The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1894-04-24
uis Positions on Political
Questions Reviewed.
SCRIPTURE ANSWERED WITH GOSPEL
Tho Theory of BimctalliSm Defended Facts
49, co,rected...Benton Palced Right.

Passing over his structures of the
,vo popalist heresies, government
ownership of railways and their sub
treasury fallacy, we come to note
ssnecially his criticisms on finance
A. held by large majority of
4 Democrats
The Judge tells US that "for
4birty years the country has been
lahoripg under administrations and
the application of principles
deemed by us fatally erroneous"
tn this he attributes the class legis
4 lation and the encroachments upon
the rights of the masses and of the
states and of individuals, in this
mad march towards centraliz alton;
and in turn this has driven the ad
yocates for free silver, he says, into
more dangerous extreme and be-
come the excuse for the existence of
the Popullst party. To refutation
of these "heresies" he devotes his
energies, but says never a word
against the Republican party, whose
theories of government and system
of laws, he maintains, have pro-
|duced this dangerous" state of af.
fairs. Perhaps the Judge has failed
to castlgate his old friends for
bringing alb out these evils, because
he may find it again necessary in
the near future, as he has in the
past, to "make to himself friends
of the mammon Of righteousness"
He rte1ptorrs the ev1ts consequent
upon the departure from Democratic
precedents four years ago" by the
Texas Democracy. 1t would be in.
teresting to know whether he refers
TO his departure" from free
silver, which he then advocated, or
~ his lbcPaYt1N
cratic party and his coalition with the
Republicans. However, there is al.
ways hope for repentant sinner.
He regrets that Judge Reagan
should have thrown his sire brand"
lno the Democratic "harmony
camp" just cat the time when, by
mutual concessions, the Democrats
of TeXas were preparing to obliter
ate all their differences, Perhaps
Judge Reagan acted upon the un.
founded rumor that the Dallas har
monlzers were all chilling" drunk,
hnd had no right to bind their fel
low Democrats; or, perhaps, the ex.
senator thought that principle ''jnst
Rt this time worth more than party
and policy.
Judge Clark tells us that "there
s no hostility to silver by any Dam.
ocrat Then the judge, by his own
admission, is not Democrat, for
ne says: 81 approve the action of
Mr. Jefferson, who in 1905 stopped
The coinage of silver dollars alto
eether, and from that time until
1888 only $1,000 were coined "
tiere the Judge fails to give the
eason of this. Jefferson opposed
ne coinage of silver dollars, because
tney were worth more than the
european dollar and we could not
Keep them at home. He favored q
Inherent ratio between gold and
liver, 1hich, we shall presently
'e'e,, was had in 1884. Judge CLARK
Adas; 81 turn back to 1889 and take
my stand with Andrew Jackson,
Rhose chief administrative meas
U. was The coinage. ac. -sf .hs.
ear formulated by his ad ninistra
Eion, under his own direction, and
carfled through Doth houses by hit
!reat and imperial influence, the
declared purpose of which was &c
'iVe silver out of the country anC
'lace the country upon golc
header, is it not little strang,
nat this GLORIOUS Democrat
mould affirm that "there is no hos
NY to silver by any Democrat,
ua yet IN the next breath say tina
~ stands where he places Jefferson
ma jackson whose avowed pur
'ose was to drive silver from tn,
oontry! But Mr.. Clark is a
H paa,y mixed on this subject as tn
1a,ias harmony meeting is falsel,
AID to have been.