Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-05-31
CONVENTIONS TO-DAY.
The Places Of Meeting In the Different
Wards and Precincts.
The Work to De Done under the Call
Of Chairman Jennings.

FORT woRTIt, May 30, 1854.
To the Editor OF The Gazette.
Please give the times and places of holding
the Democratic conventions, with the worl,
TO be done. A great many have got the
thiug mixed up between Fort Worth and
Houston, and there are great many that
%pn Know the d,m. , between precincl
lime has come when the people must be
aroused, and matters of general interest
poked right under their noses. ! hate a ia.
matte, but love patriot: and now. the req
ognizcd educator of NORTH, South, West and
SOUTHWEST Texas is THE GAZETTE, rcmem.
Der the responsibilities, etc. ii. b. W.
The call OF Chairman Jennings is as
follows:
hereby call Democratic county conven
tion 10 meet III the district court room, at the
courthouse, In the city OF Fort Worth at /
o'clock y. M, Saturday, the 7th day of June
1881, for the purpose eli electing delegates To
the state Democratic convention that Assem-.
b!es at Fort Worth on the 18th day of June
1851 TO elecSdelegates TO the Democratic ma
uonal convention Mt Chicago, and for The
transaction of such other business as may
come before 1t.
The basis of representation shall lie one
delegate to each twenty-five votes cast for
Gov. ireland at the last state election; pro
vded. that ach voting precinct shnll have at
least one delegate.
The precinct convention shall be held nj
the voting place of said voting precinct at the
last general election for state officers. on
Saturday, the 9lst day OF May, 1881, Mt o'clock
p. m. HYDE JrNS1SGs,
Chairman Democratic Executive Committee,
1arlant County.
Ia nj fNN al.
found in the following call of State
Chairman Claiborne:
Rooms En-, Com. TEXAS DEMOCRACY.
GALVESTON, April =, lsSi /,
DEAR -SIR-l herewith present you the
rules and regulations adopted by the Demo-
cratic executive commit co at Waco on the
9th day OF March, a. d. lssi, for the govern
ment of the party until they may be abro-
gated In convention.
You will notify in person or by mail each of
the chairmen ofthe emocratic party ofeach
county IN your senatorial district that they
are 10 follow these rules to the letter, serving
each with copy, and direct them that they
are to select under these rules delegates TO A
convention to be held at Fort Worth, Tex.
June ii, 1881, to nominate delegates TO the ma.
tional convention to nominate II candidate
United states. on the Sth day of July next
Under the tpportionment made by the
committee, each county will be- entitled TO
one d.lega,e and vote for every three hun
dred votes cast for Gov. Ireland at the
last election, and one delegate and n vote for
every fraction OF three hundred over one
hundred and fifty; provided, every organized
county shall be entitled to one vote-and one
vote TO any unorganized county having
political organization of enc hun
bred and fifty or more Democratic
voters. No county Will have more
seats on the floor of the convention than she
has votes; no proxy Will he entitled To vote
unless the convention of the county for
which said proxy proposes TO act shall have
authorized said proxy In writing.
will designate Saturday, the eth day of
May, as the time Tor holding the county con-
ventions, but each county committee can de
termine lis own time, giving NJ least ten days
notice. JOIN NJ. CLA1uouxr
Chairman State Democratic EN- ecutive Com.
mittee
In order that the county convention
may be largely attended and thus elicit
representative opinion, Chairman
Jennings fixed the basis of representa-
ton at one delegate from each voting
precinct for every twenty-five votes
cast for Gov. Ireland in 1882. The fol-
lowing table gives the vote designated
and the number of delegates to which
each precinct will be entitled accord
ing To the basis of one delegate for
evay twenty. five votes