Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-11

tempted for the past six years 10 prostitute
the Alliance in Il third political party.
I recognize him as one who engineered reSo-
luton in the legislature. decriving the farm
ers as 10 the third party movement at Waco.
I Then he himself Went 10 the Cincinnati
/ convention, and was elected organizer Of
| he Peoples party. | myself have been 3
| state lecttrer ana Travelled over the state
/ from Dallas 10 Houston, assuring the peu-
! pie of Texas the Alliance should nor con
! liict with their political or religious belief.
| find this man ana few others -ryiug 10
! initiate myself and others into = third
/ political party, win orr heads ia It sack,
| driving Us with i board with Uai. III il.
| This convention was called Tor 10" purpose
! Of perpetuatin@ Alliance principles pure
founded the Alliance. ana 10 dctruc
/ the unholy ends ana aims Of such
/ political prostitutes This uIIH
I Lamb and his crowd | heard he mad made
| the assertion. published in certain paper
/ in Texas have read il. you haze
all read it, We have Al. read r. IN
which he expressed dctruHir.tip;
I TO come 20 Fort Worth and cantufe This
! convention for his third party scheme.
don't believe the convention should ue cap.
tured. and have no idea il Will.
} What is the rui ne Of the chair sorIe
one asked.
i decide sand the chairman. THAT as
! Mr.. Lamb himself says he did no: come
here III answer To the cal: hr ! MOI entitled
d 10 Il sea- on ne floor. I ba-e Jh!S decision
+ upon his own statement and hot Upou MS
membership in the Alliance, and want il
I so understood by the press ami the people
{ MIR Chairman shouted an excited de-
! egaCe, ii move a committee Of three n ..p-
, pointed to Investigate tile gentleman and
. see if he is an Alliance member in good
7 standing
! At ms poir, raudcmoajun broke loose
and shouts oi ''pur him ont, ''sorSca1i-,i'-
/ arms. Lamb, Lamb etc. drowned
! ali other noises, aud the chairman vaiulE
I raped for ORDER. During the confusion
Lamb left the chamber. and is he did 50
| someone shouted. Alliance men. come
! cut. come cut, aud five persons who had
been seated arOUHd LAMB got up and fol
lowed him out cheer after cheer ringing
I on The air rs they filed through the uuor
and down the stairs.
The article published aud referred to in
| the convention was from thc Dallas News
of the 5th, and is as follows:
In this connection the Alliance men Of
| the federation recognizing. they think, in
the coming Fort Worth meeting. an effort
to destroy the Alliance for the purpose of
fUrthering the governments political am
bitions proposed 10 De on hanG. Mr. Lamb
stated it plain:
'' If the meeting is an Alliance meeting.
said he, Alliance men Of every political
complexion have right To ne there ara
participate in the proceedings. II il IS
/ political movement by tricksters 10 destroy
The Alliance. il is our duty 10 he there 10
tear the sacred Alliance mask from the faces
of the men who prOmul@dte doctrines con
trarY 10 the reforms which the Alliance IS
pledged 10 secure.
This indicates a stormy session AZ Fort
Worth on the sub-treasUy question, which
is the issue upon which the fight will De
made Mr.. Lamb holds that if there are
Alliance men, who in good faith desire the
adjustment of the SuD-trCaSury. the place
to make the fight IS IN The State Alliance
convention in Dallas August Is. The re
fusal Of the Fort Worth meeting 10 admit
the sub-treaSlry men into the councils, 1t Is
said. Will result in the expulsion of the
anti-sub-treaSury element by the State ALI
ance. = W. X. Lamb announced that
there would be i meeting at Fort Worth on
July 10, which purported to be an Alliance
meeting. IF it was an Alliance meeting,
said he, alliance men should be there.
If it was intended 10 oppose the sub-treas-
ury, and thus controyert a vital Alliance
principle, We should be there TO defend ALI
ance principles"
During the debate the article was read
and the assertion made that nine out of ten
Alliance men in the state would be- with the
Fort Worth movement; that the actions
which had decimated the Alliance ranks
from go, 900 members in Texas 70 $4,000,
could no longer be tolerated and that re-
turn to the primal principles of the Alliance.
recognizing no religious creed or belief.
would restore the order 10 its pristine mag
nitude and render it once again power ia
the land. The theory seemed to prevail
that the Alliance, to be success. should be
non-political.
To a GAZETTE reporter Mr.. Lamb said:
Il did not come to the Alliance meeting nOw
being held in this city to raise party gucs-
hut poy. Of ? ha
Under its constitution and bylaws all meT-
bers of the Alliance in good standing are
advisory members and as such have a right
to speak in all Alliance meetings. motion
was before the meeting this afternoon 10
have a night session TO discuss Alliance
principles, and having noticed that the call
was for those who oppose the Sub-trcasury,
l decided to ask the president whether or
not members Of the Alliance in good stand
ing would be allowed to participate in this
meeting without having gag put on them.
] regard the Sub-treaSury as a part of he
Alliance principles, and know II is such, for
II IS one OF the demands OF the order. Clf
not mention any political party. nor would
have done so had il been decided 10 have
free discussion and had been allowed to
speak, but Brother Moody being. as he
said, afraid of me because | was a member
of the Peoples party. sprung the question.
He had as well questioned the right of any
Republican, Democrat. Methodist or Bap-
fist taking par in the meeting As to qUeS-
ton my right or my being Peoples party
man.
In this they have proved that il is their
intention to capture the Alliance OF Texas.
and deliver il to the Democratic party of
this state. and | see no reason why they
should meet here in an open convention.
call il an Alliance. and violate the constitu-
tional law of the order by putting gags on
men who believe different from them.
Brother Moody said some very hard things
about the leaders of the Alliance. aud about
the financial affairs OF the exchange n Dial
las | think the brother should think be
fore he says too much. For if l mistake
not, he did much of the begging for money.
and would call his attention to the fact
that it is too late to cry wolf after dsas-
ter has happened 10 the flock In my Opiu-
ion. he should have said something about
these things before il was too late. have
met and talked with the leaders Of the ALI |
ance, both state and national. and believe
them to be honest men, and if I shall ind
out that they are not. I will first prefer
charges against them in the order and if
the order persists in keeping and uphclduG
dishonest men as lis leaders, then VIII |
Withdraw from il and resort TO proper aLi- |
thorities for redress.
Il am sure this meeting of. as ] under
stand. thirty-seyen men all told from al. :
here | could giveyOu few dots about SoEIe !
prefer 10 let them kill themselves j. !
Will be long time before the Alliance OF |
Texas will be given to the Democratic or |
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