Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-09-16
POLITICAL
Maj. Jerdone Nominated on the Nine.
teenth Ballot for Senator Of
the Tenth District.
Dr. P. g. LeGrand Is Candidate for
the Legislature on the Free
Grass Platform.
Ben Builder and Tom Grady Speak at
a Demonstration by the Peoples
Party in New York.

AnW ANhNf Gcpt. tDt-lnifty tnoNsa
and people assembled at Union square
tonight to hear Gen. b. II. Butler
speak. II required the services OF half
q dozen policemen TO make passage
way for the general to roach the stand.
He was loudly cheetcd by crowd
largely composed OF laboring men.
DIR. Ferdinand seegor called the
meeting 10 order and lntro-
duced Louis Post as chairman,
who, In brief address, introduced
Gen. Butler, The cheers that greeted
the general IA hc came 10 the front
continued for several minutes. when
quiet was gained Gen Butler said In
part.
Friends and Follow.ciuHcns
Thanking you for your kind greet
ings, assume that the deep in-
terest In the affairs OF the country aud
the political measure which should
be taken TO reveal them, has brought
40 vast an audience together. This is,
indeed, n ratification nv the great city
OF New York OF the Inauguration OF
the peoples party,
rHE TRUE DEMocRAuy.
Unlike the labored, tedious and Ia.
volved platforms of other political par
ties, that Of the peoples party Is short.
incisive and comprehensive Of every
principle for the conduct of the gov
eminent OF the republic and can be
easily carried In the memory OF each.
IL was this equality of rights, this
equality OF burdens, this equality OF
the powers and this equality OF the
of all men under the law,
none can deny, that was the fundR-
mental doctrine OF the
FATHERS or THE REPUBLIC,
adopted by Jefferson, elaborated 10y
Madison and executed by Jackson.
They were the doctrines OF Democracy
when that party was indeed the party
of the people, uncontrolled by corrlp-
tionists and mOnOpoliats, ] need not
argue 10 you that IN these latter days
inequality of rights, inequality OF
powers, inequality of burdens
ana inequality Of privileges
governmental actlon upon the peo-
functions are Imposed and 10 whom
be
Hut how contrary IL the franchise OF
the railroads, elevated and surface. As
soon as incorporated by ingenl US
and most often fraudulent contrivanue,
they erect themselves into n terrific
and outrageous monopoly by means of
which the people hie robbed Of their
earnings, their business crushed and
many impoverished for the sole
BENEFir or THE FRw
people have endeayored to protect
themselves by granting charters TO
competing roads, which promised 10
procure them lower prices for fare and
freight. But IL IL AN axlomatio fact
that railroad competition always
ENDS IN RAILROAD CONVERSATION
and that combination IL most frequent
ly directed 10 the destruction OF other
modea OF transportation which they
cannot control. The capacity OF the
Erie canal should have been enlarged
years ago, and Is there man who hears
me that does not know that II would
have been ended had II not been for
THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
STATES
and the selfish opposition OF the rail-
roads. Let II not be said that this is "A
state question. IL rises 10 much
broader and higher proportions. II
Is national issue. The
burden of goods brought
upon the Erie canal TO the city Of New
York exceeds the ocean traffic from
the city OF New York, and here isdOne
more than two-thirds Of the CONNER
olal business OF the country. This,
now, Is great
NATIONAL FREE WATER WAY.
III any internal improvements Of rivers
and harbore and OF water ways by
the general government can be IustI.
fled, why Ia not the enlargement OF
the canal by appropriations the most
worthy object Of them all, with the
exception, perhaps, OF the
Improvement Of the great IA
ther Of water, the Mississippi.
With nn alienation OF Democratic aud
congressman from the
state OF New York, which LAS been
powerful enough 10 control the nom
nations and elections OF presidents OF
the United States, why has not some
representative
MOVED THIS IN coNGREsg9
The answer goes back again, the
railroads would be opposed TO 1t. They
do not oppose the Improvement OF the
river, which Is therefore
made. Cheap transportation means
cheap food for men of the East and
cheap food means higher wages and
more comforts Cheap transportation
means the opening for manufacturers,
" rkmen and artisans In the East
10 supply men and women IN the
West, who, n they can obtain fair
prices for their provisions, can buy
those provisions. Ought there not 70
be laws passed by congress
under their great constitutional power
10 regulate the lnteBtate commerce by
which the food Of the Wet and the
comforts Of tho East should be inter
at the cheapest rate2 All
special privileges and special burdens
for the benefit Of the few should be
taken for the lives and comfort 81 the
many.
Gen. Buffers speech evoked great
...s.1.ssas aud fkta s.si.rarI s.fs.A HIM