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The Farmers' Alliance in Texas, 1875-1900
and a half hall," which was also the headquarters of the Al-
liance, struggled on until the end of 1889, when the hall was
sold at a sheriff's sale. The moral blow of its failure to the
order was great, and many Grangers and other farmers who
leaned toward it were "improved" by the "Macune dose," as
one Granger wrote.x"o In Leon County another Granger ob-
served in 1889 that "Macunism" had cast a "damper" on all
the Alliances there, leaving them "hardly breathing.""'11
Though 1889 was not an election year the hatchet was
burnished instead of buried. The non-conformists encouraged
political discussions, splitting Granges, as in Rains County,112
which could not constitutionally enter such a controversy.
Scattering their straws in every rebellious group, they met
with twelve other organizations in the Eight-Hour Conven-
tion, July 3, in Dallas, called by trade unions and the Knights
of Labor, at which the Texas Federation of Labor was organized
and a platform adopted.113 Lamb led the insurgents at the State
Freight Rate Convention, July 8 and 9, in Dallas, which was
well attended by manufacturers, jobbers, legislators, and some
railroad officials.114 In another desperate effort to hold the line
against the radicals, Rose put six special lecturers in the field ;115
but, aided by two crop failures that broke more Grange stores
and threatened to pull down the whole Grange cooperative
structure, the radicals had the political pot boiling so furiously
in 1890 that, seeing the fruitlessness of the propagandists' ef-
forts, he called them in.161
When the Dallas Board of Trade, in February, 1890, called
the State Road Convention of county judges and commissioners,
for April 8, to consider the dirt road problem, the Dallas County
loW. A. Smith to Rose, September 5, 1888, and Ray to Rose, February
21, 1890, in Rose Papers.
111W. G. Edwards to Rose, May 11, 1889, in ibid.
112T. A. Pritchard to Rose, June 12, and J. W. Reynolds to Rose, June
30, 1889, in ibid.
113Winkler (ed.), Platforms, 273-275.
114Ibid., 275-280.
11Proceedings of Texas State Grange, 1889, 5, 22-23; ibid., 1890, 4;
Minutes of Texas Cooperative Association, 362; Minutes of Committee on
Lecturing, August 17, 1889, in Rose Papers; Rose to Geo. A. Hodges,
August 30, 1889, in Rose Letter Book.
""J. T. Dickson to Buchanan, December 29, 1889, and January 31,
1890, Ray to Buchanan, January 2, and N. Walker to Buchanan, February
19, N. Stallworth to Rose, April 28, and M. G. Williams to Rose, August
15, 1890, in Rose Papers; Rose to Hodges, May 5, Rose to W. P. Miles,
May 31, 1890, in Rose Letter Book; Proceedings of Texas State Grange,
1890, 14.363
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