Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-11-01
CONEUP ORsHUr UP,

Evening Call of OoIober %.
| THE GAZETTE of yesterday morning gave 9
| pretended eIi ose of a secret political society
| "a led the National VideItes, and insinuates
| my.teriously thatit has sem connection with
| tina Independent caneicat,s of this county
THE 1AZsTrE also asks Inc Call ard her
| secret political ociet5. This is the only reason
viii - e Cl notices such silly twaddle, but be
| ing called u on 1t will state tnat 1t kn VS.
nothing of any such org snization, My the In
| sinuatior 1t sees IN The GAZETTE. Further,
| Il will state that there is no such societs in
this COT nty, unlsts It exists in the ranks of
the $50 calied) Democrats. The Call row de
mancs of THs GAZETTE that IL furnish the
proof Of It's assertion or stand branded as q
maligner and slanderer of Its o sn people. The
Gail well remembers that about two years ago
| the Peope's party of this county with reference
to the Vide les (suppoeed) as 1t now makes
against the Inr epenGents Later on and site + the
election Of 1885 Is publ shed 8 sta ement to the
effect that the Videttes was a society organized
throughout the United States for the purp Sc
of 81 citing Gresham President. Now. in the
heat of the presen. campaign, 1t makes the
charges and insiGu atoms alluded to in the first
part of this sIticle. The Call again denounces
THE G,zETrs's ,hargss as false and sland r
Gus, and dehes II to furnish The proof.
Now let THE GAZETTE produce Its proof In
legal form at once. II shall not dodge she Issue
The Ilde endents will not hesitate to meet
The GAZETTE'S charges and demand tina: they
be formulated at once, 20 that they can be an
swered. Produce your witnesses and let them
be sworn 10 publicly SO that the pretended
swearer cannot deny his affidavit. Then the
Independents will prove The falsehooo of Tbs
GAZETT a's insiruatijns 30 far as the same con
Germs them.
The GAZETTE would have been some
thing less than newspaper had 1t not
sought to develop this highly interesting
piece OF news for, certainly, when the az
tention Of evsry man is fixed on politics,
nothing could be of more interest than
the discovery Of 5 secret political order,
especially when it was organizes on
military plan. Therefore, as stated, TEE
GAZETTE on October %, printed the
ritual, Hhic had been SAINT to 1t BY
regular correspondent IN distant county,
and at once began its search for the eX-
istsnce Of such an order In Tarrant coun-
tY. Tle,fo lowing are eXtr.c f:om the
riLusl published in TEE GAZETTE on the
20 n OF October lsst;
DECLARATION OF PURPOSES.
Tie gulf which separates the capitalist
from the laborer is rapidly charging;
enormous fortunes on the one hand, idle
ness and absolute destitution on the
other; capital secretly organized against
labor on the other hand, labor secretly
organizing against capital on the other.
These are facts OF feSrful and ominous
import, snd justify the organiz ltion CT
ecret order to counterbalance the evils
threatening on either hand, and to restore
sDd keep for the people equal rights to
life, liberty snd the pursuit Ct happiness,
we therefore, in the language OF our
fathers, declare
We hold these truths to be een.evi
dent that all men were created eqasl; that
they were endowed by their Cres or with
certain inslienable rights; tha: among
these are life, liberty and the pursuit Of
happiness; that to secure tn rights, gov,
ernments are Instituted among men, de-
irving their IS. powers from the con-
sent OF the governed. That whenever any
form Of govsrnms nt bs comes destructive
Of these ends 1t 10 the tight OF the people
to alter or abolish 1t and establish o new
government, lsying its foundation On
such principles and organizing Its powers
in such form as to them shall EN- most
likely to sff:cs their safety aud happiness
Prudence indeed will dictate that gov
ernments long established should not be
changed for light and transient causes,
and, accordingly all experience hath
shown that mankind are more disposed TO
suffer evils, while evils are suffer.ble,
ths forms to which they are accustomed.
But when q long tram OF abuses and
usurpatiop, pursuing Invariably the same
ohjsc', evinces 3 design to reduce them
under absolute despotism, it Is their
right, 1t is their duty to throw off such
government and to provide new guards
fer their future security.
Q Do you endorse these principles ard
all legitimate e6ort to carry them into
efaci?
A. do.
FOUNDING CEREMONY.
Q Are you willing to take an obligs.
ton which assure you will In NO wise
conflict with your duty to yourself, your
family, your fellow man, your country or
your God?
A. am.
Then repeat after me this obligation:
Here place them in proper position. n
repeating each his own name !. OF my
, wn choice, in the presence OF the Su.
p eme R1ler Of the universe, and calling
TO witness the spirits of those departed |
patriots, who in times past have toiled in
the cause Of human liberty, and by the
reversnce 1 owe my father and mother, 1
sclemnly swear, without evasion or