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MAJORITY RULE ASI) SOME
THOUSANDS A YEAR.
The old political parties of this country
have enabled many a chronic feedling to
avoid responsibility live high and accumu-
late a fortune. The man who stands ready
to bury his own convictions, suppress his
own conscience and support the ticket in
order to win office prates about the will of
the majority in a vain attempt to justify
his own cowardice and gratify his own
greed. If it is right and democratic always
to yield to the will of the majority why was
the democratic party kept up at all after It
became a minority party? If the majority
has a right to keep all minds and all con-
sciences why are there more than one re-
ligious denomination on the earth? Why
does any majority democratic candidate
ever hold his own membership in a minori-
ty church? The truth is that this ridiculous
talk about yielding to the majority in mat-
ters of mind and conscience originated with
professional#ofllce-seekers who stand ready
to do anything that it becomes necessary to
do in order to secure votes and easy leases
on fat offices. The majority is frequently
wrong. Two highwaymen hold up one trav-
eler. If majority rule is democratic, the
traveler should yield gracefully and stand
by the organization. We have in Texas
several candidates and several organs,
heretofore pronounced against the free sil-
ver heresy and in favor of law and order,
that have recently evinced a suspicious
willingness to yield to an adverse majority
on both these points. Such candidates and
organs are very like the public men by
whom the world has been afflicted from the
first. They started out believing their
views to be sound, and, according to this
party rule, considering themselves with the
majority. In the course of developments
they found themselves with a minority and
to excuse an ignominious change of coat by
which they were enabled to use the majori-
ty and continue in office, they declared
"majority rule a cardinal principle of their
creed. As a means of relieving one of all
responsibility for his own opinions and rec-
ord this rule of cowardly conformability is
the most effective that has ever been de-
vised. By its adoption a pliant candidate
finds It easy to flatter the people while act-
ually deceiving and using them. As a means
of fattening oneself at the public crib there
is certainly nothing like it. It is contrary to
the first principles of democracy that lead
back behind kings and masters to the mind
and conscience of the individual as the only
safe sources of free government. The ma-
jority is frequently a high-handed and mer-
ciless master, wild with power and drunk
on the gluttoijy of self-indulgence. There
are many reasons why a numerical majori-
ty is apt to go wrong and to be wrong. It
is certainly not always a reliable or safe
judge. In a free country no man with
soul of his own can afford to acknowledge
even the majority as his master in the ju-
risdiction of soul. If he be a democrat who
knows the first principles of his political
faith he will certainly hold fast to his high
privilege of bringing every question back
to the forum of his own mind and con-
science. No democrat can afford to turn
over his mind and conscience to any man
or to any set of men. The mind and con-
science of a free man are worth more than
$5000 a year or $.">0,000 a year.
THE ISSUE BROADLY AND UN-
MISTAKABLY .DEFINED.
The well nigh unanimous nomination of
W. J. Bryan by the populist convention at
St. Louis is an authentic diploma from the
highest authority of his fellowship am
hierarchical primacy In the school militant
of populism. Conservative opponents of
this gathering mass of revolutionary ag-
gression should beware of overestimating
the importance of incidental outbursts of
dissent and disaffection on the part of the
middle of the road minority. The mo-
tives of the leaders of this minority are by
no means a mystery. Their pride of or-
ganization was touched by the bold move
of the free sliver generals at Chicago which
threatened to take over bodily the old pop-
ulism of the Weavers and the Watsons, of
the Waites and Lewellings, info the new
democracy of the Bryans and the Altgelds
and the Tillmans. Their jealousy was
equally touched with respect to their pros-
pects in the matter of state and district
contests for of lice as well as in the mfltter
of general patronage following a presi-
dential victory. Regarding the latter con-
sideration it was no secret that they were
intent on exacting a promise of the largest
measure of recognition from Bryan and his
campaign managers in return for their con-
tribution to the Bryan electoral vote. Of
course it is understood that in the vocab-
ulary of predatory politics "recognition"
means an agreed division of plunder in
hand or in expectancy. Somehow assur-
ances from Bryan and Manager Jones were
not so large or so definite as to be satis-
factory. and the middle of the road leaders
chafed at the thought of being crowded in
their state and district elections by mag-
nates and minions of the new democracy
trying the slogan and waving the banner
of Campaign l'opulist-in-Chief Bryan. For
the reasons indicated a considerable
amount of friction and contention are to
be expected among populist elements here
and there. But let it not be doubted that
as regards the presidential problem all the
constituents that go to make up a grand
movement in l'orce of militant populism as
outlined by the platform of the Chicago
convention and as symbolized by the head
of its ticket will be massed by able gen-
erals in redoubtable concentration of en-
ergy and enthusiasm before the campaign
is finished. With all this in prospect what
is the logical and incisive order of the day
for the promiscuous body of citizens who
look with abhorrence upon the immediate
purposes and the far reaching tendencies
of this movement? The one dominating
impulse with the conservative patriot in
tho presence and under the sense of such
a danger will be to labor lor the defeat, by
every honorable expedient, of the radical
programme marked out by the popullstic
democracy at Chicago and formally es-
poused by Its populist coadjutors at St.
Louis. This programme includes among
its features the debasement of the curren-
cy; the payment of the nation's
obligations in debased currency; the
demolition of the gold reserve; the
issue of legal tender paper in unlimited
and piactically irredeemable quantity; a
confiscatory income tax; the legal prohibi-
tion of contracts between honest men to
pay in honest money. But it does not stop
here. It levels a blow at a vital condition
of law and order and of constitutional in-
tegrity In proposing to destroy the inde-
pendence and authority of the supreme
court and to paralyze the arm of the na-
tional executive for putting down danger-
ous seditions ^nd for protecting the prop-
erty of the government and the interstate
commerce of the country against seizure
and pillage by mobs. Surely here we have
an issue and a cue of sufficient moment
and potency to mass all the forces of order,
of national honor, of financial sanity, of
constitutional liberty on the one side,
against the rising and concentrating forces
of revolutionary radicalism about equally
compounded of fanaticism and greed on
the other.
The Kansas City Star has the following:
The Atlanta Journal, which has been pro-
nounced in its opposition to free silver, and
which is wholly dissatisfied with the finan-
cial plank of the Chicago platform, has de-
ckled, nevertheless, to support Bryan and
Bewail. The Journal believes it is the "part
of patriotism and wisdom to remain inside
of the democratic party." even at the cost
of running counter to its judgment and
conscience on an issue which touches the
very heart and life of the nation. There is
no other alternative left to the Journal if
it desires to remain a party organ. It has
been reduced to the extremity which many
other newspapers have been compelled to
accept under similar conditions. The motto
of the journals of this class Is: My party
—may it ever be right; but whether right
or wrong, my party! It is this doctrine
which so frequently forces newspapers to
repudiate the principles which they believe
to be right to accommodate themselves to
the platforms of political organizations. In
doing this they make open confession to
the public that they are dominated by mo-
ives of expediency, and sacrifice to policy
the promptings of conscience. The influence
of all newspapers which pursue this course
must of necessity be greatly Impaired and
circumscribed. They abandon the position
of loaders of public opinion and become fol-
lowers of political heresies and prejudices.
The change of front under such conditions
is attended inevitably with keen humilia*
tion and the loss ot' self respect. The argu-
ments made In behalf of a cause which is
known to be wrong by the intimidated or
subsidized journal possess no weight or in-
fluence. They are purely perfunctory and
carry with them no power to influence or
establish conviction. The case of the At-
lanta Journal emphasizes the force and
value of independent journalism and illus-
trates the embarrassments and perplexities
to which party organs are subjected.
one case out of many. Millions of people
hold policies amounting to billions of dol-
lars. all of them are endangered by the
threat of payment in depreciated silver or
irredeemable paper. The policy holders are
the real owners of the money and securi-
ties held for the payment of their policies,
and they are the people who will suffer by
I the degradation of the currency.
The world would like to hear a word
about Hon. Horace Boles' corn crop and
how Hon. R. P. Bland's oats turned out.
The apple crop of this year is said to be
enormous. The aggregate apple crop of the
United States and Canada last year was
estimated to be from 57.000,000 to 60,000,000
barrels, or from 7,000,000 to 10,000,000 barrels
more than were ever produced In any pre-
vious year. This year's crop, it is expected,
will fully equal and probably exceed that
of last year.
It seems that the so-called democratic
bosses were wholly unwilling to give to the
populists at St. Louis even the right to
name the tail of their own ticket.
The following is given as the proposition
of the Boston Herald, an independent dem-
ocratic paper, on the pending question:
The Chicago convention has adopted a
platform which antagonizes the honesty
and intelligence of the American people,
and which, if it should find expression on
the statute book, would mean the debase-
ment of the currency, the prostration or
business and the degradation <>;' the na-
tional honor. On this platform It has
placed a presidential candidate. Mr. Bryan
of Nebraska, who is an incarnation of sil-
verlte and populist recklessness, and as
such is conspicuously unfit for the tre-
mendous responsibilities of the office to
which he aspires. On the other hand, the
republican party has openly and positively
taken up its position for the maintenance
of the gold standard and has placed at the
head of its ticket a man who. measured
from an honest money point of view, is
greatly safer and sounder than the dem-
ocratic nominee. Taking their respective
environments into consideration, we are
confident that this superiority on the part
of the republican candidate will become
still more manifest during the campaign.
Mr. McKinley's tendency will be toward in-
creased conservatism, and Mr. Bryan's
toward increased rashness, if. indeed, in
the latter's case there be any room for the
growth of financial wlldness. Under these
conditions it is the duty of patriotic citi-
zens to sink political differences on other
points and rally to the party which stands
as a bulwark of the currency against sil-
verite and populist assaults. The Herald
recognizes this duty, and intends to per-
form it. Till the contest is decided our
voice shall be raised and our influence
given for the election of Mr. McKinley to
the presidency. The security of the cur-
rency is the paramount question of the
hour. It eclipses all other issues. Believ-
ing that this security can best be attained
by the success of the republican party, we
promise it our sincere and hearty support
for its presidential ticket in the pending
campaign.
Mr. Bryan's telegram regarding a popu-
list nomination gives him away. He might
as well turn out whiskers all over his face.
Let Brer Kennedy jump with both feet
on the following from the Chicago Chron-
icle:
Mr. Sewall is:
The richest man In Maine.
llis wealth is estimated at $5,000,000 or
$6,000,000.
He is president of the American shipping
league, an ironclad and copper-fastened
tmst of ship builders and owners, screwed
up tighter than any other tariff-protected
trust in the country.
He is president and owner of the National
Bank of Bath, Me.
He is a large owner of stock in national
banks in Portland and Boston.
He is ex-president and now one of the
directors of the Maine Central railway
company, described as the most grasping
and powerful railway corporation in New
England.
He is a stockholder and director in near-
ly every corporate monopoly in the state
of Maine and in many other New England
corporations.
lie is a lumber baron and sawlog king.
He is proprietor of the biggest shipyard
in New England, a tariff-protected monop-
oly.
He is a typical capitalist, monopolist, lob-
byist and plutocrat.
REPLY TO MAJ. HUME.
T. H. BALL DKFEMJS THE FEDERAL
INTERFERENCE PLANK OF CHI-
CAGO PLATFORM.
NOT AIMED AT CLEVELAND.
Arguments and Extracts to Show That
It Was Not So Intended—Time-Hon-
ored Democratic Doctrine.
Do not drop out of your head the encour-
aging fact that we are about to pull off a
fine cotton crop.
It takes time to mend a bad break.
—ji
When Colonel B. H. Knowles said to the
bold railroaders, "By God, we won't stand
it!" the former rang off in short order.
Secretary Olney's propositions iti the Ven-
ezuelan dispute when boiled down are as
follows:
A new commission to be created by agree-
ment between Great Britain and the United
States, consisting of two Englishmen and
two Americans, the two Americans prob-
ably to be two members of the present
commission. This new commission to take
up the Inquiry, not in order to determine
the boundary or draw a divisional line be
tween British Guiana and Venezuela, but
to ascertain the facts and report to both
governments. The four members to com-
plete the inquiry, if unanimous, oi^ If
majority of the whole concur. If they fail
to agree a fifth member, a neutral, to be
appointed by the president of the Swiss re-
public. or some other acceptable personage.
The findings of this commission upon mat-
ters of fact to be binding upon both gov-
ernments and to serve as a basis for sub-
sequent direct negotiations between all par-
ties concerned, with a view to agreeing
upon the boundary line. Should these di-
rect negotiations fail, the question to be
remitted to a tribunal composed, for in-
stance. of the chief justices of England and
the United States, with, if necessary,
third neutral member.
While Lord Salisbury declares himself
anxious to settle the matter by arbitration,
he declines to submit implicitly to the de
clsion of an arbiter, who in the last resort
would necessarily be a foreigner. The mat
ter is in a fair way to friendly adjustment
but it will be probably quite a while before
the necessary investigations now in prog-
ress are concluded.
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The next Vanderbilt bulletin will prob-
ably be an announcement of the wedding.
Silver dollars are legal tender for any
amount. Silver coins of smaller denomina-
tion than $1 are legal tender in sums not
exceeding $10,
The Ash by resolution asking Mr. Bryan
to "step into breeches" was probably sent
to the latter late at night.
The Birmingham State Herald lashes the
independent democrat who believes in
sound money and who has decided to vote
for McKinley like this:
"McKinley democrats!" Next, and quite
as fitly, we shall hear of "honest thieves,"
"chaste libertines." "godly devils," and
"faithful traitors." No man who supports
McKinley has any right to the honorable
name of democrat, more than Iscarlot had
to that of a true disciple after he had be-
trayed his master with a kiss. If any such
have ever borne thatv honest title they
must have less conscience than even the
"base Judean." or, like him, they would go
and hang themselves to escape its lash-
ings.
Such raving as this has had its dark day
and lost its force. It is the voice of the
boisterous campaign driver who has been
the greatest and costliest enemy of the
southern people.
The great democratic (?) rounders in St.
Louis found that the Texas populists were
not cattle to be herded for campaign uses.
Arkansas delegates sowed the St. Louis
convention down with green slips on which
their money plank was printed, as follows:
We demand a national treasury note is-
sued by the general government, receiv-
able for all pubiic dues, and a full legal
tender in payment for all public debts,
loaned direct to the people through postal
and other governmental banks at cost for
the benefit of the people. And the purchase
and coinage of such amount of gold and
silver bullion at the ratio of 10 to 1 as may
be necessary to pay the debts* of the gov-
ernment which are made payable in coin.
You Jimm-l-e! Go over to the postofflce,
son, and get your daddy $1,000,000,
General Weaver joins Colonel Patterson
of Colorado and Senator Peffer of Kansas
in declaring of his own knowledge that
"W. J. Bryan is a good, sound populist."
What has become of all the great story
writers in Cuba?
The Louisville Courier-Journal makes
forcible presentation of the life insurance
argument against a depreciated money. It
says:
A life insurance company in Connecticut
has <!;">.000 polieies on the lives of persons
in various parts of the United States. It
has assets, that is. money, or securiti<s
convertible into money, doubtless mostly
the latter, to the amount of $63,000,000. Who
owns this money? Doubtless many peo-
ple would say the insurance company, and
in strict law that may be true. In equity,
however, it. belongs to the 65.000 policy
holders, as the company has no capital
stock, being purely mutual. The securities
will be paid in such money as the United
States shall decide to be lawful money, and
ot' course the policies must be paid in the
same wav. It is the 05.000 policy holders
who are interested in preserving the $63,-
(N)O.OUO of assets at their present value,
which is their market value in gold, if
this country goes to the silver standard the
as:-> ts will still be worth $63,000,000, but
they will be dollars of a different sort. The
dollars in which they will be paid in that
event will be worth 52 cents of our present
money, or whatever the gold value of 371%
grains of silver bullion may happen to be
when the policy becomes payable. For
gold will remain the standard of the civil-
ized world after the United States adopts
silver monometallism, should they do so,
as well as before. This calculation is based
on the idea that, under silver monometal-
lism government paper will be redeemed in
silver. The Chicago platform, however,
points to an unlimited issue of legal tender
paper and the populists demand it. In
this event these $63,000,000 will have to be
paid in irredeemable paper. This Is but
Hon. Cyclone Davis begged the northern
and western brethren not to ask southern
populists to support any demand for a re-
deemable money.
In order to defeat the middle-of-the-
roaders in their efforts to nominate Wat-
son of Georgia for the vice presidency and
to make up their ticket to suit themselves,
the Bryanites are sai'd to have actually
turned the lights out to prevent a count of
the votes. Of this outrage they are ac-
cused by the populists themselves.
SNAP SHOTS.
Some women look much smaller in bath-
ing suits, but others appear to be much
larger.
There are men out settling the silver
question who are unable to settle their
laundry bills.
Mr. Sewall's popullstic proclivities do not
stick out far enough.
How do these idle men who argue politics
and display their pitiful ignorance of the
money question with a loud voice get a
living?
The populists gave it to Mr. firewall in the
neck. What will he do with it?
It is claimed that Mrs. Lease will go for
Bryan—but how?
At school you will notice that the boy
who excels at marbles does'not lead in reci-
tations.
One star differs from another star, but
the baldheaded man is willing to take them
as they come.
Huntsvllle, Tex., July 25.—Major F. Chas.
Hume, Galveston, Tex.—My Dear Sir and
Friend: "Courage in man is sublime, the
height of courage is to be able to recede
from a false position." This summit you
have failed to reach. While in your open
letter to me you gracefully concede that
"there were many good and patriotic men
in the Chicago convention," you still leave
the representatives of more than one-half
the American people, as a whole, under
your unseemly characterization of "Chi-
cago revolutionists," "nameless elements
of organized disorder." "dominated by
craft, ignorance and madness," "revolu-
tionary assembly," etc., and thus empha-
size your former position.
I will not permit myself to be drawn into
a discussion of things or men not in Issue
anil cavil with you over the propriety of
the action of the president in sending
troops to Chicago, or The merits or demer-
its of Governor Altgeld and Senator Till-
man. 1 shall content myself with an ab-
solute refutation oi your position and the
alleged facts upon which your grievances
are founded, and thus close our friendly
discussion so far as 1 am concerned.
The very head and front of our offend-
ing in the Chicago convention, which seems
10 have aroused you from your usual calm,
judicial anc^ conservative traine of mind,
10 use your own language, is as follows:
"The plank In the Chicago convention de-
nouncing arbitrary intenerence by federal
authorities in local aftairs as a violation
of the constitution of the i nited States
and a crime against tree institutions,"
"was inspired by Altgeld and his admirers
for the single and express purpose of in-
sulting President Cleveland lor keeping the
pealce that Altgeld permitted to be broken
and discrediting his constitutional author-
ity to execute the laws of the United
States." You assert that "to the credit of
my innocence, 1 was perhapa the only
member of the convention who did not
know this to be a lact." Upon this we join
issue. Let us presume, for the sake of ar-
gument, that you in your scnolarly seclu-
sion, more than a thousand miles from the
convention, on account ot the superiority
of your sagacity over my "innocence, '
were in a better position to know what
really transpired at Chicago than 1. it
would be unialr, however, to assume, even
for the sake ot argument, that you were
possessed of knowledge in regard thereto
superior to that of everybody connected
with the convention. 1 present the fol-
lowing tacts, which should absolutely dis-
pel your alarmed fancies:
1. Senator Hill, senator Gray, Governor
Russell, Senator Vilas and fifteen others,
who presented the report for the minority
on platforms, who were present with the
entire committee on platiorms, and wno
were the immediate personal friends and
representatives of the president, and who
were in a position to know whaA inspired
the plank relative to federal interference,
did not put the construction upon It thai
you do and did not object to or dissent
therefrom in their minority report.
1. Governor Russell, Senator Vilas and
Senator Hill spoke for the minority report
arid against the majority report, and neith-
er uttered a word or syllable in criticism
of this plank, or appeared to detect the ef-
fort to insult the president which so alarms
you. Senator Hill's speech was careiuiiy
prepared, submittbi: to Mr. Whitney, Sen-
ator Vilas, Governor Russell anil others
and was the leading speech of tnelr side,
and while specifically attacking the (to
them) objectionable features ot the plat-
form did not object to or lake issue with
this plank or its spirit.
3. senators Daniel, Vest, Cockreh and
Jones and many other honorable and able
men, who had previously voted in congress
an indorsement of the president's iuuon
in the Chicago matter, voted for the plank.
To say that such men as these would
knowingly stultify themselves is to go be-
yond the pale of fair and candid criticism
and enter a domain, of which Tillman
would be ashamed.
4. Our candidate for president, Mr. Bry-
an, in closing lor the majority, expressly
said: "We will lay upon the table both
the resolutions commending and condemn-
ing the administration. We will not bring
this question down to the level of per-
sons."
5. The Chicago dally press did not so in-
terpret the plank. 1 quote from the edit-
orial in tile Chicago Post, one of our op-
ponents: "Denouncing arbitrary Interfer-
ence In local affairs by federal authority
as unconstitutional has been the traditional
cry of colonels and states' rights moss-
backs from the beginning."
if this not enough to show the error of
your position, and that the plank was
merely an announcement of a time hon-
ored democratic doctrine, the letter and
spirit of which can not be attacked by any
one without placing themselves beyond the
pale of ancient party faith? Against ail
ihis vou rely alone for proof of your po-
sition uoon a garbled extract from Till-
man's speech, which you have connected
and given meaning to (no doubt uncon-
sciously) that Is not borne out by the
record. That portion of Tillman's speech
referring to the presiikjit's action in the
Chicago matter was in speaking to the in-
dorsement of the president by the minority
report. That portion of his speech uttered
fifteen minutes later, In regard to "naming
the sinner." was in reference to the reso-
lution introduced by him specifically con-
demning the president. I heard the speech
and resolution, and have both before me.
in that resolution no reference is had to
the president's action in sending troops
to Illinois, and neither speech nor resolu-
tion in any way reiers to the plank which
has so disconcerted you. 1 submit to all
fair minded men that this plank, as well
as the entire platform, should be construed
as it reads, and that no man can justly
Infer a refiectlon upon President Cleveland
therefrom, unless he believes the action of
President Cleveland was "arbitrary inter-
ference with local affairs by federal au-
thorities."
As you have not done me the courtesy to
believe my statement, that the convention
• showed marked disapproval of Tillman,"
kindly read the following:
"Senator Tillman's bold denunciations fell
on unsympathetic ears. His tirades met
little apprause from the southern and west-
ern delegations he assumed to represent.
Thousanus of sliver men either remained
silent or joined in the vigorous hissing,
which was the predominant feature of the
reception of his effort."—Chicago Times
Herald.
. "Pitchfork Tillman's first half dozen sen-
tences aroused the convention to a pitch of
indignation, that ended in an almost uni-
versal storm of hisses."—New York Sun.
I will not further prolong this letter.
Will say, however, regardless of the per-
sonality of Mr. Debs or anyone else, if the
recent continued and extreme usurpation
of authority by federal courts, and denial
of jurisdiction by the United States su-
preme court in contempt cases, have nut
aroused everyone familiar therewith, cer-
tainly respect for state sovereignty and
individual liberty have become a dead fac-
tor in their political make-up. When the
right to enjoin men from hindering others
from working, persuading them from work-
ing or quitting work themselves." is con-
ceded; when lederal judges, for constric-
tive contempt, can, without trial by jury
or right of appeal, consign men to dungeons
for long periods of time, without shocking
the consciences and hearts of liberty loving
citizens, a sad day has arrived for our re-
public. Senator Hill's bill, which recently
passed the senate without dissent, recog-
nizes this fact, and that bill meets not oniy
the approval of our convention, but tliaL
of the public generally.
It will not be out of place in passing to
say that from personal observation and
close attention upon the Chicago conven-
tion, in my judgment, that body was com-
posed of as able, patriotic democrats as
ever met together. It was essentially a
democratic convention, dominated by no one
man or any political cabal, but the controll-
ing spirit there was a universal desire to
rise above personalities, and give to tho
people of tho United States a plain,
straightforward, old-fashioned democratic
platform, upon which the rights of tho
great masses of our people could be con-
scientiously and successfully contended for.
It Is for you and every other democrat to
say whether you will stand by us or not.
it southern democrats prefer the represen-
tation from the south hod in the McKinley
convention, it is their privilege. If admirers
of Mr. Cleveland prefer the denunciations
of their Ideal in the St. Louis convention
to our dignified withholding of approval
at Chicago, they have the right of choice.
If so-called sound money democrats agree
with Mr. Whitney, that the best way to
beat Bryan and elect McKinley, is to sup-
port a factional democratic organization in
republican interests, tru?y can do so. If
there be those who can not stand political
association with the advocates of the dem-
ocratic platform and ticket, it is their priv-
ilege to choose ®ther associates; but at
least. In all fairness, let them refrain from
unfair vituperation, unjust and indefensi-
ble assaults upon their old-time friends
and standard bearers. Very truly, your
friend, THOMAS H. BALL.
t 1
Hornefeld to Atkinson.
Galveston, Tex., July 26.—To The News:
In your today's issue you publish again an
article of Mr. Edward Atkinson which we
have seen several times before. The chief
fallacies and wrong deductions therein have
already been exposed to the public by Colo-
nel Street, but as you seem to think that
the article is good campaign literature, 1
feel compelled to point out a few errors or
omissions in this tirade against Senator
Daniel and the so-called silver barons
which should have been pertinent to you be-
fore. Mr. Atkinson in making up the bal-
ance of trade or exchange between us and
England only speaks ot the exports and im-
ports.
Does Mr. Atkinson not know of the im-
mense debt yhieh this country owes to
England and Europe of several thousand
minions, the annual interest alone of which
amounts to over isiOo.uuu.Otio? Does he not
know about the clean steal of the creditor
nations of the world from this debtor na-
tion of far over $1,UUO,OOU,UOO, occasioned by
the demonetization ot silver in 1*h3
Whence the everlasting issues of millions
of gold bonds—so coveted by the investing
pluioerats of the world—in limes of peace?
Will Mr. Atkinson look at the rapiuly de-
clining treasury gold and explain the why
of all these gold shipments wnen, according
to his figures, England ought to send us
millions of money for our products? Mr.
Atkinson, whether intentionally, wiliully or
maliciously, omits these great debt ngures
from his balance, or he does not know about
them; in other words, he plays either tool
or knave—he can taKe his choice.
Concerning his tnreadbare argument
about the 5u cent dollar, 1 need hardly re-
peat that it is the very tiling we are intend-
ing and going to change by re-establishing
stiver in its rightful place, and that mean-
while, whilst we are at it, every silver dol-
lar buys anyhow ltJO cents wortn of produce
or material in our country as long as Uncle
Sam's eagle is on the com!
His attack on the "silver" barons sounds
ludicrous when he himself is one and dwells
among the tariff barons, whose battle he is
lighting and who tor the last thirty £ears
have robbed the south and west, as they
were the only beneficiaries of this high tar-
iff. Hence ine enormous increase of multi-
millionaires m the east. But Mr. Atkinson
says that tariff was only made to protect
American labor and farmers! He says the
mine owners picked the pockets of the peo-
ple, when in reality in the last twenty-
three years the mine owners have been
working half time, aie half shut up and
can scarcely make ends meet. But what
right have these mining people to make
dividends on their miserable investments of
greed? Why that is a divine right of the
eastern tariff baron only!
I leave Mr. Daniel of Virginia to reply
to Mr. Atkinson's personal attack;'he prob-
ably has already done so. Mr. Atkinson is
one of the eastern gold men who consider
It their mission to "educate" the poor de-
luded south and west, but If he can not
bring better educational matter this way,
we advise him to teach in the east; but 1
believe that the eastern farmers and labor-
ers are already better posted than Mr. At-
kinson Is aware oi.
1 now have a word to say to my friend,
W. Goodrich Jones of Temple, who in a lit-
tle ariicle called "Silvercrats" denounces
in a layaable way all those who give unjust
and brutal names to those earnest stu-
dents of the money question who believe
that ihe restoration of silver is the salva-
tion of this country. But he proceeds to
supplant the brutal names and epithets
by funny ones, thus exchanging the Insult
and calumny previously bestowed upon tne
silver advocates to ridicule and jest. Well,
1 think Bland, Blackburn, Altgeld and Till-
man will not g'et very much hurt by it; at
the same time, 1 believe the whole question
at Issue too serious a one to be side tracked
by fun and ridicule We all know Mr
Jones to be an ardent and zealous Texan,
lmost famous for his endeavors to advance
the culture of trees in our glorious state—
a very laudable effort, In which we arc
with him and wish him all success. But
there are people who do not think that the
tree culture is so very necessary as Mr.
Jones and we think it to be, and who say it
will take care of Itself. Still we would not
like them to give our friend the name of
"arborocftit" or "treeeat."
A. BOHNEFELD.
UNDER WHICH FLAG?
AN
OPPORTUNITY TO PIT OXF/S
PATRIOTISM ABOVE PAIl-
TYISM.
CURRENT COMMENT.
HON. R. B. HAWLEY'S VIEWS.
Sure of Republican Success—Part the
Tariff Will Play—What He TliinkH
In the Duty of the Hour.
New Iberia, La., July 2o.-To The News:
Sojourning here on the banks of the Teche,
famed far and wide In story for Its beauty,
1 have watched the line of battle formed
for the fierce political struggle for the
maintenance of government on one side
and for its dissolution on the other.
Whether now, or as the procession moves,
inquiry must come, bidden or unbidden,
welcome or unwelcome, to every candid
man, "Under which flag?"
When a country is invaded it is the duty
of every man to arm. When the govern-
ment is menaced, of every man to vote and
to vote effectively.
The citizen who believes he can stand An
orrn-
TEXAS NEWSPAPER COMMENT.
Victoria Review: A branch from a peach
tree was brought to the Review office Mon-
day by Fielding Taylor which had fifty
fully developed and matured peaches hang-
ing from it in all their luscious beauty.
The branch was from a tree growing in
the grounds surrounding the home of T.
L. Taylor.
Yoakum Graphic: Not a theory, but a
condition, confronts the voter to-day unless
lie be one whose blind devotion to party is
greater than his love of country. Never
before In the history of United States
have the cranks and demagogues exercised
such sway, and never before have they had
such an opportunity.
Alpine Avalanche: Locally very little in-
terest is being taken in politics in Brewster
county, and it is likely tliere will be no op-
position to the present county officials.
County Treasurer Dan Carr having moved
out of the county will of course no longer
be a candidate, and a new man will have
to be elected to fill this office. We have
not learned who aspires to be treasurer.
Palestine Advocate: As the brain of the
editor of the Advocate Is to some extent
limited In power of thought, reluctantly ac-
knowledged by us, we shall assume no dic-
tatorial attitude in this campaign. We are
aware that everything would be out of
joint and mightily crippled up but for the
inllueijce of this journal, which leads to
the proposition that we intend to give our
readers opinions from other great editors
and statesmen of the day. We do not med-
itate the theft of anything bodily, but have
got a first-class pair of scissors.
Corsicana Democrat: McKinley will have
an inglorious time explaining what the re-
publicans meant when they said they would
refer the money question to an internation-
al agreement. The republican platform vir-
tually says that the American people are
incapable of promulgating a financial sys-
tem that will stand the lest without the as-
sistance of foreign powers. The Demo-
crat believes in the principle of America
for Americans, and the theory that this
country is sufficiently able to legislate for
itself upon all questions and maintain the
policy which it seeks to father In behalf of
the people of the country.
San Antonio Light: Bryan's associates
in the newspaper business at Omaha do
not paint his stability in the glowing colors
that his new found worshipers in the
democratic party do. He is fairly put down
by them as without stability, visionary,
not a success at law. and ready to take
money to advocate almost any views. His
moral sense is declared to be wofully lack-
ing. The truth, no doubt, lies between the
extremes taken of his character, and It is
not such as to found a very substantial
structure of governmental action upon In
case he is elected. There is every reason
to conclude that his Influence will wane
rather than increase as he is more famil-
iarly known.
Temple Tribune: There is more residence
building going on in the city at present
than ever before in the history of the city.
There is a slight lull In business houses,
although several are at present In course
of construction, but this Is being fully
made up, for every portion of the city is
being supplemented with new homes, the
majority of which are handsome and spa-
cious. in one part of Taylor's addition
three two-storv residences are Hearing
completion while on Bcntley Hill it is an
Impossibility to keep track of them cor-
rectly. The rest of the city is also pro-
gressing as rapidly as these two suburbs.
Texas Coast News (Texas City): The
workmen continue to be as busy as the tra-
ditional beaver along the bay front at Tex-
as City. Dock making, pile driving, shed
building, flour mill construction and the
erection of house after house and store
after store are the features of daily life In
Texas City. Every one Is preparing for
the opening of the cotton season, and this
time the new seaport will He directly In it
with the other deep water ports along the
gulf coast. Vessels will no longer anchor
in the roads, but will come direct to Texas
City and tie up to its wharves. There will
be no more barging, but the cotton will be
delivered direct to the vessel. Free docks
and any amount of terminal facilities will
bring the business, it is only a mutter of
time, and a short time, two.
the Chicago platform and vote for its no
nees and fulfill the measure of citizenship
ought to vote for them; the reconstruction
of the supreme court and the denunciation
of the president's unfaltering patriotism
in the time of greatest trial to be taken
with the rest. On the subject of assault
of the highest office in Christendom— the
president—an Incident occurred in the first
term of Mr. Cleveland of this nature. Mr.
Thorndlke Rice, tho editor and publisher
of the North American Review, had writ-
ten a number of criticisms, some unwar-
rantably severe on the president. He sub-
sequently visited England and called at the
American legation and desired to be pre-
sented at court, where, as a gentleman,
author and scholar, he would have been
on equal terms with the best in that assem-
bly. He was denied the function. Mr.
Phelps, then our minister, based his re-
fusal on the ground that Mr. Rice had so
traduced the president that his wishes
could not be considered. There lives in Gal-
veston a gentleman of unusual ability, with
decided convictions of government in its
broadest, best relation to the governed, who
related to me the foregoing incident in offi-
cial life with unstinted praise and approval
of Mr. Phelps' attitude, as one reflecting
tho dignity and respect due the president
and his own position, yet this gentleman
to-day is lending his talents and his name
and energies to foster and promote that
siririt which not only inveighs against, but
once firmly rooted means to destroy. What
authority for this latter charge? The
progress "official democracy" has made
toward populism and the progress of popu-
lism and democracy, now indissolubly
linked, have made in five short years
toward the commune Is my warrant. Nor
can any different logical deduction be
made from their published declarations.
Many, with the sincere hope of being right,
blindly following the ignis fatuus of free
silver, have not considered the length of
iheir fatal step. The support of the single
issue would mean desolation enough, but
to put in authoratlve motion the further
terms and tenets of the Chicago platform
would inevitably mean good-bye to the re-
public. But It will not be* Patriotic fires
still burn and the example of men who
subordinate individual views to the coun-
try's needs will shihe afar to guide the feet
of those who falter on the way. And the
republican party lives in a spirit of unhes-
itating kindness, loyalty and love. It ex-
tends the hand of fellowship and asks
every man to come and share with them
the honor and determined purpose to sus-
nd zealous Texan, j tain and save the institutions of our coun-
try. This is not the time nor occasion for
sentiment. A vote for McKinley and Ho-
bart is the only vote that has In It the
slightest purpose in defeating populism
and repudiation in the person of Bryan.
The action of sound money democrats at
hicago, encouraged. I observe with pro-
found regret, by men with like views in
Texas, has not the tone, nor can it have
the motive, which rung out clear and un-
mistakable. by the republicans of Texas
in the campaign of 1892 in the memorable
effort to redeem the state. The opportu-
nity offers now to these same democrats
to put patriotism above partylsm. What
will the verdict be?
The pronunciamento of Mr. Whitney is
unworthy of Ills great reputation as a lead-
er; in giving his reasons why a demo-
cratic sound money convention has be-
come necessary he employs a volume of
empty phrases to say that republican man-
agers have Injected Into the campaign the
question of protection. What did Mr.
Whitney expect? With a platform all
America applauded; with a ticket unchal-
lenged for personal honor and integrity of
purpose, every occasion has been employed
by the gallant McKinley to emphasize "his
approval of the financial views adopted by
the convention. He has made it so distinct
and comprehensive that all other Issues
were obscured by it. But who is to say
that the tariff is not an issue? Upon what
basis shall the government live? By meet-
ing its daily demands or standing beneath
the menace and shadow of expected protest
in meeting its curent expenses? What does
Mr. Whitney and his coadjutors expect? It
was he who fought the Income tax, and
opposed an exorbitant exclpe tax. Then
from what source shall the government
Iraw Its necessities, and who denies that
the source of this income by means of a
tariff should be so arranged that by Its
operation American Industrial life shall be
the most benefited?
This is a great national question. It af-
fects the man with a hoe, at the wheel and
in the school room. There is not a profes-
sion nor tradesman nor a laborer who does
not eome within the scope of its beneficent
influence. In balancing its effects, it should
be so adjusted that the required revenues
of the government would not be exceeded,
but imposed and collected in such a man-
ner that the benefits to be derived would
far more than equal the burdens borne.
This can be done by those who are worthy
to sit at the revenue board of a great na-
tion, but impossible to men who teach the
false issue that we can live by free trade,
which not quite but is almost as wrong as
its false and hollow kinsman, free silver.
Who Is to say what effect is to be produced
on this tlnaclal issue on a return of confi-
dence in the government to meet its daily
obligations through its dally Income? If
the tariff is not a factor, no man who
thinks so can refuse to vote for McKin-
ley because of it. while hundeds of thous-
ands will be of his party who would not be
so reliable on a single issue. This should
be a source of profound satisfaction to
men who believe, and I am one who so be-
fit ves, that we may suffer every ill with
less hurt, less lasting humiliation than that
which is Involved in national and personal
repudiation by the voluntary establish-
ment of a debased currency. Why not re-
pudiate the whole? tin- gain would be
larger and the degradation not more com-
plete.
V\ hether allies natural to us in this hour
of national peril come or not, whether
they vote for a sentiment or with courage
for a purpose, the republican party will
asusme its wonted place and guard with un-
ceasing vigilance and ear© the honor, fame
and interest of the American people. The
republicans may take good heart, for as
sure as the star of hope is above us Just
so sure will MeKinlfy be the next president
of the republic. R. B. HAWLEY
The Louisville Courier-Journal closes i«
editorial article as follows:
Let us have a real dempcratic ticket on
a real democratic platform, and let Brya""
and McKinlcy shift for themselves.
• « *
The Kansas City Star says:
The Mexican Herald has discovered that
"no certificates of piety are needed in the
case of American presidential candidates."
All the same, both McKinley and Bryan
are church men In good standing and
with pretensions to morality which are not
disputed. ^ ^
The Canton (O.) Repository says:
Senator-elect Foraker's participation In
the campaign includes a trip to the west-
ern coast via the Northern Pacific railroad;
and returning via the Southern Pacific,
with addresses in the leading cities of
California. He will command greatest at-
tention wherever he goes.
• • •
The Chicago Journal says:
At last accounts the people down near
Waterloo, Ind.. had all stopped talking pol-
itics and were out trying to capture a
snake, variously reported to be from four-
teen to twenty feet long. The latter fig-
ures are probably nearer correct, for noth-
ing short of a stroke of lightning or a
snake twenty feet long will make an In-
diana man stop talking politics this year.
» « •
The Albany (N. Y.) Argus says:
Li Hung Chang will reach this country
after his European tour and will visit
Washington during the height of the polit-
ical campaign. If he had beeh here on the
Fourth of July he might have seen how
largely our people consume the noisy fire-
crackers that his country sends us, but,
having missed that delightful racket, he
will be in time to see some of our polit-
ical torchlight processions and the noc-
turnal display of Chinese lanterns. He will
need a good American interpreter to ex-
plain to him what It all means.
• • •
The Washington Star has this thrust at
a talented Kansas lady:
The populist convention failed to do
business last night because the hall could
not be illuminated, but the darkness was
not all disadvantage. Mrs. Mary E. Lease
was on the platform, but declined to talk
to an audience she could not see. "Wait
until they turn on the lights," said she.
"and I'll talk to you all night." The
lights were not turned on after that an-
nouncement and there was almost imme-
diate cessation of the wll* clamor for elec-
tricity. The law of compensation seems to
be recognized even by the populists.
• ♦ •
The Chicago Tribune thinks the policy
holders in life insurance companies will
rush to the defense of the gold standard
and cast their votes for McKinley In or-
der to prevent the depreciation of their
holdings to a 50-cent on the dollar stand-
ard. It says:
The policy holders of the United States
have votes enough to defeat such a propo-
sition. They can compel the maintenance
of the existing gold standard. They can
trample under foot the repudlators and
revolutionists who are endeavoring to rob
them. When those policy holders see what
silver and a change of standards mean
they will be a unit against Bryan and his
party.
* • •
The New Orleans Telegram winds up an
article headed "Hot Weather Advice" as
follows:
Overwork shcftild be avoided while this
weather continues, and, above all things,
don't worry. The overwork one can not
always escape, but he can and should es-
cape unnecessary worry, which kills more
persons, ten to one, than work does. Re-
member the story of the woman who, on
her deathbed, told her eon how many
things worried her through life, and most
of them had never happened. Follow these
simple suggestions, laugh when you can,
cultivate an even temper and a cheerful,
kindly disposition and you will be healthy
and comfortable In weather that wrecks
the temper.
< * •
The Montgomery Advertiser thinks many
of the southern democratic papers were
too precipitate in indorsing the Chicago
nominees while opposed to the platform. It
says:
Now that a real democratic convention
is assured aud a genuine democratic ticket
and platform are in sight, and now. fur-
thermore, tha^ the popullstic character of
the Chicago performanoe is emphasized by
the St. Louis Indorsement, it is very likely
that thousands of loyal and true party men
will stop to take their bearings more care-
fully than they did two weeks ago. We do
not believe that they are prepared to see
democracy really swallowed up by popu-
lism. while outwardly the party organiza-
tion goes through the ruse of absorbing the
populists.
SturilcM in Politic**.
Washington Star.
"Say. Mame," said Maud as she bit off a
tiny piece of chewing gum, "I've been im
proving my mind again."
"Go 'way! You haven't!"
"Yes. 1 have. 1 havo been reading all
about the convention. It's perfectly fas
clnatlng, too."
"Can you understand It?"
"Most of It. I used to think a convention
was stupid, but It isn't a bit. It's just like
a gymnasium or riding a goat at an iriitla"
tion, or something of that kind, you know.'
"Ilow do they do?"
"Why, they bring out a plank,"
"Yess."
"And It's very wide; and the candidates
try to straddle It, and other people try to
keep them from doing so; and the side that
wins gets the nomination. I don't know
what it means, but that's the way it's done,
for 1 saw it In the payer."
NEWSPAPER RECREATION.
Mamma: "My darling, have you been a
good girl this summer?" Daughter: "Yes,
Indeed, dear; I have been a best girl."—The
Waterbury.
• » i
She: "How true it is that deeds are bet-
ter than words." He: "Yes; especially If a
brown stone house goes with the deed."—
Washington Times.
* * ♦
"My boy, it is high time that a check
was placed on your performances." "Thank
you, father. Please make it payable on
sight."—Detroit Free Press.
• * »
"Fame," said Tlncle Eben, "am Jes* like
swingin' in or hammick. Hit am mighty
good fun ef somebody doan' cut de string
an" drap yer."—Washington Star.
♦ * •
Justice: "You are charged with stealing
Colonel Julep's chickens. Have you any
witnesses?" Uncle Mose: "I heb not. I
dont' steal chickens before witnesses."—
Amusing Journal.
• • •
Care for the Party: "Is It true that old
Jinks is goin' ter bolt?" "Well, he's been
a-talkln' of it, but I don't think he's got
the heart to kill the party at one blow. —
Atlanta Constitution.
• * •
"Why does that Miss Passy persist In
wearing a pink veil?" "For the same rea-
son that a shrewd fruit dealer puts pink
mosquito bar over his decayed peaches."—
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
* * •
"Mrs. De Billions, don't you get tired of
tomatoes when you begin eating them so
early?"' "Oh, no; we always stop getting
them when they are so cheap that every-
body has them.'—Chicago Record.
• • •
Laura: "I am surprised to hear that you
are not going down to the seashore this
summer. How's that?" Lulu: "Oh, I don't
have to go this summer. 1 am already en-
gaged to be married."—Yonkers States-
man.
♦ • •
Mr. Chaffie: "Johnnie, your mother com-
plains that you are disobedient. That's got
to stop. You must obey your mother."
Johnnie: "Not much. It's you who have to
obey her. It isn't me that's married to her."
—Texas Sifter.
• • •
Wallace: "What Is the *M/ in Chaun-
cey Depew's name for?" Ferry: "It must
be for Mahatma. He often relates personal
experiences that took place from three
hundred to a thousand years ago."—Cin-
cinnati Enquirer. 9 9 ^
"Do you sec that woman there?"
"Yes; what about her?"
"Most remarkable case I ever heard of.
She got on a street car yesterday, and, flee-
ing a vacant seat near the center, went and
took It without standing in the door and
waiting for the other passengers to shove
along.'—Cleveland Leader.
Mrs. Grumps: "Did you advertise for
poor, dear little Fido?" Mr. Grumps: "Yew."
"Old you give a full description of him?"
-Yes." "And did you say our address was
on his silver collar?" "Yes." "And did you
offer a reward?" "Yes." "What did you of-
fer?" "1 said if the finder would return the
collar he might keep the dog."-Tld-Blts.
* ♦ •
Stein (blowing off the foam): "I wonder
why these things are called schooners?"
Brewer (shoving his empty glass toward
the barkeeper): "Oh, I suppose It Is because
of their being sort of fore-and-afts." Stein:
"Fore-and-aftsV" llrewer: "Yes; before you
get through drinking one you have a hank-
ering after another, see?"—Boston Courier.
• • •
The Epworth Herald says that a teacher
was recently hearing a' class In the Infant
Sunday school room, and was having her
scholars finish each sentence to show that
they understood her. "The Idol had eyes,"
she said, "but It couldn't—" "See!" cried
the children. "It hud ears, but It could-
n't—" "Hear" was the answer. "It had
lips," went on the teacher, "but It eould-
n t—" "Speak." once more repeated the
class. "It had a nose, but it couldn'tr-"
"Wipe it," shouted the ofclldrtn.
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The Galveston Daily News. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 125, Ed. 1 Monday, July 27, 1896, newspaper, July 27, 1896; Galveston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth465492/m1/4/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Abilene Library Consortium.