Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-20
JAMES W. SWAYNE.
The Farmers Alliance Interr0gates the
Nominee for Representative.
Ar. swayns Defines His Position on Issues OF
Interest to the AllIance-FOr Con-
servative Reforms.

THE GAZETTE having learned that @
committee from the Farmers Alliance
| had waited upon James w. Swayne, the
Democratic nominee for representative +,
reporter saw Mr.. Swayne who said:
"Yes, the demands were given me
last week and answered the same ac-
cordlng to promise, but by mis-
take the committee has not as yet re-
ceived them. although left them at the
natatofium at o'clock the 18th inst.
and then went to the country to fill my
appointments. 1 have spoken on the
demands and answers at White Settle
ment and Crowley. I have no objec-
ton to your use OF the answers and would
give you the questions also if had them,
but each answer will show what the
question was.
MIR. Swayne then handed the reporter
the following copy of his letter, adding
"this will be the quickest way for them
TO see it. -
Fort WORTH. TEX. Oct. Is, 1890.
To Messrs. j. S. Daily, ]. A. Goodnight and 8.
j. Haynes, committee:
The demands presented to me by yourselves
have been Carefully read. As you require an
immediate answer, I shall IN he brief time al
lotted me give you my views upon them in
their order. During my canvass Of the county
the representative to the legislature should be
III. representative of the people OF his county,
that he was their delegate. sent to work for
them, as we'll as for the best interests OF the
state, and as such have endeavored to ascer-
tain the wishes of the people OF this county,
therefore am glad that your organization, as
citizens of my county, have given me oppor-
tunity to express myself upon fne questions you
advocate.
operated in other states. While in the country
precincts it will make no difference. still in the
city wards it will do away with much wraneing
at the polls, and in many places cause q fairer
election to be held, and allow the voter to cast
his ballot intelligently, without interference
and according to his own convictions.
2. am in favor of the uniform system OF
school books and the publication of the same
by the state, or some publishing house in the
state, and the selling OF them to the children at
actual cost, and have advocated this in my
speeches over the county, because it will be a
benefit to education the state will lose nothing
education be encouraged and nobody injured.
3. The ranger force will soon be thing of the
past, yet doubt the advisability of doing away
with rangers upon our frontiers at the
'.too far away and too far between TO protect
the lives and property OF the pioneers; yet in
few years, when the country Is sufficiently set
T. It matters not hon much you or should be
against the idea OF aliens owning land in this
state. We are all opposed, say. to foreign cor
best for aliens q so; yet It Nigh; no, be exp
dent at the present for the legislature to raise
the question, as it may have a tendency to keep
money away from the state at the very time we
can least afford It, especially as we are now
after low rate Of interest.
S. have advocated that the legal rate of in
terest should be 6 per cent. and by contract not
to exceed per cent. Instead Of driving money
away from Texas il will show to the financial
world that our securities are better than in the
past People in the East want to know more
that the rincipal is secure than that the inter-
est is high.
G. do not think the state has the right under
the constitution to say what class of men, or
what men, should not be employed by private
parties, vet the state need not allow them to be
clothed with the same authority as the officers
of the law. Our state has never been Afflicted
with any trouble from foreign detectives TO INV
knowiedre, and under the present laws thew
could not be an injury to the people or the state
Texas has efficient officers, and we DO not need
Pinkerton's assistance.
Z. am heartily in favor Of the railway COM
mission, and have al over the county given nv
reasons for the same. I believe that a
law should be passed, both lust to
the people and to the railways and
my opinion Is that the commi sion viii be q
benefit to the people, to the state and TO the
railways.
5. I should favor the regulation of prices for
telephone, telegraph and express service.
3. Ihsve not given the arbitration matter the