The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-08-21


platform that does not find an i'm
pressive answer in my brain and heart.
1 do not claim the gift of prophesy,
but I will prophesy with such ticket
and such a platform as given us at
San Antonio, the Democracy of this
State will acquire such a trump at
the polls in November that the like OF
it has never been seen before in Texas
or in any other State of this American
union. In conclusion let me, IN be-
half of our citizens, welcome you
home, back again to the fields of your
labors where you have so grandly won
your official spurs, and let me assure
you that when you retire tonight to
that sleep you so much need after so
great battle that you carry with you
the respect, the esteem and the love
of your fellow citizens.
GREGoRY's SPEECH.
Mr. Chairman and Fellow Citizens:
In response to the request of your
committee, l am here to assist in the
performance of the most pleasant duty
that has ever fallen to my lot.
Travis county has sent forth her
sons to political battle. They have
fought a good fight; they have con-
quered, and the world is ours, except
the treasurer's and comptroller's
offices, and they belong to Bill Wor-
than and John d. Mccall.
Was such triumph ever before
known in the history of Texas Dem
ocracy? Two men, both young men,
sent forth by poor old Travis bur-
dered with the sins of a, thousand
politicians and the aspirations of ten
thousand more, with naught to COM
mend them except an answering de-
votion to duty, an integrity that de-
fed comparison, and an ability that
could not be gainsaid, have overcome
all opposition.
AS a privateer in the cause, as a
volunteer of the great unwashed De
mocracy of Travis, claiming no merit
in the fight, but unalloyed bliss over
the result, I desire to- dwell for mo-
ment on how it was done, "Of how the
battle was lost and won;" and let me
say just here that Travis county has
most cause to be proud of the noble
and unselfish conduct of her two sons
before the San Antonio convention.
No chickering's were there, no jealous
les no conflicts, but shoulder to
shoulder and side by side they fought
that fight and won.
( Little need be said of the race of
John d. Mccall. He required little of
his friends, for little could be required.
His magnificent executive ability, his
purity of character and devotion to
duty had won the fight long before
the clans had gathered. They were
known and appreciated from one end
of Texas to the other, and the words
of the San Antonio Express summed
up the facts when it said: "Every-
body yelled when his opponent was
nominated, but everybody voted for
Mccall when the b,llot was taken"
In the nomination of w. B. Workman
the case was different; had the State
of Texas known him as we know him
there would have been no fight; but
with no political record, with no stock
in trade but the enthusiasm and con-
fidence of his friends, an unblemished
purity of character, an answering
devotion to duty, and no.
BILE name inherited from a no.
BILE sire, he ran the race
and won the prize. No empty sleeve
pleaded his cause before that assem-
lily, but if he can WELD the sword as
he does the pen, if he can run from
the field of battle with the alacrity
with which he runs for office, woe
worth the man who meets him in ad-
vance or retreat, for he will surely
cut down the first and run over the
second.
We, his fellow citizens, honor him
for his worth, we love him for him
self, and if any money is to be ex-
tracted from the treasury we would
rather Bill Workman would get it
than anybody else.
His whole campaign can be summed
up in the words OF that pious man,
James, of the Hopkins county dele
cation, who was doorkeeper of
the caucus Tuesday evening when he
said Il had rather be doorkeeper OF
Bill Wortham's caucus than the son
of Pharaoh's daughter" Not man
faltered from first to last, not jot Of
enthusiasm abated, but like stone
wall they stood, while the opposition
dashed itself to peices against its I'M
yielding front. The man was worthy
of such friends, the friends were
worthy OF such a man. And let me
say just here, blessed be the name Of
Tarrant county above all the counties
Of Texas, and thrice blessed be hel
sons; for with the exception of Hop
kins county, the place OF his nativity
no county did such telling work iol
w. B. Workman, and in the name o.
the capital city l extend thanks tc
Lewis Mumford, her gallant chairman
who sits upon the platform, our hon
ored guest.
Ia honoring these men the party
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