The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 22, 1894 Page: 6 of 16
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SOUTSBltlT MESOtTSY.
NOV. 22, 1894.
00 V. ALTO ELDS VIEWS.
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la answer to a question by an As«o
oiatod Press reporter, Gov. Altgeld
gave his opinion feA to the cause of the
demooratio defeat.
He lay* the blame on Cleveland. He
says Mr. Cleveland made a grave mis-
take 'hat he did not call congress in
extra session as soon as he was inaug
urated and have a tariff law passed in
order that it could have been effeotive
ly tested and business adjusted to its
provisions before the campaign came
on.
As to the Chicago strike he said:
"In Chicago duriog the railroad
strike, before any rioting or destruc-
tion of property, and before anything
happened to indicate that the looal au-
thorities could not maintain law and
order, and before the state authorities
were asked for assistance, the federal
government, violating the constitution
and the principles of local self-govern-
ment, which the democratic party had
advocated for 100 years, interferred,
both through the federal judiciary and
By the use of federal troops. This was
by the direction of the attorney gener-
al and the president. The country then
discovered that it had a corporation
lawyer for an attorney general, and al-
though there was in Chicago complete
machinery for the administration of
justice, yet so eager were the federal
authorities to setrve the corporations
that the usual machinery in Chicago
was not trusted. A special represent-
ative was appointed to directly repre-
sent the government as prosecutor and
the country was amazed at the selec-
tion made. The administration se-
lected not only a republican, but one of
the most prominent corporation law
yers in the country, and who was an
attorney for some railroads involved in
the strike, and had therefore, a direct
personal interest in the outcome. Yet
he was put in charge of the machinery
of justice and brought to the service of
his clients without any expense to
them, United States marshals, grand
juries, oourts and the army.
"All this was under an administra-
tion that had been placed in power by
the demcoratio party. Hundreds of
honest and industrious men who had
violated no statute and transgressed
no law were thrown into prison on the
mere charge of being guilty of con-
tempt of court, and the toiling masses
became alarmed, not simply for their
material welfare, but for tbe liberty of
themselves and children, and seized
the first opportunity to deliver a body
blow to the administration which was
fraudulently claiming to be democratic
while violating every rule and princi-
ple of demooracy. They joined hands
with dissatisfied business men, and the
result is universal disaster to a party
which has been twice deoeived and
twice betrayed by one man. It has
been the misfortune to be stricken by a
man to whom it handed a sword."
WHAT WALL STREET THINKS,
The views of Wall street on the re-
sult of the election is set forth in the
last letter of Henry Clews. He says
"the election prepares the way for a
new set of conditions." Is it not rath
er a return to the old conditions? Is
Wall street going to permit the repub-
lican party to change the conditions?
Of course not.
He further says: "There are signs
of wholesome conditions and resolutions
among the people at large that politios
•hall be purged of the now prevailing
corruption." That must be intended
as a juke. The very idea of oalliag on
the republican party to purge politics
from oorruption is too absurd and
ridiculous to consider for one moment.
Mr. Clews continues: "We take it
also that the change of government
means a serious effort to reform our
currenoy system." Yes, the republi-
cans oan reform the currenoy system.
They had from 1861 to 1692 to reform
it, and by that date had our currenoy
system so thoroughly reformed that a
panic resulted. The less of this sort
of reformation the ourrency system has
the better.
Mr. Clews hits the nail on the head
as follows:
"The overwhelming majority will
make the next congress and adminis-
tration less dependent upon conciliat-
ing the clamor for free coinage of sli-
ver and for fiat money; and a3 republi-
can leanings towards those heresies
have doubtless been due much more to
motives of factional accommodation
than to any real disregard for sound
money, the hope for conservative leg-
islation on the currency question is
thus very greatly strengthened."
There is no doubt but that legisla-
tions on the money question will be
"conservative"—-just as conservative
as Wall street desires it.
He concludes that the people did not
desire so much change as the demo-
crats proposed,but they wanted return
of prosperity and the shortest road to
it was to re-elect the republican party
to power. That is it. The people
want prosperity, but the history o f the
republican party legislation shows that
they will not get it by the republican
route. If thirty odd years of republi-
can rule did not seoure prosperity it is
natural to conclude 4that the party
does not know what prosperity means.
Wail street can rest easy. There is
not the least danger that the money
power will be disturbed in its domina-
tion of the financial policy of the gov-
ernment, but prosperity to the people
cannot come by Wall street methods.
The people may find this out when
they are impoverished.
THE NEW BOND ISSUE.
Liik*•
The Cincinnati Enquirer, in discuss-
ing the new bond issue, says:
"There seems to be no longer any
doubt of an immediate issue of United
States bonds. The information is that
President Cleveland has said it, and,
of course, there is nobody to success-
fully say nay. Congress could repeal
the law which gives the secretary au-
thority to issue bonds, but the indica-
tions are that the obligation will be in-
curred before the meeting of congress.
This will be the second bond issue
within a year. The bonds already is-
sued this year, and those to come in a
few days, will bear interest at 5 per
cent, congress having refused to pro-
vide by law for a 3 per cent issue. The
reason of the refusal was that neither
congress nor the people wanted bonds
of any sort issued. The remedy sug-
gested by congress was the coinage of
fifty-five millions of dollars out ot bull
ion belonging to the government, or
the issue of paper to represent it. The
president vetoed a bill for utilizing this
resouroe, and borrowed fifty millions
of dollars from the gold brokers in
New York.
"Two reasons are conspicuously as-
signed for putting the government
further in debt. One is the preserva-
tion of the humbug gold reserve. The
other is to procure money to run the
government, the new tariff law having,
in the president's view, failed so far to
provide sufficient revenue. The ques-
tion arises here, what a distressing
condition the government would have
been in had the Wilson bill become a
law. The authors and nurses of that
destructive measure seemed to be care-
less as to whether the government had
any revenue or not."
PLUTOCRACY TO CONTROL THE PRESS.
Plutocracy is always on the alert,
and never lets an opportunity escape to
aid its cause. The press is a power,
and no one knows it better than the
money gamblers. The money power is
alarmed at the large number of reform
papers* and are now organizing. to off-
set the effects of their work. The
Ohio Populist says:
"A line of daily papers must be es-
tablished throughout the country
which can all be controlled and edited
by one head, the money power, and all
be made to suppress the same news,
tell the same political and financial
lies, and be used to break down every
paper that attempts to properly inform
the people.
"It will be remembered that the Chi-
cago Times, which opened its columns
to the discussion of reform questions,
has just been bought by the pluto-
crats.
"The Boston Traveler, another influ-
ential daily that opened its columns to
the people, is mentioned as another one
of the great dailies plutocracy must
control.
Thus, day by day, do the damnable
schemes ot plutocracy to keep the peo-
ple in ignorance and slavery comes to
light. -
"The irrepressible con fllot between
money slavery and the inalienable
rights of men, is rapidly approaching.
It is the inevitable; let it oome; let the
producing massess, like the patriot
fathers of old, prepare to meet it like
men and freemen; let the watchword
be "Liberty or death!" Let it be a
fight to the finish, and let the frends of
humanity meet the issue face to face,
and neither ask nor give quarter. The
conflict must be one of extermination.
Either plutocracy must be extermina-
ted or all liberty will be exterminated.
"These are times that demand men
with courage and patriotism; the man
who has not that courage and patriot-
ism is unworthy to be a freeman."
CARLISLE INFLUENCED.
A New York dispatch says:
"Election day John A. Stewart, pres*
dlent of the United States Trust com-
pany, who used his influence in the
early part of the year to get Secretary
Carlisle's first bond issue, visited
Washington and conferred with the
president and Secretary Carlisle. To-
day Mr. Stewart and one or two of his
associate bank presidents, received a
copy of the proposed circular, and last
night the draft was returned to Wash-
ington with their approval. Mr.Cleve-
land has been assured by them that the
proposed issue of bonds on the terms
mentioned will be a success."
The idea of a bank president
or the president of a trust com-
pany, which is the same thing, us-
ing his influence to induce the secre-
tary of the treasury to issue govern-
ment bonds! Then the idea of the sec-
retary of the treasury being influenced
by the president of a trust oompany to
issue bond !
Mr. Carlisle appears to act as though
the government was to be run in the
the Interests of bankers and trust ccm«
panies. He and Grover hurry up and
issue bonds before congress meets to
avoid congressional inquiries, and issue
bonds at the dio'ation of banks acd
trust oompanies! Who is running the
government, anyway?
WHAT SENATOR PEFFER SAYS.
Senator Ptffer, having returned to
Washington, was interviewed by a
W athingten reporter, and said.
"What we have lost in congressmen,
we have more than made ud in votes.
The reports generally published would
lead people to suppose that we had suf-
fered a nre terial loss in all respects In
Kansas. Such is.not the case. In 1890
we had about 105,000 in the state; in
1892, about 113,000, and in the late elec-
tion, from 120,OCO to 125,000, in tbe face
of the fact that 20,0C0 of our voters bad
left the state on account of tbe drought.
We failed in the election of officers be-
cause we were not paired with the
democrats, but we have every reason
to feel encouraged for tbe future. In
the country at large, I feel confident
that when the returns are footed up,
they will show our total vote to be a
little less than 2.000,000, which is
about twice the populist vote of three
years ago."
POPULIST PLURALITIES.
□ Herewith we publish a list of the
counties which shows populist gains.
Full returns have not been received,
but enough has been shown to give
populists in Texas cause to rejoice and
take courage. The columns show coun-
ties carried by populist3 and the net
gains: Net Net
Counties. Piur. gain. lo¿s.
Blanco 29 156 ....
Comanche 155 24 ....
Delta 535 235 ... •
Erath 175 387
Hamilton 136 334 ....
Lampasas 818 395
Mills 146 136 ....
Rains.. 124 29 ....
Somervell 147 104 ....
Parker 360 1558 ....
Jones 112 146 ....
Hopkins 1C5 557 ....
Lee 54 407 ....
Caldwell 66 701 ....
Cherokee 265 £91 ....
Eastland 60 480 ....
Gonzales 566 s72 ....
Hardin 194 496 ....
Polk 15 125 ....
Milam 198 421
Van Zandt 592 707 ....
San Jacinto 284 373 ....
Live Oak 4 60 ...?
Nacogdoches 2 68
Navarro 778 1518 ....
Burnett 65 499 ....
Karnes 47 159 ....
Walker 140 36 ....
Sabine 209 .... 17
Collingsworth 5 110 ....
Limestone 213 1526
Floyd" 20 217 ....
Wise 1U 1336 ....
Houston 245 294 ....
Callahan 82 310 ....
Dimmit 21 21 ....
Anderson 309 1113 ....
Lavaca 365 1407 ....
Wilson 367 297
Goliad 32 63
Upshur 3 367 ....
Waller 127 22)
Bosque 15 887 ....
Edwards 4 146 ....
Cass 422 288 ....
Pa'o Pinto 35 3i>7 ....
Burleson 199 630 ....
Btndera 67 54 ....
Henderson 27 821 ....
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Park, Milton. The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 22, 1894, newspaper, November 22, 1894; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth185588/m1/6/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .