The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1888-03-08
THE PLOT THICKENS.
The Prohtbitionists to Demand a
Prohibition Plank in the
National Platform.


ago letter of yours pub ished in the
Galveston News, IN regard to the pc
sition of the democratic party and
the prohibition party. cordially
endorse the views therein expressed
by you, and as democrat of lifelong
standing, never having sought al er
any ether political god, | mutt say
that regard the present outlook as
most omiuous for the democratic
princil les, especially in Texas. The
Texas d, mocratic rooster Is slck-the
parasites, called prohibition demo
Gratis, prot ection democrats and Blair
bill democrats have for these many
years been Matching, ma uring an d
growing up under bis feathers, lutil-
lug his plumsge and barnscling his
legs Conscious OF strength, he has
walked slong with proud step not
deigniDg to notice these parasite, Till
now lheir combined weight threatens
to drag him down. W hat shtll be doheI
| There must be general comblng,
scrsping and washing Of this rooster,
if he is to live, and that speedily.
| These parasites must be cleaned of.
WHAT IS the corditlon OF the demo-
cratic party to-day in Texts? Pnor
to- the lat democratic state couyen-
ton there was unusual activity all
over the state in staaith by the sC-call-
ed prohibition democrats Emiesaries
III the sacred guiso OF" Chrlstiau init
listers" (God save the Mark secured
the whole state, from the Sabine to
FL PAso, just before the primaries
were held. These emissaries "fixed"
the PRIMARIES, and you know the re-
suit; q state convention very nearly
CAP tured, ridiculous prohibition
p ank in democratic platform.
These tmissaries fixed" the states in
all the coul ties. Result-two-third
of sll the county offices III the state
ii let by prohibitlonists and republ:-
cans, with good sprinkle of them in
the legislature-str strong enough to
| force the legislature to submit to the
people one of the most INDUSTRIOUS
propositions ever submitted to free
people, sll under the name of the
democratic party. And the canvass
70 lowir g-such a CANVASS as for
na.tiness, scurrility and infamy
would have made Robespit RE, Marat
ana their Jacobins blush tor very
shame. These are some of the fruits
of these parasites of democracy. They
ought to be enough TO open wide the
eyes of all true democrats.
And who are these so-callCd "pro-
hibition democrsts?" sound them,
weigh them, look into their antice-
dents. Nine-tenths ofthem are strictly
protective tariff men, Blair-bll men
and repu olicans. What are they dc
ing now! he last month shows I'M
usual activity among their emissaries
of stealthy whispering, round the
corner Sort SIC i'll the streets of
my town ana on the railroads the
faces of the "Christian ministry,'
| prohibition "War horses" OF lat sum-
mcr, who lave been hidden
ever since the Waterloo of August,
lately making their sppeara ce- :,
packed and trickcd out like co,por-
teurs. They gr' o. ard herd togett er
with the faithful, hungry locking
bands of last sumner with many
Whisperlngs and much nodd.ng OF
heads. "N hat does this mcan,'
asked one of the faithful. who after
much sqeezing aud rubbing, sand it
meant to fix the primaries Tor the next
democratic state convention. To cap
ture the convention, to elect such a
dele CATION of good, pure democrats
as HerndOD, Carroll e. Co to the next
national democratic convention to III
corporate prohibition plank in the
national democratic platform. That
they, the prohibitionists. were now
playing this policy all over the south
ern states, that they expected to Sc
cure bv means of their preachers and
colporteurs, the control of oil the
state and county conventions this
year in most of the SOL thern states.
as the old freo-soil party did OF the
wing and demo cratic parties in the
north prior to the war. That as fer
Texas, the prohibitionists having Sc
cured the control Of the state conven.
ton, would nominate state ticket.
and that Gov, Ross would not head
that ticket; that having secured the
county convention, a legislature
would be elected that Womb not re-
elect u ov. Coke to the United Ststes
me. They expected to cor
tr' ali congressional conventions III
Texas, that here would be general
turning out of anti-prchibition con-
gressmeu this year in Texas.
"But wha' docs Cranfll mean by
calling a prohibition conventional |
ask, d. so, that is just a blind-a
stalking horse" he replied. 1--WE
don't expect to do cur work in that
way. prohibitior-democlsts viii net
attend That convention; they VIII de-
1T unce it. To do otherwise would
unmask them and DESTROY their use