Year: 1879

FARMERS ALLIANCE.


In New York, the farmers have an or


ganization with this'nane,e in which they


are gradually bat steadily concentrating
and soHdifying their strength This or


ganization is political, and its ssobjects are
to enablethe farmers ofalI Ipartiesto unite


in crushing outthe rule of the profession


al politicians, and to reform abuses that
have made every political organization
mere stepping stones for corrupt adven-
turers to reach office, where they plunder
the people at will. With the organi-
zation of the parties in the hands of better
men, the object of the Farmers Alliance
will then be to secure concert of action
by farmers in the Legislature OF all parties
upon every important question in which


the interests of the farmers directly


involved.
+ We believe that the farmers of the


Southwestern States should adopt a SIM
Eilar political organization, and they could


not select more appropriate and express
i've name. In this State especially there
isimperatiye need for a thorough union of.
the farmers in such an auxiliary organiza


ton as the Farmers Alliance, by which
they could secure their rightful power and
influence in the State government. We
earnestly.appeal to leading, thinking farm
-ers every county in the State to take up
this matter and commence the work of
organization at once. 1t should be start


ed in election beats, and the county or


ganizations fully established before the
regular county conventions assemble. y


In no State in the Union have the rights
and interests of the farmer been so shame


fully trampled upon by the politicians as
in Mississippi. Rings of professional poll
ticians in the State capital and county
towns have ruled the people ofithis State
with rod of iron. Since the war especial
ly, has this rule been oppressive, and often
sive. as it was oppressive. The Democratic
party organization has been used to sub
seave the ends of these professional office
seekers, and the result was that men Were
foisied into office whom the people did
not want. and who have misrepresented
them on questions in which their interests
were deeply involved. The position OF
Senator Lamar on the Silver bill, in which
he openly defed the sentiments and wish
es of the people, is warning which the
people should not soon forget of the i'm
policy, the danger of submitting to a secret
Legislative caucus, composed mainly OF
lawyer politicians, the decision of so i'm
portant question as the election Of .


S. Senator. AS the Democratic party has
been controlled in this State since the war,
it would be absurd to say that it has re-
flected the real sentiments of the people.
The county conventions generally have
been packed and managed in the interest
of some town ring, and the party machine
ry is in the hands Of county and State
executive committees that are controlled
by very small number of professional
politicians: The entire party organization
will be manipulated in the approaching
campaign in the interest of some aspirant
for the u. S. Senate, if the farmers stand
still and permit the town rings to pack
the conventions. .s."- S5-1'5


The farmers of this State were never
so well prepared to organize and secure
complete control of their State govern
ment and the election of representative
farmer to the U. S. Senate, and the neces>
sity for such action was never SO pressing
as now. VIII they do it? Let the true
men of every election beat determine that
it shall be done, and in less than sixty
days Farmers Alliance will be in exist
ence in Mississippi that will be the rec
ognized controlling power in our political
affairs, and before if the rule of the pro-
fessional politicians will disappear for


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