Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-26

| bound as Brother Bragg He would over
| throw creation if it did not go to suit him
| he is j. Z. of precinct No l, and noted
| one. too.
He says l have through ignorance or NAL
! ice, by virtue OF my position, thrust MN
| from the order without a trial. The COM
| mittee on good of the order in his Alliance
| is the court he should first come before,
and if he is not satisfied with their decision
! he has a perfect right TO appeal to the
| county board, and if he is still dissatisfied
| he can appeal TO the state board. What
more could he ask, He has three courts to
| hear him, he knew that all trials come be-
| fore their respective committees - sub,
county and state.
| He don't want his case to come before
any committee. He wants just what he
| got, so he could create great sensation
and arouse the sympathy of the outside
| world in his behalf, knowing that his ALI
dnce career is about TO end.
He says something about an obligation.
deny the whole of what ne says about an
obligation. Anyone who takes the Alliance
obligation and afterwards discloSes ii, is
man / have no confidence in, ! don't care
| who he is. He says a high-handed fight
against the anti-sub-treasury membership
Of the order is being waged Td urged on
chiefly by q set of mugwumps VINO never
should have been admitted, they being in
| eligible TO membership. | say the anti-sub-
treasury members have had :. fair and
square chance to carry the county against
the sub-treasury, failing to do SC,
Il few of them. not willing 10
submit to the will of the majority. have
gone out and tried 10 organize an anti-sub
treasury Alliance. At Fort Worth they
elected their executive committee, which
means organization. They would not admit
a ub-treasury man, SO | was told by a man
who was there They thrust one sub
treasury man from the hall, So reports say.
at their meeting at Bonham. Some of them
We're from defunct Alliances. At st. Louis
some of them We're expelled members.
No member of the Alliance has ever been
denied admission in Fannin county Alliance
on account of his being opposed to the sub
treasury. At our last meeting OF the
county Alliance there were several who OPP
posed the Sub-treaSury plan. There were
some who were at Fort Worth and at Bon
ham in the Sub-treasury meetings. All
members in good standing in their Sub-Alli-
anceS, and who are not included i'll reSolu-
ton and part of resolution 20, passed ny
the last state Alliance, will be admitted i'll
the county Alliance as far as / am con-
cerned.
Brethren, mention all these things to
show the goo6people of Fannin the facts us
they are. ana to show you that Bro. Bragg'S
whole statement is made TO create Il false
impression in the minds of the outside
world \
Brethren. have done my whole duty as
an officer TO the best Of my understanding,
and whenever you think | fail 10 do my
duty, or that some one else can i'll my place
better than ! can. he is the man | want.
know we have several hundred members
who can fill the Office | hold and perhaps
better than can. l am your servant, not
your master Am willing TO resign at any
m VIII a m of Ia bapS
it is to the interest of the order.
See bylaws, eighth clause: Amy officer
who shall fail to fulfill the duties of his
Office or absents himself from his Alliance
for three stated meetings in succession
without valid excuse, shall he suspended
from Office
l will now cali your attention to the con-
stitution. page Il. article u, section l Any
! member who may hereafter disclose any Of
the workings of the order, or who may i'm
part the password of the order knowingly
to any one not entitled to the same, shall.
on conviction thereof. be Immediately eX-
PEELED from the body. and shall not be eligi-
Die to membership thereafter.
Proceedings of state Alliance, 1890, page
%:
10 Hon. John D. Fields President Farmers
State Alliance of Texas:
Your committee on judiciary, to whom
was referred the case of appeal from Travis
county, have had the case under considera-
ton and ask leave to report as follows:
In this case Neal j. Macarthur. Il mem
Der of Goodall Alliance in Travis county,
was charged with .divuleing the workings
a secret session of the Alliance and further
of accusing John ID. Field and other MEM
berS of the Alliance of embezzemeut and
malfeasance in Office. 1t appears that in the
trial in Goodall Alliance Macarthur wascon-
victed upon the first charge only. Appeal
was then taken TO the Travis county ALI
ance. which body sustained the charges in
full, declaring Macarthur guilty; your COM
mittee. after full investigation of all evil
dence i'll this case and without attempting
to give 4 synopsis OF the same, unanimously
ask that the action of the Travis county Al
lance in this case be and the same is hereby
affirmed
Brother Bragg at the July meeting of the
county Alliance obtained some of the work
ings of the county Alliance, which were the
workings done in secret session, and the
next week the same was published in the
newspapers of the county and in the Farm
ers World
Brethren and good people of Fannin
county, / mention these facts to show YOU
that the county Alliance has been very easy
ON Brother Bragg. If he mad been dealt
with he would now be in company with
Macarthur.
When Brother Bragg obtained copy of
he obtained with the understanding that it
Should not go TO press. Ii went to press as
before stated. At the last meeting of the
county Alliance, which was in secret
session, he went from the Alliance hall ana
cried aloud and spared not some of the
workings of the order, which was in viola
ton of article l., section /, of the constitu-
ton.
Brethren and fellow-citizeus. all | ask of
You is TO do by me as you would have me do
by you. / viii close by saying, "A few
more grape, Capt. Bragg
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