The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-07-17
A limited Front.

The democracy OF the United States f.
with the candidates chosen at Chicago IL
will go into the battle for freedom n
and reform with united front. They n
will battle as an unit and will as an +,
undivided strongly united and harmo- b
NOUS party. The democratic is a f
party of principles. The republican =
is party of one idea, and that idea
has been realized fully and completely
two decades since, and nothing has
kept the corrupt mass together, and
in working order save alone the spoils
of office. Their Golfers are full to
overlooking with the money of the
people, money stolen and robbed
from the over taxed, overburdened
industries of the people. They have
practically abrogated the constitution,
they have subverted the government,
and they have done the most outrage
Gus things with perfect IMMUNITY.
because they have always had enough
money to purchase reversal at the
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has overtaken them, or a ballot box |
when on trial before the people. The
democracy during twenty-five long
years of defeat, and twenty-five years
of enforced retirement, has always been
formidable, and while beaten in the
electoral college, it has won popular
victory, and once it was beaten in the
popular vote only by less than four
thousand majority. No other party
this nation has ever seen, or will ever
} see has or can sustain itself under that
sort of strain. 1t takes principle and
devotion into it as strong and un-
} bending as was the faith of Cromwell
and his iron legion to hold men to
their work for quarter of a century
of bitter defeat. The devotion of the
masses, the soundness of the princi-
0 pies and the ultimate reliance of the
people upon the entire correctness of
those principles, on the influences
J. which have held the democracy grand
ly intact while the black wing of the
angel of corruption has lowered over
/ the people, and while the proudest
and most illustrious names OF the re.
public have gone down helplessly be
l. meath the uncleau waves of the pas
sion for money. The hope, the bright
promise in the present situation is il
N the manifest disgust of the cleane,
ia and better elements of republicanisn
which are so Enthusiastically manifest
ing their disgust to-day. The repub
~ lican ticket repells them. They Can
a' not come under the same yoke. The
cannot yoke fellows with the benefici
ill airy of the railway jobbers, the silen
he &C.," of the star route patriots an
the confidential adviser and friend c
:, Sheppard. They must vote and wor
- with the later, better and cleane
IN ticket given at Chicago. There
- no other help or hope for them.
The signs of the times are hopefl
that they will do this, do it in goo
ra- faith aud all earnestness and energ
Oh Reform men and reform measur,
nd are demanded, and the New York an
OF New England republicans have led Q
in the steps necessary to induce a.
set tion, the inevitable and logical effe'
be of which will be to elect the tick
lue promulgated last week from Chicag
et The platfoam is perhaps not all
should be, but it is so immeasurab
NV better than the unfrank piece
he botched patchwork given to the cou
M try by the republican col
M vention, there is no tn
reformer, no honest patri'
- in the country but can get upon
- - and work faithfully and earnestly f
~, the wise and wholesome doctrines
ain promulgates. Morrison was defeat'
in congress, but how grandly has
triumphed at Chicago, and how ST
OF more perfectly will he win in the fin
re- reference to the people. If the DEM
ick cratic ticket as nominated at Chicag
aus is elected, and it surely will be, Mo
10 rison will have won prouder victo
than mortal man has ever before VIZ
nv in political contest in America. T
ng can well afford to wait another fol
si-. years for his reward, even
ra- the presidency Is necessary to f
as that to the full measure. II
ter battle now seems to be OF
of principle, and grandly will Il
principle of tariff reform preva
we Ali the mass of fostering. rotten pc
er- cal subterfuge, of incompetent, di
iiu honest and skillful rascality, wh1(
no will be turned up to the clear light
..y MONDAY. Civilization will star
ii' aghast at the revealment.
VI We may as well strip for the battl
'"- Here in Texas the result is new
doubtful even for moment. The
he let our men and money, all that ca
he be spared of either go out into doub
it. full states and labor as men never b
to fore labored, to win tn
7as our last Waterloo from tie lie
by publicans. 1t will destroy the co
ny rupt organization forever, and put
Ter seal on its sepulchre which can on
nd be broken by the trump which wi
break the slumbers of the sheett
!, nations under ground in the last s.
as preme moment of time. Texas, wit
her one hundred thousand majorit
"a =. has duty to perform, and this i
~ Help out when the result is doubtfr
~. Let her sons lend willing ear
- =" every cry for help which can or wi
=. 10 come up to her. We must beat
ILL., this race. To fail now would be
rs win dishonor. We cannot afford tina
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Butler at Chicago.