Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-12-01
TEE DEMOCRATIC DILEMMA.
The Two Horns as They are Pictured By
Hon. E. l. Doboney.
PANS, TEX, Nov. 20, 1886,

PAms, TEX, Nov. 20, 1886.
To tho Editor OF tho Gazette
Failing 70 get your issue OF the 2fth,
I dld not see your "word Of advice"
TO myself until Yesterday. ] sincerely re-
greet offending TIKI GAZETTE, for such
was entirely foreign 10 my purpose.
Nothing IN my Communication OF the 18TH
was in ended as a reflection on Tux GA
zKTTT rs an Individual newspaper; but
all that I.wrote was addressed TO IL In
common with "other leaders and expo
nents OF tie Democratic party" in their
representative capacity. As an exponent
Of the Democratic party, | hold THE GA
zETTg 10 common with other party lead
ers, responsible for the sins
both OF omission and commission OF that
party. AS public journal representing
iiseli, regard THE GAZETTE the most
liberal daily psper In the etatei and be-
lieye that II iayors the submission Of the
pr0hibltory amendment as matter OF
right 10 the people, aside from any partisan
reason. But such Is not the factas to
the majority OF the Democratic leaders
In the state, as clearly showed In my
article OF the 18th inst.
You are equally mistaken In suppoFIng
huhN WISH w UulluNLt uuyuOul
Nobody who knows me would over sup
bplldoze anybody or any party.
I am the ''modest, week mani you
represented me few issues back. |
simply contend for the largest individual
liberty On all thlngs) consistent with the
rights OF others. Aud what demand for
myself, accord to every living human
being There IL nothing like "complaint"
or "inslnuatlon" Gas you charge) In my
article OF the 18th inst. | simply state
cold, naked facts OF current political his
tory Ia Texas, when | say that the Pro.
hlbitlon party has In the late canvass &C
complished what II intended; that IL now
has the leaders OF the Democratic party
poised on the horns OF dilemma, wi h
lloerty TO rest on which ever
horn they please. They can
have the legislature to do as
It's three (3) predecessors have done, and
as the state convention did, tTample on
the sovereignty Of the people and refuse
to submit the amendment and thereby
ose 100000 votes IN 1883 and let the
Prohibition party assume formidable pro.
portions in the state, or they can have
the legislature 10 submlt.the amendment,
as the first legislature applied 10 should
have done more than SIX years ago. And
II the latter course Is taken, 1t will be ev-
ident to all thiDkIng men that the organi.
zatlon OF the Prohibition party has forced
this action, because the Galveston con-
vention, composed OF representative party
men (although importuned by Prohibit
tiorists), refused 10 instruct the legisla-
ture to submit The amendment
freely admit the force of your argu-
ment, that IL will be a very easy matter to
defeat the submission OF the amendment,
that the power to submit, or withhold, is
wholly in the Democratic party, aud 80
far as am concerned | propose for the
present to let both the power and the re.
sGonsibility rest there. / repeat, that
hope no Prohibitionist will humiliate him
self or herself by sending up TO the legis-
lature another petition. The stage Of pc
tltions In this reform has b, en- passed /.
The question has been carried directly to
the people, and the legislature stands In.
structed by It's very election To submit the
question to the people fully recognize
the power OF the Democratic leaders to
defeat the will OF the people on this
question, az they have done In three sue
cessive Legislatures, In spite OF tho pc.
titions of over one hundred thousand Of
our. best citizens, as they did in the late
Galveston convention, They can do so
again II they see At. They can take their
own course | repeat, they can rest on
either horn OF the dilemma. They can
submit the amendment or let he Pro-
hioitlon party assume formidable proper
tions In the state.
THE GAZETTE kindly advises me, ain
my own INTEREST," to be more modest in
IN DANA DHa =
have no more Interest in this question
than you have. No more than any other
citizen with family, which In the
course OF nature he must, In few
years, leave, subject to the manifold
evils and crimes Of the liquor trafIlc,
unless that traffic can be suppressed,
| am no e'seeker--simply one OF the
leaders OF this reform. have no inter.
est In the Prohibition party except as n
necessary instrument by which and
through which society expects 10 rid IT,
sell OF the damning curse Of the LIQUOR
traffic You have exactly the same in
tertst In prohibition that l have, aud
ought To give las cordial a support,
You have seen NJ TO call me Il "zealot. -
on intended II as approbrious, but am
rather inclined to take IT as honorable.
what good cause ever succeeded without
Jealous supportersY But for the efforts
OF George Washington and few other
"ztalots" about 100 years ago,
you and would not to-day enjoy the
benefits OF free government. BuI for the
Efforts and perlldy OF twelve "zealots''
whom Christ commits toned 1900 wears
ago to establish mis- kingdom on the
earth, we would not to-day be ENJOYING
the blessings of the Christian religion;
and the darkness aud crime OF paganlsm,
Ike huge nightmare, would still be OBJ
pressing the human race.
have an abiding faith that whom the
damning cause OF the liquor traffic shall
finally be eradlcated from society, poster.
Ivy VIII DO disposed TO look back on the
prohibition ''crAnks" and "zealOtsu OF
to-day as In some small sense benefaetors
oil mankind Il. L. DOmoNEy.
Sure to WIN.