Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-12

futures, and that will place a tax on in
| comes.
The News and Courier announces it
will support the ticket.
TWELFTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT CONVENTION
Special to the Gazette.
| HUNTSVILLE, Tex, Sept. 1.-THE
| judicial convention of the Twelfth dis
| trict, composed of the counties of
Walker, Trinity, Leon, Madison and
| Grimes met at the opera house this morn
ing at II 'clock with large number of
| delegates present. At the afternoon
| session Judge J. NJ. Smither of Walker
was elected permanent chairman, J. p.
Stokes of Trinity, secretary, and F. B.
| Robinson of Walker, assistant secretary
and H. L. Robb of Trinity, d. B Dash
! iell of Leon and Fl. ]. Brown of Leon
| were put in nomination for district attor-
ney. The vote has varied very little all
the evening, and the 225th ballot stood:
| Robb, 9; Brown, 3; Dashiell, s. After
| taking about five more ballots Brown
was temporarily withdrawn and Walkers
votes went for Robb, making it. Dash
| iell, 8; RObb, II. No agreement being
yet reached, after taking $50 ballots the
| convention adjourned until 80 Tonight
MISSISSIPPI CONSTITUTIONAL CoNvEN-
TON.
JACKSON, MISS, Sept. II.-Judge
Calhoon, president of the constitutional
convention. occupied the floor for
nearly two hours to-day in support of his
electoral college plan, which has been
fully described in these dispatches. The
judge reviewed all the franchise plans
submitted to the convention and insisted
that none but the Campbell
plan and that which he had
presented himself, but of which
he disclaimed paternity. would insure
white control in the state. 1t was
law of divine ordination, he said. The
white race cannot tolerate divided SOW
ereignty, and any legislature would have
the stamp of idiocy upon it that would
assemble such body as this
Let the South be solid if
II bursts the bottom out of the universe,
The speaker die not share the apprehen-
sion of those who thought that any
change of the constitution that would
have the effect of dep-iving a great num-
Der of negroes of the right to vote would
involve the state of Mississippi in con-
fjict with congress. He thought
there was probability of such
conflict, as it was generally
conceded among lawyers that the tunda-
VI lu6 hcI VI 1OIU were
unconstitutional, and that Mississippi
had as much right to impose educational
or proper qualifications as other states,
providing there was no discrimination
on account of race or color.
"but, - he continued, ''if the worst
comes to the worst, and we lose some of |
our representation in congress, we can
stand it complacently If allowed to man |
age our local and state affairs undis- |
turbed - The fact had gone forth that !
fraud, force and intimidation must cease, |
and If the convention failed to insure |
white supremacy by peaceful methods, |
he would, in case q negro was hereafter |
killed in political riot, regard himself |
and every member of the convention as
accessory to murder. The speaker then
made an elaborate constitutional argu-
ment to prove that the plan he IA
vored was republican in form. 1t
will be remembered that this plan divides /
the state into thirteen gerrymsndered
electoral districts, eight of which will
have white majority, anu that these
electors shall elect all state and county
officers and state senate, the legislature
alone to be elected by the people.
Judge Morris of Wayne and Delegates
Goree of Webster, Coffey or Jefferson
and McPhee of Franklin also addressed |