The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-05-31
NEW ERA IN DEMOCRACY
DECLARE THE LEADERS
Result of Convention at Houston
Marks New Epoch in Texas Pol
itics-PIatform Clear Cut.

ling expressions regarding TIE out
come of the convention have been
made by men prominent in its pro
: ceedings:
Cullen f. Thomas-The platform
as a whole is clear cut and compre-
: hensive. 1t is progressive in tina,
2 it reaffirms faith in the rule of the
= people, that it holds every public
officer, high or low, responsible to
the win of the people; that it re
, quires that every public servant
l who eats the bread of the people
! shall eat their bread only
I II demands that all trusts, big or
little, claiming to be good, be de-
stroyed as bad.
1t sends message of hope to the
laborfng people everywhere.
; On the tariff it repudiates the
false faith held by part of the
party in Texas for protection for
raw materials and reaffirms the an
cient Democratic doctrine that in
raising revenue for the conduct of
the government our representatives
shall turn a deaf ear to the appeal
of special interest for a share in
/ the spoils, but shall hear the great
cry of the consumers of the land
for relief from the excessive cost oil
I living
While the majority was in a6so-
Lutte control of the proceedings of
the convention, the efforts of the
officers was to give to every dele
gate representing the minority fair
recognition and a full hearing.
The personnel of the delegates
selected to voice the sentiments OF
Texas Democracy at Baltimore is !
made up of the ablest and most pa
trotic representatives of the party. |
Their influence will be felt in the |
national councils The forty votes
of Texas. the banner Democratic |
state of the Union, will give marked
impetus to the candidacy of Wood
row Wilson. Whatever the influ-
ence of the recent contest on nat
ional matters, the result marks a
new epoch in the politics of Texas.
Ex-Governor Tom Campbell-The
whole proposition speaks for itself |
platform, convention and all |
Nothing I could say could add any
weight
Jonathan Lane-This was the
most arbitrary majority, in my
jurgment, that ever controlled
convention of which l was a member
\ and 1 have been a member of every
Democratic state convention in
, Texas since 1882
The men who controlled the ac-
lions of this convention seemed to
have a special resentment against
leading Democrats of the state who,
in past years. with few exceptions,
exercised control. The resentment
of the leaders seemed to be directed
particularly against their own con,
stituents who heretofore had not
seen fit to place them in control Of
the vote of their localities
The platform as adopted is, in
my judgment, extremely radical in
4 cooperating nearly all of the de-
mands of the Populists as they wrote
them into their Omaha platform.
The latter part of the fifth plank
as presented by the majority, ana
even after amendment In Difference
to the protest of the minority re-
port, invites the federal govern
ment to take control of all the in
terstate transportation lines in the
United States and of all industrial
and financial or trading corpora
tions. If adopted an denforced this
would result in rigid control by
a federal tribunal of the commerce
of the country.
The ruling spirits of the conven-
ton lacked courage to make a bold
and frank expression upon either
the tariff or the initiative, referen.
dunn and recall, but flagrantly avoid
ed these issues and adopted subter-
fuges. The result ought to be to
discredit the leadership of the con-
> vention with the sober, intelligent
. and conservative Democrats of the
state
The convention took special pains
to offer affront to the two leading
newspapers Of the state which have
d been fighting through many years
: the battles Of the Democratic party
, especially the Houston Post. The
. Influential delegates to the conyen.
tion seemed TO make particular eff
forts to humiliate Colonel r. NJ
Johnston who has spent almos 9
Lifetime in The aid Of Democracy by