Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-05-07
DALLAS CONVENTION.
The Wicked City to be Honored by
a Gold Wave.
ABILENE. TEX, May 9, 1855.

10 the Editor or the Gazette:
The convention to come of on the
Sth, 9th and 10Th of May in the city OF
Dallas will be tolerably W. II represent.
ed; yet, there will not be anything
like the turnout that following gather
ings will attract before the year
closes. My reasons are based upon the
recent heavy rains. that will find the
farmers still behind with their crops,
and others that will be deferred on ac.
count of the early and limited nature
OF the present call. But when the
time arrives there will be found such
u host as will shake whisky In Its
boots, and the Dallas Herald will wish
1t were sober. But the suckers who
run that sheet In the interest of
drunkenness are too far gone
to have any hope Of their reformation.
However, whatever Is done will tell
favorably upon the citizenship and
will tend to aid them in their future
efforts to rid the city and state of the
evils temperance men are laboring
against. The large cities of our state
should be selected especially as the
centers in which to organize new
regime for the future operations OF
prohibition. The largest possible num-
bers must be reached to give solidity
to the move, and to call out free dis.
cussion.
IL is desirable that we have both
sides represented. We want an omen
contrast between the advocates ofboth
sides-the red-nosed and blear-eyed
and the sober men, each as fair
exhibit OF the merits of the
causing issue that will shake this gov.
eminent as never shaken before, the
rebellion considered. The day Is now,
when the great masses demand q test
OF the problem whether Ii be polite
for the republic to stand at the head OF
what Is known as the greatest curse of
the age. II the government is TO con-
tinue as the chief center of distillinp
and brewing hell and destruction and
forcing 1t on the people OF the several
states, why, we who are opposed to it
want TO know 1t, as contingent TO
our future.
rms Will not be question alone Of
whisky or on whisky; IL will also be a
question OF men who shall rule in the
future. The men who are now hold
ing positions In our law-makinR coun.
CHS are the advocates of rum and ruin.
This 10 true with the nine-tenths. and
1t has grown out OF fealty to party.
and both parties are pronounced cor,
rupt by their leading organs. So nat.
ent has this become that the non-par.
tisan have looked upon the future az
our government with much solicitude.
The old'line politicians have admitted
that they were "masters of the situa-
tion-that the course of policv was
such that 1t was useless to wait fnr
public expression, be cause the govern.
meht mas got ahead OF the people,"
Inc people at defiance. Men, corrupt
ana ueuauched, have not only laughed
az the VIII OF large body of repre-.
sentative men, but they have let slip
.he odious epithets Of "crank and i'm.
peclle" In their drunken orgies and
heated discussions. More disgraceful
scenes have rarely been witnessed
tnan We're enacted at the session of the
Nineteenth legislature.
the coming convention will be
stnctly representative, and before they
close they Will Issue an address 10 the
people, detailing in no unmeaninp
terms the obi ects and course to be bur.
sued In future elections. Whisky
VIII be arraigned and tried by the crIi.
cIal line OF experience upon every do.
psrtment of life. 1t will take on nc
vanntlng phase; it will be shown thar
II Is such q blotch upon the race thai
NO other evil could compare with IT,
Inc most fatal and damnable blow
that develops before our ewes Ia tbs
avowed medical testimony that the
ehildren born to those who use whisk y
moderately are but a mass OF human
nesn In form, with all the seeds
OF disease and crime in germ, which
must grow with their growth, and end
IN an untimely end, Itcsnnot be other.
wise when II Is once known, that anv
mounte6ank who can run a dogpery
can and does manufacture All ~
fancy brands OF whisky passed owe,
the counter. will put this test for.
ward, aud l wish Ii could he NH,
nshed In letters large enough To catch
the eye OF every whisky maniac I'm the
country, and IL Ia this: / will give ii rs
COLLARS TO any well-autl enticated csse
that VIII reduce one-half pint Of Inc
common brands OF whisky 10 the NV.
binary apothecary's drachm meaa,,rs
ana drink 1t down at one gulp on an
empty stomach. / do not desira ~
oiood OF the fool who might trv !, n',
my skirts, but / will forewsrn hin,
tnat II retained by the stomach hall
an hour, no class OF striohnina nj,
ever nave done more effectual wo,s
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