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Show A CONVENTION, Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Indus-trial Union. A I'ltESIIUvNTIAIi MI.NrL'ST. T&e Democrats anil Populists Striving tor the Supremacy. IllllltV IIIIIIIAI. A It II III IN lie htnir the l'altliiu er the lireaul .titan nuil eil.el Ihe Ml.lllll Ml Ml iiii, Toliu,, Nov. 15 Tho National T.;mors' Alllnuev) an J Industrial In-dustrial Union met In couvuiitloii hern today. Owing to tho lllneis of Oot-ernor Oot-ernor llucbnujti, Col mel Uater, secretary secre-tary of tho Cotumcrolal nisoclatlon, dellvernl tho welcoming address Delegate Dean of New Vork, In leiqiuudlng, said amoug other Hilugs. "Tho Alliance Is nonq artisan lu character, char-acter, but la us full of politic, as an egg Is full ot meat," riieto was a lively contest over the I residency U-twccll friend, of the irctcnl Incumbent, Iioucks, of North Dakota, iwnl those of C. W. M.ciiue, of Washlugtou, eslltsr nf the Ajono. mUf. The lormer Isbelng pusliul by tno Third party element and lliu latter by the Democrats, Delogste Heck, of Alabami, who la tho leading light lu the organization, laid Ihl.evonlugt "llio original Ideu wa. that tho urgicnlxallon should atoy out of ixilltto, but It won't, niu slncu the members will dabble In iwllllcs, 1 "J. Rlv" 'ho thing n Democratic Haver. That", my Idia. We want Macunu for 1 resident. HclsnDrmo crat" On llio other IniiiJ, John 11. McDowell of Tenuessee la working hard for Loucks, thinking thus to throw Ihe orgaultillou Into the l'eo-(do's, l'eo-(do's, party. At Innlehl's session of the farmers' Alllancoand Industrial Union, I'rcil dent IkiucI-.'s elellvored the ifllolal address. lloeulogUel thu lato Trrsl-dent Trrsl-dent I'olk, an I ciiiimeiiliH on the crisis through which tho Alliance had asV.d, audelllaliHlupin the Alllaiice an I Industrial Union. Hu spoke lu I art n follows! "Webegau towork by grouting In tliodnrk. Ourultenllon waa directed chlell) to relief through co-opcrallvo ellorts lubliylog and so ling, with political po-litical features as eroondary considerations. considera-tions. Caital ami txrlence combined com-bined against us made it n tl 1 (11 1 u 1 1 mailer to make much rogrewa In that direction. Wo learned, undthoceu-su. undthoceu-su. reiorls of It tin confirm It, that thu trouble wo. not with the reduction reduc-tion of we.illli, but with Its unjust Jl'lrll.utlou through special privilege conferred on fasoreef Industrie, und I rl ate corporations. Ojr selling was coin) sratlvely unooth until we wcro cm routed with this political problem. Ihe result wiut the formation and adoption of our clsminils, each ono of whlcli required a 1 hangout law p, In fact, a revireal of pollllcut action tu the uxteut that wu became 11 lolltlci! orgiulxitloii, nnd our minds were trained to look for relief through iiolllloil action nt the ballot box, rather than through 10m1nercl.il e.-o-orstloll. When we bocaine fully tonvluccd that relief must come through political action, wu wi ru confronted con-fronted with two oneiiilei. On the other hand, many (clued our ranks from soltleh mottles, hoping lo 1110 the political upheaval lo their own personal per-sonal cuds. I hoy prounl our worst euemlbs." Thu concluding puttlon of hla speech wa. directed against tho political methods nf H111 rJoutli. Tn Hiutliem Ioplo his words weru very olleusUc. |
