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The Farmers' Alliance in Texas, 1875-1900
from 105 counties representing 3,000 to 4,000 sub-Alliances
(no one could have guessed approximately the correct number)
met in Waco, January 18, 1887, instructed to oppose certain
men and measures, some saying that the ballot was the only
course, others that the Alliance was only a social order, and
others that it should exist only to catch thieves, Acting-President
Macune unconsciously caused an explosion by asking for a
statement of the objections that had prompted the separation
in August. He was kept busy all day answering questions and
motions; on the second day he took the bull by the horns,
refused to recognize anyone until he could state the objectives
of the meeting, outlined programs for expansion and for estab-
lishing agrarian economic independence by crop diversifica-
tion, cooperatives, mills, and a half million dollar marketing
and purchasing exchange.," Evan Jones, a native of Kentucky
who had moved to Erath County in 1876 and became such an
active Patron that he reached the national presidency of the
order in 1889, was elected president of the Texas Alliance,
a post that he held until 1891.4 Jones and Tetts announced the
desire of the Farmers' Union8" to unite with the Alliance,
whereupon the consummation created the National Farmers' Al-
liance and Codperative Union of America with Macune presi-
dent and Tetts vice-president." The story of Macune's mis-
sionary host and the organization of state Alliances in nearly
every state and territory within two years cannot be followed
here.87
s3Macune, Farmers' Alliance; "Proceedings of the . . . Alliance," Janu-
ary 18-20, 1887, in Dunning (ed.), Farmers' Alliance, 49-52; Macune, in
"Proceedings of the National Farmers' Alliance and Cooperative Union,"
October 12, 1887, in ibid., 68.
84Garvin and Daws, History, 148; Morgan, History, 359; Dunning (ed.),
Farmers' Alliance, 89-90.
SA conversation at a graveyard working at D'Arbonne Church, Lincoln
Parish, Louisiana, in 1880, led to the formation of a non-secret farmers'
club. Though it was short lived, in the fall of 1884 two ex-members, Tetts
and Samuel Skinner, met and discussed on a Ruston street the low price
of cotton; later a meeting at Tetts' home was followed by one at Antioch
Church, March 10, 1885, where nine farmers created the Farmers' Union.
Lodges sprang up all over the parish, leading to the organization of a
parish union, which in the same year was converted into one for the state.
J. A. Tetts, "Sketch of the Farmers' Union of Louisiana," in ibid., 218-222.
""Declaration of Purposes of the National Farmers' Alliance and
Cooperative Union of America," in ibid., 59; "Proceedings of the ...
Alliance," January 18-20, 1887, in ibid., 48; J. C. Jones . . . to the State
Alliance of Texas, January 12, 1887, in ibid., 56-57, 74.
"7Ibid., 237-248.359
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