Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-24
ERATH COUNTY.
ORDER FOR AN ELECTION TO
VOTE ON COUNTY SEAT.
hnixation of the Central Democratic
Club of Erath County-The Platform
Adopted-Creed Laid Down.
Correspondence of the Gazette.

Correspondence Of the Gazette.
STEPHENvILLE, TEX, June 22-There
have been stirring events in Stephenville
for the last few days. The county COM
missioners' court has been in session since
last Monday. They have entered an order
to build new courthouse, to be erected on
the old site, at q cost not to eXceede $780,
600. The plans and specifications have not
yet been adopted, and, of course, the con-
tract not let
Ona petition Of 200 freeholders from Dub
10 court made an order to-day for an
'election to be held on Tuesday, the 2Sth day
of July, 1891, to determine whether or not
the county seat of Erath county shall be re-
moved from Stephenvihe to Dublin in said
county. The county seat has been estab-
lished in Stephenville ever since Erath was
organized as county, nearly forty years
ago, the present courthouse having been
built nearly twenty years ago. Stephen
vile is not at all alarmed, and feels conf
dent that Dublin cannot obtain a majority,
much less a two-thirds majority, as re-
quired by law. Stephenville is near the
center of the county, Dublin fourteen miles
southwest-way to one side of the county.
The central Democratic club of Erath
county completed its organization here last
Friday. J. L. HUMPHREYS is president. AS
the principles of its creed it laid down the
following.
l. We maintain that this being govern
ment of the people, founded by the people
and resting solely upon their authority, all
laws passed for their government should
look to and be for ''the greatest good to the
,efeatest number;' that the high protective
rate tariff, levying tax of from 50 to 100
per cent on about four thousand articles,
mostly of consumption, and used princi-
pally by the poor classes and the large
mass of our people and for the benefit of
the few and the rich to the exclusion of the
many, IS in direct and violent derogation of
this principle and should at once be rene
s6fea by the proper legislation reducing the
Tariff to strict revenue basis.
2. Silver being the money of the constitu-
ton and of our fathers, and having been
used for nearly a hundred years of our eX-
iStence as government, and with success
and great prosperity in our infancy, when
our population was few and our trade small,
we see no good reason why we should strike
it down now, when we are full grown and
great nation, prosperous and populous,
mighty in trade and commerce and able to
take care Of ourselves. On the contrary,
we see great reason, not only for the coin
age of all the gold and silver in our mines.
but for greater volume of currency based
thereon, to meet the increasing demands of
trade and commerce. Hence we demand
the free and unlimited coinage of silver, and
place in the government under the constitu-
,tieH equal with gold, and that sufficient
Volume of legal tender notes be issued by
the government, under the proposed limita-
tions, to meet the great and growing trade
and business interests of our entire coun-
try-not less than $40 per capita.
q 3. We demand the payment of the ma
tonal debt according to the original con-
tract, as fast as the bonds mature, and that
the bonds be cancelled on the payment of
same, and we further demand Gas based
thereon) the abolition of the national banks
as banks of issue, and that the national
bank act be so amended as to take away the
inhibition to loan money upon real estate,
leaving the matter discretionary with the
banks
f. Believing that all history shows that
any secret political organization is danger
Gus to the liberties of the people, awe declare
aHr unalterable opposition to any and all
secret political organizations whatsoever.
5. In the enumeration of these issues we
do not by any means intend to exclude other
and great principles embraced in the Demo-
cratic creed-such as opposition to all ex-
travagance, peculation and fraud in the
administration of the government, in favor
of the autonomy of the states-opposition
to the force BILL, and any interference by
the genersf seEeszsasat in our local " do
nestle cDncA16S, etc.