The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 41, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 14, 1897 Page: 7 of 16
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wile and children, and I'm not going to
be a party to it" The circle sat abash-
ed at this sudden opposition.
''More than this. It's easy to carry
out your plan. We could . kidnap Grant
easy enough, but what would the North-
ern armies be doin' tomorrow and the
day after! There wouldn't be a man of
Us living, nor one brick on top of anoth-
er, in three days from now. I've been
harnessed up by ' em once, and I don't
intend to be again." His words and
voice carried conviction. They all shrank
before his eyes.
"This stops right now. It don't go
another step. General Grant will sleep
undisturbed tonight, and he goes back to
St. Louis and Cairo undisturbed. If he
is killed or captured, let it be done by
General Pillow or General Buckner, in a
fair and square fight."
The meeting ended right there. The
hot heads apologized, and the peddler
slunk away. • 'Ab, that was a big speech
you made," said the younger brother, as
they went across the fieldsr "You're
right, but it's a terrible temptation. Grant
seems to be going up steadily, but Pillow
will attend to him."
On February 16, Ulysses Grant took
Donelson from Buckner and Pillow,
and became "Unconditional Surrender
Grant.
Iowa Communicat on.
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The past two weeks 1 have traveled
over twenty counties of the state and am
beginning to be able to estimate the
strength of the two populist failions.
find in those counties where fusion of
democrats and populists will beat the re-
publicans, that our people are in
the main fusionists.
The only enthusiastic advocates of fu-
ston that I found at any place on my
trip, were the candidates for office. A
county office with a salary three times
as large as he could earn in business pur-
suits is the apple of temptation that
causes the downfall of reformers. Once
nominated for office these men lose all
regard for principle and the maintenance
of the party. They will even fuse with
gold democrats and permit their names
to go on a ticket containing gold demo-
crats, for the coveted prize if it can be se-
cured. I have charged and I now repeat
the charge, that while the fusionists prate
much of principle, I find that they are
either now candidates for office or have
future preferments in anticipation. In
most counties where fusion will not ele<fl.
populists are in the middle-of-the-road.
The middle-of-the-road populists are in
control in nearly fifty counties of the
state. The fusion populists either con-
trol the balance or have so crippled the
party, that no very effective organization
has been formed. When we take it into
consideration that we were in control of
less than a dozen counties uhen this
movement was first organized, we may
conclude that we have attained remark-
able success. Our speaking campaign
opened on Sept 25, when Lloyd, our can-
didate for governor, spoke at Knoxville.
He has been in the field every day since.
B. H. Perkins, our candidate for lieuten-
ant-governor, is speaking in northwestern
Iowa. Hon. L. M. Morris, of Ottumwa,
is organizing in the sixth district Hon.
C. A. Wickes is speaking and organizing
in the eighth distri<fl. Gen. Coxey made
four speeches in the second district last
week to big crowds. Senator Peflfer of
Kansas has been engaged for the past
two weeks and by the time this appears
in print, Ex-Gov. Waite of Colorado will
probably have taken the stump.
The whole power of the fusion element
has been turned against us in the attempt
to keep us off the official ballot
They first had an injunction issued by
judge Spurrier, to restrain us from filing
a ticket, but our ticket was filed two
hours before the injunction was served
upon the secretary of state. They then
protested against the filing of our ticket
and the case was tried before the official
board authorized to hear tnese contests
and they were beaten in that
Now Judge Spurrier has issued a writ
of certiorari, and the matter must be set
tied in the courts. J udge Spurrier seems
to be their every ready agent to attempt
to disfranchise us. They will doubtless
fail here as they have before.
The success of the middle-of-the-road
ticket in securing a place on the ballot as
the regular nominees of the people's par-
tv will result in giving us the legal organ
ization and the members of the national
committee and may change the complex-
ion of the latter body. This is why the
fusionists, not only here, but all over the
nation, are fighting our movement. They
do not deserve success and will not at-
tain it. * A. W Ricker.
Sec' y People's Party State Cen. Com
Des Moines, la., Oct. 10, 1897.
An exchange says:
"Last year, it was to be "just a tem-
porary union, you know, a genuine dis-
play of "placing patriotism above par-
ty," etc.
This year it is: "It was proper to fuse
last year, it is proper to fuse also this
year!" Is there a populist whose head is
not placed on the wrong end of the body,
who does not see that the whole fusion
plot was then, is now, and will continue
to be, to place the populist party under
the daisies; and then erect a stone upon
which which may appropriately be in
scribed:
DEAD.
The Populist Party.
Didn't have sense enough to
Stay with its Mother—The
Omaha Platform.
Greater New York will have a lively
time in selecting the gentleman who shall
rule thatlgreat municipality. TheTammy-
ites have nominated Van Wyck; the in-
dependent democrats, who hold to the
Chicago platform in its entirety, have
nominated the celebrated single tax cham-
pion, Henry George; the citizens' union,
a combination of corporation henchmen,
have nominated Seth Low, and the
straight-out republicans have centered on
Gen. Tracey. The chances are greatly
in favor of Henry George, if all these
candidates remain in the race.
Texas fanners have been educated or
drifted into a rut that is sure death to
their prosperity; they are living out of
country stores on a credit and many ot
the things they buy could be made at
home better and fresher and healthier.
These farmers are not able to hold their
crops even through a temporary depress-
ion of prices. Buying on a credit, they
pay two prices and have no choice as to
where shall market, or when. It will be
a great day for Texas when even one-half
of our farmers are on a cash basis and
can buy the other half with produce. It
will be a great day in the old state when
their votes are a matter of judgment and
not controlled by interested parties.
School house clubs discussing economic
and political questions will work this out.
There is no use in making a raid on
the Austin ring unless the people clean
it out from stem to s'ern. There must
be an overhauling of the books and a rem-
edy for many of the evils. School house
clubs should take up their records now
without regard to party. The continual
drain by the official class, by high freight
rates, and by eastern concerns, must be
checked or the farmer will never be pros-
perous under his own vine and fig tree.
A smart man or woman in each school
house club can do more than the Mer-
cury in reforming present conditions and
warning the people.
This is is a day of clubs, and their
organization and discussions inform those*
who won't take time to read or think in
the usual way. Some of the farmers have
organized the home living club, and no
man can become a member unless he
raises his own meat and bread, but all
may attend the open meetings. In the
school house clubs there is a determina-
tion to stop the economic and political
leaks that barrass the farmer and take
his substance. Where the men are too
ignorant or too lazy, the women are mov-
ing to know the reason why of all these
burdens.
When the farmer and his children have
nothing else to do, they might gather a
few bushels of pecans. It is said that
this year's crop has been a failure every-
where except in Texas. If this is so, the
price will be good next spring. Texas
farmers will have to get enough out of
these side issues to make up for the low
price of cotton. A great many who are
able to do so are holding their cotton.
There are a great many farmers who, if
they had money, would blow it all in on
Yankee goods instead of forcing the home
industry issue on the merchants, or they
would vote to give it to extravagant offi-
cials.
Whenever the farmer refuses to trade
with merchants or towns that do not show
up home industry goods, then he will
create home markets for his perishable
stuff. The farmer has more power, eco-
nomic and political, than he knows
about. School house clubs, debates and
scrap books will bring them to exert their
power and influence to work cut their
ends. Slick traders in politics and goods
look on the farmers as so many green
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