Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-29
BRACES REJOINDER TO TAYIOF
"Hs Quotes from the Texas cops,itstio,
Which was Repealed and Amsnded by
the State Alliance in 1852"
Bonham Daily Favorite.


To the Alliance Membership and the Public
in General:
Having in a former letter showed, and
that very conclusively too, that Brother F.
X. Taylor, president of the Fannin county
Alliance, had no constitutional authority
by which to thrust me from that lodge.
will again use the press in replying to
Brother Taylor's attempt to answer my
letter. and before / enter into a
full reply l wish to state that l
have no personal warfare to wage against
President Taylor l only entered into this
controversy when was forced to do so in
self defence. Not wishing to submit to
measures that were being forced upon me
that conceive to be political and antagon-
istic to Alliance principles, as well as in
direct opposition to the doctrines
of my political faith, when l was assured
of the fact that nothing in the Alliance
would interfere with my political or reli-
gious views, and / care not what others may
say, when ] consclentiously believe that any
demand of the orderis contrary to my polit-
ical or religious views, majority has no
| right by coercion or otherwise to compel
me to submit, for this would be a surren-
/ der of that assurance. The sub-treasury
scheme is in exact keeping with President
Taylor's political record for the last
twenty-five years, and L cannot
blame him nor do not for in
dorsing the same, but / do blame him for
trying to force me to surrender my politi-
cal faith and swallow that heresy, and be-
cause would not yield and follow the lead
the order.
I will now pay my respects to Brother
Taylor again.
President Taylor begs the question and
pleads the ''baby act'' from start to finish ;
quotes clauses of the constitution that he
knows have been repealed by amend
ments and are not now in
constitution which was repealed and
amended by the turner's State Alliance in
1889 l quoted the national constitution of
the Farmers Alliance and Industrial
Union of America adopted by the
meeting at Meridian, Miss, December S,
1888, and was adopted by the Farmers
State Alliance of Texas in 1889, and the
been changed from that day to this.
As to his eligibility to membership he
takes the opportunity to boast of his
ownership of ''1200 acres of black land, 400
to 600 acres in cultivation and that he
owns .'about forty-fve head of horses and
mules.'' but fails to quote the constitution
row in force, which says that his owner
county bank, and being one of it's
directors, positively makes him in
eligible to membership in the order. Pres
ident TAYLOR not only knows that this is the
fact, but he has privately so expressed
himself to one or more Alliance members
that he has remained in the order and
filled the position of county president in
direct conflict with the plain letter and
spirit of the constitution. As TO rules and
20, President Taylor knows that they were
passed by partisan majority and that the
authors and abettorS of those trdveStieS on
the Alliance law and usages had them passed
for no other purpose but to punish and cast
slurs upon the purest men in the Farm
ers' Alliance, for daring to
denounce the leaders and schemers
at Austin for attempting to steer the order
into the pockets and control of corporate
power. President Taylor ought to know, if
he does not. that the brethren who signed
that Austin manifesto and the
managers of the publication of
the Farmers World made their
appearance at the last meeting of the state
Alliance at Dallas and demanded an imme-
date trial on the charges made against
them. That those brethren not only did
this, but they came prepared to prove
every charge they had made, and SO an
nounced it publicly and in the press.
President Taylor was a delegate to that
state meeting and he knows that the signers
of that Austin manifesto and the managers
of the publication of the Farmers World
failed to get trial before the state judi
ciary committee and their vindication or
conviction was put off for twelve
months. As to his charge that 1
disclosed part of tie ''secret
workings of the county Alliance at the last
July meeting and had them published in
the press Of the state" President Taylor