The Weatherford Enquirer. (Weatherford, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 6, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 14, 1892 Page: 1 of 8
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THE WEATHERFORD ENQUIRER
VOL XII.—NO. 6.
WEATHERFOED. TEXAS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 14 1892.
Successor to Sun-Oonstitution.
COL DLLS TALKS.
Hi PMUm Oi sorer Ctotrly De-
fied.
IE FAVORS FREE COINAGE.
But Thinks That the Tariff Should
Take Precedence in the Com-
ing Presidential Con-
test.
1 YESTERI MM FOR PRESIDEN
la His Opinion, Should be Placed at the Head
of The Ticket—Who Are
Democrats.
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Dalla* Nawa.
Cobsicana, Tex. 0.—The name of
Roger Q. Mills is one that always
awakens profound interest in Texas.
In 1888, when Henry W. Grady made
one of the three great speeches of his
life, there were 10,000 people to
applaud him. When he hinted at
the division of Texas, for political
purposes, it fell flat. F illowing this,
he Jumped to the tariff issue and
ottered the words: - "The lion of the
tribe of Judah, Roger Q. Mills."
The scene that followed will never be
forgotton,for 10,000 people can make
a great deal of noise when they feel
like it. It was an all-Texas crowd,
and showed that Mills was strong
with the people. The people have
had occasion to think a great deal
about Col. Mills lately. The remark-
able speakership contest in which he
was ev« n a more prominent figure
than the successful candidate,, his
defeat, and following defeat, his
serious Illness ami reports of his
death, have each kept up a lively In-
terest in this one Texan, and theo,
his candidacy for the senate, too,
makes it saferto say that no one man
the miqds oi
ins so thoroughly as has Roger Q.
Mills.
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When It was announced last Mon-
day morning that Col. Mills had left
Washington on a visit to his home,
his friends at home were delighted
that they could see him ag*in. Wed-
nesday morning he arrived and at
once went to the Commercial hotel.
It was very easy to see that he had
been a very sick man, although he is
recovering rapidly now. Rest is all
he needs and he will soon be the same
Roger Q. Mills, as of yore—ready to
resume his duties in congress.
A visit to Col. Mills is all that is
sufficient to see that the widespread
and ridiculous stories of his "sulking"
are lies which honorable enemies
oould easily dispense with, now that
the speaker is elected and the com-
mittees appointed If some of the
colonel's democratic enemies are
gloating over the expectation that he
Is mad and will sit in his seat and do
and say nothing, they will find that
they were never more mistaken in
their lives. There is a great deal for
him todo, and he will act with his
old-time vigor when the time comes;
and when Mr. Springer's tariff pellets
are reported from the ways and means
committee, Col. Mills will be on hand
to tack on amendments that the
party wants to see adopted. This
will be done in no captious spirit but
almply as a high sense of public duty
directs.
Col. Mills is entirely free from
vindictiveness as far as the result of
the speakership Is concerned. He
accepted his defeat as gracefully as
the grip would permit, and there has
peen no «ulking about him, although
those that have been there will agree
that a severe case of grip is enough to
make anybody sulk. But he is not
blaming the democratic party for any-
thing. It is true he has a superb
oontempt for the open trading of men
like cattle which was indulged in
freeljr to secure his defeat, and he
tells that his honorable defeat, free
from trading on his side, is preferable
to success obtained in any other way,
and he feels that It was a greater
honor to get the 105 votes that hegot
than to have been nominated by the
119 that were cast against him.
is'about it
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reporter called on
not te a mood (or
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talking. He simply said: "I do not
feel that I should say anything at
this time. I am very weak and have
come home to rest and get well." My
visit home has no significance at all.
I am Just anxious to regain my
strength."
This was not an encouraging start
for an interview. Col. Mills was
thinking more of hunting and driving
than anything else, and he soon got
in his buggy and drove over to bis
home to see how everything was there.
Returning from his house Cul. Mills
went to his room and laid down, and
it was then that he consented to an-
swer a few questions.
In reference to his candidacy for
the United States senate, he said:
"I shall be tiefore the extra session
for the short term, if such a session
is held, and will go before the people
for the long term if I regain my
health. My friends have complete
charge of my candidacy Íjt the short
term, and I am not here to either
assist or direct their efforts. I am
in no condi lion to enter a campaign
at present, and will not do so. I ex-
pect to be in Washington within Un
days."
"A number of papers assert, col-
onel, that you are opptfked to the free
coinage of silver. What Is your
position on this question ?"
"I say what I have said all the
time. I have spoken often in con-
gress and out of congress for the free
coinage of silver, and have always
voted for it. I do not believe that it
would in the slightest manner relieve
the distress of the country. But I
think that both gold and silver should
be in the circulation of the world to
the fullest extent possible. The peo-
ple of the east of all parties and all
classes firmly believe that free coin-
age would be disastrous to them. The
people of Texas, at least many of
them, think it would be a great ad'
vantage to them. In my Judgment
both opinions are groundless. If we
persist in the agitation of the que
tlon and demand it in our national
platform,'We wiir iooseT" Tñ"the"fa!í~
elections, all the eastern states and
gain none in the west. The result
will be the election of a republican
house, senate and president, and the
passage of a force bill, giving the
military control over elections in the
south. I have, therefore, to avert
such a disaster to the southern peo-
ple, advised the postponment of the
further agitation of the subject until
the tariff is reduced. On the tariff
issue we can win the country and
control it, and put many times more
money in circulation than by free
coinage. If a free coinage bill is re
ported to congress I shall vote for it
as I have always done, but I will not
advise the report of such a bill. If
tariff was reduced to a revenue basis
it would put in the pockets of the
people and in circulation more than
a thousand million dollars. If our
mints were open to free coinage the
circulation would not be increased
$10,00* 1,000. Besides reduction of
the tariff can be accomplished and
the other cannot. A reduction of
the tariff to 25 per cent., about the
revenue basis, would increase our im-
ports .£300,000,000, and that amount
of exports would have to go out to
pay for the imports. Eighty per cent
of these exports are agricultural
products, of which cotton is the
largest. We have produced this year
3,600,000,000 peunds. Such an in-
creased demand would increase the
price 4 to 5 cents per pound, and that
would add to the pockets of the cot-
ton growers in one year $150,000,000,
while free coinage would not add one
dollar to their purses. The great
monumental evil that is destroying
not only the prosperity of the peo-
ple, but the political institutions of
the country, is excessive taxation on
the products of labor. It Is con-
centrating the wealth of the country
into the hands of a few thousands
and condemning millions to hopeless
poverty. The whole attention of the
country ought to be directed to this
abuse, and every effort should be
made to tear it out by the roots."
"What is the prospect for reducing
the tariff?"
"Everything depends on the pres-
ent congress and the course pursued
by the democratic national conven-
tion next summer. If oongrecs presses
earnestly on the tariff reduction, and
the democratic house passes a that*
ough revenue tariff Mil, ignoring and
opposing protection in every feature,
and if the national convention will
make that the issue in the oomlng
contest, and give the peoj/fe a sound
western democrat as the nominee for
president we will win, carry the re-
form and remain in power for years.
The contest In the convention, from
present indications, will be between
Hill and a western competitor. Hill
has declared in his recent speech at
Albany for the protective tariff of
1883. Unless we give up all that we
have been contending for, we cannot
accept his platform or his candidacy,
and we must look to the west for our
standard bearer."
"There is much said about the
coming primaries and who shall
participate in thcrn. It is contended
by some that persons who believe in
the sub-treasury should not be admit*
ted. What do you think about it?"
"I do not know but one test of
party fealty and that is support of
the party. If a man has voted for
democratic nominees, he is a demo-
crat, whatever he believes. It is his
act, not his belief, that defines his
party standing. A man may believe
in prohibition or anti-prohlbltlon,
high tariff or low tariff or no tariff,
national banks or anti-national banks
sub-treasury or anti-sub-treasury,
and he is entitled to take part in the
primaries if he votes the ticket.
In the recent caucus of the house
there were high tariff and low tariff
men, single tax men, prohibitionists
and anti-prohibitionists, sub-tresury
and anti-subtreasury men, but they
all voted the democratic ticket.
There is no man in this country em-
powered to define what democracy 1b
so as to compel the acquiescense of
others. Every one determines that
for himself, but the party determines
that no man shall act with it in its'1!
nominations who acts against it at
the ballot box. Erary man who voted
the democratic ffcket at the last
election is entitled to enter the prima-
ries, and I hope every one will do so,
and continue to.vote the democratic
TO^'-tf^HaVergreáí ni;
ocrats in Texas, but none to drive
away."
In reference to the unfriendly com-
ments on a privat^letter to an Austin
friend, he said he would pay no at-
tention to such foolish criticisms.
Any sensible reader knows, he said,
that he would not claim that the suc-
cess of the democratic party depends
upon his political fortune. He
thought that some of tho elements
which opposed him should be rebuked
not for opposing him, but because
they were false to the principles of
the democratic party, Th^se ele-
ments. he feared, would, become so
powerful under their skillful leaders
as to eventually hazard the success
of the party.
Col. Mills is very hopeful of elec-
tion to the senate. He has had
much unsclicited encouragement,and
it reaches him by every mail. His
friends throughout the state are be-
coming very active and he Is satisfied
to let them look after his interests
for the short term with little inter-
ference from him.
HARDWARE and STOVESI
Save Your Dollars!
TALK is CHEAP I Our goods sel} themselves. We do not sell at cost, and have
\ no baits, but Will give you
■3i> MORE FOR YOUR MONEYS
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Van any house in Texas. In spite of Bill McKinley we refuse to advance the price
of our goods: We have everything from a Toy to a Mitchell Wagon. From a Hand
Sickle to a McCormick Self-Binder, Prom a Clay Pipe to a Big Stove or Furnace,
From a Teaspoon toa Thirty five Gallon Kettle, From a Needle to a Crow Bar.
THE OLD CORNER STAND,
R. H. FOAT, Weatherford, Texas.
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Fancy Groceries.
Senator Plumb had advanced the
claims of 6,000 Kansans in the Pen-
sion Office. Possibly his anxiety to
advance the claims of all the other
Kansans hastened, his demise.—
Memphis Appeal-Avalanche.
If working for pensions had any*-
thing to do with Senator Plumb's
taking off, his esteemed contempora-
ry, Senator Pfeffer, is not long for
this world.
Texas wants to send Mills to the
senate where he can meet the au-
thors of his defeat for the speaker-
ship, and by comparison in point of
patriotism, statesmanship, honesty,
bravery, candor, in fact everything
but political Jugglery he can prove
himself equal to any one of them.—
Waco News.
We have just rece ved within the last ten days the finest stock of
FANCY -:- GROCERIES
Ever handled in Weatherford. and in fact as fine as can be bought in the State of
Texas. To convince you of the fact, we will mention a few of our goods we re-
ceived: Imported Musrooms, Maple Syrup. French Peas, Chile Sauee, Boideauz
Asparagus, Celery Sauce, Russian Cavias Sweet Mangoes, Baby Olives, Celey Salt,
Plumb Pudding, Tabasco üauce, Imported Sardines; and in fact every article handled
in the best stores of tne country. Give us a ca l.
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OYSTERS, FISH, CELERY ALWAYS ON HAND.
A SAVAGE ATTACK!
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EXTRAORDINARY RESULTS
THE WAY
I BUY,
IMIA-KIES
THE WAY
I SELL,
COMPETITOH DIZZY !
They mourn over my CUTTING and CARVING Prices are asun-
der. Laborers needn't lament. N t BLATAN T BOMBAST. General
Bargains All the Time. The Wotkingman CATCHES ON. SEE?
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D. M. HOWARD, : : Proprietor.
A. L. HOWARD, Manager.
NORTH MAIN ST., - - - WEATHERFORD, TEXAS.
K. "W". ZKHHSTIDIEIEj,
Wholesale and Retail Druggist,
NORTH MAIN ST. Weatherford, Texas.
WHITB
ROCK
Ik the senatorial fight«Chilton is
backed by the administration, Cul-
berson by Farmer Billshaw and Mills
by the people. Hurrah for Mills and
the people! May they ever get there.
—Karnes County News.
Irthe Alliance wishes to tackle
something practical, why does it not
try to get Congress to pass a bill to
bury all the American dollars until
Patti gets out of the country again?
-sb. '
In Barrels, '
At Bottom Fgures
At Wm. Cameron A Go's.
LIME
'•In buying a cough medicine for
children," says H. A. Walker, a prom-
inent druggist of Ogden, Utah,
"never be afraid to buy Chamberlln's
Cough Bemedy. There is no danger
from it and relief is sure to follow.
I particularly recommend Chamber-
lin's because I have found it to be
ble. 25 and
* Klndel *
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L. W. T. REYNOLDS,
—DBALXR ra—
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Drugs, Medicines and Chemicals,
FANCY AND TOILET ARTICLES.
Tolot Soaps, Sponges, Brushes, Combs,.
PBisicun^ramiPTH cuefuut,"
rsST SIDE SQUARE,
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Vincent, Jas. U. The Weatherford Enquirer. (Weatherford, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 6, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 14, 1892, newspaper, January 14, 1892; Weatherford, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth182035/m1/1/?q=%22~1%22~1: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.