Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-06-11
The Two Associations Not In Harmony
and the Changers Readyto Oppose
Alliance Nominees.
Equal Parts Of Swain and Ross Lack
0i Enthusiasm for Ross IN a Couaiy
Supposed to be for Him,
Aills Accused OF L0oK OF backbone The
Immortal Thirteen Vote parrot, who
May Get on Top Yet
Prom our Trayellng Correspondent

Nioi e"'NAdNh vi tno county, the people
are determined TO make complete Job Of
It by provisions for a shower OF political
blessings. Tho oulg difficulty is that they
may get hold OF the wrong end OF the
moon, and SO incline It as to bring about
a political drought 81 at least two years
duration. Too much agitation Is as
greatly 70 be feared as too little interest
in political affairs, One Is the parent OF !
governmental tyranny, the other tho God. |
father OF governmental sycophancy. nj
the country ever goes TO the "demnltlon
bow-wowsp 10 Is quite us likely that II
win be caused by the Ggitator as by the
dummy Very few people slept on their
oars during the events preceding oar
most
SERIOUS FAMILY ROW.
There is no mistaking the fact tina,
political tempest, whose dimensions Rs
Yet no one can measure, Is brewing here.
Whether tho clouds will blow over leay.
ing the Democratic party unscathed, or
whether the ever-shifting winds OF popn.
lar passion will drift out OF the party the
dissatisfied elements, depends about as
much on old Jupiter piuyius as any other
cause. II tho weather and crops continue
favorable, predict that Bell county viii
wheel into the Democratic line with It's
usual ardori II otherwise the party will
have n good-sized
TGnT OK IT'S HANDS.
There IS great deal OF truth in the
assertion that the many voiced protests
which are now being uttered ought really
70 be directed TO providence Instead Of
the legislatures.
A sh az
against conditions, not against social
regulations, The man who wants "a dis
satisfied, he who wsnts not rs serene Il
il pretty clear that this state OF things
will continue TO exist as long as time.
The man who promises TO remedy all the
OWLS TO which flesh IL heir by legislation
Is either a knavo or g crank. But this Is
4 digression The purpose ~ not by any
means to deprecate political activity on
the pnrt Of the masses. That Is always 10
be counted, but the fires should give
forth regular heat, not an intermittent
/ blaze.
! As an Illustration Of the absurd results
OF an oYerheGted political furnace, let me
! repeat conversation with gentleman
/ who, being candidate, was pretty well
versod on popular sentiments. ! asked
/ him what the farmers were going To do
about legislative candidate. He said
| they would probably adopt platform,
and whoever got ON IL would receive
| their support | questioned him as TO
| the probable planks in this platform. He
/ named three as certain 10 be there /,
the ownership of the railroads by the
governments; 2, The prohibition Ia the
future OF land corporationsi ., the dis
solution Of all land corporations now IN
| existence, withn certaio time called
] the attention uf the gentleman TO the fact
that the first was a matter for federal leg
/ islation; tho second had already been
! placgd upon the statute books by the
Nineteenth legislature, and the third was
advocated Ia the Eighteenth legislature
by Judge Terrell, who In taking thatposi-
ton represented perhaps the rank and
file OF the Democratic party.
Yet there are people here, who believe
that the only hope Of reform Is In the dis.
ruptlon OF the Democratic party,
~.
An interesting feature Of iho political
agitation among the agricultural classes
rs the rivalry, jealousy would perhaps be
a better word, developing here between
the Farmers alliance and the grange.
While the former Is much the stronger IN
membership, the latter controls the oldest
and wealthiest type Of farmers us mem.
bcrshlp is not incopslderaOle, numbering
something over 600 Ia the county. This
belleve,was the birthplace Of Tho grange
and while its ranks have been greatly
thinned here, as elsewhere, n few Of the
faithful still hold together, fondly hoping
that one day the order will spring forth,
I1laaffrs. ItEa fnfn a ron HnA "a
vigorous existence. bad the
pleasure OF meeting Capt. J. T Fuller,
formerly editor Of the Texas Farmer, and
state lecturer VI the grange for many
Years. His experience ia agricultural or
ganilatiOn led me 20 ask hun for an opin-
ion as 10 the alliance, He replied that Il
seemed 70 be drifting into politics. and
that this tendency unless checked, would
certainly result 10 rs dismemberment 10
reply " questions as % the condition 81
the grange, Capt. Fuller said II had been
declining for several years. In 1884 The
membership was about % 900 IN the state
in 1855 II fell of 5000, aud he thought the
decrease would be about the same during
the present year. This result he attrib-
uted largely o the lack Of success attend.
/, Ing, universally, the cooperative enter
pfises. lie knew Of no plans on foot 20
rrluyentte the order The pufpOaea 81
the grange end the alliance, he said, were
very elmilari The grange eschewed poll.
tics, and devoted itself m .inly 70
QlEsTfOSs or SOCIAL EcOaoMY.
Il Is believed by many that II the ALI
ance puts out county ticket II will be
oniAgonlzcd BY the grange. just what
the alliance intends doing has not yet
developed, but many OF its members are
urging political action.
-.
"Say,do you know that fellow Parrot, =
} asred 40 old farmer Of Mr.. Robinson, d
/ the journal, this morning
} Parrot is president Of the recently i'm
moriailEed Fisher ailiancc, ard supposed
: 10 be The author Of the crushing reeoln
iions deyptipg 70 aamnEt'on the For