Show COLONEL L L POLK President of the National Farmers Farm-ers Alliance A Newspaper Man and an Indomitable Worker Work-er Ho Believes In the Future of tho Farmers Alliance For TOE SUNDAY HERALD Copyrighted Colonel L L Polk the president of the Farmers Alliance is a Southerner He is the owner and editor of the Progressive Farmer of Raleigh North Carolina which place is also supposed to be his home His duties however do not give him much opportunity op-portunity to writp for it so constant and pressing are the demands upon his time Colonel Polk was born thirtysix years ago and since early manhood has been aggressive aggres-sive and progressive How popular he is in his order may be seen from the fact that out of the vast numbers of the members of the Farmers Alliance he was chosen president presi-dent He now makes his headquarters at Washington D C and the amount of business busi-ness he disposes of in a short time is immense im-mense B 41 r4Mi j iAtYfj cl L L POLK Colonel Polk believes that the Farmers Alliance movement will become an organized organ-ized political party His latest utterances on the subject were in Richmond where ho was attending the meeting of the State Alliance He said that the National Alliance has over 3000000 members and is growing rapidly It is strongest in the Southern and Northwestern states and is increasing at a rapid rate in California Oregon Washington and other extreme western states President Polk is a very powerful speaker and is a man who by his direct manner would attract attention anywhere any-where His appearance suggests the possession pos-session of the quality of indomitable perse verence He is traveling a great deal for campaign purposes Every day of his time until the end of October will be employed in meeting official engagements |