Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-25

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| Anderson county j. L. Goodman. w. B.
Morrow, F. F. Doherty, ]. T. Beasley and
| A. j. Manning of Robertson county; Will
| liam Henry Murray, T. NJ. Smith, j. B. A
| Folk, Charles F. Favor of Navarro county
James l. Moody of Limestone county; C. c.
Bell, Denton county; II. B. Beck and S. B.
Lane, Travis county; w. P. Hancock, Bell
| county: Sam 81. Dixon, R. NJ Hudson and
ii. G. Darwin of Dallas county; George W.
White, Freestone county; ]. G. Hall, Me
dina county; B. H. Erskine, F'rio county
James w. Crayton, Rockwell county; Dan
| McCunningham of Williamson county
Elihu Newton, Tarrant county; Will L.
Sargent, Stonewall county; A. P. eagle,
Montague county; R. c. Bragg. Fannin
county; George I. Murray. Parker county /;
W. F. Murchison, Houston county, and w.
| McElwee, Bexar county.
A CALL.
We, the undersigned members of the
Farmers Alliance of Texas, believing that
the objects and purposes Of the order are
not being carried out by those who now
control its executive machinery and state
organ, and being unwilling, by silence or
inaction, to tacitly indorse those who abuse
and misuse the trust committed to them,
and who have assumed to exercise authority
not delegated either oy the state Alliance
or the constitution of the order, hereby call
a meeting of all members of the state,
county or subordinate Alliances of Texas,
to be composed of the following named per-
sons:
l. AL members who oppose the sub-treas-
ury bill and other like impracticable and
visionary schemes of finance, and who do
not indorse the efforts of certain Alliance
bosses to brow-beat and drive the Demo-
cratic and independent thinking element of
the order into the support of those meas
ureS.
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the so-called legislative committee that as
sumed to represent the Alliance at Austin,
before the last legislature, and made un-
authorized demands before that body in the
name of the order, and who believe that the
representatives Of the people are capable of
guarding their interest without the inter-
meddling and espionage of steering COM
mltttee and Self-conStituted spies.
3. All who are willing to organize for
the purpose of defeating the bargain and
agreement believed to have been entered
into between the representatives of the
railroads and other corporate interests of
this state and certain Alliance leaders, and
which bargain is in our opinion now being
carried out, whereby the vote and influence
of the Alliance are to be uecd in defeating d
fair and impartial trial of the railroad COM
mission law, incorporated in the consti-
tuition and placed on the statutes mainly by
the vote of the agricultural classes.
4. All who are in favor of preserving the
fruits of the great victory won over corpo-
rate power in the adoption of the railroad
commission amendment and the enactment
of the just, wise and wholesome law there
under by the last legislature.
.. All who oppose fraud, trickery, deceit
and corrupt methods within the Alliance,
and who are unwilling to make the order
tool or instrument for furtheriug the politi-
cal interests of any man or party.
g. All who favor maintaining in their
original simplicity the objects and purposes
of the Alliance, leaving each member to Sc
lect the party of his choice as the medium
through which to give expression and effect
to his political opinions.
The meeting will be held at Fort Worth
on Friday and Saturday, July 10 and II.
Reduced rates of fare will be given by the
railroads and at the hotels. Eminent and
distinguished Alliance speakers, at home
and abroad, have been invited to be pres
ent and address the meeting, among whom
are the following: Hon. w. ]. Northern,
governor of Georgia; Hon. Mr.. Tillman,
governor of South Carolina; Hon. Q. S.
Hall, president of Missouri state Alliance;
Hon. Ethel B. Wade, secretary and treas
urer of Tennessee state Alliance; Hon. j.
NJ Beeman, Alliance-Democratic member
of congress from Alabama; Hon. W. S.
McAllister of Mississippi Hon. w. L. Nc
Gaughey, commissioner of the general land
office of Texas, and others. All meetings
will be held with open doors, and the public
are cordially invited to attend. A full pro-
gramme will be issued in few days.
r. c. BRAGG,
Secretary Fannin County Alliance.
F. F. DoHERTY.
Secretary Robertson County Alliance.
T. NJ. SMITH,
EX-Vice President State Alliance. and As
sistant State Lecturer, Navarro County.