The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 39, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 26, 1895 Page: 2 of 16
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SOUTHERN MERCIXBY.
8EPT. 26, 1895
THE SOULS OF THE CHILDREN*
"Who bids for the little children—
body and soul and brain?
Who bids for the little children—fair
and without a stain?
Will no one bid? What! no one—for
their souls so pure and white?
And fit for all good or evil which the
world on their page may write?"
"J bid," cries Beggary, howling, "Ibid
for them one and aill!
I'll teach them a thousand lessons—to
lie, to skulk, to crawl!
They shall sleep in my lair, like mag-
gots; they shall rot in the fair sun-
shine;
And if they serve my purpoae, I hope
they'll answer thine."
"And I'll bid higher and higher," says
Crime, with wolfish grin,
"For I love to lead the children through
the pleasant paths of sin;
They shall swarm in the streets to
pilfer; they «shall plague the
broad highway,
Till they «grow too old'for pity, and
ripe for the law to slay."
"The prisons and the gallows are plen-
ty in the land;
Twere folly not to use them, so proud-
ly do they stand.
Give me the little children—I'll take
them as they're born,
And feed their evil passions with mis-
ery and scorn.
"Give me the little children, ye good,
ye rich, ye wise,
And let the busy world spin around,
while ye shut your idle eyes,
And your judges shall have work, and
your lawyers wag the tongue,
And the jaalers and policemen shall
be fathers to the young."
—Charles Mackay.
Tracy to Culberson.
The following card from Harry
Tracy relative to the controversy be-
tween him and Gov. Culberson is a
fair statement on the part of Mr.
Tracy:
"Since Gov. Culberson has publicly
denied that he said to any goldbug, 'I
am loyal to the Dallas 1894 democrat-
ic platform, but must advocate the
free and unlimited coinage of silver
at 16 to 1 in order to defeat Nugent,'
I find I cannot prove that the gover-
nor used any such language without
parading before the public what is
now claimed to have been intended
as a private conversation. 1 there-
fore, in justice to Gov. Culberson,
cheerfully withdraw the statement
made in my Lampasas speech as quot-
ed above. I hope the governor will
as cheerfully withdraw his published
statement in reference to my Hills-
boro speech which I long since showed
to be utterly groundless.
"In this connection I am constrain-
ed to say that a perusal of the pub-
lished proceedings of the Dallas dem-
ocratic state convention of 1894, the
governor's speech to that convention
accepting its nomination for gover-
nor after its platform had been unan-
imously adopted, coupled with his
Goliad speech delivered a few days
afterward, convinced me that some
irresistible incentive had driven him
to repudiate his platform and accep-
tance speech. This incentive, I con-
cluded, was a fear of Nugent's elec-
tion.
"By referring to the printed pro-
ceedings of the convention that nom
nated Gov. Culberson at Dallas in
1894, we find there were two platforms
submitted to that body, viz; The one
presented by the minority of the
committee on platform endorsing the
free coinage of silver at 16 to 1, while
that submitted by the majority of
that committee was an exact copy of
that part of the national democratic
platform of 1882 on finance which had
been interpreted by the highest tri-
bunal in the democratic party to
mean the single gold standard. The
1894 democratic state convention at
Dallas on the occasion referred to by
a vote of 451 yeas to 415 nays repudi-
ated the minority platform, where-
upon the following appears in the
printed proceedings of said conven-
tion: 'After the result was announced
and Chairman Hamby had succeeded
in partially checking the enthusiasm,
J. W. Blake of Limestone, who had
led the light on behalf of the minor-
ity [free silverites] report, was recog-
nized. Addressing the body he said:
Mr. Chairman, I now move that the
majority [single gold standard] report
of the committee on platform and
resolutions be adopted by acclama-
tion. There were fully fifty seconds
to the motion. The question was then
put and the platform [single gold
standard] upon which the leaders of
the democracy of Texas this year will
stand was adopted without a dissent-
ing voice. Chairman Hamby declared
the result. After which, on motion,
the convention adjourned to 10 o'clock
a. m., Thursdav, Aug. 16, 1894:"
On the morning of the 16th the sec-
retary read the following letter to
the convention:
Dallas, Tex., Aug. 16.—To Gen.
W. H. Hamby, president of the state
democratic convention of Texas: Sir—
I have made my canvass, among other
things, in favor of a clear, distinct
declaration of the use of both gold
and silver as the standard money met-
als without discrimination against
either or charge of mintage at the
ratio of sixteen dollars of silver to
one of gold. The vote of this conven-
tion discloses the fact that it does
not approve of such explicit declara-
tions and I bow to its authority. But
inasmuch as my view of the necessity
of such explicit declaration on this
great question does not accord with
the judgment of the convention, and
as I think the maintenance of my own
conviction clearly stated to be of
more importance than the acquisition
of official position, I withdraw my
name as a candidate for the office of
governor from the consideration of
this convention. I do this because
whomsoever you nominate should be
in full accord with the announced
views of the convention. * * *
"John H. Reagan."
After Charles A. Culberson had
been nominated he spoke as follows:
"Your generous actions to-day has
placed me under renewed obligations
to the democratic party. Cherishing
its fundamental principles as the
basis of civil liberty and feeling a
just pride in its spendid governmental
achievinents, the confidence of its
members is matter of gratification
would not conceal under the condi-
tions which surround me; remember-
ing the distiguished competitors for
the honor and the remarkable cam-
paign through which we have passed,
it would be unnatural not to feel a
profound appreciation oi your in-
dorsement. For whatever there may
be in it of a personal character you
have my sincerea cknowledgment and
for whatever there may be in recog-
nition of oftical conduct and the
promise of future service to my state
and party you have my firm resolve
if possible to justify your trust. It is
not expeted and the occasion is not
appropriate to speak at length of
party measures, yet it may not be
amiss to remind you that the declara-
tion of principles of the convention
is essentially a statement of the his-
tory and previous utterances of the
party. * * * To meet the expand-
ing commercial necessities of the na-
tion it would provide an adequate
volume of sound money, consisting of
gold and silver and paper bottomed
on coin, with equal debt-paying and
purchasing power. While the declara-
tion of the convention upon this ques-
tion is not so specific as some would
have desired, and while an expression
as to the ratio was withheld, the
plank is broad enough for all demo-
crats to stand upon,"
It is therefore seen that the Dallas
democratic state convention of 1894
did repudiate the free and unlimited
coinaga of silver at 16 to 1, and did,
by a unanimaus vote, adopt the single
gold standard policy; that it nominat-
ed C. A. Culberson as its candidate
for governor; that he in accepting
that nomination pledges the conven-
tion that he would "be faithful to the
trust" reposed in him; that the plat-
form was "a reiteration of the party's
previous utterances;" that its financi-
al plank was "broad enough for all
democrats to stand upon;" in short,
that he would henceforth stand upon
that platforn and advocate its princi-
ples.
In the face of these pledges we find
that in a speech delivered in Goliad
on the 29th of September, 1894, which
occupied more than two columns in
The News, advocating the free coin-
age of silver at 16 to 1, that he then
and there declared: "I believe the
parity of the two metals may be main-
tained, and I an in favor of the free
and unlimited coinage of gold and
silver without discrimination at the
present ratio of 16 to 1." Here the
governor repudiates his own platform,
his Dallas speech, and reiterates and
indorses what the Dallas convention
had emphatically repudiated and
denounced as populism, and planted
himself squarely upon the people's
party platform on the silver issue.
It will not be said the governor
committed this unparaleled political
somersault for fun or that he did it
from choice, but it must be admitted
that he was forced to do it to escape
some political catastrophe. What
that catastrphe was I leave the gov-
ernor to explain, but until he does so
I shall insist, because the facts prove
it, that he did it to prevent Nugent's
election. Harry Tracy.
Roger Q. Mills has at last spoken on
the money question. Roger always
speaks, but he waits till the other big
guns have all spoken. Having served
the liquor interests faithfully for
many years, it is meet that he now
serve the gold mongers. He has now
been a greenbacker, a free silverite
and a goldbug, and doubtless feels
that he has covered all the platforms.
A more time-serving or rapacious
spoilsman does not live than Roger
Q. Mills. He has no more real con-
victions than a crocodile.—Baptist
Standard.
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and qf inferior quality
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Park, Milton. The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 39, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 26, 1895, newspaper, September 26, 1895; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth185626/m1/2/: accessed May 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .