Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-05-18
M'LENNAN DEMOCRATS.
SENS Statements Ia Regard to lbs Ne.
Lehman Comfy CsnvsBfien-A
Card from d. Il Hardy.
why ths Resolution Indorsing Senator
Coss was Not ess'ted-fhe
Facts Mfscorstzued


WACO. TEX, May IS, 1888.
To Ithe Editor of the Gazette.
In the Dillss Morning News OF the 9Th
inst, ep cared the following dispatch
from Austin:
MILLS VS.. CoKE-THE M'LENNAN COUNTY SUR
PRISE.
AUSTIN, TEX May There Is great deal
of intereGt ma Tested here in the late conven-
ton In Waco, and that interest is increasing as
the fac's leak out. Although It was reported
that 18th Mills and Coke were endorsed, such
is not the case. Resolutions endorsing each
wore drSwn up .or the purpose OF submitting
the n to the conven' ion. The Mills re oluiion
came up fl ST and went through with whoop
and hGrra ;. but the Coke resolution was not
offered. TnGt gentlem ana ffiends say It would
have lassed, but it was permitted 10 remain
! pocsete most remarkable thing If
snsre were enough mouths open for the
yel. A resolution to foIo~ the preceden,
| OF two years ago and submit the senatori |
question 10 the primaries was voted down, but
OF vi hout eiout opposition. This oppo ;itioa
believed they could co gain what ttey di0 in
| the last Senatorial campaign. The Joke men
In this fight against his county expressing Is
! self on the Senatorial natter, when he Ia
an oren candidate for the place, Were aid by
tn q Mills men. perhaps, al d the friends OF an
other gen lem1n or two who, Ike BreY Fox
"lsy low and keep IN aging muffin" Dark
| horees, of course, were opposed to any expires
sion on the sutjsct But it is strange that sen
ator Coke, IN mis- own county, snou d have
agreed 10 go the same pace as that In which the
Ozark horses are canterinp. The more he m t
ter Is considered the more contuang appear
the ways of lhsol Lehman people. Tney nys-
tify, not to say knock cut, the cutest politicians
In these parts. OF course Coke eau carry his
county, and hence the surprise at the capers
lateiy cut In his neighb )rhood.
Also in It's issue of thu 18th appears
another dispatch from Waco containing
the following statement among others:
resolution was written on indorsng Coke,
bus 1t was MOI presented. Il Is known that q
motion to table It would have been made, but
1t is quite certain the resolution could nave
been passed.
On the 1lthI wrote ths Dallas News a
reply and explanation of facts, ont of the
misuse of which these dispatches arse.
As was the psrty Indirectly responsible
for the occurrence. aud since tue fscts
did not rightly permit Of the constr uction
put on them by, nor. the inferences to be
drawn from these dispatches, felt that
q great injustice had been done to the
truth, to me and to others, and believed
the Injustice was williul and designed
1t was my duty to reply. l believed thst
a great daily newspaper, protesting to
have common honesty and to be embued
with sense Of justice would take pleas
ure IN publishing the facts, since il had
been instrumental in disseminating the
error. The Nsws, however, for some
reason HIS refused SO to do.
The facts are these: The resolution
referred to, endorsing Senator Coke, was
not known to as many IS ten men in the
convention. am the party who drew 1t
up, who had 1t and who intended to in
troduce it. 1t WAS at no time, no
more before the convention, and no more
8 subj ect for the public or for public meL-
ton than If 1t had never existed other
than In my mind. Three men only knew
from me that l had such a resolution and
that it was my purpose to introduce it.
The fact had no publicity whatever until
after newspaper reports of the convention
we're published. l charge positively that
the assertion or implication that "the
friends Of Senator Coke permitted it (the
resolutiop) to remain pocketed" through
any thought OF adverse consequences to
him as to the resolution, is untrue.
know of no purpose on the part Of any
one in the convention to table it.
heard of none. Had 1 known Of
| it should not have been
deferred one moment by such circum-
stance. A motion to table would in my
opinion have been tabled itself for the
| want of a second. The authority on
| which 10 based this News dispatch of the
9Th, presumably, got his information in
the convention hail, from one Ct the
three gentlemen aboye referred to; and
since the purpose Of its acquisition has
proved so designing 1t is natural to sup
| pose that he also learned then and there
that I was the party who had the resolu-
ton. The Austin dispatch is, of course,
based on Waco authority. No such party
| came to me after the convention to in
quire into the reasons for the non-intro.
duction of the resolution.
This fact, then, that the reso-
luton had no publicity whatso-
ever in that convention; that
its formulation WAS the act Of but one
party; the absepcs Of any consultation or
caucus OF any, few or many, of Senator
Coke's friends over 1t, together with the
fact that while the call, sssemblage and
organization of that convention WAS de-
signed and existed as 8 conscious lnstru-
mentality in ultimately effecting the re-
nomination of President Cleveland by the
| Democracy as q candidate for President
of the United States, yet no resolution
was Introduced indorsing him or his ad-
ministration; together with the further
fact that while Governor Ross and his
administration are in the highest favor
with the people of McLennan county,
and were with that convention, yet not 8
word of commentator or indorse-
ment was said Of him
or his administration. These
things together, say, justify the charge
that these publications are the mach!ns-
tons of cunning and foul purpose and
attempt to accomplish by art and craft an
end unwarrsnted and unsustained by tpe
facts.
The resolution happened not tosbe
introduced by me, because while aweit.
ing my time and opportunity to do so Tie
convention was practically resolved into
q mob by the Introduction Of the resolu-
tions to nominate officers Of the coupt3