People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1893 — To the Alliance of Jasper County. [ARTICLE]

To the Alliance of Jasper County.

There will be an election Saturday, March 4th, to elect county officers for the year 1893. Every Alliance in the county should be represented, as the future welfare of the order greatly depends on the officers elected. It is needless to say that we have just passed through one of the most critical periods in the history of our organization. Insidious and powerful influences are seeking to divert us from the grand and noble principles that brought us into existence as an order and gave us a growth that is unparallelled in the history of our organization. Let us therefore stand by the great principles enunciated at St. Louis, Ocalla and Indianapolis. This is the platform around which all true voters should rally. But the question is now asked with a great deal of anxiety, “To what Political party does the Farmer’s Alliance belong?” My answer is, "The Alliance does not belong to any party." We hold principles above party and measures above men, and let us all pledge ourselves to do all in our power to unite the farmers of this county in one fraternal brotherhood, and in selecting officers for the coming year elect men whose honesty and integrity is unquestionable and whose fidelity to the order will stand unquestioned even by our enemies. D. H. YEOMAN, Pres.