Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-07-16

looking men@ being led / zee
one apparently riding kind OF mule al
their head and crying
'ofRIcgl oFFIcKp
This the speaker NJ cred Initiative OF
ene mule ID such y way as TO cause lm-
mehse applause. These are some OF the
bemocratic party bting led by sore
headed, discontinued polltician.n
The committee on credentials being
reaay reported All members properly ac-
credited aud present with the exceptions
OF the delegate from Montgomery and
eApt' Julian Field, whose letter contain.
ing reasons for his absence had been read.
me report was received and adopted,
ana the committee discharged The name
OF W II. III. Moore was added TO that of
the delegates from Azel.
Mr.. Abston asked that his name he
taken from those of the committee on
platforms and that of Mr.. Wright be
added' Granted. Moved and seconded
mat the committee on rules.
order OF business and platform
De requested TO report back the order of
business for this convention aud the rules
governing IL. Carried.
The committee then retired During
the absence Of the committee the house
called for
COL, n. NJ. wYNNE
tor speech. He said In substance.
NELSON said at the battle OF Trafalgar To
nus men, England expects every man TO
40 MS DUTY so say 10 you, the elect.
ors OF Tarrant county expect every
man TO do his duty, II we do this, when
Tue ides OF November come there VIII NO,
DC enough oil the Dark.Lantern party left
TO make decent burial. The people
nave not forgotten what the Democratic
party has done for this state. when the
farmers mud the country In peril. they
VIII come back TO the fold.
When / saw tho professions of the
Dark Lanternites Thought there
might be some danger, Lut wien
see the Democratic faces around me To-
day, see that In November
you WILL INK VICTORIOUS,
and dlssenstons will trouble this country
no more.
VI do not want, nor mean, TO defend
lawyers. They need no defense. But
when you see man get up before an
audience and denounco his fellow.
professionals as liars, and tell YOU they
are not TO be trusted, / tell YOU that man
Is an unworthy member OF a worthy
SELF
The speaker concluded his remarks
Win the following anecdote, "Once there
was farmer and his son. The father
sent his son 10 college, but upon his re,
turn TO the farm he did not take upon
himself those airs OF superiority which
are characteristic OF young men usually
IN his condition, His father had two
mules IN his possesslon--.one, Beck, q
nllld-eyed gentle creature, known TO the
young man before he went to college; the
other, KIT, recent acquisition OF more
eccentric habits, and with whom the young
man had yet TO form an acquaintance
One morning the old gentleman deter
mined TO hitch up this team, aud with
ms end In view asked his son 10 attend
To The old mule Beck, as he knew hel
habits. This the young man resented
saying NO, am not the cowardly son
you take me for l shall hitch up the
younger mule Now this Young man
was a pretty boy like my friends Bowlin
md Blairl. In the act OF hltchi1g up the
mule she kicked and stretched him upon
the ground with his face badly dis.
1gured and his eyes closed. w en-
he was able 10 open them again
and saw his father viewing him at a dis.
lance, disconsolately, he said. Il guess
III get over II, father 'Yes, you'll ret
over ~ you will never be as handsome
again, but ycu'll have great deal more
sense Laughter So II IL with INV
friends, Farmers Bowlin and Blair.
When they have beaten the Democratic
party they will he less handsome, bit
they will have great deal more sense y
The speaker was cheered heartily as he
left the stand.
Mr.. Lewis of Grapevine urged the
Democrats not TO be inundated by their
opponents, but 10 stand up and give
them lick for lick.
AT this point the committee on order of
business, rules and platform appeared
and made their report, as follows:
ORDER or BUSINESS.
The committee as whole recommend
sd that A. j. Chambers be made perma.
nent chairman; Mr.. Hall, first vIce.presi-
dent; w. III. IL. Moore, second vice. pres.
dents Dr.W.B. DAVIS OF Grapevine, secre.
AIRY; Zane Cetti, assistant secretary; w Il
Fucker, Sr., sergeant-atarms, with Bob |
hice ana X. III. McNatt as assistants A |
majority report from the committee rec.
)mmended that the two-thlrd rule be
.dopted, while e minority report favored
he majority rule.
The order OF business as presented by
he committee was as follows;
ORDER or BUSINESS.
The committee reported the following
s the order OF business for the conyen.
ion:
]. Endorsements Of and instructions for
tate Offices.
2. Election Of delegates to the state
o. Instruction for congressman from
be Sixth congressional district Of Texas.
4. Election OF delegates TO the congress
lonial district Of Texas.
3. Instruction for senator from the
wentieth senatorial district composed
the counties OF Tarrant, Parker, Wise
nd Jack.
o Election Of delegates 10 the sena-
'rial convention for the Twentieth dis.
let Of Texas.