Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-11-02
"THE EIDETTES.n

TIE GAZETTE this morning presents
its readers with 3 history OF the origin
and organization OF the national order Of
Videttes IL TaxEs. Ever since the eI-
posu:e OF the order at Comsrche THE
GAzETTE,has had trusiy delivers after news
at work, seeking to ascertain If any mem =
bers of che order lived In Tsrrsut county.
The result Is placed before the readers CT
the paper this morning, end they
will NO doubt be as much
surprised zs WAS TIE GAzEITE
to know thst this city WAS really the
birthplace Of the a;ste organization, as Is
has been the State headquarters CT this
Order CT Political Bosses.
Perhaps in the history OF secret socie-
tics and political juntss OF tie world
there never was more comprehensive,
compacI snd rigid system Of political
management inaugurstsd than that
whoge ritual was written by the
former county echooimaster Of
Jack county, Texss-for this order OF
Videttes hsd It's birth 10 JACK county,
and the schooImssier who WAS called On
TO write It's ritual has became its national
organizer, snd General" Pixies work
IVES seen in the last state campaign Of
Arkansas and leaves lie impress on 81!
the states OF the northwest.
TtiS miiitary-pollt!cal order if polit-
icsl anarchy. rs members. must for
swear allegiance 10 sny and all eIiste Ii
political psrties; it seeks to destroy 81
the old parties snd to erect upon Their
ruins so-called Non-Psrtiss2 orgsn;zs-
tion dominated and controlled by the
Biyousc, Which, In turn, is but the in
s:rument Of 81 Inner Circle wherein cit
and manipulate the head bosses CT party
which rails ST hossisn to conceal It's ON
slavish obedience to bosses whose power
has never besn equiled By that OF sny
political poten'a.e on earth.
The National Oder OF Vidett g has
lac its hand on the organization Of TIE
Farmers Alliance and of the Knights cf
Labor, and OF thu Union Labor party,
which is but the political ut,erauce Of the
great agricultural snd labor orgspizs-
ticns. "Vide:tes" stand 8. the
head OF the Alliance sud
knights, fsnd "Videttes" dominate
the councils CT these Industrial orders
With merciless grip upon the directory
OF these orders, the Videttes bend them
TO political purposes despite their utmost
endesvors; the Alliance discIaims pkrti-
san purpose, yet its president is noni-
mated for governor by psrtissns;
the unsuspec:ing membership OF
the Alliance does not know, does not
dream, that power behind the throne lie
hurrYing the noble order to dissolution
and ruin; aud SO with the Knights of LIZ
bor-the Bosses are in the Inner circle
and in the Blvouac, snd control the Or
ders whose highest c8iIlals are "Vi-
dettes."
And Whist il political victory could
come by such means to these Videttes?
What would 1t portsnd to nation, stste or
county? Who can tell? The Bosses are
Non-Partissn.th they acknowledge no oblig.,
ton to any party, and no party is respon-
sible 20 the country for them. They are
responsible only to themselves, to &
secret political junts organized on
s military basis! Let each
man for himself ask and
answer what would political SUCCESS and
governing power in this secret tribuna!
portend to the people. Lst members CT
the Farmers Alliance. and let the Knights
of Labor ssk themselves what will be the
ultimate sad inevitable effect upon theil
orders il "Vitettes" are to control their
action to the purposes OF Videttes.
It has been denied that the National
Order OF Vidss!es has an existence in
Tar1snt county. THE GAZETTE stands
prepared to prove before any legal til
bunal that the order does exs. IL Texas
and in Tarrant county. And thst this
secres military political junta dominates
the action CT the Non Partisan end Union
Labor parties in Texas, let every man see
for himself In the fact that "Videttes"
Inonopolizs the nominations and chief
plsces IN the convertinne