Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-05-01

Wnue Oh Da'ltS WIS cHiitu uhN no"
short speech. He said he like
Democrats as men, but as politician
he did not like them, for they wante'
all for themselves. He related severa
very humorous anecdotes. lie snl'
the Democrats of Fort Worth were II
mourning because they knew the,
were going to destruction. He asked
10 Democrats TO come over to tn,
I.or,l;s s ..,s tuBroarious applause. 70
spoke of progress and saiu w..~- u
lsG0 II took two days to come
from Dallas to Fort Worth
last Monday he made the trip In two
hours; that the Democratic party wa:
a bad party, with some good men in It
J His speech was ically ap
plauded. The following resolution
was then read by the chairman and
heartily approved without dissent
ing voice:
Resolved, that this delegate con
vention of representative Republicans
of Texas return thanks to the editors,
publishers, reporters. directors and all
connected with the Fort Worth GA.
zETrE, for their kind notice, good
treatment aud true report Of the ac-
tion of our body, and we commend 1t
to the free-grass people of the state.
Signed w, FLANAGAN.
Hon. Richard Allen of Houston then
addressed the convention with a brief
speech in which he recommended the
placing of a straight Republican ticket
in the field In the coming campaign
The chairman announced the follow
ing committees.
COMMITTEE ON PLATFORMS AND RES
oLUTIoSs.
The following compose the commit
tee on platforms
Messrs. n. NJ. Cane of Grimes, p. w.
Hall Of Robertson, Web Flanagan of
Rusk, j. C.. Easton of Lamar, G. w.
Pasco of Grayson, Geo. Hawkins of
Dallas, J. ID. Luby of Duval. j. G..
Shermack of Fayette. j. G. Cone of
Washington; j. Il. Rector of Travis,
chairman; 5. G. SHADES of FL Paso.
COMMITTEE on RULES.
The following constitute the COM
mittee on rules: Messrs. l.. Mcdaniel
of Grimes, Leroy Cooper Of Houston,
Lib Hart of Hunt, f. w. Minor, G. II.
Dougherty of Grayson, A. NJ. Cor
coran Of Dallas, = Goodrich of Cam
eron, : Rosenthal of Fayette, chair.
man; Geo. A. OBrien of McLennan,
Jas. p. Newcomb of Bexar, j. G. Chap.
man of Erath.
COMMITTEE ON PERMANENT ORGANI-
zATIoN.
The following constitute the com
mlttee ON permanent organization :
Messrs. III. d. johnson of Harris. Tom
Breen of Hood, Howard of Anderson.
p. ). Wilkeson of Red River. III.
Eddy of Clay, w. n. Quincy of Gal
weston, VIM. Carey of Gonzales. ]. n
Knox of Falls, +. w. Scheueppe. G.
B. jackson of Tom Green.
The committee on permanentorpsn-
lzation met in the ante-room and in IA
few minutes returned the following
report:
To the Hon. j. c. DeGress, Temporary Chair.
man Of the Republican state Conventii n:
Your committee on permanent or.
ganizatiOn beg leave to report the fol.
lowing names for offices on permanent
organization and recommend its adop-
tom
Permanent president, James
g. Tracy of Harris; Mr..
II. Il. Keeling of McLennan. secre-
tary; Mr. Nj. Il. Perreal of Grayson
assistant secretary; Mr.. j. +. Knox of
Falls, assistant secretary.
Vice presidents-First. j. L.. Will
liams of Jefferson; second, J. +. Pitts
of Anderson; third, g. M. Cambell OF
Camp county; fourth, ]. f. Fleming
of Red River; fifth, o, It. Lyon OF
Grayson; sixth, A. w. CLANCY Of Tar.
rant, seventh, Henry Ballinger OF
Galveston; eighth, w. A. Hutchinson
of Hays; ninth, r. G. Wells of Falls,
tenth, III. +. Clifton of Williamson
eleventh, Ii. Jackson of Tom Green.
Respectfully submitted,
III, D. JOHNSON,
Chairman of the committee.
A committee consisting of Judge
Norton, Gen. Talbot and Mr.. Hant
conducted the permanent chairman 1,
the chair.
Mr.. Tracy before taking the chat
said that no higher honor was eve
conferred ON any man than to presid,
over the Republican party. 1t was
my good fortune to pre-
SIDE over the first N
over this the last. Tht
gentleman then eulogized the Repub
llcan party; said James Buchanan wa.
the last Democratic president, and h,
hoped we would neye,
have another one J{nau
the state was hopelessly Democratic
but we eau maintain our dignity an,
self'respeet. He said he wanted /,
pay a tribute to the people of For
Worth. They had been treate,
most maguanimously by them
II was lovely city and ought to b,
Republican, because 1t Is progressive
After several unimportant motions
nominations for delegates at larp,
We're declared In order.
The following names were pat II
nominations:
A. J. Evans, by David Nation.
Judge A. IL Norton, by Mr.. Roberts
(coloredJ of Harrison.
n. w. Quincy (colored) of Galyesto,
by II. I. Keely of McLennan.
Hal Costing, by Web Flanagan.
Robert Zapp of Fayette, by Mr.
Schuttze of Washington
James A. MCGEE of Dallas, by Mr.
Cochran OF Dallas.
Mr., Gaines of Grimes, by Mr.. VIII
der of Washington.
~ MI. !. w. Flanagan of Gregg, by A
Il. Monroe.
Mr.. George w. Dilley of Palestine
by Mr.. Hand of Palestine.
Judge .. q. Blnkley of Sherman b,
Mr.. j. +. Newcomb Of San Antonio
| Mr.. Z. q. Burn OF Chicago by Mr.
ENGLAND of Kaufman.
Richard Allen (colored) of Harris b,
MIR. Worsham of Marion.
DISTRICT DELEGATES.
a careful canvass and estimate Of th,
district delegates and their preference,
shows that Arthur has over two-th
OF them. while Blaine has the remain
der. They are believed to stand as fol
lows: IS. - ~
First district--parish and Grao,.