The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1894-05-21
AiS Speech at West on Cur
| rent Issues.
hE OUTLINES POLICIES He FAIORS
|gaiut the GeSter Amendment In FayOr
Of Economic Reform A Ringing
Democratic Speech.

West, May 2l.-The following
Is the speech of Hon. Cullen F.
Thomas, candidate for the legisla-
lure, at this place Friday night.
let all things good await
i'm who cares not to be great,
but as he saves or serves his state :"
In the inspiration OF this senti.
lnen4 from the pen Of England's
lamentei poet laureate, not uncon
ecioue Of my own shortcomings, but
with full confidence in the just
Judgment of generous people |
have dared to aspire to repres ut
the interests of this great county in
the legislative councils Of my state
come before this people with NJ
mean conception of the RESPONSE.
bility of the position. To represent
such county, with q territory
greater in extent than the state OF
Rhode Island, thronging with a
thrifty population of more than fifty
thousand souls. Boosting wealth
|of soil no. less fertile than the val
|leys of the Nile, covered with pros.
porous farms tilted by the truest
types of Texas citz euship, claiming
la city second TO none in all Texa.
flor its wealth aud health and culture
and conservatism and intelligence
and independence; county made
historic by the names of Ross ami
Erath and McLsnnan and the Har-
risons, that has given to the servsce
Iof the state Richard Coke, Sui
Ross, George Clark, Waller Baker,
and Rnfu, Burleson to represent
such people, with such resources,
traditions and history, is an honor
of which no man in all our
borders but should be proud.
A DEMOCRAT.
seek your suffrage as Damo-
orat. l believe in the principles
and policies of my party heed its
voice and bow to its organization
Two years ago. when divided into
contending factions, saw fit to fol.
low the fortunes of George Clark
until the party spoke in convention
assembled. Then my con ,eptions
of Democratic duty, above personal
preference aud home pride, led me 10
lend my feeble support to him whom
\ believed to be the party's standard
bearer, James Stephen Hogg But
through it all needed 10 others
the same honesty of conviction |
claimed for myself, and in this hour
of party peace, making no apology
and asking no explanation, there is
room once more under common
flag for all who profess comm IN
faith in opposition to common foe
For back of al the shifting issues
of the time, we see great principles
ever contending for the mastery.
WHY n DEMOCRAT.
When manhood brought to me
the exercise of suffrage and the du
ties of citizenship, l saw two great
parties, the Democratic and Repub.
lican, under one of whose banners |
must enlist. | saw that between
their tn cries Of government was
aud ia an impossible barrier. saw
that their principles had their origin
with the founda. ion Of this govern
ment and those principle. un Ter
different party names, had always
in the past and would ever in the
future struggle for supremacy. l
saw one standing for a strong cen.
tralz d government, and the other
the champion of local self-govern-
nent / saw the tendency of the
one was to wipe away state lines and
make of Washington a st. Peters.
burg in power; the other seeking at
all times to preserve the dignity of
the states. and the manhood of the
people. saw one contending for
special privileges and class discrim-
nations for the favored few; the
other demanding always the equality
If all men before the law. l saw
one multiplying millionaires, Great
ng soulless trusts and bailding
3aronial castles; the other the
friend of all who toll whether in