The weekly examiner., 1891-08-01
THE OLD TRICK ONCE AGAIN.

OUR readers will remember a recent ref erence to ssscap'' convention of Alliance men held at Ft. Worth. Texas. Here is the result as found in one of the agricultur- al papers that seems to have been cap tured by the enemy
 sWe denounce the sub treasury and land-loan schemes and governmental ownership of railroads as violation of the first principles of good government. as paternal in their character, as centTalizing in their tendencies, and if enacted into law they would create such horde of na- tional oficeholders as would fasten the clutches of the party in power upon the throats of the people so strongly that the voices of the honest, patriotic citizens would no longer be heard in the control uf government affairs. We demand that these men who are not farmers, be removed from national and state offices of our or der. and tLat none but those who have their interest in farming be allowed to fill such places. We now appeal to all honest members of the Alliance throughout the United States to unite with us in putting down this common enemy and disgrace of OUT order. To this end we most earnest-s ly recommend the brother Alliance men of the United States to meet in national con- vention at St. Louis on the third Tuesday of September, 1891.9
 And here are the comments of that paper:-
 Here we have in Texas, the birthplace of the Alliance, a serious revolt against the schemes and doctrines that have been grafted on the original Alliance platform. This revolt is rot confined to that state, but is going on all through the South, and is gaining strength every week. The fact se ly indorsed these schemes, aud they are making their opposition known. Except ing in some parts of the West, they have never been received with favor in the l North. Hence, from the outspoken oppo- aition we now hear from the South, it is clear that the beginning of the end of the wild schemes is in sight.
 1 This is an old trick of the enemy, yet it still remains measurably successful. He would not continue to use it if it were not the express purpose of giving such papers an opportunity of s'putting in their work. '' The credulous and uninitiated are affected by the representations given, and are held away from participation in the work of the reformers. The same scheme has I paign where an independent party was in the field. This is the especial forte of the creature Carsey of New York, 'spresident of the anti monopoly association.o Him self and few of his pals get together in some back room, fix up 8 report for the Associated Press of a 'sgreat labor meet ing'' held at which the independent party I dorsing one or the other of the old parties whichever furnished the expenses of the campaign" This is taken up by the monopoly papers of the entire country, commented on by some of them, and the l plot is consummated.
 The inspired worker of this anti-Alli- ance plot is fellow named Hall, hailing from Missouri. He is Democratic politi- elan, and has secured position in the Ali ance to give his work more prestige. He it was who is charged as being instru- mental in securing the dismissal of Labor Commissioner Lee Merriweather of Mis- souri. one of the best officials and truest of men that ever accepted such a portfolio.
 But this work of Hall and his confeder- ates is not destined to accomplish as much under present circumstances as it would in times gone by. There is too much organ ization now and too many reform papers in the field to permit the conspiracy to spread and effect it's purpose. Already the reform press of the South and West is pulling this thing to pieces,-showing it had no legitimate calling or endorsement, and was run only by the emissarles of the money power within the ranks of the Ali ance. And this reform press is far more of a power now in these sections than it is 1 in the Middle states and New England. In fact in some of the country districts there it has almost superseded entire the press of the old parties-the same having disap- peared or come in within the new fold.