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Southwestern Historical Quarterly
healthy Granges,7 revived dormant ones into Alliance lodges,78
in places made business very "unsettled,"79 and enlisted farmers
never before disturbed.
Macune, whose fertile mind bred big ideas, immediately
broadened the expansion, dispatching to Arkansas, A. R. Lan-
don whose organizing was so productive that a State Alliance
there soon followed. F. T. Rogers bore the banner into Kentucky
and established thirteen lodges before spring,80 while other
lecturers directed the tide into Alabama and the Indian Ter-
ritory. From replies to letters to the president of the National
Alliance and to J. A. Tetts, secretary of the Farmers' Union
of Louisiana, Macune saw that the Texas Alliance could not
join the northern order, which admitted negroes and anyone
"reared" on a farm, had no dues, and was not secret, but upon
Tetts' request he sent Evan Jones to meet with the Union at
Ruston and to invite it to join the Alliance.1
Macune, whose task was to collect and hold the support of
a dozen disgruntled groups in the Southwest, was born in
Kenosha, Wisconsin, in 1851. His mother was a McAfee, de-
scended from the McAfees who accompanied Daniel Boone to
Kentucky, and his father, born in Canada of Scotch-Irish
parents, became a blacksmith and a Methodist minister. In
1852 the cholera struck the family on the way to California,
at Ft. Laramie, where the father died. After returning with
his mother to Fremont, Illinois, Macune ended his schooling
at ten and turned to farming. As a young man he lived in
California and Kansas and about 1873 moved to Bell County,
Texas. He taught himself pharmacy, medicine, and law, and
practiced them until he was caught in the Alliance upsurge
in the spring of 1886. Though of erratic judgment and lacking
business acumen, he possessed personal magnetism, a ready
wit, and speaking and writing talent.82 When 500 delegates
"T. A. Patillo to Rose, August 26, R. C. Mathews to Rose, September
17, W. P. Darby to Rose, October 14, and J. C. Alexander to Rose, Novem-
ber 28, 1886, in Rose Papers; Rose to T. A. Patillo, August 31, 1886, in
Rose Letter Book.
"W. G. Edwards to Rose, September 14, 1886, in Rose Papers.
7"H. J. Bissel to Rose, September 23, 1886, in ibid.
'Blood (ed.), Handbook, 45-49.
,1Macune, in "Proceedings of the National Farmers' Alliance and Co-
dperative Union," December 3, 1889, in Dunning (ed.), Farmers' Alliance,
105-109.
H8Garvin and Daws, History, 146-147; Morgan, History, 298-300, 354-
356; Bryan, Farmers' Alliance, 11.358
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