The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1894-05-21

true it is only method of making
nominations, but its nominees be.
come our officers. The same rea.
sons that impel registration in
general election demand registra.
ton in a primary. The same prin.
oiple that would punish illegal vot.
ing in a general election demands
that fraud of all kinds be punished
in a primary. The citizen who
trades and traffics in suffrage at any
time, anywhere, in June or Novem.
Der, in primary or general cleo
ton, should be subject to the pains
and penalties of outraged law. In
McLennan county, the curse is
known of all men. The evil will
grow with our growth in popula
ton. There is reason for the dis
content and disgust of honest cit
IL ans with public affairs.
There is strong and growing de-
mand for the protection of the
ballot box. In other states of the
union-in New York, Missouri,
Mississippi and Tennessee
primary has been legalized in self.
defense. If elected, whether | sue
coed or fail, l promise to do all in
my power to secure the passage of
Law that will purify, simplify and
dignity our prim ary elections.
UNITED STATES SENATOR.
Ole i'm portant duty incumbent on
the next Legislature will be the cleo
tion of successor to him who for
eighteen long years has served his
people ably, faithfully and fearless
ly, and who voluntarily retires with
no faint upon his honor and no be-
trayal of his trust. | endorse the
action of the McLennan county
Democracy in RELOCATING this ques-
ton to the people. shall bs proud,
as their chosen representative, to do
their bidding. believe in the
nearest possible approach to the
election of all public servants by
the people. hail the coming day
when by amendments to the consti-
tuition the United Sta es senator
may be chosen by dilect vote of
the people, thus recognizing more
fully the power and the principle of
the people for self government.
Now l desire to say that while l
pledge myself to abide your instruc-
tions, have my own conception of
the qualifications demanded of the
man whom Texas should commis.
sion as her ambassador to the U nited
States senate. He should be a man
inspired by the glory of his party's
traditions, yet progressive enough
to grasp the new and ever changing
conditions; man of the people in
touch with the people; maa who
believes that in Democracy are the
best hopes and aspirations of the
American people; man who clings
to his party principles at the Ten
Comman iments of his political
faith; man who plants himself on
every plank of his party platform as
firmly as Casabianica on the burn
ing deck; man who believes in
tar if reform that uni ast burdens be
lifted from the backs of the toiling
poor; aman who believes in pension
reform to the end that our pension
roll be made roll of honor; man
who believes in retrenchment and
reform that the extravaganza expendl.
lures of the government be reduced
to an economical basis, man
who believes in financial reform that
the Democratic party may redeem
its twenty years of pledges and re
buke the political per6dity of 1878;
man who hates mon ometallsm
whether of gold or silver; man
who knows enough to know that
bi metalism is the only basis
of a safe, sound, financial system
in this country; a man who believes
that gold and silver are as insepa.
rably linked as the Siamese twins
each necessary to the other; a man,
in brief, who realizes the ideal to-
ward which Southern Democracy,
though baffi I'D and beaten will al
ways struggle-free trade, free
| s;1,,or and fraa men