The Fort Worth gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-189?, 1891-05-14

That was the two-fold purpose of the con-
ference, and that was practically what
II did. that and nothing more. The steer
ing committee was Tesoluted into respecta-
bility, and the governor was denounced rs
an autocrat anC dictator, and there the
| business ended. All else was wind and
balderiash
The conference had narrow escape from
being Of least & parSia! failure. While
there was present goodly number of those
who favored third party, the plan Of
Tracy ,Sledge, and that gang generally, was
TO keep down third partyisIn. Such con
summation would defeat their plan Of fight
ing the administration hand in hand
with the railroads. If compelled
20 flock by themselves in u third
party. they would be absolutely impOtent
and unable to conceal
THEIR PLAN OF ATTACK.
But portion Of the anti-sub-treasuryites
seeing how IL would eInbalTass the leaders
voted for a third party and It is said
BY one who 9 was present, carried it
ont, or LniS-COuntod so as &c show d
small majority OF three or four against
third -tyism. Thus will it be seen how
narrow the escape OF the cOuSpivatOrS from
being precipitateG into . most eInbarrass-
ing situation. : little more nerve or alert
ness on the part Of the conservative mem
bers present would have done the business
rating the sheep from the goats, and COM
peliiug The latter 10 flock BY themselves, 4
+ contamination earnestly hoped for BY the
honest Guen in the Alliance.
another thing thai displayed the hollow
mockery and deUsive humbuggery OF the
/ conference was the manner il which the
. resolutions conforming the governor and
tins appoirtiye railway commission were
adopted. As told by one who knew what
took place in executive session, it was Ii
this wise:
IT WAS ANNOUNCED
that Duncan, manager OF the Dallas COM
mcrcal exchange, would lecture at night
On the condition Of the exchange. Those
who were not in sympathy with the ruling
faction. aud who knew already enough
about the exchange and its history, absented
themselves from the lecture, feeling no
interest in It. When the hour arrived it
was moved that the lecture be postponed,
and Tracy mounted the stand and told in
bllSteriug language how he as d member OF
the steering committee, had been humbled
ana prosecuted at the capital, and how he
had found Jordan hard road to travel.
Never before had any man been mistreated
Is he WIS by the friends Of the governor.
After playing the part Of injured innocence
TO perfection and peelinc the hides from
the governor and divers other lesser lights,
he had no difficulty in getting adopted the
The Duncan speech, which served as
preteXt for the meeting was never more
heard Of
another naked humbug and farce was the
resolution demanding OF the gov
ernor the appointment Of Duncan on
the railway commission, and this
too, Immediately after the conference had
condemned an appointiye commission Us the
embodiment Of ''autOCrdtiC and dictatOrial
power. The very men who instigLted and
votsd for that demand did not want
Duncan on the commission, and would
have been thoroughly Disguised If he
had received the appointment asked
for. SlcdCc was himself one of the com
nlttee chosen to cal on the governor and
formally present the demand, but went
through Austin the next day. and neither
he nor anyone else has ever ap-
preached the governor on the subject.
While the legislature was in session,
and Duncan WAS going about trying TO pro
cure signatures ID petition asking his APP
pOintment on the commission, Tracy and
Sledge were busy importuning friends Of
the governor to interfere and prevent the
appointment.
UNWORTHY 4 SUBJECT.
They declared openly their opposition to
him then. but when the subject came up in
the conference. they had not fault 10 find
with him. because they knew very well no
attention would be paid to their insOlent
demand" and they would therefore be in
position TO say the governor ignored the
Alliance when officially warned that II
wanted something.
Yet il is by such thickness rs that, such
mean coutrivanceS that these fellows want
10 help the poor farmer. God help the
man that puts his trust in such leaders.
ana God help the poor devil of farmer
that thinks he has found a savior when
swallowing with open-mouthed wonder
the raw humbuggery OF the Sub-treaSury
philosophers. He had better part with his
little all, and
MAKE FOR THE PooRHoUsE.
But after all, what is there in this sub
treasury cry that is at present making such
noise in the commonwealth, and
what has anybody TO fear from it,
or the handful Of Soreheads and
political quaclis that are working it
SO industriously} Very little, It seems,
when the real status and condition of the
Alliance is known. The Alliance is no
longer what it was a few years ago.
Then its membership ran up into the hun
dreds of thousands, and its strength
was truly formidable. But IL
has since fallen from its high
estate, pulled down as it was, by the ma
chiuationS, the tr!chery and deception OF
selr-seeking demagogues and cormorants
who abused the confidence Of the farmers
and took from them, through the exchange,
thousands of dollars that will never be re-
paid.
Very little is now left but the remains of
the old irrecOncilcable
GEEENBACK PARTY,
the gang who pinned its faith TO fiat money,
and which is still ''harping on my daughter
under the altered name OF cheap money"
and plenty OF It. The official re-
port OF the secretary-treaSurer of the
STATE Alliance dated December 81, $3.50
about six months ago shows that the total
male membership il the state was only IL
500 female 9S5S; or total OF males and
females of y, 257, and that there were in
the state 91l sub-Alllianccs whose average
male membership was only sixteen. From
these must be taken the number,
large, but necessarily indefinite who
90 not believe in the Su5-tre1Sury madness,
ana what mere remnant Of the total popu-
lation Of 2.2235.00O people in the state IS left.
The real truth Of the matter IS that the
frequent meetings, the haranguing, the
blathcriug and resoluting of the
peripateJic philosophers of the order
deceive the public and create mistaken no.
tons about the Importance and proportions
OF it.
on THE FINGERS OF BOTH HANDS
can be named the FOUNDERS afflicted with
the mouth disease who are responsible for
al the clatrer heard, the post haste
and rummage in the land If these
gentlemen should cork up their mouths,
dam up their flow of gush and CANNON. ana
turn their hands to some legitimate en-
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