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moreover, from the political campaign of 1890, and 

 an investigating committee expressed its disap- 

 proval of the actions of the officers in connection 

 with a senatorial contest in Georgia. The decline 

 of the Southern Alliance after 1890 was even more 

 rapid than that of the Grange had been. The 

 failure of many of the cooperative ventures con- 

 tributed to this decline; but complications and dis- 

 sensions resulting from the establishment of a new 

 political party which took over the Alliance plat- 

 form, were principally responsible. The North- 

 western Alliance continued for a few years, prac- 

 tically as an adjunct to the new party but it, too, 

 lost rapidly in membership and influence. With 

 the year 1890 interest shifts from social to political 

 organization, from Alliances to Populism. 



