Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-09-01

l ntHt--Anu IL Is nut w NhhNhNNN
him that PopuliHts Will not get In con.
troll OF the county and city offices until
the saloon influence Is destroyed. Then
the aRRrieved Populist goes with the
local optionist TO call on a sore-headed
Democrat who failed to get a nominal
tlon at the primaries. and II don't take
the two Of them long to convince the
| sore headed Democrat that II It had
not been for some Of the whisky M
| fiuence he would have got the nomin-
alton OF his party for office. and that
he would OF course, have been elected
as the whole ticket went in, and there
he Is. a jealous recruit for the local
option party who want to purify poll
tics. This blessed trinity OF prohlbi-
| ZIONIST Populiat and pull-back politi-
| clan forms the neucleus OF our opposi-
ton, and they start out to make con-
verts to the lily cause, and they md
/ them. The same argument Is as con-
| vincing as holy writ to every greedy
Popullst and sora-head Democrat
Upon this glorious arch they stick
the flag OF morality and they soon find
some young. enthusiastic, thoughtless
preacher who thinks he has struck the
moral combination OF civil govern
ment and thinks he secs way TO make
himself talked about and noticed In the
papers. He has got this sort Of COM
blrntion to beat. Here they are-a
triple-leaded, double-headed whigger--
Sam Evans, leading Popullst, stump
Ing this county for local option, and
declaring that local option does not
prohibit, that II IN not intended to pro-
hibit the sale or drinking Of whisky,
but to turn II loose like Il was forty
years ago-no tax, no license. cheap
and plentiful so that our children. the
little girls, Retty Oad Sally and Jennie,
could sell II on the street corners at
n cent Il glass. This glorious vision of
unlimited whisky and a nice little talk
about free whisky and free silver
standing on the same platform In n
local option precinct catches some
classes Of voters. on the other end
Of this colossal aggregation of political
purity we see the clerical coat and
clean shaver face OF some local preach
or who cries out against the crime OF
selling whisky and pleads for pity for
the poor weak creature that In forced
to buy 1t before he drinks It. lie prom
ises the good sisters OF the church
that when he and his people have en-
tered into their Inheritance OF the of
fees OF this county he win cork all the
nasty stun up so tightly that even u
school ma'am couldn't smell IL. Oh,
wonderful, indeed, must DO the organ
igation that comprthends under one
head such u variety OF political virtue.
one wagon dispensing free whisky,
another suffering a perpetual drouth,
Now my Democratic friend, let me
tell you few plain truths These To-
cal option fellows are pulling your
leg-nnd not pulling toward "a Demo-
cratic platform either, You are the
last man to say word about the sa-
loon element In politics. II you have
the good OF this country at heart aud
believe that II Ia safe only when con-
trolled by the Democratic party, tell
me what would YOU have done II you
had been charged with the duty and
responsibility OF carrying this county
and congressional district FOR Demo-
cratic principles What would you
have done II you had been on guard
and heard the tread OF the Populst
host, hungry for offices. Would you
have thrown down your arms, deserted
you post nnd gone over to the Popu-
lists, surrendered without firing a
shot, your party and your country to
the PupullstsY Or would you have ac-
cepted few votes from the liquor in
terests II they had offered them to
you?
In duel TO the death can any man
be blamed for grnsping the nearest
weapon Mt hand, Even a dog Ia ex.
pected "a wag his tail In gratitude for
a gift OF u bone: shall Democrat
spit on the hand that saved his pO-
| llticnl life and put his party In power.
Shades OF Andrew Jackson forbid.
| Now want to tank TO the Populists a
few minutes, az your leaders ought to
| talk 10 you. | will give you some good
sensible advice, also, as 20 along.
| ! ask you what you would have done
| on that fateful election day II the sa-
| loon element had offered 10 give your
| party it's united support and given
| your party control OF all the Offices of
this county from constable to congress
and the fOtness thereof. Would you
have refused these nrstlings OF your
| political flock? / trow not Is not tho
| twentieth section OF pour political par
| ~ adopted at the Waco convention, n
! direct, open ana palnable bid for the
| LIQUOR yotop II that plank does not
mean that your party IL opposed to
local option and prohibition and other
| such laws, what does II meanp
DID not the delegate from Austin In
| that convention move to strike out
that plank because 1t was bid for
the liquor vote, aud did not the dele.
gate from San Antonio in n speech in
that convention, supporting that plank,
say that unless that plank or some
other plank In favor OF the llauor In
teresta was put In that he could not
hold his following nor himself In the
Popullat ranks, And did not John Nj.
Moore, the Popullst candidate for
| county attorney at our last election,
speaking at Waco IN favor OF said
plank, say that votes were what Your
party needed, ana u platform was In.
tended to win votes, not 10 drive them
away; and dlG not that plank 20 in
suppC rtcd by every delegate eXeept
the one from Travis?
Now listen to me, please. Your party
consists largely OF mechanics and Ia.
boring men, Drive them from YOU and
there II nothing left. IL you vote this
calamity OF local option ON the work.
Ing men Of Fort Worth, they win de-
nounce your party and It's follIes. The
property owners, already distrustful
of your party, win be emhittered most
strongly against you, The business men
Will attribute their losses 20 you Your
party will dwlndle away TO a few reck-
less fanatics warning against society
and government without the respect
even OF themselves,
IL II time 20 drive away your friends
and followersg In China a man who
feels that he has been injured, goes To-
HIS cnclny and In his presence COM
mlts suicide, believing that his ghost
win make his enemys life burden
by haunting his home and buhbling OF
OF injustice, VIII the Popullat party
adopt the Chinese policy and revenge
l,a wrongs by committing political
harl-kari In order that its ghost may
haunt the primaries, instead Of having
able bodied working men to night lis
battles at tho polls2
tell You there u many an anxious
heart beating under the worl<inEman's
I Ia 10 ~.