The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-09-12
JONES AT BASTR0P.
HE COVERS ALL THE GROUND,
AS is His Hnbit-He Arraigns all Parties
and all Men-There Is but one Allah
and Wash IL His PhrOpbet--
The Mule Harnessed.

SAN ANTONIO, Sept. Special "A
special to the Express from Bastrop, via
McDade, says; George Washington
Jones Is on it strictly. In the Adver-
tiser of tomorrow will appear his blood
curdling war whoop, pronunciamento to
the voters of Texas and the Harvesting |
Of the celebrated mule. From the fol
lowing synopsis Of the independent In
dependents address IT Will be seen that !
age has not withered him nor custom !
stalled his infinite variety. TIE people !
of PASTOR all swear by Wash, and Che
Washington hand-press of the Adver-
tiser is in the throes Of mighty issue.
He says:
"To the People Of Texas;
"Hhe first Tuesday in November
the people OF the United States
vote for President and Vice
President and the people of Texas for
State, district and precinct officers,
Wisely and well our patriotic fathers
organized our policy into general aud
local CorrelatiOns. committing to the
National Government Interstate and
international affairs, and to the States
| their local affairs. The pride and boast
of States-rght man ara both lost in
! the partisan who surranders state to
National politics. That the Democratic
! party 50 called i'm Texas in 1878
alarmed by the Grpenbsck party,
| hastencd to Cypress in its platform
aduple1 al Houston ultra Grcenback
| sentiments ont was careful to nominate
| ultra Nat '.onal bank men who avowed
lhey We're not in favor of National
banks but who from that day to this
nave done all in their power to subserve
inc interests Of their National bank
] III. l.
| actions sincerity. TO illustrate; the
present Governor of Texas, who was
then the Greenback candidate for Con
gress in 1873 against SchGCher, is, by
acquiesence, If not by positive declara-
ton, the champion of National banks
and so YOU have the lesson
, by experience rs to the confidence that
may bo roposed in that faction. lie
says that the paragraphs of lreland's
message to the extra session OF the Leg
islature furnish an unCquivocal declara-
, ton in favor of herd law, yet the llous-
ton convention nominated him but
lodges the real issue, The success of Il
herd law in Texas means the consolida-
, ton of the land power and grinding the
poor. The fool that votes the Demo
cratic ticket, says he, under the pre-
. tense that party faction, as such is OPP
f posed To the herd law and wins
our sympathy if he does not
excite our contempt. Believing
that this great question lies
AT the foundation OF stable government
I and being in accord with the
masses of humanity, accept the ISSUE
rendered by the Houston convention
/, and announce myself a candidate fol
| Governor, and though | do not regart
, State and Federal policies as in sym
pathy, | have no COncealment to make
l The Government should raise it,
| revenue by tariff, so adjusted as to fos
ter and encourage American industries
. Tho credit OF Il nation, instead of beinl
formed by a class, should be utilized IN
I the interest of the whole people
!. Public lands should be secureC
=, to actul settlers, securing I,
y masses future homes. Public education
i should he encouraged. Instead OF pro
II vidng fund to educate the children q
- the twenty-tirst century educate thos
of the present generation. Let any man
y challenge his memory and he will no
q tail to respond that he never knew
Z father and mother who could read unt
:. writeiwhoso children mark an "N, =" ant
" there Is not II fool in Texas who does ne
IT know that education begins at the cradle
v, and ends DULY ut the grave, and our hes
teachers are fathers and mothers
a.
la Texas to-day who doe
N not know that the culture of children
of tho present generation, is worth
10 million one hundsed years honce. Ate
paying his peppery respects to tho Dem
T. ocrRtic method OF handling the schoo
% fund aud calling on ali the righteous {
a arise aud hClabOr the Office SCekin
, Democrats, he concludes as follows
= CAS- the Democrats, so called by thei
d iriond and organ Jack Evans, IN g.
d Houston convention denounced me as
political mongrtl without principle,
deem It but Just TO myself to call publ
q attention to tho brotherly tri
10 buno embrace of Leader Ev
NJ ans and ireland and that tn
picture in its African sympathy may nc
~ no without coloring, attention Is callc
u TO the Houston love feast over Simo
~ the sexton, u genuine negro, whose ont
. merit was that he had voted the Demo
u cratic ticket aud ii is said, whether b
or authority or not that Ireland floods |
a. gladncss while Hubbard evapurates /
eloquonce over the report that begin
Democratic utilization with the cUlOre
W race, In announcing myself as cul
ie. dldate desire tn say to the public thu
co my motive will be appreciated by tho'
NJ, who know me personally, whether
80 domagogue or mOngrel rs the DemOcra
de by their auNiliaries have sought to d
Nv nounce me, lot my neighbors and n
comrades answer. BastrOp has repeu
cdly given the response and so has Il
as- old Seventeenth, aud while the Dem
lC- cratic party may employ tho pen OF
M Leader or the tongue of an Eva
,,l have little to fear, so long rs my neig
1t" hors and comrades survive. | am,
ny Very Respectfully,
m "GEoRGE w. JOINS
uv Bastrop, Texas, Sept. II, 1851.