Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-08-24
SENSATIONAL SPEECH.
Manning Delivers It Before
 the State Alliance.
IT sTIRs UP THE LEADERS.

VIII Bs seated or Blood Will Be
 spiiled-He Denounced Cleveland and
 Said We Were Near Monarchy.
 GRANDvlEw, Tex, Aug. 24.-The Texas State Alliance convened at Isl- and Grove, four miles southwest of here Tuesday. It is one of the best at- tended meetings the Alliance has ever had. A large arbor about 200 feet square has been erected.
 The Alliance was called to order at 1920 by President R. A. High. G. L. Clark of Erath was made recording sec- retary.
 Most of the time was taken up seat ing delegates. About 100 counties are represented.
 The first speaker to address the crowd was Harry Tracy. His speech was se- were on the Democratic party, and in winding up denounced Cleveland for sending troops to Chicago during the recent strike.
 The most sensational event was the speech of Hon. J. 0. Manning of Ala bama. He reviewed the history of the Populist movement, denounced Grover Cleveland, and closed by reciting the alleged wrongs inflicted by the Demo cratic party on the Populists of Ala bama. He paid pretty compliment to newspapers and newspaper reporters.
 Referring to President Cleveland, MT. Manning said liberty is fast dying in America, and declare today that our Republican form of government has been set aside by the present administration. In consequence of this fact all other is- sues pale into insignifieanee. It is con- quest now to return our government back to that of Washington and his com patriots. He warned the people against approach to monarchical government by consolidation of the branches of the administration, ill fact, if not in name. The American congress today represents not the will of the people, but that of Cleveland.
 He then took up Alabama politics and said that Kolb was fairly and honestly elected; that he was swindled out of or counted out in the black belt; that Kolb was elected in the last campaign by 47,000 majority. Voices: "Hurrah for Kolb!'l Now mark this" said he. ..Kolb was elected and we will seat him if we have 'to wade in blood in the language of Waite of Colorado, snp to the horses brides. IA voice: 'Cleve- land will send troops Cleveland can go to the d--n Democratic party. Loud applause Talk of the impracti- biEty of fighting for liberty and individ- ual rightsl tell you, in the language of Lincoln, to address that argument to towards and knaves; with the free and the brave it will effect nothing It may be true; if it must let it. Many free countries have lost their liberty, and ours may lose hers; but if 1t shall be it my proudest plume, not that was the last to desert, but that never deserted her. know that the great volcano at Washington, aroused and directed by the civil spirits that reign there, is belching forth the laws of political cor ruption in q current broad and deep, which is sweeping with frightful yeloc- l ity over the whole length and breadth of the lanl, bidding fair to leave unscathed no green spot or living thing; while on it's bosom are riding like demons on the wave of he'll the imps of evil spirits, fiendishly taunting all those who dare resist its destroying course with the hopelessness of their efforts; and knowing this l cannot deny that all may be swept away. Broken by it, I, too, may be, bow to 1T, never will. The probability that we may fall in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of course we believe to be just. It shall not deter me.
 ''Here, without contemplating the con- sequences, before heaven and in the face of the world, I swear eternal fealty to the just cause, as deem it. of the land of my life, my liberty and my love. And who that thinks with me will not adopt the oath that takei Let no one falter who thinks he is right and we may sue ceed. But, if after all we fail, be it 50; we still shall have the proud consolation of saying to our sonsciences and to the departed shades of our country's free dom that the cause approved of our judgment, and in disaster, in chains, tn torture, ill death, we never faltered in defending it.
 At the close of this address numbers rushed up and shook the speakers hands and told him they would stand by Kolb and the Populists of Alabama. He read telegram from Texas to Alabama say ing Texas would send 200, ,0G0 men to see that Kolb was seated by force if nec- essary.
 Stump Ashby and Marion Martin crit icised the speech of Mir. Manning in se- we're terms. The leaders of the Ali ance are worked up over the address, and some action will be taken in the matter.
 Baby Fatally Burned.