Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-06-09
"HURRAH F1R TEXAS"
Th- F.Sae &'sr n.Et esfss and Their
headquarters st ri, L0uis-
4. Xsns WI; stemsrd
an AEn Pronshu ~ frank IN Lhe National
PIa forms ms sKa.ches of a
spI,Loss DrI-H alton.
st. Louis Republic. June 5.

Texas and Z 4IfJrnls seht the biggest
body Of men % the convection. In brain,
too, they are tqusl to the other delegs-
tons.
TGare are many new faces in the Texas
delegation 20 those who hsve Deea fsLnil-
lsr with nsEiocsI -YSu:iCns tor the past
twelve years. T-e r0turd form, bass
voice end genial smile CT Dic6 Hubbard
are missed. Dick is serving lis country
as VI al Ter 70 Japan and no dJuot, while
Sbsent IL , arson, Is mere in spirit. Hub
Oi,J was ne temporary presiding officer
OF TIE last aa!ionaI convention in Chicago,
aRd through ais influence the maj ority Of
the Tx - de!. CATION came to the support
Of Mr. Cleveland on the second ballet.
d c G ddtugs, who was delegate at
large to The lat national convention, is
sls0 : delegate Il large TO this. Giddings
il 81 X Co1gr, ssman, banker, solid
man politically md moIaly. The mate
riai Z &. 90. United States Senator or
go1G G5vsr2gs Of Texas Is in him. He
szry lis So } fiithfully IL Congress-
t3r ~ l'rnl nd either on the flor OF
the Il 51s= O. n TIE mittee-roCms
ned lis 0v5A q tn the strongest auG best
o; EA= pr natives Of other stsies.
Gt:dlrg- ~. ltfe platform committee
u 1884. $40 was one OF the men
W. LII = committeeman dis
90 H.. 80, It's work. he wanted s
sql.r-, $40 ut forward uttersnce on
ras lst.t ga, ion, something IN line with
u. Hlbs-g ,=n message OF Mr.. Cleveland
s. CIng.ess. r is hardly necessary to
say tla. CJ,04el Giddings has not changed
LIS l.. I-Iol5 On the tariff question, ana ne
is one = I Jha zen VINO is Keeping close
watch and closely scanning the constIuc.
ti)G 81 he platform committee by the
d-6ertut delGgs lions.
Peter SMigh ct Fort Worth, who WAS q
delegste.At large to the convention Of
1884, Is mi ing this time; so is Tom
BroTI 81 S iermsn, Charley Sweeney Of
Galveston, Gill Burgess OF Seguin, Tom
Breckenridge Of Austin, and many more
faces familiar in national gatherings.
There are some brilliant new men in
the present delegation, no Tever. Horace
Chiffon OF Tyler is s man OF state reputa-
ton. BE lives in the same town with
Dick Hubbard, and years ago they be-
came rivals for the honors Of their party.
Callton has not the ponderous voice OF
Hubbard, but he has s sweet silvery,
penetrating voice, and he Is one Of tht
mos. brillian. men in the stste. He is q
lawyer Of distinction, and no doubt one
OF these days will be heard from in Wash
ingtou.
GEORGE CLARK,
another delegate at large, is perhaps the
soIsst political organizer in the south
west. He it WAS who organized the Dem
ocrsts Ggainst the PROHIBITION crsZ3 last
year, snd under his lead 1000 ms
jority WAS piled up against the advocates
of sumptusry law constitution. Mr..
Clark engineered the election of
Richard Coke to the gov
ernorship, and subsequently in
cured his election to the United Ststes
Senate. Afterwards he managed the
campaign Of Sui Ross for Governor, and
nis efforts were equally successful. Some
tins sgo a Texas journalist dubbed
Z ark "Warwick," and since then the
nsme has stuck to him. II is even now
invariably called George "W." Clark, the
W being for Warwick. He has labored
earnestly to make men, but has been pc
cuiiarly u1self5h as regards his own
claims on the party. 1t is understood
that Clark does not want TO pe either
Governor or Senator; that his ambition
is entirely in the direction 81 the bench. |
He would like TO be United SAFES district
or Circuii Judge, Or, 0ettef sill, IA c5sO-
ciale justice Of the Supreme cour.. When
George Clark WNs born b5 father was the
chief judicial OIL ;e- .; the state CT Ala
bama He WAS Dorl into the laW-sG 10
speSk-Snd ranks in Te. as as the fore
most lawyer of the state. BE is Demo
c-st to the marrow; despise5 ell isms, side
shows and left handed movements, and
believes IN making fight on the broad, I
level grounds of Democracy RS expanded
by Jefferson, enforced by ickson and
demonstrated by Grover Cleveland.
j W. THRoCKMORToN,
4 delegate-st-large, has served in the
Legislature; has served So Governor; hiss
served,4s Congressman. He retired 81
mos agsins. LIE protests OF his constitu-
ents, at tle end OF the Forty-ninth Con-
gress, because Of III health. Since then
he has nursed himself, and he is now, his |
friends are glad to see, in s more robust |
condition than at any time during the |
past twelve years. Throckmorton WAS |
the first Governor elected sitter the war
by the Democrats OF Texas. He served |
for about six weeks, and was removed by |
General Sheridsa-then military dictator
OF Texls-on the ground that he WAS
an obstruction I'd reconstruction.
Throckmorson was one OF the young !
men who stood by SAM Houston in op |
posing the secession move Gent in Texas.
He voted against tie ordinance OF seces-
sion, ana Die everything he could to pre-
vent il and keep the state In the Union.
Bat, when the majority Of his people
voted to csss In taeirsiot with the Confed-
eracy, like loyal stste man ne went with
them ana into the Confederate army, and
fought until Lee surrendered at Apo
msttox. Tarockmor:on is one OF the
most popular of Texans. He has been
sent to Congress time and time again, and
would be there now were it not for his
positive refusal to serve because OF his
i'll health. He WAS chairman OF the Pa
cific railroad committee in the last Con-
gress, and WAS one of the most influential
men in the House: Perhaps one of these
DAYS he will return to Washington as the
ambassador Of Texas in the council OF
states.
OF THE NEW MEN -
in the delegation, William 81 Pope OF
MARSHAL is, perh,ps, the best known. He
has been 6 state senator for number Of
years and is 8 lswyer OF ability. 1t is