The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1906-10-22
CAUSE OF PROSPERITY
Hon. John B. htCrds Attributes The Good
Tines TO The Republican Party.

Hon. Jno. u. McCraw Of Dallas "a
republican Of the tribe of Lyon, made
a speech ut the courthouse Saturday
afternoon 20 a few Of the faithful pie
counter crowd He didn't get clio
queut and shatter the windows or
bulge the walls of that staid old
structure, but talked to them Ia
fatherly way something after the
fashion OF a general agent Of a pub
fishing house teaching the racket 10
a new set OF book agents He said
the fundamental principles OF the re-
publican party began before our gov
ernment was ever heard of, but that
the party was started under an apple
tree somewhere in Michigan in 1857.
He said the republican party was the
cause of the present good times,
didn't give God Almighty any OF the
credit at all, and spoke Of the hard
times from 1856 to 1896. when cot
ton brought cents a pound, and
wool | y cents pound. said hides
We're allowed 10 dry up and blow
away. nobody had a job, the tramp
was in the land, and that the demo
cratic party was responsible for all
this and didn't know enough TO run
a shooting gallery. He said that the
navigation of the Trinity had lower
ed freight rates, when anybody knows
the Trinity is not navigated and never
will be because God Almighty didn't
put enough water in it, and the whole
thing Is Il government steal. He said
our state courts We're farce and that
trials held in them were a game of
chance; but said nothing of the fed
eral courts and their government by
injunction, every one of which are re-
publican. He said he believed in eX-
empting factories from taxation for
a number of years and advocated sub
sidiZing railroads, then gave Texas
thunder for granting lands to rail
roads, when anybody knows it was
all we had to give, for at the time
we had no money. He set up the
northwestern states as EldoradOS and
pictured Texas as a miniature hell;
he lambasted our public school sys-
TEN and said our public roads were
impossible and a shame to civiliza-
ton. He gave the republican party
credit for the rural routes when any
school boy knows that 1t is populist
creation first advocated by Thomas
| f. Watson of Georgia He admitted
/ Hayes stealing the presidency then
paid his respects to Cleveland, Bryan,
Parker and Hearst, then claimed the
glory of the Spanish-American wal
which the democrats forced the re
publicans into. He then paid tribut'
to the South by telling of what al
empire she had built up since the
war, but skipped the carpet baggei
"a bnrrnJ. nf
ton, and failed to mention the fact
/ that every leader the South ever had
! had been a democrat. He took a
| fling at State Treasurer Robbins and
/ John II. Kirby and that penitentiary
/ fellow. Busby. He whaled the epilep-
/ tic asylum and its management, the
I A. & Nj. College and that bank affair,
I the health department and its alb
sconding chief, and castigated in the
most scathing terms, Gov. Lanham
/ because he has one of his sons Tor
4 his private secretary. He said we
had more trusts in Texas right under
our noses than New Jersey has. He
/ mentioned the patent medicine trust,
I the coal trust the lumber trust, the
milk trust. the coffin trust, and the
doctor and baby trust He said the
doctor and baby trust was the worst
. of all. that the doctors formerly
charged $l5 for officiating at the
homecoming of @ baby. while now
/ they charge So. He says this trust
will have TO Dee busted or We Will
have 10 go out OF the baby business.
lie passed up the Bailey tJlk ds q
family affair To be- settled among the
democrats. and Jbeu he quit ANA
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