Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 36, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 8, 1898 Page: 3 of 16
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September 8, 1898.
THE SOUTHERN MERCIRY.
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outfit are a sweet scented lot. Even
old Roger Q. could beat Charlie boy
for the Senate If he would just an-
nounce again.
If Olbbs is never elected governor,
the people of Texas will owe him a
deep debt of gratitude for unearthing
so much Democratic rottenness and
corruption. This latest exposure of
Democratic rottenness should appeal to
the hearts of all those who love good
government and clean politics, as Gibbs
appeals to them for their votes, not for
humself, but to save Texas from this
gang of boodlers and political pirates.
They are rotten to the core; their evil
influence is corrupting the morals of
the men of Texas who look with leifc-
ient eyes on the political depravity
of this gang, which flouts its shame
into the faces of honest men and in-
vites them to go and do likewise. Tex-
as is plowing in a hard row of stumps.
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Big Czars and Little Czars.
In his speech at Gonzales last week
tne mudsiller chief said:
' "The Ckar of all the Russia , with a
standing army of a million men, has
read Tolstoi's works, and with a thous-
and years of blue blood in him, has
been touched by the facts and argu-
ments of that great mudsiller. Tol-
stoi himself had blood equal to that of
the Czar, but he looked to the prosper-
ity and happiness of the vine-and-fig-
tree people with their hungry and half-
clad little children, hungry and half-
clad because of the number of idle,
highly-paid members of the official
class. The present Czar is touched and
don't, like the Democratic Czars of
Texas to tell the people to wear old
clothes as a remedy for their poverty
«ad misery. He says to the rulers of
all nations, this one included, 'Let us
meet together and remove the burdens
of government as far as possible from
these toiling millions, who support us
Jn idleness.' God has caused this man
to see the handwriting on the wall,
hut Little Czar Charlie and Big Czar
,*im don't see it. He don't intend to
make raids on public money for polit-
ical favorites, rendering no service in
return. He is building with govern-
ment money a Russian Relief railroad
three thousand miles long, so that the
vine-and-flg-tree people can get their
produce to the ships of commerce with-
out having the fruits of their labor con-
sumed by a conspiracy of officials and
corporation managers. The Texas
Czars stuff the ignorant merchant and
farmer full of loyalty to a lot of party
politicians, who are paid to hold them
while they are skinned by high taxes
and by high freight rates to their Gulf.
The independent ships that will carry
their cotton all over the world for a
dollar per bale are boycotted from the
coast of Texas. This combination of
corporation managers and politicians
takes three dollars from each bale of
cotton to the Gulf, when one dollar
per bale is all you would pay if you
took your surplus school money and
convicts and built you a Relief rail-
road. These Democratic Czars in Tex-
as want the power and privilege of
bonding and mortgaging your hornee,
when you and your wives cannot mort-
gage them for meat and bread to feed
Jbur children, even if they were starv-
ing. It is in obedience to the voice of
God, or of Tolstoi as his instrument,
that I give of my time and health to
beseech you to consider well these
things. No people who are abject
slaves to party or any human power,
ever get good government or their
share of the fruits of their owu toil.
Why don't you go out and talk to
your neighbors and get them to join
with you and demand more power for
themselves by the referendum vote and
a Texas Relief railroad for a lower
freight rate? Between now and No-
vember you will find thousands of oon-
verts. I cannot do it all, even if I had
more health and means. It is as much
your business as mine, for I care noth-
ing for the allurements of office. If an
officer is a true servant of the people
and studies the happiness and prosperi-
ty of his people, it is no bed of roses.
It is a bed of roses to those only who
study slick raids on public money and
devise new systems of taxation to enjoy
the fruits of the toil of the vine-and-
flg-tree people. If you have a sixteen-
year-old boy, make him stay in the
house until he learns these things. Rus-
sia don't own all the railroads, neither
does the Emperor of Germany, or the
Republic of Switzerland, but they own
enough railroad mileage to fix a basis
of reasonable freight rates to the ships.
If some railroads cost too much, or are
too extravagantly managed, the vine-
and-flg-tree people should not be taxed
to make good these mistakes. It is not
a question with Texas of government
ownership of all the roads, but of State
ownership of enough to fix a reasonable
freight rate. It will beat trusting rail-
road commissioners without ability
and the putting their kinfolks in
soft railroad jobs because of their
kinship. If the Texas Relief railroad
plank or the referendum plank in our
platform, or the recent exposure,
won't induce a Democrat to vote
with you, it is simply because he
is too prejudiced to even be willing to
stand by his own interests. If his par-
ty collar were not choking his family
and his friends to death, it would not
be so bad.
where a boy was prosecuted for steal-
ing watermelons and fined one cent
and costs, the fine and costs amounting
in this case to 819.55?
5. Did the Congress, of which yon
are a member, appropriate $100,000, or
any other sum, due the State of Texas?
If the claim was a just one, ought Gov.
Culberson, in your opinion, to have em-
ployed special counsel to collect it?
It is Your Fight.
I believe that if I was elected gover-
nor, I could, as an instrument in the
hands of the people, lay the foundation
of a greater and more prosperous State.
I would work unceasingly for the Tex-
as Relief railroad to reduce freights
one-half and to take convicts off rail-
roads, controlled by private corpora-
tions. I would work to get more power
in the hands of the people and less in
the hands of the politicians, so that the
lobby could not control the destinies
of Texas. It 1b a fight of the people
for more power and a chance to get
profits on labor. If they are ready and
willing to revolt and raise the flag of
freedom from corporation domination
and lobby power, I will be elected in
spite of the corruption fund that has
made a corpse of Dick Wynne. It Is
for the people in the school houses to
say.
I have no personal ambition to sub-
serve. I accepted the nomination from
a sense of duty and would accept the
office the same way. If I was willing
to go into the office to divide the earn-
nigs of the people with corporations
and lawyer favorites I could get brass
bands whisky money for campaign
purposes. It is your fight.—Extract
from Gibbs' Greenville speech.
Attention Populists.
Major Joseph D. Sayers, Democratic
nominee for governor of Texas, is bill-
ed to speak at the following places on
the dates named: Tyler, Wednesday,
Sept. 14; Sulphur Springs, Friday, Sept.
16; Greenville, Saturday, Sept. 17; Bon-
ham, Monday, Sept. 19; Clarksville,
Tuesday, Sept. 20; Paris, Wednesday,
Sept. 21; Terrell, Friday, Sept 23;
Hillsboro, Saturday, Sept. 24; Stephen-
ville, Monday, Sept. 26; Comanche,
Tuesday, Sept. 27; Brownwood, Wed-
nesday, Sept. 28; Hico, Thursday, Sept
29. If this fight is worth working,
Populists should be at these places on
the dates named, and propound to the
gentleman the following questions:
1. Has the Texas railroad commis-
sion increased or reduced freight rates?
2. Do you indorse the compromise
made by Attorney General M. M.
Crane with the Southern Pacific rail-
road in the rebate cases?
3. Do you know of the existence in
Texas of a company known as "The
Velasco Harbor Improvement Compa-
ny," and commonly referred to as "The
Velasco Syndicate?" If you do—and it
Is charged by Democrats that you do—
what are your relations to the same as
a member of the Federal House com-
mittee on appropriations, now or
what have they been heretofore
4. Do you indorse the present fee
system as operated in Dallas county,
A great many of the country papers
that talked free silver and Crane or
Wynne, have been fixed with Waco
medicine, but even with these and all
their other instruments of torture, the
Sayers people can bo beat if the plain
people will work right No man can
argue successfully against the Texas
Relief railroad and the direct vote of
the people on important State, county
and city affairs. The Democratic tes-
timnoy against their present leaders
can't be answered. It don't take camp
meetings and brass bands and money,
or even outside speakers. A still hunt
and a school house canvass and liter-
ature in the right place will do the
work. Organize al lthe opposition to-
gether. The last week in October Is
the time for big meetings.
There is more Catarrh In this section
of the country than all other diseases
put together, and until the last few
years was supposed to be Incurable.
For a great many years doctors pro-
nounced It a local disease, and pre-
scribed local remedies, and by con-
stantly failing to cure with local treat-
ment, pronounced it Incurable. Science
has proven catarrh to be a constitu-
tional disease, and therefore requires
constitutional treatment Halle' Ca-
tarrh Cure, manufactured by F.' J.
Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, Is the only
constitutional cure on the market It
is taken internally in doses from 10
drops to a teaspoonful. It acts direct-
ly on the blood and mucous surfaces of
the system. They offer one hundred
dollars for any case it fails to cure.
Send for circulars and testimonials.
Address,
F. J. CHENEY ft CO., Toledo, O.
Sold by Druggists, 76c.
Hall's Family Pills are the best
SPANISH SPIES
Are bad enough, but they are not half ao sneaky
and treacherous as the germs of disease that steal
into the human body.
Any man with a gun can shoot and kUl the spy.
but it takes a spe-
cialist of experience to
rout the poison germs
that have infested
your blood. Moreover,
this must be done
speedily, thoroughly or
els«! the result may be
life-long buffering.
For all oases of Skin
and Blood disorder,
Rheumatism, Kidney
and B'adder or urinary
troubles, ohronie. nerv-
ous and wasting dis-
eases of a delicate na-
ture, in Men or Wom-
en, we have specialists
whose fame is known
throughout the land.
If you cannot call,
write to us. We send you symptom blanks and
can give you treatment by mail with equal assu-
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430 North Harwood.
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