The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1884-07-31

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LisGon.-By Nh. l.. Crazy.
Mount Aiyy-W. H. Fisher, ly p. $
HTuWlCr.
Grand Prulric-By S. II. Gratham.
Pleasant Valley T, :, Swain, 10y V
II, Pace, proxy; and q. w. Mormon, by
Z. :, Cherry, altcruutcs.
4 Cedar llill-R. \. Roberts; by y. \
Carroll, alternate; +. NJ. Hamilton, By
y. 4. Sligu; alternate, j. b. Ramsey.
Five Milp-Il. n, Rice,
Edgclurd u. NJ. Britain.
SGagpville-J. =. Fly, by NJ l., Had
dock, proxy.
presented.
Cold Spr'ngs-By NJ. n. Clark,
Long Crock by y. W. Webb.
H1urht', Store l.. Baily, with j. X,
.a,iy, gliN'uHlD.
The majority OF your committee report
In favor ol allowing the precincts named
above representation by the delegates,
altornatcs and proxies numCd.
Two other precincts, to-wit, Trinity
Mills and Spring Chapel, present Gro
d"u.ills, from which II appears that the
primaries No those places were heid on
iau -llA inst, instead al the lNih inst.
pursuant to the call. No evidence t.
/ produced before the committee IS To
/ what, il any, notice was given Of the
I
whether these delegates, who arc J. y.
/ bennett, from Spring Chapel md H..
/ MOles, from Trinity station, shall be
entitled 10 seats, * beyond the power of
| this committee, and Is relegatcd TO the
convention.
We also report in faVcr of Il. :. Guy
/ for Permanent Chairman OF this Con
ycutiOn and W. b. Crocnlaw, Secretly.
l.. i. WATERS,
JOET Il. WEST,
&. n. BU~sEY,
SAWSIE ROBERTSON.
| j. II. Taylor offered the following
minority report as u substitute for the
/ majority report:
/ To the Honorable Dallas County Democratic
Convention mt Dallas:
The minority of the committee on Gre
/ dcntials beg leave to report that we find
| the delegates respectfully named by the
majority of the credentials are entitled
TO seats as far AS appears from the Gre
| ucntialS before US, except that IutchinS
is not entitled to any representative, be-
cause Of the Republican votes cast for
the said delegates at the primary ut
| Hutchins on the 18th Of July, ISL,
which appears from proof before
us as committee; and that
| Wesley Chapel is entitled to represent
tation, which appears from credentiai
written by VIM. Sprawls, certifying that
he is the regularly elected delegate, and
that he thereby appointed Taylor White
rs his proxy, and that Suits School
House is entitled to representatives,
and that Ed. Laws is the regular elected
delegate therefrom, and is present, and
that Young's Chapel, and Trinity Mills
are entitled to representation and are
here represented by regular elected del.
cgates to-wit: j. Is. Bennett, Houng's
Chapel and II. Moles, from Trinity
Mills, and we report in favor of j. NJ.
Strong as Chairman Of the Convention,
and II. j. Phillips as Secretary.
j. II. TAYLOR.
Minority Of Committee on Credentials.
Stone moved to table the minority re-
port, which carried by vote of SO to Il.
a motion was made that the majority
report be adopted, which was carried by
vote Of Il To II.
Hon. X. :. Guy who had been elected
permanent Chairman, took his seat
amid loud applause. lie urged harmony
in their deliberations.
Mr.. Charles Fred Tucker offered the
! following resolution, endorsing Hon.
DIN Wellborn, which was adopted:
Resolved, first, That fully recognizing
the brilliant and able services of Hon.
DIN WellbOrn as our Representative
| in the the Congress Of the United States,
where he has made "A national reputa
ton, we take pleasure in endorsing him
as worthy Representative.
Second, That this County convention
recommend him to the favorable sup
port Of the Congressional convention,
and that the delegates from this conven-
ton to the Congressional convention be
and they are hereby instructed to vote
for him as u candidate for reelection
and to use all honorable means to secure
his denomination.
/ Mr.. John Rawlins who had SUISSE
quently succeeded in securing a proxy
Fl, m Hutchins presented them and he
was admitted as delegate.
The following names were submitted
by j. b. Simpson as delegates to The
Congressional convention and were adj
dopted:
The names are: w. p. White, c. NJ
Lyon, l.. II. FitZhugh, w. j. Keller,Jno.
b. Stone, $. j. Adams, II. S. Guy, S. j.
Walters, c. >. Mitchell, j. b. Simpson,
VIM. Sebastian, II. X. Brotherton, j. +.
Ramsey, n. Il. White, w. NJ. Miller.
c. ). Mitchell offered the following re
solution endorsing II. II. u. Andrews, OF
Tarrant, as Floater, which was adopted:
Resolved, That we recognize in II. II.
d. Andrews, of Tarrant comfy, fit and
suitable person to represent this Floto
rial district in the Legislature and here
by recommend him for the place.
a motion TO table the resolution was
lost.
The following resolution offered by J.
G. Alexander was unanimously adopted:
Resolved, That we, the Democracy in
convention assembled, do heartily en-
dorse the nominations of Cleveland and
Hendricks for President and Vice
President.
Sam Klein offered the following
names as delegates to the Senatorial
conyention at Terrell, which were
adopted; w. q. Sterrett, j. b. Simpson,
S. Robertson, Charles Bussey, John X.
West, S. j. Waters, Sam Klein, w. J.
Keller, Mid Perry, Il. n. Daniel, John
Ramsey, j. e. Wolf, w. d. Wiley, e.
Randall, Charles Fee.
The resolution endorsing Mr. An
drews for floater was discussed at length.
Some one stated that Rockwall county
had II candidate for fioater in the person
of Mr.. Austin, of Rockwell county. a
vote was taken on the original resolu-
ton which was carried. Messrs.
Mitchell, Robertson, Adams and Ster-
ret spoke for Andrews.
Motion offered that delegates to Sena-
torial convention be instructed to vote
against nomination for Senator. Lost.
Convention adjourned.
The convention did not formally in
struct for candidate for Senator, but it
was well understood that the delegates
elected were for Terrell, and that he
would receive the unanimous vote of
Dallas county in the Senatorial conven-
ton, which will assemble here OH the
3lst instant.
THE RAILWAY WORLD.