Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-10-10
THE ALLIANCE SPLIT.
Secretary Moore Gives Away the True
Inwardness OF the Dallas
Meeting.
Seeded Because They Couldn't Hun IL.
WIN Have the Charter Amended.
1hs Order ElonrishiDg.

Yesterday Mr.. II. G. Moore, secretar,
OF tie state alliance, who has his office IL
this city, was seen by q GAZETTE reporter
and asked II he had noticed dispatch
from Austin relative to the granting Of 0
charter to the Farmers Grand State al.
lance" wifi headquarters at Dallas, and
what was the meaning OF such action.
Said Mr.. Moore; at seems that few
men have been working secretly and on
their own motion TO geta charter, and sup
pose they have dore so None OF the mem
bers of the state executive committee who
have been In session here for several
days, nor President Dunlap nor Treasurer
Landers, who are also here, knew any
thing of their purposes IN this respect
until they read the item in TIKI GAZETTE.
'Is there anything wrong about the
present charter, the one under which the
order has all along been ope Eating and by
virtue OF which the numerous sub-alliances
have been organizing2"
"Nothing radically wrong that know
of" said Mr.. Moore, "thougll we have
known that 1t WAS defective for some time,
but that will soon be remedied- A COM
mittee has been appointed for that special
business"
'Is it true that the original charte err
only applied to Parker county,"
Eyes, and that is where the defect lay,
but an amendment will be obtained from
the secretary of state or a new charter
that will, as said, make everything
right"
"Was the organization of the sub-al-
liances under this charter legal?n
"Perfectly SO; but In order to allay
all hostile criticism the charter will be
changed"
"Whv then this other mover"
"Well, there were one or two men in the
alliance that wanted to run IL to suit
themselves, and because they failed in
this they are trying to start up a schism
in the order. They will see, however,
that it won't work"
Chow about the meeting in Dallas the
other day by so-called non. political
branch of the alllance?"
That is the same crowd that got out
their charter 1t is only dodge-a thin,
transparent dodge. They know very well
that the order is non-polltical, yet they
plausibly assign as a reason for seeding
that they want to eliminate ell political
features. However, they are quite well
come to go. There were only some eight
or ten of them at the meeting, and 1t is
little harm they can do. The alliance as
constituted now will stand, and all other
self styled alliances are spurious. Their
obtaining charter Will not cause them to
hurt the alliance, nor will they, though
borrowing our name, take things by
storm. You see that they have put In
Mr.. j.. A. Landers as treasurer. That
was very shrewd Idea, but unfortunate
ly for them Mr.. Landers don't recognize
their authority and remains al his proper
post as treasurer Of the Farmers State
alliance"
"Then there is but one alliance2"
SONY one that we know anything about
or recognize, which Is composed Of nearly
5000 sub-alliances in the state of Texas
alone. The order is rapidly spreading
into Louisiana, Arkansas Alabama and
the other Southern states. This attempt
to throttle it in Its own home is very
ungrateful piece of work, but 1t will not
pan out as the schemers think"
The position taken by Mr. Moore is in
dorsed by the members OF the executive
committee, who seem to regard the action
OF the Dallas faction az a matter OF small
imnOrtanca