PORTRAITS AND BIOGRAPHIES. 



329 



President Coe, aided by his efficient Secretary, Mr. Breece, 

 has placed the organization on a solid basis. The political 

 sentiments of President Coe are best expressed in his own 

 words, contained in a letter from him of recent date. He 

 says: "My politics are, vote for the men who are willing 

 to pledge their sacred honor and their all to labor for the 

 emancipation of the toiling millions." 



H. L. LOUCKS. 



H. L. Loucks, President of the National Alliance 

 (Northwestern) and also President of South Dakota State 



Alliance, was born in 

 Russell, Ontario, 

 Canada, in 1846. He 

 lived on the farm most 

 of the time until he was 

 19 years of age, then 

 spent two years in the 

 iron regions of Michi- 

 gan. He then returned 

 to Canada, where he 

 remained twelve years. 

 He then moved to Mis- 

 souri in 1879, where he 

 engaged in contracting 

 and steamboating until 

 the spring of 1884, 

 when he moved to his farm in Dakota where he has since 

 lived. Having no political ambition, Mr. Loucks has 

 never been a candidate for any office, and hence has no 

 political record. His opportunities for education were 

 limited to the country school. In 1877 he was elected G. 

 W. C. T. of the I. O. G. T. of Quebec, and re-elected in 

 1878, resigning when he came West. He was elected 



H. L. Loucks. 



