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SUPPLEMENT TO DENTON COUNTY NEWS, October 1st, 1896.
SiaTDTQlenaent
PROPHECY OF JEFFERSON.
Banking Institutions a Menaccto
Our Liberties.
CULBERSON DEFENDS DEMOCRACY.
ICvllfl Which Follow in the Wakn «»f Rev
(lUlillcunnm Populist FullticleM Kx-
posi-d Purlieu Contracted.
Pittsburg, Texas, September 7.—Gov-
ernor Culberson spoke hero to-day to
a large crowd of people. The following
is the context of his speech:
Fellow Citizens:. In the present
campaign the people of Texas must
choose between the Republican, the
Populist and the Democratic party.
Broadly speaking, the National Repub-
lican party stands for a consolidated
general government, extravagant ex-
penditures, perpetuation of National
banks of issue, a service pension, a high
protective tariff, trusts ami trade con-
spiracies and the gold standard of val-
ue. The doctrine of centralization
which this party advocates would de-
stroy the autonomy of the States and
subvert the governmental sylitem of
the founders e.f i.he republic, it would
remove the agencies of the government
from close contact with the people by
concentration of all power at Washing-
ton, gradually lessen their respect for
the people and their observance of eifli-
eial accountability and finally und. r-
mine public rights and liberties. Al-
ways extravagant and ] roMigate, its
disregard of public duties and its e u-
ternpt for economy and frugality in
expenditures arc shown in * 11 • uncon-
scionable appropriation <»i |r,io.eiou.ono
lor 1lie fiscal year. It would <• onf'ele
the financial affairs «»1 the Nation to
the money power through the national
banks ami give to them the sole right
to issue all the paper currency that, in
addition to gold, must supply our com-
mercial wants and necessities.
How perilous this power is in view
<>!' ! <"nt ewiits may be drawn from
tit'1 prophetic declaration of Th mas
Jefferson: "I bciieve that the lamb-
ing institutions are more dangerous to
our liberties than standing armies-.
Already they have raised up a money-
ed aristocracy that has set the govern-
ment at defiance. The issuing power
should b«' taken from the banks and
restored to tin government and the
people to whom it belongs. Let banks
exist, but let them bank on treasuty
notes." It would convert the c maress
and the pre.;-ion ofiiee into a co-part-
nership with dishonest p< nsioru re. and
degrade national generosity for mar-
tial heroes to the level of political de-
bauehery. its policy of high protfc-
tion had led to the industrial enslave-
ment of laborers find prodmers and
the formation of gigantic combina-
tions in trade, Py the operation of
these unequal and oppressive laws,
wealth has accumulated in the hands
of a few without parallel in the his-
tory of the worhl, offering e ns.tant
menace to p:.! riidisnt and to iiberiy.
and they hav* created and fostered an
airogant money aristocracy, pi so l ic-
ing obsequious snobbery and aping
^te way of an eff| e.nd e;.piring roy-
a final act of financial and iudus-
hl opn ssion, il would fasten upon
tin- single fidar.l of aold and
litis complete the subjection of the
people to the compassion less d. sp .t-
ism of avarice and greed. Its career
in Texas, cut short by the burning
phiilippies of Coke and the wrath of
an indignant prop:e, is worthy of its
national life and conduct. Caining
power alone by the bayonet. It sought
to retain it by arbitrary measures
and denial to the people of the pre-
cious right of self-government. Its
legislatures were the pliant tools of
speculators and corporations, the most
corrupt and venal that ever assembled
in the State. They squandered the
public lands, robbed the school fund
and rioted in the treasury. Resigna-
tion of a cowardly and subservient
judiciary were held to compel political
obedience and loyalty. Finding a
state tax rate of ir» cents and a moder-
ate average tax rate in the counties,
when driven from office it left the
state late at ■ cents and an average
county rate of $2.15. It assumed con-
trol with the. total state debt only
and when defeated after
three years of nongovernment the debt
was $4,150,095.45. Its contempt for
civil procedure and personal property
was as great as its disregard of the
property rights of the people,
tiie infamous conduet of the
government in its declarations
of martial law, and the ar-
rest. imprisonment and butchery of
citizens in Limestone and other coun-
ties are some of the crimes of recon-
struction and Republican control and
when for these and other offenses it
was dislodged and expelled from pow-
er by an incensed and outraged people
it strove unsuccessfully to usurp the
government by a shameless decision
of its supre me court and wicked appeal
to Federal authority.
The populist party, as either parties,
is composed of many sincere and pa
triotic nun. They have joined this
party for various reasons, but many
of them have voted with that organ-
ization merely as a protest against
the financial measures of the present
National administration and not in
indorsement of the organic principl a
of populism. It is with those who be-
lieve in the structural theories of the
parly, therefore, that we should deal,
for those among them who have here-
tofore acted with the democratic par-
ty need no further argument than
the clear and unequivocal declaration
by the State and National democracy
recently of the principles of Jeffer-
son and Jackson. In leadership and
controlling features the populist party-
is the successor of parties which have
advocated some of its present policies.
For several years it was known as
the greenback party under different
names, demanding flat money. It was
the non partisan party in 1X8S. advo-
cating government ownership of rail-
roads and immediate payment of the
public debt in flat money; and the
union labor party, espousing the cause
of government ownership of railways,
fiat money and woman's suffrage.
This last named party also demanded
'the passage of a service pension to
every honorably discharged soldier
ami sailor of the United States." a
measure which would bring certain
bankruptcy to the government. It
stood on the Ocala demads in 1K90.
for government ownership of rail-
mads. flat money and the sub-treas-
ury, and as the Peoples* Partj iu 1892
these demands were renewed. It was
known In 1894, as it is the present
year, as the Populist party, insisting
upon the government ownership of
railways, an irredeemable and base-
less paper money and the sub-treas-
ury. All candid and thoughtful men
well know that under existing condi-
tions the Populists can accomplish
nothing. Before the action of its Na-
tional convention recently the party
had been destroyed in all but two or
three States, and had been driven
from office in the states where it had
been successful in 1892. Conscious of
approaching and certain dissolution'
the leaders here appear to be endeav-
oring to prolong its existence until the
election by a coalition with Republi-
cans, the most remarkable political
miscegenation ever proposed. But if
governmental policies were feasible
through its organization, its dominant
principles put into operation would
destroy our form of government and
prove utterly disastrous to the coun-
try; They seek to consolidate the
government at Washington to a more
alarming extent than the Republicans.
Federalists and Republicans never
proposed a more centralized and abso-
lute authority. Almost all matters af-
fecting personal, political and proper-
ty rights under their theory is refer-
able to the National government. Not
only would it accomplish centraliza-
tion, but populism is the most ag-
I gravated and advanced form of pate r-
! nallsm known to the world; compar-
ed with it feudalism, with its lack of
self-reliance and individuality, was a
beneliccnt condition of mankind.
Though free government was origi-
nally instituted and is only designed
to prof' < t the citizen in the enjoy-
ment of life, liberty and property,
populism would degrade ii to a money
lemhr, [i vender of wares and mer-
chandise, the partner and the guar-
' dlan of Hi'1 people. Masquerading as
Representative Davis' industrial ar-
my bill (house bill 6787), it is estimat-
ed, would require a yearly expenditure
of five hundred million dollars.
Representative Clover introduced
two bills in the Fifty-second congress,
which it is estimated would require
twenty-two billion dollars.
July 9,1894, Se nator Peffer introduc-
ed in the senate a resolution respect-
ing the exercise of public functions,
operation of coal beds, etc., requiring
for its execution fifteen billion dollars.
To these should be added the cost
of loaning money at 2 per cent annu-
ally under the subtreaxury scheme and
the proposed Coxcy bills.
The enormous cost of the subtreas-
ury plan wil not bear estimate. One
of the Coxcy bills provided for an ap-
propriation of $500,000,000 for the con-
st ruction and improvement of public
roads, laborers to be employed at not
less than $2 per day. The other meas-
ure authorized all municipalities to
issue bonds to the extent of GO per
cent of the value of real estate within
their limits for the erection of public
buildings.
In the recent Populist National con-
j vention at St. Louis, Coxey presented
, a minority report, signed by the Popu-
j list nominee for governor of this state
land nine others of the committee, de-
| mandlng the passage of the bond and
I good road measures. How are these
extraordinary and unconscionable
' debts to be paid under Populism?
i Senator Peffer declared in the resolu-
1 toon of July 9, IX!'1, that "all revenues
i of the government ought to be raised
| by taxes on real estate," which means
that all other taxes should be abolish-
ed.""-Custom duties, taxes on tobacco
j and distilled spirits, and an income
I tax must go. The homes and farms of
! the people must, bear this Titan load
: the
1 rns
.Jefi'ei son who declared
government is best which
least every characters!1 • and
e measure of the populists
| propose;; more government. Tle y
\ would not only have the government
! own and operate all strictly public
j utilities, but favor i: • participation in
; purely private, as distinguished from
! governmental affairs noon the supp s-
•d ground, as contended by Senator
J Peffer, "that the people would be
i served more equitably and at greatly
I reduced expense by public agents
! working at fixed salaries, than by pri-
vate persons who use their business
I for private ends." Non have stated
| the purposes of this party no re clear-
! 1. and strongly than Edward Bellamy.
tiie leader iti Massachusetts, in a well
j consider d article. "If proposes." he
• said, "to harmonize the industrial and
j commercial system with the political
: by bringing the former under popular
! government, as the latter 1ms b< < n
brought, to be administe,e<l as the
'political government is, by tie eqsal
v >ie • of all for th benefit ef all. W"
hold that the industrial system of a
nation like its political system, ought
, to be a government of the people, by
! the people, for the people, and for all
of them en-tally. To that end. we de-
sire to see organized as public busl-
ne; the industrial and oomnr n i; I
affairs of the people so that they may
be carried on henceforth like all other
pu die i is i.« , by responsil le public
agents for the equal benefit , the citi-
| zeus." The plan includes, he declares,
j "as minor applications of tiie same
. principle, tho municipalization and
state control of localized business."
Pushing the doctrine ate' Piously to
I Us logical conclDsiafif he A ists that
! control, ownership or operation
I should comprise all chartcnd busi-
nesses. railroads, teUgiaph and telc-
i phone lines, municipal lighting, wa-
1 ». rvvorks, ferries, iron and steel
works, coal mining, forestry and luni-
I |>er industry.fisheries.the liquor traffic,
' fire and lift insnranc • and all leading
| branches of production and industry,
i Not content with thus attempting to
j pervert the agencies and functions c• i
j government, the distinctive policies o;
| this party would plunge us into c r-
. tain and irretrievable bankruptcy.
Some of its national financial me
j ures can only be contemplated with
I astonishment and alarm. The propo-
1 sition to own and opernt
telegraph and t< leplione
! alone cost $12,000,000,000
'and would add in interest
1 annually to public expen
principal would constitute
I public debt and would
I perpetuate the national banks. It is
claimed that the interest would be
, met with the earnings of the properties
above expenses, but this is untrue.
I Earnings which the business will In ar
i v,*ill not meet * vpenscs and interest
on the amount at which they are cap-
italized. lu Texas alone, under pies-
I ont rates, the money neee.-e
j interest and dividends ;
| expenses of the railroads is
Oisu.OOO yearly, for which t
y their utterances and con-
ouilist lenders, especially in
do not favor the free coin-
er or b";ie\ e in its efficacy,
>po e the Democratic nomi-
sident, though indorsed by
nal convnition, in whom
of success for the
favor flat paper
m tallic money,
paper
North
"That
ages;
of taxation
Judged b
duet the P<
this State,
age of tfilv
and will oj
lice for pn
their nali o
alone there is hope
silver cause. They
money and oppose
whether gold or silver.
Speaking of a specie basis for
money, Senator Peffer, in the
American Review for 189.'». said:
doctrine is a legacy of the dark
il bad its origin in barbarism. * *
Intrinsic value iu money coins is a
delu sion. The doctrine of equivalents
is impossible of application. What-
ever value money has th law gives
it." In January, lsoti, he declared in
the senate that "metallic money is
wrong in principle." At tho Dallas
• unty Populist convention on June 12
Harry Tracy said: "On a gold basis
we will have to issue bonds twice a
year; on a double basis we will have
to rsue bonds once a year. Both are
wrong in principle. We do not need
any of their redemption money." One
of their campaign committee of thive
has quite recently said over his signa-
ture: "The Populists believe in abso-
lute flat money and the Republicans
believe in tin* gold standard. Tho
D< mocrats have taken a medium
ground, as they think, and advocate a
! paper money bottomed
silver." Their nominee
ity, the welfare and the industrial life
of 'the Union. The gold (standard' ha3
cruelly Injured mankind. It hat? de-
pressed values, impoverished credit-
ors and enslaved labor. It sought to
be used to fasten upon us as insolent
an aristocracy of idle muney changers
an ever reduced to commercial bond-
age ail unfortunate and hapless peo-
ple. With protection it is the inspi-
ration and strength of Mc-Kinleyism
and against it the people are in re-
volt and rebellion. No I rick, no strat-
agem, no bargain of leaders e..n de-
liver tliem into its power or make
thein tho instruments of their sub-
jection to its merciless exactions.
There are only two candidates for
president, McKinley and Bryan, one
favoring the gold standard and the
other bimetallism. A vote for Bryan
and Watson is by Indirection a vote
for McKinley and tho cold standard.
If It were allowable to vote directly
for president and vice-presidents the
Democratic and Populist votes for
Bryan could be added together and he
would receive the benefit of the com-
bined votes, while tho voters for He-
wall and Watson would be divided.
But the votes must be cast for el ct-
ors and consequently as there aro
separate Democratic and I'opulist
electors, votes for Bryan and Sewall
electors will not be added to votes cast
for Bryan and Watson electors. If,
for instance, there were votes
cast in the Stal", 175,000 for McKin-
ley electors, 170,000 for Bryan and
Sewall electors and 80.000 for Hryan TKllard against Mich wrong
and Watson electors, McKinley would j ..■«,> »
carry the State, though the total vote
for Rryan would be 250,000.
Thoughtful men are aware of" tho
gieat injury to the country that would
follow the election of McKinley. On
the 21st of June last theso evils were
boldly and plainly stated by leading
Populist party as fol-
of public
the treasur
In
members of the
lows:
"We came to St. Lou;
members of the People's
present at the meeting
Republican convention,
determine more definitely
selves the true aim of that
tion in the present struggle.
as citizens,
s party, to l.e
»f the national
that we might
for our-
or.i aniza-
Hore w
erats set
energy. 'I
$064,000 for
for each ve
Democratic
ments prop'
cral approj
penses beei
priation wo
$MG,(j00, wh
tho bill
t he ret
would hav
addition t
expend it ui
traordinar
Populist
and provh
public ins'
the Agrieu
and the
year preps
spelling,
geograpl
hygiene,
and a se
lished h,
the
>ffe
hi lo
ncn
I <
this pr
. iiurne
hat
iarc a eerie
reading.
.'. arithme
history of
i s of writi
the state
eiats $1,
each. A;
the tunc
they can
side fi
tioriai
now
have seen the 'boss' in i
securely enthroned, mo
oh; yed and more dictaiori
didat.es and polity than n
witnessed before in tin
litics more
■ servilely
as to cau-
las ever been
field of poli-
hia
■ m gold and v Sk
for go\ • lljT
in an open letter in February said;
: "Judge toucan's party v.v.nts a re-1 gittt,es and all our
I d isption money gold or silver. Th-
is dishonest on its face." He signed
the minority report in the recent na
tional Populist convention which de-
clared. "we are unalterably opposed
to a token money, but declare for a
legal t nder dollar interchangeable
end redeemable only in debts and tax-
es.' In a recent issue of the Mercury,
the organ of the Populists, the Popu-
list advocates of silver are derided
and insulted, the editor declaring "it
is. the free silver cranks and the fil-
ths. One man, tie perf<ction
type, representing the millionaires, the
banks, the corporations, the trusts and
every other remorseless and plutocrat-
ic element in our country's life. has.
through the pow. r of money, dictated
the nomination of Mr. Me1limey and
shaped the platform of his party. Tim
convention, slavishly responding to
the will of the money p >wei, ha:
forced an issue which must be met in
its challenge to the yoevrien of the
land. If it is declined or if it shall
succeed, the fetters of a tyranny mor
grinding than that of the czar's or em-
peror's would be driven upon the plain
people of this country; fetters which
must indefinitely worn with the
contemptible spirit Inseparable from
willing serfdom or in the end be bro-
ken with the irresistible power of a
mighty revolution. That issue is for-
mulated in the demands that "the ex-
isting gold standard must be pioserv-
and for the enactment of "all
ures derign'-d to maintain inviol-
the obligation;-: of the United
either coin
noney
^■f.aner at the present, standard^
'This means "that silver shall b. per-
manently degraded into mere money
flchange and that it be
us' legal tender quality,
some paltry sum.
"That the greenback
forms of government
shall be redeemed and
(he national banks si
into a power of trip!
deprive!
except
of
for
the railway,
lines would
in bonds,
$eOO.UOiU 0'»
l«i ores. 'I he
an endless
siIv serve to
dr maud
not
not,
of 1
The
tc
pay
.hove the
about $2,-
!\es would
financial
| Ik; levied. The Populist
I measures introduced recently in con- |
gress stagger the credulity of thought-
I ful and conservative men and would
! require a total appropriation, or an
! issue of bonds, amounting to $51,027,
| SOO.OOO, as follows;
September 16, 1803, Mr. Hudson In-
troduced house bill No. 31 St» for the
payment of pensions, which is esti-
mated to require the issue1 ejf $1,500,-
000,000.
September 21. 1893, Senator Peffer1
introduced senate bill No. 970, to es-
tablish a bureau of loans, similar to
that introduced in the house hj Mr.
Davis, estimated to require not less
than ten billion dollars.
December IS. 1S93, Senator Peffer
introduced house bill No. 1300, to pro-
vide funds 'or immediate use in re- i
liev; ' want and destitution through-
out ine country, which approximates j
six million, three hundred thousand.
January 2."», 1S94. Mr. Kem intro- j
duced house bill No. 5440 to provide '
an adequate volume of legal tender
c in and paper, which is estimated to I
require one billion dollars.
F bruary 12, 1894, Mr. Bocn intro-
duced house bill No. 5745. te> provide [
for the extermination of the Russian
thistle, which appropriates one million
dollars.
August, 1^91, Senator Peffer intro- •
duced senate bill No. 2379, to provide- |
means for gathering and storing rain J
water in semi-arid regions, which ap-
propriates five hundred thousand elol-
lars.
August 3. 1894, Mr. Davis introduced
house bill No. 7S9fi. to authorize the
control of water fe>r agricultural pur- i
poses, which appropriates twenty mil-
lion dollars.
August f«. isyt. Mr. Boen introduced
house bill No. 790S. to provide for in-
ternal improvements and an addition-
al volume of cur. ency. which appro-
priates one billion dollars.
sionists who are either traitors to re-
form or else lacking in political judg-
ment." This editor is reported as
saying during the sitting of the late
P< pulis' na'ional convention: "We
'opulist ticket, top and
m; we have told these Bryan peo-
hat we would be willing to take
ul place if they would give us a
list, for first place. If they will
do that, and we know they will
we shall turn the electoral vote*
'exas over to the' Republicans."
Populist nominee for eiongress in
the fourth district (Davis) on the 2nd
instant wrote; "Hut as 1 said at At-
lanta. if the committee agrees with
the Republicans to give them eight
( lectors and they will vote our State,
(ongre sional and county tickets I
will stand by it."
In view of these utterances the
action of the1 leaders e>f the late Pop-
ulist state convention in Galveston is
most significant and may forebode a
plain and absolute surrender of the
silver cause. There the platform e>f
the Populist national convention was
indorsed and an electoral ticket for
president and vice-presielent selected.
Hut the State convention announce'd
no choice for president or vice-presi-
dent. Instead of this it adopted the
plan of naming a committee c»f three,
which, with the State committee, is
clothed with extraordinary if not pie- j
nary and unlimited powers. Declaring |
against alleged ring rule it placed the j
gravest and most important duty of
the party in the hands of the cam-
paign committees. A member of the
committee of three has repeatedly
and publicly announced that he will
support McKinley for presielent rather
than Bryan. The colored delegates
to the State- convention declared by |
resolution, while the convention was >
sitting, that they would support Mc-
Kinley for president. Vehemently
protesting their loyalty to principle,
have the Populist leaders arranged to
abandon the free coinage of silver?
Will they come into the open field
and. proclaim their purposes? The
democratic electors are pledged to the
support of Bryan and Sewall. For
whom will the Populist electors vote?
Will they vote for Bryan or McKin-
ley? Will the committees in any con-
tingency withdraw all or any numl>cr
of the Populist electors and replace
them with McKinley electors or gold
standard Democratic electors? Under
any circumstances eir for any induce-
ment or in any manner elo the»se lead-
ers contemplate b tiding aiei to the
gold standard? These questions de-
serve and demand an immediate.an-
swer. The great masses of the people
of Texas, profoundly impressed with
the overshadowing importance of bi-
metallism and resolved to destroy th*»
decaying biight of the gold standard,
will lewk beneath and beyond any
conspiracy of place hunters and by
patriotic and united action protect
themselves. This Is th^supreme is-
sue of the campaign. Upon its proper
solution now may depend the prosper*)
and all other
paper money
destroyed; that
lall be swollen
• their present
ability to contract the volume of mon-
! ey; to absorb the earnings of industry
and to grip the throat of all industrial
| and commercial life, while from time
' to time it terrorizes the voters into
j choice of its tools for all legislative,
j judicial and administrative positions,
i The money powe r has forced this issue
! now because in its judgment those
whom its policy will enslave are di-
vided into hostile political families
which cannot be united in time4 to re-
sist its onset. If regards it as impos-
sible that harmonious action can be
secured between the different organi-
zations that favor monetary reform
and resistance to their insatiate greed.
With Populists, silver Democrats and
i independent bimetallists supporting
idilTerent luihiinees for president and
the national congress, it feels assured
of victory, and it has determined t >
! nrcss now and without abatement the
advantage which this apparently ta»
! mentable condition which rises up be-
j fore it. In this most threatening crisis
| that has menaced the country since
1 the civil war, though simply citizen
; members of the People's party, we
i venture to make momentous sugges-
j lions te» you, our brethren. In doing
1 this we have neither desire nor
| thought to impair in the least degree
! the efficiency of our noble organiza-
| tion, charged as it is with tlie» liberties
| of present and future generations, and
whose integrity and growth Is essen-
tial to the perpetuation e>f our free in-
stitution*. Our constant aim will be
I to defend it from foes v
j without, and to preserve it
I consecrated forever to the
I humanity's dearest rights
! Americ an contine nt.
"in view of the shamel as submis-
sion by the Republican < »nv ution to
{ the most extre me- demands ever made j
I on Americans by the money power, f
every thought and effort of American j
manhood should from this hour tend j
towards creating and cementing a un- i
ion between those who would resist ,
the conspiracy e.f wholesale robbery j
and grinding oppression
In affairs of this state the Populist
leaders have been guilty of correspond-
ing efforts at misgovernment, extrava-
gance and deception. They have de-
clared for governmental ownership of
railroads, telegraph and telephone
lines, the sub-treasury plan and fiut pa
per money. Their recoid in the twenty-
third legislature is In the highest de-
gree reprehensible, hypocritical and
contrary to public interests. Out of
thirteen planks on state issues in their
platform of 1892 bills to carry out only
three were introduced. Though loudly
inveighing against the issuance <,f
bonds, they voted for a bill authorizing
counties, cities and towns to issue them
and opposed a subsequent act provid
ing against fraudulent or excessive is-
sues. Claiming to be favorable to the
growth and advancement of the mate- j duct ion of <• u r
rial interests of the state, they opposed j the Populi as. to ;
the bill for the development of h V min- !
oral resources. Denouncing fraud and |
injustice, they resisted the act regulat-
ing the location of county seats. The
cattle and live stocl; interests of th" |
state probably add $75,000,000 annually
to our wealth, and deserve considers- :
tion and protection, vet all the Popu- |
lists present voted against the passage |
of the act creating the live stoc* sani j
tary commission, which has done s ; |
| much to preserve this great, industry!
from disastrous quarantine regulations., j
None have so bitterly condemned th ■ :
fraudulent issue of stock and bonds by i
corporations as the Populis! , but when :
the; Deniejerats presented the- bill to I
to con- |
fine the' issue of stock and bonds, by rail- |
way companies t < the r« as niablc valae
of their property, all the Populists pres- j
ont opposed it. The act was passed, not-
withstanding their opposition, but had
it received their support it would hav !
received the requisite two-thirds vote j
to render it immediately effective. I ri-
der the constitution, and with the vote ;
cast, ii elid not go into operation until
ninety days niter adjournment, and iti
the meantime large, exe-essive issues ot
stock and bonds were made to avoid its i,
provisions. Detected in their hypoe-|
risy, they soa k to escape public censure <
by declaring that the measure is un-J
sound, beeau.se of the provision which
in emergencies empowers the railroad
commissi m to permit the Issue of stock
and bonds, in the aggregate not more
than 50 per cent over the value of the
property. That this is a mere subter-
fuge and false pretense was plainly
. hown by Judge Nugent, who said in
his speech at Grand view in 1894: "The1
laws regulating the issu- of bonds by
railroads, corporations and by counties,
' iiies and towns, the law prohibiting
perpetuities, by which corporations can
no longer acquire and
land above the needs e>f
business, the law against
land ownership all these
other beneficial laws now on the
ut" books must be adher • to anel en-
forced. They are wise and just, and
can not but conduee to the; welfare, the
happiness and the prosperity e>? the
people." Their eonduct in the* last leg-
islature was equally inconsiscnt and
culpable. Although their platform in
IMil contained twenty-cne separate de-
mands feu state legislation, bills were
iniroduccel by tsein to e*arry out only
nine bills of those. Their insincerity and
di simuk ion with re f« rene e to these
nine idim manifest fr< m the fa< t that
none of Hrem we re- pressed. During the
entire m salon not. a motion was resole
(ft , uspeniT the- regular order of business
to take up either of the bills for con-
sider;- yo. Demanding in their plat-
form that the people's right of local
self-government sli uhl be preserved,
O'Connor pre posed te> abrielge it by in-
troducing and urging a bill proviellng
for fire and police commissioners In
cities of over 35,000 inhabitants, to be
appointed by tiie governor, instead eif
being chosen by the < ities. Declaiming
against bonds, O'Connor introduced
bills authorizing the e ity of San An-
tonio to issue bonds to take up its Heat-
ing elebt anel empowering Bexar county
to issue $100,000 bonds to construct
ditches and sink artesian w lis. Insist-
ing upon a reduction e>f official fees, a
majority vote d against the bill regulat-
ing the atte ndance of witnesses, which
materially reduead such expense's. Kx-
per cent; paper mill products, 23 per
cent. The bill makes no provision fen-
rest lie ting the cutting of rates or the
prevention of rebates e,i olNa pp -ia!
privileges,, but leaves these aver.ues of
discrimination wide open. Remarkable
as tl^e bill is for the great, increase in
rates which it allows, it is still more
remarkable as presenting the most aU-
sird anel grotesque classification
known to railway regulation. Cottor
and strawberries, pork and rags, gran-
ite ami eggs, fish ami tobacco, medi
t ines and melons, guano and shoes, ar ■
placed in the same classes. Not satis-
fied with these incoitftruitics and de-
ceptions, they belied their repeated
pro!' r.sios. 1 if ecm oni ^ th»- e xpeneil
ture ejf public moneys, t he
ditioa
maneleel radical re-
's, and relying upon
■ist them, the Demo-
ibout the work with zeal and
vo
by Pe
vere reduced
s. or $332,000
done through
11 the amen;1-
its to the g'T.-
.ni
fme
iei ding
ippropi
ing their representatives and senators,
in congress to support it. They re-
pealed the Australian ballot law, put
the s; lection of judges and registrars of
«*' e tion in i he hands of their adher-
ents and practically a.bolished the se-
cre, >• of the balh .. They attempted by
reckless legislation and otherwise to
se-izc remunerative offices in the state
for partisan purposes. They denounced
the; Democrat for not repealing the tax
on tobacco and whisky, and >et levied
a special tax of one-half of a cent per
pound on tobacco, in audition to the
federal and ad valejrein taxes, and
doubled tho tax on whisky. They
sought to plan the railremd property of
th< state in the hands of credited and
confirmed rascals. Denouncing tho
De moe rats for extravagance, they in-
e reased appropriations more than $lf>0,-
000. Promising to reduce taxation, they
levied m .v special taxe*s anel increased
existing ernes anel increased the ad valo-
rem rate to 13 cents, or more than
double the rate in Texas. Maimed
Confederate soldiers were removed
from ofiiee to make way for their
henchmen .ml grossly offeneling the
noble southern senMment, the legisla-
ture refi.scd to adjourn, though a legal
boli sv, on the birthday of Robert K.
lv the loftiest type of our manhood,
el !
anel the eomple
English
tic, phys
- " character in all the
In each of these states
fee' government was
>n investments diciin-
ic credit was seriously
ere' and enterprise de-
dal
anel allowi
Iditioaal e
D1
the
DT 111
const
• ni
arht tc
b-
jperly
Lind
hold
their
alle-n
el, Of
tie
1 llline-
). Ill-
that they are not. eh .sen as m
elementary te\t-boe)ks. the ex
the state in publishing tie- <■ I;
the 750,000 pupils of tie public
requiring the publicatk
million books, t
enormous, end \
diate outlay ejf
stead of deer' a
done, their rue
creased them $1
Fortunately fe
tent e»f their st; t<
limited, among tie i i
of the executive oflie
Kansas, the execute
orado in 1892 and a fusion I
North Carolina in 1S!»
anel j driven from powe r there, the ;
stat- J pel b nees ejf these states, shown
lie documents and reputable witne sses,
gives solemn warning t > Texas to he-
ware1 e>f their visionary policies and de-
structive methods. In Kansas having
the governor and senate, the Popuiisis,
by proceedings which scandalize.^ and
disgraced the state, sought wrongfully
» to th
high*
> guard the^ e>ne and
welfare of the other. Among
aims it would preserve the
federal constitution, the reserved
rights of the states, the personal lib-
erty and political equality of the citi-
frf
and
of the
of the
•n rf
prei
pow
ounti
anel
office
tne
tion,
practices
opposes
| and class leg
tion to the m
om of conscience, equal
equal protection to all. the
•f church and state, the free-
ami the just limita-
i ejf government. It
to the ancient faiths
manhood, liberties and
honest toil. It teaches
economy, fosters educa-
monopolies ami trusts
dation and limits taxa-
essities of a simple and
bpe
re in f,'"Eal
•dily' w'thin
ort
pu li-
ner y e»f-
for this
isted by
'solution
lee pen-
ould in-
presslng a efc
lie- interest •
and oyster h
wholesale elestrue
natural oyster be e
of them tipp ised
its original form
some opposed th
;erve every pub-
)ppostal the fish
i (hi ii anel
as a power
defense «>f
upon the
iimj irity
a , whie'li has arrested the
♦ruction of fe>oel fish anel
■ beds on the> coast; many
sed tho irrigation law in
nel as amended, and
act authorizing the
creatiein of life* and ace-ident insurance
companies in this state. Affecting to
favor the abolition e>f unnecessary of-
fices, eiglr.ea n out e>f t.wcnty-two voted
to postpone and thereby defeated the
bill readjusting and reducing the judi-
cial distrie ts. la ml in protests against
combinations in trade, seven voted
against the anti-trust law. Insisting,
upon equality of taxation, six voted
against an occupation tax on insurance
agents, who alone among professional
or business men were exempt, and te n
opposed tiie bill taxing the
eeipts e>f express c nnpani
practically pay
denounce Den
sc hool fund, a
sion eif tin' les.
feated a me
prevented it by
with private inv
anel corruptly to seize the house of rep-
| resentatives, and were- only tl
j in their revolutionary purpose h
eision ejf the supreme court. Having
I tvenry-th,ree out eif feirty lecmbee of
the senateT ,they empl-eyed ci-aiy-iv.o
clerks and stenographers and seven
pages, eighty niu« e-np^iy .. ia aU--'..'.i'lr-
nineteen enrolling eh rk - alone. ie nr>n:
than two to each senator, and
fort to reelie'e or limit e xr- use-
purpose was successfully re:
; them. The senate adopted a i
favoring the passage of a
e\on act by congress v.hieh >
'lease* the pension xpenses
$2uo>'»otutiU annn.n
cans opposing it. The ■ ■ •?;}"» r-
mitt.ee of the senate r--fu-' ■! \>.
a railroad commission bill, an
ed all railway legislation at th;
because the law pr-'vieh'd fen
tion rather than tie ap| iutim
commissioners. The s '
ly proposed to in.
tion for the milit i r n.
000 annually, a.- i; e- mid be «
and used to main', n Ponuii
denty by force. '!'!.<• t • •11 ! ^ 1
eif the stato- tb cr 1 -i • :7 1
ing their two > ars .-f oflie
ministration was we'.i. o 1
voluntarily calling for t- a i ;;
enforce the laws. During tin t
legislative expense s we
$53,000, all ordinary expe-n-
$152 "S72.and not wit hstamlin
cial depression, they h ft a t
general purposes of 41!1 ^ cents
than double
rnment. It believes that
bounds of the peace and
good order of^ociety the citizen is en-
titled to the fullest measure of personal
liberty, ami that, paternalism has no
place within its creed. W'haUit has
recently accomplished for the public
good has been fully stated in my speech
at Greenville, fn the union it has abol-
ished 600 useless offices; cut e>ff $11,-
OOu.OOO annually as sugar bounty; re-
turned pension expenses $18,000,000; im-
H pe»sed ian income tax; reducecFordinary
le-1 expeiiditurea $27,000,000; made a bil-
that
the
taxa
"■.l>
do
tion
if paper money, taxable
ofore exempt; reduced
valorem rate of tariff
en! : re,•DVeT.-d.ioe.UiiO.-
oetr
laid by corpor.Uiems; restorer! com-»
aovoTuiiie nt to the south, anef|
.ii,■- j-Ri^e ami upheld that
foreign non-interference
inent, which is essential
il independence. In the
p.\ ■ many laws of gen-
people, and ad-
momically, efli-
Among other
1 fees of office
•reased the gen-
a year and les-
3.150,000. It has
8.000 in the gen-
the payment of
debt, the rieees-
repair of public
I ion of the
d the
t for
t>
tbfullj
reduce
on
annual
the
in Tex.;
Bella
ent s
affie-
take
li!
gross re-
's, which
i ernment ai
1 against its
der Populist rule
the treatment «•:
| institutes at the
ties. The rail re
no ad
ft
sur
rem tax. I bey
hoarding the
yet at the special se^s-
ature in 1S95 they ele-
e which would have
allowing e t>m pet it ion
stors. Claiming to be
the special friends and champions of
labor, the only se-nat »r present and
fourteen out of seventeen of their rep-
resentatives opposed an amendment to
tie- private incorporatieii law allowing
charters feir the organization eif labor-
ers. workingmen, war, -earners and
farmers to protect themselves in their
various pursuits.
is in
an*
reguiat
tuted fe
ed that
legal t
mor
the
all iri
prcvei
by pri
by the
ige of
11 of
gages,
tate ti
eight c
The g
clean si
r for d
debts
Laws
1 I e>n the
ures and tax-
eeklessly un-
m that with-
"H. E. Taubeneck. Illinois.
"M. ('. Itankin. Indiana.
".I H. McDowell, Tennessee.
"Thomas Fletcher. Arkansas.
"M. R. Kauffman Ark.... a .
"K. A. Sankey. K uisas.
D. Kager. Vebraska.
"A. L. Maxwell. Illinois.
"S. J. Wright. Texas.
"Rugene Smith. Illinois.
"Calvin K. Re ifsnider. Missouri.
"W. I. Flatt. Tennessee.
"J. If. Davis. Texas.
"T. M. Patterson. Colorado.
"John P. Steele. Illinois.
"Heiward - Taylor. Illinois.
".T. W. Dollihon. Arkansas.
MJ. A. Eda .rt m. Nebraska.
"Charle- V.. palmer. Illinois.
"J. D. H ss lliiuola.
"fieorge M. Jio » s n Ark arras.
"S. P. V. Arn >M. Illinois.
"W. J. Quick souri.
"Frank E. lia h, y. Missouri.
"Horace C. (kik. Colorado."
Though their piatform favored the
continuance of the railroad commis-
sion, anel theuigh they pretentiously de-
nounce existing rates as exorbitant.
Rhodes introduced a bill to regulate
freight charges which would have de-
stroyed the commissi in anti enormous-
ly increased the rates. It authorized the
companies to charge rates on a basis of
$} <
anti
I thai
300-mile haul, in
allowed undt r the
following per cent
per cent; flour, less
per cent. in carl-..ads
scess of those
commission by
Cotton, in hale
than cailoads
24 s per <*ent;
now
the
s. 15
In No
lie pi iti
offices
uired
The
ena
per
per
:its.
242
j meal eiat meal, hominy, etc..
cent; corn, less than carloads. 172
! e-ent, in tarloads. 300 per cent; o
! liarley, wheat, rye. bran, mill sti
| feed, ?tH) per cent; hay. carloads,
per cent: cotton seed, carloads. 24-'
tent; cotton seed cake, ash
per cent; cotton seed hulls. 500 pe
»ent; soft cot I, 515 per cent; coke, t-•
per cent: lignite briquet. . tiT4 pe
cent: wheat. «»17 per cent
per cent: horse
cent; beef cattle
gi^its, hogs and
stock cattle. 300
brie
s and mules, 1
oxen. cows. <
she* p. 2tH* per
per cent; ston*
the 1
Demew
to th»
taxing
k *it. :
zatlons
the publii
tier and g
• al per*'
higher th
pledged u
point me
'utenan
at. Th
charter
all ehi
ligioug
They
lh prin
and
iVe It
in the
anti-
let ting
politi-
IS $600
though
unng
necef
Indiai
i\t th.
stat
a ane
alvi
? in the i
Minneso
not
sand, 600 per cvnt; paper mill stock, 31"
hey defeatt
lli i.
s «>r ut
Demot
racy for
eitner c
The pi
the pr
aths, and it is
coming year
rate of taxa-
on.thus tend-
mnnu fact ures
in truth the
»rate and low-
union exi*ept
The sin-
ravaganee
be judged
platform,
de>es not
P expendi-
itforms of
?seut >ear
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