Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-09-19
SCORES CLEVELAND.
SAYS GROWERS DEVOTION 10 THE
MONEY POWER HAS VIRTUALLY
WRECKED DEMOCRACY.
The Second jackson Came, Hut Rep
resented Corporations NV
Against the People.

NAAllfi' SANNht SHANFt e3NfNs 49, GStNAANA
IL. S. Ervay and wife of Colorado
Springs have been chaperoning about
the district Senator and Mrs. j. II.
Reagan and wife Of Palestine, Tex,
and Colonel Robert McCart, of Fort
Worth. II Is the first time the little
party has ever been in the mountains
of Colorado, and they are enjoying
the sights immensely,
Senator Reagan's public life extends
over u period of more than forty years.
lie was surveyor OF public lands in 1899,
later on n member of the legislature
and then probate and district judge
in 1851 he was elected to congress and
remained there until the breaking out
OF the war, when he became a MEM
Der OF the provincial congress of the
confederacy. Jeff Davis made him
postmaster general. and in this capaci-
" he served until the close of the war
Nheh peace was restored his district
returned him to Washington, where
Tor eight years he most ably repre-
scented his constituency In the lower
mouse OF congress and then retired only
senate.
Il hated to leave that last position;
but the people OF Texas. who have
honored me for forty years, insisted
mat i should resign the most com
portable and honorable position ever
N.'NA Nt'NN bAAf VI tue most luDDIlOuE
and thankless jobs / ever had-tbot
OF chairman of the railroad commits
SION what trouble we have had on
th's commission / can never tell Won
put l am glad to say that the worst
rs nov over Not only do the people
a1y tney are satisfied, but the railroad
companies have at last concluded thai
the. are being fairly treated. and now
! am taking the first rest ] have ever
taken IN my life, something few mon
OF my age can say"
senator Reatg6n is a particplarIv in
tcIestlhg man TO the people of Colorado
IL "euount OF MS pronounced views on
peen time when he has not been found
battling for the white metal " ava ~
believes in bimetaillsm. anu ne
leNas Democrats" said the sennto,.
are almost unit on the financial
question, put In the towns and cities a
~, Suiu bugs are to be found. Tho
Iopullsts carried away many of the
democrats last year. but the snuars
stand the party has taken on tho ,inSno
eiai question Will bring the maioritv or
them back Into the fold. For the cSun.
Try AZ large | fear the outlook Is Diary .
u ,.il me bright, ruddy face Of the
youngest old man in America " no nv,
calls himself, clouded. ia 'e
MT Cleveland has not only wrecked
tue democratic party, but the povern.
ment as we'll shortly after Nc Grs.
election and before he took Mis- ontb
OF Office. l was amazed to learn wher.
ne stood Some prominent New York
~ '. iulehs came To Washington and
Tor some reason came to me ana stotrd
the object of their visit. They wanted
the Band act repealed, and Nvantad
II done before the president took bis
seat II did not take me a minute 10
. imtuthi Hhem mat this could not be
zone win my permission unless II
should be to substitute the free and nm
limited coinage of silver. These PEN
tlemen warned me that | did moi know,
who had to deal with, and sail tbat
another Jackson was to be president
Very WELL said /, III he comes ne
dld jackson, representing the people
as agalhst corporations. | am with him
heart and soul, but If he comes renre.
senting corporations as against Tho
people, ! shall fight him to the last
'One hundred members OF cnngros,
tresn from the people Joined in n let.
ter to the president-elect urging bir,
to be careful In the statements ha
might make on the financial auestlon
and calling his attention to the Mat
form on which we We're electnd NJ,
tlus we did not expect a reply' but
one came. What was our amnger,ont
upon reading II, 1t was full of inace
o1racies. Members Of the press learn-
ca OF tne correspondence and cnua 10
me Tor II, but l positively declined to
give Il out W
What was my astonishment feu,
days later TO learn that Mr.. CLEVELAND
proposed giving II to the Assocjated
fress' l went TO Lleutenant-Govern
Gorsheimer of New York ana tried 70
get him to Interfere but he refnsed ~
40 SO, ana concluding by remnrlSinS
that he had done ali he eould 5n N a
that the next president would 20 ~
the devil for all OF him. M So
land did not know that gold hod 80
stantly increased In the tronsurv M
der the Bland act, and that leEai Tow
ger notes We're not redeemabie aiono
IN gold, but I'm gold and silver !, '"e
What the trouble Isl the saro.o.
went on TO say. the people who ais.
cuss the silver question do not ~.
down to the bottom OF the mnttar NJ
Indebtedness OF this country s,a ,ne
corporate ad municipal amo,rts
l,OVp'0OO,OQO Of money, or Snnra W
there Is In the entire world We NAN NAN
70 pay OF this vast sum less 80
N,Ooo,OOO0Oo Of gold, The thine ,ha ai
stares at us today is the bnnlrr, otut
court Statistics that are publishaSdp
nunlly show that the price OF stanIa III
tieles has gone down with Tho n,,e ar
SILVER we are told to remonetIle Iii
Yer VIII destroy our credit ohr,aH
! pray TO God that Il viii. as We NV
40 muoh 10 the Shylocks now snS |
my aIe hlready crying for tba,r
have forged our own chain" anu We
Before leaving the stata c..
Reagan will visit Denver senator