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Mr. Hubbard, on being conducted to the chair
was received with voeiferous applause and the
chairman advancing to the front said: II have
the distinguished honor to present Mr. Richard
| b. Hubbard of Texas, as the absolutely impar-
tial temporary chairman of this convention
Mr. Hubbard came forward amid loud APP
pause and said:
Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen Of the Democratic
convention OF the Union: profoundly grateful
for the confidence which you have reposed in me in
ratfying the nomination of the national executive
committee. who have doneyo bidding for the last
four years by your authority accept It, my fellow
Democrats not as tribute to the humble citizen and
your acknowledgements who speaks to you to-day but
rather as a compliment to the great State
from whence come-a State which. more than any
every fiber of its being In its early days and srug
gles thther came to relief winds sweep across
l ns SEA men q llnois ana New ork men Of Maine
and New England men of Georgia apd along the coast
and gave their lives at the Alamo and San Jacnto for
the freedom OF Texas can only recall to youin the
orlef moments which shall detain you the fact that
our neghboring sister States her womell--her
glorlous Spartan women--sent to the twin
\ cannon that belched into glorious victory az
San Jacinto. But, above all, We accept it as a
tribute to the fact my fellow Democrats that Texas
recurring election places in the ballot box one
hundred thousand Democratic majority.
Felow-D democrats, we have met upon occasion
OF great and absorbing interest TO party as well
as to our common country. The occasion would not
justify me demand that should attempt to speak
to you of its great history and its distinctive p1in
eples through twothirds the most glorious history
OF our country. could not stop to discuss if /
MSoula@ ITS magnlhcent policy of progress,
the part which she has taken in
building mp our country, its prowess, its territory
and its wealth. lean only say You to-day in brief
tnat the Democratic party in all its elements is the
same as it was when founded by the trainers Of the
Constitution nearly three quarters of century ago
Men died the leaves in autumn but the urinciples
underlying liberty and sefgovernment are eternal
and the principles underlying the Democratic party
cannot De effaeed from the earth. though their
thors may be numbered among the dead l thank
God fellow-ctizens that, though we have been out
OF power for quarter of acenury we are to-day in
all that makes adherence and confidence and
zeal, as much party organized for aggressive
war as when the banners of victory were perched pon
enoa 9eaas Inc Demoeratic party fellowcitzens,
with our hands manacled; with our ballot boxes sur.
rounded by the cleaning bayonet; with carpet-bag
rule; with the voice stifed--the voice OF free men
who pay their taxes to the gcyernment--the Demo-
cratic party has lived to through all this msrule
the day come when in great majority of our States
the Democratic party has resumed its control and its
power 1t has your House of Representatives and
but for treason stalking in the Senate Chamber we
would have that too We have had the presidency
too, but with inpious hands-the hand
o. the robber--our rights were stricken down at the
ruption the presidency has been stolen from the
Democratic party by men uttering falsehools and
through pale lips and chatering teeth Some of the
men who had participated in that crime have passed
beyond the river, there to give am account Of their
stewardship But history will not lie when il records
as 1t has done, that that electoral commission an
nonced in the Senate chamber and in tie House that
II would not consider the question and the evidence
OF fraud IN returning the vote of Loisna i re1ner
Der It 1t is the blacklist page in our country his
tory and all good Republicans to-day are ashamed Of
t h aIty eulnea enelr races as Well as
refused to consider the evidence all reekine with ig
III h5 u oraosry u snale, ana counted IN man
laws, the sufrages of his countrymen. That is a
wrong that we have met here TO right Eight
has [ tb 4 j. t, are loa tnat me law
jury is in its box, under the statute of your State
of ;st; upon s,s1 pec MI wh9 hoas the scales
hands parchment from the executive
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