Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1888-10-01

CohUTol UIle pEOuuClS vi bleIT Hills
and force the sixty millions of consum.
ers in this country to pay extortion-
ate prices for the necessaries of life,
the very foundation of wealth in all
countries-is sold in the free market,
ard labor itself completes in America
with: labor throughout the world, find
ing the condition" of things, q
Democratic President and Demo-
cratic House of Representatives
standing upon the Constitu-
ton and demanding the equal
rights of labor and of capital-have
called for revision of this system
and reduction of the burdens of the
Protective Tariff from the shoulders
of the toiling millions of their country
men. They demand that the rev.
enues shall be limited to the needs
of the Government and that the taxes
shall be lowered upon the neces-
sarles of life--the food and clothing of
the poor. Upon this principle of
Democratic faith we have gone
before the country and have boldly
thrown down the gauntlet to our oppo-
nents, while they have so far forgot
ten the obligations of good govern
ment as to offer to the taX-burdened
laborers of the Countrywide half
starved and half-clad men. women
and children of the farms, the fac
tories and the work shops--the price
less boon OF free whisky and free
tobacco! Upon this issue we go to the
people, trusting to their patriotism
and enlightened Judgment, and the
Democratic party having OBLIGATED at
the funeral of all the other parties
that have ever risin to prominence in
this country, it will consign the Re-
publican party to the tomb of the
Capulets on the ides of the coming
November.
We assemble, gentlemen of the con-
vention, under peculiar and interest
ing surroundings. Representing
the Democracy of the Ninth Congress-
ional District, we have come here to
select our standard bearer in the COM
ing election. The Democracy of the
whole country nave an abiding inter
est in the result of our deliberations
turned toward the Convention to-day
We enjoyt;he rare and distinguished
honor of having furnished from the
citizenship of this District, as our
repre- sentative in Congress, one
whose patriotic devotion to his people
and to the Constitution of his country,
and whose peerless ability in the
championship of the true principles
of Democracy, have called him to the
rank and to the delicate and respon-
sible duties of leadership on the floor
of Congress and in the national cam
paign. Possessing in an eminent
degree the conservatism of Clay, the
profound craftsmanship of Calhoun
and the matchless eloquence of Web
ster-standing to-day the peer of any
man who ever appeared in the halls
of Congress-gentle as the dove but
bold as the lion-the Pericles OF
American DemOcracy-his name on
every tongue-his career destined to
fill an honored page in our country's
history-such man is Roger q. Mills.
Our constituencies have with one
accod nominated him to this Con-
vention for e-election-that nomina-
ton has been seconded by the great
heart of the Democracy throughout
the length and breadth of this land
He is with us to-day and we can feel
the very magic Of his presence. He
has been selected by our National
Committee to carry the banner OF
Tariff Reform in the doubtful States
and though the "tOOOlf in Sleeps
clothin0" is abroad in the Ninth Dis.
trict trying to compass our defeat by
tanning the flames of prejudice and
hate, yet the Democracy of this Dis
trict will maintain its integrity and
its honor against every form of Oppo-
sition, and neither Protection gold
nor Republican hypocrisy will be-
able to place n single blot upon oul
bright escutcheon. The names O
, our champions are entwined will
!, victory, and when the din and smoke
of the political battle shall have
cleared away, the names of Cleveland
and Thurman and Mills will stand a
the head of the polls recorded IN let
tiers of Lying fire, and the country
will know that the Democracy of JET
ferson and of Jackson still lives.
! On motion of Mr.. l.. r. Bryan, tn,
convention selected Hon. George w
Tyler temporary chairman.
. Mr.. Beauregard Bryan, OF Washing
ton, on motion Of Won. George G
: Pendleton, was elected temporary sec
!. rotary.
i 7. II. Bull was elected temporar
> sergeant. alarms.
On motion of Judge l.. G. Alexan
t der, committee on credentials ant
: permanent organization, to consist O
: one delegate from each county, wa
= appointed. The following were nance
v on the committee: l.. X. Bryan
y Washington; J. w. Morris, Falls; W
: l.. Barker, McLennan; F. E. Tram
It nell. Limestone; c. X. Melear, Ma
: varo; Jno. T. Bartlett, Bell; Enoc
: Breeding, Milan. Burleson count
l. was represented by the Washingto
IS county delegation as party.
s. On motion OF Mr.. J. ID. Mcmahon
!, UDcle Bob Childers, of Bell count
d an old veteran, was invited to SCI
n, on the stand