The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-03-24

W UCnCIbOu, anu l1hO Sln
cinnatus, was summoned from his
retirement to lead the votaries of a
pure democracy. Again, in 1928, when
the same issues were facing each
other in national politics, the immor-
Piles cause. And when the people OF
to the encroachments of the gen.
eral government upon the reserved
rights of the states, were denied the
right to peaceably withdraw from the
Union and at last appealed to the god
OF battle in defense of their homes and
their firesides, they turned with one
accord to Jefferson Davis, the peerless
statesman and the unconquerable pa
triot of the South, and to the glitter
ing swords of Lee and Jackson, the
chivalrous chieftains of the greatest
conflict that ever ragged among civil
lied men.
Different in form but no less potent
in its consequences, the conflict still
RACES. Paternalism is graphing to
control the policies of the general
government and to strangle to
death the democracy of Jefferson and
Jackson. The United States Senate
is being filled with millionaires who
have fattened upon the fruits of the
robber tariff. Protection and mo-
nopoly are destroying the energies and
the resources OF a tree people, and ar
istocracy fourishes in land of plen-
ty where labor goes unrewarded and
where needless poverty is menace to
social order and good govern
ment. The Democratic party has
unsheathed its sword in defense
of the laboring poor of this fruitful
land, to secure TO labor its just reward
and to ourselves and our posterity the
free institutions of our fathers and the
blessings of peace and prosperity.
United upon this demand from Maine
to California, from the lakes to the
gulf, it marches today with the tread
of soldiery and as glorious us an army
with banners. The watchwords are
Tariff Reform"
Who above all others in this State is
the exponent of that principle? Who
Of the many pure and able men of
Texas has borne this banner aloft in
the storm OF battle and planted it in
the midst of the enemy's camp fires?
| Who in the summers heat and the
winters blast has stood within the
shadows of the protected factories of
the East and in the Republican strong
holds of the Northwest and has there
pleaded the cause of the squalid pow
erty of the cities and of the unpaid
labor of the farm? Who with I'M
answerable logic and matchless elo-
quence has carried that principle to
success in Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio,
New York and Massachusetts aud
brought to the present congress the
largest Democratic majority since the
WARP Who, in the face of an unde-
served and unjustif iable personal de.
feat in the house of his friends, and
amid the taunts and calumny of those
who snatched from his brow the lau-
rels a patriotic people had placed
there, stands up like a giant-grand
in defiance, and dauntless in courage
and challenges the cohorts of protec-
ton to the field and demands that the
battle be fought to the finish? Who
is this dauntless leader whom the peo-
pie have chosen and who with glist-
ening amor, stands forth, like David,
as their champion? He could be none
other than Roger O. Mills.
He needs NO eulogy at my hand.
His name is a household word. not
only in Texas, not only in the Union,
but wherever the English language is
spoken and American politics are fair
ly understood. He is the champion of
that party and those principles which
were ''born with the constitution and
which will only die when the constitu
ton itself dies" AS a gallant Confed-
crate soldier, as a representative in
congress and in every sphere of life
The is of such form and combination
that the very gods seem to have set
their seal upon him to give the world
assurance of man."
That he has been loyal to every trust
reposed in him need not be told you
today. For twenty consecutive years
he has been elected to Congress from
our district, and he grows greater and
greater in the esteem and confidence
of his constituents as the years go by.
His brilliant and magnificent assault
upon the electoral commission of 1877
is matter of history and familiar to
all. He took conspicuous part in the
legislation which checked the further
destruction of legal tender notes, and
which preserved over three hundred
million dollars of that currency as a
part of our circulating medium. He
voted for and advocated the remone-
tization of silver in 1878, and has al
ways voted for free and unlimited
coinage of silver, and, if able to leave
his sick room and occupy his seat in
Congress, he is voting for it while l
am now speaking. In all the great
questions that have arisen in his state
or in national politics he has fought
openly and fairly for the rights of his
people as guaranteed by the Consti,
tuition, and whether upon the hastings
or upon the floor of Congress his
prowess has never failed to inspire the
confidence of his party, and has oft
times turned defeat into victory.
What issue divides him and the
Democracy of Texas? None. What
issue divides him and the Democracy
of the Union? None. What Demo
GRAFT in Texas or in the Union has said
that any question should be placed
above the TARIFF Not enc. All agree
that tariff reform is the paramount is
sue, and that Roger Q, Mills is its
greatest champion.
An uncompromising Democrat; a
pure patriot and a great statesman,
fearless in the defense of right; con-
secreted to his people and to the glory