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

shoulders or the toiling Door; for pen
sion reform to the end that our pension
roll may become roll of honor; for re-
| trenchment and reform, that there may
no longer be extravaganza and eytortion
III national expenditure; and forever for
financial reform, and knowing enough
to Know that as inseperably linked in
| our nnanclal system as the Siamese
TWINS, are both gold and silver. the money
| OF the Bible and the constitution.
| IeXas demands Democrat who
pledges eternal war against the victori-
Gus policies of Republicanism; against the
usurpatlons and encroachments of fed
eral power; against the Lodge bills that
threaten the South with iniquity and the
! that insult the dignity of the
state and sap the manhood of the people;
against Mckinley bills that tilch from the
poor mans pocket to fatten the rich mans
purse; against Sherman bills that are
cowardly makeshifts, debasing Il sacred
money metal to the level of a mere COM
modify; against every kind of bounty with
which 1t is sought to purchase a proud
peoples birthright with Il mess of federal
pottage.
| Texas demands that he be Demo-
crat who will make no compromise with
the visionary theories of Populism. He
must ever raise his voice against all the
heresies advanced on the idea that man
was made for the government, instead of
the government for man. He must op-
pose paternalism in all it's forms, because
a paternal government is an Internal gov
ernment. lie must ever raise his voice
aginst subtreasuries because they make
/ the government but q pawn shop. He
must oppose government loans to the peo-
pie at = per cent. because the government
is borrowing at D per cent: oppose govern
ment ownership of the railroads, because
that would bankrupt the nation and en-
slave the people; oppose land contisca-
ton and division, because that would tear
from out our hearts "Home sweet home;"
oppose greenbackism, because that blots
| from our financial creed the sweet assur-
ance, II know that my Redeemer liveth;'
oppose the countless Populist appropria
tions because in the aggregate they would
drain not only all the resources of the ma
ton. but were all the stars of gold and
silver, would bankrupt Gods great uni
| verse
But, above opposition to Republican
ism and Populism, higher than considera-
tions of party and partisanship, are the
demands for broad, lofty and unselfsh
patriotism. In these troublous times
times, when new faiths meet in con-
tlict and strange theories struggle for
supremacy. on whose solution hang the
hopes and happiness of 60,000,000 of peo-
pie, Texas should commission one whose
eyes do greet horizon that clasps in low
ing embrace all sections of our common
country; and whose ears are ever turned
to hear the heart-beats of all classes of
oppressed humanity. He should be
sprung from the people in touch with the
people; he should see in every citizen. a
sovereign whose home is his castle. He
should acknowledge no aristocracy but
in the blood that flows from an honest
heart or feed the brain that thinks. We
should realize that the lowly farmer as
he walks down the furrow of his field, is
| the peer of the highest pOtentate of earth.
He should hold fast to equity law for
all men-thus making cruel distinctions
of classes and cast forever impossible. He
should cling with mother-love to his cOun-
try's flag, in the hope that though at
times it may go down in defeat and dis
aster, like the sword of Hapsburg, will
never know dishonor. He should know
tuition and feel that he who desecrates
! it should be stricken dead like him of old
| who dared to lay unholy hauds on the
Arktof the Covenant of the living God.
| Sensible of these high ideas, and sobered
by these sacred duties, imperial Texas
| stands ready to commission as her chosen
ambassador to the United States senate,
the hon. Horace CnlltOn. he is pIeSeuV
ed at the behest of no trust corporation or
monopoly. He is presented as the candi-
| date of no faction, clique or combination.
| He is presented as the first and last choice
of a unified, purified unterriied Demo-
cracy.
He is presented as the David of Texas
Democracy, ready at all times and every.
| where to give battle to the Goliaths of
protection, paternalism and plutocracy.
He is presented as native Texan, as
q typical Southerner, as true American,
earnest and honest, brainy and bold, fear
less and faithful, a combination of cour-
age, conscience and convictions.
In calling him to this high station, filled
in the past by Coke and Reagan and Rusk
and Houston, our lips but echo the heart
throbs of proud people whose prayers
attend him always, that he ma yprove
strong, true and brave; so strong that
all the songs of political sirens will not
sway him; so true that all the riches of
| Croesus could not corrupt him; so brave
that all the power of all the Caesars
| could not awe him.
In addition to the above speeches quite
| a number of additional seconding speeches