The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-10-29
HON. E. L. ANTONY wITHDRAws
AS Candidate for Congress in the Sew
enth District, in Favor of Pope.

Waco Tex, Oct. 24.-(Special.)-Thc
following address of Hon. Il. l.. Anto-
ny, the sound money democratic nominee
withdrawing in favor of DR.. Thos A.
Pope the republican nominee, was
handed to The Statesman reporter at
sound money headquarters today:
Cameron, Milan Co., Tex, Oct. 81
To the Citizens of the Seventh Congress
siOnal District-A careful consideration
of the political situation in all its envi-
ronments. clearly demonstrates to my
mind with peculiar force that with two
sound money candidates, DIR. Thos. A..
Pope and myself, before the people for
congress, it is impossible that the cause
we represent can succeed. 1t is of par
amount Importance, therefore, that one
of lis withdraw from the race
The essential. important, and l. may
say the paramount issues injected into
the campaign by the Chicago platform
are:
First-Thc money question; by propos-
ing the free and unlimited coinage OF
silver at the ratio of 16 of silver to L of
gold, involving the substitution of de-
preciatcd, tluctuating, unfXed and I'M
stable silver standard for our present
certain, fixed, stable and unchanglng
gold standard as measure of all values,
threatening certain destruction TO our ma
tonal honor and integrity, II total loss
of good morals and private honesty be-
tween man and man, us well rs financial
disruption of nearly all, if not all of our
industries and business enterprises, pro-
ducing general financial crash and panic
in which all will lose. be it more or less,
some of his values, if not all, which the
economy and industry of Il lifetime has
accumulated-prCm symptoms of
lockOutS, strikes, riots. mob violence. yea.
revolution and perhaps general an
archy.
Sccond-The declared purpose to de-
stroy the integrity, purity and efficiency
of the supreme court of the nation and
prostitute that great conservative force
in our government to the accomplish
ment of base partisan political ends by
reorganization of that court and the
appointment of new judges, whose fixed
opinions are already known to favor the
peculiar political tenet sought to be fixed
as constitutional in the jurisprudence of
the country-a mOnStrOuS proposition for
free. democratic people to advocate
one which must eventually destroy that
protection to life, liberty, property and
the pursuit of happiness so gloriously con-
tended for by our revolutionary sires in
their struggles against Great Britain,
and so superbly. sublimely set forth in
the declaration of independence by the
immortal Jefferson as the very corner
stone of free government.
Third-The denuncaton of the chief
executive of this nation. President Gro
| yer Cleveland. for doing his sworn duty
| and using the power granted him by law
| in suppressing riotous opposition to the
execution of the laws of the United
| -, 1 in, ,lnt, hnt
good order might be preserved in the
land and the rights of persons and prop
erty he protected and preserved and the
| functions of government for the general
| good he performed in the peaceful trans
| formation of the mails and merchandise
| of Interstate traffc-a power. which. if
not exercised by the president. whomso-
ever he be. will lie dormant, while con-
| fusion. chaos. riot dynamite. fire and
sword will rule the hour whenever the
Altgelds are governors of states. This
ment.
Fourth-The declaration OF, pur.
pose to abrdgc the right of
contract. when there is no grant
of power in our constitution to
congress which can under any circum-
stances be construed to mean that con-
greSs may legiSate on such subject.
1t is wholly police power belonging ex-
cluSively 10 the state legislatures. Be
sides. it has never heretofore been adj
vocated by true democracy or true re-
publicauiSm. In free government it is
a hereSy of the worst kind. most foul
and ubiquitous assault on the freedom of
trade. and should not he tolerated one
moment
These are. in my Judgment. the essen
tial and dominant issues of the campaign.
though l conceive the whole declaration
of the Chicago platform To be vicious
and undemocratic. On these essential
issues my republican opponent for con-
greSS. DR.. Thomas y. Pope. is as sound
as am. He is gentleman. consistent
republican. good citizen. and an honest.
intelligent man of superior ability and
highly respected ut home by all who
know him, though not an orator. and will
make a most excellent representative.
He is. with the republican party. Il
friend of the protective tariff, but at
present that issue amounts to nothing.
With an annual deficit in revenue. of
course the tariff tax must be increased