The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-08-27
HANCOCK AND sCHEICHER.

TO The repeal Of the resumption law, which
can now, after we have .icachcd resumption,
only mean an indefinite issue of paper, which
would soon be worthless, cna,llng people 10
pay their debts with nolninally nothing. II
will he, trust and hope, the position Of the
NJ for public and private good faith and hon
esty, without any Of these modern alloys; and
oppose tnese different features OF communism
as they arise.
The above is an extract from the
Galveston Neps' report of Colonel
Schlcichcr's speech Il few days ago at
Goliad. Mr.. Scleichor's statement
of Judge Ilancock's position on the
finance qu stion is but reiteration
of what we hear from all quarters,
Judge Hancock himself Included.
We take II, there is no question but
that Judge Hancock is opposed to Il
repeal of the resumption law. The
very first step towards relief for the
distress now pervading the country,
~ to repeal that law, at least such is
the conviction of the Democracy of
the South and West, as expressed in
their platforms. Ohio, Indiana, ILL
nois, Missouri, Tennessee, Louisiana,
Alabama, Texas, in short, the De-
mocracy of all the States of the
South and West have demanded an
immediate repeal of the resumption
law, with other measures of financial
relief. None of them have spoken
with greater emphasis than Texas
has done in the recent Democratic
convention at Austin in demanding
d repca. OF that law which binds the
labor of South and West, aye of the
whole country, to the unrequited
service of Eastern capital and Eas-
tern bondholders. There is no ques-
ton of public policy ON which the
people of Texas, regardless of party
and especially the Texas Democracy,
are more solidly united than ON the
financial plank of the Austin plat
form. The platform of the Green
back party, on this subject, is essen
italy the same with that of the De-
mocracy, except that it is extreme
and more radical, travelling over the
same ground, but going further. The
financial issue is universallyregardcd
not only in Texas but throughout
fhe country as paramount in impor-
lance, ovcrshadowing all others.
On this vital all absorbing issue, by
the side of which every other is ut
terly Insignificant, ii seems without
doubt that Judge Hancock, the Dem
ocratic nominee for Congress in the
9TH District, is ranged on the side of
our enemies, and directly at war
with the party which he claims to
represent, and the people whose
support he solicits. The candidacy
of Judge Hancock as the Democratic
nominee is under hesccircumstancc
Il fraud upon the party and upon the
people. The Austin platform is an
honest and bona tide PRONUNCIATION
of principles and policies to be car
ricd out and enforced by the votes
and the efforts of those who are cho-
sen as public servants in their rcspec-
tive places. 1t will be shocking to
the moral sense of the country If the
Democratic people of the 9th Con-
grcssional District, after having as
sisted in the construction of the AUS
tin platform, shall deliberately by
their votes send Judge Hancock to
Washington TO vote and work in the
defeat of the very measures which
commcnds the platform to popular
support. Nothing will he more con
ducive TO political Generalization, or
breed greater distrust of the pledges
and promises and platforms of the
party than such course, and to pur-
sue II will be confession that the
Austin platform is fraudulent con-
trivance to deceive the people and
secure their votes, TO be kicked aside
ms soon as that purpose is secured.
The Democratic party is party of
principles and policies" II follows
no individual except as the exponent
of them, and the convention which
places the banner of the party
in other than such hands ex-
cecds its authority and Democratic
voters are not only not bound by the
action, but before the highest obliga-
tions to repudiate it let the conse-
quences be what they may.
If Judge Hancock's position on
the finance question is correctly rep
resented, the Democratic voters of
the Fifth District have either TO
abandon their principles and follow
him, or to adhere to their principles
and abandon Hancock. One or the
other form of this dilemma they
must take, and the EXAMINER
which has never faltered in its adj
herancc to the principles of Democ-
racy, and to the usages and tradi-
lions of the party, unhesitatingly
advises its readers in that District,
and they are many, TO stand by the
principles of the party as announc-
ed in the Austin platform, if Judge
Hancock will remove all doubts and