Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-31

Inc iiAtiOEhis
The administration of President Har
rison is drawing to q close. The people
have made close comparison between the
methods and action of that administration
and the conduct of the Democratic admin
istration under Grover Cleveland which
preceded it. The judgment was re-
corded at the congressional elections in
November, 1890. The existing Republican
administration supported by Republican
congress, has not regarded the pledges of
its party or its own promise and has not eX-
ercised its powers SO as 10 receive or merit
public appreciation.
The existing Republican administration
promised, when it assumed power, to
give full effect to reforms in the civil ser
vice. Offices in that service have. notwith
standing such pledge. been conferred for
political reasons to as great an extent as in
any period in the history of the country.
The civil service of the United States. con-
Sidered as whole. is to-day partisan or
ganization, doing active political service for
the administration by which it is employed.
President Harrison and u Republican
congress found in 1889 large surplus in
the treasury, left by an economical Demo-
cratic administration. That surplus told a
plain tale to the people of the States. 1t
demonstrated that taxes which had been
imposed by Republican legislation were i'll
excess of the actual needs of the govern
ment economically administered, and were
therefore unnecessary and unjust
These finances We're miSmanaged and
wild speculation and commercial disasters
followed in the train of such mismanage-
ment. The surplus was wasted by eX-
travagant expenditures. Unjust and I'M
necessary taxation of the people was con-
tinued. The F'ifty-frst congress appro-
priated in money and the credit of the PEG
pie more than a billion of dollars. 1t would
Il. ttlI.n to co
OF the managers of the Republican party to
maintain and create such an amount of
public Indebtedness which could consume
any surplus which might accumulate under
the existing tariff and make a further in
crease in taxation of imports necessary for
the support of the government.
Unable to control the opinions of a ma
jority of the lawfully elected members of
the house of representatives of the Fifty
first congress the Republican party created
:. working majority in that house by Illegally
depriving through the agency of the
speaker a number of the Democratic repre-
sentatives of their rightful seats.
1t then boldly sought to perpetuate its
power and to destroy the autonomy of the
several states by means of the notorious
force bill 1t will certainly renew the at
tempt to enact that bill if it is continued in
power.
The Democratic party of this state is
deeply grateful to each of the senators and
representatives in congress who contributed
to the defeat of that obnoxious measure and
now Assem- bleG in convention expresses to
them their earnest and heartiest thanks for
the public service thus rendered.
1t takes peculiar pleasure in recognizing
the distinguished services of Hon. Arthur
p. German, whose firm and intelligent
leadership in opposition to that bill con-
tributed SO greatly to its defeat.
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tolerate continued submission to war taxes
after twenty-five years of continued peace
These taxes are not continued in force to
promote the general welfare, but are main
tanned to increase the profits of cOmbina-
ton of particular corporate and individual
manufacturers or dealers. The existing
tariff system of the United States casts I'M
necessary burdens upon all of our country
men who are engaged in agriculture, labor,
in the mechanical arts or in commerce.
The system is upheld by the efforts of
of necessa rticles in the markets Of # the
country and formulate enormous wealth.
They oppiEs by their com inations the
labor whichA they employ, and maintain
their power II the corrupt use of money in
federal electr5ns.
These abusAs stand now in full view. The
only method ~ which such evils can be
corrected is y the election of president
and congress pledged to a careful and thor
ough revision of the tariff system under
sible
No state can coin money or make any
thing but gold and silver coin a tender in
payment of debts. Congress only can coin
money and regulate the value thereof. The
dollar is thA unit of value in the United
States. The bower of congress should be
exerted to coH gold and Silver so that silver
will not beco ne commodity and so disturb
the operations of trade, but in such a man
ner that a dollar in gold coin and dollar in
silver coin shall be of equal exchangeable
value in all the markets of the United
States. Any attempt to depreciate by leg
islation either Of these metals ought to be
deprecated and condemned.
The platform expresses warm sympathy
for the Jews in Russia
The party in good faith pledged itself to
thorough revision of our election laws, SO
that our registration and elections should
be thoroughly fair and free. The laws
already enacted respond in a large measure
to popular demands, and their practical
workings have proved satisfactory, but in
order that their operation shall be uniform
throughout the whole state we earnestly
request that the Australian ballot law be
extended to all counties not excepted from
its provisions.