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Southwestern Historical Quarterly
Alliance delegates, holding a majority at the Waco Cotton
Convention in August, 1887, painted bright visions of future
cooperatives to which they soon gave partial reality by pur-
chasing Marble Falls as a factory site and opening in September
the Alliance Exchange in Dallas with branches in Belton, Long-
view, Galveston, and Henrietta as outlined by Macune.s"
In 1888, as in 1886, many new adherents, especially Grangers
and independents, swelled the Alliance ranks," though many
lodges never paid their dues and became dormant.'0 In Lam-
pasas, Robertson, Navarro, and Red River counties, where
leftists controlled the Alliance, candidates on a "Nonpartisan
Party," "People's Party," or "a new political party" ticket
were named,"' while in Montgomery County a county conven-
tion was called to make nominations and Grangers were invited
to send delegates ;" but Master Rose held the reins on his order
so tightly that he was able to block cooperation." The principal
Alliance officials called a meeting of the laboring classes "for
the purpose of considering what steps, if any, should be taken
in the approaching campaign." About 300 delegates, mostly
Alliancemen, from seventy counties attended the Convention
of Farmers, Laborers, and Stock Raisers at Waco on May 15,
1888. The Knights of Labor got control, made Mayor Broiles
chairman, and, though candidates were not named, drew up a
platform adding planks to the Alliance demands of 1886 de-
manding the nationalization of transportation and communi-
cation facilities, a national usury law, and an amendment for
direct election of senators, president, and vice-president."4 A
small Nonpartisan Convention, which Chairman Broiles hoped
would free the "mortgage serf and wage slave" met July 2,
1888, in Fort Worth. Though some of the leading Alliancemen
counselled against making nominations, the radicals, tired of
Bourbon Democracy, displeased with Jacobitism in the Al-
liance, and led by W. R. Lamb of Montague County, dominated
"Gillespie County Alliance Minutes, 1886-1896, 24-25; Morgan, History,
295, 375; Garvin and Daws, History, 59.
"8Rockdale Messenger, February 16, 1888; Southern Mercury, April 5,
1888; A. J. Knox to Rose, April 10, W. L. Abbott to Rose, March 2,
H. J. Casey to Rose, March 5 and April 11, and J. H. Pitts to Rose, Sep-
tember 9, 1888, in Rose Papers.
"oRose to W. L. Abbott, March 6, 1888, in Rose Letter Book.
S1Martin, The People's Party in Texas, 32-33.
02T. C. Lowery to Rose, April 28, 1888, in Rose Papers.
3Rose to T. C. Lowery, May 4, and Rose to N. G. Whitman, June 15,
1888, in Rose Letter Book.
94Winkler (ed.), Platforms, 256-257.360
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