Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-06-09

feet, making the two tips four feet spart,
or one foot wider than the doorway
From tip to tip are stretched number
| OF red, white and blue RIBBONS, which fall
| il graceful folds down in front OF the
center and over sgaip, again caught back
about midway and fastened on either tide
! 10 the horns. TIE rooms have Two fronts
| Oh both Fourth and Chestnut streets, and
tbs ventilation is therefore complete. The
sbruptnest OF The juncture OF the walls
and Gel ing is happily relieved by the
''siar spanglad banner" tucked in artis-
tic folds and corrugstions all around
! the rooms. From lhts point sill around
! the room stresmeTs tt red, white and
! blue extend &c the Chandeliers, making
the ed4ct al opce tony ard subdued The
chandeliers are trimmed with W. esths 0f
smilax and evergreen vines, which causes
the light to appear Ns from haUk OF na-
ture's gifts, ulQer the emblems Of Amer
| icsn freedom. Ga The mattel is . Life
size portrait OF President Cleveland, while
all around the Uslls and in every nook
and cor1er &re sirsnged many varieties
! OF dollhouse plsnts, evergreens, magnolia
ousaes, ferns aud such like, which speak
il their own mute voices of the final fur
nis1iDg: between the
PALMETTO AND THE PINE.
The fifty odd delegates and alternstes
have many personal friends in the city
and 81 the convention, and ell day yester-
day they might De said to have held
levee, speaking politically and socially.
A number Of ladies p.id their respects to
| the distinguished delegation snd were
royalty received, and remained to admire
the elegance and good taste OF the mead
quarters, Delegations from the different
states also sent representatives. to confer
with the Texas delegation and ask them
to consider fsv0rably the name of this or
that candidate Tor Vice-President. Pei
Esps the most sign tcsnt Of these delega-
tons were those from Indians and
Ono, who called early and lief. e written
request that when the Texas delegation
met ST O'Clock they postpone any action
en- choice for Vlce-President until the
afternoon, and in the meantime were
asked to hea: reasons from tae Indisnians
why they should support Cray ard from
the O1iosrs why the old R1man should
have the nomination.
A! the
MEEIlNG tf Ihh pELEUAll-N
at 9 o'clock Governor j. W. Throckmor-
ton was msde chairman and Mayor Con-
nor Of Dallss elected secretary. Com
muniCstions from the Indiana delegation
were read, asking thst 7. xIs defer action
on the vlce-presidelcy and other matters
until the merits Of Governor Gray
could be properly presented. The request
WAS considerably granted, and also
similar one from the OHIO delegation, who
represented Thurman IS their choice
The two delegations which had asked
this Indulgence got down to business in
dead earnest, and every Texan was
pressed to support the two respective
candidates.. 1t is understood that the
Texas delegation are all favorable to
Thurman, but the question OF his phys
zeal disability is oeing seriously con-
sidered, and is used by the Gray men for
all it is worth. Shortly before 6 O'Clock
Gray seemed to have gained strength,
and WAS apparently almost as popular for
first choice for the vice presidency IS he
WAS IS 8 second choice.
HENRY BxALL,
chairman OF the state central committee,
and one OF the most popular young men
in the state, said: az am not delegate,
and can therefore express myself with re-
gard TO our Texas delegation. 1 think it
is one of the finest that ever represented
the state in any capacity, and we are
Justly proud Of the delegation IS s whole,
aud each member in particular, but Texas
could not be expected to have any
ether kind OF representation. We
want and will have nothing but the best
And will say right here that Texas will
soon become the most important state in
the Union politically, as she has already
become the greatest otherwise. Our
population is increasing very rapidly by
emigration, and our society is not second
to any in this or sny other country.
There is no other pls e in the United
States which offers such inducements II
the wsy of cheap lands and abund-
ant hsrvests to emigrsnts ss
Texas does. TIE prospects this
yesr are that we will have the
most abundant crops in the history OF the
stste and our cities are growing and de-
velo ping to wonderful extent. Dallas
now has $1,000 population, and our
county contains 3d. 900. 1 have been in
every state in the Union, and will take
Texas before any other from preference.
The cultivation of the soil has superin-
QuCeQ rain more frequently Lnhn Iolmer-
ly, and the northers are no longer an OBJ
iecticn, since it Is not 30 far from house
10 house, and there is no occasion for
suffering from cold"
HON. NJ. SMITH,
delegate from the adjoining district to
National Committeeman Holt, although a
former Mlssourian, is now true Texan
ard a well-known newspaper man. "We
want Judge George Clark on the commit
tee on platforms and resolutions" said
he, "snd know that he is the man for the
place. He Is known among Us as the
Warwick of Texas Democracy, aud SIS the
Governor maker. During the last cam,
p,igp, in which the prohibition sentiment
WAS strong, Clark left his home at Waco
and sailed out tC defeat the prohibition
movement, and with one man he put to
flight thousand wsxed valiant in fight and
turned to flight the armies Of the aliens,
and to-day Clark is one Of the most popu- |
lar men in Texas. Prohibition is now
thing of the past with US and the ques-
tion will never be state issue sesin in |
Texas, We now have about l30. 900 Dem |