Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-11
H0WS THIS.
The Candidacy of Calhoun of
Georgia for the Senate.
ARE THESE THINGS TRUE?
A Lofty Texas Alliance Character Charged
with Offering to Sell Out to the
Georgia Railroads for
Many Thousands.

The following is taken from the Ellis
/ County Mirror of June 3, 1891:
We wish to say one word in regard to Mr.
Calhoun'S candidacy for the senate. We
looked upon Mr.. Calhouns advent into the
race with certain degree of suspicion.
We fully believed for months before his
name was announced. or even before he
wrote the ''Georgiau' letters, or his name
was whispered in Alliance circles that MIR.
Calhoun would be Il candidate for the sen
ate. Our belief was based upon the facts
in our possession that Mr.. Calhoun fur
nished DR.. Macune and Col. Sledge The
money with which to buy controlling in
terest in the Southern Alliance Farmer
This evidence We yet have in our posses
sion. and are ready at any time to turn it
over to the executive committee.
We saw the Calhoun boom originate in
Washington city, and later saw ii turn up
in Georgia. If Gen. Gordon. Col. Norwood
or any other man who aspired TO the sena-
torship had done The same thing. had gotten
control of our official organ for the purpose,
as we see it. TO put himself i'll official posi-
ton. the Monthly would have opposed him.
Under the circumstances. and with the evil
dence before us that Mr.. Calhoun did fur
nish these gentlemen the money TO purchase
the mOuthpiere of the Farmers Alliance in
this state and use it to elevate himself in
the United States senate, we had d right to
oppose him, and were he to make the race
over again under similar circumstances. we
wOua make u great deal more noise than
we did before
The senatorial race is over, and it has
never been our purpose to reopen 1t, and
only make this explanation because of false
statements as to our motives for opposing
Mr.. Calhoun.
Seeing ii as we do and knowing what we
do. we feel safe in saying that DR.. NIacune
and Col. Sledge are responsible for many of
the existing differences between Alliance
officials in this state. Their connection
with our state organ was not what IL should
have been. and we believe the majority of
our Alliance brethren will agree with us
when we make this assertion. Col. Sledge
went to an official OF the railroads inter-
eS'ed in the lease of the Western and At
lantic railroad. and to this official did make
a proposition TO make the official organ of
the Georgia state Alliance advocate the
lesseeS claims for ''betterments'' against
the state of Georgia, for consideration of
so many thousand dollars paid to him
(SledgeJ. This is a fact, and we dare Col
Sledge to deny it
The Monthly has never asked any in
dOrsement for itself or any one else, but
we do think that Col. Sledge should be
Endorsed. if Endorsement viii cleanse him
from the shame that justly belongs TO
him. But the Monthly cannot indorse
honor of our noble order.
We DO not make these statements to
create strife in the Alliance-far from II.
If this was our object we could say more
but we do it merely to put ourselves right
before the public. We are not making
war on the official organ. We are only
telling few facts concerning those who
have offered TO sell its influence and the
peoples welfare for 4 few thousand
dollars in their own pocketS.-Georgia
Alliance Monthly.
The above, coming as plain statement
of alleged facts from an authoritative
source aud put without any indication of
passion or bad feeling, cannot be ignored
by the great order in whose interests 1t is
written.
Who are the characters mentioned One
of them is now one of the most conspicuous
leaders III the order, having recently had
the Endorsement of Il state gathering, and
the other is an influential worker in the Al
lance in this state. He is the most promi-
nent party in the present management of
the state organ If Texas. and Yet we have
the assertion that he did propose to the rail-
ROADS of Georgia that he would use the
state organ in their interests for $50 many
thousand dollars paid to him. - The Georgia
Alliance Monthly further says: This is a
fact, and we dare Col Sledge to deny it,
What does the Texas Alliance think, in
view of these assertions, and i'll view of
the official prominence of Col. Sledge? If
these things are false he must speak out,
and the Alliance of the state must defend
him, if innocent. If they be true, can the
order in Texas longer iet him control its
destiny2 Are these things false or are
they true2