The Fort Worth gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-189?, 1891-05-21

I were undertaking to name the persons who
should be chosen by all the members of
each organization. There was considerable
excitement and motion to allow each or
ganlzatlon to appoint its members was
adopted, as was also motion to adjourn
The delegates then gathered in groups
about the hall and discussed the sit
uation and the selecting of persons
to represent the various organizations
under the motion as it was adopted 1t was
announced from the stage that the mem
bers of the Farmers Alliance would hold a
separate meeting in the hall and inquiry
was made whether the hall had been en-
gagged for the delegates from Kansas or the
Farmers Alliance alone. The Farm
ers' Alliance Immediately met and
was called to order by McGrath,
its president, and Mr.. Mccormick
was chosen secretary. A motion was car
ried to pass the word" and all persons not
members were excluded from the hall. At
late hour this afternoon the meeting was
still in session.
j. L. Little and S. II. Snyder were chosen
to represent the Citizens Alliance and S.
H. Chase and Levi Dunnbold the Peoples
party. The other names were not made
public.
There is much speculation as to the
platform. Objection to the Ocala con-
vention is strong in some quarters and
there is disposition to follow the St
Louis platform. The Eastern men are
quite active in regard to the position to be
taken on the silver question and eight
hour plans. A conference was held
f to-day + with y the lea leading delegates
the demands of uthe East were fully
made known and were received with
favor. The Eastern men want this plank
adopted on the silver question: ''The con-
ference favors the restoration of silver
to the position it occupied before 1873,
viz: equality with gold as a monetary
standard of value' Also the
following: Gas eight hours constitute
a legal days work for government en-
ployes in mechanical departments, we be-
heye this principle should be further eX-
tended, so as to apply TO all firms and cor
porations employing labor in the different
states of the union. thus reducing the hours
OF labor and In proportion increasing the
demand for it.'
The Eastern men announce their deterni-
nation to make strong effort to secure the
incorporation of these planks in the plat
form and indicate that their zeal in the
future will depend largely upon their
adoption.
G. +. Washburn, president of the New
England Industrial Alliance, said in rela-
ton to the matter: 1--WE feel that the
work of the Alliance has not been broad
enough, for it has been directed chiefly to
agricultural interests. We people of
the East have many important is
sues at stake. Unless this conference
will be ready to enlarge the scope of the
work already commenced by the movement
which has already led it, we feel that it
will scarcely be worth while TO go into it
further. If they will grant us what we ask.
however, we are ready to push che work |
for 1892. We have conferred |
with number of persons from |
the Western and Southern states and find |
that there is disposition on their part to |
view the matter as we do. A large number |
of people in New England are anxiously |
waiting to learn what action the convention |
will take in regard to these two
planks which we will propose and which |
we will insist shall be made part of the |
platform to be adopted. They are anxious
to see an inclination to broaden the prin-
clples on which the independent movement
IS based, and hope to have their interests as
well as those of persons who live in other
sections consulted and recognized"