Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-04-29
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The Waco Alliance meeting fulfilled
10 the letter the prediction made con-
corning it by THE GAZETTE a month
ago. There was to be sure deal OF
talk OF one kind or another, but the Of
fetal acts of the meeting were actually
or virtually such as had been foretold.
The meeting was q special one called
for a special purpose, and that not the
organization OF third party as many
supposed. True enough, powerful
effort was made to commit the meeting
TO q third party platform, but the pro-
motors Of that idea were principally
fellows from other states. professional
walking delegates who can only thrive
by raising sheol and keeping it up.
There was nothing in the political
situation at this time, no burning is
sues to be met. and no elections i'm
minent to call for four days session
of the state Alliance. There certainly
was no urgent need for indorsing the St.
Louis platform and the sub-treasury
plan, for that has already been done,
and could easily wait until the regular
August meeting for whatever reindors-
ing it might be thought to stand in
need of.
The object OF the meeting was
plainly a local one, yelled under the
specious plea OF the general good Of
the order, and instigated by q few OF
the leaders who wanted an official in
dorsement, both Of their conduct dur
ing the late session of the legislature,
and of their sinister purposes and plans
with reference to the present state sd-
ministration.
The entire programme had been
prepared beforehand, was cut and
dried, and had no other object than the
one mentioned. All else was but
Leather and prunella, oratorical pyro-
technics intended to lend eclat and
make the tout ensemble as imposing as
possible.
The plain truth Of the matter is
and it should be known far and wide
the meeting was designed for the ex-
press purpose of condemning the rail-
road commission law recently enacted.
That was the effect OF the resolution
condemning an appointive commission.
IT Dl> Jrcr,,.-p11 al
condemns single clause of the Lords
Prayer, he in effect condemns it all.
When YOU attack the most salient feat
ure of measure, that which gives it
force and effect, there is no occasion for
assaulting the rest OF it. Pull out the
keystone, and where is your arch?
II should be noted and known of all
that the first attack made on the COM
mission law came from the Alliance;
not that the Alliance is opposed to the
law. not at all: but that it has been de-
ceived under false and specious plea
by a few designing leaders into a
covert and insideous attack on the law,
the full meaning and significance of
which the rank and file, who voted for
the resolutions did not comprehend.
The resolutions were precisely such as
the railroad people would themselves
have written. But while the lobby
that made tn e capital a health resort
for itself during the winter was on
hand watching closely the progress Of
the meeting, and dealing out compli-
ment: and panegyries on the liable and
logical sub-treasury speeches made, no
one supposes for an instant that it had
anything to do with the framing of the
resolutions or the conduct of the meet
ing. Perish the thought. Could men
that only few short months agorailed
vehemently against the Alliance peo-
Pile as anarchists and wreckers, be
found so soon bound up cheek by jowl
with them in the fraternal bonds OF
brotherly love and forgiveness?
Hardly, unless one of two things has
come TO pass: unless the railroad peo-
pie have turned anarchists, or O few
Alliance leaders have gone over to the
railroads. Which is it2