San Saba County news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1874-19??, 1893-02-17

vail not hurt long and there might
be thorns in the rose which looks
So inviting as to cause you to want
to turn the cat loose.
As You seem 10 enjoy these syl-
oeisms and as it about covers
yosr argument, l will give you an
other A picked-goose is a feath-
eriess biped, Alexander is a feath-
erless biFed, therefore Alexander
IS picked goose. If you are
picked on this proposition that
thsre are but two parties" why
NO acknowledge it before rushing
'inio something else?
Eou deny saying Both Demo-
er.ts and Republicans sprang
fg6s the same dog, hence one is
no better than the other" Then
you say their platforms emanated
from the same street; each had its
striug of planks, linked together
in two links. That we could have
two different links of sausage, but
made of the same dog Not much
in the sausage, not much
difference in the platforms"
If these platforms emanated
"from the same street" and that
street is corrupt, is not both these
platforms corrupt? Can anything
good come from an evil source. If
the two links of sausage are made
from "the same dog" is not the
the same? Again, if there
is not much difference in the
platforms" then one platform is
not much better than the other.
As the platform is supposed to
the principles of its party,
we reach the conclusion, from your
statement, that one party is not
much better than the other-the
Democrats not much better than
the Republicans, or the Republi-
cans net much better than the
Democrats. Is this not in sub
stance saying zone is no better
than the other?'' quote you
again: "Platforms are not the par
ties, they are spring boards made
10 jump into Office GU. After they
Jump in they don't have any more
use for the boards" l am sur
prised TO hear this from a man
who was himself a candidate for
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Ii the platform of the Populist
party does not represent the prin-
siples of that party, what does it
represent? You say it was a
spring board to jump into Office"
We conclude that it did not have
the right kind of material out of
which to build its platform or
spring board" Again, if the
of the Populist party is
not represented by its platform,
what are the principles of that
party? If the party platforms are
mot the parties - but only spring
boards to jump into Office on,
how can you tell anything about
the principles of party? Upon
what ground could you successful
y deny that "the present Demo
cratic party possesses all the liv-
ing principles of the old demo-
cratic party?' If you say "by the
action of the party when in power"
then I ask how could you prove
that "the Populist party possesses
all of the living principles of the
Old Democratic party when the
have never been in pow
er?
/ see nothing to gain by dis
,ussing the principles of a party
when you declare that platforms
ire nothing but "spring boards. -
Why do you submit these ques-
lions for discussion when you have
Jailed to prove that ''there are but
Two parties, labor and capital?"
Have you got other proof than that
luoted from the Chicago Daily
Press? 1t seems to me-, if you
wish to leave the question we
started with. that it would be more
practical to discuss the means by
= hich you expect to prevent the
party or vote bosses from ''manip-
alating the wires or how you ex-
pect to keep your platforms from
being spring boards made to jump
into Office on" But if you wish,
We will investigate whether the
present Democratic or Populist
party possesses all the living prin-
ciples of the old Democratic par
ty.
Now to the @mud-slinging." IF
the truth muddies a fellow, he
ought to bs muddied. If the bur-
lesque referred to is not true, then
it offers you chance to make it
known. l may not be ready to be-
lieve or disbelieve it. You de-
clare 81 never wrote or startf d to
,vt.ifn q l1urlacnue on the s3rd' Or