Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-02
hem broken-down political hacks and DIS

| them broken down political hacks and dis
| gruntled Office seekers.
The Democratic party was the hope OF
| the people It had always been the party OF
| the people. the bulwark and mainstay OF
! their liberties. II was the only party with
! which a seif-respecting Southern man could
consistently act. BE warned his hearers
against deserving ii to follow after a
| wlll-o'-the-wisp, an ignis fatuus of isms.
| With the exception of the sub-treasury
| project, the Democratic platform embodied
all the demands of the Alliance. Alliance
| men were naturally Democrats anyhow.
and if they would stand Tirn to the party
and help to secure such needed measures
of relief as tariff reform, free coinage of
silver. reduction of governmental expendi-
lures and the abolition of national banks.
the dark clouds now lowering upon the So
cial and political horizon would lift and an
era of urexampled prosperity would take
the place of the present congested condition
of affairs.
Here the speaker closed, being saluted
with loud and continued applause and every
been represented in the most able ana forci-
BILE manner possible.
Mr. Coleman than had fifteen minutes re
joiner, but made no new points worth men
tioning.
Mr.. ". H. D. Murray OF Cade, Navarro
unity. then addressed the audience He
was member OF the Alliance, and de-
Tended his stand as an anti-sub-treasury
man, ana supporter of the Austin mani
festo. He and others had been denounced
as traitors because of their opposition to
this thing, and threats of expulsion from
the order had been made against them. Tn
der its constitution the Alliance was non
political, and he had right 10 shape his
course as ne deemed best on all political
Questions % holiaya1 in ha AlIionp., 4
did not propose TO be driven out of it b. any
such set of SchemerS as Macune and his
vassaSl. But he was 4 Democrat, and would
never desert the old party at the bidding of
horde of unprincipled ofiice-seekers. He
presented an array of incontrovertible facts
and statistics, and made a clear, acute and
forcible argument.
He was followed the Rev Berry Sowders,
a Greenback : Independent Non Pa .isan-
Union Labor politician of long standing.
Mr.. SowderS has felt the weight of the
Democratic party on more than one occa-
sion in his periodical raids for Office, and
naturally hates it. His whole speech
was merely q violent diatrbe against DEM
ocrats and Democratic doctrine ANY man
who would follow the Democratic party,
with its black and dirty record, was sub
sidized tool and subjugatGd fool The
whole press was subsidized by Wan street.
THE GAZETTE, esDecially, received several
distinguished marks of consideration from
the politico-reverend gentleman. 1t was
the vilest, bascst newspaper in Texas; it
was bought and owned by, and was the
plant tool of Wall street; it was vile,
dirty sheet, etc, etc, nd nauseam. Nor
did he leave a sound bone in the Dallas
News and one or two other papers
After paving the air and believing like
bull of B.IShan for an hour or SO, he sat
down. like Bozzaris, 'bleeuing at every
pore Sweating, rather), Frustrated; in
fact, almost in q state of coma, but con-
scious that he had achieved great VIC
tory He had let off his political pyrotoch-
MICS, and had given the audience perhaps.
the grandest physical and acrobatic exhibit
ton they had ever witnessed. This remark
able feat closed the seance for the day,
though Mr.. Murray ana Mr.. William Ken
nedy, IL lawyer from Groesbecl, debated
the sub-treasury subject again after sup
per. Mr.. Murray is said to have had much
the best of the argument
Altogether, it was Il great rally, and the
Democrats are jubilant. No mongrel third
party need apply in Limestone county. The
air IS nor COngenial to hvbrids.