Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-28
THE ALLIANCE.
A Compromise Resolution on the
Sub-Treasury Matter.
The Members Left Free to Take Any
Position They Choose in the Dis
cuSsiOn Of the Bill.
Il VIII Be an Issue in the Next Campaign-A
Resolution Indorsing The Gazette.
Officers Installed.

Special TO the Gazette.
DALLAS, TEX. Aug. 20.-If one were
permitted to be present and report the
secret proceedings of the state Farmers,
Alliance, now in session In this city, he
would doubtless be able TO give to the
reading public much that it would regard
as Of more than passing interest. The
Alliance, however, prefers to transact its
business in secret, and TO make known
only so much of its proceedings as it is
deemed best to have published This Is
mainly of formal and routine charac-
ter, and is consequently OF less interest
than the earnest and
ANIMATED QUESTIONS
that are considered of vital interest by
every Alliance man in the state. The
proceedings of to-day, SO far as they
haye been given to the public, are as
follows:
Immediately after assem- bling this
forenoon the executive committee sub
united its report. Concerning its char
acter and contents the members of the
committee decline to talk.
The chairman, b. J. Keudrick,
lodged every question calculated to
draw out information concerning what
was In the report, but said it
WAS WELL RECEIVED.
The committee was unanimously
thanked for the manner in which they
had discharged their duties. He admit
ted, however, that they were not able to
report quite as much money as was ex-
pected, but hoped their successors would
be able to do better in this regard.
After the reception and adoption of the
executive committee report the cleo
ton OF officers took place and resulted as
follows:
President-Evan Jones.
Vice-President-T. j. Anderson.
Secretary and Treasurer-S. .. Dawes.
Lecturer. NJ. Perdue.
Executive committee-R. A. High, S.
c. CRANBERRY and J. T. Crawford.
The secretary and treasurer had no
opponents, and were re- elected by accla-
NATION.
The old executive committee, consist
ing of b. ] . Kendrick, chairman; d. F.
Rogers, secretary and ID. NJ. Cunning
ham, having served the constitutional
limit, we're not candidates for re-elec-
ton.
The names of the following persons
were presented to the convention for
places on this committee, the ballot re-
sulting
R. A. High, 10.
Milton Park, IL.
s. C. Cranberry, &c.
J. p. Crawford, 81.
W. G. Moore, So.
G. l.. Clark, 40.
John w. Homer, 8.
The tai vote cast was 345. The three
candidates receiving the highest votes
were declared elected. Those were High,
Cranberry and Crawford. The commit
tee was elected for one year.
ANTI-SUB-TREAsURY CAUCUS.
During the noon hour an anti-sub-
treasury bill caucus, presided over by
d. NJ. Cunningham, was held. There
were perhaps fifty or sixty persons pres
emit. The sub-treasury bill was made the
topic for discussion, but the proceedings
were secret. The sub-treasury matter,
however, divides the convention. The
ticket elected to-day indicates that the
advocates of the measure are on top.
1t is no index, however, to the action of
the convention, which may conclude to
let the matter alone.
A meeting OF the stockholders of the
Southern Mercury was also held and the
business affairs of that paper submitted
TO it.
Special to the Gazette.
DALLAS, TEX, Aug. 22.-The sub
treasury matter was finally disposed of
in the Alliance convention by the adop-
ton of the following compromise resolu-
ton offered by Ben Terrell and Tom
Smith, the tenor of which was indicated
in last nights dispatches:
Resolved, by the Farmers Alliance of
Texas, that the bill now, pending before
congress, and known as the sub-treasury
bill, be referred to the sub-Allianoes to
be discussed as q measure for carrying
into effect the demands made at st.
Louis by the National Farmers Alliance
and Industrial Union that the govern
ment should issue money direct to the
people without the intervention of ma
tioual banks. Further
Resolved, that 1t is the sense of this
body that all members of the Farmers
Alliances are free to take any position
they may prefer on the discussion of
said BILL
The passage of this resolution was
practically victory for
DETERMINED MINORITY,
shrewd in resources and more than equal
in parliamentary tactics to the majority.
The vote Iof the convention on the origi-
nal resolution stood seventy three to
twenty three. Sixteen counties were,
however, excused from voting.
The following Is the original resolution
over which the long wrangle was made,
and which was adopted yesterday morn
ing by the above vote:
Whereas, the finances Of our govern
ment are so adjusted that money cannot
be obtained by the agricultural and Ia
boring people upon which to transact
their business without paying such enor-
nous rates that is sure to bankrupt the
farmers and laboring people of America
and thereby destroy the republic; and
Whereas, relief from the impending
ruin must be speedily had; and
Whereas the Farmers Alliance and
Industrial Union at its December meet
ing, 1889. held at st. Louis, Mo-, did
demand:
l. The unlimited coinage of silver.
2. The passage of what is known as the
principle and purposes of the treasury
system.
Therefore. be it resolved by the Farm