La Grange Journal. (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 41, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 13, 1904 Page: 1 of 8
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TO THE PEOPLE OF FAYETTE
COUNTY:
Have you forgotten the memory
of the heroes that lie entombed on
Monument Bluff ? Has it ever oc-
curred to you that the homes you
possess and enjoy were made pos-
sible by these men and their co-
patriots; by the greatest sacrifice
that men can make—the giving" up
of their lives ?,
You hold the title deeds to your
land; but where would be the joy
or benefit, if your life, liberty and
happiness were not secured ?
This you did not buy; it is the
inestimable gift, purchased by the
men who fell at San Antonio, Go-
liad, Salado, Mier, and other fields.
The liberty of our homes was a
blood-bought purchase. If these
men had been less brave, less pa-
triotic, our land today would pos-
sibly be under the sway of the
ignorant, intolerant Mexican, but
a shade less barbarous than were
the hordes led by Santa Anna,
sixty years ago!
Can you enjoy your family, your
homes and your country? while the
poor bones of the men who repre-
sented our country in its efforts to
secure our liberty and drive from
our borders the merciless invaders
of our soil, lie “unmarked, un-
honored and unknown!’’
The generation for which these
men died has nearly passed away.
While we may blame them for neg-
lecting to suitably honor their
memory, shall we, who now enjoy
the inheritance, do as they did ?
No! A thousand times no! Let
us arise and go forward and rest
not until the neglected work of our
fathers is begun and completed.
And the stigma that now rests on
us—neglected duty—is wiped out
by the fulfillment of our earnest
wishes.
For this purpose the Dawsoa-
Eastland Chapter Daughters of the
Republic of Texar has been organ-
ized. We have and do invite all
who will and can, to join as mem-
bers of the Chapter. We have!
throughout our state by the differ-
ent Chapters of the Daughters of
the Republic. They have done
nobly. Will you help our home
Chapter of LaGrange to add the
names of our martyred heroes to
the state list of those whose names
have been honored by her citizens.
Fayette county can not afford to be
left behind in this patriatic recog-
nition of benefits received and hon-
ors won.
Let us rear a monument that will
be a lasting memorial of the deeds
of these men for all time!
One that will satisfy us that
honor has been paid to those who
won it. That our children shall
know that their fathers’ patriotism
was expressed in deeds and not in
words only.
If you are willing io aid us, any
amount you may be willing to send
or subscribe, will be gladly received
by our treasurer, Mrs. S. E. H.
Bradshaw, and placed to the credit
of the monumental fund in the
bank. Mrs. M. E. Manton,
Pres., Dawson-Eastland Chapter
D. R. T.
POLITICAL UOSslP.
DON'T SCARE US!
The LaGrange Journal repro-
duces last week’s diptheria item
from the Times with the addition of
black type heading. The item was
printed in the Times as a matter of
strictly local news, and it appears
strange The Journal is the ohly
paper to reproduce the news of the
disease in a single household. We
are out,of diptheria cases now; the
child is sound and well; the house
has been fumigated, disinfected,
cleansed. There’s no fear of the
wandering calamity moving down
the road. Benno Harigel is safe
this time; there’s not a vestige of
the disease left, but the next time
he aids in the diffusion of calami-
tous information the Times will
start another railroad racket. When
we’ve got the measles, mumps and
whooping cough and things, don’t
say any thing about it. It might
scare the telegraph boys .but of
their badger fight,—Smithville
Times.
Right you are, neighbor, we’ll
pledged ourseives to the work of
building a suitable monument over
the remains of the Dawson men
and decimated Mier prisoners.
' be good from now on.
The Journal, like all lother
democratic sheets, will make a fight
for the success of the party ticket
Citirens of LaQrange and Fay-1 in as honorable a way as is possi-
ette county! will you help us? ble. We never abuse any man,
Help us with your money and your dislike the idea; in fact, abhor it;
never attack the nationality of any
individual, but we will criticise »he
opponents of the democratic ticket,
so long as such criticisms are just
and honorable. Every mortal man
is entitled to his opinion, and we
censure him not for that, but if he
can not get out of the way of the
democratic bandwagon, it’s not our
fault. We bear no ill will to those
who have accepted the republican
nomination for any office, but we
are going to give the democratic
words of cheer!
Surely you need no words of
mine to convince you of the sacred-
ness and privilege of this call! If
Texans are anything, they are pa-
triotic. They love their country,
their state, their county and her
sons. I feel that there is scarce a
man, woman or child who will not
cast in something of their store to
show their gratitude to the mem-
ory of those men who fought so
bravely, suffered so greatly, and
died for the liberty we enjoy. Only
think! If every voter at the com-
ing election, when he polls his vote,
would but add twenty-five or fifty
cents as a gift to this work, it
would make a sum sufficient for
the accomplishment of our purpose.
We want $2,500. Men of Fay-
ette! will you help us to raise this
amount ? The work of reviving
and restoring to memory’, the bat-
tle grounds rendered forever sacred ' date, on our books will also show
by the lives sacrificed and blood that they invariably pay in ad-
shed, to maintain the independence . vance. We judge no man by his
of our government from 1836 to (nationality, but by hrs worth. So
>846, is being carried forward! much for that!
How did you like the picture of
the republican county convention
in the last issue of The Journal?
It was a true reproduction.
Hon. Rud. Kleberg will speak at
the barbecue at Round Top on Oc-
tober 21st. The Round Top bar-
becue will be a big thing and will
become a landmark in the history
of the democratic campaign in this
county. The Round Top precinct
is the battle ground and when the
fight is over the democratic stand-
ard will float in victory.
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Theodore Roosevelt has not only
criticised every president of the
United States, but he absolutely
libeled and defamed the good name
of Jefferson Davis, and denounced
Confederate soldiers as anarchists.
Russell Allen is a Confederate sol-
dier. How can he expect his old
comrades to vote for him against
another old Confederate soldier
when his name is upon the official
ballot of the republican party—the
party of Theodore Roosevelt ? Jim
Faires, the democratic nominee, is
running on the white man’s tick-
et and is not running on the Roose-
velt ticket.
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During the war no braver men
served in the Southern array than
the Confederate soldiers of Round
Top. Will the survivors of that
gallant band that went with Waul’s
legion to Vicksburg and fought for
forty days and forty nights in an
effort to hold aloft the standard of
constitutional government—fought,
bled and died for a white man’s
government, and the sons of those
survivors, as well as the sons of
those who died, how can any of
them vote for a candidate for coun-
ty commissioner and a candidate
for justice of the peace, who are
the candidates of the negro party?
The Journal does not believe that
they will. It expects to see the
good old democrats of Round Top
rally as one man about the flag and
help mot only to carry old demo-
cratic Round Top once more for
the democratic candidates for pres-
ident and state offices, but for
county a»d precinct officers as well
—and especially for precinct offices,
let
Hon. Geo. F. Burgess will make
five speeches in justice precinct No.
3 within two days. The congress-
man will preach old time democ
racy to his constituents. There
will be a warm time in the old pre-
cinct during that week.
And now they are beginning to
tell campaign lies. For instance,
the enemies of Jim Faires are charg-
ing that he has been calling the
Germans and the Bohemians “Dam
Dutch” and “Dam Bohemians.”
The fellows who are circulating
this report live out in the postoaks,
and they imagine that this is going
to make vote* for their candidate
far commissioner. It is the same
intelligent man, and they know
that he,is not given to little poli
tics. They know him well enough
to know that he is broad minded,
and not a man who would do the
things charged of him. The Ger-
mans and Bohemians will resent
this method of electioneering. The
Journal wishes the Germans and
Bohemians to observe closely who
the fellows are that are nsing this
method of influencing them. In
ninety-nine cases out of a hundred
it is some little narrow-minded,
drivelling fellow who imagines tlia(
the Germans and Bohemians have
not an idea above national preju
dice to control them in their votes.
The Germans and Bohemians in
this county are intelligent and
broad minded, and they will not
pay any attention to campaign lies.
The editor of The Journal has a
right to speak for the Germans for
he is a German-American himself,
set
Alwiu Beyer is a good business
man and it does seem to The Jour
nal that the people of his beat
ought to elect him bv a unanimous
vote, and give to the county the
services of a good business man on
the commissioners’ court. He
knows exactly what the people of
his beat need.
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Old Fayette is the largest county
in the 9th congressional district.
Let every democrat go to work and
see that the voters come out on
election day and vote the demo-
cratic ticket, and let us make it
the biggest democratic county, not
only in the congressional district
but in South Texas. Fayette coun-
ty exerts a good deal of influence
throughout South Texas now, and
that influence can be made stronger
by increasing her democratic vote.
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The campaign is notable for the
lack of interest displayed by the"
negro politicians. In former years
within a month before the election
the negro leaders from over the
county would visit LaGrange two
or three times each week. This
year they are all out picking cotton
and letting politics alone. So much
for county nominations.
nominee the preference. Self-pres-
ervation is the first law of nature,
you know. Yet, in the face of all
this, the report has reached this
office that our intentions to the
Bohemian democrats are bordering old racket of the republicans to try
on unfriendliness, but why, ho one j to stir up race prejudice. The
can explain. A ’ glance over our i Germans and Bohemians are far
subscription list will show that j too intelligent to listen to any such
A notice of the organizing of a
Democratic club at the court house
in this city last Thursday night,
appears on the following page of
this issue. Through thd kindness
of a reader The Journal is en-
abled to reproduce the minutes.
The democracy of this precinct ha*
always been found ready to battle
for the ticket, and the efforts of
tM party this year will cause the
majority to exceed that of former
campaigns. The third of Novem-
ber has been designated as the day
on which a grand rally is to occur
and Governor Lanham will be the
orator. As events of this nature
are never short of that kind of
amusement that causes old< and
young alike to attend, the democ-
racy of this precinct will be pre-
pared to entertain the multitude.
At night the fire department will
give the opening ball at the Casino.
WAGE REDUCTION.
Notwithstanding the many claims
being set up by the republicans to
the effect that the incomes of wage-
earners throughout the land have
been increased about twelve per
cent, under republican rule, no fig-
ures have been submitted by any
ol them to substantiate this claim.
There appear to be very good
reasons for this failure to submit
figures. Principal among them is
is the all sufficient one that the only
figures obtainable show that there
have been reductions in wages av-
eraging from ten to fiftren per
cent., and this during the years
1903 and 1904, when the republi-
can party was in control of every
branch of the national government.
There was a reduction ’ io the
years of over ten per cent, in wages
of textile workers in Philadelphia
to the number of 100,000; tack
makers suffered a reduction of
twenty per cent.; furnace operators
had their wages reduced on an av-
erage of about fifteen per cent.,
steel workers had their incomes cut
about ten per cent., as was also the
case with iron workers, while glass
workers suffered a cut ol twenty
per cent*
In many of the cotton and silk
mills ten per cent, reduction In
wages was exacted, and the plate
mill workers of McKeesport, Pa.,
were assessed thirty per cent. Cor-
rugated iron workers were forced
to give tip twenty per cent, of their
earnings; bridge builders had their
wages reduced ten per cent.; rail-
road operatives on many of the
large systems sustained a ent in
wages of about fifteen cents a day,
and the rule of reduction appears
to have applied to almost every
branch of trade, affecting a great
many thousand employees.
^he International Mercantile
agency, headed by ex-Director of
the Census Merriam, reports that
the wages of more than 200,000
industrial employees were reduced
not less than ten per cent, in 1903.
and that 300,000 others suffered a
like reduction^ the early portion,
of 1904.
In addition to all this, hundreds
of mills emyloying hundreds of
thousands of men closed down en-
tirely in 1903, and in Allegheney
county, Pa., alone there are now
over 10,000 idle men on account of
closed mills.
From the seat of war in the far
East, the news comes that Russia
is to assume the aggressive, and if
possible, “turn the tables’’ on the
Japanese. No definite information
is ohtaininable, but many wild ru-
mors may be expected. The Japs-
have retreated to Liao Yang and
it is now the avowed intention of
Kuropatkin to recapture positions
recently lost to the Japs. When
the clash comes, we may as well
prepare to receive the report of an-
other terrific battle, with loss high
up in the thousands..
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The address of Prof. Lake, de-
livered at the assembly hall of the
school building Friday night, has
for publication.
been handed us
Hon. John H. Reagan, the last
sunscripuon 11st win snow 1—........0-.-P8S------ - j member of Jefferson Davis’cabinet, 0 . to its leneth we omit it this
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that
is a man of his own convictions,
independent in thought, fearless in
expressing what he thinks, and
that nobody on earth can control
him. They know too that he is an
appfp
lie 1 was eighty-six years of age Satur-
day. The old Confederate veteran
is enjoying good health and the en-
tire state rejoices to know it
Subscribe for The Journal.
I issue, but hope
lish it next week.
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lt is a valuable
document, and was attentively re-
ceived at the social meeting, and
those who felled to bear Prof. Lake
will And it very ieterestfcig
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La Grange Journal. (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 41, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 13, 1904, newspaper, October 13, 1904; La Grange, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1004563/m1/1/?q=music: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Fayette Public Library, Museum and Archives.