The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1884-10-16
A MEETING Ar M'RlNNEY.
MACK AND MUSE sTuMplno.
Legislative Candidates who Tackle the
fTse Grass aud Lease Law Prob.
lem with Rough aud Tumble
Energy-The speaking,
McKrSSrr, oct0,-.Corrcspondonco,l

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MCKiNSEY, oct. a.. Correspondence
Candidates for the legislature spoke
yesterday at this place Mr., Mack
opened by cr.iiuising yho Icw.plper. Ia
their treatment of his canvass, lie
denied that Lo voted fur tho hill author
i6ing the sale Of school land; that this
dill was passed by the niNteenth lUgisla-
turo, hut that when the legislature
sought 10 withdraw tho lands from sale
he supported the measure,
and s,ngly aud alone carried
the house with him Ia Withdrawing
lie said four years ago before the demo-
cratic party advocated the measure, he
supported the bill regulating railroads.
lie here INDUCED IN TRADE against the
ring and IN favor Of tho poor man,
SIX years ago he advocated roads
should ba worked by limited DAYS SER
yico aud tax combined to-day IL Is tho
policy of tho democratic party. lie
claimed that here ho was six years in
advance of his party IN favor uf The poor
man, lie inVelghed against hasIy leg
islation,
Now what disposition Is To bo made of
tho school lands Is the question.
shall We lease IL or not? Now wren
man wants To do u particularly mean
thing they call IL piOus. And when
those advocating the lease law want 10
do this iniluisY they Ito it in the name
of public schools, rhoy are devils
reproying sin. There are two para
mount principles underlying this mat
ter now under constitution. Tho first
thing Is home. Second-L.argo en-
closures are monopoliGs and against
paStural policy. Lands belong not to
public schools but 10 the people of the
state.
That the lands arc the peoples and be.
longs 10 them, and until sold tho uso be-
longs To public fund aud not school fund,
and these lcas. are made in tho inter
est, ana tor tho cattle kings of the west
and oiChicagO and st. Louis. Cattle un-
der lease law went from SO 10 SO; beef,
from 1 To 10 cents per pound. The lease
law was passed IN the interest aud to
give the cattle kings temporary control
of those lands ANA in the END get per-
manont control of these lands.
That tho people already had schools
more than time to send TO them, ANA by
giving the cattle king control of these
Lands you keep the price of lands down,
thereby you are cheating the children
and state, and that the state pays about
TX much to protect these Enclosures
from ne3tercutting rs they realize from
The lease; that man would not think
OF going IN other Enclosures; tia. the
land board in refusing 10 lease
the watered sections of The west
To actual settlers, thereby turned
over this vast body of land, body and
soul 10 the cattle king. That when the
state leases 10 the cattle king she is
bound to keep out intruders. | will
now read the irOn-clad oath that the set
tier has to take to get in this Enclosure
just to show you how much contcmpta-
BILE legislation can he but in such small
place, that should you 20 in under
this iron-clad oath you would stay there
but II short time before you sell ont to
the cattle king.
That the land board was now getting up
resolutions TO place before the next
Legislature requiring the actual settlers
10 remain on land five years instead of
three a. now; that it would require $1,000
TO put such Improvement on the land As
would bc recognized, and that 10 actual
settlCr had this amount TO invest in
frontier homes; that the actual settler
mad to fence an entire tract in order to
satisfy the law; that no man would go
INTO these pastures with his family
when he only had lOng-horned
bulls and heiferS for ncighbOrs.
That we want 10 80 back to the old way
that We have had in Texas for long
Years. That free grass means that the
poor and all shall have the same rights
III Texas that lie has always had and
what we had some fifteen or twenty
years ago. That twenty or thirty years
ago our people came here and settled
their homes, fencing of small corners
and turning their cattle loose arou nd
them, and thereby growing rich and
prosperous. You are asl ed TO shut out
all OF this from the homeless people
seeking homes in the west for the sake
of litJle school money. the lease sys-
tenn, born in sin and conceived in mi
guilty, ought to he abolished. The cat
tie king should be made to yield up his
ill-gotten gains. The land monopollst
should be put down. The poor man
should be protected in his Efforts to OBJ
tain a home. Here the eloquent
"Wbat will you do with tho negro?"
In response to which, the orator who
had been speaking nearly three hours,
turned and shaking his finger in Mor-
ritts face, began II personal TRADE Of
several minutes. This action so excited
the audience, which was dispersed over
the room, chatting among themselves,
chat many rushed around, and a big up
roar arose and large sized war-cloud
was up.
IL
from Capt. Bush, that as Mr.. Mack de-
sired to continue indefinitely and there
were those present who wanted to hear
Mr.. Muse that all such proceed to the
courthouse steps, whereupon the crowd
divided and Mr.. Mack resumed his
speech, continuing his remarks to a
lengthy haraugue on the court
house clique and ring petit
tons. His audience, which was COM
paratively lstless while he was adj
dressing himself to the issues of the
canvass, now cheered nearly every sem
tence. The speaker renewed his zeal
and dealt his blows manfully.
A larger part OF the crowd gathered
around the courthouse steps to hear the
little Democratic bantam Muse. The
HERALD correspondent failed to get his
speech, which was in full accord with
the policy of the Democracy of Texas,
and was in marked contrast with that of
his opponents in this, that he spoke to
the reason and not to the preiudices of
his hearers So far as could be gathered,
the effect of the gathering was to inten
silly partisanship on both sides, but those
who came to hear both and make up
their minds lett intending to support
Mr.. Muse.