The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-08-18

erty,
And ON the heights and along the valleys
green,
with banners from thousand fights, daunt-
less host was seem
Before that host. knownothingisin
was buried beneath the waves of politi-
cal oblivion, and is only now remem-
bcred rs the party that sought to
judge mans worth as a citizen by
his religion aud his birth place. viii
you who were then young, but now
have passed the meridian line OF life
you who were then in your prime, but
now upon whose heads have fallen
the grey starlight of that great be-
yond-stand idly by and see the
rights of frec.born men. won on
bloody fields, and cherished for over
Il hundred years, struck down by men
who would prostitute the great cause
oftenperance to the advancement oil
the political power of prohibition
You will not, you cannot, If you are
true to the memories of the past and
the teachings of the fathers who have
gone to receive the reward for tho
mighty battles they fought for human
liberty. They will tell you that it is no
pc itical party; but did they not have
n candidate tor president last year,
and an electoral ticket in many states
while in some states men have run
Tor Office ON il from constable to gov
erDor. DO you not know know that
next year we will have a candidate for
governor ON the democratic ticket
have you not every reason to believe
that there will be II prohibition candi-
Iut In thn ttnl1 IA hnt nUnylt anIIlI
Il prohibitionist vote for the demo
craft Reason says no. Then am
not justified in appealing to all good
democrats to pause and think a mo-
ment before they commit political
suicide. AS republicans whose
proudest boast has been that you
fought for human freedom; as
greenbackers, who never presented us
with such hydra-headed monster Ms
this, to one aud all; appeal
to lay aside in this contest
all political differences and
stand shoulder to shoulder with us
against the insidious designs of the
common enemy. Some few claim
that prohibition is the cause of tent
perance. | say no, and point to mauy
of them, who, unable to govern them
selves are yet quite ready and willing
to govern others. | would say TO such,
reform your own morals before You
undertake the task Of reforming
others. And some of their leading
lights say that they do not wish to
prevent us from drinking, II is only
to prevent the sale in Waco; that we
can send elsewhere and buy aud drink
as much as we please. This gives
their whole case away. The wrong in
whisky is not III its making or its
sale, but in the Incorporate
use and abuse OF that which, not All
evil in itself, is only an evil when
abused.
Local option, as enforced in the pre-.
ciDcts, we believe has done all the
good that can he hoped for in that di-
rection; TO force il on us as u county
measure, we think, will be failure
and thus iDiure the whole cause OF
temperance as well as us. We, ofpre'
cinct No. |, have not by word or act
cast one obstacle In the way of your
obtaining precinct option. Now, is il
Just and fair that you, who have moth
ing to risk, having obtained all you
Mhnl lHt lhM Suoulu toIlt " w
to battle with us2 Like Achilles, you
are invulnerble to all we can do; we,
like Hector, are vulnerable in all our
parts.
You can vote in this county elec.
ton, and, if defeated, you remain the
same rs before. You eau do this
again and again, without risk to your
interests, while we, who are vulnera'
BILE under this law, are compelled to
give up our business. leave our homes
aud families, spend time and money to
defeat measure that IL is universally
admitted that an overwhelming IN
iority OF precinct No. does not wal
and will not have, unless forced upon
us in this un ust way.
Suppose all this county was anti
prohibition except precinct No. q, ant
! that was largely prohibition. The
people ask for an election
and every one admits thai
il will be carried by an enormous ma
jority in precinct six. A few mel
| in number six don't want prohibition
and knowing that he county is as over
whclmingly antl-prOhibition as mum
Der six is prohibition, proceed TO gc
up county petition. After humble
six asks for vote. the commissioner
court can reject the petition of mum
Der six and call the county election
and by holding county vote, deiea
the will OF the large majority of mum
Der six. In such acase hundreds AM
thousandsof fair minded men would b
heard to cry ut,"Ohl shame, have yo
| 10. lnt.tfgI. I.nAatalf 4.
proposition aud you have our cast
We asked to be allowed TO settle thi
In our own precinct, and having neye
felt called upon 20 interfere In th
election of the precincts we natural
felt that we preferred To manage on
own home affairs, but we were NJ
permitted TO do this, which seems I
mo as reasonable and Just, but III
other side, thoroughly organize
ready for the fray. with all the advai
tage of the closed doors of temper
ance halls where their plans could
discussed and arranged in adyanc
with our own knowledge til
county election was forced upon u
aud even the short shift OF thirt
days that the law allows us was II,
given, but the election called in II
shortest time that the law would a
low.
Men of McLennan county, | think
know yon well and believe a larl
majority Of you when you know d
facts will do justice In the case, hi
the meagre time the law allows be,
given us, We by hard work con
probably been able to canvass h
county, which we would have be
glad to do, aud let you fully undo
stand many things, which, for reas'
OF space, cannot be told here.