Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-09-01
THE LNEY1TABLE RESULT.

LoNGtvEw, TRx. Aug. 80.
At meeting OF the Gregg County Farmers
alliance at Pine Tree Saturday a split oc.
CURED, which shows a great lack Of harmony
In that body. 1t seems that young school
teacher named Wren had obtained an agree
ment from the alliance that he would be sun.
ported by them nj primaries for county Judge,
but Mt Saturdays meeting Il was found that a
large number of the members would not act
with the body II politics were allowed in Its
deliberations. Members from the south aide o
the river withdrew In a body, as also did
nearly half from this side leaving but eighteen,
who, with few delegates from the knights of
Labor, Endorsed the following ticke It j..
smith, Judge; s. May, clerk; j. III Rucker,
sheriff; l.. II. Barnes, assessor; j. II. McGfn,
troasureri II IL. RaglSnd, attorney.
The above appeared in THE GAZETTE
yesterday and is an early INDIGESTION Of
the danger to the alliance from permit.
ting politics to enter the council cham.
bers OF the order. THE GAZETTE has
time and again called attention to the
peril to the alliance from admitting
partisan politics into it's delibera-
tions; not because this peril was
peculiar to the alliance, but
because politics ahsorbs the purpose and
action Of any organization into which 1t
enters and Of whose mission IL becomes a
part. The only legitimate place for poll
tics is In a political party, and no secular
or religious order can long withstand the
absorbing, disruptiug, influence Of politi.
cal agitation. just as the Introduction
OF religious discussion into secular Or
CARNATIONS would rend asuDder such
worldly organisms, so win the admission
OF politics prove the entering wedge to
disruption and death Of any other than
political organizations. Partisan poll.
tics has no place outside of political par.
ties, and that secular or religious order
which opens Its doors to the politician
must either become, itself, a political
PARTY or die--perhaps both.
THE GAZETTE has seen In the ma
terial purposes OF the alliance great
practical benefit to the farmers;
and because all prosperity is based
on the prosperity of agriculture,
this paper has endeavored TO do all in its
power to promote the growth and the
perpetustion of the alliance as non-po.
litical organization, and we have not hest.
tated to warn the order OF the inevitable
result OF Its subordination TO political
purposes.
In doing this THE GAZETTE was in
spired by faith in the declaration OF the
alliance that 1t was non-polltlcal, and the
evidences are daily accommodating that
the warning Of THE GAZETTE
was well-timed, for all over
Texas the work of disintegratlon is
plainly visible, and those members of the
order who are sincere in their professions
Of non-politicslism are hracing them
selves for a grand effort TO shake of the
communicating influence OF the politician.
There is but one way TO free the ALI
ance OF politics and perpetuata II as a
non-political organization, ana that is to
bounce every man who talks partisan
politics inside Its assembly rooms. II
the alliance, however, prefers to admit
partisan politics, 1t will soon discover,
II it has already done 30, that It must be.
come exclusively political and surrender
the original purpose OF the order. To pro.
iess non-pArtisanship and nominate candi
dates for office is simply to disrupt the
order.
No good citizen can oppose the purpose.
for which the alliance was Instituted, and
as long as-It holds to that purpose ii
should receive the aid aud encouragement
OF all. When the alliance departs from
this purpose and becomes a political party
(Which It must do II Il admits politics al
alN the order must then take its chances
for public favor with other. political par
ties, and expect the support Of men only
as II can impress IT'S principles upon the
public Judgment and conscience.
Il is for the alliance to say whether it
VIII live as a benevolent or political or
der, for It caupot survive as both. i,