.
wM Convene In Parh.rsburr, ". We, I'm
October Dslegatss from Twsnty-ons
Different states-Has Nc Political Plat.
form and L. Not . Party.
Has Great Influenza

Tho Farmers National Congress will
meot in Parkersburg, w. Va, Oct. ),
4, s, and 6 next. Special rats are
made by the railways and tho hotels.
At the annual meetings q wide variety
OF SUBJECTS is discussed by speakers
from oil parts of the country, and at
the coming meeting addresses will be
mado by delegates from t%wenty-one
different Seates. More than thirty
i've States have been represent
ed ut each Of the last five meet
ings Of the congress. The congress
met in 1se9 at Montgomery, Ala,
in 1890 at Council Bluffs, Iowa; in 1891
at Scdalia, Mo-; in 1872 at Lincoln,
Mob; ind in 1893 ut Savannah, Ga.
The congress Is composed Of one dele
gate from cach Congressional district
and two ut large from each State. ap-
pointed for two years by the Governors
OF the several States, and n dele
gate from each State Agricultural Col
lsge, and n from eacn State Board of
Agriculture. Delegates from one-half
the States r appointed each year.
The congress meets in annual session
lasting Jour days, and has an executive
committee, known as the National
OO0t0 "a <A6I4S.t1CukOs LII = oOdtu ~
composed CT one memter from each
State and Territory.
The Congress has no political plat
form and does not seek to form q po-
litical party. Its delegates come, not
as politicians, but as farmers. This is
one req son why the Farmers Natl nal
Congress is not so we'll known as the
Alliance or Grange. The annual meet
lngs are attended by hundreds of farm
ers not delegates. These meetings are
not unlike the meetings of q national
farmers institute. The range OF SUBJ
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 S, Mississippi, Kan
sas, Georgia, California, Ohio, Texas,
Michigan, North Carolina, Iowa, Penn
ginia, Alabama, Indiana, Missouri,
Connecticut. The addresses IRE linn
tied strictly to twenty minutes each.
Several of the speakers are women.
Many of the delegates bring their
elected at the a,t meeting for the en-
suing two years ire Pre- ident, Hon.
B. +. Clayton, %Indianola, Iowa; Vice
President. Mai. q. M. Ryals, Savan-
nah, Ca: Secretary, Hon. John M.
Stahl, Quincy. H.: First Assistant,
Col. w. G. WILDLY, Atlanta. Ca;
Second Assistant, Capt. T. j. Apple
yard, Sanford, Fla: Treasurer, Hon.
Henry Hayden, l%ndianola, Iowa.
The Farmers National Congress is
working for rural free mail delivery,
legislation against adul.eration, 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 agrio ultural statistics and relia-
bic crop estimates, better supported
and managed experiment stations, the
rational systematic improvement of
waterways. and legislation affecting
railways that. while preventing abuses,
recogni. es that the interests of farm
chs and OF a always are closely related
and interdeIendent. As eachdelegate
is a man of prominence and influence,
known to the Congressman from his
district and the Senators from his
State, the national legislature usually
grants what the Congre S re uests.
And the character of those prominent
In it is a guarantee that it will be kept
up to its present high position.