The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-08-07
Not In the Rings.


SUI. Ross. Before he will stand with
the "rings" of Texas he will fall with
the people. This Is commendable ind
the masses are bordering over it,
Parts Free Tongue.
There never was truer sentiment
uttered. and true sentiment never
bad more timely utterance. Gene raj
Ross has no ring. He is running
with the people. He is not a politi-
elan, rlugster or a manipulation. He
Is simply a plain, big Drained, big
hearted, clear headed, clean handed, |
honest man. He has served the peo-
pie abb, and most acceptably in the |
past, believes he can in the future.
Has strong, clear cut views on all
public questions and does not pro-
pose to push them by going into
rings; nor does he propose to have
himself elected by making combiua.
lions or cliques against the interests
of the people and in his own interests
seltishly. General Ross is a firm,
staunch democrat in all that the term
Implies. He is not OF that order of
democrat who barriers his principles |
and the principles of his party for po-
litical prcferment. II the people of
Texas sustain Sui Ross, il must be be
cause he has won their confidence rs
much by his steady fealty to party rs
to the cause of right in all its phases,
all of its ramiiications, sublima-
tons and reilDements. General Ross
isn't democrat because the democ-
racy Of Texas is stronger than all
other parties combined. He is dem
ocrat from birth, education and con-
victiou, and if there wasn't another
in all broad Texas but min, he would
This sort of fidelity to his
faith is characteristic of him. anu 1t is
characteristic which leads man far
away from rings and combinations
General Ross is an honest man,
grandly honest, unswervingly honest;
honest at any and all costs, honest for
the sake of honesty, for the sake of
principle. This is another character
istic which leads him far away from
| cliques and combinations. General
Ross has his friendships warm,pure
and unseliish, among the people. They
are placed there because OF genuine
desire TO stand or fall with the masses,
to serve them best aud most accepta-
bly,. His friendships are not given 10
those who trick aud combine in poll
tics. This is another trait, a veteran
one, too, which leads him away from
the rings and ringsters. This is an
other trait which still more fully fits
this most admirably rounded aud flu
ished character for the task of serv-
ing the people, and Tor warning with
the rings and combinations which are
always at war with tho interests of
the people.
The only compact Ross will make
will be the platform upon which he
will be mounted. That he will live
up toto the very letter. There will
be no halfway business about-it, and
there will be no dangerous and UNI
canny going beyond it in any
case. Ross will take it for
granted that the platform will en-
body the aggregate sentiment of the
party on all subjects, live and active al
the time ii is made, and in carrying ii
out he will have in mind only the will
of the people who made it, and not
the wishes, interests and prejudices of
a peuitentiary ring, a capitol ring, or
any other ring that may be feathering
its own nest with the pluckings from
the people. If the democracy of Texas
is look pg for ring governor, it must
not nominate Ross There is no man
within all our broad borders so free,
50 perfectly uncontaminated as he, es-
pecially by ring connection aud ring
fealty.
In pushing his claims the masses of
the democracy of Texas well know
that they are urging man who will
be true to them. They know it be
cause he has always been true. lie
has never faltered in his devotion to
the true principles of democracy, and
these lead one far away from rings
and combinations. There is no place
in democracy where you can work in
these combinations. True democracy
means the people, and Ross, at least
is one of our public men who places
party purity and party principles
above mere personal success. 1t is
tins which makes him so strong; 1t is
this that is sending out his name all
over the state, into every corner of II
as the peoples choice for governor in
1856.
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