Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-04-25
Harry Tracy Talks.
Special to the Gazette.


Waco, TEX, April 24-Harry Tracy, one
of the editors of the Southern Mercury,
a member of the late steering committee
At Austin ana leader in this meeting,
was seen by reporter to-day and asked
what he thought of the conference.
1t suits ME down to the ground" he
said 1T couldn't be better. it was sue
cess in every particular, surprising the
mOsts sanguine expectations OF its pro-
moterS. There was good deal of third
party talk, as you know but it was all talk.
This is u fight between honest Democrats
and party bosses-a fight that is in to
stay until bossism is wiped out.
We Alliance men are true Demo
Gratis. There is not principle i'll our
declaration of purposes that is not Demo
cratic. This was not political gathering
but q conference of Alliance men seeking u
clearer way 10 the great end sought by the
order-that of placing the people Of the
country beyond the prosecutions OF mo-
nopoly. The Alliance is growing rapidly
and steadily in Texas. OF course we shall
lose some members among those who have
been sat down upon so hard. but their loss
will be an absolute gain to the order. An
other conference will be held at Dallas next
August"
HON. ALoNZo wARDALL
of Huron, S. D., the president of the Ma
-ional Alliance insurance department, the
state issue policies, has something to say
about the Texas public school fund: Il I'M
derstood,'' he said, that you had the most
princely school appropriation in the world.
This l learned before | came.
1t is SlGo0C0,0O0, and will be $780,,
0O0,0O0 in ten years. This is an enor
nous sum of money. No wonder it puzzles
the people. l agree with those who de-
nounced Gov. Hogg's proposal to lend this
money TO railroad companies. That would
be risky. There must be no risk in such
trust. The children'S money is too sacred
to place at the mercy of railway wreckers.
My plan is to build & railroad with the
school money from British America to Gal
weston, across the two DakotaS, Nebraska,
Kansas, Indian Territory and Texas. The
state of Texas should own, control and
operate this line. 1t would carry
the great wheat aud corn crop of the North
west to deep water at Galveston. and the
cars would return loaded with the products
of the Lone Star state 1t would be the
best paying railroad in the United States.
Then let the dividends pile up to the credit
of the school fund. There is no danger of
having too much school money"
COL. p. I. sLEpGE
of Kyle, Tex, president OF the National
Economist publishing company and also the
president of the Mercury publishing COM
paDy, said: The ultia-political element
little rampant on Thursday; by to-day the
loudest was still as a mouse There
was unanimous support of the
conservative majority, in its success
ful effort at carrying out the
programme on the last day by free dis
cussion of the demands in the executive
session, and thorough organization of the
lecture work, so as TO secure the best edu-
cational results. Several facts have been
positively demonstrated at this conference
of the Farmers Alliance. The delegates
may discuss with great heat, but they Will
not split on the question of politics, The
radicals used every means to urge the con-
servatives to action, but when
they failed they fell into
line. The Alliance as an order is reorga-
nizing and is growing rapidly in many sec
tons of state, its membership having nearly
doubled in the last three months. 1t has
implicit confidence in its leaders, and those
who have attacked the leaders have won
the resentment of the order The Alliance,
if treated right, will not favor a third
party. 1t is strongly disposed toward the
Democratic party, and is looking to that
party for its just demands