Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-07-09
TERRELL AT MEXIA.
synopsis Of the Speech Delivered at the
Big Limestone County
Barbecue.
Jefersonian Principles of Democracy De.
-watered Bonds and How TO
Squeeze the Moisture Out.

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Squeeze the Moisture Out.
4 Special to the Gazette.
. MExIA, TEX, July s.--The openin
Q speeches at the grand barbecue here YET
i terday were made by Terrell and Har
cock. Judge Hancock's speech was sui
stantially the same as that made by hir
at Dallas.
\ Judge Terrell consumed the hour an
: Ia half allotted him in discussing the doc
? trines Of Jeffersonian Democracy. II
! Illustrated how departure from them il
, the administration OF the government ha,
! produced the evils that threatened th
country now. He urged his hear
, ers TO remember that organ
izations OF men, whether farmer
or others, however praiseworthy, should
be regarded as schools in which to edu
cate, advance and promote American man
hood and prepare men for an intelligent
use OF the ballot; that when this was done
men should arraign themselves In the
face of day with one or the other Of the
two great parties OF the country aud make
their influence felt by attending the
primary meetings. Referring TO Judge
Hancook's remarks that II repre-
sentatives had to be instructed
1t would be better 10 send
them to the penitentiary, he said: For
one, | believe that this should be
made, II 1t is not government OF the
people, and he who denies tue right and
duty of the people to instruct their rep
| resentatives Iassails the spirit of De-
mocracy, and would place the official serv-
| ant above his master Why, my friends,
old Virginia, when she adopted the
federal constitution, demandedan amend
ment to the bill of right, to the effect that
the right OF the people to instruct their
representatives
SHOULD NEVER BE QUESTIONED.
This is your government, and when
you nominate your representatives,
II you want railroad commits
sion, unsoal their lips and make
them tell you their opinions and send
them to do your work with their instruc-
tons. The gentleman who has lust adj
dressed you has spoken much OF harbor
improvements by the state and wants the
state TO borrow about ten millions value
OF the school land, which he knows can
not be done without we amend the con-
stitution, but he has not told you that
unless you control the pools and tyranny
over our local commerce by law, both
state and national, no deep water will
ever send our commerce over
our own wharyes to the ocean
Judge Hancock grew eloquent
over the Pharaohs of Egypt, who.
he said, supplied their kingdoms with
commerce over the Euphrates river. This
Will be news to the historian and geo@.
rapher. Five days before he spoke at
Dallas attempted to show how Texas
could help herself by donating the rem
nant Of our public domain now locked M
in reservations to improving our harbors,
and that the general government would
then do what she has done for other
states In donating literally with public
lands to help us. Judge Hancock seems
to think lightly of the pre-emptor and
suggests that his claims were
only championed by demagogues
Gentlemen, | am among those
who believe that every acre of the public
land capable OF actual settlement should
be kept for the use Of those
WHO WILL OCCUPY II,
on whose devotion to our country our
safety must depend, and that CORPORA
lions have no rights there. The speaker
paid tervent tribute to Senator Coke
who had lately exposed in the senate the
iniquity Of watered bonds and stocks of
railways, and cautioned his hearers that
the only way to correct the evil must he
found in creating an intelligent rail-
way commission to fix and change
rates as justice might reoulre.
To fix any maximum freight-rate alone
under which the roads can establish a
sliding scale is to perpetuate their
tyranny over agriculture and commerce
The state must slide and change, and nat
tile railroads, the scale as necessity and |
Justice may require. There is no other
way In which the water can ever he
squeezed out of stocks and bonds excent
to adJu rates that will only nav an IN. |
terest ON values actually invested. The
SPEAKER said that any man who. In n time
like this, when civil liberty was Trembling
IN the grasp of corporate power. wonlJ
not ala IN checking its lawless wafs
must be distrusted. For himself he had |
NO DEFENsE TO MAKE
for his past political course. What he
had done the state knew and he needed
not to defend himself against attacks.
either covert or open. | feel more con-
Germ, said he, that the liberties Of the peo. |
pie DO transmitted as we received them to |
our children than that grand enterprises |
shall be worked out. Whether / have
done my duty as public servant can he |
best answered yonder at the capital Of |
your state by the people among whom |
have lived for thirty-four years, where
Judge Hancock has lived still longer and
where GOV. Ireland now soiourns. That
people only Two weeks ago nominated |
Democratic candidates for the legislature
and instructed them by tour.dfths
vote to sustain me for the United States
senate. The contest in which engage Is
indeed unequal. On the one hand cor. |
porate power and vast patronage. the
prestige aud position of an American
senator, governor and perhaps others
on the other hand /, private cit,zan
who stand upon a level with you all, with
neither patronage, rank or Official power.
II defeated, let no man dream that nv
crest VIII be lowered one inch. for am
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