The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-11-03

deem the one or the other right. We men,
ton these gentlemen in the sense we do,
not that we consider them leaders of party
organized, with banners waving aud with
leaders here and there throughout the
country, but because being in prominent
positions their acts can and do more dclin-
itely illustrate our idea of political indie
pcndence than any others we think Of now.
Beginning some time ago, exactly how or
where we con not tell the spirit-if We may
use the word in this sense-has ever since
been growing and becoming more potent
IN the land. II is easy enough to trace this
political independence to its origin. ltl
grew out OF the dctatorial management oil
precinct, county, state and national con-
ventions. In every community there is
this little ring, that little clique and semc
other little iunta, in both parties and these
small politicians manage to manipulate
and control matters in the precinct con-
yentions, sending men of their own choice
to the county convention. Then the work
of u ring, little larger and
more selfish, docs its work and sends
Tom, Dick and Harry, men of their ilk, to
the state convention, where the big machine,
for state spells grinds out its grist. Thus,
county and state nominations are con
trolled and manipulated and dogmas to
suit the ringsters are incorporated in the
platforms, and during all this wire-pullng
and pipe-laying the will Of the people i.
ignored, their wishes disregarded, and they
are threateningly told that if they attempt
to kick over the traces they will be lsshed in
again. They are given to understand that
they wear collars and are leashed together,
and dare not have opinions of their own.
For long time the people, the yeomanry
OF both parties, the men who do the voting,
who put their shoulder to the wheels and
move things, submitted in silence, albeit
it might be in sullcnness often times.
Finally, here and there man would not
be coerced he would not satisfy his iudg-
ment, and outrage his conscience by sup
porting this man or that
man, or this measure or
that measure simply because a convention
of his party sa d it must be done This feel
ing has increased and to-day from one limit
of our country to .another there are multi
pliol thousands of voters, democrats and
republicans, who are tired he"machinc,r
Tired of bossism, tired of the rings and the
cliques and the little stem-w winding, self
cooking politicians. They will vote as they
please, supporting the men and the meas
ures they believe most in and have most
confidence in, the welfare and prosperity of
the country considered 1t is the indepen-
dent vote of the country that is as 4 bal
anCe wheel preventing excuses from the
one or the other political party They arc
to-day the truest patriots in the land. Al
iuring par;isan;sm, scorning the whips and
filings and contmcly Of this or that political
party, they consider that only these
questions, those measures, those
policies which their minds and their
hearts tell them will conduce most
to the happiness and peace Of
the country, and so considering, they vote
accordingly. In Pennsylvania this spirit of
independence is making mighty strides, is
making frightiul inroadS into the ranks of
both the democratic and republican parties
1t is this same spirit which is fociing to
the banners of Malone in Virginia, and
which, from apparent indications, will de
feat democracy in the grand old mother of
states. Here in Texas we believe that the
spirit is rife, The man who tills his farm
or nerds his stock on the prairies, the arti-
san, the mechanic, the professional man,
the day laborer, the merchant, one and all
read the papers; they keep posted on cur
rent events, they inform themselves con-
corning the policies of the state and national
governments, they read the signs of the
times for themselves, and they study all
questions of finance, commerce, ethics,
etc, etc, and they ARRIVE at their own
conclusions. They are no longer mere
henchmen in the ranks of a political party
to be lead blindly by selt-appointcd lead
crs, or even chosen ones, hither and yon, as
dumb cattle are lead to the
shambles. Then have quit wearing
yokes and they have discarded the collars
of old. In the future in this state we be-
lieve that indcpendentism will be to the
fore, and that the mouthings and tugger
springing of rings and cliques will be a
naught. All power in our free country
comes from the people, is by the people
and for the people and why should not the
people designate and regulate that power.
Texas with her one hundred thousand
democratic majority in the past has not
achieved that which was within the bounds
ofpossibility-of probability even. There
has been an insolcnce about this majority
that was detrimental to itself and alas |!
sadly detrimental In too many particulars
| to tho best interests of the state. The state
is full of young voters who have no rever
ence for fixed grooves; it is full Of middle.
aged and aged voters who are tired of the
same old endless trcad-mill, Tho world
progresses and as it progresses, enlighten
ment is extended and enlarged and people
are going to vote to suit themselves in i'm
monscly increased numbers hereafter, ant
the permanent prosperity of the country
depends in intense degree upon the indie
pendcnts.
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