New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-01-19
The Texas Republican Nomiaees.

It will no doubt prove interesting to our
readers to scan short notices OF the Repub.
lcan nominees for State offices. The nomi-
nee for Governor, Judge William Chambers,
OF Chambers county, is q native of Vir-
ginia. is a nephew of the late General T. j.
early days of the Texas republic. Judge
Chambers read law with his uncle, was,
prior to the war, probate judge both OF
Liberty and Chambers counties, was a
member of the Secession Convention, was
private in the Confederate army during
the war. After the war he resumed his al
legiance to the United States government,
was made provisional judge of the then
seventeenth district, in which Waco was:
was appointed junge Of the first judicial
district by Governor Davis, which position
he now tills; was an Independent candi-
date for Congress in the late election
against Judge j II. Reagan. Judge Cham
bers is hale looking gentleman of fifty
four years Of age, has been in Texas thirty
two years, and is considered a fine lawyer
and upright gentleman by all who know
him.
The candidate for Lieutenant Governor,
Captain Fred. w. Miner, of Lamar county,
is younger man than Judge Chambers,
being only forty-six years old. He is q ma
tive Of Connecticut, but has been in the
South since his early manhood, having been
in Texas seventeen years. He went into
the Confederate army as lieutenant and
rose to the rank of captain, being for some
time Judge advocate of the district embrac-
ing the Indian Nation. Because of ill
health, he resigned in 1864, went home, and
was elected district attorney. He was also
elected district attorney after the war, but
the power then in command refused to re-
cognize him. He has been in the newspaper
hun;noso hoinn tho fnun6op Of tho por
Press, which he ran as Democratic paper.
He also edited the Chartist for short time,
q Republican paper. He is an old line Wing
in his political antecedents, was opposed to
secession, but thought his allegiance due to
his State, and went with it into the war.
He is gentleman Of fair ability, of pleas
ant address and person.
For Comptroller, E. NJ. Bryant, of Gray.
son county, is the nominee. He was county
Judge of his county before the war. Was
opposed to secession, and laid in the brush
a part of the time during the war. He is Q
native Of Alabama, is about fifty five years
of age, and is man of but ordinary ability,
although he was the Republican candidate
for Congress in the then second district
against John c. Connor. being defeated.
The nominee for Treasurer, Mr.. William
Umdenstock, of Harrison county, is Ger.
man. He has been IN the United States for
twenty years, settlihs HEe1 az MdrSnaii,
where he still resides. He is fifty years OF
age, is well to do in the world, having. by
his own good sense and industry, achieved
handsome competence. He is . man OF
strong native intellect, possesses to an emi
nent degree the confidence and esteem of
his German fellow-citizens, as we'll as
others who know him well, and is recog-
nized as an honest man, and with good ca.
pacitv.
Mr.. Jacob Keuchler, the nominee for
commissioner of the land Office, was the
incumbent under Mr.. Davis administra-
ton, and it is needless for us to refer to
him, a. he is we'll known to the public.
The nominee for Attorney General, Mr.. j.
Z. Burns, of Fayette county, we can only
gence, und one who il said to possess con-
siderable legal attainments. We know
nothing Of his antecedents.-Rouston Iele-
graph.