a small amount of white liberals who were members of the Republican Party were not happy with the party but didn't want to vote for the Democrats and saw the Independents as a solution. The independents ended up having a meeting on June 18 in Live Oak. A slate of candidates would be selected along with a platform. In the platform it supported making education better, creating a railroad commission, free ballot and local option laws. It denounced the Bourbon Democrats (whom they thought were favoring the railroads) along with the Disston Land Sale. After the 1884 elections, the movement faded away but the grievances of many farmers still stayed the same. Another agricultural group that existed prior to the Farmer's Alliance would be a group of localized farmer's unions in northern Florida counties that started forming in March 1887. It would eventually end up becoming a state union during a meeting held in Gainesville on October 11. During the convention there would be 1,700 members of 35 clubs would end up coming. Farmers Alliance W. C. Macure who had founded the National Farmer's Alliance would send organizers for the Alliance to several states which included Florida in the spring of 1887. The two organizers who were sent would end up arriving in June with the two settling down in Marianna and Citrus County where they would do organizing work. The Florida's Farmer's Alliance would end up being formed in Marianna on October 4 by 65 sub-Alliances which in total had a membership of 2,000. Oswald Wilson who was one of the two organizers would end up becoming its president. The Alliance would grow rapidly reaching 91 chapters in November and it would end up absorbing the farmer's union in January 1888 with 1,700 members. By 1890 it would have sub-alliances in all counties with the exceptions of: Franklin, Lee, Dade and Monroe counties. Despite attempts to stay apolitical, the alliance would end up becoming more political as time went on. Content The "Demands" adopted by the Ocala convention called for the abolition of national banks; the establishment of sub-treasuries or depositories in every state, which would make low interest direct loans to farmers and property owners; the increase of money in circulation to not less than $50 per capita; the abolishment of futures of all agricultural and mechanical productions; the introduction of free silver; the prohibition of alien ownership