Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-11
pared to report, the convention ad-
journed till tomorrow,

Journed till tomorrow.
A REVISED COMPILATION.
WHITE RIVER, VT, Sept. "A re-
vised and correct compilation for 2S2
towns, embracing the complete guberna-
toriaI vote of seven of the fourteen eoun-
ties in the state give Page,
Republican, 80, sol; Brigham, Is ,745,
and others 1914. The same towns in
1888 gave Dillingham; Il, 053; Shurtloff,
l9, 226 all others 1852. Only eleven towns
are wan ted to complete the total vote.
The number of Democratic representa-
tives elected as per returns Is about sixty,
or gain or forty two over 1883.
MISSISSIPPI CONSTITUTIONAL CoNYEN-
TON.
JACKSON, Miss. Sept. 4.-The consti-
tutional convention was in session all
day, and finally disposed OF the peniten-
tiary question by the adoption OF sub
stitute for the committee report. 1t
provides that no convicts shall ever
be leased or hired by any person
or corporations, public or private,
after December /, 1894, and that the
legislature shall abandon the leasing sys-
tenn as soon as possible.
The judicial committee, TO whom was
referred the question of authority of the
convention TO enact a constitution with
out submitting it to the people for rail-
fication. also submitted its report.
The committee expressed the opinion
with confidence that the convention may
constitutionalIy make a constitution or an
amendment, which it shall adopt abso-
lutte and finally, without submitting the
question of ratification or rejection TO the
qualified voters of the state.
SPEAKER REED WELCOMED AT HOME.
PORTLAND, Me, Sept. 4.-Speaker
Reed was welcomed home this evening
by crowd of 5000 people, who packed
the city hall half an hour before the
time he was advertised TO speak.
Speaker Reed advanced on the arm
of Mayor Melcher, and was greeted with
3 storm of cheers and waving of hats.
State Representative John II. Fogg, from
this CITY, presided and presented Speak
er Reed, who advanced to the front of
the platform, and was received with
prolonged applause, rising in a BODY to
welcome the distinguished speaker.
Mr.. Reed said: ''Parties have their
depressions and their years of eXaltation,
just as individuals have their moments
of depression and good cheer. Parties
have periods when they do great work,
and periods when they seem to have no
other hope than the mere
PRESERVATION OF THEIR EXISTENCE.
Since 1874, when the Republican
party first faltered in its
great duty OF preserving liberty
and equality before the law for all citl-
zens of the United States, a Republican
house of Representatives has been rare.
This has not been because there is no
longer a Republican majority, because
by frauds too apparent to be denied, by
ballot box stuffing too notorious TO be
disputed twenty-five seats in the house
have been wrestled from us under the
open and defiant declaration that
the Southern Democratic white man
shall not only rule the black
man of the South, but the white man Of
the North. Two years ago under the
tremendous stress used in the battle set
in array by free traders the Republican
party so signallv
DEFEATED THE DEMOCRATS
that even cries OF fraud were ruled out
of order, and after few Intellectual
struggles to count us out we had the
house by a small majority Of five in
stead of our real majority. -
The speaker then referred to the fill
clustering tactics, as he called them, of
the Democrats of the house which had
defeated his ruling a quorum. Continu-
ing, he said: Now the house of repre-
sentatiVes is not body quick to do
business under any set of rules.
Its large numbers and the
diverse interests they represent will
always make it slow and cumbersome,
but the system which enabled one mem
how 70 hpI1 ha t,oln l.
ing down of the sun, and then hold it
until physical exhaustion set it free, and
one-ttth to hold it forever, was
evidently the system which rendered
ELECTIONS USELESS
and called halt to civilization itself.
OF what use was 1t to summon into the
field an army of orators to explain ques-
tions of party policy? OF what use was
an election, itself that grand culmina-
ton Of the power of the citizen, if after
the sanction of the beaten party?
so foolish as to battle for
power with responsibility when he could
have the same power without RESPONSE
government of the people juggle? So
EANAA Jul hCis VA " AHO
polls for sport? If there be anything in
POPULAR GOVERNMENT
1t means than whenever the people
have elected one party to take
control of the house or senate that party
shall have the power and responsibility.
If this is not not the effect,
what is the use of an election?
1t was for other ideas of public duty
that the minority met us at
the opening of the session. Not only
were no measures to pass which did not
have their approval, but no rules, even
OF procedure, were TO be per-
mitted except those which seemed
suitable to the beaten party.
So we begin life without any rules. The
says the house may deter
mine the rule of its procedure, and does
not say that it must. After two months
time the opposition found that under par
liamentary law the public business
was going on every day without
their consent, and they began to clamor
for the very rules they had denounced.
1t is enough to say that good work was
done, aud the house of representatives
has taken a large stride towards business.
THE PERFORMANCE OF DUTY.
VIII you, my old friends and neigh |
5ors, permit me just one word, which is |
purely personal? If at any time these |
asst eight months 1 have been |