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Alliance had "swept over ... like a cyclone") to fill a score
of appointments. ' Whether Macune, manager of the Alliance
exchange, by speech or press attacked the cash cooperative
system of the Grange and J. S. Rogers, manager of the Texas
Cooperative Association,0o' before the Grangers discredited the
Alliance business system, cannot be determined. But W. A.
"Farmer" Shaw, editor of the Texas Farmer, for the next six
years applied the full sting of his verbosity to the Alliance,
to Macune, and to political questions. To the dissenters his
words, which they fully exploited, and the stand of the Grange,
was Bourbonism. None saw plainer than Macuneo' and Rose
that Shaw was driving hundreds from the Grange and Demo-
cratic ranks into the Alliance,106 not the least of whom was W. P.
Hancock of Belton, later state senator.'"; Repeatedly charging
Shaw with "killing" the Grange, Rose threw all his influence,
but to no avail, against the course of the Farmer. The Southern
Mercury and other Alliance papers opened their guns on the
Grange, and the duel acquired added heat.'""
The management of the exchange, which many Patrons de-
clared violated the fundamentals of the order, created a rift
in the Alliance which first became serious enough to cause
concern in the fall of 1887.'" While the marketing of cotton
through it was a success, the furnishing of supplies in 1888 to
Patrons who deposited joint notes (secured by mortgages on
crops, stock, and implements) with the exchange for credit,
was not. Macune, manager of the exchange, after much difficulty
could obtain loans from banks on only a few of the notes, and
by mid-summer the exchange with only $17,000 capital, was
indebted $400,000 to factories and had extended credit for
$270,000 worth of goods to the brethren. The first year's loss
to both Patrons and the exchange caused the discontinuance of
the joint note experiment. The exchange, in the "great acre
" Put Darden to Rose, June 25, 1888, in Rose Papers.
10"J. S. Rogers to Rose, May 5, 1888, in ibid.; Minutes of Texas Codpera-
tive Association, 303, 306-310.
"'Macune, Farmers' Alliance; Rogers to Rose, June 20, 1888, in Rose
Papers.
100W. A. Shaw to Rose, January 25, 1889, in ibid.
10'Shaw to W. P. Hancock, March 6, and Shaw to Rose, March 26, 1889,
in ibid.
o10Rose to Put Darden, June 18, 1888, in Rose Letter Book.
'"B. Hardison to Rose, November 22, 1887, in Rose Papers; Address to
the Farmers, Laborers, and All Other People of Texas, March 4, 1891,
from press copy of original given to Dr. C. W. Ramsdell by H. B. Beck.362
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