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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1832.
The western states didn't eeem to
take much interest in tariff reform.
Ir Humphrey had not already
issued his Thanksgiving proclamation
ha probably would not do it now.
Teh seletion of seven United
States senators will be dictated by
the Populists holding the balance of
power.
The State Temperance Union is
called to meet in Topeka, November
29 and 30. The tone of the call in
dicates that the Union will have a
finger in politics this winter.
The Advocate offers inducements
to club getters, and the friends of the
People's party offer special induce
ments for us to continue giving the
publio a reliable and entertaining
paper. Under such circumstances
the paper must continue to please.
Thi columns of republican papers
are not first-class authority in fore
shadowing the polioy of Governor
TiAWfJlincr'a administration. Let's
wait and see what he does, and not
form premature judgment as to what
he is likely to do, from the statements
of the republican press.
Sdmtp. enthusiastic democrats in
New York, on the ICth, hanged Presi
dent Harrison in effigy, and hauled
caffold, effigy and all tnrough the
streets in a procession until some of
their own party interposed an objec
tion. In reporting all this the press
dispatches never said a word about
anarchy. Old man Most must have
blushed for shame.
From the numerous letters received
at this office, commenting on the
"treasury fraud expose" now run
ning in the paper, we learn that a
great many people did not know that
such an investigation had been made.
A gentleman in Lawrence, who did
not authorize us to use his name,
says: "I would not miss an issue
oontaininfir the expose or the mone
tary report for five times the price of
the paper."
OEOOXED WOSJL
The readers of the Advocate are
probably aware that a few days prior
to the late election several strongly
partisan democratic documents were
scattered broadcast over the country
from Washington, one of which went
out as a supplement to the National
Economist It seems that a letter
Was sent out by J. F. Tillman, of the
executive board, to private parties
explaining the objects of these documents.
The letter is written upon the
official letter-head of the executive
board, and speaks for itself. It is as
follows:
NATIONAL FARMERS' ALLIANCE AND
INDUSTRIAL UNION.
Natioxal Exscunvi Boabd.
0. W. Ma crux, )
J. F. Tillman, v
A. Wabdall. J. F. Tillman,
Genaral Manager and Director
National Lecture Bureau and
Department.
National Hotxl, )
Washington, D. 0., October 29, 1893. f
Personal.
Mr Dxab Six: We bare enclosed doeu
menu by to-day's mall which are self explana
tory. They are especially intended (or circula
tion among; the strayinf democratic members of
the Farmers' Alliance and the laboring classes.
I think oar people should fully understand all
tides of these questions. Inasmuch as It Is get
ting late. It Is therefore thought advisable that
these documents should reach such voters
officially from the national headquarters of the
Farmers' Alliance, Washington, D. C, jaiton
the ere of election together with my offlolal ad
dress. We are now mailing said literature to
axcBXTARixs and uctcbibs In thi closx
AND DOUBTFUL STATU AND CONOBI88IONAL
DISTBICTS.
We are distributing them so as to reach the
VOTXB SOMX THREE OB FOUB DATS BXFOBX
iliction. We are also mailing same to you
for circulation under your own personal super
vision This Important matter la not only In
tended to do effective work among voters whose
feelings and teachings have been dxmocbatio
from childhood up, bat also to accomplish
good results in the near future, as you fully
know that hundbids chanos thxib minbs
IMHXDIATXLV BXFOBX AND UPON THI DAY
of election. Yours very respectfully.
J. Jf. TILLMAN.
The import of the letter and the
feet that one of the documents re
ferred to was published and mailed
as a supplement to the National
Economist, seemed to implicate Dr.
Macune in the scheme to use the
official influence of the board in be
half of the; democratic party. This
inference was so general that he
asked the privilege of making a per
sonal explanation. This was granted,
and the following is the substance of
what he said:
He said -he had nothing whatever
to do with kthe publication or mailing
of the pamphlets that were sent out
in accordance with the plan outlined
in the Tillman letter that Mr. Till
man himself was alone responsible
for them. This Mr. Tillman also
stated in his report. Dr. Macune
stated that he did take the contract
of Mr. Tillman to publish certain
pamphlets, without any knowledge of
their contents that he left the city
immediately afterwards, and that he
received a telegram from his associate
editor soon after describing the char
acter of the documents, which induced
bim to countermand the order for
their publication and direct that all
that had been published should be
destroyed. He says that this was
done and that the pamphlets that
were mailed out were not printed in
the Economist office. He states that
he received copies of those docu-
Iments together with a copy of the
Tillman letter, returned to him from
an Allias.ce man to whom they had
be en sent in North Carolina. Upon
this letter was a hand pointing to his
name upon the official letter-head.
Among the documents thus re
turned was what purported to be the
o fficial address of J. F. Tillman
This, Dr. Macune states, he at once
ordered put in type, and mailed as a
supplement to the Economist in that
part of the edition remaining to be
mailed after the documents were re
ceived, and that this was the only
one of the documents for the distri
bution of which he was in any way
responsible.
This is the substance of his expla
nation. We give it for what it is
worth. We shall at this time make
no comment upon this transaction,
and shall govern our comment here
after somewhat by Dr. Macune's
future course.
After this explanation had been
given, wnen tne time came lor tne
election of officers of the supreme
council, he was a candidate for the
office of president. Considerable dis
satisfaction with his candidacy ap
pearing in the council, he seemed to
attribute it to personal prejudice
which he regarded as of so serious a
character that he could no longer
consistently remain a member of the
organization. His name was with
drawn- by his supporters, and, of his
own accord, he announced his per
manent withdrawal from the order.
With this statement of facts we
leave this case for the present What
we shall have to say concerning it
hereafter will depend upon circum
stances. We are in possession of all
the data necessary to handle it as the
necessities of the future may require.
but wo are not disposed to pursue it
unless it shall become necessary.
THI
MEM-
MALIGMOY OP THE
PHIS PRESS.
The Farmers' Alliance, and the
People's party, have held conventions
in many cities of this country. In no
place except in Cincinnati has the
local press shown any fairness in its
treatment, either of the Alliance or of
the new party. Everything has been
distorted and perverted with a view
of deceiving the people and appeal
ing to their prejudices rather than
their judgment True as this is of
former meetings, it is emphatically so
of Memphis, Tennessee. At no other
place has a meeting been held where
there has been equal bitterness mani
fested by the local press. At no place
has there been an equal amount of
falsehood and misrepresentation
either in the columns of the local
press, or in the associated press dis
patches. -Much of this id undoubt
edly attributable to the "what-is-it"
that does the heal work on the Mem
phis Commercial Could Darwin
have seen this animal the missing
link might have been supplied in the
chain of organic development, though
it would require the sagacity of the
great naturalist to determine whether
he would come up to the required
standard.
It is hardly necessary to inform
Memphis papers or sent out in the
dispatches respecting the meeting of
the supreme council. Everything
was distorted and misrepresented.
Of course there was another "split"
A meeting of the Alliance without a
"split" would be a failure. Like for
mer splits, however, this one is lim
ited to a single individual The
mistake that is made by the .oppo
sition respecting this movement is in
regarding the influence of single in
dividuals as of more importance than
facts will justify. There is no man
in the movement who isiarge enough
to injure it by his individual with
drawal from it The sooner the oppo
sition comprehends this fact the
sooner will it cease to be deceived in
its estimate of the importance of
these trifling affairs. Let no man
think of forming anything like a cor
rect opinion of the proceedings of the
Memphis meeting from any of the
reports published in the opposition
press.
A JUBILEE AT JAOZSOff, TSM.
The Memphis Commercial of No
vember 16 has a report of a demo
cratic jubilee at Jackson, Tenn., in
which the following paragraph oc
curs: The Illinois Central railroad had a float of
waving palms, and Superintendent of Tele
graphy, Col. Dugan, with his instrument.
The Mobile & Ohio railroad chops had two
floats one an engine running and the
whistle blowing at every street crossing; the
other representing the boiler department,
the anvil ringing, the men all at work, and
turning machine running.
There is something particularly
suggestive in this paragraph. That
these great corporations should ap
pear in a procession celebrating the
victory of a political party certainly
does not indicate that those corpora
tions fear any interference with their
present system of business from that
party.
It will occur to the thoughtful
reader that, in all probability, these
corporations began the waving of
palms, the ticking of instruments, the
blowing of whistles, and the ringing
of bells in the interest of that party
before the election. This is one of
the dangers that threaten republican
institutions in this country to-day.
While we are told that government
ownership' of railroads and telegraphs
would result m the exercise of the
vast power and patronage pertaining
to these franchises for the perpetua
tion in power of the party that has
control of the government, two very
important facts are overlooked.
First That power is so exercised
at the present time by the corpora
tions themselves.
Second Under proper civil service
regulations, such as contemplated bv
the demands of the People's party, it
would be impossible to control this
patronage in the interest of any
party.
The solution of this problem is to
be found, then, alone in the owner
ship and management of these vast
instruments of commerce under just
such regulations as contemplated by
our demands. We may not then be
humiliated by the spectacle of great
corporations that have accumulated
readers of the Advocate that scarcely
a single truth was published in the J fortunes through class legislation