The Texas Miner, Volume 1, Number 35, September 15, 1894 Page: 4
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THE TEXAS MINER.
THE TEXAS MINER.
WALTER B. McAOAMS, EDtTOH.
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Entered at the Post-Oftice in Thurber, Texas, as Second-Ciass Mail Matter.
THURBER, TEXAS, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1894.
THE DEMOCRATS S!TUAT!ON !N TEXAS.
' j ^HE Democraric party in Texas, foHowing blindly the lead of
J[ Grover Cleveland, have placed themselves squarely upon a
monometal goldbug platform, and straight on a line with Wall
street, New York city, and Lombard street, London, and that
means in direct opposition to the interests of fully 99 per cent, of
Texas Democrats, for the creditor portion of the party in this
state is an extremely small percentage of the Democratic whole.
This blister, that was so blandly placed on the platform, begins
to ' draw," and is making old-time Democrats squirm. The
Dallas News of Monday gives several indications that are verv
significant. In large type headlines it says, "Democrats handicapped
by the want of harmony on the silver question," and in a full column,
from which we copy a portion, states the ticklish situation:
One of the Lovs from the forks said to the News correspond-
ent:
"When you ;ee a man like Mills, an old man in politics,
stumping the state and wildly exerting himself, it is proof conclu-
sive that the Populists are in the fight and that the Democrats do
not feel as secure as they did in the days of yore."
The truth is. the Democrats do not feel any too easy over the
outlook, as was developed during the meeting of the state execu-
tive committee held in this city Saturday. There is no getting
away from the fact that in some of the Congressional districts
they will go in by the skin of their teeth if they win at all.
There seems to be a certain amount of dissension and dissat-
isfaction in the Democratic ranks. The division on the silver
question, too, is a source of constant annoyance to them on
whom it devolves to carry the party to success. In spite of the
clear-cut declaration of the Democracy at Dallas on the financial
question, the remarkable anomaly is presented of a number of
patriots advocating the same ticket and at the same time stand-
ing as far apart as the poles on finance. While Colonel Mills,
disinterested so far as any race of his own is concerned in cam-
paigning the state, is standing on the national and state Demo-
cratic platforms and making his whole fight against free and un
limited coinage, Governor Hogg, in spite of his acceptance of
the platform at Dallas, is half way apologizing for that platform
and damning it with faint praises.
Then there is Horace Chilton as a Democratic candidate for a
national honor. He continues to repudiate the Dallas declara-
tion by clamoring for a 16 to 1 ratio and thereby places himself
and the Democratic nominees for state offices in an awkward po-
sition and somewhat at the mercy of Populist speakers, who are
daily taunting them about being off their platform, an allegation
which they cannot successfully deny.
To quote a Cleveland Democrat who has diagnosed the situ-
ation: "It is this division in the Democratic ranks on the silver
question, and not the Populists, that causes Senator Mills to make
a vigorous canvass, and that cause is responsible for his anxiety.
Some of the Democrats themselves, by their mania for silver, are
knifing us far more than the opposition, and will injure the party
more in the same length of time than ten times the Populists we
have in Texas."
J. H. Williams of Ennis, in a communication headed. "Are
Platforms Binding?" says:
Now we have Judge Reagan and Walter Blake telling the peo-
ple that a Democrat in Texas can still advocate the free and un-
limited coinage of silver at 16 to 1 without violating the state !
and national Democratic platforms, when it was squarely voted
down in each.
My humble opinion is that no Democrat in Texas is under any
obligation to vote tor any man claiming to be a Democrat who
thus opposes the state platform for Congress or any other ofifice,
even though a nominee, and that no Democratic member of the
next Legislature is bound by his instructors to vote for any man
for the United States Senate who opposes or is not honestly and
squarely in line with the unanimous platform of the Democracy
of Texas. It appears to me that these men are the worst ene-
mies of Democracy.
Again the News, in an answer to a correspondent, says:
The News has a note from Mr. Tom J. James of Dallas in
which the writer calls attention to a radical difference of political
opinion between the News and some one of its employes. The
News does not require its employes to think this way or that way
on political or religious questions. It is the effieient and loyal
serviee of the man and not his personal opinions with which A.
H. Belo & Co. are concerned.
These straws are flying around very lively in the political wind,
and the wire pullers of the party who engineered the scheme of
placing the Democratic party of Texas upon a goldbug platform
are now fearing they will be "hoist by their own petard." The
time has gone by when Democrats can be driven against their
own interests because some shrewd manipulator in the conven-
tion succeeded in placing planks in the platform antagonistic to
the material interests of the state, th$ interests of the partv and
the individual interest of nearly every Democrat in the state, and
then expect the voters to go it blind." The present outlook is
that that little plank that Hon. George Clark interpolated into
the state platform has given the Populists a chance of carrying
the state bv a round majority.
MtLES 0'BR!EN ON DEMOCRATIC F!NANC!ER!NG.
4 4
Democrats know how to run a great Government," I
W said to Miles O'Brien. who was laving Tammany pave-
ment in front of niv house yesterday.
"An' yez thinks so, sur? An' moight I be after axen vez a
question about how yer dooin' it?" said Miles, leaning; 011 his
pick.
"Yes; ask away "I said.
"Well snr how much gold did the Dimocrats find in the Tris-
ury when ye/ :00k the Government?"
"We had $108,000 000 Miles."
"Oon hunderd and ate million—and how much did vez put in
by sellin' bonds?"
"Why, $58 000 003 Miles, and the $ to,000 000 transferred to
the Treasury last month by the New York bankers makes $68,-
000 000. "
' So vez Dimocrats hev had $176,000,000 in gold?"
"Yes."
"And how much hnz yez got now?"
"Oh about $54,000 000."
"And yev run behind $122,000000 in a year and a half?
Wall, wall; an' begorry sor. it's a moighty sthrong Governmint
that can sthand the likes o' that fer four year. Oi'rn glad yez
knows how to do it. Old Oirland couldn't do the like o' that.
Carlisle bates St. Patrick and the snakes. And in about siventv
days longer," continued Miles, as he took up his pick, "the Dim-
ocrats will be runnin' a Governmint with ate hundred millions of
paper greenbacks and not a sintof gold under 'em at all, at all.
They do bate all—these f)imocrats." Etj PERKINS.
GROVER CLEVELAND allowed the new tariff bill to become a
law. It means that $12,000,000 each year on sugar shall be
taken from our people, so that foreign manufacturers can have
their satins, silks and gew-gaws, that only the rich buy, come in
at a lower price. Great is tariff reform—free diamonds, taxed
sugar.
FRANK B. LEONARD, an English archaeologist, has been among
the buried cities and rums in Chiapas. Mexico. He discovered
a hidden city in the wilds of one of the southern districts of that
remote region. He says the city had a population of fully 500,-
000 people at the time Qf its destruction. The streets are as
broad and the buildings as large and of as handsome architecture
as anv now to be found in Mexico.
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McAdams, Walter B. The Texas Miner, Volume 1, Number 35, September 15, 1894, newspaper, September 15, 1894; Thurber, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth200482/m1/4/: accessed April 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Tarleton State University.