Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-02
Democrats Must Fight the ALI
ance Right and Left.
HE ADVOCATES A WALK-OUT.
The Knights are Against Us, Says He of
Grandfather Fame, We will Not Yield.
Foster Would Give Way to the Knights
of Labor, but Harrison will Not
Show the White Feather
to Them.
Oates on the Alliance.
Special to the Gazette.

Special to the Gazette
| WASHINGTON, June 24-Representative
| Oates of Alabama. one of the most pro
| greSsive thinkers IL the South, believes too
many concessions have been made the
| Farmers Alliance by both Republicans and
! Democrats. Col Oates is aggressive. He
| wants 10 make firm stand, and fight the
new movement Oh every issue. Democrats,
! he thinks. have greatly undereStimated
not only the strength of the movement, but
| the tenacity of purpose of those who are
! leading it. The Democratic party has
| nothing 10 expect from the Alliance, he de-
| clares, and should therefore contest the way
| of every foot of political ground.
In an interview to day Mr.. Oates says
| 'ToO many of our people are trying to
make friends with the Alliance folks in the
| hope of holding their own hereafter. They
but deceive themselves. The Alliance
| folks are not fooled, but our people are
compromised. The fact is Just this: We
have got to fight the Alliance right and
left with all our might or il will get the
| best of us in the South. Nc man can be-
lieve in the sub-treaSury and land loan
scheme and claim to be Democrat. The
lines must be drawn sharply and at once.
The Alliance is now in the minority, out il
is organized well and our people are
weakening themselves by cutting shy OF
the fight. What we must do is to organize
against the Alliance and beat it out of ex-
istence If we do not it will beat u.s.
though we are in the majority.
''In every Democratic convention, for it
is IN these conventions that the Alliance
seeks to get control. a resolution should be
offered condemning the sub-treasury scheme
as unconstitutional and undemocratic. If
this resolution is voted down, the cOnven-
ton is an Alliance and not u Democratic
convention. and Democrats should with
draw and hold "A alSpIybap,a
This plan of separating Democrats from the
Farmers Alliance should be followed by
every state in the South
Col. Oates has made good fight against
the Alliance in his own district, and has
easily routed its leaders. Several of his
colleagues from Alabama express a very
wholesome respect for the organization,
however. The Georgia delegation in the
next house will have majority of Alliance
members. Col. Oates is greatly interested
i'll the hight the Alliance people are prepar-
ing to make on Senator German, and adj
vises strongly taking the field against the
farmers in straight-out fight, neither ask
ing nor giving quarter The only way to
whip the Alliance he says, lis to fight
them from the word 60.
AFTER THE KNIGHTS.
The struggle of The knights of Labor 10
force the government TO restore plate print
erS anc the bureau OF engraving and print
ing, is being magnitied as much as possible
by Republican politicians here Tor the pur-
pose either of giving special air Of hero
ism to the refusal of the secretary of the
treasury and president, or else for paving
the way for an advertisement of great
concession to the labor element when the
final surrender comes. Secretary Foster is
disposed to be all things to all men, and to
get along peaceably when he can do it by
little good -natured temporizing The presi-
dent, however, has taken a hand in the
fight, end uDless he is frightened out of it,
will insist on barring out the insubordinate
Knights. He feels reasonably certain that,
no matter what may happen in Ohio this
fall, the Knights of Labor are going into the
third party movement next year, anyway
and that ne will simply be showing the
white feather to no purpose if he yields TO
them.