Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-09-25
| A SUDDEN CHILL
k.izes Candidate Houston Of
the Lily Whites,
lSu HIS OPENING ADDRESS
4 ssi spOkeu-What He Had Prepared
for Utierance.
4, Reviews The Political Issues Of The Day
h This Slate and Announces The
Principles 10 Govern the While
Republican Party.
lsu HIS OPENING ADDRESS

4 NAcoGDoCHEs, TEX, Sept q.
4soscial. IA. j. Houston, son, of the
Sam Houston. and nominee
4 he Lily White Republicans for gov
rnor. was to have opened his canvass
ne to-day. A nrge crowd was on
|,rd. but Mr., Houston had taken sud
LIN m with a severe chill and was
Imtellcd to cancel his engagement.
1, address is, however, given in full
4 Il was carefully written out
.llss and Fellow Citizens;
1 le,i what would ever bring me to
4 a ancient city and county OF Nacog.
Iches has always been one Of my pleas
hest conjectmes. Those of you who
IFell here, with minds absorbed in
|silg duties, must needs pass among
,se historic landmarks unconscious
4 Aeir sacred presence, but the Texan
tianger within the gates must look
3s.h reyerential awe upon these stately
lines because we know that under
Ell shade once rested the great men
In great era, and throughout these
4 q woods once resOunded the voices Of
Eoquence now long silent, and we think
Il those who dwelt here aud Of those
No came and went, giving and receive
4 n news, good and bad, In peace or in
3sr, and II we could have looked into
ID honest faces Of those men and
omen, old and young, we would often
ave- seen big tears Of JOY for the veal
II Of sorrow for the woe OF their cJun.
tJ, Their
LOVE FOR YOUNG TEXAS,
Knew no bounds either in
Isppiness or misery. Often
|hlle travelling across prairies, noun
bins and valleys, along the headwaters
4 the Trinity whore stand mOnu-
fents TO the last battles fought in
exas, between citizens and savages
.y thoughts would follow the Indian
ward The setting sun and the Texans
a,h back to the settlements in the
'at and always to Nacogdoches and
~ Augustine. The fates have
bought me here to-day upon a mission
Inlike any which ! might ever have
fptold. 1t is that OF n supplicant at
81 throne Of Texan patriotism. Many
I the old patriots may not be with you
|lE, but their spirit was such that IL
bust have descended from father and
bother TO son and daughter and you
tho have come in later years must
'ave inhaled the sweet incense OF that
Ihiriotism. Possibly, but few in this
4ndiynce and / have ever met before to-
w but am Of you and that SHOULD be
Dough.
Twenty years of empty precepts, not
'pd examples, have told you that party
Fame alone can carry with II either
|0nor or dishonor. My associations
[ave always been with the Democrats
4 Texas, but not with the Democracy
p state elections / have often voted for
Democrats us the lesser evil but the
Party lash has long ago driven me from
Pc fellowship OF modern Democracy.
nd with other men OF the Caucasian
bee. who love Texas, / have labored
8ard 10 raise the Republican party Of
bis state above even the suspicion Of
ignorance and Of venality. II we had
ioi succeeded the Democracy would
lever have divided and would to-day
edemanding your suffrage
h1 RIGHT OF MldAAs
Instead Of being in three opposing
pchons, possibly OF equal strength
|aeh one respectfully asking your favor.
lhle consideration oi lis claims. And
: ior as concerns the cOlored man, who
pa always been taught by federal OF
cials thar he belonged TO the Republic
an party, he must now know that the
republican party OF Texas, does nol
'elong to him, but II he cares TO casl
j. vote for our cause with a hope foi
~ prosperity OF his state as his only
'eward he now has the opportunity ana
1 M thereby show 10 his former polltl
|al masters that he is no longer to be
PAD or driven like beast OF burden
~ know that the respectability OF inc
pamoo1tic party has always been IN
ne South and that the raspectahlllty
Il ne Republican party is in the North
lnd knowing this II is a subject OF won
fer 70 many how a white man IN
|outhern state, TO the manor born, car
p anything except a Democrat. Their
az not yct been question concerning
iae political mixture Of the white ant
PACK races in the Democratic party bu
Will soon come. The RepublieM
party Of Texas has met that question
fhu torn from It's neck that millslon
n ignorance and OF prejudice. III
pemocratic party throughout TN
lshqle South is YET In abject bondage &
fhe moral and political deprayity Of 1t
Lhiy race throughout the union. AM
.ue Principles Of the national Demoe
sey have only kept in abusing disiauc
national Republican principles.
The old Wing party, that Of peac
rea progress, that from which the wv
II Today received their best men, is No
Nilh us now. Then rather than b
IlAlled Democrat, Of to-day, / have 10
Beara aligned myself with the Ileput
lean party. Aud my reading Of VI
Artien no less than Of written histor
-stiiies me In it, As an American,
aaVe always tried to reconcile my min
y NE taot that the states designated
We South formed only a geograpl
81 and not a political division OF th
union, but the teachings Of leaders
ooih political parties have been such
. Keep alive the harsh instead Of
THE NOBLE MEMORIES
:. civil war fought as blessing an
NJ as a curse upon this and al suee9e,
ng generations What evidence d
Y see OF IL io-dayp The same that v
.ASs seen for twenty-siX years, Fro
le foundation q this government Il
y eighteen hundred and sixty, n
oelh more than any other section gay
we Union its great men in peace az
Z var During the years since II
~ now many has she givens Non
~ is pain Of defeat In war whie