CHAPTER V. 



HISTORY OF STATE ALLIANCES. 



Official Directory of the National Farmers' Alliance and 

 Industrial Union. President, L. L. Polk, North Carolina ; 

 Vice-President, B. H. Clover, Kansas ; Secretary-Treasurer, 

 J. H. Turner, Georgia ; Lecturer, J. F. Willetts, Kansas. 

 Executive Board : Chairman, C. W. Macune ; A. Wardall, 

 J. F. Tillman. Judiciary Department : Chairman, H. C. Dem- 

 ming; Isaac McCracken, A. E. Cole. Committee on Confed- 

 eration of National Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Union : 

 Chairman, Ben Terrell, 239 North Capitol Street, Washington, 

 District of Columbia ; L. F. Livingston of Georgia ; B. F. 

 Rogers of Florida ; W. J. Talbert of South Carolina ; H. L. 

 Loucks of South Dakota. 



Alabama. A. T. Jacobs, a member of the Texas Alliance, 

 organized the first Alliance at Beech Grove, Madison County, 

 in March, 1887. Other Alliances were rapidly formed in Lime- 

 stone, Jackson, and Marshall counties. A State organization 

 was formed, with W. J. McKelvey, President, and G. W. Jones, 

 Secretary. Regular organizers had been sent into another part 

 of the State by President Macune, and had done effective work. 

 At the second meeting of the State Alliance, in August, 1887, 

 all were united under one State organization, with S. M. Adams, 

 President, and J. W. Brown, Secretary. Delegates to the 

 National Meeting to be held at Shreveport, Louisiana, in October, 

 1887, were elected and instructed to apply for admission into 

 the national order, which was granted. The union of the 

 Wheel and Alliance was perfected October 15, 1889. The 

 organization in this State is strong, well organized, and increas- 

 ing in number. It is one of the banner States. 



Arkansas. I. W. Baker, William Davenport, and D. B. 

 Hall were commissioned as national organizers for this State, 

 by President Macune, in the spring of 1887. As the Brothers 

 of Freedom and the Agricultural Wheel originated here, and 



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