moreover, from the political campaign of 1890, and
an investigating committee expressed its disap-
proval of the actions of the officers in connection
with a senatorial contest in Georgia. The decline
of the Southern Alliance after 1890 was even more
rapid than that of the Grange had been. The
failure of many of the coöperative ventures con-
tributed to this decline; but complications and dis-
sensions resulting from the establishment of a new
political party which took over the Alliance plat-
form, were principally responsible. The North-
western Alliance continued for a few years, prac-
tically as an adjunct to the new party but it, too,
lost rapidly in membership and influence. With
the year 1890 interest shifts from social to political
organization, from Alliances to Populism.

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