Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-04-25

throughout his speech, which was Re-
publicsn from beginning to end. Then
the BAND struck up q msrtisi air, and as
the last notes died away, Judge Rector
arose and addressed the convention as
| follows:
| JUDGE RECTOR's SPEECH.
| 1--WE desire to express our heartfelt
appreciation of the kind welcome ex-
tended US by the coed city OF Fort Worth.
We are proud to be the guests Of such 8
city and such people.
| "Gentlemen of the convention, we have
met again on the eve of q great presiden-
tial contest, which tests at once our in
stitutions and mans capacity for self
government. The record ofthe R publican
party is one OF fidelity to truth and prin-
ciple. lis achievements in benslf of
humanity are its crowns of glory.
1t said from the start the more
you educate the citizen, the
more you trust him, the more
you individualizs him, the better you at
him to discharge his duties to society
and the state. When the life Of the
great republic, under whose growing and
generous influence the grasp of despotism
upon the throat of humanity was gradu-
ally relaxing, trembled in the balance,
the Republican party saved it. When
slavery erected her hydrahead sgainst the
government and sought to enclose in her
blIghting folds the virgin form of
the territories, the Republican par
! ty checked it and then crushed it.
The craftsmanship of that party which met
the results Of the war, which assimilsted
the changed condition OF affairs to our in
situations; which planted firmly in the
constitution the thirteenth, fourteenth
and fifteenth amendments, whereby the
negro was lifted from slavery to citizen-
ship; which upheld the financial honor of
the nation and returned it safely to q
healthy specie basis, if less brilliant
| than during the wsr was
perhaps more solid and deserving.
| Our party cannot, like q graY-haired old
man, lay down and rest upon its past
achievements. Its merit, its claim to
support must always depend at esca re-
curing election upon its capacity to ad-
| Just itself to the vital issues Of the day.
The American citizen finds sanction and
support in the Republican party for his
highest aspirations and best endeavors.
Its generous and uplifting influence is
felt by him whether he tolls at the loom
or in the field; whether he seeks to
make science the economic hand
maid of man or travels in
| the untrodden fields of thought.
1t proclslms from the housetop5 that the
American market belongs to the American
laborer. 1t breaches the same doctrine
that rallied the Wing hosts under the
gallant Henry Clay; that price is the of
spring of supply or demand and that
when you increase the supply by stimu-
latlng domestic manufactures you lessen
the price to the consumer.
Republicans Of Texas, we are not here
to bowl down and worship with fetch
alteration party slien to our soil and
inimical to our state-but We are here as
true sons of Texas unfolding the Repub-
lican party, because we believe its princi-
Piles will bless and develop our stste
and nation. Why should the great inter-
es. of wool, which is pouring its millions
into the lap OF our state, be stricken
down at the mad demand of President
cleveland? Why should Texas wool,
Texas sugar and Texas beef be frightened
or stabbed to death by Texas Congress-
men.
The Republican party wants law and Or
der throughout the state, free ballot
aud fair count. The Washington coun-
tv outrsges and the Wharton county muir
ders are burning shame upon the fair
name of Dixie. While the influence of q
| Republican administration at Washington
would go far to suppress mob violence
and frauds on the ballot box, yet we
must rely at last, my friends, for com-
plete protection sgsinst such outrages
upon ourselves and healthy public
sentiment at home. Many Democrats,
am glad to say, do not approve such
crimes. And when we find aiTexss exec
utive like Governor Ross who will send
rangers to hunt down such
criminals and bring them to justice
we will not only thank him
but uphold his hands to the extent Of our
ability. LIST US have harmony In our
CT ancils. We are first of all Republicans,
and any man who attempts to put pro-
hibition plank in our platform here is not
| a friend Of the Republican party; any
man who would put an anti prohibition
plank in our platform Is equally its en-
envy.
My friends, let me warn you in time {:
ANY such attempt on either side to coerce
the other is unfair, and, If successful,
would disrupt the Republican party OF
Texas.
With concord and harmony, with a de-
termination to let bygones be bygones,
animated by spirit of justice and de-
sire to build up our party-our meet
ing here will prove success, and wheth-
er we nominate at Chicago the Plumed
Knight, James G. Blaine, to lead our
party, or the great conservative f1ancler
of Ohio, John Sherman, victory will be
ours" Prolonged applause.
| At the mention Of Blaine's name, the
convention went wild. Delegates yelled
at the top Of their voices, and it WAS very
evident thst the house was under he
influence of magnetism" from Florence,
Italy.
Judge Rector then declared that nomi-
nations for q
TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN
were in order.
Mr.. Rosenthsl Of Fsyette, in q speech
OF five minutes, in which he eulogizsd his
man TO the last degree, nominated Hon.
A. NJ. Cochran OF Dallas. The nomination
was seconded by Mr. Zsdek of Navarro.
| L. N. Cooper OF Tarrant, nominated the