The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-07-15
UNANIMOUS.
A VAST MULTITUDE De
CLARES FOR TERRELL
FOR U. s. SENATOR.
BRILLIANT GRAFTON IN PRESENCE
OF 5000 PEOPLE AT ROSS
STATION YESTERDAY.
Special Telegram to the Statesman.

WACO, July 10.-The barbecue at Ross station to-
day was the largest gathering of the campaign in
this county. Fully five thousand persons were on
the grounds and the best of order prevailed. The
entire day. with two hours intermission for din
ner was devoted to political speech making, The
meeting was grand success for Terrell and Ross.
An actual canvass after the speaking, of the voters
made up of sufferagans from Falls, Hill, Navar-
70, Limestone and Bosque demonstrated
the fact that a majority were for Gen. Ross, and
almost unanimous for Judge Terrell.
McLennan county is, beyond all peradventure,
for the Austin statesman CrerrelD for United
Gen. Ross led off with half an hours speech,
putting the immense audience in good humor, and
then yielded to Judge Terrell.
Much of Judge TerrelIs speech was devoted to
the discussion of questions treated by him at other
places in a manner familiar to the readers of THE
STATESMAN.
said: "Why, my fellOw-citizens, there are some
people who think that the speaker who does not
praise everything connected with railways is their
enemy. The man who would encourage enmity to
railways is an idiot, for they are the great public
highways of the people. The roads are one
thing; their ways another. Even Mr.. Gould in his
testimony before the labor commission said that
the raj way 10 pub ic carriers Dwell duty to the
pubic superior to that due to the stockholders,
bu: | assert that he who would perpetuate thier
plundering methods by Legislative non-actOn is
either their slave, or has not learned the first les
sons of self-protection and of public duty. Mark
well the man who with lofty words points out the
benefits of grand enterprises that require much
money, and who has no word of condemnation for
the lawless ways of monopoly, which Oper ites
behind the corporate mask; mark
we'll the pretentious patriotism of
him who is so welded to charges of corporate cash
that he sees not and heeds not its stealthy march
to power and dominion in this free land.
The spasmodic folly of laboring men in violating
law and destroying property, no one can palliate
or excuse, and yet it was but the frenzy of discon
tent which was heraded with the low moan and
m Ian NTXVh prA NNh n
beheld their enemy in the operation of partial laws
for special classes. Mark well the man who sees
danger in the allied effort of the farming people to
improve their condition. When, in any state, one
hundred and thirty thousand farmers unite to Sc
cure from the state a redress of grievances, it
means that something has gone wrong. When cor
porate powers possess the machinery of govern
ment, organizations to rescue 1t from their grasp
becomes at once duty and a necess,, >. Tne state
has nothing to fear from such organizations They
only mean that the agricultural masses,
who make the state, have "UGaeG from
their sulnbers and are once more tAAlag note of
public affairs. Neither has the spirit of true DEM
ocracy, which scorns the management of rings, any
thing to fear, for when incorporated capital COM
bines to secure special advantages it can only be
successfully resisted by counter combinations in
the interest of man. Every city has its board of
trade, and who ever dreamed that democracy was in
danger, because these boards of trade considered
the effort of bad laws and used their influence to
change them! The absence of other classes from
their meetings was never looked on as a sign of
danger, and never heard that the general public
had standing invitation to attend their meetings.
| Why gentlemen in the light of modern wisdom,
| the worthless of the first revolution certainly
did not understand what sort of a
| government they were making for old Vrgiaia,
when in 1888 she adopted the general constitution
ard demanded the following amendment to the
| bill of rights
"15th. That the people have right peacably
| to assemble together to consult for the common
good or to instruct their representatives, etc
But, my fellow citizens, mighty as agriculture
is, and well grounded as are its complaints, and
powerful as would be its united action in Texas, it
can never be made the only basis of a national
party. The mission of every anti-monopoly
league should be to educate men in proper
und rstanding of what democracy is, for the vital
spirit of a true democracy is averse to monopoly
in every form.
This country is in danger, because its constitu-
ten is disregarded and its powers falsely con-
strued.
The mission of the agricultural power is to re-
store respect and obedience to that instrument,
Jefferson understood it, If our prosperity is ever
restored it Will be by the action of strict construc-
tioniss uniting from every department of industry,
and entOrcingt he limitations of power as there
written in the organic bond.
Here in Texas farmers constitute the state, and
are nearly all democrats, and firmly opposed to
bank monopoly and to tariff oppression. Why not
use your leagues as the means of social moral and
political improvement, and then with unity and
energy Tor the right, and with charity for all, 90
forth to the democratic primaries and there unit
ing with men from all other pursuits, take charge
of the sources of political power and thus control
the destiny of your state! This is the exalted
mission of the hour.
For myself have no hope for the future of this
country, except in the national triumph of the par
ty which is founded on the constitution, and a
strict observance of its limitations But whenever
and however you exert your power, if it be done
in strict obedience to law, with due regard to the
rights already obtained and to elevate to dignity,
to perfect man against the corporate creation now
reaching for state control, say tod speed you!
n sol tba If ttnln
served pensions, and the Blair bill were never war
ranted by the constitution, and were sustained to
keep up tho excuse for plundering tariff. They
are the speckled progeny of the general welfare
clause, designed to peTpetuate new slavery, the
slavery OF the white man to those who own the
three hundred million man power of incorporated
machinery.
But better days are before u.s. and they will come
under the peaceful influence of reforming laws in
the dawning OF glorious future. When the south
and the great west shall unite see our agriculture
emancipated which is now fettered by pools on
treights, gambling in futures and the unblushing
robbery OF the protective policy Agriculture must
assert and enforce its rights to exchange the pro-
ducts OF distant communities oyer our iron high
ways without being opposed. When that time
comes, corn will no longer be burned for fuel in
Illinois, while men hunger in eastern cities for
bread, and the alluvial bottoms of Texas will pro-
duce instead OF cotton, the grain that will almost
teed the world Until that time comes, let patience
and that respect for law which has always distin-
guished American citizenship, prevail OrganiZa-
uOn and the ballot are the weapons that can pre-
serve civil liberty against the assaults of corporate
power, while lawless violence would only provoke
anarchy and a resulting despotism.
We have passed the danger point of ignorance.
That education which enables the American citi-
zen to appreciate his rights will enable him to
smite with one hand the wild anarchist who would
destroy all, and with the other deposit the ballot,
which, rightly used, can alone preserve all.
The judge thanked the farmers of McLennan
county for their unanimous endorsement of him
in their recent anti-monoply convention, and said
that he appreciated more than he could express
the assurances that come to him to-day from ali
quarters that the democracy in this, the county of
Senator COkes residence, would sustain him
against all oppositons. He spoke for nearly two
hours and quit amid the cheers of the large assem-.
bly,.
THE TERRELL DEMOCRATS.
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