Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-02

uality-or are the weaklings who merely echo
the big daiIies? Do your editors allow them,
selves caught by the raffy Of the biz subsidized
dailies into giving them Irequeut Endorsement
and free MISUNDERSTANDING with tn m, and
ruption in the families of farmers; or
do your county papers. on the contrary
cooperate with the farmers and other con-
sentative classes against railroad lawyers,
monopoly and subsidized press? Remember
that the greatest power in Texas to-day is
welded, not by the big daiIies, bat by what is
known as the country press. 1t is important,
therefore, that the Grange and all conservative
classes and organizations, cooperate with and
support those among them that are honest and
fearless exponents OF true principles; and
equally important to cripple any that are the re
verse-and Il IS safe to put in the catalogue OF
evils any country paper which con inually
praises a big subsidized daily weekly. echoes
its sophistries and indorses its men and meas
ures.
The forces named create a power within the
bars of nominating conventions that requires
the greatest nerve and activity on the part of the
people to overthrow.
1t is history that no Texas administration for
twenty years has been without the representa-
tives OF railroads and monopoly in our chief de-
EXPERIMENTATION have exercised power that
has often directed our state affairs, and has at
all times been capable of obstructing where 1t
could not direct.
Notwithstanding this is history 1t may now
be safely affirmed that the efforts of monopoly
of railroads-their subsidized newspapers, attor-
neys and agents have in the past been puerlle-
mere child's play-compared with the herculean
efforts they will put forth during the campaign
upon whose threshold we now stand.
The issue has been narrowed down to railroad
and other neutrality-suspicious. syndIcates,
trusts. subsidized lawyers, workers and news
papers on the one side, and the people whose
confidence they have abused and whose sub
stance they have stolen on the other.
And their sophistries and falsehoods Will be so
adroitly crcu; ated that they will if it be posi-
Bile. deceive the very elect.
The greatest evils now affecting, not only the
producer but the entire country, are political
evils.
80 R,r
will be either more advanced or worse slaugh-
tered by the results of the coming elections than
ever before in our history.
This is TO be pivotal epoch for the people OF
They will either take forcible and permanent
control of governmental affairs, or, we fear,
surrender forever to the evil agencies that will
oppose them
This IS very plain talk. But can the state
ments made be successfully controyerted? If
this is in any wise fair picture of our dominant
political party, is it not about time we were
getting "a move on ourselves to correct 1t? If
the farmers OF Texas are m staken in their esti-
mate of the condition of things something should
be done to correct the mistake. In either case
the object of this communication is, claim,
worthy, which is to 'stir up the pure m1nd'' OF
every honest .mocrat to do his duty in this
campaign. This exhortation applies to the
wageworker. lawyer, doctor. merchant-all con-
sentative men,. in fact-as well as TO farmers.
The salvation of the state and OF Democracy de-
ponds upon it. Let us have a campai IN
in which the piercing light OF God s
sunshine may fall upon every fraudulent man
and measure. so that when the next convention
meets the great Democratic party viii nominate
a great ticket and adopt a great platform. that
will truly represent great Democratic people.
Is il necessary to appeal to THs GAZETTE, the
greatest justest, and most enterprsing news
paper in Texas, 10 help the people in this great
effort, and not monopoly? do not believe such
an appeal necessary. Its record does not
point to monopoly AN assertion wish
could conscientiously make of all
our leading 6ailies. But is not this
time to appeal to every Texan, native or
adopted to enlist in this fight for their imper-
lied rights9 Texas is naturally leader. Can
not she now lead in the greatest OF all needed
reforms, and be the first state TO wrest the
grand old Democratic party from monopoly's
grasp? It cannot be denied that for years, mon
opoly has rested upon both our leading national
parties as an incubus. Let Texas be first
to tumble it head-over heels off of DEM
ocracy in this state. Let grand old Texas
blaze out as the Lone Star of reform, and other
states will cluster about her until she will be the
great center of constellation. whose precious
light will reach the remotest corners of our great
country,
will not-dare not-contemplate the picture
of what will follow if this be not done, because
/ abide in the faith that it viii be. May the
Goddess of Liberty smile upon the effort. Yours
truly. A. w. BUCHANAN.
Bryan, Tex, Feb, $50.