Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1888-10-11
CLARK SPEAKS.
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dent. We had passed through many
dark days before and we thought
that then we had reached the end,
because the good Democratic people
rose in their might and elected Sam'l
j. Tilden president of this nation.
AS soon as the wires flashed the news
of our success over the country Col.
Jones' Democratic( ?)friends in the Re-
publican. party began the work of de.
frauding the people out of their
birthright of selecting their own pre-
sident But amid the darkness and
shadow, when clouds were lowering
over our country what did Roger q.
Mills do then" Did he flicker, did his
eve quail once? No! He stood up alone
and unaided in congress and appeal
Ell to the constitution of his country.
He begged his fellow members from
the south to stand by the ark of their
liberty, to do their duty and let God
take care of the balance. In that case
Roger @. Mills represented the con-
stitution of the United States and
stood defying this tremendous fraud
which was taking away the liberty of
the people. and yet, Col. Jones, God
pity HIM can't endorse that kind of
Democracy.
Review the course of Mills in con-
sress and never will it be found that
in single instance he has departed
from the tenets of the Democratic
party. And yet, when he stands to-
day side by side with Grover Cleve-
land us the embodiment of a great
principle, and has succeeded in effect
ing the passage of a bill to gain us
commercial freedom there are men
in his district who have the cheek to
rise up in the presence of honest men
and say that Mills Democracy is not
good enough for them.
Now we must judge man by the
company he keeps. Col. Jones goes
off and hunts Davis, Mcdonald, Hun
nicut, Patton and Barnes; he hunts
them up in order to find purer De-
mocracy and he turns and fires his
ParthiaD arrows at a man who has
stood by Democratic principle a life
time. And Col. Jones has followers.
Here is Prendergast, whose Democra-
cy is so straight that he cannot
stomach Mills, but he stomached him
two years ago when he (Prendergast)
was candidate for the legislature
and when we stOmached Prendergast.
III confess that it was bitter pill
for me but l walked up and voted for
him and l expect to pass the balance
of my days, on my Bonded knees ask
ing God to forgive me.
What else does Mills represent.
Now here let me say 1 will not 60
into discussion of the tariff. want
to say this, however, about the tariff,
if ever there was people robbed by
the government, who have bowed to
1T as the American people have, his
toTy gives no account OF IL.
The speaker then referred to some
of the workings of the tariff robbery
AMI the trusts and combines. He
read several letters from A. J. Lad
ner d Prather, who have two hard
ware stores, one at Eagle Pass, on the
Rio Grande, and the other just across
the river in Piedras Negras, Mexico,
which shows some of the working OF
the tariff on hardware manufactured
in america. The first letter was
written to a Mr.. Negley, in Hagers.
town, Maryland, and spoke as fol.
lows: lin regrad to shovels, when
we buy them for our Eagle Pass
store, (from American manufacturers
mind YOU we have to pay So pei
dozen, exclusive of freight. The
same shovels, also purchased from
American factories, for our Pietras
Negras store cost us $2.9l per dozen.
The list price on these goods is the
same in both instances. In the mat
Ter Oh agate iron ware, when we buy
for our Eagle Pass store, we get 50
per cent. discount, while on the same
goods bought to be exported to oul
Piedras Negras store we get go pei
cent. discount. On Disston saws
bought for export, we get an addi.
tiOnal 20 per cent. discount. Every
article known to the hardware trade
can be bought from American manu-
facturers for export cheaper than the
same goods can be bought for home
consumption"
This letter brought down on Lad
ner & Brother flood of inquiry as t.
its genuineness. To Mr.. Pennybackel
they wrote, that while the letter hac
not been written for publication, still
the facts set forth in it were abso
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