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Meaning Of The Ground Swell

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Day
18
Month
December
Year
1890
Copyright
Public Domain
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Mr. D. H. Bittenhouse, national secretary of the Farmers' Alliance, on being asked if be meant to say that ths Allianco is an auiiliary to the Democratie party, replied: "Not by any means. The Democratie party fought the Alliance in South Carolina and at other points; but the farmers desired to rebuke the party in power for their recktess disregard of the people'a demanda, rhis congress was petitioned for fre Eoinage from almost every Alliance in the United States. The petitions were Ignored. This ground swell does not prove that the Alliance and kindred organizations v.-ill support the Demócrata In 1892. If the Democrats fail to gire a freater volume of currency they will rOceivO the same kind of punishment is , 1892. We are determined to be feit, and i if thia house ignores our petitions we will seud a house of our own-." To persons who have no heen fully wake to the signs of the Mines, and even to many who have kept pretty well infonned of ordinary occurrences, the political Btrengtli displayed by the Fanuers' Alliance in the recent electiona has been astoundine and marveloue.-

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