Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-08-19

in 1856 the Free-Soilers, the despised
third party, elected Fremont, who
was counted out by the returning
boards of that day, but the WING
party was destroyed. And in 1850 by
the third party of '52, Lincoln was
elected and the Democratic party was
worse than destroyed. As Its msJority
gravitated to treason and armed re-
hellion / left 1t then to serve the
country as now | do.
Fear not. The people will not have
to wait eight years for their triumph.
Everything, including politics, travels
faster now, as there are more railroads
and telegraphs to distribute intelll-
gence.
In politics, as in everything else,
there is seed time and harvest. He
who expects to reap must sow ana he
can't reap when he ought to be SOW
ing and the presidential crop is mar
vested only once in four years.
In framing your electoral ticket,
make fusion In all the states with
the supposed minority, and makel 1t
upon this theory; not that you are GO
ing to vote for the electors of any can
didate opposed to your interests, not
that the friends of the OF her candidate
are going to vote for yours, but agree
that you will run the same electoral
| ticket, provided the electors who COM
pose ii are rs they ought to be, reputa-
| BILE men who Will be bound by their
honorable undertakings, which is all
there Is that binds the electoral college
to vote in any direction; and then have
| ii agreed that the electoral vote of the
.lxnn 10 Itx,ilnI in thn. al al
college according to the number ofv0tes
thrown for your candidate. and
! the number of votes thrown for the
The number of votes which each can
didate gets will be known with sub
stantial accuracy long before the Off
cial count is made. Therefore you will
have every incentive to vote for your
candidate because the larger number
of votes you cast the more electoral
votes will your candidate get, and the
less will the other have. And those
who are voting for the sames electors
with you will throw ms many votes as
they can for their candidate in order
that he shall have rs large share of
| the electoral vote of the state as pos.
sible, neither in fact voting for the
| VI VIC otuCis huD you w III
show your strength and hold the bal
ance of power.
ORGANIZE.
Organize in every state, and present
at the polls an electoral ticket, ard
support 1t with your votes.
When the word "organize" is used,
Mt once springs up TO the mind the
political machines which have been
created, caucuses, conventions and
delegates who can be bought and sold
in the market like sheep; the contri.
vances by which the peoples enemies
have conspired to take away their
rights.
BY that word | mean nothing of
that sort. Organize In your workshop;
agree 10 vote together for one ticket
There need to be no great and expen-
sive meetings. You can vote together
without brass band Just rs well you
can with one. Torch light professions
are an invention of your ENEMIES to
deceive you into following their ban
ner and marching to their music, and
into not voting for your ewn interests,
aud the interest of your wives and
your children.
Therefore, let the people stand to-
gether and vote together and SOW the
seeds of great and victorious party,
If not at this election at the next. II
you do not SOW now, you will not reap
than, nor is IL at all certain that the
seed has not already been sown, and
will fructify by your votes into a sub
stanlial II not complete victory at this
election.
THE PEOPLES PARTY WILL. TRIUMPH.
bA M la .t.s.x
Greenback men and Anti.Monopolists
are already organized, and II men will
out vote their convictions, irrespective
OF .deluding party cries, the people can
achieve victory now; and there Is no
power on earth that can prevent It.
Let lis then organize u "PE0PLEiS
PARTl, representing every shade of
political belief that u true Democrat
or true Republican, loving his c0un-
try, loyal 10 her free institutions, wish
ing Tor her prosperity and glory, " hich
alone can he had when the people are
prosperous, when the laborer Is fully
PAID, aud when there Is fair division
OF me production ofenterprise and la
Dor, can or ought 10 hold.
II seems To me certain that at worst,
even IN the infancy OF our organiza-
non, we can bold the balance OF power
between the two old parties; so that Ii
we cannot wholly prevent bad and un.
JUST legislation, We can force them to
nand together TO enact II, and thus
snow themselves in form, as they
nre ~ fact, confedera'ed against the
people.
ELEcT CONGRESSMAN.
Ia many states. Ii we exert our
strength, we already hold the balance
OF power. In quite one hundred con.
gressional districts, less than one
thousand votes will determine whether
friend Of labor and the people or the