Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-08-13

| UuslHNss.
| Tho Lease-Law Plank.
NOT so MANY FRIENDS As or YoRE-wILl
| MARTIN RUN INDEPENDENTLY
sp cial to the Gazette.
GALVESTON, TEX, Aug. 1.-THE plat
form Of the Democratic party contains al
absolute lease-law plank, and was placed
there to-day by vote OF 449 to 2s2. This
is fair test of the strength Of
the opposing factions Of the
party, as divided upon the most vital
question at present concerning the voters
Of Texas. In the long and brilliant ar.
gument made before the vote was taken,
IL was noticeable that no politician OF
special prominence took part on the side
of lease law. The old cry,
THE CHILDRENis GRASS,
was revived, and East and South Texas
! joined forces TO put the plank in the
platform, in the face of an
almost solid vote against 1t from the
frontier counties. This absolute lease
plank Is the work OF the cattle kings and
corporations, who have been crying that
portion of the West is unfit for the
actual settler who intends to promote
agricultural pursuits in that section.
Browning of Mobeetie
MADE MANLY SPEECH
against it, claiming that the actual set
tiers of that country were unit in its
opposition.
Swami OF Clay county, heretofore a
violent lease-law man, eloquently pleaded
for the matter TO be relegated to the leg
islature, and that it should not be incor-
porated in platform, which the settlers
on the frontier could not and would not
indorse. He and Browning both
asked THE convention not to turn the
West over to the control of corporations,
and then put q barbed wire barrier
around the settlement and development
of that great empire. The argument
demonstrated the fact that q mixed sys-
tenn Of sale and lease would not do for all
of West Texas, and the separation of the
territory into two sections, one for an ab.
solute lease and the other the selected
agricultural district, for mixed system
of lease and sale, similar to the provis-
ion in the existing law, can but be Judged
now as proposed experiment.. The
FREE. GRASS MIN
are depressed over the absolute lease
plank in the platform, and shake
their heads when asked how the
people will take to the platform. They
are gTatihed, however, at the hattering
vote the motion to strike out the obnox-
ious section received, and say that TWO
years ago such motion could not have
been put before Democratic state con-
vention In Texas
The vote on the Cooke county contest
ing delegations, which resulted in seating
the straightout Democratic delegation,
WAS A TEST CASE
Of the strength of the Knights of Labor
and Farmers alliance in the convention.
1t stood sol to l66, aud the adoption of
the majority report of the committee on
credentials precipitated the most violent
DEBATE OF the convention. Jack
son, the state lecturer of the
knights OF Labor, was an alternate in the
defeated delegation, and he came in for
large share OF criticism in the course of
the discussion. When Sheriff w. r. Mad
ooX OF Iarrant county rose in high seav
and said that Jackson had been
ONE OF THE AGITAToRs
In the recent great strike and that he had
been served with an Injunction writ To
keep off the railroad property at Fort
Worth, the convention broke forth in a
storm of long-continued applause. The
NNAN
seat the delegation OF the first convention
heldln Cooke county, it is claimed there,
Will force the two secret orders to place
ate ticket in the field.
MARION MARTIN
is limited as the probable leader for
guoernatorial honors. This, however, is
bitterly denied by the political friends of
the Navarro swamp fox. The convention
Is opposed to secret political orders but
much eloquence has been used urging
the members of such orders to come into
the ranks OF the Democracy and adjust
their alleged grievances inside the party
Noble PIea
TAYLOR COUNTY MANS FLEA FOR THE
ACTUAL SETTLER.
Special to the Gazette.
GALVESTON, TEX, Aug. I'm. A.
spoontz OF Abilene addressing himself to
the adoption of the minority report ON
platform said: In the name of the
united Democracy Of Texas, | beg of Won
that you throttle not the cry of the yo1ng
for recognition on this land question IN
your platform, by the adoption of the re-
port OF the majority of the committee on
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