The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 12, 1896 Page: 2 of 16
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MAR. ra, 1896.
THE BURIAL OF DEMOCRACY.
Geo. A. Puckett.
Not a tear was shed,
not a mourner
followed,
-Ah the corpse was laid
in the grave its
own hand hollowed.
fiftnuBfln sense was 'the
judge, common
people ithe Jury,
The verdict was death,
then a righteous
God's fury.
They burled it deeply,
from townshlpdlerk
to circuit bench,
Both fat and lean,
side by side in
the self-¿ame trench.
And republicans, too,
must go—their grave
1s yawning—
Their night is come—
a new day's
dawning.
They're greed for
gold, and thirsting
for ©polls,
To pay oft their
debts—uhey'e fast
In ShyJock's colls.
Greenbacks they despise,
bank notes adore,
The money sharks own
(hem—they've been
there before.
Plain Talk.
Under the above head the Silver
Knight National Watchman, D. C., ed-
ited by Senator Stewart, lays down
What it probably considers "the law
and the prophets," to all peoples' par-
ty newspapers that are out of line with
what the Sliver Knlghlt thinks the
proper policy for the coming cam-
paign. In its editorial tihe Silver
Knight talks loudly of "treachery"
and "traitors," and of papers that have
"been bought antd purchased," and
"aire k w dirty hirelings of the money
power," etc,, etc., and the Silver
Knight urges ostracism of the editors
and aays:
"Let traitors beware. Let patriots
stand Arm. Mark the traitors. Mark
every one of the scoundrels who would
seek to betray you into disunion, be-
cause union is now in sight, which
means vlotory. It means the election
of a president of the United States
who is in favor of the peoples' tnter-
who is in favor of the peo-
ples' rule. Mark theim well. They
are such traitors as you will see
upon their faces, insidious, dirty ene-
mies who will stab you in the back
and are more to be feared than an
open foe. Watch them, down them,
discredit them, and have nothing to
do with them.
To What particular papers the Silver
Knight refers, it does not say, but
says:
"It is not necessary for us to name
these treacherous, traitorous hirelings.
You readers Who read them and And
them advocating doctrines which
would have a tendency to prevent har-
mony and union among all the good
people of the United States, know at
once that that paper is purchased and
Its editor is a traitor."
We read several • hundred peoples'
party papers weekly. We know of none
that «re opposing a union of reform
We know of a vast number,
that are <opptein§ « wtfoa
that means a eaariflee of principle—
the suport of a platform that means
nothing, and candidates that stand
for nothing: Among such papers we
And the Chicago Express, the Chicago
Sentinel, the Nonooamfiormiist, the To-
pe ka, Kansas, Advocate, Morgan's
Buzz-Saw, the Southern Mercury, and
Sound Money, all of which are edited
by men who are thorough-going,
consistent reformers, bearing the
brunt, taking the blows, the burdens
aoid the sacrifices of ain unpopular
cause long years before the editor of
the Silver Knight had ceased to give
his voice, vote and influence to the
republican party, the chief henchman
of the money power. We know the
struggles and sacrifices of hundreds of
these editors, who are standing firm-
ly against a reactionary policy—a pol-
icy that would throw to the dogs, prin-
ciples for which they have fought for
long years—a policy that would trim
the party's platform to suit the cap-
rice of men who consider victory more
valuable than principle. To talk of
"treachery," and "seilling out," etc.,
etc., in relation to these men who re-
fuse to sacrifice principle for union is
far-fetched impudence.
The peoples' party stands squarely
for free coinage of gold and silver at
a 16 to 1 ratio. It is a part of its
national platform. The peoples' party
and its antecedent, the greenback par-
ty, have done all the educational work
that has made free coinage a principle
issue. We know of no peoples' party
papers or speakers tbalt are opposing
free coinage. It is as certain to be a
part of the next national platform as
morning follows night. Buit we know
of hundreds of sincere men, whom we
have met in national conventions, and
in campaigning, who have never de-
viated a hair^breadth from straight-
forward reform work, Who do not be-
lieve tha/t free coinage is the dominant
issue, nor that the financial and indus-
trial emancipation of the masses will
oome through the remOnetizaition * of
silver alone. We lay special stress on
this latter olause, for the Silver Knight
always lays special stress on free
coinage, making lit the dominant issue.
"Mark the traitors." That's good
When a man's treachery is proven,
fire him. But the worst traitors to
the reform cause will be those popu-
lists, Who, with eyes wide open, con-
sent to trow away the hard-earned
results of long years of reform work
and accept a platform that will suit
an element that hasn't had the moral
courage to cut loose from the old par-
ties, and who are wiith us on the one
question of free coinage, and with the
old parties on everything else.—The
New Charter.
TI1E SILENT PROTEST.
J. B. Gay.
Public sentiment, though silently ex-
pressed, is a great power. TO illus-
trate: Let twelve men be associated
and eleven be honest and one dishon-
est, the pressure would be so great
that life would be miserable unless
he became honest and conformed to
the standard of the eleven. Reverse
it: let the eleven be dishonest, would
not the honest one be in a fearful con-
dition ? Would not society be a prey
upon itself? Where public sentiment
is honeet It Is a support for an effort
in the common good, but where pub-
lic sentiment is dishonest it creates a
personal effort to deceive and prey up-
on the public for individual benefit
alone, the destruction of civilisation,
the death of profroao fuxd the cum
of the WQftJ,
Have we not about reaohed that
that point? Some men say I would
vote tor a friend, no matter what ticket
he was on. Have you not other friends
that you would like to help besides
those who are running for office? If
the man, your friend that you want to
vote for, is wrong, wouild ncj: the
wrong extend to your own family? Do
you believe in the welfare of one man
against the welfare of the community?
If a good man, your friend, is on tihe
wrong ticket, the principie is unjust
and needs your silent protest. If men
will not represent your principle of
right and justice, you should not sup-
port theirs of error and misfortune.
Their duity to you is greater as an
officer than your duty to them as a
citizen, because an officer is expected
to serve the people all tihe time, and a
citizen the officer generally but once.
If the populists should fail to have
a representative for each office, they
"should not vote at all for any opposi-
tion, because the silent proltest would
be a warning that satisfaction is not
given the public on that line of ac-
tion.
Suppose a man is elected by a mi-
nority vote; do you believe he would
aver feel comfortable in his position?
The silent protest—or no vote—must
be acted upon by the people if they ev-
er expect representation from an hon-
est public sentiment. What is needed
is to force officers to give satisfaction
to the people, instead of the people try-
ing to satisfy the officers, and the si-
lent protest will help to doit
Columbus, Texas, Feb. 5.
Washington Justice.
' There are soané curious kinds of jus-
tice meted out in the courts of our
?rown colony, the District of Colum-
bia.
For instance, last week a woman
was fined $5 for swearing at her hus-
band because he would not pay their
rent, and in another case a man was
sentenced to two years imprisonment
and to pay a fine of $1 for kicking a boy
to death.
This week there was still the more
extraordinary case of Miss Flagler,
he daughter of one of our aristocratic
irmy officers, who was fined $500 and
sentenced to three hours in jail for
ihooting and killing a colored boy who
was stealing apples in an orchard op-
posite her house.
Now, we are not very learned in the
law, but we doubt if three more re-
markable cases of justice ( ?) than
hose enumerated above could be
found any where In this country
These are, however, only sample cases
of Washington justice. Only a few
lays ago a perfectly respectable, law
ibiding young woman, a reporter on a
newspaper, was sentenced to fifteen
days' confinement in the workhouse
among the most hardened toughs, for
the grave offense of smoking a ci-
garette. Of course the citizens of
Washington should not be blamed for
the disgrace of having such judges
and courts in their community; for
the reason that the citizens of WaSh-
ingto are all living under a monarch-
lal form of government. They have
no voice or vote in the election of pub-
lic officers. These are all appointed
by the great American King who re-
sides in the White House and governs
Washingto as a crown colony througS
three viceroys or pashas, called com-
missioners, with the assistance of such
cadis as those who rendered the decis-
ions refewed to.—Knights of Labor
Journal.
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Park, Milton. The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 12, 1896, newspaper, March 12, 1896; Dallas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth185650/m1/2/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; .