Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-03-28
A HOT DAY IN DALLAS.
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of weather.
Trusting that you reconsideration Of this
| invitation may be favorable, and tat
you may test the hospitality for waich
this CITY is famed, We remain, very re-
Specttully and truly, your Ob.dieRt ser
wants, H. BRoILEs, Mayor.
II. R. BARLEY,
Cry Secretary.
E Z CEASE,
President B1asd of Trade.
MAX ELsER,
Secretary and Treasurer B IAr1 of Trade.
J P SMITH,
President Merchants aud II iuutscturers'
| Bureau. p ALEYAEDxB,
Secretary Merchants aud M.nui,cturerS
| Bureau. a. III. BRIrToN,
President Commercial Cluo.
WELT DRYDEN,
Secretary Commercial CLUB.
After the reading OF the above comma
nication
NR GEORGE W. FINGER
OF Fort Worth presea.ed Sas claims Of
tas P Anther city. Hs sllu Ted 30 the fa-
J nous hospitality Of It's Democracy, it's
/ matches artesiAn water and its eleven
[ rail way outlets and its maniteet ability TO
| successfully entertain large crowd.
Mr. OTIS g. EATON
slso spoke in favor OF Fort Worth. He
eloquently placed the attrsctlTeuess OF
the town before the committee and he
nad their attention from the beginning.
| He told Of how the Furs Worth conven-
ton four years ago had nuog to the
| breeze the banner bearing the words
! democracy and Cleveland" and its cub
segment success In the fall Of that Jesr.
H. desired the Fort to have the honor OF
ooirg the thing again. Applause
SAN ANTONIO.
Mr.. william Ferguson Of San Antonio,
next was introduced. He spoke Of the
his ORIG associations of the Alamo city in
Its facilities OF entertainment, ana the
absorbing desire of It's people 10 enter
tain the Democracy of T xas.
THE BALLOT.
This closed the nomiOAtions and the
ballot Was proce eded with as follows
For. Worth ten, Dallas I've, San Antonio
four Amid great applause Chairman
EKsll declared Fort Worth rs the place
u holding the convention to nominate
delegates to Inc national CONVENTION.
Mr. Giles, of Travis, then moved that
the Fort Worth convention, Ia addition
TO selecting delegates, also choose the
STATE electoral ticket, mus relieving the
state convention Of this burden. Car
ri-d.
On mott N the committee then pro-
ceeded to select the time OF holding the
convection to nominate the sta'e ticket
Terhume moved that the fIurth Tues
dsv in August belselected.
Rushing moved IS suosHtue taas
the second Tuesdsy in August b5 chosen
as the time. Carried
The represeu HtlVes of the cites ask
irg the convention were then invited tc
address the committee.
AUSTIN.
\ Hon. Joseph Mile, Mayor OF Aus
tin, presented the claims OF tha
CITY In short speech. Rs sale
that the city OF Austin belonged 10
The ttats and tie Democratic c"rveB-
ton ", uld give tas people Vi Tsxss ar
cpportuuity OF viewing th'ir own. .Austir
did not want the FIRST coHVen'isH because
sue would have her hands full with iht
de dicAtion Of the new capitol and tn:
great drill.
Mr. Giles, the committeeman from th'
TRenty-tourih district, also spoke Il
favor Of Austin.
Hsyor Conner then appeared Ia behalf
Of ID alias, and his speech was one OF th'
, features Of ID1 INT citing al d IL made vote
, for Dallas. H teiicltau+d the committed
on having selected Fort Wor has the plac
OF h0l0I z one OF the conventions. FOR
Worth WAS 3 sister CITY OF Dallas. DAlla!
, was proud Of her. Fort Worth WAS I
grand COZ centrAtion OF thrift, enterprise
, and public spirit, ard she G. mmittee hAc
dnne IT her NO more than she deserved
He then made 40 eloquent IS we'll as
hunorCuS argument in favor Of holdinl
both COW, Dtlons in n 'rth Texas, 10
strong mold of the Texas Democracy, aut
end. d his happy speech by asking them
In clSsE-meetips style, TO rise up AM
, give the convention 10 DsllGs.
LAMPAsAs
The Chairman Lnen introduced
> Mr.. Louis Wood Of LsmpAsAs
wnu sp, k fsrVenty for rhst be- termed
-. he Saratoga Of Texas. Lsmpssss wa
. free OF all /, cal political influence. Sn
was summer resort. TheIe was goo
4 fare, good water, and pretty womap, L
, cay nothing Of her whisky, which va
q used for medical, scientific and other put
poses. He m sde splendid speech Lam
Dasss WAS strong for awhile until In
D breaking up came.
The BALLOTS.
II was then decided after the third bal
lot th1t the lowest town should b
, dropped, and ire ballot Was proGeede
win as f0llO1s:
4 Fust bAllot-Austin 8. Dsllss 6, Lam
: p~.Ns San Antonio 8 GA weston l.
? s end baliOt-austin 5, Dallas
!. Leu , ,sss 5, Ssu Antcui' l.
Tn I'd bsllov-AusLin 6, Dallas Z, Lam
. pssas 6.
Fourth bAllo,-Austiu 6, D alias Z, Ian
n pasass
An Adjournment WAS then taken Il
A $3.50 p. In.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
4 The comntLIes was siied 10 order an
= after some discussion about the basis I
A Representation, which Mr.. GARRETT pr
= posed to change the bbsis from one
!, every eco votes 10 one to every 500. all I
which was LAID on the table, the ballot Il
the stale convention was Resumed.
N Fifth b'Ilot-DallSs Z, Austin 6, Lac
= pasas 6.
Thi. vote continued until the tent
bs lot, when II IVES decided for the COZ
- mI,tes to vote upoa the hrst. second al
= third choice, the town tDat received q
y most third choice votes TO be droppe