Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-06-11
A BIG BOMB SHELL
WAS THE ACTION OF THE ILLINOIS
DEMOCRATS
thrown Into the Camp of the Gold
bugs-rhcy nlamc Aitgeld and Call
HIM All Sorts OF Had Nnmcs-some
Spring Political News Up to Date.
DALLAS. June 10.

were thrown into violent commissions
by the sturdy and straightforward dec
larations OF the unpurchasable and
united Democrats of Illinois. Since
those ringing declarations fell like
molted lead into their ears, burning and
eating away the biehloride gold
tissues of their brains. there 3 been
series OF frightful spasms. 2. the
last more virulent than the first Nv
ernor John p. Altgeld of Illinois
pears to be the man held respous.
for the utter and clear-cut repudiatio
| of goldbugism by the Democrats OF
that state. He is denounced as an
anarchist" "a leveller." power of
dragons teeth against law and order
and red-handed and red-mcuthed foe
of property rights. His chief critic in
Texas is Hon. John w. Springer Of
Dallas, formerly OF Illinois" Hon.
John W. Springer is an amiable fellow
and personal friend of the writer.
lie Is the son-ln-law Of Colonel w. f.
Hughes, and these two gentlemen have
undertaken the prodigious job Of COM
hitting the free Democrats of Texas
TO the Rothschllds system of finance.
! These gentlemen represent large inter
ests and loan money. They take gold
/ notes and mortgages as security, for
| they are sharp business men. Prior to
the Waco conference they held n great
| mass meeting OF honest money men in
| the city Of Dallas to select delegates.
| There were nine patriots present. in
/ GLIDING two newspaper men, who are
| generally willing to take any kind Of
/ money for their services. At Waco
these two hard money and honest
money saviors represented the 10000
voters OF Dallas county, and also went
| to Memphis whore they heard Carlisle
and Patterson repeat, parrot-llke. the
| financial Views Of John Sherman. as
| first promulgated by him In the United
| States senate In 1875. The Memphis
| convention resolved that the Demo-
| cratic party Of the South favored
honest money and therein the conyen-
| tion did not err. Every Southern Dem
| ocrat Is for honest money and against
any form Of population; against de-
based money OF any sort, and ever and
! eternally against one system Of money
! for the people and another for the
/ sordld and soulless multi-milllonaires
| OF the world. The Memphis conven-
tion then declared the Democratic
party was for the gold standard and
no more palpable nonsense was ever
uttered. The bankers and bondhold-
ers, the federal onlce-holders, the
agents OF loan companies, are not the
| people They have their own axes to
| grind, and the people turn the wheels.
Men are not to be censured for looking
after their own interests. Men are
seldsh thoy are not on earth for their
| health The ones to he censured are
the dupes who believe that the money
kings Of the world, tho holders of the
bonded Indebtedness Of the world. are
opposed to the free coinage of silver
because they are fearful that 1t win
entail h0rdshns upon the masses and
Course" the farmers and wOrkingmen.
the wealth. producers OF the world. with
n deprecated currency. In all ages the
masses have been the dupes Of the
classes The ninety-ninc have made
beasts OF burden out OF themselves for
the one. In the countries OF Europe
and Asia and South and Central Ameri-
ca and Mexico this has been the song
OF the centuries and when the United
States becomes thickly populated the
| same conditions will exist unless the
people take firm hold Of the rudder
of the ship of state and avoid the
| sunken snags and breakers placed in
the charts by jefferson and other lev
| elers" and anarchists Of his day.
The material wealth Of this nation may
double and treble every decade but
II the wealth Is held by the few the
condition OF the many will remain
unchanged
Hon. John w Springer holds that
Governor Altgeld was the cause OF
Democratic disaster in Illinois last year
and will be the cause in 1896. Again,
that william n. Morrison, Dick Spring
err John c. Black Adlal Stevenson
and Clayton p. Crafts, great leaders
of the party" We're not present and
evidently not In harmony with the
convention. Hon John Z. Springer is
/ n Jolly Joker. He knows that federal
1 ofTice-holders have been notified to
avoid silver meetings and are tacitly
understood to be bound hand and foot
10 the chariot wheels Of the national
administration. General John c. Black
is United States attorney for the
northern district of Illinois; Hon. Dick
Springer Ia a federal Judge in okla
homA: william II. Morrison draws fed
eral pap for his sustenance; Clayton II.
crafts Is the attorney for great cor
porntlons Interested in maintaining the
gold standard and Hon. Adlai Steven
son. vice-president, would not be eN-
pected to participate in n convention
called to repudlate the financial
schemes of the president Of the United
states. Vice President Stevenson Is
not and has never been gold standard
Democrat. He is n bimetalllst and
favors the free coinage OF silver and
gold without regard To the effect II
Will have IN 1 lmbuGlhNt INi Hlbnti ~ wv
Sandwich Islands In that convention
were hundreds OF men who have grown
gray fighting the battles OF the De
mocracy Of the West and South. They
were Democrats long years before
John NJ. Palmer had been kicked out
Of the Republican party; before Hon
John w. Springer lad begun to make
mud MES: before Cuckoo Ecllles was
on earth, and lastly. before Grover
Cleveland was sheriff OF Erie county.
and John q. Carlisle known beyond
Inc confines OF his Covington home.
And then there Is that rnunt snectre
eyer in the pathway Of the goldhugs.
Tohn p. Altfeld with the exception
Of James s. Iiogg, no man IN puohc
Iife for the last thirty years has been
as roundly abused and rs little under,
stood. He pardoned the anarchists
Wau when he was a candidate for
poyernor II was known that he would
: pardon them II elected. In the office OF
governor Fifcr was petition ASKING
~, tbelr pardon. John p. Altgeld had
\ signed that petition, This was before
D he was nominated for the office whlen
he nov holds Cook county gave
clevelani ana Altgeld $1,000 majority.
ond the bulk OF the votes In me Efsal
iahor wards the German Boheilia !.
\ wards and the stock yards naoe w c ~
\ mafo-Ifv. outside Of the city 81 S hl
Il cago the Illinois Republicans hei1 Hi ~