San Saba County news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1874-19??, 1893-04-28
Brown and The ChcrO.
Alliance.

: County introduced n the Legislature al
e amendment to the constitution of Texai
tending to suppress secret political par
ties. DE Post Oak Alliance of that coun
o ty toOkhim to task and desired to know
whethel his proposed amendment referred
5 to the Hliaaee aud Grange. The follow.
ing is rs repiy to their communication:
AUSTIN, TEX, April 70, 1893
Post oaEAllianee. Cherokee, Texas.
GeutSmen-You wish to know what !
r NEAR y introducing bill into the Leg
islatnr concerning secret political parties
did can a thrust at the Alliance OF
the Or 'ge- You yourselves should know
best W Their meant them. III under
stand aoustitfaon, the, are non
!, pon",4. .OuF lecturers an say they are
non poli.icd Then if they are not secret
political paties, how could or any one
refer to thin as political parties. If
they are seere political parties in reality
and do cOntrolthe vote Of the members by
oaths, then reerred to them. The fact
} of the business i, oath bound secret po-
litical parties sbuld not exist in arepub-
lican government The Clark people
were right whea hey said these parties
have no place in democratic household,
Before the var we had secret political
parties snel as the Know nothing party,
the Fenian society and Knights of the
Golden Circle. After the war we had
Loyal leagues, Kukluxes, the Grand Army
of the Republic, Khan ma gael, National
order of Tidettes, Socialist, Communist,
Anarchists and the Malta society ofNew
Orleans. After reading the list and study
ing the god that any of lem ever did,
there is ID man of sense but. what will d
NIT that hey did no good in the world.
Did they 10 any mischief We all know
the evil elects. Some of them had to be
suppressed by the strong arm of the gov
ernment. Kuklnxism, Mafiaism, and
Khan ma gelism left trail of blood and
murder behind them. International COM
plieationJthat threatened the peace of
this county grew ont of the bloody deeds
of the Maias, and those who tried to put
them down. As regards the Grand Army
of the Republic and the malign influence
exerted b. that secret political party, we
know Its nceessful efforts to control the
Legislation of the country. The pension
roll of theU VIII be lasting proof of
the success of organized efforts of secret
political nrties in almost crushing and
running tn fairest government in the
world, by tie ruinous taxation required !
topay these tensions.
The socialft Of Germany and France
are about to plunge those countries into |
war. Within the last few weeks the so
cialists If France have shown a desire
'v..e--'ination ig--strIFe !
out eve ing in -he civil Iaws mat re-
fers to deity. This will convulse the whole
country, end in anarchy and general ruin
The red flag of the commune will again
drench the streets with blood. This same
influence is in our land. Anarchy did not
die with Parsons. Schwab, Spies ana
Linkst, the hay market boom throwers.
It's spirit is still there The leaven is now
fermenting in the restles and discontented
elements of society and will at some time
again show its bead The same old red
flag viii be seen on our st -eets leading
mobs in their mad attempts to disrupt so
ciety, do away withlaw and order, destroy
corporate property, and sweep away all
property rights.
Only few days agoone of these fallows
drew his pocket knife on the door keeper
of this House for telling him that he was
a fool for declaring that the time would
come, and that shortly, when no ran
codld or would be allowed to own single
acre of land These are the evils that l
wish to check, evils that are real; cOndi-
tons that really confront you and me,
We have the best country and TIE best
government on earth and it behooves US
to iealously guard against the insidious
attacks of those who would iDjure either.
This is government of the people Ev-
cry voter is a ruler. When he goes to the
polls he should not be bampered in his
vote, in his judgement by Oaths admins
tered in secret. We cannot form an in
telligent opinion on political questions un-
less those questions are thoroughly dis
eussed. If you debate political question
with the door locked, both sides will not
be heard. The members will acquire
one idead education. Tom jefferson in
his inaugural address said that errors of
opinions could be tolerated where reason
was left free to combat it. Reason cannot
combat unless it has a chance. Opinions
are formed by the leaders rim secret politi-
cal parties, the members are oath bound.
theyebliudly do what is told them, their
individuality as free NEE is lost. Fhey
become the bird followers of designing
leaders, mere tools aud dupes of others.
Democracy demands a free ballot and
fair count. As democrat l want each
voter to be free. want no shackles on
his wrist or brain. If we preserve this
BpfciHAuChb anu Hduu IL uOMu 10 OuI Cllll-
dren We will do go by strictly adhering to
the constitution, combining the general
government to its legitimate business as
marked out in that constitution, presery-
ing all the reserved rights to the state and
the people, we can only do shis by destroy
ing root and branch, all those secret pO-
litical parties that try to tear up cur con-
stitution by denying the liberty ofperson
and free speech and the right of property
we rIust secure to each, even the hum
blest voter in all this land, a free untram
meled vote, These are my opinions on
the secret political party question and
why am opposed to them.
Yours Truly,
JOE FRAZIER Brown.
My wife was confined 20 her bed forever
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