The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 19, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 7, 1896 Page: 4 of 16
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ONE DOLLAR A YEAR.
—PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY-
SOUTHERN ¡MERCURY PUB. CO.
MILTON PARK,
MANAGING EDITOR ANO GEffL MGR.
TXXA8 POPULIST STATE PAPXE
and
•Ml Journal Farmers' State Alliance of Texas
can hold his own on the stump, or in a
street corner argument with any
democrat.
Wherever there is a vote to be
bought this fall, the democrats will
buy it; «wherever they can count out
the populists without having a coro-
ner's inquest* they will do it; but the
voters of the people's party will main-
tain their rights.
Entered at the Dalian, Texas, post office as
tall matter of the second class.
Ofllee, 191 Vain St., Opposite Trust Building.
HOT SHOT.
Mercury Special Edition-Brimming Full
of Argument.
CONTENTS.
Senator Tillman's Pitch-fork Speech.
Every one should read this Roaring
Roaster of political rascality,
The Swamp Fox of Nayarro roasts
Reagan for his retreat. Don't fail
to read it.
Major W. M. Walton worries the
Kailroad Commissioner and touches
free silver. Full of bristles
Hon. Jerome C. Kearby roast* Reagan
and fries all the fat out of him.
This article does old man Reagan
up to the queen's taste.
Hon. 0. H. Jenkins treats on govern-
ment ownership of railroads. A
very interesting address.
Barney's Bugle Blasts knock the wind
out of the g. o. p., and leaves the
81e eaters dead and dying on the
eNU Don't miss it.
Hon. Barnett Gibbs has a second blow
at the pie eaters. Also his sixth
shot which is hot shot a and no mis-
take.
Falls in Line. Barney's last article
In which he lines up with the peo-
ple party and declares his eternal
' hostilities to the old party. This is
a clincher.
In. Jerome C. Kearby's speeoh at the
lell County Fair. Recognized as
the best presentation of the money
question ever delivered. This is a
speech for everybody.
Also, Hon. Barnett Gibbs on free sil-
ver, bonds, direct vote, &c. This is
the greatest political document ever
issued, It is red hot and hooped
with barbed wire.
This double extracted essence of
political argument will be sent to one
address singly or in quantities at the
following rates: Single copies 5c;
93.50 per 100; 500 copies or more, 3cts
each; 50c per dozen.
The reformer who sulks in his tent
now is doomed.
Dallas ought to manufacture more
cotton and compress less,
|f populism does not mean honest
politics, then it is a sham.
Jf a friepd of the common people,
stand up for the people's rights.
Creating wealth for the other fel-
lows is going to pease one of these
4ay8 "
The only honest measure of value
is the labor necessary to produce the
valued article.
The men who tacked the peoples
fiarty onto the hind end of the po-
itical procession digged their own
political graves.
If the people's party had only been
."turned loose" in Texas, the state
would have been swept like a cy-
jclone.
. The last Nicaraguan rebellion is
¡reported as ended. There are so
any rebellions down in that* coun-
that it is difficult to tell when
begins or ends
U. S. Hall the brawny bully from
Missouri, knocked the stuffin' out of
his gold bug brother, Wm> Money, [of
Mississippi, in an altercation in the
big-house in Washington last week.
Now if Tillman will tackle John Sher-
man) and mop up the capital floor with
him, the country will vote him a
leather medal*
Senator Teller has recently intro-
duced a bill that is calculated to re-
lieve the congestion of money in New
York, when the balance of the coun-
try is suffering a money famine. Sen-
ator Teller's bill provides for the re-
tention of the bank resources in the
vaults of the bank, instéad of sending
It to New York, as provided now.
There are some populists who view
with suspicion every new man who
joins the party* and especially if he is
an able man. How can the party ever
do the people any good if it doesn't
grow ? We ought to make every con-
vert we can, and wrest the govern-
ment from the cootrol of the ring
democrats. We have no time to quar-
rel or bicker among ourselves, for
there is herculean work to be done.
Among the many products of demo-
cratic and republican rule may be
enumerated 35,000 millionaires, 150,-
000 anarchists, 300,000 prostitutes,
3,000,000]tramps, 500,000 inebriates and
300,000 criminals already convicted
and nearly as many more skulking or
in jails awaiting trial. If this condi-
tion in a country like ours is not a
disgrace to civilization, it is because
it can't fall any lower.
Hardy is going tor the bimetallic
democrats, in great style, and will
take their hair off. Why don't they
ask for a division of time, if they have
any claim to be democrats? They
know they have no platform, nor right
to call themselves democrats! They
are trying to steal our platfiorm
plank, or rather half of one plank,
and make a whole political issue out
of it,
Populists should upon every proper
occasion show up the present iniquit-
iou8 democratic fee system, as well as
the extravagance practiced in our
state and national affairs. Some may
not be able to dissect national and
state extravagance, but all can see
the iniquity of paying county officers
from four thousand to twenty thou-
sand a year these hard times.
The associated press dispatches and
the Silver Knight tried to make it
appear that the Kansas populists fa-
vored trimming the Omaha platform.
Kansas populist papers and the most
trusted* members of the party unani-
mously repudiate these reports. Many
delegates write the Mercury "Texas
can count on Kansas standing' shoul-
der to shoulder with them for the
Omaha platform "at St. Louis". The
same encouraging news comes from
Oregon. Colorado and Iowa. In fact
same reporte come from every south
em state.
-
"Give us a look at the books 1" The
same men have kept them for twenty-
five years, and who knows how much
of the school fundtand other public
money is in the treasury vaults ?
Demo rats, republicans and populists
are interested in having some one else
count that money and.look at those
books! Not only the same party but
the same men have manipulated the
treasury these many years.
Political cowardice consists in try-
ing to harmonize and blend truth
with error, correct principles with
"get there" political methods. The
Omaha platform means either sound
or unsound principles of government.
If there is an unsound principle in
that instrument none of its enemies
have been able to show it. If it has
withstood the attack of its enemies
for four years, why should we desert
it now ? Will any one deny "that it
would be sheer cowardice to do so ?
If the populists will stand up for
their principles and shoot it into the
democratic record the victory is ours.
Don't be cowed if you are the only
populist 'in your community. Fire
into the democrats and they will plead
guilty. Ridicule them on tlieir ex-
travagant and aristocratic funeral
expenses and eulogy funds, including
their private secretar} steal. You
can soon have honest democrats with
you in a fight against them. Fear
not and put ni the harpoon!
When the democrats refer to the
populist results in the they should
remember that they themselves
never elected but one democratic
governor in either Kansas or Colo-
rado, and then by the help of
the despised populists or greenback-
ers. These democrats should also re-
member that the democratic state
treasurers in Kentucky, Arkansas,
Tennessee, Louisiana and Mississippi
all ran off with all the public money.
Dare them to defend their infamous
record!
Populists can be fooled any more by
democrats, who are paid so much
ahead to fool people by ingenious
speeches. The record of the demo-
cratic party is extravagant, aristo-
cratic, and deceitful> and the common
people know it. Where there are as
many as five populists in a neighbor-
hood, they should organize a club, and
get a crowd together. If none of
them can make a speech, they should
appoint the best reader in their list
to read aloud for the club, a^d discuss
the points of the articles in the differ-
ent reform weeklies. In this way an
interesting evening can be secured,
and much reliable information ob-
tained. Don't fail to have a standing
invitation to the whole neighborhood.
Our German contemporary is being
used to persuade the German voters
that if they don't go into the I6th of
May democratic primaries they will
not be able to vote for the man of
their choice at next fall election.
These articles are skilfully worded to
deceive. The facts are simply that
all who enter the democratic 16th of
May primaries obligate themselves to
vote for the nominee whether he is
the man of their choice or not. On
the other hand the people's party ref-
erendum primarle demand no such
pledges. The people's party relies
upon the manhood and independence
of the peoole &lpne for et
be short on candidates for president
this year, no one being willing to
make the run, the Mercury comes to
the relief of the party in distress, and
suggests the name of John Sherman.
Sherman wants to be president, and
as he has failed to secure a nomina-
tion from the republican party, he
might try the democrats. In fact
John Sherman is as logical a Candi-
date as Grover Cleveland.
The Mercury is here to expose the
record of the old political parties, and
to defend the principles of the peoples
party against all comers. It will
neither malign nor defend individual
positions, nor motives, nor be led into
personal controversies it will discuss
the policies of our own, and of other
political parties. Its aim is to see the
party successful, fi^st in Texas, then
in the nation. Success and a good
state government in Texas, means a
rapid growth of populism throughout
the Union.
With a little campaign literature
and some encouragement, the popu-
lists can in four Saturday night meet-
ings develop a speaker in every school
house in Texas. They can soonhave a
good county populist paper by refusing
to patronize merchants who don't ad-
vertise in the people's party paper.
They can also capture the county
offices by unity and work, but they
must stick close and work hard to
down the campaign fund and fraud*
There aire some republicans* espec
ially among the leaders, who will sell
out to the democrats, but there are a
great many who will not. In each lo-
cality the populists are the sole judges
as to what is best to be done to carry
a county, and to add votes to the pop-
ulist state and congressional ticket.
The democrats are slick, even to the
extent of sending colored delegates
to their county convention in one lo-
cality, and then cursing out niggers
in other localities to eaten white
votes.
If there are but a few populists in a
county, they may carry It by a little
energetic work In pressing the fee
system question, and official combi-
nation. Whatever the leaders may
want to do, the masses of the republi-
cans, as well as the laboring people,
are not in the dicker with the Austin
gang. These men are disposed to
vote with the people's party in county
matters so as to get a look at the
books. Go right now and hunt up
these people and the independent
democrats.
Congress is appropriating millions
of money for the Navy and for coast
defense, and yet no provision is made
to place the money in the hands of
the government to meet these enor-
mous expenditures. The appropria-
tion for the Navy is $31,000,000 and
for coast defense $11,384,000, tne larg-
est appropriation ever made for that
purpose." These liberal appropria-
tions are made with the knowledge
that there will be' a deficiency this
year of over $20,000,000 for ordinary
expenses. This is the sound money
policy that is prevailing. The only
way to meet these expenses is to incur
more debt and bond future genera-
tions still heavier. If the people are
not slaves or fools they will put their
veto on a party that submits its claims
to popular suffrage with such a record
of wrecfclese extravagance.
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Park, Milton. The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 19, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 7, 1896, newspaper, May 7, 1896; Dallas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth185658/m1/4/: accessed May 22, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .