The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-02-03
To an Anxiousiy AWAITING Public:

failing, II not refusing. to put fortl
platforms, and those who win not un
der any circumstances become candi
dates (having been sufficiently bon
ored) are promulgating them; and
Whereas, belong to the latter
class, have sawed out, tackled to.
gether and announce the follow plat
form OF principles
1. Every candidate shall be requires
to furnish himself with at least three
speeches, one OF which shall be . con-
federate speech, and one devoted
solely to the octopi and how to exter-
inmate 'em. @
2. In order that they may be more
! honored In the observance than in the
breach, all State democratic platforms
shall here-aft be understood as neg
stiving that which they affirm, and
affirming that which they negative,
and shall be accordingly strictly fol-
lowed in ali executive and legislative
action.
3. That the Texas antitrust law,
having exhausted the possibilities of
the English language in the effort TO
define aud destroy trusts of every
character and hue, and having failed
OF its object IN certain notable instan-
ces because of the limitations of said
language-a comittee of three pro-
fessors of dead and foreign langua ages
be appointed from the university and
high schools of the state to select a
language OF greater scope and elias
ITCHY than the English, in which
selected language an anti trust law
shall be drawn and enacted, which
will effect the object intended.
4 Every corporation caught viola
ting the law shall be compelled under
heavy penalties, to get from the sec
rotary OF state, and to wear, new
suit of clothes to cost not less than
$500.
As the law now stands, this IL only
permissible.
s. In proper conformity to the con-
stitution the price of crude oil I. o. b.
at the wells shall, by Law, be perma-
nently fixed at maximum Of 20 cents
per forty two gallon barrel, and the
price OF cotton at minimum, on the
wagon, of So cents per pound, and all
graded as strict middling
Lobbying under the following
regulations shall be legslized:
q, No lobbyist shall talk to a legis-
lator separately, or privily and apart,
or write him any letter not addressed
and to be read, to both houses sssem-
bled.
b, He, or she, as the case may be,
shall address the houses. and bring to
bear his or her influence, only upon
each house assembled, aud from a
chair or some other improvised ros.
trum IN the middle aisle; and the
houses shall devote one hour, before
or after adjournment, each day to
hearing him.
C. he shall in no case have access
to the committee rooms during or
just before, or just after, sessions Of
the committees, and shall be especially
for hidden to eat, drink, sleep, play
poker or attend theaters with mem
Der or members.
T. 1t shall not be unlawful for a rail
road to present legislators, judges or
other officers with free passes; pro-
vided however that that any judge
holding any such pass or passes shall
cause true copies OF same to be made
and certified by him, which shall be
framed together, face outwards, and
hung in prominent place in his court
room, facing the jury box and the bar.
Legislators shall, in like manner, GER
tify and affix to the inside of the walls
of their respective legislative houses
copies of all passes held by them,
provided that IL there not be sufficient
room on said walls for all OF same
they may affix the exc ess to the inside
walls of the Capitol rotunda.
s. Believing that publicity, as pro
vided for in the seventh plank, is ths
sovereign remedy for most evils nov
extant, and that the constitutions
right of the people to keep and bea
arms i > valuable one, also favor {
law making it felony to carry pts
TOT less that four feet in length.
9. In view OF the fact that the rail
road commission, every year, Judi
cialy passes upon Interests far great
err in value than all passed upon by al
our courts in the same period, Their,
should be provided an officer to b.
styled the general attorney, In contra
distinction to the attorney general
who shall be frst-cla lawyer, and
by experience, familiar with tn,
mysteries and intricaeies of rate max
lug, differentials, @. L. r., L. c. l.
long and short hauls, blanket rates
etc, as well as with the wiles of traf
| fic managers. This officer to be Sc