Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-13
DEMOCRACY'S DAY.
United States Senators Coke
and Chiffon at Bowie.
FIVE THOUSAND PEOPLE OUT.
Hot Shot Poured into the Sub Treasury and
Kindred 'ites" from the Shoulder.
Only Two of the "Estrayed" Had Courage
to Make Themselves Known-A Pic
mic with an Elaborate Pre-
gramme Fully Carried Out.
Special to the Gazette.

Special to the Gazette
BOWIE, MONTAGUE COUNTY, TEX, Sept.
12.-This WAS IA great and rallying
day at Bowie. United States Senators
Coke and Chiffon spoke here to-day to an
audience of 5000 people. Our people were
prepared with all things necessary to make
picnic success-1nusic, ample seating ca
pacity, and enough TO eat for 10000 people.
Everybody's basket was filled to overflow
ing. A grander time was never had i'll our
city. At the hour of 10 O'Clock
United States Senator Horace Chiffon
took the speakers stand and held
his vast audience spell-bound with his in
imitable logic. He discussed without re-
serve the Sub-treasury plan as proposed and
handled it in his peculiar mastery way. In
his argument he makes the sub-treasury Or
soap factory idea so absurd and so out OF
harmony with either the Democratic or Re
publican government, that when he asked
the question if there was any one who
recommended tie sub-treasury as means
only one, doubtful and tomb-like
voice answered yes" The voice
was finally ascertained to have come from
one of the third party calamity speakers
and not from one of the oppressed" hog
and hominy raisers. The fact is that the
third party failed to materalize under Chill
toms calling arguments.
oul ICcpIS pau liz LII iiiCII ~ oioC
OF this able cheftain of Democracy. His
calculation of Democratic principles
and his expose of the doctrines of
the third party, Greenback, sub-treas-
ury, calamity organizations, has endeared
himself to US, and Bowie thinks him the
proper man in 1.-The proper place.
To give a write-up or resume of his
speech is Just little too much--we can't
do it; he is immense" and is all that is
required to settle the fate of any third
party in Texas. and while he killed and
buried the third party movement here, If
there was any here, il was for that old and
tme-honored statesman OF Texas who to-day
in the senate of the United States stands
without peer, and whose identity with
Texas is like and no less than that OF Gen.
Sam Houston's, whose warming interests
are as great or greater than all the calm
ity," sub-treasury speakers in Texas. that
old man whose advice we cherish, 1t was to
him left to perform the funeral obsequies,
and VIII IN that grand old statesman, Sen
ator Coke, began hitting the clods OF Demo-
cratic principles on the error
of this sub-treasury scheme and
schemers, silence reigned supreme.
Everybody was attention. and the unani-
nous expression is that the third party was
so efficiently covered up by principle, logic,
facts Democratic points, etc, spaded in so
literally by the senator, that 1t can never
rise III TINS county, even WNen inc heavens
fall and Gabriel's trumpet sounds.
Senator Coke did not deal in speculation;
he has been the and knows that under
Democratic rule the United States was the
home of plenty and ease, that all lands
added except Alaska were gained nuder i
Democratic government. and he asks:
''Having given you these homes and these
farms, can you turn on Democracy and
shoot your popgun at her when in front is
that paternal monster. the Republican party,
with which she must battle day by day to
gain what she hasa"
Senator Coke knows what he tslks about,
and no sub-treasury apostle dared gainsay
him. Everybody in Texas knows Senator
Coke.
Yes, our picnic was a Democratic rally;
only one third party man showed up-two
others were in attendance, S. J. Bronson of
Fort Worth and ]. II. Veatch of Joshua.
Everything was pleasant in the extreme,
and it was gala day for Bowie and Democ-
racy.
Bronson and Veatch spoke at the opera
house tonight and were replied to by Hon.
a. X. Swan of Henrietta.