Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-08
The Alliance Since the Collapse
of the Exchange.
SUB-TREASURY DEMOCRACY.
The Editor Of the Dallas Mercury Taken to
Task for His Assertions.
As Easy for . Railway Magnate to sprout
Wings as for q Sub-Treasury Leader
to Be an Honest Democrat-Rea-
gan's Reply to Farquhar.
Milton Parks Answered.

Special to the Gazette.
AUSTIN, TEX, Oct. failing in casu.
ally with Tom Smith of Navarro, who spent
Saturday at the capital, called his atten-
ton to published interview Of the day be-
fore in which Milton Park, present editor
of the Dallas Mercury, made some coarse
remarks about the governor, and said that
the Alliance was growing rapidly.
1T is all bosh." said Mr.. Smith, who is
an ex-lecturer for the Alliance. and a man
of more than ordinary intelligence. "The
Alliance is not growing" said he, land has
done nothing but dwindle since the collapse
of the Alliance exchange at Dallas. Siren
uous efforts have been made this summer
to build it up, out of sub-treasury material
of course, but no Roadway has been made
and Park knows it very well. Two years
ago or Whereabouts, the Alliance to which l
belong at Blooming Grove in Navarro
county numbered 200. Now it has
FIFTEEN MEMBERS
before whom l am cited to appear two
weeks from this, to answer a charge Of
heres V to the sub-treaSury bill"
lis Parks statement true that his wing
of the Alliance is composed of good Demo-
Gratis and that it is opposed to third party
isme''
NO" said he sit is not. They are all,
or nearly ALL out-and-Out third partyites,
auti-Democratic and ready for anything
that will injure the Democratic party.
They are a secret, oath-bOuni. political
party, and standing as they do on the Ocala
platform as they profess TO do, they are of
necessity undemocratic, and to a certain eX-
tent at least, that is as far as intentions go,
inimical to Democracy, and the friends of
Republicanism. Take Park himself for
example. He is Lice man to pirate about
his Democracy. A year ago he voted, as a
delegate to the san Antonio Democratic
convention, for the platform which de-
nounced the suo-ircasury. The week fol-
the Alliance held 1T Dallas he voted, for that
same sub-tr treasury and ever since has been
writing and talking for it. If
UPHoLDINa THAT MISERABLE ABORTION
is mark OF Dem ocracy, then he and the
rest of his confreres are Democrats. So
also is PETER and Sockless Simpson and the
whole brood of sub-treasury patriots, they
are all Democrats"
Evidently Mr. Smith did not have much
faith in the avowed Democracy of the sub
treasuryites. who, he thought, protested
too much. His expressions indicated the
belief that it would be as easy Tor railway
magnate to sprout wings as for sub
treasury leader to be an honest Democrat.
Plainly, certain of the sub-treasury leaders
cherish good deal of animosity against the
governor, for what reason can only be con-
jectured. The enmity is perfectly natural
however. When were ever humbuggery
and honest merit at one with each other? II
the governor had temporized with the
leaders aforesaid, and given them share
in the distribution of patronage, perhaps
they do But he didn't. He isn't built
that way And hence those gibes and sneers
with which they honor his name occa-
Sionally.