Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-08-16

| lev NJ contemplated Dy tut s'n'S ~"
vention In session in your CITY ias'
April. which referred to the advIsaoii,,
ity Of putting full ticket In the hen
later ia the campaign II the committee
| thought best SO 10 do.
Perhaps am not versed In what Is
the duty OF Republican committee
man in Tt xas. Now let us summarize a
little and see who 1t Is that wants
Wash Jones In our party. First, we
will say that every Greenbacker "a
this section Of the state, but they VIII
vote the Democratic ticket IN
case JONES is not in the neld,
so they are not Republicans, else they
would not threaten to bolt before the
call of the convention. Next, we find
there are "a few men that are nationai
Republicans. but state Democrats or
Green hackers, which mean anything
to beat the Republican party IN the
United States, or anything for a
change. So that class Is not Republi'
can, MS it ishes TO destroy the party
organization. Next. we find u Few
men who claim they are opposed to
Ireland because he Is in favor OF Lease
law, and feel sure that AT
Houston he will be reaomi-
mated, and they tell US, You
nominate Wash Jones, and we Will
support him II Ireland is nominated"
so this class is not Republican. But
next comes class that has great
claims upon the party or rather the
party has great claims upon IT. This
class wants Jones and no other Will
satisfy, and any conflicting choice Is
detrimental to the party, they claim,
nut II 1t were not for the federal office
they hold and hopeto continue to ill
they would not be in the Republican
party-hence, they are not Republic
cans, and should not impugn the mo-
tives of Republican state chair
men when they call the executive
committee together to discuss
political measures as to what is best
for the Republican party to pursue.
AT last we find still another class in
our party, but they don't want Jones.
They are they that came out through
great tribulations mot In holding their
federal appointments, | don't mean,
but by sustaining the tried and true
principles of the Republican party and
by contending for the nomination and
election of men in all the offices of the
state and nation VINO were III sympa-
thy with the principles and had the
honesty of purpose to carry out tho.e
principles rs set forth in our
various platforms. They are they
that you can rely ON 10
hold together the Republican
party organization, but here and In
other states of our nation, where such
Republicans have been at the head of
tt.. n,,tN tot anl
mittee, you find pure Republican
party to-day and not u mongrel mass
of sore-heads. at 1t were, with no OBJ
ject in view higher than to beat their
opposition as it appears. Mr.. O'Brien
and his followers at Waco say Jones is
the only chance for the Republicans.
When We have good men, men of
principle in our party, and when IL
comes To the point that we must go to
some faction or to the old Bourbous
themselves to get q can
dldate Tor any state office,
we had better disband and make no
claims 10 be Republicans anv longer.
But hat might jeopardize some of our
Jones or Democratic or Greenbaclier
Republicans federal positions. which,
10y the way, might be u good thing for
the state and still better Tor the Repub-
lican party in general say 1t might.
What we would have II the Reprb-
licans should hold cow, ntion (which
l hope they will do. and should nom-
mate full ticket, headed by Wash
Jones, Is success in electing him and
the rest of the ticket of sore headed
Democrats or defundt Greenbackers
over The regular Democratic candi-
dates, whoever they might be. Then
what a Republican state Texas would
De. Wash Jones the Republican gov
ernor of Texas, Unless he has
changed his views wonderfully since |
talked with him four years ago he
would resign his seat MS governor
rather than be called Republican.
but OF course he Is like another great
and good man whose aspirations a.d
love Tor votes Is so great that he said
If the Dem, Gratis or Greenbackers did
not nominate him, why, if nominated
by the Republicans he would perhaps
make the race rather than miss rum
ming at all. Benjamin +. Butler ac
cepts the nominations, he says, of all
conventions rendering him the noni-
nations, but don't wish to see their
plalf rms, rs no doubt "they are good
enough 10 hold until after the woes
are counted, and will in no event be
OF any use afterwards Such a man
should never he nominated, and If his
name were presented before Repnh-
llcan assembly, the party pre- sentinp
such q political renegade should he.
Missed out of the assembly, and woul,
he IN Republican state convention IN
u Northern state.
As Il member of the state Renuhl,ca,
executive committee. may M, ha
competent - advise Brother O,Rrien
anu ms toilowers, but would suggest
Tue iuea That II they owe any allie
glance 10 Wash Jones for fivors while
ne was IN congress TO pay the debt and
not ask the Republicans to do
20 by giving him the nomination. mr..
III ne can come out and acknowledges
anu state To- our voters that he indorses
the principles of the Republican party
a. ~ iorth in the national and state
platforms. Then, we as true Republ,.
cans, may consider his claims upon n.
as Texas Republicans, but never mil
then VIII Republican delegate or
seate committeeman barter Off the
confidence and trust put in him bv Ills
when they are cry
ing aloud, give us a mil
state ticket of Republic,ns
ana not Republican state iiclat nr
~, democrats or other political re nepades
ihere may he such "A thing nc a d,s
lihction without a difference hut not
a difference without a distinction I'm
this case. III
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