Year: 1878




Evidence is coming to the Waco Es>
am,asr every day that strong reaction
is in progress among the people. They
are preparing to shake of the tram
mels of slavery" whatever that may be.
But 1t is evident that the paper named
means party organization. Now as there
is practically but one party in Texas.
and that the democratic, are we to in
fer that the Erdmiaer is tired of paying
allegiance to the democracy, whose de-
voted henchman it has been for so
many long years OF most honorable ser
YiceY 20 Liberty. how many atrocities
are committed in thy name. said fair
daughter of France when the knife OF
the guillotine cleaned before her eyes.
How many heresies are taught in the
naIae OF the ballot box--heresies WHICH
affect and fatally weaken the force OF
the elective franchise itself--by people
who are necessarily crying that its
voice is stified by the party men who
hold TO decency and order even in con-
ducting a popular election. The Erass-
iasr has discovered that rural voters are
determined TO vote their own ticket.
In this that papers information and
ours coincide, but we arrive at totally
different conclusions from the same
premises. The masses of the people OF
Texas, rural and otherwise, are demo-
Gratis in sentiment. in principle and by
practice, aad no man can or has ever
held Office except by and with their full
and free consent. Their own ticket
will be the ticket their own delegates
to the state convention, instructed by
themselves, shall choose.


The Eramine-s position is that all
political parties should disintegrste and
that political chaos is safer than order
and organization. What u heaven this
state of things would be for the reck,
less demsgogae who could talk longer
and louder than his fellows. How lit
tie voice would the people really have
in the choice. Msjorities would be OF
no force and effect, and strength would
be frittered away in thousand and one
weak divisions, but if majority did
combine, that fact would mark return
to the hated chains of slavery" which
the Eraminer now finds is so CALLING to
| the rural voter.r What great plots
have hitherto defeated the will of the
people. Does the Eraafasr mean to
teach that Coke. who was first govern,
or by sixty thousand. then again by one
hundred thousand majority and finally
senator, tricked the people out of a
popui ar verdict overwhelmingly hostile
to him2 And is it true that the Er-
anatner prominently lead in this vile
tricksry, and is now in sackcloth and
ashes bewailing its sins. and offering
propitiatory sacrifice to the offended
deity it so glibly dubs rural voters 2
It'll a rural rooster" growing sadly al
discord with the vast majority of the
voters of state which is scarcely les:
proud of its colossal democratic majority
than of its empireslike proportions and
the magnitude OF its every feature.
/ The Erug,ieer "knows there is wide.
spread tendency to eschew any candi'
date whose claims are pressed too per
sistently." How nicely has the paper
reduced the matter and how easily i
can determine the exact line passeC
l when too" comes in. This demagogica
appeal to the people to cut loose frou
he good old democratic faith and prac
tice, to follow after man simply becaus,
he has rural blood in his veing, ant
has failed signsiiy to climb up through
the grange into a democratic nomina.
ting convention. How often party tie
become irksome to US, when that part,
fails to find in US political virtues of sui
ficient magnitude to entitle US to it
consideration


/ Now We are among those who be
lieve. that in the future as in the past
! the political salvation of the nation is t
be worked out under democratic theo
ries. or We drift helplessly y into the vor
tex, upon whose brink the nation ha
stood pale and trembling for ffteeny ear,
of Capitalization and money power
Let no true patriot seek to weaken tn



, only power which interposes betweel
the people and this power of money
held and welded by the very men VIII


hate democratic organization fully .


bitterly as they doits theories aud pra'
tice.