Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-27
MADE THEM LAUGH.
HON. STUMP ASHBY ENTERTAlNS
SULPHUR SPRINGS.
He is Answered by Hon John d. Peteet in
= Mastery Democratic Argument
Void of Bible Lore.
Special 70 the Gazette.

SULPHUR SPEtHG> HOPKINS County, TEX,
Aug. % For several days past he third
party folks of our city have advertised
through circulars and the local papers, that
their great and inimitIble S,ump AShby
would meet any Democratic cham
pion in this section. Last night
was the time set, and Mr. AShhy was duly
on hand. " noon the courthouse was fairly
packed with u mixed crowd Of Democrats.
Republicans and Third-partyiteS, with
Ashby seated on the Speakers stand. After
the crowd had quoted down, small,
wiry looking gentleman made his
way to the stand, and. amid wild
was introduced to Mr. Ashby. 1t was
John d. Pctcct. the talented Young lawyer
who had been selected Oy tie Democracy Of
the precinct 10 defend their principles.
Representative Nelson acted Us master Of
ceremonies and introduced Mr.. ASh6y as
the great mogul of the third party.
Stump interrupted him al this stage and
said he was a representative of the Farm
ers' Alliance. This seemed TO create a
httle dissatisfaction among the Third
partyitcs. as il looked 4 little like Stump
was ashamed TO be introduced as thirder.
Mr.. AShby opened his speech by saying:
Il dcSpise DullGOzers. All the men in the
world could not scare Me. They might kill
me, but never make me qUal. | came here
as an American citizen to discuss, fairly and
sQUarly. the political issues Of the day and
] don't propose 10 be outraged. l hope
the facts that present to This intelligent
audience vii be carefully Weighed
He then proceeded 10 reh&sh one of
NacunC'S labor and capital speeches, to the
great delight OF the 7. y. farmers present.
They seemed to know exactly what he was
going to say, for many times the cheering
would begin before The point was brought
out. He said: | occupy the same DO
sition IS Thomas jefferson did in his
day" The ''uesterS" evidently believed
this. for they fairly made the building
shake with their heavy cheering The
speech throughout was so much like one of
Thomas JctferSons famous speeches that
frequently the audience would loose sight of
the fact i was Stump and not Thomas that
was making the speech. Mr.. Ashby spoke
for one hour and quarter, when the ref
cree called time and Stump went TO his cor
ncr.
Mr.. Peteet WAS brought forward and in
troDuCed amid de.iauiuE applause from the
Democratic side Mr.. Peteci said: I am
sorry that | am not posted on biblical poll
tics like my friend Stump but my educa-
ton IN that line has been neglected some
what lie then in a clear. logical, way
showed the fallacF Of the tiimSy arguments
offered by Mr.. AshDv. He showed
that the arguments offered by the
opposition had decided anarchiStic sound
about them and that ii they We're carried
into practice nothing but war would be the
result He showed plainly where the Dem
ocratic party had done and was doing all in
lis power to bring about better
times and make money matters
easier, and clearly showed that
those who were dissatisfied with the
Democracy to-day were the ignorant classes,
who were led OF by such cattle as Ashby,
PETER and Macune." He clearly demon
strated the impracticabiity of sub-treas-
ury, and closed his argument with an inter-
eSting array Of figures showing what
Democracy had done in the past
Ashby answered in n thirty minutes
speech, in which he offered no argument
but told few anecdotes, which caused
roar of laughter from the third party side