Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-08-12
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, utbtct vi titutntlhiS mas been IN HeSslO
all day aud Will york until 2 o'clock !
/ The morning. The committee stands,
Ross men, ~ opposing, with three men
bcrs absent from the meetings so far held
The Red River contest has been settle
, by the committee BY seating the Debtors
delegation.
In Cooke county the Second convention
10 declared legal and its delegates, whicl
are nearly all for Ross, seated.
! In Collin county the Ross delegation Il
seated.
The Preside and Webb county contests
are being looked into.
There will be a strong fight on the Red
River finding, Henderson, Pendleton and
Finley championing the Swain delega.
tion's cause. The award In the Cooke
county case will also be fought. 1t is un.
derstood that after the first ballot the De
Morse delegates will vote for Ross.
THE PLATFORM BUILT.
Special to the Gazette.
GALVESTON, TEX, Aug. 1.-THE com
mttee on platform and resolutions IN
lshed Its work tonight about O'Clock.
II IL lengthy document, making probably
twenty-five hundred words. The war
resolutions which have been presented
and referred to this committee have
all been supplanted by plank
which states that American citizens should
receive the protection guaranteed by the
constitution, and that protection was
badly needed. There was considerable
debate, but no serious jars, The lease
law was Endorsed. The report viii be
handed In on the assemblage of the con-
vention tomorrow.
ANOTHER ACCOUNT or THE FIGHT.
To night, in front Of the Beech hotel,
Edward Hammer, edi or of the Texas Law
Review and Enoch Breeding, editor { the
X ickdae Messenger, became involved in
a row Of words, which shortly ended
in action and Hammer knocked Breed.
lrg down. The latter rose with
knife in his hands and stabbed
Hammer In the neck, aud he is quite
seriously wounded, Both men were under
the Influence of liquor
THE D'MoRsE CROWD WINS.
A long fight in the committee on Gre
dentials ended tonight in the seating of
the DeMorse delegation from Red River
county, throwing out the Swain dele
cation.
The Webb county contest was on trisl
at 1880 tonight.
TERRELL's sPEECH.
Special to tho Gazette.
GALVESTON, TEX, Aug. l1.-A commit
lee of delegates appointed by the chair
nan, under the resolution adopted bv the
requesting Judge Terrell to
address the convention, waited upon the
gentleman and finally
brought him into the hall. Hu began by
saying that he bowed before the repre-
entatives Of the Democracy of Texas.
md returned his thanks for the compli-
nent involved In the invitation to address
hem. He had nothing 10 say regarding
his own candidacy to which allusion had
Deen made, and In speaking his views of Ii
Democratic principles he would say
lothing that could wound the feelings OF
" reflect on any gentleman He thought
he hour would be better employed in
istening TO the
MANY CANDIDATES FOR GOVRRNoR
md hearing their views of the policies
hat should control this mighty state.
The land problems and the Intelligent
ontrol OF railways, with other questions,
'ress for solution and demand the exer-
ise OF the highest statesmanshlp. He
aid. that Democracy consisted not in
Platforms, but in vital principles Inherent
the very structure OF governments,
tate and national, and on the observance
II which depended the safety and liber.
les Of the people The amendment to
he federal constitution, which old Viz
,lnia demanded nearly 100 years ago
vas the cornerstone of Democratic faith.
That amendment announced that all the
'owers not conferred on the United
states by the constitution or prohibited by
I to the states, were
RESERVED 10 THE STATES
nd the people. Out Of this has grown
he party of strict constitution, the party
4 the people. Thus, II congress as
umes to exercise Il power, its authority
must be found IN the constitution bv eX-
ress grant, or IL must result as necessary
nd proper to the exercise of some
uthority expressly granted. The spirit
4 Democracy, which guards with such
igllaucC the reserved rights of the states
nd people, protects with equal care the :
edcral government in the exercise OF It's
functions. Thus the war
making power is lodged ouder at Wash.
ngton, and not in either the states or the
people, so that II controversy shall ,
rise between Massachusetts and some
orelgn power over fishery question,
hat state IL not permitted 10 plunge ali
he rest In war, but by the very terms of
he constitution must content herself
With
STANDING on THE OFFENSIVE
lntll the government at Washington shall
leclare war. discord OF the limi,a-
IONS of the constitution has given rise to
very danger that now threatens us. The
ransfer OF wealth from the many to the
ew under the protective policy, the grant
u public land and the loan Of government
money tosa favored few, TO develop grand
properties to be owned by themselves,
we're among the things done in disregard
II the spirit OF American Democracy
such legislation has widened and deep
med the chasm between those who pos
less great wealth and other people, until
low the voice of discomfort is
ABROAD IN THE LAND.
lie said when 100000 property-holders
Identified with agriculture and organized
in one state to secure farms,
{ meant that something mad gone wrong,
md that II was the part of wis
lon to pause and search out
These remedies must he
0und, II at all, Inside OF the Democratic
party, IL Is the party Of the people based