Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-06-13
BE yRUE TO THE DEM0CRAcY


being an oppressor of capital.
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BE TRUE TO THE DEMOCRACI'
For long, desolate years Radicalsm
thrcttled the intelligence OF the South ana
debauched the whole country, while tine
marty of the Union" robbed In the name OF
LOYALTY and plundered under the guise OF
patriotism. For weary, hopeless years,
native ignorance and imported venalltY
ruled the South and despoiled Its people
under forms Of law.
For twenty years the national legisla-
ton went on that put milstones about
the public neck in the form of tariff, land
grants, pensions and financial policies.
For twenty years the Democracy strug-
gled for existence and remained the only
bulwark of the people against third terms,
force bills, and the many other aggres-
sions on personal liberty and the tradi-
lions of the republic. For twenty years
Democracy kept alive the love Of con-
stitutlonal guarantees and the opposition
to Capitalization of federal powers,
despite insolent foes without and
treachery within, for in the long years
of its minority men had crept
into the party and, with Democratic pro-
LESSONS on their lips, had INDUCED the
infamous practices Of Radicalism,
The partial triumph came in 1884, and
Democracy has now the presidency and
the lower house of congress. Without
desperate efforts, Radicalism realizes that
it must soon 90 down in final death. The
party of hate and of protection and of
the few is now making grand struggle
tc regain lost ascendency, and every
scheme possible to the most astute and
dangerous political party known to our
history will be worked In order to dis
tract and divide and defeat Democracy,
now so near TO complete control of the
country once more.
The people, long restless under the cor
rupt and iron rule of Radicalism andlong-
suffering from the class legislation of
Radicalism, are in favorable mood to
listen to the seductive voice of political
betrayers and of spies and enemies
party of Jefferson and Jackson,
which has ever stood for popular
rights and the personal liberty of the
citizens-the party which is not yet in
full control and which, unless betrayed
in the house of its friends and beneficial
ries, would soon become again the all
powerful foe of the few and friend of the
many.
The vultures who fattened on Southern
helplessness while Radicalism ruled and
then eked out a bare subsistence by
crumbs from the federal table
until Blaine was defeated, are
now out of a political job, and these
with the debris and full-lunged, empty,
headed cranks of Greenbackism, are the
agents and tools OF the new crusade
against Southern Democracy, and if tn,
grand old party could be betrayed anC
: defeated the beneficiaries of the defea
would be the very men who, years ago
aided to enslave and degrade the Souti
and TO rob it. The men who participa
ted in the infamies and profits o
reconstruction, while utterly incapable o
one spark of sympathy for the South o
its people, are now used in various way
) to promote and encourage Democratic
revolt in Southern state only to rein
) state the party that was driven from plac
and plumber by the Democracy of tn
South.
: Let Democrats awake and realize t
what base and ungrateful uses the
are being put. Let them see /
true light the purposes of me
who forgot Democrats until Blaine wa
defeated, and now set up as leaders an
spokesman for Democrats. Give the oil
). party chance. Spit upon the janizarie
who once abused you and would now be-
tray you. Turn away from the emissarie
u of Radicalism and Protection and be tru
/ to the party but for which Radicalisi
u would still rule and rob.