Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-06-12

who are rated at from IN. :,
10 i've hundred millions rh; snuIeo
accomplished by the system 10 ms was
w ,vtIg wealth without labor from the
, ~Vdnns classes to the petted
Tha Of the country
shnn,d p'u.eso against tbIs
s saa, ne the Keynote Of the cans
tt"lsn;; ulve US platform that
uoesn't mean one thing In New yorn
anu announcer In Louisiana, and I, mo,
,ers put little who is placed unon !,
II IL Dy principle alone that ana
cess IL TO be attained. n %as
peen said that ut tbs rs'
cent convention at Chicaoo WAY. nc,
delegates, disguised at omen sttamm;s
TO purchase the votes Of renrssanPs
lves OF the people, had reheIlad ana
lett. Flushed with twenty wears sI os
continuous power the abuses of tha
Republican party were becom,no so
Migrant that honest men were veti,no
ready to abandon 1t. We Want
piatIorm declaring for tariff TO
raise suflicient revenues for the
government economically admins.
Tered; Abiding to the Blair educa-
tlonal bill, he said 1t was the entering
wedge to destroy the principles of The
constitution. After the precedent W as
laid, Capitalization Of power i'm the
FEDERAL government would speedijv
follow. Shall we in Texas with
already a magnificent school
fund take the su0ar.costed Mia
lCries of ''No!''] The people on the
tariff question are long WAYS ahead
OF the politicians. The platform shouid
tell OF the whisky frauds. of the navy
robberies, under which the prandest
power In the world was placed al the
mercy ola fourth-class notion. ItsbonId
indict the Republican party for the
star-route rascality, and above ali for
us position on the tariff. Protection
to all and special privileges to none
should be the slogan of the campaign.
The speaker concluded bya reference
to the growing power of Texas, zone
Texas" which was loudly applauded.
The committee on credentials, so the
chairman said, was not vet ready ia
report and the house began to clamor
for more speaking. "Giddings," ape.
ter Smith, "Silas Hare,n "Seth
Shepherd, "Chencwethn and ITEM.
pleton" were called for in turn, end
ing with yell for "Sterttt.n Then
the shouters thought of every man
who had ever made speech and 8
shrill voice rang out "Marion Martin,
This was followed nv chorus O
"Rory O'Moore." Laughter ant
shouts.
Gen. Claiborne stated that ex.Gov
| Lob Of A..
the hall, and moved he be invited t,
address the convention. The motion
was carried, and the chair appointed
committee of three to escort the ex
governor to the stage, The committe
evidently could not find the distin
guished gentleman, for he was no
forthcoming.
Mr.. Pfeufler of Comal moved that
committee of two be appointed +
ascertain when the committee on ere
dentials would be ready to repor,
The chair named Messrs. Pfeuffer an
Tarleton of Hill county. Pending tn
return of this committee there wer
calls for Col. Frank Ball of Fol
Worth, who responded. Like Coy
Hubbard and Senator Terrell, Co
Ball took the position that the subjet
of tariff reform is the all-engrossin
, issue. He said, though, that ther
were collateral issues of almost as niue
importance as the tariff. He cited tn
Blair educational bill, now pendin
in congress, as an illustration. TIL
bill, Col. Ball said, was a bold an
insidious attempt at subverting III
domestic institutions of the states;
had tendency to Capitalization an
he was sorry to say some Souther
senators had voted it. Coke an
Maxey had not though, ami all hon'
to them. [Cheers. This conventio
should emphasize, bya resolution, ~
| disspprobation of this dangerol
Blair bill. The same, he CONTINUES
> might be said of the pleur
pneumonia bill, which the Texas sen
: tors had had to fight with such vlgo
! These were dangerous innovation
and he again urged the convention
speak ou0 plainly and condemn u
= Republican assaults upon the autoh
] my of the states and our theory
/, constitutional government. Col. B'
!. was loudly appiauded. m
Mayor Cabell of Dallas was cali
I for. He said he did not desire to ma
i a speech, but would utilize the oct
t sion to tell of the grand reunion OF e
8 Confederate soldiers at Dallas on I
e 18th of August. He extended an IN
n tation to everybody in Texas, inclu
q ing ex-Union soldiers, to be:in Dail
u on that day. ,or
e The committee on credentials enter
:. and submitted the following report
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