Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-21

thunders of the people. and in view OF the GER
tainty of your approval even the simplest prsls
of the candidate almost takes on the color OF
iattery to power.
All that can be done, with discretion, is to
briefly trace the record OF his past, and from its
suggestions draw the picture of
HOPEFUL FUTURE.
The often told and deeply real story of his
struggles l shall not now rehearse. But point
you to the fact that from the building OF his
manhood, on to this triumphant hour, he has
dedicated his whole life to one ruling princl-
ple-the execution of his country laws. Every
office he has held has been one in the process OF
training for this grand work. Devotion to 1t
has given impetus and system to his develop
ment, and furnishes the key to that success
which his rash and demoralized critics charge to
accident alone.
His path OF effort was chosen early and has
widened as he travelled steadily in the one
direction. As county attorney he carried out
bis convictions of right at the risk OF personal
danger and political defeat. As district at
torney he followed the guiding star of duty
with unfagging step. As encouragement he
has moved straight through what have
seemed 10 be the frowning gorges OF disaster,
with eyes fixed on the same bright light, and
his feet are now firmly shod for the perils OF the
future.
need not stop to call his name. 1t is one
which for more than four months has been upon
Texas. In the saw mill camp where plank
chimneys tell the tale of hardship and rowing;
in the log CABIN of the small farmer, whose only
stake in life is a strong arm and a treeman's
ballot; in the no nestead of the thrifty landhold
er, whose rich fields bring yearly the means of
A SURE SUBSISTENCE;
in the rough bed of the humblest wagon as it
tolls along the country roads, and in the pol
ished alcoves of the Pullman sleeper, moving
with the speed of the gale. Everywhere, one
name has been played upon, cursed, praised and
pondered until every body feels that next
governor is old acquaintance.
And to Texas, that we all love, he is an old &C
quaintance. If the son of Georgia takes honest
pride in the great men who have sprung from
her rocky ridges, and the Virginian fondly
dwells upon the names of statesmen who were
born upon the bosom of the Old Dominion,
shall not the Texan, native and adopted, feel
just delight to reward him. worthy, who from
home upon one of our own red hills first looked
upon the flaming heavens.
In all the places our iavorite has filled enc
mics have been created, for how few of us can
be satisfied that measures which interfere with
comfort or our plans, can be advantageous
to the country large, So it is that spe ciGl in
huences. strong in numbers and in power, and
with embittered knowledge Of his vigor as
public officer, have undertaken to defeat him for
governor. Others, blinded by the dust which
clamor -aised, have joined the same band OF OPP
position.
But all in vain. The people have sustained
him. They have pierced motives with that I'M
erring judgment which belongs to great masses
of men. They have reached conclusions with
the force OF an inspiration. They have seized
him-not he, them. They have laid their lands
upon him IN affection and confidence. They
have sworn him to their cause. thanks to their
efforts, the false badges of business danger
''terrorzed capital' and railroad conisca-
ton. have been thrown to the ground as fast
his defamers have picked them from the mud
and sought to fasten them upon the banner
which he holds.
The people made the Democratic party. They
love the Democratic party. They are the Dem
ocratic party, and its flag is theirs. They have
put him in the vanguard of their organized
hosts, and have marched thus far with a tread
that echoes over and across our own wide bor-
ders
TO GREET THE EARS OF PATRIOTS
in far distant states. But here in this hall,
sounding to Democracy, our chapter of history
ends nd our chapter OF prophesy begins. An
election is moral certainty. Then the curtain