Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-05-02
WE co MARCHING ON
..wh,lc John Browns Body Lies Mould
cring In the Grave"
was tho soul.Silrring Song Tor Mn'ch
Jack Evans Called,
And sreIodiousIy It Swelled Up from 'oV
Colorcd Threats.
Perfect Panornma Of Farions Fare
well Fun and Frolic.

Aoer the convention adjourned las
night Shock Roberts, an old coiore'
man, whose gray shone nstrange con
trast =, his black face. was called upoi
hv The house to address It, ana NJ
made a very humorous speeci
in which he pitched into the Denoc
racy with blood aud thunder lhra Sas
He was frequently appiauded. IN,
next speaker was introuuced as weoIsi
Paschal of San Antonio VINO aeitersS
an exhaustive speech on the Mti.
question. Hessid he was born nee a
man and Photographed between ms
tariff logic patches oil the pioouies' VI
shirts. od
An amusing scene then occurred
which brought down the house. Tcil'
ard Nelson and a huge faistaiilaIl
negro both appeared on the platform
to make a speecu anu ,a
both stood bowing 70 .ne
audience from the footlignts. Faistail
asked Nelson to give way, but Nelson
had come to make speech, anu ne
made it much to the disgust OF the
other and the merriment OF the house.
JACK EVANS
the platform he said he would like to
be inspired by hearing verse of me
old song, ''John Browns body
lies Wondering in the grave.n
A delegate raised the tune In "A
Flat and verse after verse was sung
while the Democrats in the galleries
roared with laughter. The scene beg
gars description. Mr.. Evans made n
sn.. - foil ,sx "A
by
A. l.. DoTSoS,
who came forward in response TO calls
from the galleries. He told pathetic
story Of his boyhood, and how he had
been separated from his mother
aud sold as a slave,
at the age of five yeas. His speech
was good one, and the speaker was
very amusing in his tits with the
seargent-at-arms, who repeatedly in
terrupted him.
Once he was interrupted by col
cred delegate to the late convention
who got up and said "Mr. Speaker
much 10 the amusement of the crowd.
The delegate had evidently been
asleep when the convention adjourned.
At the close of Dotson's speech the
crowd dispersed, and so ended the
finest Republican convention that ever
assembled in Texas.
PRESIDENTIAL PREFERENCE.
The delegation TO the national Re-
publican convention at Chicago was
completed yesterday, by the election of
the delega:es-at-large and delegates
from the Seventh district. After n
personal canvass of the various MEM
bers of the delegation TIE GAZETTE is
enabled TO present the following cor
rected list of delegates and their presi-
dental preferences:
Delegates-at-large: Judge &C. Blink
ley-Edmunds. N. w. Quincy (col-
ored)-Blaine. Richard Allen (colOred)
Arthur. Robert Zapp-Blaine.
First district: Evans and Parish
(coloredl Blaine.
Second district: MISUNDERSTANDING
Davis Observation-Disclosures.
Third district: Flanagan Grant.
Burge-Blaine.
Fourth district: Contested. Mailoy
and Carter tcoloredl-Arthur. TnvIoI
and Graham redl-anti-admin
tration,
Fifth district: Lyons and Cleeyes-
BlaIne. W.
n In
meyer-T .ogan ''''
Seventh district Rentrro- rtbur
Eerrnsnn fcc,ororn Piai,,a 'i'"'
Eishth district. Posentt,I an,
Green iooloradl p,.;na "H'
Ninth dis,rict pa,,o .,u,.
RInnnt Icoloreal p,aino
Tenth dis,rin, naCrass ,,,,,,
Hsnachke Riaine
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plnina Afef,onnaii r,I,"r p'ei
TntsI- pIoina *. ~ @. ,,d
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s,ands savs,tesn WIT -, ue ;,, sp'l
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