The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-09-09
THE MEMARDyILLE CONVENTION
How Our Gus. Was Nominated

The senatorial convention mat met III NE
nurdvllc and which was such huge joke on
the candidates except our friend Gus. Houston
has never been fully described in print until
a correspondent of the junction City, kimball
county, "Wcstcrn Texan" did it us follows:
COMMUNICATED.
MIR. WESTERN TEXAN: ! want to tell you
about my IT, ip to the Mcnard convention. TO
be certain to be in time, as soon as heard that
the convention was coming on, put out Tor
MCnlrdNilic. | did not sec amy street cars nor
a>cd streets, nor flags IL tiyn', nor many big
city ways, but the prilticst little vile you ever
will let you know, ne Is Il prince OF II hotel
keeper. Such IL table as he sets is not 10 be
found in the iw"ni y-lnIr adjoining c"unti.S
the best III the Land. We'll, wis Sttn around,
and first thing nOed saw splendid fOur-in-
hand cquipa@e come driving up and four fine
Looking gentlemen aIight thcrctrom. On inquiry
l. found them to be Col. j. X. Jcncr-
son, }. \. Upton, Charles MulIens and
west. soon 'diskivcrcI a phaeton coming in
from the south with two distinguished looking
Ycnticmell, these were the Western Texan man
and Col. III. T.. Fisher, from knnhle county. by
the time these had brushed, washed, dncd and
separated for business, ! srl"d coming in from
of ladies' They drew up, and the first one to
get out was Il big freshman, who they said was
Mace Larity,' and the heAt one was preach
cr-like fellow, who they said was a mason, but
didn't learn whether he was i frernI;lSOn, II
stone mason ora Chinese missionary, and next
they said something about tho storms, and !
looked east west, north and south and seeing
no cloud it occurred ONE THAI it was Mr.. John
Il. Storms that they were speaking of, ami
then there was three more gcntlcmanly look
ing men who ughtcd from the clboOtc. All
these fellows commenced to praise our little
town, for ii was such ii nice place, in such II
lovely country, and such beautiful valley.
and then they went to supper and praised the
supper; such nice fried chicken and delicious
honey, and sweet bread and nice cake, and they
ate like they We're starved, and said they ate
nothing since they left the sweet waters of
Beer uOunty. They said the Mason hotel didn't
nave nOthin to eat and the old hotel keeper
dragged on Mason NiillS til ne made them
I'll sick, and next morning they got up brag-
gin about what sweet nights sleep and pleas
ant dreams they had experienced, etc. Next
morning jefferson and the rural politicians
said something about calling the convention al
Mcnar,iIillc, when them other fellows began to
trcmbe and said it was the fool editors at San
| Antonio who had made the remarks, and they
| ought not to be held responsible for the fool
| editors, and there the matter dropped. Then
| to know if you seed anything like it. The Beer
| county fellows tried to eject their man what
! had been sayin' his speech down on the river,
| temperate chairman, but the convention slucd
him under the slough, and made Col. j. ID. Hill,
| OF McnurdyiilC, president. Thou they pintctt
the committees and went to dinner, After din
ncr they got into another row, and you ought
to or heard them fellows maxim speeches.
There was one fellow, they called him Lessen.
and YOU bet he gave EN- lessons on all sides.
and on all pnts. He told them Beer county
| letters Of AL the mcannCSs that the had done
| for the past fifteen years, and called 'em ali
! sorts of hard names, and told Um all about
| what II tine country and how rich Tom Green
and FL PasO counties wore. tel you he blow
| I'd Im up and give some lessons. Then the
Beer county fellers tried another trick-thcy
| called il parliamentary but it wouldn't work
| worth Il cent Tor them western fcllerS got the
| chairman again. They called him Hill, and he
was il hill and powerful big hillso big it liked
! to give UNI h to pull over him. And
| then they went to supper, and them Beer cnun-
| ty fellows took another spell OF prllSln the
hotel AMI MrLurd aud tho west. and AL the
dogs and babies, and everything else. Aftol
| supper the ball opened again. That Masonic
| man riZ, ana says he, Mr.. President, | rMc to
dcnOmnate and put in Office forever and ever.
Mr.. a. W. Houston, of that dear and most
| glorious old county OF Beer which proposes to
| tAIr all the offices and keep them gratis for
nuthii forever, amen. Then they said Storms
was ri1u', and they ali PARED out Che window
| and saw no clouds, and then thcru was II great
| calm. Every body stuck down their heads held
their breath, and bit their lips, for Bob. Clark.
of Fort MckaNctt, editor of the Pcglcg Daily
News Item, was there standin maxim Il speech
against his own section: had fOrSOOk the west,
! sold himself for beer, and they all liyci it to-
| liGlmcS. Well, poor Bob. am so sorry for
him. ThuI, that Lesson fellow give UNI an0th her
| lesson on Beer, thc. tiiGs lock the vote and
| Houston was nominated and tic cOncorI. COZ
lalScd and the rural polit ci;in and them other
fellows all went home.