The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-09-28
Colonel WellbOrn's Reioinder.

Mr. sWellborn commenced his reply to
Colonel Jones' last remarks by stating that
he had asked in his concluding remarks
how the government, placed in such jeopar-
dy by the Independent candidate for gov
| ernor, was to be preserved. He had men,
| toned the ugly features of oppressive tariff,
odious banking system, aggressive monop-
olies and other things he had been fighting
| in congress, and desired to know how Colo
mel Jones proposed to decapitate these
| hydra headed monstrosities.
The only answer Colonel Jones had
youch safed to give was absolute money"
He had asked how the administration of
affairs in Texas was to be advanced, and the
very echo of the last reply had been given
absolute money"
He had desired a remedy for every evil
now being antagonized by the party to
which he had belonged and still in the
pauses of expectant patriotism he had only
heard mentioned that panacea for all exist
ing evils" absolute money"
In the name of all that is good, he ex-
claimed, is this WORKOUT cry never to hush
| its reverberations? He would inform his
friend that the old greenback foolishness of
absolute money had died Its natural death
two or three years ago, and was only
mourned by its nearest relative-the unre-
deemable money of which Colonel Jones
had spoken. 1t reminded him of parcel
of boys riding on stick horses after the
circus show had pulled up stakes and gone
to another place.
Mr.. Wellborn referred to Viewers can
vass of TeXas-treating us as if we lived
on missionary ground. This gentleman
had record peculiarly adapted to excite
the sympathy ola Texan audience. In 1867
we find him Federal office older-voted
for Grant twice. afterwards for Hays-was
q revenue assessor in Iowa-beaten for con-
gress several times, and finally, only in '7S,
elected as refugee from the republican,
into the greenback camp. All the time
that the financial evils complained of by
Jones and the greenbackers were being per-
petrated, except the establishment OF the
banks, Weaver was an acting, voting re-
publican.
As to Jones' allegation with reference to
Sam Randall's cracking his finger, to bring
up democrats sufficient to sustain capital
lists in their schemes, he showed by the
record where Randall had voted against the
national banks on the final passage of the
bill.
The speaker referred to the action OF
radicalism in Texas in 1867, where life,
liberty and property were valued az naught
by the arrogant sublugators, and asked
with emrh asis, who were the liberators
from the mi Iuitous tyranny.
In lang are of great earnestness, he
looking the plain on which, in burning
words, he depicted the outrages of our PEG.
pie, and asked the audience from whom
came the hoped and wished for relief?
Asked them if the reply would not come on
every breeze, that only through the De-
mocracy coull their liberties have been
preserved?
Mr.. Wellborn spoke of what was true
independence, selEabnegating and devoted,
such as fired the 800 Spartans at Thermo-
pylg and gave national spirit TO Scotland
at Bannockburn, with crown to Bruce,
her king.
But howdoes this coalitionof greenbackers
and republicans show up TO cheer the hopes
of Texans? The greenbackers gave gat last
eleCtlOn) -, 600 votes and the republicans
81, 0O0 The coalition would be powerful,
even if Colonel Jones so desired TO prevent
their being absorbed by the radicals.
In conclusion he referred to Colonel
Jones being harnessed to a car which could
not be pulled TO the gubernatorial mansion
by such team. He quoted Scripture TO
show that the OK and ass would not work
together-one or the other being badly
oyermatched-and pointed his Illustration
by referring TO the republican advocates OF
high tariff, national banks, continuation Of
tn public debt, etc. yoked in harness with
their professed antipodes in principle, the
great reiormers of the Weaver shool.
The speaker appealed 10 democrats not
10 desert a party which had been so true
and tried as the arch enemy Of public debt,
national banks and high tariff, and whose
greatest principle and highest effort was the
preservation OF constitutional liberty.