 Chambers remained active in politics after the 1880 election . He served as chairman of the Texas Greenback Party in 1882 as George Washington Jones received the party 's endorsement for governor . He was unsuccessful , and Chambers worried that the party was becoming " disorganized and disintegrated beyond the hope of a successful rally . " In 1884 , Jones ran again for governor and Chambers broke with him on the question of whether the state should lease public lands or let cattlemen use them without payment ( Chambers favored the former option ) . He also criticized the party 's presidential nominee that year , Benjamin Butler of Massachusetts , for attacking monopolies without offering any suggestions on how to reform them . After the 1884 election , Chambers had little involvement in politics . The Greenback Party fell apart by 1888 , but many of its ideas and members found a home in the People 's Party , which arose in the early 1890s . Chambers made his last foray into politics in 1890 in two letters to the Southern Mercury , a newspaper of the Farmers ' Alliance , in which he again condemned monopolies and corporations , and suggested that all laws creating them be repealed . He was encouraged by the growth of the People 's Party , but old age and ill health kept him from being an active member . Chambers died at his home on September 16 , 1895 , and was buried in Cleburne Memorial Cemetery . 
