Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-16
evils that the Alliance was created to put


| buying up the state and national officia
| organs of our order, thereby centralizins
| the power of this organization and that o.
| the millions of farmers in il for the purpose
| of the personal ACKNOWLEDGEMENT and politica
ambition and corrupt ends of these men.
9. By changing our order from its non
| partisan character into partisan body, BY
! applying partisan political tests TO member
| ship and office-holding in our order, and by
| declaring in statute passed at Ocala, De-
| cember, 1890. and by proclamation of ouI
| national president, that when the majority
/ of the national Alliance promulgated any
| political principle. demand and heresy,
! that every Alliance man must subscribe to
and conform to such political principle.
| Therefore, be it resolved, that we de.
nounce the sub-treasury and land-loan
| schemes and governmental ownership of
railroads as violations of the first princi-
pies of good government, as paternal in
their character, as centraliZing in their
| tendencies, and if enacted into law would
create such horde of national officeholders
as would fasten the clutches of the party in
power upon the Threats of the people so
strongly that the voices of honest patriotic
citizens would no longer be heard in the
control of governmental affairs.
We further denounce these measures as
being violation of the constitution of our
beloved order.
udJ we ueIOuNCe u w. AlcCuUe ana
his corrupt methods, together with the acts
of his tools and henchmen, as being dis
grace to the order and a stencil in the nos
trllS OF all honest men who know of their
corruption and villainy, and thus point out
to the order by continuing such men as
this in power they are eUabled by betray-
ing US and our interests to most effectually
chain US to the Juggernaut cars of
monopoly
We further demand that those men who
are not farmers be removed from the ma
tional and state offices of our order and that
none but those who have their interest in
farming be allowed to fill such places, to the
end that the legislatures OF our government
may know that when the Alliance speaks it
is the voice of the farmers and laborers of
our land, instead of the wish of some paid
tool of monopoly and corruption We now
appeal to all honest members of the Ali
ance through the United States in behalf
of the poor and oppressed of our land
whom these base mCl have betrayed
IN the name of our wives and children
who must be relieved, if at all, by
the united action of the farmers of
this country, in the name of good govern
ment. to unite with US in putting down this
common enemy and disgrace of our order.
To this end We most earnestly recommend
that the brother Alliance men of the United
States would meet in national convention at
st. Louis on the third Tuesday of Septem-
Der, 1891.
Lr. w. B. Morrow, Robertson county: r.
c. Bragg, Fannin county; T. NJ. Smith, Ma
varro county; c. c. Bell, Denton county;
David Bennett, Ellis county; Il. \. Weisiger,
Victoria county; w. ID. Burney, AtaScoSa
county; ID. McCunningham, Leon county;
VIII l. Sargent, Stonewan county; j. G.
Easterling, t'reestore county; A. +. Ian
den, Hopkins county; .. S. Hall. Hubbard,
Mo. w. S. McAlester, Canton, Miss.
OTHER RESOLUTIONS.
The following resolutions were then
offered and unanimously adopted:
A motion was passed that the convention
elect national committee on finance, trans
portation and arrangement for the national
interstate convention to be held at ST.
Louis, the third Tuesday in September
1891. The committee was composed of Hon.
L. S. Hall of Missouri, Hon W S. Me-
Alester of Mississippi and VIII L. Sergeant
of Texas.
Resolved, that we most heartily indorse
the course of Hon. U. S. Hall, president
State Alliance of Missouri, in refusing to
concur in the whitewash of c. w. Macune
at Ocala, and also in opposing the sub
treasury scheme and the infamous efforts of
said Macuue and his heuchmen to use our
noble order for his own and his servilc al
lies personal ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. We earn
rStlN ltltu.t Illlll our support IN the NOME
and manly effort to rid the order, both state Z.
and national, of such men as Macune and
Sledge, who have attempted in this and .
1ther states to sell our dearest rights to the (
railroads and other corporations. /
GRAFTON AND SARGENT.
Carried
Resolved, that we declare the action of [
Evan Jones, state president, in appointing
legislative committee as unauthorized by
he constitution of our order, or the act of .
)ur last state Alliance, and Il uSurpation of .
that constitutes malfeaSance in
Dtfce, and that we condemn the action of .
aid legislative committee in its demands
lpon the legislature, and demand fair and
trial of the railway commission.
Carried.
Resolved, that we also desire to enter our
protest against the action of our state
Executive committee in selecting and send
ng out from the Waco meeting lecturers .
Who were unanimously in favor of and ad-
COATES of the subtreasury, and many, if
ot all of them, noted as asitators of and
trong supporters of third party.
Carried.
Resolved, that the thanks of this conven-
ion are hereby rendered the press of the
tate that have been friendly TO our views,
nd we hereby respectfully ask the coop
ration OF the entire newspaper press
friendly to our cause.
Carried.
Whereas, four men in Stonewall county, |
retending to act as a county Alliance, met
nd penned resolutions condemning the
gners of a circular published extensively
the papers of our state, and
Whereas, Rayner Alliance, one of the |
My two working Alliances in the county,
If StonewalD exposed the fraud of these
our men: and
Whereas, Evan Jones in his official capac-
Y as president of the State Alliance, with
ut authority did suspend the charter and
ted said Rayner Alliance to appear before
lie judiciary committee of said State Alli-
nee, to show cause why their charter
Mould not be revoked
Now, therefore, be it resolved by this
Ody that we condemn this high-handed
ltrage against sub-Alliance whose only
n was the exposure of plain fraud, this
lthout any constitutional warrant, and a
lre case of malicious abuse of his high ;
lice. I
Carried
Resolved, that this body elect an execu-
We committee of five, who shall have gen.
al supervision and control in carrying out
lie objects and purposes of this convention.
Carried. |
After the reading of the resolutions and
lie platform, some remarks were made |
pom their import and bearing upon the
lture of the Alliance by Messrs. Hall,
orrow, McAlester and Sellers G
A motion to appoint an executive com :
ittee of five was carried, which was fol-
wed by motion that Hon. U. S. Hall of .
isSouri, Hon. w. S. NIcAlester of Missis-
ppi and Will i. Sargent of Texas be APP :
'mted an executive committee to make all .
engagements for the interstate Alliance 9
invention which is TO meet in St. Louis on !;