The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-04-23

with. lhey make no bones of asserting
thelr opposition TO the present policy and
order OF things and the resolution will
doubtless be rich and racy reading.
The first thing done by the executive ses-
sion this afternoon was toindorse the course
pursued by the Alliance legislative steering
committee. The sub treasury scheme was
then broached and handled with care, but
no action was taken thereon.
Macune is here, and while it is charged
by some that he and his triumvirate are
working i'll the interest of third party I"
IL Is just as vigorously denied by the leader
OF the gathering. Whether it is true ornot
THIS meeting will surely sit down on every
tnlhg looking to third party movement.
Inc Texas leaders declare that they will
have none of it.
The sub-treasury scheme is the apple of
Macune's eye, and it remains to be seen
whether or not he can get it endorsed. The
opinion tonight Is that he will not.
IL Is hardly safe bet that some of Gov
ernor Hogg's warm friends, in fact a portion
OF his Official family is here, and one gen
tleman remarked tonight that they were
here to use their influence with the Alll-
ance leaders, to prevent the meeting from
passing resolutions concerning the admin
lstration. The same gentleman also ex-
pressed the opinion that they would fail in
this mission, as the resolutions would sure
ly be adopted.
RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED
During the executive session of the State
Alliance meeting held this evening, the
Alliance steering committee got in its work
III great shape, as the following resolutions
introduced by Hoicomb of Henderson
county, which were unanimously adopted
amid voclferious applause will show:
Whereas, certain gentlemen, who claim
n hn Nlsnrl ~ n INnrV A
have been elected to high and honorable
positions as legislators by the vote of their
Alliance brothers, and,
Whereas, said gentlemen having forgot
len the sacred obligation which they took
when the, became membersof the Farmers
Alliance, have ignored said obligation by
circulating in published circular and
through the newspapers malignant, false
and malicious libel against our worthy
president, Evan Jones, ex President Fields
also Brothers Macune Tracy and Sledge,
who were placed in Austin by the author
ICY of the Farmers Alliance as a
legislative committee, and also az ,ins
the editors of The Southern Mercury, which
Is the official organ of our order in the
state OF Texas, in all of which they have
violated their obligations voluntarily
taken upon themselves as Alliance men.
Therefore, be it
every county in the state, now assembled
in Waco in conference for the good of the
order, that We denounCe in no measured
the acts of all the sigEers of said
circular as being false to the order false to
their families and false to their God and are
of place in the great order o
The Farmers Alliance
Resolved, second, That we reiterate our
individual confidence in brothers Jones,
oil
hearty support of the editor of the Murcury
and invoke Gods richest blessings on each
9u I every cne of them, and promise them
4 earnest support in carrying on the
great work of reform to liberate their CO.
workers from the bonds of servitude that
monopoly is fastening on us.
NIGHT SESSION.
When the Alliance delegates got together
tonight another song was sung, after which
Editor Coleman of the Southern Mercury
addressed the meeting. He confined his
remarks to discussion of the great money
power. and said the time had come when it
was actually controlling the sacred ballot
box and the legislation of the nation. He
illustrated by showing that a mans social
as we'll as political standing depended al
most entirely on the size of his bank &C
count. He said that even in Rome the
poor man was more respected and given a
better chance than is extended to him in
free America, but that the money power
destroyed that government He did not be-
lieve that the people of this country could
they succeeded in controlling
and suppresssing the powerful
and demoralizing influence of the money
power. He thought this country was rap
idly drifting into the derlorable condition
that Ireland finds herself in, and that if
was not done the commune
would soon hold high carnival here. This
would speedily destroy the government and
all happiness and civilization,
IL was just such enemies as these that the
Alliance was fighting and it proposed to
win the fight. 1t could easily 40 so if the
would stand together" He wound
up by arguing that the farmers ought TO
hold the offices. why, my countrymen,
you take sensible farmer who has studied
the questions Of public policy and he is
better qualified to make laws than any man
in the national legislature today. | tell
you that the election of such men is the
basis of all prosperity and free govern
ment." He wound up by stating
that he was from Michigan, and saying
that the man who recognized the terrible
condition of things and who did not do all
in his power to bring about a change vas
"a traitor to his family, to his country and
to his god."
After Mr.. Rumph, ex Lecturer ofthe State !
had spoken in the same strain,
the meeting adjourned until tomorrow.
NOTES.
Among the prominent gentlemen no.
ticed around the hotel lobbies tonight are
Senators Pope of Marshall Harrison
of McLennan; Land Commissioner
and Farmer Shaw of Dallas.
These gentlemen are not saying much but
they have their eyes and ears wide open.
Four Carloads Of Pinkertons
PITTsBURG, Pa, Four carloads of Pinker-
ton guards arrived in the coke regions To-