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The Farmers' Alliance in Texas, 1875-1900
stores or consolidated their stores with those of the Grangers
to take advantage of their longer experience.5 Joint picnics
were common." Such fusions are partly explained by the pre-
ponderance of emphasis on the financial and political features
in the Alliance compared to the educational and social emphases
of the Grange, the educational and social purposes suiting the
farm wives better.57
With partisan feeling mounting in 1886, many dissenters
who did not understand the fundamentals of the Alliance58
went into it, including such prominent Grangers as R. T. Ken-
nedy, secretary of the State Grange. With one foot in each
order Kennedy, who had been chairman pro tempore of the
Greenback-Labor Convention, 1880, on the State Executive
Committee, and the nominee for state comptroller, concluded
the Grange must enter politics to hold its position. He became
a candidate for a Limestone County office and endeavored to
secure Grange and Alliance votes. Master Rose wrote on the
"Grange and Politics" in the Texas Farmer, the Grange organ,
at which Kennedy took offense."' A. M. Keller, the Worthy
Lecturer, sided with Kennedy and opposed Rose on the lecture
system, and the two with their friends formed a substantial
anti-Rose faction" in the late eighties from which the Alliance
greatly benefited. Just where the malcontents first broke
through the Democratic lines to take control is difficult to de-
termine. The Alliance in Comanche County, led by Thomas
Gaines, supported a ticket of "Farmer Democrats" which dis-
lodged the entire Bourbon "ring" of proprietary incumbents,
while the same thing happened in Erath County. The non-
conformists, Knights of Labor, etc., calling themselves Non-
partisans, with the sympathy of the Alliance in Tarrant County,
elected H. S. Broiles mayor of Fort Worth and sent a repre-
5'Rose to J. W. Kennedy, December 4, 1888, in ibid.
"6McKinnon to Rose, June 14, 1886, in ibid.
57Ray to Rose, June 7, 1886, in ibid.; Rose to R. T. Kennedy, June 7, 1886,
in Rose Letter Book.
58Macune, in "Proceedings of the National Farmers' Alliance and Co-
operative Union," December 3, 1889, in Dunning (ed.), Farmers' Alliance,
105-109.
5E. W. Winkler (ed.), Platforms of Political Parties of Texas, 198;
Rose to R. T. Kennedy, June 17, and Rose to E. W. Smith, June 26, 1886,
in Rose Letter Book. Put Darden, Master of the National Grange, Rose,
and James L. Ray believed that the Alliance would blow over after the
election. Put Darden to Rose, January 19, and Ray to Rose, July 1, 1886,
in Rose Papers; Rose to Geo. White, August 31, 1886, in Rose Letter Book.
60Rose to W. A. Shaw, June 15, 1887, in ibid.355
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