Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-15
of fraud in these latter days, fraud

false teaching and by the SANDER of
honest leaders. Nl-gained power through
legislation came and with If power to
take without consideration, as was taken
the wealth of the producers by the old
time kingly grants and by old robberies.
A distinguished orator of Ohio has beau
tifully said that America Is fthe messia b
of the uation.'' We hope that this mes
siah shall not be laid hold of and brought
low. The Lope of the republic lies in this
familiar creed of the Democratic party +,
taught by the true apostles of American
liberty. We believe that the sole end Of
legislation should be the greatest good to
the greatest number. Applause. We
believe that the management of all do
mestIc affairs should be left to the states
and in home rule insuho.dina.e the gov
ernment within the states. We believe
that there is no sovereign except in the
people and that generally the govern
ment should keep its hands off the cleo
tive franchise. [Cheers. We believe
that the power to tax cannot be dele
gated to favored individuals or classes,
aud that no public treasure or public do
main should be granted away in subsi-
dice or bounties without consideration.
Applause. With this faith, aud be-
cause of this faith, the Democratic party
does not die, but survives defeat, con-
tumely and even the penalty OF grave
mistakes. The great honest masses of
the Republican party are coming TO be-
lieve, as they reflect on the causes of ITS
survival. that the Democratic party will
not and should not die. Cheers. The
greatest danger to free government, as
it is to religion, is Journalism. Becom-
ing accustomed to phrases expressive of
TEE FUNDAMENTAL TRUTHS
essential TO salvation, they listen to trite
teuets with no response of heart, with no
thought of their meaning, or with
but an intellectual and sensual admira-
ton OF the poetry and expression of the
beauty of the altar. That man who,
without consideration, by force or by
legislation, is compelled to give his fell
low citizen under the law part of his
earnings is to that extent u slave. Ap-
plause The Democratic party to-day
has made the trlte axiom eternal vigil
lance is the price of liberty part of
the ritual OF its faith. Oppression and
mlsrnle have generated among the masses
of The people of the country II new and
dangerous force which is T. menace to law
and order. Applause Representa-
tlves of evil in the Republican party in
power have shown their contempt of the
intelligence of the masses by their Nc
Kiuley bills. by their force bills, their
decentralization scheme and alike
their contempt OF honesty by organ
ling trusts for the purchase of
votes. In their Incidence they have as
suredly said to the people, rs did Louis
the Magnificent, 1.-THE state, we are the
state, - and the response has come as
surely "a Il came to the throne of France,
feeble as yet, but growing in volume:
''Down with the state and down with all
government.
1t is time the Democratic party should
say to the extremes which are meeting il
Il common cause for the destruction OF
our institutions GLANDS Off the guaran-
toe of the constitution of the United
States! Hands off the Messiah OF ma
TONS Bnt we now know, as we be-
lieved in our invircible faith In the peo-
pie, that great popular movement can
not be purchased and cannot be falsely
led. TCheers. With the glory OF a
great victory shining upon us and in the
glow OF our aftermath, truly with malice
toward none and with charity for all, we
now join in Thanksgiving for the saliva
ton of right.
Our fathers God from out whose hand
We meet to-day united, free and loyal 20 our
land,
and Thee to thank Thee for the era done.
And trust Thee for the opening one.
prolonged applause.
Gen. Thomas Ewings responded as fol-
lows TO the " Democratic party in rela-
ton to future public ecouomy'':
GEN. EWING s SPEECH.
MIR. CHAIRMAN:--Thisl s an suspicious,
i-in 81 ps+O
every quarter OF the republic representa-
tive Democrats assent bic here TO- night TO
honor Judge Thurman, one of the wisest
and best of Americon statesmen, and TO
rejoice with him st the cyclone which has
struck our friends. the enemy. In hon
oriuG him we 90 homage to the personal
and civic virtues he typifies. His name
will stand forever in our annals fer purity
of life, judicial fairness, forensic talent
and devotion to Democratic principles.
His temperate aud kindly character, and
the place he holds in the hearts of the
people. without distinction of party, for
bid partisan rancor here. But ii were
tame outcome of this conspicuous assem-
blage if we had not much TO say of the
great political battles which lie before
the Democracy, aud in which it will look
TO his counsel and his illustrious career
for guidance and inspiration.
Il century of struggle over great con-
stltntional ques tons has left none of
commanding importance unsettled. But
there are other issues OF almost equal
moment which are now on the political
anvil, or about TO be put there. am
usk ed TO speak of seine of these questions
which relate to the sources from which
the state and national gov ernments
should draw their revenues-on what
ana OF whom the burdens of taxation
should fall.
The end of the war marked the birth
of new industrial era, when the genius
OF the American people grasped the
forces OF Nature and turned them to the
myriad uses of man. But our splendid
development has been accompanied by sn
aggregation of capital i'll industrial pur-
suits which has merged into a few mann
moth corporations the. businesses Of
thousands of small manufacturers and
traders, hiss concentrated hundreds of
railways into
DOZEN GREAT SYSTEMS;
hiss massed the ownership of the greater
part of the coal, iron, oil and gas fields,
and the facilities for supplying cities and
towns with transportation, power, water |
anu light, so rs to multiply great for