Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-02-28
STORIES OLE TIE srRrEr.

Colonel r. p. Martin, a prominent
politician of Omaha, Neb.. is at the
Worth. To a Gazette reporter, in the
lobby OF the hotel last night, he said:
Your paper suits me and suits my
politics. / have been in Texas two
weeks now and l always manage to
get hold OF u copy every morning to
see new skirmish in the fight for
home. the struggle for right, the bat
tie for freedom, the free coinage of
silver. 1 saw this morning where Con-
gressmen Bland, Sibley and our own
matchless orator. the silver-tongued
youngster from the banks of the
Platte. William l. Bryan, were trying
to get up a party whose war cry would
be Free Silver and whose watchword
has been the voice Of the common peo-
pie. I'll tell you, young man, II
could worship any man living. that one
would be VIII Bryan. Handsome,
brave and true, eloquent, vigorous of
intellect and possessed of a heart that
beats for the oppressed, he is the idol
Of the masses who know him and is
bound to rise yet higher. Why, I-have
seen him cross the street to shake
hands with some honest old farmer
whom he knew, and he wasn't u cam
didate. either; ! have heard him stand
for hours while burning truths fell from
his lbs in words that carried Convic-
ton to every hearer; l have watched
thousands sit under the spell of his
fluent tongue and hang upon every
sentence with a blindness almost pa
thetic. IL ever man was the living
incarnation OF all that he holds right
and sacred since the days Of our Saw
Tor, 1t is Bryan. Every honest man
who knnufq him 1nyt.a ~.
not trait in his character that is not
admirable The scheming work.
ers and Eoldbugs of Nebraska fear and
despise him, but in the homes of the
common people, at the firesldes of those
who, for thirty-iive years, have strrc-
gled against plutocratic greed, McKin-
leyism and kindred evils, Bryan's I'M
age Is almost enthroned. He is to them
what Henry Clay was to the Wings
OF Kentucky; more than Roger O. Mills
was ever to the Democrats of Texas.
And why not? II there is one spot upon
his record not even he knows It. IL
there Is conscientious servant of the
peonle In the American congress. ii
is he. II there Is one there ADLER or
more eloquent I have yet to see and
near him. and l have listened to every
leading member OF both houses. I have
heard the great Bourke Cochran tell
~ NhA'NAiHln W all street mad taught
him: have heard Tom Reed spout
his empty nothinGs into space while
his followers. with characteristics asIn-
nifty applauded; I have heard Bur
rows. and Breckenridge, and Wolcott
ana ingalls,, but give to me he who
speaks that which you, yourselves. do
know With an oratory no living
American can excel our own BRYAN
would hate to see the Democrats
party disrupted as much as anyone;
l was born inside its fold: for forty
years l have helped fight its battles
but something must be done. and
am afraid 1t must come through n new
party. That party must be removed
as far from Popullsm as from pold-
buggerv, and must be led by such men
as your Chiffon. your Lanham. DlcI,
Bland. Joe Blackburn and VIII BRYAN.
t1ve-sixths Of our voters demand frae
coinage: We must have 1t; we will have
1t. let 1t come as 1t may"
c. c. Fouts OF Atlanta. Ga "a I,
tho city, Talking last night Of The
coming big exposition Atlanta viii give
soon. he said; Atlanta was ne,,sr
known to make failure. From he
dav when the war cloud was lifted
from above her. cast there nv the IN
Nnslon OF Northern armies. her oiti-
81 70 work 10 rebuild the capital
energy that has made of n what /, a.
TO-DAY She has exceeded the expecta-
lions OF her own dearest friends and
mas beaten the tabled Phoenix at its
own game. We mean TO give a cotton
stateE exposition that was nevar
( oualled before in the whole south
Louisville New Orleans ana other cities
nave had very creditable exhibitions
put nothing on so grand a scale as
nv. MS was ever attempted south OF the
ono before. Colonel j. w. Avery. me
ueld representative. Is now in sonfh
america. lie has met with great sue
cess everywhere and we expect ths
whole ootton-producing world 10 be
and the whele state OF Georgia ma
Joined hands with the outside world |
ana the exposition is bound 10 be- a
20. \ hope and expect TO see Texas |
,,usra!y represented In every way. We |
lANhn 10 pual Nour kaarni a. ~ L