Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-29
CLUBS AND CLUBS.
Clark Clubs. Hogg Clubs,
Cleveland Clubs,
BIG CLUBS, LITTLE CLUBS,
Peoples Party Clubs and Clubs for Corpora
tionists TO Club.
The Madness of the Many for the Benefit
of the Few, but It's Old Human
Nature, and the Clubbing Goes
on All Over the State.
Senator tyler wr,hdraws.

BELroY, TEX. March 2s, 1879.
To the Democrats OF the Ninth Cong ress. onal
District.
Col. Mills, who has so ably represented
US in congress for twenty years, having
been elected to the United States senate, q
vacancy now occurs in our present congress
sional district which, viii have to be filed
by special election in few weeks. 1t is
well know that Lhaye for some time ln-
tended to be a candidate for The Democratic
nomination whenever Col. Mills retired
from the position.
Meantime the opposition to the Demo-
cratic party in Bell county has grown to
such proportions as to necessitate a
thorough reorganization of the party on
strict party lines, and we are called to q
conflict for principles rather than men. 1t
is being charged by the independent oppo-
sition that our county executive committee
IN requiring a strict test fer admission to
the primaries, have acted in my interest as
a candidate, when every Democrat in Bell
county knows that made no effort to IN
fuence the action of the committee, and
that I have said from the beginning
that the committee would certainly
act for the best interest of
the party and that l would abide their ac-
ton. 1 endorse fully the action of the COM
mittee and believe that I can render my
party better service in the ranks than as
candidate. / do not propose to allow my
aspirations to be used to place the commit
{, tee in false attitude before the country,
and l have never failed TO sacrifice my
personal ambition in the party in
terest. We are fighting on principle and to
preserve the regular organization of the
Democratic party in Bell county against
mugwumps and Independents who claim
the right to control the party primal
ries and to vote against the party nominees,
unless the nominees are satisfactory to
them. ] will not see the committees ac-
ton handicapped by my candidacy and 1
therefore retire from the race.
But the fight goes on just the same-not
for men, but for principle-and whatever
services can render in this noble contest
are, as they have always h2en, at the com
mand of my party. love Democracy with
. the devotion of a child to its mother, but
the Democracy l love is pure, straight
forward and honorable, and no man con-
dennis more than do the time-serving
politics of those who would simply prosti-
tute the great principles of the party to
their own selfish ambition, and who battle
for that Democracy only which promises to
promote their own ends-Democrats for
spoils but not for principle. 1 thank my
friends sincerely for the loyalty with which
they have stood with me in my honorable
ambition, and know that they will heartily
approve of my action. l return to the ranks
and will fight with true Democrats to sus-
tain the party integrity. We viii meet at
the primaries the opposition, who are mas
querading as Democrats, but are trying to
destroy the party. We will not falter, but
stand up like men and defend, not men, but
principles to the last, and in this we believe
that the Democracy of the sister counties
in the district and in the state will sustain
US. Respectfully, GEO. w. TYLER.