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Alliance. He was also elected President of the Exchange, 

 but resigned. Mr. Fields is a man of unusual ability and 

 energy. The consummation of the consolidation of the 

 Wheel and Alliance in his State, under his administration, 

 together with the increased interest in the order, reflects 

 great credit upon his management. With such men at 

 the head of the organization the Texas Alliance will do 

 credit to the fact that the Lone Star State is the home of 

 the Alliance movement. 



B. T. STACKHOUSE. 



E. T. Stackhouse, President of the South Carolina 

 State Alliance, was born on a farm near where he 

 now lives in Marion county. He received only a com- 

 mon school education. He taught school between the 

 ages of 19 and 23 years. He then settled down to 

 farming and has since devoted his whole business life 

 to his chosen occupation. He has been three times 

 elected to represent his county in the State Legisla- 

 ture. At the organization of the State Alliance he 

 was elected President, and was re-elected at its first 

 annual meeting in 1889. A representative of the Atlanta 

 Journal, who visited the home of Col. Stackhouse, says: 

 "During a day spent at the home of Col. E. T. Stack- 

 house, the President of the South Carolina Fanners' 

 Alliance, I ate absolutely nothing that was not raised on 

 his farm. (In order to make this statement I refrained 

 from drinking coffee) but I fared, nevertheless, as 

 sumptuously as a king. Col. Stackhouse 's surroundings 

 show him to be a model of independence. He is 65 years 

 old; was born and raised on a farm in Marion county, 

 near where he now lives, has devoted his whole business 

 life to farming and farm improvement; is a leader in the 

 intensive system; belongs to all the organizations in his 



