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cally, he has always been a Democrat until of late years 

 he has affiliated with the independent political element, 

 and sincerely believes that reform can be effected through 

 united independent political action upon the part of the 

 laboring people. He was nominated, in 1890, for the 

 State Senate, and was elected by a flattering majority. 



Mr. Russ is a man of fine appearance and attractive 

 manners. He is one of the leading men in the Order in 

 his State. He is kind and obliging, and has a host of 

 friends. The Order needs hundreds of more such men in 

 the great fight against organized monopoly and a false 

 system of class laws. 



LEONIDAS F. LIVINGSTON. 



Leonidas F. Livingston, President of the State Alli- 

 ance of Georgia, was born April 3, 1832 , on a farm in Newton 

 county, Georgia. His 

 father, Alfred Living- 

 ston, one of the most 

 successful farmers in 

 Georgia, both with 

 slave and free labor, is- 

 still living and farming 

 on the plantation on 

 which his son, Leon- 

 idas, was born. The 

 grandfather of Mr. Liv- 

 ingston came over with 

 two brothers from Scot- 

 land to this country 

 before the Revolution- 

 ary War. Two of the 

 brothers settled in the Leonidas F. Livingston. 



State of New York and the other one in Georgia. Col. Liv- 



