Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-22
British Methodists Amused at
Their DID,. Preachers.
SOME REASONS FOR THE FALL.
Sober Second Thought Rapidly Revealing the
DeIusiveness of the Scheme.
Quietus on the Macune RumbuE-Wiu Re-
duce the Third Party 20 n Frazzle.
Result of tho Il. cent Dallas
Conference-AustinN Notes
The Ants Win tho Day.

Special TO the Gazette
AUSTIN, Tex, Oct. 1.-THE best infor-
nation attainable here is that the sub
treasury Is on the decline in Texas. 1t has
never amounted to great deal, and at no
time in the past six or eight months has it
assumed menacing proportions. y hand
full of walking delegates went about har-
arguing the profanum yulgum and
making Zeal Of noise, but it was all wind,
mere sound and fury. The novelty and
FEASIBILITY of the cheap money fake
caught the fancy of some unrefecting farm
ers for a time, but the sober second thought
is now revealing the decisions of it and in
terest in it is dying out. The emphatic re-
fusal OF the farmers Of Mississippi, who are
said to constitute four-ffths of the people
of that state, TO
INDoRsE THE sUB-TREAsURY
few weeks $50, has doubtless had o
wholesome effect in this state, where good
many wore lowering in doubt between Dem
ocracy and the third party. 1t is not the
fault of the leaders that the outlook is less
promising than it was. They have talked
and spouted, beloved and ranted, schemed
and plotted without intermission, but in
vain. The spirit they tried to raise failed
to respond, and no Moses is found whom
the people are willing to follow into the
doubtful realm of the sub-treasury The
edict went forth after the August meeting
at Dallas that the Alliance should be purged
of those not friendly to the sub-treasury.
The sub-Alliances in many counties sum-
moned the dissentients TO show cause why
they should not be -
EXPELLED FROM THE ALLIANCE.
In only few instances however did they
take the decisive step of expelling meui-
herS not in accord with the doctrine of Ma
cuneism. Generally speaking the sub-Alli-
ences refused to obey the edicts of the SUI
preme junta. Even as active an enemy as
Sam Dixon, manager of the hated Dallas
Travis county Alliance to which he has be-
longed for some years, although a strong
effort was made to get him out.
The only feature Of the sub-treasury
move that is at all interesting or touching,
now that its real status in the minds of the
people is known, is the charming CANA
raderie that subsists between Tracy, Sledge
and the stalwart sage of Waco. When three
such compatriOtS
CLOSET THEMSELVES
in a room for six or seven hours. as they did
at Dallas a few days ago, they must find
each others society wonderfully congenial.
Another cause of the fall in sub-treasury
stock is the unreienting opposition of the
dissentients and the establishment of an
opposition organ. The Dallas World is
clean, fair and Te1 edited paper. 1t does
not deal in buncombe or scandal, and gives
its readers the facts. The working of the
railroad commission, for example, is
watched with the keenest interest by the
people, but you hardly find any mention of
it in the Mercury. The sub-treasuryites
have no use for the commission, and their
paper studiously ignores it, never publish
ing ruling or rate made by it. They
would oppose it actively in their paper if
they did not know that the public would
QUESTION THE RELATIONS
between the Mercury and the railroads.
This organization anew of the Alliance on
anti-sub-treasury lines, which we are told
will soon materialize, promises to put
virtual quietus on the Macune humbug,
and reduce the third party to a fragile or
nothing 1t is thought, however, that the
Dallas conference, above mentioned, re-
suited in the withdrawal of the orators
from the field, and a cessation Of the effort
to organize third party.
The stalwarts could not use third party
very effectively in fight against the ad-
ninistration. An open alliance with such
an aggregation would be dead give-away
that would swamp the whole outfit. The
combination it is. hoped can be yelled by
keeping the sub-treasury leaders within
the party lines, where they can be used to
capture the primaries, if possible