The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 2, 1892 Page: 2 of 16
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SOUTHERN MERCURY.
Jone 2,1892
The Nacogdoches Mass Meeting.
W. 8. FALL. '
Some three weeks ago, Bro. A.
Tubbe, chairman of the executive
committee called a mass meeting
to be held at the different voting
places in this county to ratify the
action of the confederated labor
organizations, which met in St.
Louis, on Feb. 22d, 1892, and to
send delegates to a mammoth mas?
convention tobe held in Nacogdo-
ches May 14. Well, the people
assembled as requested and from
every voting precinct they sent
delegates instructed for the St.
Louis demands except one box,
and they would have done so but
for the heroic efforts ot two or
three old time brass collar conven-
tion Democrats, who were on hand
for the express purpose of defeat-
ing an open expression of the peo-
ple; and after much worry they
succeeded in sending the delegates
uninstructed, and for further in-
struction, they received in abund-
ance from the old war horse, Bro.
J. M. Perdue. But the people of
that box are all right and can be de-
pended on to stand by the demands,
four-fifth of their vote being for
reform. Obstructionists must
keep out of the "middle of the
road," and allow the grand army
of patriots to pass by on their
march to the polls to save our
country, our homes, our free insti-
tutions, from the power oi money
to oppress a long suffering, patient
people.
My delegation arrived early Sat-
urday morning, and learned that
Hon. Earl Adams, prospective
Democratic candidate for congrcss
from this district, would be on
hand, and would eat men up by
the dozen, who dared to breathe
anything but pure Democracy, and
furthermore, tnat the people of Na-
cogdoches county must be taught
thus early that any effort of the
toilers to act for once in life like
sensible men would bo considered
treason. Well it turned out bad
for the Colonel, as it most assuredly
will for any man who wants to go
to congress from this district, and
who does not stand on the Ocala-
Indianapolis-St. Louis platform,
sub-treasury included. I know
whereof I speak. The great plain
people are thoroughly aroused and
indignant, and propose to move in
solid phalanx on to Washington,
and there have their grievances
corrected.
To be briof, sure enough after
the debate between Bro. Perdue
and] Col. Adams, which lasted
about three and one half hours,
could be heard words of
praise and endorsement from
the leading business men of
Nacogdoches of Bro. Perdue's
speech. I felt sorrv for the Colo-
nel. I could not believe that a
lawyer and an aspirant for congress
could be so poorly posted upon the
§reat living burning issues of the
ay : money, land and transporta-
tion. He tarried long and bela-
bored himself with the 12th plank,
concluding with a grand peroration,
branding the great wave of popu-
lar indignation that is sweeping
the country, both black and white,
Eepublican and Democrat. Yes,
he branded it as a trick to dis-
rupt the Democratic party ! "God
save the Queen!"
The courthouse was densely
packed with the honest yeomanry
of old historic Nacogdoches coun-
ty, with a goodly number of town
and tradespeople on hand. When
Perdue arose and began his speech
he seemed to have the attention of
all present, and he pictured things
in their true light; as
he hurriedly reviewed the differ-
ent acts of congress and showed
the part played by the old parties,
while the people waited and trust-
ed and were disappointed contin-
ually, until at last they could bear
it no longer, until at last the cry
had gone up from the blue and
gray, "we will bury sectional hate
and party spirit and save our com-
mon country." "The Colonel tells
you it is a trick; that you had
raised so much corn and wheat and
pork and cotton that you can't
prosper, arid you have gone oft'
into the trick business!"
I saw many of the old farmers
that I have known all my life
brush away the briny tears called
up simply Bro. Perdue's masterly,
manly, plain portrayal of the truth.
The meeting was harmonious
and did us lots of good. The meet-
ing passed the following resnlution
unanimously:
Eesolved, That partyism, party
spirit, blindly following after the
party, sectional teaching and sec-
tional hate has done more towards
bringing about our present
deplorable condition than any
one thing ; and that we fully ratify
and endorse the action of the con«
federated labor as set forth at St.
Louis, Feb. 22, 1892, and that we
will support it every plank and
splinter, and that we will vote for
no man for office who does not
openly advocate them and does
not pledge himself to use all of his
powers to have them put into ef-
fect as earlv as possible.
Perdue moves grandly on. Da-
vid-like he strengthened us,he built
us up. Success to him and to the
Mercury.
I. N. Barber for Congress.
At the congressional convention
at Waco on the 14th, Mr. I. N
Barber was put in the field as the
candidate of the Reform or Peo-
ple's party to fill the unexpired
term of R. Q. Mills. Mr. Barber
is 38 years old, and for many years
a resident of Milam county, raised
on a farm, and never followed any
other business until six years ago
he was elected district clerk of his
county, which position he held for
four years. Since that time he has
been connected with the alliance
business at Cameron. He is aman
of fine appearance, sound judg-
ment, always conservative but
candid, true to his * conviction of
right, and universally liked by his
home people. He is a good speak-
er and the peer of any man in this
district who aspires for that office,
and the interests of the people in
this district will be safe in his
hands —Corsicana Truth.
▲ Voice From Sulphur Fork
Alliance.
ISAAC B. REAMS.
What are we to do? is a ques.
tion we want to ask. We have
been born and raised democrats,
and don't know, nor want to be
anything but democrats, but have
been kicked out of the party by
the executive committee, because
we believe that if the platform
adopted at Ocal a by the Alliance,
and indorsed at St. Louis by so
many labor organizations, and
by thousands of people of any or-
ganization was to become law,
everybody wo did be benefitted ex-
cept money lenders! Now, we are
not partisan, but we have adopted
a platform, and it has been in-
dorsed by so many people that they
have formed a party on it. Shall we
now abandon it, since it is found
to be the best platform offered (and
it is taking with the people like
wild-fire) in order to be allowed to
stay with the Democratic party,
which has the power now in Con-
gress to pass every one of those
demands and will not? No! a thou-
sand times no! We are Democrats
still, of the Jeffersonian stripe,
and are forced to say, O ye forked
tongued Democratic politician!
You preach one thing and prac-
tice another! You owe your sue-
cess to the dear oppressed people
(the old hay seeders). What are
you doing to-day for the relief of
the people? Drawing your salary
of $14 per day and deserting your
post of duty at Washington while
drawing it! You come home and
sow discord by telling the people
what they need, and what you will
do for them if you are "elected
again! But if you lived in our
district your re-election would be
to stay at home with Sally and the
children, until some one else made
a grab.
Have you not heard that owing
to the scarcity of money, cotton
was selling on the market at from
4 to 6 cents, and on credit at that
sometimes, for want of ready cash
to pay for it? (Oh! over produc-
tion!) Why so many ragged
children who are not able to at-
tend public school for want of de-
cent comfortable clothing? There
is no over production of anything
but millionaires, tramps, bonds,
mortgages, and rags.
How can the $130,000,000,000
worth of produce annually be
handled with only $65,000,000,000
circulation?
Just after the civil war money
was plentiful, business flourished
and every body was happy, even
in our torn up condition, but after
$1,500,000,000 was taken in and
destroyed, and interest bearing
bonds issued instead, there was
not money enough left in the
hands of the people to move the
annual products of the country
and pay the interest on the bonds.
And you democrats refuse to
give us in our struggle even the
free coinage of silver, when you
had all the power in Congress to
do so! You know kick us out be-
cause we ask you to help us!
Weill Go ahead! Do your
worst! Your time is limited! Even
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here in Texas you have had the
power always, and what have you
done? Out of 169,099,200 acres
of land belonging to the state, you
have given irrigation companies,
railroads, and other corporations
46,578,960 acres. Out of a pop-
ulation of 2,235,523, we have over
83,000 tenant farmers, and allow-
ing five persons to the family it
makes 415,000 inhabitants living
on rented land, besides hired hands,
and all for want of homes of their
own in democratic Texas! Now
we are kicked out of the party for
asking for help, and no substitute
offered for our demands.
Well, farewell, dude William
Goat Democracy! We bid you an
everlasting farewell! by moving
the previous question.
Knock out the sub-treasury from
our demands and you pull down
the main pillar. What the coun-
try needs and must have is more
money and some means to get it to
the people. This the sub-treasury
and land loan provides, and if this
plank is knocked out the whole
structure is ruined.—Southern Al-
liance Farmer.
MUa Lettie Huntley,
Is the sister of Mr. W. S. Huntley, tí
Cortland, N. Y., a well known car-
penter and builder. Her frank state-
ment below gives only the absolute
truth concerning her illness and mar-
velous recovery by the aid of Hood's
Sarsaparilla. She says:
MG. I. Rood & Co., Lowell, Mass.:
"Dear Sir: Twelve years ago I began to
have hemorrhages and four years ago became
so low that the physicians told mo
There Was No Hope
and I should soon die. I could not be moved
from my bed. Under my (aco were napkins
continually reddened with blood (Tom my
mouth. I erald eat ■•ihiig and had no
action of the bowels for a week. The doctors
said the oause was ulcers in the stomach. At
this time my mother said she wanted to mako
one more trial, and asked if I would take
Hood's Sarsaparilla. I told her It would be
A Waste of Money
but finding It would comfort her, I began tak-
ing it In a few days the bloating began to
subside, I seemed to feel a little stronger, but
thought It only fancy. I was so weak I could
only take ten drops of Sarsaparilla at first.
In tiro weeks I was able to sit up a few min-
utes ever
In a month I cnU walk
One day I m
One day 1 asked what
they were to have for dinner, and said I
wanted something hearty, lly mother was
so happy she crieo. It was the
First Time I had Felt Hun*
gry for Two Years
Ikepton with Hood's Sarsaparilla and In six
months was as well as ever in my life. It Is
now four years since I recovered, and I have
not had a day's sickness since, nor any hemor-
rhage. If ever a human being thanked the
good Lord on bended knees it was L I know
that Hood's Sarsaparilla, and that alone,
unquestionably tend say I4fa."
Messrs. Sawyer * Jennings, the well knew*
druggists ot Ceitlaad, say that Mas HaatUy "Is
a highly respected lady s hersjat—snf t what
Hood's Sarsaparilla
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Park, Milton. The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 2, 1892, newspaper, June 2, 1892; Dallas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth185467/m1/2/: accessed July 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; .