Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-11-17
JUDGE CUMMINGS ADDRESS.


obliged TO follow on foot The inde-
pendent was not sin It." The gravel
train with the plain people aboard,
was under q full head OF steam, and
hadn't time TO wait for personal com
plants They made big shows and had
big talks, but they were not needed to
tell the people what was hurting them
The people felt IL In their bones, made
sore BY toll over the tariff as tax, and
Grover did IL with his tariff Ratchet in
his first term--in 1881. We have sprung
as suddenly In a night as Jonah's gourd,
and let us not perish as soon, by selfish
ness, as our enemies confess they have.
They admit it was the two Bills that
laid them out---the Force Bill aud Bill
Mckinley. The solid South has saved
the Union. II would have gone to
wreck under these expressions Of the
masses BY the Glasses, but for the stald
and steadyyirtue Of the suffering South
under pressures greater than any people
Of earth ever bore for so long a time
without dinching or fdtering. The
men in black deserve our thanks again,
"a they did during the civil war, when
the Blue and the Gray boys battled
over them as the bone Of contention.
They have found their true friends IN
the South and have come TO US in num-
bers that deserve especial recognition.
There we're Intelligent gentlemen
who slung In hash at second-rato stands
aud picked their teeth at hotels and
and brains.n They have learned that
Hogg brains are better by far than any
calf brains; that their dollars and cents
were completely coppored by common
sense. / am OF the crowd
that believed that Grover would never
again Five In clover as your notices
affirm truly no does, but l saw the pe0-
pie gathering under the old Democratic
barn and out Of force OF habit and for
lack Of that superior intelligence on
he other side, | saved myself a duck
ing, ay, II was food very Waterloo.
But alas, there we're those bigger than
tho party, who jumped the party fence
and whero, oh whore arc theyl sleep
ing quietly under the daisies. We
asked them TO ivin US IN celebrating
this, the first complete national Demo
cratic victory In generation, but they
inournlully reply in ghastly tones,
GLOW can We speak at our own
funernl9n
f9r We oAn u, l nol nc p agreelnR
Fglr ' ,, Nv ,,,,. !, '. .,i' ,,.,b S's,pg
Bird above his chamber door
with such name as Mover Moore
one oil your notices 'eils inc true
ua'e'
For thirty ODD years we oattled,
Ill At last We got lAeln ratified
This victory strongthons ou conf
dence la the great henrt Of the plain
people OF the land They arc always
Tor The right against tho mini0ns of
might This battle is great object
lesson, a kindergarten 10 the young
mon who lgit the ark VI the fathers and
went ont nfter strange gods, who bragg
god Of their odds that never material
led, who sought 20 crush with high
hand every effort at modest worth In
their yalnglorious parades.
When the procession had marched
up Main street and dopioyed ON Inc
cast side OF the square and disbanded.
Hon. II. NJ. WAYNE lifted his hand far
silence and tho cheers subsided 10 n
Considerable extent. He then intro
duced Hon. Jake HODGES of / amar. with
the romark that hero was a man who
had borne the banner of Domocrncv
through the dust and heat OF battle ani
would sneak 10 them Of tho glorious
victory thcy had won.
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MI hOpGE7 9PEECH'
Mr.. Hodges began by SAYING ne was
proud 10 have the opportunity OF being
present upon this occasion. At no time
since his hoyhood had he soon the time
when tho poe @ had such right for re-
joicing. No people are 80 patient as
the American people; no people have
endured 30 much and murmured less.
Tonight we are able 70 proclaim that
the bonds aud shuclilss we have on
dured for over thirty years are about
to be broken.
IT is 10 be hoped tho smallest boy
here Tonight will not live long enough
TO see the day when tho Republican
party will again have control Of the
Those leaders who took
advantage Of their power for years to
hold the reius OF government, who
held up the bloody shirt and compelled
the boys who wore the blue TO march IN
solid phalanX TO continue Republican
supremacy, arc defeated, and In 1892
those boys who wore tho blue
marched to the polls In our ranks and
gave the people government re.
deemed, knowing no past and looking
only 70 the future, ali aiding our people
to carry tho government ON and on 10
that success our people demand 1t shall
attain,