Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1896-04-26
GRIEVANCE
Committee Is the Prop
er Name,
ATTORNEY GENERAL CRANE Es-
PLAINS ms OPINION or THE
LATE DALLAS oosTEaEscn.
ARE NOT SUPPORTED.
EVEN GoID DEMOCRATS WILL NOT
STAND ny rmEm.
Hon. John NJ. Dapcnn Of Tyler Nos
. Few wora. TO say Concerning
the Meeting.

Austln. Tex, April 2s.--tspecial)--
Attorney General Crane In answer TO
the inquiry, "Whnt DO you think OF the
Dallas conferenoe?' unid tcdny:
Il suppose you mean the meeting or
the grievance committee. FOR eucn II
was. Each Of the distinguished athtos-
men IN attendance who were IN gym
pnthy with It's objects had grievance
or his own. II N a source OF some sat
iafaction TO know that It wha not IN
any proper sense representative
meeting Most OF those IN attendance
represented no constituency or SPOKE
for no one but Themselves. The con-
eervauiye Democrats who oppose the
unlimited coinage OF silver utterly re-
pudiate them. All Democrats recog-
nixe that the existence OF the party y
necessary for the preservation Of good
government. They are never ready 20
abandon or destroy II because they nre
not In accord With aOmc of ita cNccu-
tive committees.
"rhe position OF those people ~ RI
diculuuA They are abandoning the
party because they cannot aEivr Win
Dudley and sixteen others. all Of whom
they claim have exceeded their nu-
thohty. II has therefore boen demon
sfratcd TINT Il takes Just seventeen
men to drive those courageous pntri~
OTIS out OF the Democratic party. They
win not appeal TO the primaries. the
state nor dlhnet conventions. They
fenr that the great majority Of the
party viii treat them unjustly ana they
Hecedod
'"nut the size Of the crowd ID con-
soling to Democrats Neither could II
be said TO have been made up of aus.
interested Democrats who never sought
office. The great majority OF thoHc
whose presence the newspapers noted
were veteran Office seekers. SOM OF
them had been auccefSful. But they
recognize their weakness. To keep the
| public from finding It out, they called
their convention for the same time ana
| place nxcd for the Democratic con
| vontion, hut That win 40 profit them
az they VIII hnd out later.
"Thoir Inconsistencies are amusing.
AZ Galveston they conceded that thu
| dudley committee had the right and
authority TO cell Democrats conven-
lions. They denouncc Dudley ana the
] committed for uaurplng powers prop
erly belonging 10 the local committees
i and tho people. IN the next breath thSy
proceeded to usurp the power OF CALI
inR d convention. Thpt power thoy
knew they did not possensl ThGy knew
II belonged 10 the Democratic execu-
tive committed. OF which Dudley =
chairman They complained At the
form OF the ballot ana were nuthof,-
tntlvely Informed that their ballots
would be counted without reierenfe %
form provided the intention OF the
votes could he sncertnined theTcffon'
4 They insisted that they wanted 10
save tho Democratic party, and then
made the most earnest appeal 10 thsi
adherents 20 vote In oprosilion to all
Democratic nominees who would moi
agree to take their political cue from
them on all questions.
"Thoy nlaim 10 be Democrats, nnf
yet ahamelesrly refuse 70 submit % me
decision OF the majority or inc Demo-
Gratis IN convention assembled. Thes
might properly be denonr!nhted NE
monarchists who believe In tho DIVINE
rIxht of minorltles 10 rule tho ma
ioritlce--providod, always that theS
constitrie the minority. The Demo
cratic party Will not DO hurt by tha'
little gathering. Its nucccsa In The etht'
WIN be IN no senHe endangered there
by. II Will not even help the Populisi'
IN whose Interest X wne orRnuizcd. i
win hardly cut az iaygc q figure ~ ~
Lily whites. the Woman HunreRinin
or the third party Prohlbitionlsta,