Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-08-28

convention was indebted for the
| frequent aud noisy demonstrations,
without heart or impulse, save the
beckon OF the bosses-applaus which
| was
A HOLLOW MOCKERY
and reckoned up at so much minute
Let no one suppose that the re-
suit would have beer the
same anyway II fair methods instead
of foul had prevailed; If a call OF coun
| ties had been ordered, the opposition
10 Ireland would have rolled up vastly
beyond the one-third necessary TO pre-
/ vent his nomination, and to-day a
| different head would ornament the
ticket.
III this be not true why should the
machine have ignored the demands OF
| Justice and carried its point, like hun
CRY pigs in n barn-yard, by the power
OF abnormal lungs?
The machine again showed It's line
Italian hand In the committee on plat
form. The convention wanted iull,
free and fair discussion of the grass
question.
The necessity for a thorough under
standing of The situation was fully
impressed upon the major part of the
| delegates. The representatives OF the
East soon came TO realize that the
people of the West had been misrep-
resented, that they were
THE EXpoNENTS OF HONEST PRTN-
CIPLEs.
aud in the matter of conservatism,
liberaliiy and patriotism were the
peers of any In the convention. And
yet when the whole people were on
the verge of coming together through
All honest discussion on compromis.
that would have been acceptable
to all, the machine stepped in and for
babe IT.
DISCUSSION WAS CHoKED OFF,
and opponents of the lease 20 flied
that unless they would take q ar er
loaf they should'hsve no bread at all
The platform as presented was heard
perhaps by 20 per cent. of the
delegates and the rest either voted for
1t blindly or remained silent on the
question of its adoption. 1t was sin
full blunder of the bosses, and the
party will have cause to regret it, The
people were really but little
apart on the land question,
ana an exchange of views a
better understanding of each other,
would have brought them
STILL CLOSER TOGETHER,
closer indeed Than the machine
wished. Discussion might have
thrown light on its own follies, and
robbed it of the grim pleasure of
playing the matryr-that safe retreat
of shallow men. But the
discussion will 90 on. The manipu-
lations of no professional politicians
can stille ii; neither will the decision
of a score Ofaspring bosses be accepted
as infallible by the people, even though
ii be given ~ the voice OF
THE GREAT DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
The verdict of "a jury, Influenced by
self-interest, never changes the current
of the sentiment of the people. They
know that true Democracy means the
encouragement OF land as well as all
o'her monopolies instead of
LEASES IN UNLIMITED QUANTITIES
rs the majority of the committee mt
first wanted to put it, and they will
live to see the day when that becomes
cardinal principle in the platforms
OF the Democratic party of Texas.
Bosses may come and bosses may 20,
but
PRINCIPLES GO ON FOREVER.
A redeeming feature OF the conven-
ton was that IL was dssatis-
fled with itself. After the
administration had been howled
In and the little speeches of
thanks FOR the so-called vindicatioM
prepared days in advance and one de-
livered from manuscript had
been made, the delegates began to
take sober review of the situation,
and there We're few indeed who did
not realize that they had
MADE 4 MISTAKE.
l talked with II good many of them
after the thing was over, and found
just one who was satisfied. There was
n general expression of disgust
at the hiEh-handed methods of the
machine, and men who voted for il
straight said they were coming back
next time to secure II clean sweep If
To the convention had been delegated
the power OF nominating ticket
Tor 1886, after going through
1T once again the old ticket would have
resembled twO-foot brick wall COM
ing III collision with Il hattering ram
not the slightest trace of it
WOULD HAVE REMAINED.
- Intense was this feeling that it
extended even to those who were
recognized as not identified
with the machine. The convention
suddenly woke up to the fact that il
To the bosses WAS left the task of es-
timatiny the states Indebtedness TO
them 1t could never be paid. although
ALI THE TREASURES or oPHiR
We're laid mt their feet. If Vanderbilt
should contract TO cash the draft of
good'slE4d boss who put his own value
upon his services, the o:e-hupdred
millionaire might well tremble for his
fortune.
Another prominent feature of the
convention was that II was u long step
towards
DIVISION OF THE STATE.
A leading Western delegate re.
marked that the movement bounded
forward twenty years by the acti IN of
the convention. Thoughtful citizens
OF the West who have never counte-
nanced 1t before went back sati.fie
that 1t was the only way in which
they could secure lust and fair lepis-
lation, and TO that end they will here.
AFTER give their hearty cooperation.
Men who have all along clung fondly
TO the idea of eternal unity turned de-.
spondingly on their heels and said:
1T Ia enough. There Is nothin, i'm
common between the East and the
West. Solidity is sentiment; division.
sense.n
An example fthis captious disregard
OF everything looking To the inter
eats nf tha Vaat ,.., a.. rt.-....