Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1890 — The Farmers’ Alliance Organized. [ARTICLE]

The Farmers’ Alliance Organized.

The movement to organize the National Farmers’ Alliance in Jasper county has met with remarkable! success. It. J. Peek, the state organizer, has been working in the county for a couple of weeks, with the result that up to last Saturday, when the County Alliance was organized, tlrnt the townships of Barkley, Jordan, Marion, Milroy and Union, liad been organized. The meeting to organize tlie County Alliance was held Saturday afternoon, in the court house. Forty-two delegates were present, representing a membership of about 240, while two or three of the new subordinate alliances, which were not represented, swelled the total membership in the county, at that time, to 280. District Organizer James Welsh, says that this membership will reach 500 within two weeks.

The County Alliance was organized by electing D. 11. Yeoman, of Marion tp., president; 11. F. Maxwell, of Barkley township, vice president; J. A. McFarland, of Jordan tp., secretary : J. F. Smith, of Marion tp., treasurer; Wm. Washburn, of Milroy tp., business agent; Peter Hinds, of Milroy tp., chaplain; James Welsh is district organizer for Jasper and White counties. Six representatives to the State Alliance, which meets May 21st were also elected. The Count}’ Alliance is composed Of delegates from the subordinate alliances, and meets ever}' three months. The State Alliance is composed of delegates from the county alliances. ===Tbe Alliance is a secret order. Its objects, in part at least, are the breaking down of trusts and monopolies, and the reduction of transportation rates <fcc. Also, if we arc correctly informed, the saving to the consumers of the cost of the profits of all ‘‘middlemen,” between the manufacturer and .the retailer. That is to say, of the jobbers and wholesalers and of the drummers.