The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-08-13
JUDGE HARDY ISSUES ANOTHkh
ADDRESS To SOUND MONEY
DEMOCRATS.
THE COMING WACO CONVENTION.
Il j. Hoped Every County in the State
VII Be REPRESENTATIVE That VIII
Best Serve the Country Should
Be Adopted.
Cors.cana. Tex. Aug. :. 1896.

address lew WORDS VIII It-AclaLCt
and hes.toucy under q sense Of duty call
| ing upon them ior mature thought and
| patriotic action. y number Of honest
money democrats meI 81 Cor>icaLa on
August / 81 M call for the purpose Of
discussing The situation Of our country.
None hu- democrats were invited. None
jut democrats counsellei with u. Our
counsel and our action was only advise
~ and for the purpose Of aiding in the
preservation Of democratic principles.
Since that conference I have thought it
incumbent upon he 10 again address the
sound money democracy OF Texas. Since
OUT state convention al Austin the So
called democratic national convention
has been held IL Chicago. That conyen-
ton has adopted q platform and nomi-
mated is candidates. The preamble u
the platform processes devotion 10 dem
ocratic principles. No plank. 10 one Of
the series Of resolutions following the
preamble eLunciates democratic priuci-
pies. The platform declares in favor Of
free coinage Al IL 10 ! regardless Of the
commercial value Of gold and silver.
doctrine never before held democratic.
and voted down 10y the last national dem
ocrarll convention. II declares for the j.
suauce 10y the government Of legal enGer
paper money. doctrine which j -ucOn-
s1itutional and which i against every
teaching Of every democratic father
known 20 history and which c0uTrlvele>
lie fundamental declarations of the COM
>tliu1luu that nothing should he legal ten
der except gold ANA silver coin: doctrine
which was never invoked save under the
emergencies uf war. and then invoked
~ The republican party. and IeVer UP
held toy amy court ult! ID. Republican
party stocked ana packed tie supreme
court I'D order To make il legal tender
act valid in law. Democrats have abused
Tie republican party. sometimes h.iudly:
democrats have abused the supreme court
sometimes b.iudly. But the outrage of
the century committed 10y the republican
party and the supreme court was III the
enactment Of a law that the United
States might issue IL paper promises and
compel the citizen To receive them as
equivalent To gold and silver. and the
packing Of the supreme court in order
that this enactment might be- held valid.
And this enormity. this greatest crime
OF the republican party. the SO-called
democracy at Chicago has indorSed. Not
only 80. but in the stress Of war the re-
publican party has never gone 80 far a.
70 undertake To prohibit the citizen from
making his contract and STIMULATING in his
contract for the payment OF either gold.
silver or paper. But our So-callCd dem
Ocratic convention has overstepped the
utmost bounds Of republican excess and
declares in effect that hereafter 10 Citi-
zen shall he permitted to make an hon.
est contract for the payment Of gold or
OF silver that shall b. binding upon him.
PaternaliSm has lost its terror
TO the So-called democracy. Fiatism has
ceased 10 be grim. In its unnatural ap-
petite for power. its unprincipled truck
ling 10 popular frenzy or furore. = ne So
called democratic convention At Chicago
has forgotten democratic principles and
has pandered to every popular prejudice.
| They have denounced the .upreme court
Of the United States for daring TO pre-
serve whiting their Legitimate jurisdic-
ton order and property rights. They
| have denounced the president of the
United States indirectly for complying
with his oath of office in protecting the
| courts Of the United States against the
outrage of the vandal and the anarchist
They have refused TO indOrse the demo-
| cratic administration of the only presi-
dent they have had in thirty years. They
have stood by and cheered the Ian of
all others who in America today repre-
sents and stands for anarchy. Under
these circumstances democrats believing
as we do are called upon TO be patriots.
| How shall we serve our country best. is
| the question that every honest, patriotic
man will ask himself. This was the
question discussed by us at Corsicana at
our conference. and that will he discuss
ed when we meet at Waco. And when
we meet at Waco, it will then be neceS
! sary for us TO act. 1t has been suggest
ed that honest money democrats vote for
Mckinley electors, and no honest money
| democrat should hesitate to do SO if he
believed il We're for the best interest of
| his country. 1t has been suggested also
that at Waco it he arranged so that an
electoral ticket should be put forth COM
posed of honest money democrats IN part.
and that the republicans nominate Il por
| ton of such electors, and perhaps that
the pOpuliStS might nominate come of
such electors and that such ticket should
be voted for by all those who are OPP
posed 10 the election of Bryan. Anoth-
er proposition suggested has been the
putting forth of a joint republican and
sound money democratic electoral ticket
and voting for that ticket. For my own
part. knowing no concern in this cleo
ton but the welfare of my country. ready
TO cast party ties and personal ambition
to the winds, convince me or satisfy me
as to what is best for my country and
am ready TO act. | issue this address
not desiring to dictate; desiring rather to
call for the expression of opinion in the
press of the country from those who. like
me, believe that the policies represented
by the Chicago platform would be de-
| structive of the welfare of this country,
and desiring also to put our people on
| notice as to what may be the questions
that will come before them when they
meet i'll convention at Waco on August
%. AS to our state ticket, that also will
be considered and acted upon. | only
wish so far TO have expressed my own
feelings. and then to urge that every
county in the state be represented at cur
| Waco convention: that where we have no
regular organization persons feeling with
us shall take charge of the matter and
effect an organization. or that where that
can not be done they come individually
to our convention. and let our convention
be in some manner and in some degree
representative of the real strength and
character of the sound money democracy
of Texas. We will, trust, have a ma
tional democratic standard-bearer of
whom we will not be ashamed. All is
not lost at least. not honor. And even
if all save honor is lost TO us have only
to say for myself: II welcome an
eternal minority under the banner in
scribed with our principles. rather than