Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-23

wanting to know when aud where the
convention meets. Wichita Falls had
better wake up and ''let the thing be
KNOWN IL she wishes to entertain q
good crowd at the last gathering of the
Jumbo Democrats.
To the Democracy of the Forty-third Rspresen >
tative District Of Texas.
BY virtue of authority vested in me es
chairman OF the Democratic executive
committee of said district, hereby call
a convention to assemble ut Wichita
Falls, September 10, 1890, at 10 o'clock
a. m, to nominate candidate for rep
ressntative, and such other business as
may come before it
T. c. THOMSON,
Chairman Democratic Executive Com
mittee third Representative Dis
trict.
Wichita Falls, Tex. Aug. 8, 1890.
PRESSING HoGG FOR OFFICE.
Special 10 the Gazette.
AUSTIN, TEX. Aug. 2.-Gubernato-
rial nominee Hogg is beginning &c eApe-
rlence some of the woes of the man so
fortunate as to ascend to power. Let
tiers from office seekers in all parts OF the
state are pouring in, and If the at
Encouragement would answer them
all he would have no time
to devote to his duties now pressing upon
him against the fall terms of the courts;
but Mr.. Hogg takes his medicine like
man. One thing is certain, there Will
be many disappointed office-seekers when
Mr.. Hogg has made up his slate some
months hence, which he has not done as
yet.
THE PITTsBURG DEADLOCK.
Special to the Gazette.
PITTsBURG, TEX. Aug. 22.-The dis
trict convention which met here yester-
day TO nominate candidate for district
attorney is still in session. Three hum
dred and thirty-six ballots have been
taken with no change at all. Baldwin
and Neil still have fourteen votes
each.
GEORGIA FARMERS ALLIANCE.
ATLANTA, GA, Aug. 22.-The Georgia
state Alliance finished Its labors yester-
day and adjourned. The most important
action vas the unanimous passage of the
platform as final that the Alliance
adopted at the st. Louis convention.
This carries with it. of course, the unan-
imous Endorsement OF the sub-treasury
plan, which is one OF the principal plat
dIsO VA lhC gov
of transportation lines. Cotton bagging
was adopted as the Alliance covering for
cotton as against iute. This is carrying
out the fight on jute made last year.
The eligibility clause was made identical
with that of the Alliance, providing that
no one shall be admitted to membership
unless they be farmer, farm laborers,
mechanics, country school teachers,
physicians and preachers, editors and
editors of strictly agricultural journals.
The convention was largely attended and
for the most part unanimous.
IDAHO REPUBLICANS.
BOISE CITY, IDAHO, Aug. 21.-The
Republican state convention reassem-
bled this morning and adopted plat
form indorsing everything Republican.
A resolution was adopted that it was the
sense of the convention that the First
legislature elect one United States ssEa-
tor from North Idaho. The following
ticket was nominated this afternoon:
Governor, George L. SchOup; lieutenant
governor, N. B. Wiley; congressman,
Willis Sweet; secretary of state, A. J.
Pinkham; state auditor, George Robe
than; state treasurer, Frank r. Coffin.
A UNION LABoRITE RENoMINATED.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Aug. &c. P.
Featherstone has been renominated for
congress by the Union Labor party of the
First district.