Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-07-06
THE GAZETTE. FORT WORTH, TEXAS TUESDAY, JULY 8

alliances was derived from this extract
from the recent warning Of Mr.. Dunlap,
president Of the state alliances
The alliance was organized and chartered by
the state OF Texas as a non political organiza-
ton, and has, by resolutions adopted at several
alliances, declared that we are non-politlcal
and as such will take no part OF lot, an organ.
isutioR, in nominating candidates for o1ce."
/ And, in my opiniOn, n the alliance does be
come political organization, It iciK Be a sgW
cicrt cause for the arrest Of the charter, etc.
THE GAZETTE got the idea Of danger to
alliance charters solely from what the
president of the state alliance, himself,
said. win the Monitor deny that MIR.
Dunlap knows what he is talking about2
The GAZ TTE has never insisted that
farmers should eschew politics and con-
fine their attention to crops. On the con-
trary, THE GAZETTE has always insisted
that, as the farmers comprised the great
majority OF the Democratic party in
Texas, the farmers could mold the
action of the party as they wiled simply
by attending the primaries and giving ut
terance to their wishes by voice and vote.
THE GAZETTE has insisted that al Demo-
Gratis should attend the primary conven-
tons, because it was duty incumbent
on them to do so. No man who has read
TIE GAZETTE for himself, and only those
who have accepted without investigation
the falsehoods of others, would repeat the
statements attributed to THE GAZETTE
by the Monitor.
TIIR GAZETTE has always urged all Dem
ocrats to go to the primaries, but it has
been insisted that they should do so as
Democrats and not as an alliance or as
Masons or as Catholics or as Protestants.
The reason for this distinction should be
obvious to every sensible man and will be
to every honest man. All benevolent and
religious and social orders are composed
of men Of oti political parties, and if the
members OF such orders should go
into Democratic convention to do
the will and behest of that secret order,
it would in effect be using membership in
the Democratic party to foist upon it the
will and behest in part of men belonging
to parties opposed TO the Democracy. Is
there any justice in forcing nominees
upon the Democratic party that have been
selected by Republicans, Greenbackers
and Independents?
THE GAZETTE has urged upon Dem
ocratic farmers the duty to attend the
primaries, out has protested against the
alliance or any other secret order going
into the primaries as such. The farmers
of Texas can control the politics and the
laws of the state because they constitute
the majority OF the Democratic party
And IN protesting against GIiGace control
of the party, THE GAZETTE was actuated
not only by desire for justice to the De-
mocracy but by sincere desire to save
the alliance itself from the deleterious iu-
luence of politics Every officer of the
state alliance has uttered the same warn
Ing, and Mr.. Lang the great granger of
\ Texas, has recently sent this warning
from Europe "There is nothing would
more regret than 60 see the farmers of
my state arrayed into political class or
ganization." "Yuur Farmers,
alliance should watch with iealousness
every effort to drift In that direction"
Perhaps the men who seek Office through
peryerting the true mission Of the alliance
and misleading Democrats and misrepre-
senting THE GAZETTE are truer to the
alliance and to farmers thar Consul Lang
and Andy Dunlap; but THE GAZETTE
does not believe IT,