Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-06
ABOUT A CHANGE IN STATE POL
ITICS.

The remark is not nfrequently heard
coming from honest and well-meaning
gentlemen that politics in Texas is too
one-sided, and that the state would be in
far better condition if the disproportion
between the two parties, Republican and
Democratic, was less than it is. Just
clear. 1t would perhaps puzzle one of
these gentlemen to explain how 1t is that
Il change in the political opinions and
sentiments of q considerable portion OF
the Democratic voters of the state, sue b
as would about equalize the voting
strength of the two parties, would make
the average citizen more enterprising,
ingenious and prog ressive than he is now.
Suppose 50 900 or $1,000 Democrats
should suddenly become imhued with
Republican notions, and rend the air
with hallelujahs for Web. Flanagan and
the Mckinley bill. How much better
citizens, farmers, artisans and laborers
would they be, and how would the state
proat bv their flop? Is there some occult
AMI mysterious potency in Republication
that ouickeus men s energies and stimu-
lates activity? Can it cause two
blades of grass to grow where
only one grows now, or bring
mama down from heaven in
showers. or water from the smtten
rock? VIII it SO transform or alter
one 5 moral nature, as to make an ae-
tive and enterprlsing rustler of u shift
less and iudolent ne 'er-do- well? VIII it
transmute lazness into industry, and
stupidity into acumeu? VIII it meta
morphose tue mossback, and Danish old
togvism? viii it make men more moral
and religious, and add TO the sum of
human happiness? In word, will it
make us all, as early rising is errone-
ouslv said TO do, healthy, wealthy and
wise? If it has the power TO do those
things. or any of them, well and good.
on with the change, and let US have q
new deal.
But is there any such potency in Re-
puhlicauism? Until gentlemen show
chat there is, all talk about the need for
more of it in Texas goes unsupported and
unfortifed by facts or principles. 1t is
for them TO show wherein the betterment
consists in such a change in the relations
of the two ponticaI parties. Until that
is done, if it can be done, THE GAZETTE
is willing to leave the question open.
There Is nothing. however, in either
the industrial or political condition OF ths
state. of which it is not proud. Owing to
good crops, the fruits of native industry,
and in spite of unfriendly federal legisla-
ton against which her representatives
battled bravely, she is enjoying period
! OF tranquil coutentment politically and
| otherwise, that is the burning envy of q
| few very loyal and enthusiastic Republic
! can states whose names occur readily to
| the most thoughtless. Compare Texas,
| either as to her economic or her politi-
! cal condition with Kansas, the banner
Republican, as she is the banner Demo-
cratic state, aud what do you fnd2
Texas has no debt hanging over her, has
a surplus in her treasury of million and
a half, and a permanent school fund
that amounts to 500, 200 200, the equal
of which is possessed by no other state in
the union. Her people are contented +,
and fairly prosperous, and deeply en-
crossed in the work of developing the
extraordinary natural resources of the
state.
! Owing to the wise and prudent policy