The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-04-29

gers that threaten their state and
their fellow citizens, have, without
money and without price, endeavor-
ed to enlighten the people as to the
real facts at issue. And supporting
these is to be found in solid phalanx
an incorruptible citizenship, an ar
my of patriots fighting for their
state and their states honor, a nigh
ty moving power of men who
through all the trying years of party
history have stood as leaders of that
democracy which pleads for a gov
eminent of the people, for the peo-
pie and by the people, men who
stand for right for rights sake and
with whom honor is better than gold.
Men whose blood has helped to bap-
tie the independence of the Lone
Star state, battle-scarred heroes OF
a lost but revered cause, living enun-
Citations of departed commonwealth
these are raising their voices in APP
this great battle for the honor of
Texas. They call us traitors, con-
scripts, deserters, hyenas, liars and
scoundrels, but such denunciations
coming from some sources are resolv-
ed into compliments and to have been
associated with such will in time be
Of Or
honors They may curse and abuse
US, but insult and abuse has ever
been the price of liberty-to throw
off the yokes of tyranny always calls
for the best that is in man.
1t is in times like these, when SER
ious dangers threaten the well-being
of loved state or great nation, that
patriotism is born. 1t is such condi-
tons as now exist that appeal to all
good men to come to the aid of their
party. And what is their party? A
party is that conveyance through
which the people, by their ballots.
seek expression and gain recognition
of those principles which they advo-
cate. What makes man democrat,
republican, prohibitionist, populist or
socialist? The issues that are raised,
the principles that are supported by
these opposing factions. What chan
ges a mans party fealty? Changing
conditions and new issues. What is
the arbiter of mans action? Mans
conscience. Who is the dictator of
mans conscience? God.
When a common foe strikes at the
very vitals of mans honor and in
tegrity and at the glory of our state,
it is time that the citizenship should
be cemented-time to unite for the
common good. Democracy now repre-
sents the agency that offers resistance
against the common foe, and all men
who are opposed to trust dominance
in Texas are entitled to become and
should become supporters of that
party's tickets A pledge is prescribed
for Saturdays primary, and every
man who is willing to subscribe to
that pledge, regardless of past party
affiliation, is entitled to vote in that
election.
Democracy is not a monopoly, and
no man has right, either legal or
moral, to question the honesty of
any other mans convictions. The
democratic party is not an organiza-
ton that seeks to exclude from its
membership any man who promises
faithfulness to it's nominees and OBJ
! ligates himself to fight for its princi-
pies. Pure democracy is of the peo-
pie. the fight now on is for the peo-
pie. Then let every man who believes
/ in the sacredness of single service.
and that service rendered fully by
the officer elected to the people who
have elected him, get out his poll tax
receipt and march to the ballot box
Saturday and vote his honest convic-
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