Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-05
DWiNDLNG.
The Alliance Since the Collapse
of the Exchange.
SUB-TREASURY DEMOCRACY.
The Editor Of the Dallas Mercury Taken to
Task for His Assertions.
As Easy for Railway Magnate to sprout
Wings as for Sub-Treasury Leader
to Be AN Honest Democrat-Rea-
gnn's Reply to Farquhar.
SUB-TREASURY DEMOCRACY.
Milton Parks Answered.
Special to the Gazette

Special TO the Gazette.
AUSTIN, Tex, Oct. 4.-Falling in casu-
ally with Tom Smith of Navarro, who spent
Saturday at the capital, l called his atten-
ton to u published interview of the day be-
fore in which Milton Park, present editor
of the Dallas Mercury, made some coarse
remarks about the governor and said that
the Alliance was growing rapidly.
1t is all boSh." said Mr.. Smith, who is
an ex-lecturer for the Alliance. and :; man
OF more than ordinary intelligence. 'sIhe
Alliance is not growing" said he, and has
done nothing but dwindle since the collapse
of the Alliance exchange at Dallas. Siren
uous efforts have been made this summer
to build it up, out of sub-treasury material
OF course, but no Roadway has been made
and Park knows it very well. Two wears
ago or thereabouts, the Alliance 10 which |
belong at Blooming Grove in Navarro
county numbered 200. Now it has
FIFTEEN MEMBERS
before whom l am cited to appear two
weeks from this, TO answer Il Charge of
heres y to the sub-treaSury BILL
''Is Parks statement true that his wing
OF the Alliance is composed Of good Demo-
Gratis and that il is opposed to third party
ism2''
Mo- said he :.it is not. They are all,
or nearly all, out-and-out third partyites,
arti-Democratic and ready for anything
that will injure the Democratic party.
They are secret, oath-bound. political
party, and standing as they do on the Ocala
platform rs they profess to do, they are of
necessity undemocratic, and to certain eX-
tent 1T least, that Is rs far as intentions go,
inimicli to Democracy, and the friends Of
Republicanism. Take Park himself TO.
example. He is 4 nice man to pirate about
his Democracy. a year ago he voted, as L
delegate TO the San Antonio Democratic
no Al uf ly-1,irl, do
nounced the sub-treasury. The week fol-
the Alliance held at Dallas he voted. for that
same sub-treasury and ever since has been
writing and talking for it. If
UNFOLDING THAT MISERABLE ABORTION
is mark of Dem ocracy, then he and the
rest of MS confrereS are Democrats. So
also is PETER and Sockless Simpson and the
wholesbrood of sub-treasury patriots, they
are all Democrats.
Evidently Mr. Smith did not have much
faith in the ayowed Democracy of the sub
treasuryites who, he thought, protested
too much. His expressions indicated the
belief that it would be as easy for 4 railway
magnate to slrout wings as for Il sub
treasury leader TO be an honest Democrat.
Plainly certain OF the Sub-treaSury leaders
cherish good deal of luminosity against the
governor, for what reason can only he con-
jectured. The enmity is perfectly natural.
however. When We're ever humbuggery
aud honest merit at one with eacf. other! If
the governor had temporiZed with the
leaders aforesaid, and given them share
in the distribution of patronage, perhaps
they would speak less unkindly OF him than
they do. But he didn't. He isn't built
that way. And hence those gibes and sneers
with which they honor his name occa-
sionally.