The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 48, July 1944 - April, 1945 Page: 366
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Southwestern Historical Quarterly
Grange. The leftists were soon disappointed when the governor
not only failed to appoint a prominent Allianceman to the
commission, as requested by a petition, but appeared to ignore
the spirit of the Alliance. The rift in the order between the
left, represented by the legislative committee urging the sub-
treasury plan on the Legislature, and the right, standing by
Hogg in opposition to it, came to a climax in blows in the House
of Representatives between Tracy, a member of the committee,
and a rightist legislator. The eleven rightist members of the
Legislature issued the "Austin Manifesto" on March 4, 1891,
denouncing in scorching terms Macune, the plan, the defunct
exchange, and the leftists who (instead of using the Alliance's
opportunity to purify the Democratic Party) were headed
toward a third party.30 In the following months the air was
surcharged with action from both the right and the left. Though
there was disappointment too in the Grange camp, which had
centered on J. C. Calloway as an appropriate commissioner,'3'
the parting of the ways with the leftists (whom many farmers
had come to regard as the only group to be relied on for relief) 132
soon followed the election. The Grange peerage stood by
Hogg;133 "Farmer" Shaw, who sympathized with the Alliance
right and who, because of his opposition to Master Rose, even
favored electing a rightist to head the Grange,34" again turned
his guns on the leftists, giving especial attention to Macune and
to the sub-treasury plan. The dissenters, responding in kind,
recruited more Grangers,"3' carried the fight to the doors of
the foe and doubled their effectiveness by artful diplomacy.
They published to advantage documents that S. O. Daws,
leftist lecturer of the State Alliance, received at Rose's home
from him under false pretense; for this act Master Rose wrote
130Address to the Farmers, Laborers, . . . in ibid.; Gillespie County
Alliance Minutes, 81. The signers of the manifesto were Will L. Sargent,
D. McCunningham, R. N. Weisiger, W. P. Hancock, B. F. Rogers, J. L.
Goodman, F. M. Sellers, H. B. Beck, G. W. White, W. F. Murchison, and
W. C. McElwee.
'31Rose to Hogg, January 20 and April 13, and Rose to J. M. Callaway,
January 19 and 27 and July 5, 1891, in Rose Letter Book; W. H. Harris
to A. W. Buchanan, May 12, 1891, in Rose Papers.
132W. Fisher to Rose, August 8, 1891, in ibid.
'33Rose to Wm. Bramlett, February 23, 1891, in Rose Letter Book.
'34W. H. Harris to A. W. Buchanan, June 8, 1891, in Rose Papers.
'35Rose to Geo. Mitchell, March 13, Rose to J. J. Woodman, March 19,
Rose to H. J. Casey, April 1, Rose to J. C. Garrison, April 4, 1891, and
Rose to John Trimble, April 20, 1891, and January 8, 1893, in Rose
Letter Book; S. S. Jamison to Rose, October 6, 1893, Rose Papers; Gillespie
County Alliance Minutes, 81.366
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