The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-08-30
LAST CALL!
Senator Richard CJke's An
swer 10 Rev. Or. Car
rolls Sermon.
Great Gathcring of 'Ise People
From All Parts OF Old Nc
Lehman County.
A Feast Of Reason aud Of the
Flesh Pots at Padgisrs
Park Yesterday.
The Largest Assenbtage Ever
Seen In waco Listen to the
Zig Guns Room.

The peol 10 from the country com.
menced ariiv ny in the city early yes.
terday morn .ng. and by 10 o'clock be-
tween 5000 and 1000, whites and
colored. had gathered ON the streets
The fire department boys. In their
uniforms, and with their instruments
made the first music ON the plaza
hitcrward the Oriental Cornct band
played several lively airs.
Shortly alter 10 o'clock the crowd
started for Padgitt's Park. Arriving
ut the gate one would first see in large
letters ON streamer which swung
across the walk, External Vigilance is
the Price OF Liberty Around the
pavilion were the following notices:
at is the Entering Wedge that
Splits the Oak" "Relorm WAS Given
the Sons by the Fathers; Shall the
Sons Loose their BirthrightsT "Pro-
hibition VS.. Democracy. Prohibition
-900,O00 Toll Bridges, Stumps,
Quicksands, etc. Democracy-Good
Old Democratic roads, no Toll
Bridges, Stunps, Quick sands, etc"
The latter streamer was illustrated
according TO the wording.
AT Il O'Clock the crowd had swclled
TO between 5000 and 5000 people, aud
ut 1880 Judge G.. u. Gerald intro
duccd Hon. X. @ Mills, and the
gentleman was received with
rounds of hearty applause. Mr.
Mills entertained the people Tor
over an hour, after which dinner was
announced The EXAMINER stated
yesterday the number of animals
which had ieen furnished; all these
were cooked in the very best style aud
the long rows of tables were filled
with nicely Drowned mutton, pork
and beet, which with bread, pickles,
kraut, onions, etc, made dinner for
the hungry. After two hours had
passed every one on the ground who
wanted TO eat had been filed, and
there yet remained plenty to feed a
large number of people.
Alter the dinner hour had passed
the people again assembled and were
seated beneath the spreading branches
OF the beautiful trees, which surround
the pavilion, Senator Coke was III
troduccd, cheer upon cheer went up
from thousands of mouths, and II was
some little time before quiet reigncd
SENATOR COKE
commenced his speech by congratula-
ting the people of McLcnnan county
upon the great interest manifested in
the question now agitating the public
mind, and declared that in twenty
years greater had not been before
them for consideration. lie then pro-
ceedod to state the question to be not
alone should prohibition prevail in
McLcnnan county, because this is SIM
ply fight on the skirmish line, the
avowcd purpose of the prohibitionists
being TO subject the state, and after
wards the nation, TO the operation of
their principles. There being no
question of this, that il behooves the
people TO consider well and maturcly
the consequences of their action as
citizens and voters. lie asked, is this
Il moral or Il political question, and
said that being proposition which II
enforced would reduce the revenues OF
the state one third, and necessitate a
much heavier rate OF taxation on prop
crty, IA proposition which proposes tC
curtail the personal liberty OF every
citizen of the state, which proposes Il
strike from the volume of commerce
perhaps rs valuable n product an,
one representing as heavy in
vestmcnts rs any other that cal
be named, hich proposes 10 interior,
with mechanics and the arts to the OK
tent that this product is used ia them
in word, which will revolutionize
great business, as well as the habit
aud social customs of the people, tina
to say this IL not politics question
is simply 10 assert an absurdity
Every political question has mora
side 10 IL and because this has "A mora
side presents no reason for saying IL
not political. The senator then allIlde,
in caustic terms to the speech of Rev
Mr.. Carroll delivered In the Bapti-
church on Sunday, the 10th, and dc
clarcd II political speech, made as
was aud TO be used as cauIpaig
a document in u most exciting election
The senator then took up scriatim III
legal points in Mr.. Carroll u speec
! and answered them. MIR. Carroll
, charge of Inconsistency he refuted h
saying that il was tue he advocate
i the adoption OF the present constitr
e ton containing the provision whiC
\ required the legislature at its fir
& session to pass the local option la
4 now on the statute book, but that
:. doing so he always told the Poop
Ie that there were many defects
= il, many things he did not al
=. prove, but having to choose betwe'
- Il and the constitution OF 1866 viii
:, the people demanded should be abe
Z. ished and which he thought ought
n be suppressed, he preferred
/. present constitution rs the least oljC
?; tionable of the two. He said
m signed the local option law, MS 20
g ernor, because the constitution co
AZ, manded the legislature 10 pass IL, a
III he, as n part OF the law making pc
y er, having sworn 10 obey that cons
,e. tuition, was bound TO sign il as &,
7 ernor. lie commented with so
a severity upon DIR. Carroll tor max
in this charge. lie next Il
up DIR. Carroll's argum
81. On sumptuary LAYS and
definition OF the word sumptuar
read from Bowler, Cooley and w
ster, which concur in giving Il
for meaning referring to the expenses
living, of apparel and furniture,
inis hicdliiis tlc bchhtor hulu W.
T, convict the democratic party OF
stupidity of putting Il plank in
. platform in all its conventions for
last twenty years, referring to 8
jet which has never been in issu
this country, and not in Europe $
way back In the middle, ages W
a N such laws last existed under desp
a N government. lie said that the pl
\ m m In the democrats platform denol
ing sumptuary laws would be a
a IN lutely without meaning under sll
pm definition, and that its true meal
pm would be found in the popular ace
alton OF what II is intended to sig
a m and that Is opposition TO prohibit
4 m confessedly sumpiuary In some o
. IN features, even under the deflnii
a m read by Mr.. Carroll. Nobody