The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1884-08-21

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trN, iur "A hu-u welfare 10 WIS We'll know ~
I had slnod from Wg earliest mHuluni,
The notice WITS iu this emphatic liU-
guago, III yuu rriusu tu sluuu hN ihu
wurkinWuou, God helm ynu, | cannot
Ia this there WIS Uu mistake, Mr., Wat
trrson, ~ Kentucky, who followed mc,
took warning, saving the party would
look "a tod Tor help, hui the Scripture
saith, "lho prayer al th" wicked HNhileth
not H. was due To myself not Ia adopt
thg course which certain pure minded,
md upright, and highly muful politicians
deem 10 pupsr o. pursue, take part IN
the proceedings ui q convention Ia it,
end, aud then, without giving any mo-
tice In anybody, aud without protesting,
refuse Ia support it, doiug',
| have thus given "A suCCiurl, ~ 10
must Ice, hut faithful account at my
connection with the thiraSu conVCn-
ton and its action on the matters which
| was charged iu present ia II NN the
National GrconhHrk labor party, The
Anti Monopoly organization nud the
Democracy of Mass ichnSetis.
rLNI. Ouu uNE 90 EN', uiENT~.
willuol omit the fact ,hat lu The plat
form adopted There were certain sweet
phrases used toward the foreign born
citizen. There were certain huuryCl
words, over and over repeated, In order
that their repetition might seem Xix"
earnest advocacy put la favor Of labor
aud upnn some of the topics of our plat
form. But do claim, Hnd submit To the
jus, Judgment al the people, that conf
pairing tho two platforms and taking th"
action of the convention, every
claim oi the Anli-MoHupollst aud
of the National ErcCuhacS and
labor men was - cuulrliplu-
ouslv rejected or 80 thoroughly
smutherrd by platitudcS, which would
permit any financial theOriSt or any mo
nupulisl 10 subscribe To the majority plat
form, that IL Is most apparent on the face
of the resolutions that they were simply
resolutions of cNpcdicuts Ia catch votes
hy indircclion, deception aud Illusion,
not declarations of those high principles
which should form the basis at the
united action of II great party OF the
people.
MuI AN ENPLIUl n PLATFORM SHOULD RE
DEMANDED or TN pEMOCRArN.
The country has had no experience for
nearly a luarlerOf century of what the
Democracy would do IL they had the
power. 50 that the people are Obliged to
require the most explicit pledges
from them of intended action, before
we can put the Government in tier
nands. But the farmer and the labOrIug
man do not know that Democratic
House of Representatives has just APP
propriated more money raised by taxa
lion, than any other House of Represent
tatives has ever appropriated in time OF
peace. We also know that the Demo-
cratic majority would have made free
trade tariff, containing all the odiOus
features of the present war tariff. so far
rs regards its montrous inequalities, by
a horizontal reduction of the tariif to
break down very many rising and strug
Cling industries, and destruction of the
homes Oiour workingmen and the home
markets OF the American producers.
Who does not know that the very fear
of the action of the Democracy. in Con-
grcSs has so paralyZcd Amerlcnn enter
prise and business, that mills ar every
where closing, mines shut up, furnaces
blown out, and every kind OF employ
mcut so curtulcd that the mechanic and
worlinyncn are not earning enough to
support life ia comfort; SD that the
farmer even, deprived Of home
market. ana Ushcu down hy discrimi-
mating rates OF trIilsp Jlation, IindS his
corn. wheat and WOOL lower than It has
been within the present generation. can
the people, therefore, trust the machine
Democracy with power, upon Il shifting.
evasive and deceptive platform?
WE KNOW THE HEPuBLiCANS. now THE
MIGHTY HAVE FALLEN.
The country has had experience in
Republican party rule twenty-five years,
and know its result. We, therefore,
have no need to look aL its PLATFORM, for
"by their fruits We shall know them"
The Republican party In its inception
was empnatically the party OF the peo-
pie. 1t had in it substantially neither
monopolists or capitalists. 1t was as
poor as was the convention of delegates
who framed the Declaration OF Inde-
pendence. Taking out five men, the
rest could hardly pay their board bills.
The Republican party was formed on
a grand and noble idea, to do for one
class of workingmen what the Demo-
cratic party, even under jefferson and
Jackson, had failed to do. Their De-
mocracy dealt only with the white man.
The Democracy Of the Republican par
ty dealt with the black man, and aimed
to give him freedom and equal rights.
For that purpose and that alone, was
that party formed. 1t was the radical
party, and so radical party Of the peo-
pie, that the aristocratic part of the
WING party, the old adversaries OF the
Democracy of the days of Jackson,
merged themselves in the Democracy
without drop of Democratic blood, as
they hoped, in their veins, or u thought
for the people, except as the lower clas-
SEES in their party, and such of them as Il
quarter of II century has spared, are
found with the Democracy of to-day
largely guiding it's councils III the man
ner we have seen.
HOW REPUB ICANS BECAME THE PARTY
or MONuPOLIST.
The necessity for money to carry on
the war drew all the bankers and CAPT
talist into the Republican party. The i'm
mcnse fortunes, almost necessarily
growing out of the vast expenditures of
the war, fell into the hands of men who
attached themselves to the party that
fed them, as the iron is attracted by the
magnet, and monopolized industries and
enterprises.
The necessity to bind together the cas-
tern and western shores Of the Republic
by methods of quick transportation, Civ
ing reason for immense subsidies, grant
ed to make three systems of railroads
across the continent with all their
branches and feeders, created wealth in
the corporatons and individuals, to q
degree before unheard of, i'm this or any
other country, and brought all those in
terests substantially into the Republican
party. And if any staid in the Demo-
cratic party, they were in confederation
with the same class, to so arrange poll
ties that whichever party came in pow
er, capital, in all its varied and powerful
forms, would be sure of control, and the
people be ground up as "between the
upper and neither mill stone" Thus it
viii be readily seen, and he who runs
may read, that the Republican party. is
the party of monopoly, OF corporate in
terests in every form of industry, and
every department OF business and
finance.
The Anti-Monopolists can expect moth
ing from the Republican party for rea-
sons before stated, and because it holds
both houses by the rich men who are the
owners of monopolies, or their paid at
tOrneys.
CLAIMING TO PROTECT LA BORTHHy ONLY
PROTECT CAPITAL.
True. it has in all it's tariff legislation
Il