Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-11-05
DIR, BURLEs0N'B REPLY.
Why Hs Zen ,uacsd His sllegianos to ihe
E-mocra1c SGkiy.

General II. E. MtCullcch:
MY DEAR AND HoNoRED FRIzND-ln
your letter 10 the Fort Worth GAZETTE cf
O;tooer 20, you use the following word:
"ft d.. Bur .eson is correctly repaired l.
your issue OF today, cannot see hoG 50
grand ma as he has always sho"h
himself, could ever cansaas so.Edon
the principles and policies OF tie Dem
ocrs.ic parsy in consequence of.ae isu..s
Il we SO call them, Ct any one mEa or
forty men"
BY dear friend, this sentence does me
irilstice. Dot i1tentiousl, l an cure,
for your NOBLE hesr. makes it impossible
for you 10 60 riastice to any msn aud
especially TO Che whose flmtiy hiss stood
heroic brother, Ben, in every great battle
in Texas for the lRsE fifty years.
tYCu will read my published state
meDt you will sea my TEnuacistlcn o. al
connection with tae present CT new DEM
ocratic party is Tot as you intimate Ey
personal dislike TO CJlonel r Q MILF, or
the sips Of any oae man, or forty men. My
personal relations with Colonel Mills have
ever been pleasant, and his bsosheIs-:n.
jaw, General j. B. Jones and Jotfie Hal
bert. were ever my dearest friends. l
'ftst knew him as an ardent prohibition
editor-the j 8. Crsnfll OF that day. l
then knew him as devout Methodist,
probably class leader.
I never had high estimate OF his tai
ents or s!stesmnnship. For l cannos
understand how e2y real statesmsn csn
be, first, an ultra pronibiionist;
second, VOL Mt anti; third, q Wing,
fourth, Democrat; fifth, q Green5acker;
SIKH, devous Methodist; seventh,
plackgusrder Of such preache ss Dr. B
b. Harrol, DR. SsmA King. DR.. Mitchell,
Raw. Horscs Bishop, AMI scores CT the
purest men IN Texas.
Bat what he lacks ID statasmsIshtp he
makes up in cheek and snap and push
All his present fictitious nolo,!ety is made
GU. of printers ink and the m 1ney and
trickery of liquor dealers. The future
will demonstrate this. l wish it dis
tinctly understood tnGt l never head
Colonel Mills denounce Christianity. bat
only the advocates Of Christianity. re
nounced vita tears my allegiance 10 the
Democratic party becsuse Of lis siliancs
to the liquor trstii,, SIS expressed
in the ninth or whisky plank
OF the platform adopted ct
Fort Woet1 and ratified a. Dsll1s, a0d
then ratified, not il words bu. il dis
gaise, by The national Dem3cra!ic conven
tion ~ ST.. Louis. That plank makes tie
grand cid party l hsye lovsd SO long aud
80 well bulwark Of protection 20 liqu
traffl;, which our great SENATOR, john II
Reagan, says is "the giant evil and crime
OF our age and nation" You know this
bloody giant stalks abroad st midnigh:
and in oayligh: while 10000 brothers
fathers and SONS bleed st every step OF
his iron hoof, and 100000 helpless VIC
men and children weep at every pulsa-
ton Of his relentless heart. And yet this
new Democratic party assembled ut Fort
Worth, Dallas and 81. LOUIS commands
me and al Democratic not to "seitste the
prohibition or suppression Of tine glEHt
evil ari crime Of our sge and country ~
Yes, must be silent while 50 eco man
are groaring and dying and millions are
weeping.
All for what? For glcry. Oh no, but
that Democratic c I'll Ger seekers NAV fat
ten On "the lokves sud fisher, and 60 O0C
bloated quor dealers may Ievel in theil
$500, 600, 900 of blood money all sosked II
the tears Of widows and orphans.
can but regard the adoption CT thSt
whisky plank in the Democratic platform
st Fort Worth, Dallas and S.. Louis rs
the most cownrdly act in ell history. To
declare that because few Dutch, ne
groes, Bohemians and whisky heads
voted down tie prohibition amendneEt
| Angus. (, 1887, we must abandon the
greatest moral AT political question
of the sge, is rot only cowar-
dice but treason to cur wives, o8r
children, to Ttxls and to God,
WHIST did your heroic brother Ben Nc,
Guile Oh, General Ed Burleson and t1eir
more than Spartan bsnd do at GorzileF,
March 7, 1886. when the scouts before
San Artorio rushed into the Tsxan camps
shouting, "The Al.m1 il fallen and lies
in smok lpg, bloody ruins. Travis. Bowie
and Bonh.m sad every man is mss.
sscreo?' Did thsy csll q convention aud
sdopt q "nin,h plsuE" llse our Fer
Worth heroes? "We sccept the nass acre
If the Alamo as tllali.y, srd we oppose
I'll further agitation OF the question G:
Texas ilG5 = 3ndelee, ard we s5point
Ben Nc Callcch, General Ell Burleson SID
Jhn Y. Moore to 60 and tell Sints Anna
we aEe whipped, We surrender NJ
never, never. But General BuIleson rose
hGllu tuHt tASltCl EosASA ~ - - ~ ~
the returning scouts General Houa,
ton had not reached the army
and in plain and homely worts set fortn
the perils and duties Of the houI,s eIt
then with . clarion voice tbs. thrilled
every Texan he shouted these immorts
WORDS: "Thermopyle hsd her messer gsl
of defeat, the Alamo has none," for his
Dickson, S,nts Annals messenger OF de-
feat. had not YET arrived, "snd so let il o'
with every Texan soldier. Il Texas falls
let nc soldier ever cross the Sabine as {
messenger Of our ce:est. LIST ever
soldier Gle fighting On Texas soil.'
To this your heroic brother Ber
McCu!loch and ell that gloriou
bsrd OF heroes shouted applause, snt
pobly did they redeem their plsdge 8
San J,cinto. Jas. ior:y-seven days ate!
the bloody demon, Santa Anas, We
crouching at the feet Of Houston and beg
glpg for quarters and mercy. Now
my dear General, how csre yol
snd l spd the descendants O
those grand men shy that httl
militia defeat OF August 4, 1887, is 81
finslity," and that we will tamely sur
render our homes and Texas ID the pill
lsge and murder Of King Alcoao? Ant
compared to King Alcohol the blood.