Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-16
FARMER SHAW.

FARMER SHAW.
Special to the Gazette.
| DALLAS, Ten, Aug. 15.-Farmer Shaw
has been away from the city for some time
i'll attendance upon the state Grange at
McGregor. a GAZETTE reporter bore down
upon HIM for an interview and received
: what follows expressed in the terse and
very emphatic manner peculiar 10 this toll
worn agriculturist. Being asked what the
| Grange did in relation to the many Ques-
tons now agitating the public, he said:
The Grange simply Gld itself proud; ii
! condemned Investment of school money n
railroads or banks, pronounced for Tree
coinage OF silver and j gradual increase Of
} the money volume, protested against repeal
OF the alien land law, commented the com
mission for its work and especially the rail
roads for their evident determination 10
settle differences amicably. But the most
/ important thing done was the Grange put
ting itself on record against the miserable
! rag-tag dnd-b oD-tail gang who are trying to
| make people believe the sub-treasury and
! third party ideas have any respectable fol
! lowing in Texas.
! The Grange elected Hon. John B. Long,
HOwdy Martins successor IN congress. as
| its new master, and Hon. j. NJ. Mckinney,
| at present state senator from Milan (etc.)
! county. Both are very sGong men, and
! under their wise leadership the Grange viii
! ers who have SO long made money off OF the
! farmers by decelving them, stealing from
them and lying about every body else
| When the career Of these fellows first be-
| gan the Grange preferred charges against
! the leading fraud of the gang and sent
| them 10 the state Alliance, but he escaped
| trial by securing the services OF Il clerk 10
steal the charges, which could hardly have
| been done except by conniYance of the Off
! Gers, or at least some OF them, who were his
| tools. The Grange hoped by positive but
| conservative course to induce the thinking
| elements of the Alliance, most of whom are
! also Changers, to throw overheard the cor
rupt leadership of the order. The effort
was made too late-after they had, by intiu-
ence of the third party craze, brought into
the alliance and to their assistance about
every old political fraud, commercial fail
ure, social monStrosity and religious out
| cast in Texas. So the Grange determined
it could no longer remain silent and do It's
duty to the people. Ii dcfes an open, hon
est fight with them; dares them to come
before the public in broad open daylight.
instead of doing as they now do-get
behind misrepresentation and SANDER in
| secret meetings of the order"
''You have been fighting these fellows a
good while, have you not, Mr.. Shaw"
That's what have; and this action of
| the Grange says to them: We indorse Texas
Farmer, and defy you to diSprove single
charge it has ever made.''
AS The GAZETTE has done a good deal
along the same line this action is also an
Endorsement of it by that great conserve
tive order
Farmer Shaw is greatly elated over the
positive stand taken by the Grange, and
feels that he has an invincible backing.
CAPT. W. Ii. HARRIS.
Special to the Gazette.
DALLAS, Tex, Aug 15.-Capt W. H.
Harris, delegate from Dallas county to
the state Grange. lately in session at Nc
Gregor, was caught by GAZETTE reporter
as he passed through the city en- route 10
his home in Richardson.
Being asked what the Grange did at its
last session OF public interest, he said:
''Well, sir, the reports as published in
the newspapers give pretty fair idea of
the present feelings of the Grange. Toput
it short. the Grange met. pulled the moss
of of its back and resolved to no longer re-
main silent and permit a gang of adven-
turers and frauds to lead farmers into folly.
We have thrown down the gauntlet, and
propose to expose the miserable trickery
and subterfuges by which a gang of oily
fellows are quilting unsuspecting farmers,
and thereby filing their own purses"
"Wen, captain, who are these oily fellows
to whom you alluded"
ITO be candid, would not object to men
tioning their names, but the newspapers
couldn't stand 1t. Texas tomfool libel law
is against it. But the people are finding
them out fast enough to prevent the general
public from suffering, although they will
kfieece a large number Of foolish individuals,
and expect are getting whack-ups from
the Republicans to break the South and
help to defeat Democracy in the pivotal
state, New York"
Are the oily fellows you speak of cap
tain, advocates Of the sub-treasury
scheme2"
YES. You may say in fact that the Al
1iignce, as now organized constitute the
crowd against which the Grange has de-
clared war. The Grange, understand does
not object to Alliance principles, because
they are Grange principles by another
name. But the Alliance as now organized
violates everyone of its principles. 1t has in
its ranks a large number of good, honest
and conscientious farmers, but by its lead
ers putting upon themselves the mantle of
Grange and Alliance principles, it is being
drawn into chimerical schemes for which
advocacy said jawsmiths are evidently re-
ceiving somebody's money, but, as the
Grange said in one of It's resolutions last
week, the Lord only knows whose money
it is want HE GAZETTE to say to farm
ers all over Texas, that the state Grange
by its duly accredited delegates, by its Of
ficers and by its press, denounce most of
the men called Alliance leaders who are
going about the state advocating the sub
treasury bill as set of visionary fools, or
else as men who are wilfully de-
ceiving the people with view to drawing
them into a new party. The Grange has no
SELECTIONS to urge against men who hon.
estly advocate the sub-treasury or new
party. II Is non-parEsan order. Men OF