Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-08
ALLIANCE AIRING.
The Blossom Picnic Largely
Attended.
EVAN JONES OUT OF SIGHT.
Harry Tracy Expounds the Doctrine. but
to Disappointed Audience-A
Farmers Discovery and Sur
prise Thereat.
Special to the Gazette

Special to the Gazette
| Blossom, Ten, May Blossom was
! given over to-day 10 picnic, Alliance aud
| Harry Tracy Evan Jones was expected,
! but failed 70 come and Mir. Tracy filed the
/ time.
/ After the arrival OF the Cannon Ball at
| 1890 procession with bands. cadets. pub
| lie schools, Alliance organizations and
the visitors was formed and marched 4
half mile to the picnic grounds, beautiful
grove.
Professor Walpole welcomed the crowd
in neat talk, which was responded to by
| Thomas II. Hayes IL local Alliance leader,
| in brief speech, which touched upon the
issues Of the day.
At its conclusion the crowd, numbering
some thirty-tiVe hundred, We're invited 10
the tables, which bore evidence in their
generous profusion that eatables were not
short, however much it might be with the
circulating medium.
After the dinner the crowd divided its
attentions, some taking in the baseball
game between the Paris and Blossom
mines, while others gathered to
hear Harry Tracy of the steering
committee and Southern Mercury
fame. MIR. Tracy for an hour and half
/ attacked things with great yigor and pro-
fuseness of figures regarding the over-bur-
dened condition of farmers and shortage of
money matters of the country generally,
though he made no reference to the iniqui-
tous tariff, which is supposed TO be doing
SO much to drain money away from
the non manufacturing population and to
centralize it at Wall street and other cen
ters. These bloated centerS were charged
with great deal of manipulation adverse
to farming interests ii the way
of holding the government purse
strings and debating who should
be secretary Of the treasury, which
he n
every speaker of the house. Leaders of
both the old parties, the speaker declared,
had disregarded the interests of the people,
and been humbly subServient to the money
devil, which MIR. Watterson is telling the
world of. The newspapers which took op-
theories were raped over the
knuckes aud clasSed among
the money power poems. They We're pict-
ured as the ''fox-eared editors, who got
money on the quiet
Having settled those facts. the gentleman
exploited the sub-treasury scheme as the
open sesame to prosperity, and the haven of
refuge to the toiling masses. OF
course the "fox-eared politicians
fought it, but to their own
damage. Forty congressman had died
in the fight already, and 200 more were
liable to come to the same end. He defed
any man to successfully debate it with him
~ " OA4u save llt ii year
at the cost for warehouses of only 81, 0OO,-
900. The price of products should
not be regulated by the amount
Of money, but the amount OF
products should regulate money. The
speaker evidently ignored supply and de-
mand for their opposition to the peoples
great demand for sub-treasuries.
Coke, Culberson and Mills were hauled
to the bar and pronounced wanting. OF
course the Alliance was not going to make
a third party. 1t would get what it wanted
out of the paws of the old parties.
The speaker was a Democrat and in
tended to remain Democrat The people
We're being educated by the Alliance
speakers.
There was good attention to the speech
but most Alliance men here oppose the sub
treasury, and were expecting discussion
Of the tariff and silver bills and noted the
speakers falling 20 do SO.
One farmer in the crowd was surprised |
to recognize in the Harry Tracy he had |
been reading about the Harry Tracy he |
used to know as a banker at Rockdale