Fort Worth Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 32, Ed. 1, Thursday, July 16, 1891 Page: 1 of 12
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THEY ARE A
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The Fanners Alliance Convention
in Full Blast
THEY KNOW THEIR BUSINESS
And Lo e No Time in Getting
Matters Through
THt FLATF0RM TO BE ADOPTED
0r
p of What Mav Be Ex-
pected from It
SUBTREASURY LAMB SHEARED
Trie
Convention Sat Down
Him Pretty Hard
On
1 HiJGHEYS SOUND SPEECH
i vjs Delivered Before the
vrtion Last Night
Con
THE PROCEEDINGS OF TODAY
srs nt IIiI of Missouri and Mc
rot Misiissippi Tim Surlil of
i m Iroieriling ff
1 ulilentioii in Detail
the
day of the antisulvtrcasury
Alliance curvention last Fri
i f deep interest to all con
movement aid will have a
i iK c Jivt It is to be hoped
v I1 < r these earnest horny
brainy men will re
Pjrginjr the Alliance
i Hi matter ihat has been in
i uJ that it inn again assume
mil iuior it possessed wlien a
i
i aw thoroughly posted on the
li nation and particu
winch have a bear
or indirectly ujion the
it Ins prosperity They realize
iivy nothing to gain by an alli
i Ioii nal demagogues and they
l 1 1 of this convention as in
it ma determine will be met
inart approval and support of
> s if tho farmers It is
are few in number Lut
is uie not bankers Ticy have
td prml in attending conven
a u thry would curxicstly desire
aid the railroads are not grantinir
transportation to any remuikabie
ticwiiings of the convention yestcr
li the bod has hardl pot
u m business indicates
oinrKisn n have weighed
questions which are to
> em They have
uiidrred each question in all
uici iu all possible lights They
are act ins not for a day or a
i cat but for all time They
i ho success of the principles
iicarin will reach down down
anj will have it effect
i aien s children The realise
a hand and it must be met
ief il lonsideiate deliberation
fiire many of them back to
the order was first ushered
< u Poo villo and they re
remarkable growth of
i up to the time the
idea was sprung
isrsl the pem eful revolution
i in Kansas by a coalition uith
party and thoy realize that
mi itrough he Donocrpcy that
cses are to be attained
b f Im Jizettk to predict
D mi < toihiy Tho men com
< on vent ion know what they arc
i n j uie not in the humor for
rnu effected yesterday U a
n are no politicians in its
i i ue representative men rcp
i ui the brain and brawn and
J oiio S ir state They are
itrst as was shown by tho
Iiwluci the coiiventiin sat
i if siibtruasury aud third party
Vl > f work was accomplished
ct > managed to sandwich
i n uu lably good speeches
T which are given in
U rTiK of today Two
fpt in Alliance work one in
ii tii her iu Mississippi will ad
i iiiicptinn today Their ad
i > v iut hastily caught up in the
the moment hut are
i ii s iron the brains of men who
Ie Milubuvt matter the study ol
id thoy know where
i snejk These addresses
io w i ih > of tho careful
i ii ol ai who can spare the time
Ill
sci tion which constitute the
in v ere drawn last uight
i be riimrttd to tho conveu
They ure a return to
lri a principles of the Alliance op
> ho suhUi usury and thirdparty
s It condemns the steering
< iI kT and iis demands upon
the legislature demands a fair and
iliurtiul trial ot the lailroad com
r ssiou and denounces making the order a
tiC i instrument lor fnrt nerfuc the polit
LJ interests of yuy man or party
Tni i i little doubt that the platform as
Ou iacd above uill be adopted
Tin ItiwiiMiiix
Site Irocccfllnss of the Hody Yesterday
The Iorcnoon Sfssion
Te convention assembled at 11 oclock
and was called to order by Mr Bragg of
Fannin county wlioin order that all might
understand the objects for which the cou
< l ion was called read the call published
In 1 hursdays ii iztttk At the conclusion
of the reading of the call Mayor Smith
arose and welcomed the delegates to the
hospitality of Fort Worth He said that as
Mayor of the city of Fort Worth he re
Jaiiod to welcome the deKgates of the Alli-
ance meeting to tho city of Fort Worth
Jla any deliberative body which chose
i i < u Worth as tho city in which to hold its
coiicntion would be welccmo but tha
frmers of thr state were doubly welcome
riiesenting as they do the source from
winch our city must draw a large part of
its sustenance that Fort Worth was at the
cisposal of t he gentlemen till the meeting
had adjourtwd and that rery effort would
Lo muse to make their stay as pleasant as
lossible He congratulated tho body on its
juna judgment in aduering to the primal
principles liid down by the Alliance before
It hud gotten to be the power it now is aud
hot following the lead of the demagogues
nd sycophants who were attempting to
t their position for selfish and mercenary
motives
J W Crayton responded to Mayor
Smiths remarks as follows
tlr Mayor Brethren and Fellow Citizens
In behalf of the conservative incorrputi
i
bio and unterrified Alliance men of Texas
j cheers I I most heartily thank you the cit-
izens of Fort Worth for the hospitaDle
welcome extended to us today through
your houorabl representative We have
long known that the name of Fort Worth
was a synonym of hospitality as well as
thrift vim and enterprise The industrial
classes cf Texas feel kindly towards your
beautiful city for aside from her native
pluck there resides within her borders the
lions Dick Wynne Jim Swajne and E G
Senter faithful tribunes of the people and
last but not Irast it is the home of Tue
Gazette that fearless champion of
Hie peoples rights cheers We
have met upon a grand and noble
mission today tu inauirurate a
movement that will overthrow tho usurpa-
tion and the cunningly devised schemes of
bartering away the rights and liberties of
an unsuspecting and too confiding people
by thoso in high places in the order and
their servile allies We may be called
traitors etc but if it bs traitorous to
call attention to the base prostitution of tho
purposes of the order call a halt and effect
a return to its pristine principles then we
cheerfully accept the appellation from the
political hacks and third partyites who
would profit at the expense of those whom
they protend to represent In order to
avert disruption of the order and to restore
it to its original beneficent purposes we
should proceed with great deliberation
Conservatism should be the watchword
Our purpose is not to disrupt but to purify
and ennoble The untrustworthy leader
must be deposed and the visionary sub
treasury scheme with all other political
questions must be kept out of the order
This done the Alliance of Texas will march
on to the accomplishment of the grand pur-
pose of its founders I will not detain you
longer for this is not a time for speech
making buta tune for heroic action Again
I thank you Mr Mayor for your kind wel-
come extended to us I trust our stay with
jou may l > e both pleasant and profitable
J W Crayton was appointed temporary
secretary after which tho appointment of
committees was taken up The committee
on permanent organisation was appointed
one for each congressional district as
follows
Dr K B Sartor Second district
M C Wado Fourth district
E W Wright Fifth district
David Burst Sixh district
K X Eysiger Seventh district
1 XV Brooks Eighth district
B J Keudrick Ninth district
Dan MeCiiiinimrram Tenth district
George T Murray Elcvfntu district
T XV Crayton and J R Moody state at
large
This committee reports today at 930
a in
inTho committee on programme composed
of Dr XV B Morrow of Robertson county
William Cass of Fannin county and M D
Buraey of Atascosa county reported At
i > 30 p in on Friday an address from XV
L McGaugtny of Austin On Saturday
from 11 a m to 1 p m iu address by XV
S McAIestr of Mississippi From 0 to 11
a in an address by V S Hall president
of the Missouri Alliance
A motion to extend a cordial invitation to
the mcrcliHnts and business men of the city
and the public at large to attend the con
ventian was pushed The vote on the mo
tiuu was rather weak and one dissenting
voice vas heard M Sellers a member
of the lust legislature and a llery speaker
spoke I i the question as follows
I am opposed to a secret session be-
cause it has been published bj the press of
he state tiiat this meeting would beheld
with opsti doors and anything to the con-
trary would smack too much of tho
powwow of Waio which every man
woman and child knowb is contrary to the
declaration of rights bequeathed by and
baptized in the blood of the foun lers of
that i iliLs government I counsel conservatism
in all the proceedings of this meeting We
are taught to speak the truth uid let us in
the fear of him who created us do so the
denunciation of the world to tha contrary
Trie contention then adjourned uutil 8
p m
Tbe Afterunun Session
The afternoon ssion was called to order
at ii oclock and the committee on perma-
nent organisation immediately reported as
follows
We yourcommitee composed of one
delegate from each congressional district
beg eae to submit the following
For president B J Kendrlck of Mc
Clellan county for vicepresident C M
Wheeler Ftnuin county for secretary XV
II IJ Murray Navarro county for assist-
ant secretaries J XV Brooks and XV T
Jjs lor sergeantatarms XV D Pitte
K X Wkissiuek Chairman
Ceo T Mrrnvr Secretary
The report of tho comraittea was
uuaiiimously ri < pted and amidst tho
cheers of the delegates the perma-
nent chairman Mr Kendrlck was
escorted to the chair and introduced to the
convention by Temporary Chairman Bragg
The chairman thanked the body for tho
honor aud said 1 little thought that I
shuuld be called upon to preside over the
deliberations of ths body 1 am no speaker
aud will take up but little of your time In
talking In this convention I think our
every movement should be conservative
careful and deliberative and prompted by
the true and correct principles v hich un-
derlie the foundations even of the Alliance
Let us not stray from these salient princi-
ples which wo have ever voiced the utter
disregard and violation of which gave biith
to our organization and the standing by
which has nurtured and fostered us In
preiiding I expect to know no man but
shall treat all as brethren In conclusion
I would say that it is mete for us to remem-
ber that our actions today should not be in-
tended to stand for a day or a year but for
all time and though the present may not
seethe fruits of our labors the future will
yield a golden harvests Jentlemen 1 thank
you again
Immediately upon the conclusion of
Chairman iCendricks remarks W Ii
lamb of Montague county state organizer
of the People s party obtained tho floor
and asked to be informed as to who was
eligible to a vote in the convention suppli >
menting his query with tho observatiou
that he was an Alliance man in good stand-
ing and as such was entitled to a voice in
any convention which styled itself an Alli-
ance convention He also stated in so many
words that he ardently espoused tho sub
treasury scheme and believed it to be Just
economical and right He solicited infor-
mation as to eligibility and requested some
gentleman to answer him Mr Moody
from Limestone lost no time in enlightening
Mr Lamb and did so in such a pointed
sledgehammer like manner as to leave no
room for doubt in Mr Lambs mind about
his eligibility His face changed expres-
sions often and the expressions were
divers and sundry in their appearance
and it required but a short while for the
gentleman from Limestone to convince the
gentleman from Montague that he was very
much in the wrong i > ew The decision of
the chair was asked for on the question
and Chairman Keudrick ruled that the gen
tlemans own statement with regard to the
subtreasury matter had answered the
question and that on this statement alone
his eiicibility was forfeited whereupon
Mr Lamb and five followers retired amidst
cries of Lamb Lamb Two or three of
the retiring subtreasuryites were unfortu-
nate in forgetting their dignity and in-
dulged in some unnecessary noise and
demonstration that grated inharaioniously
upon the hitherto quiet deliberations of tho
convention Two or three afterwards saw
that their enthusiasm had led them into
demonstrations that to say the least were
exceedingly unwise and not in keeping
with the dignity which is always conducive
to respect even in opponents and return-
ing after adjournment discussed the matter
with members of the convention
After settling the question as to who was
entitled to seats in the convention a com-
mittee on resolutions com > osed of one
member from each congressional district
was appointed all resolutions to be referred
to this committee without reading Follow-
ing is tUecommittee Second district XV B
Morrow Robertson county Fourth district
X Tt s iw v wv > yjjpjss
B C Bragg Fannin county Fifth district j
C C Bell Denton county Sixth district
David Bcmist Ellis county Seventh dis-
trict It X Weisezer Victoria county i
Eighth district XV D Buraey Atascosa >
county Xinlh district T M Smith j
Navarro Tenth district D McCun
county
county A F Lauders Hopkins county
A motion to hold an evening session at
S3u and after that an executive session of
such as have been passed upon by tho com-
mittee on credentials was carried
Af tr the committee on resolutions had
been appointed and had retired to draft
resolutions X S Huh president of the
Missouri Farmers Alliance was intro-
duced to the convention Mr Halls ap-
pearance was the signal for shouts aud
cheers that only gave way to the eagerness
of the convention to hear what one of
the foremost men of tho national
Alliance movement might have to say to
the delectation of the convention Mr
Hall said It is not my intention to make
any lengthy remarks this afternoon nor my
purpose to detan you in the permanent or-
ganization of this body I shall only con-
sume the fewest of miirttes possible in
paying my respects to this honorable body
and making such remarks as I
deem lit on this occasion A
peculiar ambition fired me to enlist under
the ensign of tho Farmers Alliance an
ambition the height of which was to see the
farmer raised to the position which he
should occupy This ambition came to mc
at a peculiarly sad time in my life My
father was born raised and lived upon a
farm during his whole life and likewise
have I been reared 1 knew nothing but
farming
My honored parent was a man who be-
lieved and knew that the farmers of the
country weie outrageously oppressed by
class legislation and a corrupt system of
favoritism and furthermore it provoked
and grieved him to see that they weie
willing oppressors as it seemed of them-
selves and on every vital question wero
divided against themselves On his death-
bed he summoned me to him and
with his last breath breathed a request
tha I should join the Farmers Alliance
movement and do what I could in an
honorable and unostentatious way to in-
duce the armers of the country to band
themselves together for mutual protection
and benefit 1 promised and how well I
have kept this sacred and willing obliga-
tion you know My connection with
the Alliance is blessed with a
fathers dying breath and my
commission against the cohorts of bribery
the crime of class legislation and of fealty
to the cause of the farmer is as sacred and
unalterable as the oath of Hannibal against
the city at the mouth of the Tiber For
awhile after my connection with the order
all passed smoohly enough the platform of
equal rights to all and special privi-
leges to nor e seemed to be the
dominating idea with which our
organization was untried The first cloud
that passed over our hitherto unclouded
horizon made its appearance in the St
Lcis convention and I am grieved to
say orgnaied with and was fostered by a
Texan It was an instrument couched in
equivocal and uncertain terms
which asked the farmeis to pledgo them-
selves to tho same class legisla-
tion to opjiosc which the farmers
Alliance was conceived Heio this insid-
ious political movement of a third party
first showed its head seeking to pervert
the pure principles upon which we restand
subver the ordi r to their own aggrandize-
ment The clouds have been gathering
thicker and heavier as lime moves on The
Alliance first lived moved and had its
being upon your own broad nlains
and I am pleased to state
hat the first ray of light the firs hope of
redemption emanated from Texas I was
accordingly more than giad that from the
same state which gavo the Alliance birth
the first organized movement that looked
to remedying the evils that had crept into
the body should come an eTort to return
to the pure and unriefiled tho righteous and
unbesmirchcU principles upon which we pin
otr tilth Let lit show the world one thin
and that is that ur advocuoy of the prin
ciple laid down in our constitution of equal
rights to all and special privileges to none
does not arise from our inability to be of
the robbers In conclusion let mo add
In reading a life of George Washington
latcy I came across a statement
which he made to tho effect
thai Adam Smith struck the
kev note to a protean prosperity when he
said In every well regulated government
labor is the source of all good government
The laboring classes of this country labor
two and onethird hours a day more than
anv other class of men yet we see 10 pc
cent of their lands mortgaged and the
rest in Jeopardy Does this show
that our government is run on this infalli-
ble principle laid down by this eminent
political economist Assuredly not Some-
thing is distraught something is wronsr
This two and onethird hours will tell tho
tale I long to arrive at a period ivhe i the
principles of the great economist will be
vindicated and the farmer receives rights
commensurate with this two and onethird
hours he works when others are idle
After Mr Hall had concluded W S Mc
Alester of the Mississippi Alliance was
introduced He said I have no
speeh to make this afternoon
but will only offer a few
rambling thoughts Tomorrow I hope to
present some crystalized thoughts which I
trust will be of good to tho organi-
zation Our order is in a critical condi-
tion and needs a remedy and we
in convention assembled are seeking to de-
vise this remedy and when found it must
be administered in no broken dose if we
wish to lave again in the waters which flow
from the pure fount in which our order
was conceived When I received the
invitation to attend this convention and
determined that 1 would lend my voice and
do what I might to bring the Farm-
ers Alliance the greatest fac-
tor for good in our country back
to its pristine principles and rescue it from
the hands of those who seek to obscure the
original purposes and blacken its fair name
I seek and luve in view the restoration of
the Farmers Alliance as a body
to its original purity aud chastity
to place it again on that pedesta which
has truth for its founuation and upon
which pedestal a monument moe
lasting than brass will stand
to proclaim to the world that the farmers of
this country turned their backs on aud
stamped out every attempt to corrupt the
principles of tneir order without so
much as looking askance at the glittering
game which hypocrisy and deception held
out to them The Farmer Alliance to-
day is largely controlled by men who
are prompted by motives of selfishness
and chicanery Our mission brethren is to
rescue the Alliance from the domination
of these mercenary impostors to avert the
deep damnation that must cer-
tainly come upon an order
that permits such licentious perversions of
sacred principles as we have witnessed for
months past In our St Louis convention
as has been said we announced to
a waiting and expectant country
our sacred principle of equal riehts to all
special privileges to none Right on top of
these declarations we find a certain clique
striving with everincreasing vigor and
assurance to brinsr about class leg
islation equally as repulsive and burden-
some as that which we are striving with
might and main to down The ob-
ject of this meeting brethren as
I understand it is to promulgate
an instrument which will give to the world
in no uncertain tone the sense of the
convention and of the better class
of the farmers not onlv of Texas
but of the Union an instrument that will
read out of the Alliance the scheming dema-
gogues the miserable shysters andcthe
boodle tricksters that infest it
A committee consisting of J L Goodman
George T Murray and Will L Sargeant
was appointed to see the mayor and thank
him for the invitation to take
a nde over the city and express
to him the regrets of the i corced Xow there
convention that it would be unable to cc J wonderful phenomena
The committee on resolutions
instructed to report to
null Sargent oiuucniui county State ij il
at large C Easterling of Freestone I introduced
the
iur
ningham Jeon county Eleventh district j convention a f < 30 this morning
Will L Stonewall J W L Mcliaughey of Austin
wero
the
was then
to the convention as
speaker of the evening meet
He was greeted with a
salvo of cheers and in a few brief words
thanked tho convention for the honor con-
ferred upon him
The convention then took a recess until
S3t p m
Tho Keningr Seasiou
The evening session which was devoted
entirely to speeches on AUianco principles
and matters was called to order promptly
at S 30 XV L McGaughey of Avnin land
commissioner of the state was introduced
and spoke as follows
Fellow Citizens All great periods of
prosperity in a nations history have priruo
causes that can be reverted to as evidences
of such prosperity and vice veisa all op-
pressive times in a nations history can lie
traced to maladministration brought about
either by wickedness or class oppression
There is no great effect without great
cause Equal justice to alL exclusive Vrivi
leges to none Let us look at our muntrv
frdu lS47to 1SC0
Then the i > cople were happy Plenty
abounded in every frugal industrious
household in our broad land Then the ex-
penses of our government run up to only 2
per capita or 10 per family now it is S3
per family eight times more now than in
1S00 It is true that great cuanges have
come and our expenses are naturally
greater but not eight times greater Has
our circulating medium increased in pro-
portion Xo then we had y O per capita in
circulation Xbw we have less than 0
actually out among the people It is true
more money is out of the vaults of the na-
tional treasury but onehalf is held as a
reserve and is locked up in state treasuries
etc leaving not enough at ordinary times
to say that we have money ui in which all
wealth is based We were a happy people
then
The merchant and town people came to
the country to borrow money
I remember when niecljdressed men
would ride out take supper chat plcas
antlv partake of a frugal meal notice the
children make us nice little presents b < >
agreeable generally till after supper Then
our good mother would tet the kej to
fathers secretary Xotes would t > signed
the money coun ed a return trip to town
made and no one knew except the family of
tho business transaction Eight per cent
per annum was all that was asked All
prospered Happy days
Xo wonder our fathers occupied a = cat
near the altar Xo horrid dreams of fo ced
sales of property under the sheriffs ham-
mer Xo Tain OShanter races for dear
financial existence
Oh the pity of a man in debt I His sleep
is broken his dreams heur no silvery
5SrfJ S Vf 1 r > rv
a cause for such
for it is a true
icpl of the invitation extended for 9 oclock j wonder to us of these hard times Thirteen
this morniiig on account of the convening i years of unbroken prosperity to all enter
of the convention at 930
prises Every cause every calling everj
class made aud not only made but made
aud kept p > ay of money to meet all de-
mands
We hud state bunks that could isiue A >
000 each but we had no national banks I
like tho state bank The money stays near
home It wont go far dv fiem home
It would cot be hoarded by Eastern capital-
ists like our money of today But that
alone did net make the flush times we have
told you about
We had a national tax that was so light
that none over felt it It was laid on lux-
uries and it was an ad valorem aad not a
tar by weight like now
The exiwnses of the Federal government
in 1547 were < d05000rt for 1560 it was i77
000000 todav under Republican rule it is
SI000000000 ten hundred million dollars
Prodigality recklessness and theft Groat
God the good have fallen We groan under
tho ponderous burden The last feather
htks been laid on the poor farmers back
Can we endure itf ill we stand it longer
Xo no no in thunder tones we say no
We cant stand it longer Our homes cry
no our wives ia tatters with hollow
cheeks and sunken eyes say no Our
ragged children growing up in ignorance
cry pitifully say no pa
Tl
lere are other acts of wickedness that j Mr Lamb himself says ho did not come
aided in bringing about our present state of
woe All the gold and silver that industry
and energy could dig uji was coined into
money How now In 1S73 there was a
great rape committed upon the silver pro-
duction of the United States It was de-
monetized by venality and dire rascality
Bonds that were to be paid in the currency
of the country could only be paid in goio
Bonds that were worth 60 cents on the dol-
lar were swelled to 140 We were swin-
dled out of money enough to Day off tho
present public debt Oh miserable man
that would aid a party of such evil mon-
strosities
A man that would leave the Democratic
party now ought lo be put in the calaboose
tn keep him from injuring his fellowman
Wo have taken the outer trenches of the
enemy everywhere Some of his strong
holds are in our hands Xbw let us burnish
our armor marshal our hosts In one grand
Democratic phalanx and in lSJ capture his
citadel ti ar up his camp and free the peo-
ple Glorious liberty for which our
fathers died Xow how can wo do this
Let your minds revert back again Tho
same causes will produce the same effects
A low tariff and free coinage caused the
people to be happy from 1S47 to 1S00 Why
not make them prosperous and happy
again A rule that will solve a problem to-
day will solve the same problem fifty jears
hence The Appian way that led to Romo
12000 years ago leads to Rome today
The same solution of Euclids problems
in the days of the great mathematician are
used today for thoy were correct Riuht
will alwajs prevail audit was right to tax
ho people lightly as in the good era from
1S47 to lbMI and ir was right to
rustle of angels brings no undulating calm i coin all the gold and silver for the use of
of the pillow of peace but nightmares and
horrid specters with long gaunt fingors
probing au empty > ocketbool with threat-
ening gestures Oh the unhappy debtor I
After a night of unrest and mental
anguish he wakes tired and ill unfit for
human companionship He scolds his tired
and emaciated wife slaps his haif clad child
whips his sunkeneyed horse and forgets
his God Is this luau crazy Ought he to
bo sc nt to the asylum for safe keeping Xo
he ought to be put in the calaboose for not
using every feasible effort in human power
to bring back the halcyon days of our
fathers
Then wo wero supremely happy as a na-
tion Xo mortgages on land no battle be-
tween capital and labor no strife between
classes From 1550 to 1S00 farming wealth
increased 10 > per cent per annum or 10S
per cent in ten j eurs over doubled Can
wecittnka tha lesson ami profit by it
Please indite that In your memories for
future reference for by comparison aloue
ran wo arrive at Just conolusions To be
plain the fanners of the United States in
18a0 paid taxes on 1271575 m worth of
realty In 1SG0 the farmers paid taxes on
1045007 over aouble Wonderful in
crease in rural wealth 103 per cent Jti b de
cade Unprecedented prosperity Fellow
citizens there was a cause for this pros-
perity
Tho manufacturing interest increased 9
per cent All industries of every kind
flourished Xo industry of any kind came
under bO per cent during the era of pros-
perity from lsr > 0 to lSH We were the
happiest people n the world I cannot find
where one single farm was on mortgage
record Money was plentiful and chcip
and it was worth 100 cents in all markets on
the dollar
X ow if a man succeeds in any legitimate
honorable calling is it reasonable to sup-
pose that ho will quit that occupation and
try something in which he has no expe-
rience If he should make all the money ha
needs by planting corn and wheat have
everything around him that heart could
wish would it not be very foolish for him
to sow all down in some untried crop say
buckwheat or beets
Take a lesson right here We were once
happy once prosporous out of debt had
money for all legitimate purposes Let us
examine our present condition compare it
with the past and learn a lesson for life
Xo sane reading man can congratulate
himself upon the con lition of our country
today Hard times is read in every
wrinkled brow prestnt Have jou any
money The last harvest of cotton was Im-
mense Millions came to our sunny South-
land to move these millions of bales of cot-
ton Where is that now Echo answers
in hollow tones Where
Wo made 7300000 bides of cotton last
year worth 45 per bale amounting to
the enormous sum of 300000000 onethird
of all the money now in the United States
AVhere is that 300000000 gone Why are
there not more Alliance men here today
Because they have no money to pay the ex-
penses of the trip
Seventeen millions are said by statisticians
to be our share of the billion now in circu
lation There is more than that in the
stale but it is locked up in oanks put away
in halfworn stockings and in your state
treasury Seventeen million out amongthe
people I doubt that we have half that
amount now loose That reminds me of a
conversation that was had while the farm-
ers held their great mesting at Waco
An old friend of long standing congratu
lated your humble servant on his success in
the land office I asked him Cant you
congratulate the entire administration
Your treasurer has every dollar of the
states money our attorneygeneral Is
winning laurels daily for your state The
sidimr and switch case has returned over
1000000 acres of land to your school do-
main Why not congratulate all
The governor has gone back on us
That reminds me that we have the rich-
est cheap land in the world and on forty
years time It produces more wheat than
Prussias alluvial plains but it only brings
50 cents per bushel cotton is only worth 7
cents per pound How significant There
is a cause for all these woes Can we find
it We will see
Every man of nearly every profession
and calling will agree that something is
wrong somewhere All will say Wo
havent money enough to meet the pressing
demands of our increasing business and our
increasing means for business The
banrer says tot enough of money the
merchant says not enough Tho farmer
cries truthfully so not cnouzh Every
comrressnian from Texas says give the
people more money What kind of money
Like the old maid who wanted to marrv
come anybody Lord any kind is better
than none Give us all the gold wa dig up
Give us all the silver dug up in the United
States and coin it free as gold is coined
WeI we have tried to portray the evils
of our country we have said there is
less than onethird money enough in circu
lation we have shown vou that an era of
thirteen years from 1S47 to 1S60 was the
most prosperous the wealthiest the hap
piest for the farmer that history oaj re
the people as was done from 1S47 to Wti
Right will prevail When the wicked rule
the ieopo mourn
Equal justice to all exclusive priveleges
to none
We dont ask protection but we ask not
to be robbed Take S3 from every family
in Fort Worth and what would be the
result Onehalf of them would be bank-
rupted and the other half financially
cripplod
Take 1 from every family in Tarrant
county and stagnation and starvation would
follow sooner or later It was taluu last year
It will be taken this year but stagnation
aud starvation like a gaunt wolf is now at
the door
There are many remedies now offered as-
a palladium for all our financial woes
One called the subtreasury plan 1 will
read it for fear I fail to state it correctly
Reads from Gazette of Pth of July Com-
ment
Some men may join it from curiosity
That reminds mo of a story I once heard
A young lady made a visit to the coast in
midwinter Tho family all wanted to know
what she saw Tells the story of the pears
and the bananas J
Xow dont go off after a wild fautasm
a chimera of a wild greetibackers brain
a plot concocted by the Republican party
Xo state in the Xorth will support it It is
pressed only in Democratic states
Oh that the peoplo of the South could
see and avoid the ways of their worst
euemy
Let us return home resolved to teach the
truth and to meet any and all enemies with
tha sword of truth Democracy What
would be th result
Let us lift the veil of futurity and look
twenty years hence
Tariff for revenue only to run a Demo-
cratic government Silver coined free like
goldTaxes
Taxes gathered from the rich in propor-
tion to their riches and not from the poor
as is now
Nobody would want a subtreasury then
nobody would have a high tariff after
they saw and lived under such a govern
ment
Give us an internal revenue that wealth
may bear its part of the burdens of govern-
ment
The farmer would be happy wear a plug
hat etc
At the conclusion of Mr McGaughev s
address loud calls for Tom Smith were
heard Smith is one of the strongest Alli-
ance men in the state and is just as
strong antisubtreasury He responded
to the call with a ringing speech in which
he ripped the subtreasury scheme from A
to Izzard His sjieech though not a lengthA
one was one characterized by grout power
and many telling blows straight from the
shoulder resulted
At the conclusion of his address the con-
vention went into executive session and
thon adjourned until 9H0 this morning
THK LAMB KPISODi
Snuiational Sren on tho rinor of the
Cnnentioii
During tho discussion of tho motion to
hold an evening session occurred one of the
most sensational scenes yet witnessed in
the Chamber of Commerce hall Tnr Ga-
zette has been on the floor of probably a
hundred conventions political and other-
wise yet never has the reporter witnessed
a scene like that of yesterday afternoon or
heard a man so unmercifully scored ns was
the case in the remarks of Mr Moody in
regard to Mr Lamb and his attitude It
was a scathing arrangement and every
sentence cut like a whip especially when
punctuated with the applau e of the au-
dience
The motion to hold aueveningsession had
been put to the house and was open for de-
bate Mr Lamb roso to his feet and saidf
Mr Chairman 1 desire to know what
the evening session is for
It is for the discussion of Alliance prin-
ciples said the chair
I would like to know said Mr Lamb
what are the requirements for participa-
tion in this convention If it is for Alliance
members in good standing then I shall
take part if it is for those who have come
here in answer to the call then I cannot j
participate
Mr Chairman I can tell him what con
situtes the membership on this floor
said Mr Moody It is these who have
come to this convention in answer to the
call it is for all those who are opposed to
subtreasury and other schemes and not
for those who are trying to drag the Al-
liance into a third political party Itis not for
such men as W Ii Lamb who have used the
Alliance to further their own ends I have
worked early and late as an Alliance man
I have taken money earned by my wife and
children iu the cotton patch to aid the
cause I have seen men sell their last cow
in order to obtain the needed funds What
has become of it I know the money was
turned in Where has it gone I came
here under the call of the committee If I
came to oppose anybody it is this gentle
ican End about aix others I recog
ajLtgSgj sgsggarc gg
nized thi man who with others has at-
tempted for the past six years to prostituto
the Alliance in a third iioiitical party I
recognize him as one who engineered a reso-
lution in the legislature deceiving the farm-
ers as to the third party movement at Waco
Then he himself went to tha Cincinnati
convention and was eleced organizer of-
t he Peoples party I myself lm been a
state lecttrer and traveled over the state
from Dallas to Houstou assuring the jieo
pe of Texas the Alliance should not con-
flict with their political or religious belief
I find this man and a few others triing to
initiate nivself and others into a third
political party with our heads in a sack
driving us with a board with a nail in it
This convention was called for the purpose
of perpetuatia Alliance principles pure
and simple as were given Us by those who
founded the Alliance and to defeat
the unholy cuds and aims of such
political prostitutes as this man
Lamb and his crowd I heard he had made
the assertion published in a certain paper
in Texas I have read it you have
all read it wc have all read it in
which he expressed a determination
to come to Fort Worth and capture this
convention for his third party scheme I
dont beliove the convention should be cap-
tured and I have no idea it wi
What is the ruli ng of tho chairt some-
one asked
I decide said tha chairman that as
here in answer to the call he is not entitled
to a seat on the floor I base this decision
upon his own statement and not upon his
membership iu the Alliance and I want it
so understood by the press and the people
Mr Chairman shouted an excited del-
egate 1 move a committee of three be ap-
pointed to investigate the gentleman and
see if he is an Alliance member in good
standing
At this point pandemonium broke loo e
and shouts of put him out sergeantat
arms Limb Iimb etc drowned
all other noises and the chairman vainly
rapped for order During the confusion
Lnnib left the chamber and as ho did so
someone shouted Alliance men come
out come out and five persons who had
been seated around Lamb got up and fol-
lowed him out cheer after cheer ringing
on the air as they filed through the door
and down the stairs
The article published aud referred to in
the convention was trom the Dallas Xews
of the 5th and is as follows
In this connection the Alliance men of
tho federation recognizing they think in
the coming Fort Worth meeting an effort
to destroy the Alliance for the purpose of
furthering the governments political am-
bitions proposed to be ou hand Mr Lamb
stated it plain
If the meeting is au Alliance meeting
said he Alliance men of every political
complexion have a right to be there and
participate in the proceedings If it is a-
political movement by tricksters to aestroy
the Alliance it is our duty to lie there to
tear the sacred Alliance mask from the faces
of the men who promulgate doctrines con-
trary to the reforms which the Alliance is
pledged to secure
This indicates a stormy session at Fort
Worth on the subtreasury question which
is the issue upon which the fight will be
made Mr Lamb holds that if there are
Alliance men who in good faith desire the
abolishment of the subtrcasun the place
to make the tight is in the State Alliance
convention in Dallas August is The re-
fusal of the Fort Worth meeting to admit
the subtreasury men into the councils it is
said will result in the expulsion of the
antisubtreasury element by the State Alli-
ance w R Lamb announced that
there would bo a meeting at Fort Worth on
July 10 which purported to be an Alliance
meeting If it was an Alliance meeting
said he Alliance men should bo there
If it was intended to oppose the subtreas
ury and thus controvert a vital Alliance
principle we should be there tod fend Alli-
ance principlco
During the debate the article was read
and the assertion made that nino out of ten
Alliance men in the state would bo with the
Fort Worth movement that the actions
which had decimated the Alliance ranks
f roni250000 members in Texas to 25000
could no longer bo tolerated and that a re-
turn to the primal principles of the Alliance
recognizing no religious creed or belief
would restore the order to its pristine mag-
nitude and render it once again a power in
the land The theory seemed to prevail
that the Alliance to be a success should be
nonpolitical
To a Gazette reporter Mr Lamb said
I did not come to the Alliance meeting now
being held in this city to raise party ques-
tions but as a member of the Alliance
Under its constitution and bylaws all mem-
bers of the Alliance iu good standing are
advisory members and as such have a right
to speak in all Alliance meetings A motion
was before tho meeting this afternoon to
have a night session to discuss Alliance
principles and having noticed that the Kill
was for those who oppose the subtreasury
I decided to ask the president whether or
not members of the Alliance in good stand-
ing would bo allowed to participate in this
meeting without having a gag put on them
I reard the subtreasury as a part of the
Alliauce principles and know it is such for
it is one oT the demands of the order I did
not mention 3ny jiolitieal party nor would I
have done so had it been decided to have
tree discussion and I had been allowed to
speak but Brother Moody being as ho
said afraid of ire because I was a member
of the Peoples party sprung the question
He had as well questioned the right of any
Republican Democrat Mthodist or Bap
tist taking part in the meeting as to ques-
tion my right or my being a Peoples party
miiii
v
In this they have proved that it is their
intention to capture the Alliance of Texas
and deliver it to the Democratic party of
this state and I see no reason why they
should meet here in an open convention
call it an Alliance and violate the constitu-
tional law of the order by putting gags on
men who believe different from them
Brother Moody said some very nard thinsrs
about the leaders of the Alliance and about
the financial affairs of the exchange at Dal-
las I think tho brother should think be-
fore he says too much For if I mistake
not he did much of the begging for monev
and I would call his attention to the fact
that it is too late to cry wolf after disas
ter has happened to tho flock In my opin-
ion he should have said something about
these things before it was too late I have
met and talked with the leaders of tho Alli-
ance both state and national and I believe
them to be honest men and if I shall find
out that they are not I will first prefer
charges against them in the order and if
the order persists in keeping and upholding
dishonest men as its leaders then I will
withdraw from it and resort to proper au-
thorities for redress
I am sure this meeting of as I under-
stand thirtyseven men all told from all-
over the state will wish they had not met
here I could giveyou a few dots about some
of the speakers here from other states but
I prefer to ict them kill themselves It
will be a long time before the Alliance of
Texas will be given to the Democratic ov
any other party The bolt this evening was
a surprise to me especially when I saw so
many come out
ODDS AND KNIJs
Miscellaneous Matters of Interest About
the Conrention
The following from the Manufacturers
Index of Austin contains some timely ad-
vice
The Alliance meeting called to convene
in Fort Worth on the 10th inst has for its
object tho purgation of the order The
leaders of the meeting are clean Alliance
men whose names have never been asso-
ciated with corruption and dishonesty But
it is safe to say that the whole body of this
assembly will not be of that type The
noncommittal man and the outspoken
defender of corruption will loom up to be
seen and heard and to vote Watch out
gentlemen for the bad citizen with the
white badge
The Kxcorsiun
Considerable regret was expressed that
aHSusSs
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FORT WORTH GAZETTE
FORT WORTH TEXAS THUE8DAY JULY 16
VOL XIIL NO 32
tho invitation of the mayor to visit tha
packinghouse and other points of interest
around the city could not take placo It
was necessary to got a special train on tho
Santa Fe and this could not be done until
this morning This was a great disappoint-
ment to the visitors and their expressions
of regret were heart and sincere
The Kurlal of Macune
We buried him darkly bv dead of ni ht
The sod with au exchange turning
By Evan Jones fitful light
And Waco torches burning
Xo useless cofttn enclosed his breast
In a siiotreasury bill we voacd him
And lie lay like a po um taking his rest
With flexible curreiiiy around hin
Slowly we heaped up his narrow l d
And thought we rou d then diskiver
JIow Tracy and Sledge would trejd oer his
hrad
On their sad march up Salt river antiSub
SubTreasury Notes
Jim Moody is a sledgehammer stylo of
orator Ho reminds one cf the Irishman at
Donnybreok fair who made it his business
wh n he saw a head sticking un to hit it
The courtesy of Gen Clarke secretary ol
the Chamber of Commerce in tendering oua
ot his private officerooms to the Alliance
for a committee room was thoroughly ap
preciated by the boys
The subtreasury follows have soma
strong opiKHients The members of thH
convention comprise some of the brainiest
men in the order
Chairman Keudrick wields the gavel as
gracefully as though he had passed his life
presiding over deliberative assemblies in-
stead of agricultural pursuits
Gen U A Cameron was au interested
observer of the proceedings
Some of the delegates expressed the opin-
ion that if Mayor Smith wasnt au Aliiancu
man he ought to lie because he evidertl
sympathized with the movement
Visitors In the gallery should show a littia
more courtesy than was shown yesterday
afternoon The credit of the city depend J
upon it
Will J Sargent of the Lasso is a typical
newspaper man and evidently a rustler
He is doing good work in this convention
Representative James Swayno was oi
the floor But nobody seemed to tare fo
his title It was Hello Jim among tha
delegates
Themcetiugit Fort Worth is held with
oi > en doors and the public is invited Tha
ouo at Waco was on the starchamber
plan Comment is unnecessary Tne far-
mers Alliance is not compelled to work in
the dark
W T Cass of the Fanners Review at
Bonhain is taking a deep interest iu the
work of the convention He sas he camo
down to see if Lamb could capture tho con-
vention for iiis third party as he is said to
have stated he could
F M Sellers of Limestone is apparently
one of those fellows who go into a thinif
all over And he can make as jieppery a
speech as the next one if he feels like It
W L McGaughey of Austin land com
missioner was evidently at home among
the boys When he stepped upon the ros-
trum some one shouted Hurrah for thu
man who protects our cnildrens land
It is a typical Texan gathering The best
of goodwill prevails though when anyone
has mythiiig to say he sas it and make
no bones about it
Every mention of The Gazette was the
signal for a burs of cheers aud G azette
representatives are given to understand
they can have anything they want In the
hands of the convention
W L McGaugheys speech published
elsewhere is full of meat for strong men
and milk for babes It is good hard
sound common sense
Will L Sargent who tears the cognomen
of the wild and woolly editor oT the Texa
Lasso is tho Iwst known man in the con-
vention and his good jolly happy wav
makes him a favorite with all the bo
Will is a whole team and a little dog uniier
the wagon and there is no mistake about
it
Senator R S Weisigcr of Victoriu is a
sturdy sou of toil who is idl right on thi
true principles of the Alliaiue
Hon J L Goodman the talented and
gifted editor of the runners World fights
straight from the shoulder for a traitor
Hon XV F Murchison the old time
wheelhorse in the Alliauce from Houston
county is one of the safest men in the con-
vention
Hon Dan McCuuninghainthe wild Irish-
man from Williamson county who so many
years served on the statoexecutivecom
mittee is no slouch when it conies to mak-
ing straight talks
Hon Bea F Rogers the Palestine
statesman and Tracy no e masher seems
to be at home when it conies to the con-
vention
The linelooking and gifted T M Smith
who hails from the home of the suamp
fox of Navarro county Mary Ann
Martin is dead against the subtreasury
bill and believes in pledging the order back
to its purity
Hon J W Crayton is one of the youngest
men of the convention and by the way is
one of its best speakers and most enthusi-
astic workers He is a farmraised boy
and although only twentyeight years of
age has been elected to two successivo
terms in the legislature However he re-
signed his position as legislator in May to
accept the appointment of chief cierk in thH
agricultural department which position he
has filled so far to tho satisfaction of every
body
Hon J I Moody is at home when it
comes to shearing Lambs
W D H Murray the young secretary
whom TnK Gazette readers all know did
not forget to give that famous Waco meet
ing Mills yell
A CROP RUINED
A Clomlburst Over a 1IU1 County Jlanl
Iarui Did Much Damage
Correspondence of the Gazette
HjbbaidHiil Counit Tex JulvS
Capt W H Waglcy living five mile
southeast of this place was in town todcy
and reports tho effects of a destructive hail-
storm and waterspout that visited him yes-
terday evening at 6 oclock He says a
small dark cloud came up from the west
and another one from the north and they
met directly over his farm and poured out
wind rain and hail iu great quantities
Some of the hailstones were the size o
henesrgs and cotton that was waist high
was literally beat into the earth Nothing
was left standing except about four or sir
inches of the sulk The corn was leveled
with the earth The worst of the storm
was confined to an area of about onehalf
mile square and he was the greatest
sufferer
The roaring of the storm could be plainly
heard here Other parties in the neighbor
hood suffered some from the effects of tho
wind but were not so badly damaged by
hail and water The cotton crop of this
soction is very promising and a fair corn
crop will be gathered A general rootsoak
ing rain would bo a great benefit to this
section as the rains have been partial Lot
of line prairie hay is being put on the mar
ket here
Texas Wheat for France i
Special to the Gazette
Qcaxaii Hardeman County Tex July
9 The second trainload of wheat con-
sisting of fifteen cars left last night for
Xew Orleans for export to France The
train was shipped by Sanders Clower
Co and Charles Goldberg The cars were
all labeled naming the crop of ls9l and
whom shipped by
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