The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-01-24

our votes for him we do so IN the in
terest of those who suffer from injus-
tice and legalized robbery. In the in
terest of the producing classes, among
whom is ever found patriotism and
virtue.
The man of whom speak is not only
credit to the minority, but he is Il credit
to the state of Texas and one of whom
the people may be proud, irrespective
of his political affiliation. Should he
be sent to the senate of the United States
we feel assured that he will never for
sake the principle which he has carried
on his banner before the people of Texas.
| We are assured that the glitter of
wealth, the storms of time nor the most
abject poverty can move him from those
principles which he advocates for the
redemption of the race.
In these days of concentrated wealth,
of heartless monopoles that possess no
souls and no responsibility in eternity,
when the lamentations and tears of the
great common people, the sheet anchor of
our civilization, comes up from
every industrial center of the
republic it is meet that those should
be entrusted with position who love and
sympathize with the unfortunate masses,
and who believe in no special privileges,
but in giving justice to all and to every
citizen his own.
| But there must be martyrs Tor every
cause while
| Humanity sweeps onward while today the
martyr stands,
| Tomorrow crOuches Judas with the Sill
yer in his hands;
While in the distant future the cross
stands ready and the cracking faggots
burn.
While the hooting mob of yesterday in 81
| lent awe return
| To CLEAN up the sacred ashes into history S
| golden urn.
| But this man represents Il cause that
| the wrath of kings nor the expressions of
modern shylocks can overthrow. 1t is
like the breaking loose of pent up waters
and is protected by 100000 thinking and
toiling sovereigns. 1t may be truly said
of him that he is the sage of Texas and
one of the greatest political philosophers
of modern times, who possessed the cour-
age to lay ambition upon povertys altar
and make a political sacrlhce Tor the
good of his fellow man.
|, , The cause he represents shall never per-
ish from the earth, but the footprints
of time will record it's progress until ultl-
mate success shall crown the efforts of
such men as l will present to this house
as IA candidate for United States senator.
| Year after year may take their 11lght,
| century HlleE century puSS ih'o
oblivion, but Populist principles will never
perish In the years to come they will
be proud monuments to the glory of him
who has stood steadfast and fought heart
less oppression.
Mr. Speaker, this man of whom | speak
is no other than Judge Thomas l., Nugent
of Tarrant county, statesman, philoso-
pher patriot Christian.
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the next gentleman to speak, seconding
| Chilton's nomination in the following
eulogistic terms:
| Mr.. Speaker-When John Adams de-
clared in the continental congress that
George Washington ought to be command
er in chief of the American armies he did
no more than proclaim what the people OF
the colonies had already decreed. The
fact that in their supreme hour of trial
the patriot fathers turned with one accord
| to the Virginian as their leader IS the
highest proof of the capacity of the peo-
nle for self-government. Indeed the
great leaders of all ages have almost al
WAYS been men who followed the lncli-
| nation of the people. If this has been
| true in times of commotion or revolution 1t
| is equally true in times of peace, for
'peace hath her victories no less renowned
| than war"
| Iuc ueSllly VI ii pCopiCs ehtSh "''A' :"
wrought by uneventful centuries of peace
and the preservation of free state Is
grander than the birth of a nation. When
| we look across the sea, to the sea-glrt
| isle. the motherland of our race, we are
not struck by her beginning, but by the
greatness of her history, the miracles of
her progress. The little Swiss republic:
apparently as eternal as the ice-capped
mountains among which it nestles, inn
hv itS oaptnriQS Of indie
lpendence and renown. Principles are eter-
nal. Calhoun and Webster did not
| make issues; the issues existed before
them and survived them. Gladstone, the
Grand Old Man, whose fame is greater
than his length of years, has followed the
enlightened opinion and pratlce OF MS
party. The people carve their own way,
and it is the duty and should be the pleas
ure of the representative to represent MS
constituents.
A year ago the people of Texas were
called upon to decide whom this legisla-
ture should elect to the United States
senate, and with unanimity rarely wit
messed they gathered around the. stan
dard of Horace Chiffon and have already
borne it to victory. He stands today the
unchallenged choice of the reunited Dem
ocracy. Along the valleys. over the MI
tops and across the prairies his name
has been carried upon every breeze to an
approving people, and it only remains for
us to record their will. Horace Chiffon
has all the qualifications of a great leader,
courageous able, sincere, honest and
| faithful. He is less than his party, it is
true, but he is greater than any of the
divisions in it. A true son of Texas, a
statesman and a patriot, his election will
inspire the confidence of the people and
! Justify their faith in representative gov
ernment In the prime of life, in the
vigor of manhood, at the zenith of intel,
lectual power, the mantle of Richard
Coke will fall upon his shoulders with the
blessings of his people.
! Therefore, feeling that he is the choice
of the Democracy, and that in his hands
the interests of Texas would be safe and
secure, that her honor and glory would be
promoted by his election, and with full
| faith in his ability, integrity and patriot
| ism, | second the nomination of Horace
| Chiffon for the United States senate.
Representative Thomas of McLennan,
then spoke in favor of Horace Chiffon as
| follows:
| After IS long years of faithful, pat
riotic and cOnsecrated service, Richard
Coke voluntarily lays down the sacred
task and trust assigned him. We are
met today, the chosen representatives
of sovereign people, to place his unsul-
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