Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1896-02-11
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TIVE COMMITTEE.

Hon. Barnett Gibbs. OF Dallas, the
chief of "mudsillcrs," was In town
yesterday. A reporter for the great
Democratic daily cornered him upon
the subject of the late committee meet
ing at Austin. True to the Gibbsonlan
platform. he jumped upon the commit
tee with both feet, so to speak:
why should the action OF the Demo-
cratic committee in naming one pri-
mary and two conventions induce eth
er a gold or silver Democrat to remain
in the party or fail to rebuke IT," he
asked.
After all. when the redemption basis
Is fixed, the business of this country
Will be done on notes either issued by
the government direct or through II
system OF banks. The same con-
ton that fixes the redemption basis in
Its platform will fix the character of the
note Issue. yet the voter in that prl-
mary VIII get no expression. Every
man in the United States who has no
rebate from railroad corporation or
j protected Industry except the office
holder. has had to reduce his living
expenses during the last few years.
yet In that primary no voter can by his
vote effectually protest against either
state or national extravaganza or the
unlimited fee system.
Texas has had her sugar, cattle
wool and timber interests sacrificed to
the greed of the east in the tariff bill
and has had her cattle interests fur
Their damaged by an autocratlc com
missioner of agriculture toying with
grave issues. such as the quarantine
line and the Importation of Mexican
cattle, yet In this primary there can be
no registered protest to be heard In
the national convention. Texas Will
never get To the trur1n qhipa "a
profitable commerce on the high seas
on reasonable freight basis until the
Trinity IL canalized and a railroad
built by the state Yet upon this ques-
ton the mud-sll Democrats could not
be heard In this primary panacea, The
answer VIII be that the mud-siller must
trust to his representatives in all these
things as he has In the pnst
This wont do for the Democrats
who have put on their war paint and
left the reservation have done so he
cause these very trusted agents have
fed them on bull beef instead OF prom
ised regulation ratiors. 1t was this
Kind of political trust that got them
president that vetoed bill for seed To
SOW in the drouth stricken section. and
then subsequently asked congress for
a one hundred thousand dollar commits
sion to SOW dlscord In a foreign land.
Under this primary regulation, whether
1t goes for gold or silver, the voter only
gets small SMELL and to get one
thing his way, may have TO swallow
ono dozen Objectionable things foisted
upon him by the convention or con-
Eress. This Is merely playing Mt popu-
lar government, and there Is not a man
In van Inndt county that can't catch
on 10 Row little he would get out Of
u In the way OF an expression of poll
teal opinion. It Is not tub hui n
little nrkln thrown t. the whale and n
is too nmali to tickle his throat.
AS long as We pay one hundred
ANA furiN millions pen hnnuu pension
and borrow the money from nations
thousands OF years older than we. who
Iavi Gnd hundred wars to our one
ana whose aggregate pensions don't
equal ours. one or n dozen primaries
wont help us. As long us we pay ont
n billion dollars per annum as against
sixty millions In 1850, neither gold or
silver or both viii save us from ulti-
mate bankruptcy Yet the voter In the
primary can't vote on this II Dudley
was going 10 submit only one question
Il should have been. Shall we abolish
an ollgarchy and go back to the Demo-
cracy of our fathorsT
"Or he may have shaped It thus:
Shall the people rule by honest. eco.
atlons with powers of government dele
gated to themT While the average
mud-sill Democrat has been sailed
down politically more than once. he
may yet he susceptible to having a
little political salt put on his tail but
It must come from deeper sea water.
Going into this one Issue primary
would bind man to support every
thing else those delegates might agree
on and thereby ratlfy all the extrnva-
Eanee and acknowledgement OF public
AFFAIRS When we had two years ago
shoy largo GS n majority nays In free Ssns scs'
age bill and certainly 1t was as
important then as now, and the Demo.
cratic majority was larger than II ever
VIII be again. This fact and the fact
that the national platform will be one
way and the Texas platform the other
and men be bound by the primary to
support both IL Ike the prescription OF
the young doctor. The ambitious
Young doctor was called In to see a
Dutchmnn who had cholera. He left
q prescription and told the mans wife
70 give the medicine every two hours.
When he returned next morning the
woman. I knew that medicine would
bring him out all right She replied,
But, doctor, there Is your medicine; he
would not touch II and sent me out for
lngor beer and sauer kraut and eat ana
drank heavily The young doctor
Thought he had struck medical bo-
nanza and he took out hls prescription
book and wrote, in cholera cases give
plenty OF lager beer and sour kraut.
for 1t is a sure cure The next day he
was called to see an Irlshman who hnd
the cholera and he prescribed plenty
OF lager beer and sour kraut. When
he returned the following morning he
found Pat dead, although the pre-
seription had been strictly followed.
He took out his medical memoranda
and wrote, In cholera cases lager beer
and sour kraut Is sure cure for
nutchn on but sure death to Irishmen'
The sure cure primary In Texas win
be sure death In Washington and Chi