The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 1, 1896 Page: 4 of 16
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SOUTHEItN MEBCOTIY.
OCT. i, 1896.
ONE DOLLAR A YEAR.
—PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY-
SOUTHERN MERCURY PUB. CO.
MILTON PARK,
MANAGING EDITOn AMO GENL MGR.
TEXAS POPULIST STATE PAPEE
AND
Official Journal Farmers' State Alliance of Texas
Entered at the Dallas, Texas, post office at
tail matter of the second class.
¿Hice, 196 Main St., Opposite Trust Building.
SPECIAL OFFER.
We wll send the Mercury in clubs of
ten or more to any one address till
after the election for 5 cents per copy.
Send us 50 cents and receive a dozen
copies. It is the best worker for re-
form you can get.
Everybody subscribe for the Mer-
cury.
Candidate Watson has returned to
Georgia.
The voice of ex-Speaker Crisp is
notably silent.
The result in Texas depends on
watching the ballot.
Culberson's audience at Dallas con-
tained a large deficiency.
Democratic voters in Maine could
not get over the Se-wall.
Look out for Watson's letter of ac-
ceptance. It will be a scorcher.
Somebody is destined to be sur-
prised at the populist vote in Texas.
You can do no better service for
the party than to circulate the Mer-
cury. , .
Major Kearby is making a telling
canvass of the state. Kearby is a
winner.
The voice of Senator Morgan of
Alabama is heard very little in the
campaign.
Middle-of-the-road populists in Col-
orado have nominated Davis H. Waite
for governor.
Trinity navigation will bring a
market to the doors of the North
Texas producers.
Every one who will send us $1 will
receive the Mercury free till after
the el-ction, then regularly till No-
vember, 1897.
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Every man and his family should
try to attend the Texas state fair. It
will be the largest and best exhibit-
ion ever held in the southwest.
P0LÍTI03 IN THE PÜLPIT.
The preachers are taking a hand in
the campaign for "sound money."
Preachers like money, and the higher
it appreciates the better, for it
adds to the purchasing power of their
salaries.
Rev. Thomas Dixon recently deliv-
ered a religio-politibo sermon at his
People's church in New York city,
and succeeded in converting the ser-
vices into a ward meeting, at which
were heard cheers and hisses and.such
choice exprsesions as "liar" and
"fraud." Rev. Dixon's congregation
mostly left before he finished.
Bev. Robert MacArthur of the Cal
vary Baptist church of Brooklyn, N.
Y. also disgraced bis pulpit by preach
ing a political sermon a few Sundays
ago in which he called several per-
sons anarchists and Cleveland a saint.
Then followed Courtland Myers of
the Baptist temple in Brooklyn, who
grooped together the "Blood-stained
banner of the cross," "old glory," the
devil and Aitgeld in a very pictures-
que manner. Other ministers are
also disgracing their high calling by
dabbling in party politics, in each
case giving the goldbugs the blessing
and conferring curses on the other
parties. This is an excellent way to
tear down the churches. Such men
would stand a good show of being
scourged from their temples if Christ
should come to New York.
HOW A PRESIDENT 18 ÉLE0TED.
In answer to many questions com-
ing to the Mercury the method of
electing a president and vice-presl-
dent is here given so that all voters
may understand it:
The nominees for president and
vice-president are not voted for.
The vote must be cast for the
electors or the ticket headed by the
candidates.
Electors selected in the congress-
ional districts go on the state ticket
and are voted for all over the state.
The ticket shows the plurality of
votes In Texas coins and the 'electors
on that ticket casts the vote of the
state for president and vice-presi-
dent.
The electors are not legally bound
to vote for the candidates at the
head of the ticket on which their
names appear, but they almost invar-
iably do so.
It amounts to nothing to scratch
off the names of the candidate for
president or vice-president, but
elector's names may be scratched
and the names of electors on other
tickets inserted.
QUESTION3 AND ANSWE&8.
A friend from Dayton, Tex. pro-
pounds several questions which he de-
sires answered. The answer to his
first question is that the president of
the senate, who is the vice-president,
appoints the senate committees.
The second question as to how su-
preme judges of the state are chosen
is answered by saying they are elect-
ed by the people.
The following question is impor-
tant:
"In case Bryan and Sewall get 154
electoral vot es
And Bryan and Watson get 100 elec-
toral votes
And McKinley and Hobart get 197
electoral votes
Who will be president and vice-
president?"
Should the election returns show
the condition^ given by our«inquiring
friend McKinley and Hobart would be
elected, as the Bryan and Sewall
electors could not be added to the
Bryan and Watson electors in casting
the vote. Bryan and Watson and
Bryan and Sewall constitute differ-
ent tickets ánd unless the friends of
these candidates get together and
vote for the same electors and only
one set of electors the votes cannot
be consolidated. As the case no*
stands there are two sets of elect-
ors in Texas, with their parties sup
porting Bryan as a presi-dential can
didate. The populists made a propo-
sition to the democratsat Ft. Worth
to fuse electois and have only one
ticket, dividing the fifteen electors
of Texas between the two parties, but
the democrats referred the proposi-
tion to the Terrell asylum} ot a mo-
tion was made to that effect. The
proposition was rejected and it may
defeat Mr. Bryan in this state.
END OF B088 REIGN IN TEXA8.
A more unconscionable gang of
scoundrels and plunderers than the
democratic bosses and pie-eaters of
the south, was never turned loose to
prey upon a defenseless people.
For years the toiling masses of the
south have been robbed by these pi-
ratical pie-eaters until the patience
of a very paiient and long-suffering
people have become exhausted. There
is at last a determination taking deep
root in the minds of the southern
masses to turn down this piratical
gang and reinstate the honest and
honorable methods of earlier days.
Indeed so unsatiate has become the
greed of the modern southern Office
grabber that unless his career is
ended this fair land is destined to
desolution and ruin.
The democratic pie-eater and po-
litical boss of the southern states has
in recent years become a fair exam-
ple of total depravity. There is no
method of obtaining and retaining
office that is too criminal and outrag-
eous to meet his sanction, there is no
act too dishonorable to receive his
approval, there is no crime that he
will not resort to in order to obtain
office, from theft to willful and pre-
meditated murder.
The southern pie-eating democratic
boss has no more respect for the sac-
red and constitutional right of suf-
frage than a debauchee has for inno-
cence and virtue, no more regard for
his word or uis honor than a cannibal
has for human life, and no more love
for his country or desire for the well
being of humanity than a hotentot.
Such is the condition of morality that
prevails in the official households of
the southern states, a condition so
revolting that any other people on
earth except the confiding southern
masses would have long since de-
throned by open rebellion if no other
means had been available.
The state of Texas has its full
share of these political pirates. In-
dred, no state in the south has • uf-
fered more from an organized gang
of political plunderers tlisn Texas.
One portion of the gang garmondizes
on the sweat and blood of the produc-
ing masses until the howls of an
other faction become irresistible
and the second relief come3 in to
suck the blood of the people, holding
on until others of the same band of
comorants demand their share of the
swag.
There is no let up or end to this
blood-sucking, only each year the
greed of the gang increases.
The political bosses in Texas have
brought the people to as complete a
state of subjection and bondage as
the master did his servants in the
anti-bellum periods^ They are mon
archs and have ruled the people with
a rod of iron. Office and the result
ing plunder has been their aim and
ambition, and all else is ruthlessly
sacrificed. Today these Texas demo-
cratic bosses propose to jeopardize
the electoral vote of the state in
order, as they think, to continue in
control of the state offices. They re-
ject with disdain a fair proposition
to divide electors with the people's
party, which wonld have made sure
the electoral vote for Mr. $ryan
for feat- such action might endanger
their continued enjoyment of the
state pie. Like Josh Billings, who
was willing to sacrifice all of his.
wife's relations for patriotism, this
Texas coterie of leeches is willing to
sacrifice even their own relations and
blood kin f or office.
The voters of Texas have decided
this year to drive these desccrators
of the temples out and place á set of
officers in control of the business of
the state who have never taken the
oath of allegiance to the gang. The
people will at the election in Novem-
ber file their solemn protest against
a longer reign of robbery and pillage
in Texas. The masses have been
very slow to anger, but they are now
getting "riled," and when once a
Texan gets mad he is mad all over.
It has been demonstrated that a
Texan can fight for his rights, and
this fall it Will be showr. that the
Texas people can fearlessly vote for
honest methods. The gang rule in
Texas is to end this year, and the de-
cision of the people in the matter is
none too soon. Make the rout of the
pie-eating gang complete, and the
victory for honest government last-
ing.
The Austin gang will spend all of
the available school fund rather than
have a look at the books by the peo-
ple.
Arkansas Jones, the head of the
Bryan and Sewall combination, intro-
duced a bill in congress to issue $500,-
000,000 of bonds to retire treasury
notes. This is one of the bills that
Cahrlie did not mention, and there are
many more Democratic bills of the
same kind. These are the men who
cuss Cleveland, cuss Republicans and
want to send Texas Populists to the
lunatic asylum at Terrell.
Since the Democrats of Texas in
State convention assembled have de-
clared they do not want Populists to
vote with them, nor aid them in any
way, it is the height of stupidity and
cowardice to longer hold out the olive
branch to them. From now hencefor-
ward let every self-respecting Popu-
list declare war to the knife and knife
to the hilt against the pie-eating gang
at Austin.
Somebody has a pull on the Culber-
son crowd to have Sunday balloon as-
censions to furnish mangled corpses
for the multitude. Somebody has a
pull on the Culberson crowd to pull off
an extensively advertised railroad col-
lision killing four people and wound-
ing others. Ours is a great State gov-
ernment for favorites, whether in pay-
ing out public money in fees or per-
mitting demoralizing exhibitions. The
State government has its favorites just
as the monarchies of old. Does Prince
Bismarck approve of this in a Repub*
lie?
The individual Populist is the keep?
er of his own conscience, but he must
have a tough conscience if he can vote
for Sewall on principle, or after the
Fort Worth insult or can endure the
kid lawyer gang at Austin. He knows
that immigration and prosperity has
been shut off by a State government
that is run on the principle of favor-
ites, and on the extravagant basis of a
monarchy. Prince Bismarck himself
would give us more of a people's gov-
ernment and would not allow favorites
to draw big pay every day for public
service and render none for months. ;
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Park, Milton. The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 1, 1896, newspaper, October 1, 1896; Dallas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth185679/m1/4/: accessed June 14, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .