HISTORY OF THE WHEEL AND ALLIANCE. 



he now lives. This was before the land was surveyed by 

 the Government. Mr. Clover, in his usually characteristic 

 manner, writes : ' ' Here I endured the privations of a new 

 country and find it was Heaven, compared to the glorious 

 civilization begotten of monopolistic greed and the newly 

 advanced doctrines, that, taxing a man makes him rich, 

 and putting him in a condition to compel him to borrow 

 money from Shy lock makes him prosperous and happy. 

 At the age of 52 years, after a long life of toil, economy 

 and self-denial, I find myself and family virtually paupers. 

 With hundreds of cattle, hundreds of hogs, scores of good 

 horses, and a farm that rewarded the toil of our hands with 

 sixteen thousand bushels of golden corn, we are poorer by 

 many dollars than we were years ago. What once 

 seemed a neat little fortune and a house of refuge for our 

 declining years, by a few turns of the monopolistic crank, 

 has been rendered valueless. n 



Mr. Clover was elected President of the first State 

 Alliance in Kansas, which was organized in 1888. At the 

 second annual meeting, in 1889, he was re-elected. From 

 the first he has been one of the foremost Alliance men in 

 the State. He is a man of extraordinary industry and 

 ability, and is brilliant in common sense. He is a good 

 practical farmer, an occupation he has followed all his life. 

 In 1889 the State Alliance sent him, as a delegate, to the 

 National Convention at St. lyouis. He took an active part 

 in the work of that convention, and his abilities were 

 properly recognized by his unanimous election as Vice- 

 President of the National body. He could have had the 

 nomination for Governor of his State on the "People's" 

 ticket but he refused. At the earnest request of the mem- 

 bers of the Order he accepted the nomination, on the 

 "People's" ticket, for Congressman of the Third District. 



