Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-10
SOME LETTERS.
Mr. Newton of Tarrant County Answers
Evan Jones.

| Evan Jones.
| The following correspondence is of inter
| est, especially in connection with the Ali
| ance convention to-day:
SAN ANTONIO TEX. June %. 1891.
! Brother Newton:
! IL is reported through the News that You
| are one of the incorpordtors and directors
| of the so-called Alliance paper that is To be
| printed at Dallas by those chronic 5ickers
! Your name in connection with them IS d sur
| prise TO many brethren, and l am daily
| asked the question if it is true or not
| Please write me oy return mail at Dublin
| the relation You sustain TO these fellows so
| that may De able to answer the inquiry of
the brethren IN regard to the matter.
will start for home next Sunday and would
like TO hear from you by the time | reach
home. can not believe IL unless | get it
from you direct. Yours respectfully,
EVAN JONES.
MR.. NEwToS's RESPONSE.
BRASsFoRD, TEX, July s, 1891
Hon. Evan Jones' Dublin, Tex
DEAR SIE AND BRoTHER-You ours the o5th
to hand and i'll reply permit me TO say that
the hardest thing | ever tried to do was to
act on my own iuC gment when [ conscien-
tiously differ with my friends Ny acts
are not the result Of hasty conclusions, but
II Is the Logical deduction arrived at by
patient investigation. My conservative
course has often been construed to mean
approval when II was only intended to
maintain peace in the Farmers Alliance. |
was member of the order even before il
received the appellatiOn of Farmers Ali
ance. | have been loyal to the order and
my dues are still paid, and while l have OBJ
jected to many of the limo vations and side
tracks laid by designing men, / have acqui-
eSced with a regularity becoming private.
IN the rear rank. L seriously objected to
the war waged against the local merchants
in the earlier days OF the order. / believed
then as now that they are subject to the
same ills and ought TO be orr natural allies,
but the leaders said was opposed TO ALI
ance principles. and feeling loyal desisted
and when the energies of the order We're
turned towards the cleaning star of COOP
eratlye hope which eliminated in a huge
state effort, | objected to the absolute mer-
camille feature, preferring an agency Sys-
TEN. So persistent was | in my opposition
TO our financial leader, that l received the
appe.latOn OF chronic kicker. and again |
surrendered my own judgment and hoped
that the more wise conclusions of the Ciirec-
tory would save our people, and | riSGed all
my earthly possessions on their Judgment
land the result Is well KNOWN: and now ]
am called on to indOrse u matchmaking
financial policy. Matched in the expansive
mind of modern Aladdin. who can rub the
mystic lamp against his fertile brain and
bring forth unintelligence out of unintelligi-
bility, and while YOU express surprise at
my being connected with those whom YOU
are pleased to designate as chronic kickers.
/ am the more surprised at my own CON
tinued duplcity in permitting myself TO be
goaded into silence by the inSinuations of
self-constituted leaders that | opposed Al
lance principles, or to he Influenced BY the
ghost of traitor so freely INDUCED in by
the men at the helm
And now. my brother, I am uncompro-
miSingly opposed TO the course of the Al
lance towards Governor Hogg. He was
elected on Alliance principles. as I under
stand them. l assisted in manning the
Mercury during the campaign. and he has
done nothing worthy of the wholesale de-
nunciations that he has received at the
hands of the order. l am opposed TO the
course Of the Alliance towards the men who
were elected to represent a free constit-
uency, and then had the manhood 10 stand
on their own conviction respect their
oaths and represent their people. with
out the assistance of the miniature.