The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-02-09
THE APOSTLE "STUMP."

over Texas on lecturing aud mis-
sionary tour, but whether as volun-
teer who defrays his own expenses, a
conscript forced into service or as a
mercenary, has not been yet announc.
ed. The probability is that he is a
hireling lecturer sent forth by the
managers of the third party to prevent
third -partyites from struggling from
their colors, and to keep the fires OF
agitation from dying out. Usually
after pitched political battle has
been fought period Of calm has fol-
lowed, and the passions Of the people
have ample time to cool down, but it
appears the third party regards agita-
ton as the breath in its nostrils, and
intel DIS to keep the cauldron boil.
ing year in ard year out. AS the
head managers of that party live by
agitation, they realize that should they
cease to sgitate the farmers would
refuse to contribute any longer TO
their support. The credulity of farm
ers has indeed been bonanza to the
Macunes, Tracys and Ashbys.
From the theme chosen by
Stump Ashby for some of his lee.
lures on his preset tour, one
would iufer that he has contracted the
infection of socialism and is now en-.
gagged in propa eating the doctrines of
that sect of Missionaries, by his
ole agenous elo quence and verbal
huiditv. Stump Ashby is, polt cally,
shattered and stranded, still he is
quite a handy fellow at defamation,
hardihood of assertion and sophist!y.
II he has not yet embraced socialism,
be is on the road to it, and will
finally reach that golgotha of cranks,
Missionaries, psuedo refoi mers OF social
evils.
What will it profit the farmers to
keep up agitation aud to defray the
expenses CT itlnerant lecturers The
third party will enlist no more recruits
in any state in the Union, and parti.
culary in Texas. The glamor, which,
at one time, surrounded the third
party, has faded away. Its Wanted
strength failed to mat ralize at the
polls, and the result is the people have
been as thoroughly disencbanted and
dslllusioned as were the panic stricken
beasts in the fable by the braying of
the ass in the lions skin. The charm
has lost its potency. The common
sense and sound judgment of the PEG
ole have regalned their ii hlence and
power, and, as a burnt child breads
the fire." they will refuse to be again
deluded.
There is not the smallest possibility
of the success of the third party in
the future and the carrying out of its
theories by legislation, and every per
son with a grain of common sense
recognizes this "inexorable logic of
facts" Four years must elapse before
the third party can have another
national battle field, and before that
time rolls around, disintegraiion aud
desertion will have consigned it
to it's grave. There is then neither
common sense nor reason in contin.
uing an useless agitation about an i'm
practicable theory. The third party
is the offspring OF the widest theory
ever hatched by the seething brain OF
a theorist, and its success would en-.
tail ruin and bankruptcy on the entire
union, not excepting the farmers.
THE News has always felt satisfied
the farmers in the third party were
deluded and misled, and that so SOON
as they gave their reason fair play
and soberly examined the creed Ct the
third party and the consequences Of
carrying it out by legislation, they
mould roturn tbo 1omOorotio fold