The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1888-03-25

facts which will bear out the asser-
zion that 10000 domocra's voted
ag4in,t the amendment.
While il is admitted that most of
the respectable negroes vo'ed The an
ticket, most of the disreputsble class
of that color voted the pro ticket; aud
in thi, city Peas Warner and other
negro gamblers, put on the white
ge-cmblem of their pure lives
aud. gathered in the crap shooters,
dice throwers, jail birds and bar room
loaters OF the race. and stood shoulder
t. shoul Ter with Or. Burleson and
Or. Carroll as they did with them Ia
1856. for that miserable old political
illustrating that saying of Randolph
fraud, Rankin, against Col. Mills
beautifully about the combination of
the black leg and the preacher.
The doctor speaks OF pitable objects
Let us tell him what Is the most pita-
bic object on earth: can old man whose
hairs are gray with the frost Of an
honored age, who for forty years has
instilled into the minds of Texas youth
the ennobling principles of liberty;
whose life has been devoted to a
church whose proudest boast was that
it has stood amid tagot and flame, in
peace and war, the underlying cham
pions of persona. liberty, and the uu
tliching enemy OF union
of church and state; after
the people of Texas without re-
gard to politics have completed the
magnificent monument which ii has
been the purpose Of his life to erect,
to turn upon and sIander the men who
have helped to ercct ; to turn traitor
TO the memories of the Baptist
martyrs to personal liberty, and chain
TO the car of Anheuser-B Busch his old
students for mentainlng and voting
the principles he has so thoroughly in
sull, into their mnds and souls.
For ourselves we are proud of the
history OF the Baptist church. 1t has
grand record, and the sentiments
represented by that monument, which
stands In the City of Providence,
Rhode Island, erected to the memory
of Roger Williams ard dedicated to
"Soul Liberty" VIII find a responsive
throb in the bos)ms of men and
women, so long as men and women
love liberty of soul and body, and
may God graut thGtthat be forever.
Everybody knows that Or Burlo-
son is the leader Of the Baptist church
in Texas, and one Of the most trusted
counselors in the ranks of the prohi-
bitiou democrats; but if he intends,
~ Woul appear from his letter, to
link himself, the Baptist church, ana
prohibition democracy to the same
cause. woe, woe, to the Ban tint church,
for vi its graz d history, li"ked with
so many years of past, cannot save it
from ruin.
Now, after all what is to be deduct
ed from DR. Burleson's article Obly
this and lo;hing more; that he and
his crowd have drawn the line against
every man who dared to oppose them,
and the present campaign will be just
what we have for some time seen, q
fight between pros and antis There
are some good democrats who voted
the pro ticket and we appeal to them
and see If what we state is not the le-
gitimate deduction of his Alamo of
last year, and his San Jncinto of pro
hibitiou. You cannot remain in
his organization without stuluiying
every principle for which you have
fought in the past, and we beg you
not to let one mlstep that can now be
easily redeemed, ruin you political v.
and leave you i'll an organization
with which you cannot possibly have
anything in common; All organization
that demands that you surrender
your individuality and lay on the
al ar of prohibition, the dearest
rights of tree born man, the right
to manage his own affairs, personal
and politicsl, the right to be secure IN
his home against the search of fsuati-
cal prohibition constables.
To the autis we ONLY say this draw