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over to Louisiana nearly, ii not quite, a quarter of a mil- 

 lion dollars. This important measure he not only 

 conceived, but planned and successfully executed by pass- 

 ing a memorial through both branches of the Louisiana 

 Legislature and securing the co-operation of our members 

 of Congress. At the close of his public life, Capt. Adams 

 returned home disgusted with the corruption in politics, 

 and though time and again importuned by his constitu- 

 ency, has persistently declined allowing his name to go 

 before the public. 



In August, 1888, he was elected Vice-President of the 

 State Union, and in 1889 was elected its President. He 

 has filled many other important positions in the Order. 

 He is a man of sincere, honest convictions, courteous, 

 modest and educated, and, above all, zealously devoted to 

 the great progressive movement of the Farmers' Alliance. 



L. P. FEATHERSTON. 



Louis Porter Featherston, President of the State 

 Wheel of Arkansas, was born at Oxford, Mississippi, on 

 July 28, 1851. He desired to adopt the law as his profes- 

 sion, and with that end in view spent some time in its 

 study, but, his eyes failing, he, at the age of 20 years 

 engaged in farming, which has since been his vocation. 

 In politics Mr. Featherston has always been a Democrat. 

 He was elected to the lower house of the Arkansas Legis- 

 lature in 1887, on the Democratic ticket, and during the 

 time he served in the General Assembly of the State he 

 was conspicuous in his efforts in behalf of the people as 

 against the oppressive corporations which were grinding 

 them down. He drafted and introduced the measure 

 known as the ' ' Featherston American Cotton Seed Oil 

 Bill," and succeeded in effecting its passage in the 

 House, but it was killed in the Senate. He assisted 



