Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-17
STILL HEATING
The CD. News-George Clark Dolly
Warden Combine.
The Non Partisan Business Mems" Scheme
viii not 60 Down with tho
True and Tried.

Oh, the campaign is all right, ana
Hogg and the railroad commission are
sure winners. The Democrats in the
outlying precincts, who believe that
claws are put on the books to be en-
forced, and that Democratic platforms
mean what they say, - are standing by
their guns as they never stood before.
Fairy tales and humbug don't CO. as
these fellows that cry "Wolf, wolf!
are getting laughed at. The devil
couldn' t tempt Christ with all of earth's
most beautiful possessions; and the free,
independent Democracy of Texas eau
neither be bought or scared by the cry
that 'tYou will ruin the state-you Will
have no more railroads. etc. Even
the Hbarefooted, all wool and yard
wide Democrats whom the opposition
think know nothing, see through the
thin guise of the so-called 'non-partl-
san business men g anti-Hogg and anti
commission clubs'' formed at Waco,
Sherman and other places. Their plat
form, as promulgated and endorsed IN
the News, shows their intention to be TO
defeat Hogg and the commission IN the
Democratic convention If possible, aud
if not, then at the polls by help OF solo
Republican strength. The list OF
membership of these new tangled
political climbs, as published in the News,
shows 90 per cent. OF the membership TO
be Republicans and railroad men. The
democratic business men, in Dallas
and elsewhere are taking no stock in this
political dodge. The fact that o. L.
LYON and other Hdispensers of Harrison
patronage are in Texas in the lead in the
movement is enough to put every Demo-
crat on his guard. These men can t IN
huence Democratic convention, as very
few of them were ever in one, and we
can beat them at the polls, as we have
done for years past. A great many of
these are opposed to Hogg and COM
mission, because they believe that laws
are put on the statute book TO be enforced
only occasionally and that the
"rallroad regulation plank of the plat
form of the Democratic party has been
put there to quiet the "boys at the forks
of the creek
This movement is rtoo thin" to catch
even the unwsry Democrat sleeping by
the wayside.
The Democrats who believe that flaws
and party platforms mean what they
say are on the lookout for all sorts OF
schemes and movements, and will ''get
concoct them in the big dailies,
which, with the exception of THE GA
zETTE seem to be In the "new anti
Democratic oonglomeration. Results
will prove that it is not even good
ttwo-bit political show The anti
Hogg, auti-commIssion men, in the face
of official returns of the vote and of Mr..
Cleveland IS recent letter, saying, 1.-The
farmers are essentially Democratic, -
are trying TO convey the impression that
the farmers are something else. The
town and city Democrats are just as
''simon- pure'' as the country Demo-
Gratis, but city Democrats are not as
thick or any more enthusiastic.
The opposition to Hogg and commits
sion are sat sea- and are calling on Re-
pubIicans and grabbing at all sizes OF po-
litical straws, but the platform Demo-
i crats'' snuff the battle from ''afar of ;
and are "eager for the fray. There is
| no use bringing out weak men here and
there to influence localities, for in this
light for principle' no Democrat is
| going to vote in the primaries on neigh
| borly or personal feelings or local pride.
1t is going to be fight for straight
| Democratic policY'' and strong man to
| enforcs it. There is going to be no
.'reading out - but the men who are
| for 1.-THE law and the plat
| form'' will "stand together, -
and ''preseut solid front. -
| This is not only a fight for platform
| principles aud justice to the producer,
| but a fight for state commerce, interior
| towns and home manufacturers. The
same spirit controls our railroads and
! Eastern manufacturing interests, and
wants one to bolster up the other at our
expense. They want our cattle to be
| fattened further north, and our corn LETT
| in the crib. They want our merchants
| TO be retailers, instead OF wholesalers
and manufacturers. They want us to
have towns and villages, but no cities.
In Georgia Joe Brown had his money
in railroads, and wanted no commission -.
| Toombs and Hill had their money In
| town lots, farms and manufacturing en-
tsrprises, and said nothing would save
interior towns and factories except q
railroad commission. This is as mueh
the merchant and manufacturers hight,
IS the farmers, but the truth is, 'This
is the law and platform Democrat s
fight, - no matter what his business is
and these are the men who will win it.
The anti-Hogg anti-commission evan
! E6llSIS VIII HSb u GOiu eHOulu0A Ou tuo
! curbstone and on the highway
Some of the strongest Throckmorton
| men, who stood by their leader as long
as his health would permit, are now for
| Hogg and a commission. 'The nom
Partisan, Business Mems association,
| the "Drummers' association, and the
Underwriters Insurance association
have Thrown down the gauntlet" tc
the ''platform Democrats, and they
will get fight on ttevery hill top, and
in s'every valley - ''in the brush and
ION the pralrie,'' and their little tao
tics and schemes will vanish in the Au-
gust sun like ''small GREASE spot.
The long-look editor .'politieal break
has come, and had its birth in ths Waco
mon Partisan, Business Mems Anti
Democratic, -Railroad Commission
Anti-Hogg association. - Before thii
"cruel war is overs each side will bt
under its own banner, and the "Plat.
form Democrats will have the ''old
party flag with "equal justioe'' in
scribed upon II. Won t the boys have &
picnic and win 8 ''glorious vIetoryl"
little candidates" who want tC
make this little fight, on personal
titles, wall 20 'tunder the daisies' at III,
FIRST shuttle. - THE GAZETTE Is th'
only ''blg daily that has shown AMI
disposition to give our side show
and the "Platform Democrats, - il
the s'plny woods" as well as those ''ou
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