Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-09
THEY ARE COMING.
Delegates to the Alliance Con,
vention Arriving.
THE PROGRAMME TOMORROW.
The Call for the Convention and the Sub
jects to be Discussed-A Large At
tendance of Prominent Al ~'
lance Men Expected

| The Farmers Alliance convention, the
| most important and the most vital yet held
| by this organization in the state, meets in
this city tomorrow. The delegates will be-
| bers are looked for, repreSen-
tatives from every county in
| Texas, and large delegations from the
| states of Missouri, Alabama, Georgia,
| South Carolina, Tennessee and most of the
| Southern states. Arrangements have been
| made for the accommodation Of the guests.
| The following rates NAV be had: Pickwick
and Ellis, $3.50, reduction for doubling
! NJ anslon, s., reduction for doubling; Wind
/ sor, 81; fremont, S125; Lindell, 81; Cen
trail 1925
A large number of delegates. both local
! and foreign, will be present, and some &C
! ton should be taken by the Chamber of
/ Commerce and the city council looking to
I the entertainment OF the city'S guests, and
an exposition of Fort Worth enterprise and
resources. Committees from each body
| should be appointed, whose DUTY 1t should
be to attend to these matters
| The peculiar interest which attaches to
the convention lies in the disposition Of the
| sub-treasury scheme. which is the thorn in
! the side of the Alliance. The two wings
| the third party and the anti-third party, be-
| ing Numerically opposite on this ques-
| ton. The following call published
/ in the Farmers World, the Alliance organ,
| will better explain the attitudes of the two
| divisions, ana the object of the convention:
We, the undersigned members OF the
Farmers Alliance OF Texas, believing that
the objects and purpose of the order are
not being carried out by those who now
control its executive machinery and
state organ, and being unwilling,
Shy silence or inactiOn, TO tacitly
! indorse those who abuse and misuse the
! trust committed to them, and who have as
3 i lal4 T.1
either by the state Alliance or the constitu-
ton of the order, hereby call meeting OF
al members Of the state, county or subordi-
fsnste Alliances of Texas, to be composed OF
the following named persons:
l. All members who oppose the sub-treas-
Jry 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 clement OF
the order into the support OF those meas
ures.
3 All who do not indorse tho conduct OF
the so-called legislative committee that as
sumed to represent the Alliance at Austin,
before the last legislature, and made I'M
| authorized demands before that body in the
name of the order and who believe that
the representatives of the people are capa-
bic of guarding their interests without the
Intermeddling and espionage of steering
committees and self-constituted spies.
3. All who are willing to organize for the.
purpose of defeating the bargain and agree
ment 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 ana in
fiuence of the Alliance are to be used in de-
feating fair and impartial trial of the rail
cin irpC cd in -
constitution and placed on the statutes
mainly by the vote of the agricultural
classes.
a. All who are in favor Of preserving the
fruits of the graat victory won over cor
porate power in the adoption of the raj
road commission amendment and the enact
ment of the just, wise and wholesome law
thereunler by the last legislature.
5. All who oppose fraud, y ckery, deceit
and corrupt methods within the Alliance,
and who are unwilling to max the ORDER .
tool or instrument for furthering the politi-
cal interests Of any man or party.
g. All who favor maintaining in their
original simplicity the objects and pur-
poses of the Alliance, leaving each mem
Der to select 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 IL.
Reduced rates OF fare WILL DO given by the
railroads and at the hotels. Eminent and
distiu guished Alliance speakers, at home
and abroad, have been invited to be present
and address the meeting, among whom are
the following: Hon. W. J. Northern, gov
crnor Of Georgia; Hon. Mr.. Tiilman, gov
ernor of South Carolina; Hon. L. S.
Hall, President of Missouri state
Alliance; Hon. Ethel B. Wade, secretary
and treasurer Of Tennessee state Alliance;
RHnT1an L n
cratic member of congress from Ala
bama; Hon. W. S. McAllister Of
Mississippi; Hon. W. L. McGaughey, COM
missioner OF the general land ofice Of
Texas. and others. All meetings will be
held with open doors, and the public is
cordially invited to attend.
r. c. BRAGG,
Secretary Fannin County Alliance
L. +. DoHERTY,
Secretary Robertson County Alliance.
7. NJ. SMITH,
Ex-Vice- President State Alliance and As
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