The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1892-01-20
the GASETTE'S FIND.

~ SuohON Nv ANo WIN P'NSS
array the Democrats of Texas against
Roger Q. Mills and affects to have
discovered that, arrangements are
now in oourse of preparation to
snatch the senatorship as the prize OF
cunning for Mr.. Mills, without so
much as referring the matter to the
people. The plan is to skillfully
avoid discussion of Mr. Mills pol.
icies, to shove him in on the wave OF
sympathy created by bis recent defeat,
and by the votes of Legislators not
chosen to elect q senator, and then 10
trust to the advantage of being in to
hold the place in the contest before
the people. IL this be not the pur-
pose, why is Mr.. George Clark called
on to manage his campaign"
The people are managing the cam.
paign for Mills, and they are going
to put him in the United States
senate in spite of the influence of
the gang that defeated him for
speaker, which influence is through
the Gazette, trying to defeat him for
the senate. That gang, headed by
D. Boss Hill, is always afraid to trust
the people. 1t was so, in the speaker
ship fight, it is so in the deliberations
of congress. From 1888, until the
fall elections closed in 1890 the slogan
of tariff reform was carried into all
the doubtful states, and at the head of
the line of battle was Roger Q Mills.
He was ever found shouting in the
ears of an anxious people that ex
cesive taxation was unjust texation,
and he pledged reduction to row
enue basis if his party was given the
power. The result was complete
victory so far as congressional cleo
ton could make it, aud the house of
representatives. came up smiling with
one hundred and forty Democratic
majority. Long before they net, how
ever, the aforesaid gang had caused to
be whispered 10 the ear of nearly
every representative, words of warn
ing against Mills. "Mills is too
radical" they said. "He will ruin
the Democracy's chances of winning
the presidency" The people were
following Mills alright, but it didn't
suit D. Boss Hill for them to follow
anybody else except Hill, and more
than that, the song Mills sang for
tariff reform would prove a funeral
dirge for protection. With the aid
of other protection Democrats. Hill
defeated Mills for speaker, and with the
aid of the Fort Worth Gazette and
one or two other papers he is trying
to prevent the people of Texas from
honoring him as their representative
in the senate. The Gazette adds
"Why the hurrah campaign begun in
his behalf, and why the abuse of pa
pers for merely quoting his views
upon live Issues?" The people have
perfect right to hurrah for whom
thcy please, and if the Gazette will
quote his views correctly no friend of
Mills will abuse it. 1t calls the meet
ing, last Saturday, a dumped up
meeting at Waco, managed by Mr..
Clark and by men VITO hope to profit
by Mr.. Mills elevation" That
meeting was advertised two weeks
and as a representative body has had
no superior at any time in any county
in Texas. Was the meeting Saturday
in Erath county a jumped up meeting?
Was that a jumped up meeting
at Brennan more than
a month ago which nomi-
mated SesrcY for the state senate and
instructed him unanimously for Mills?
There has been numerous smaller
gatherings in various parts of the