Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-17

world for prostrating the industries of
| the country and robbing the people under
the sanction of laws which find no
parallel in the broad domain of national
! legislation. Applause. But, fellow
citizens, these great economic problems
which have been produced and presented
by the vicious legislation of the Republi-
| can party must be solved by peaceful
and constitutional methods. We know
and feel the evil, now where is the
| remedy? 1t is to be found IN the just
| application of the imperishable principles
| of the Democratic party - that party
| which was Graded in revolutions; that
| party which from its youth has done
battle with Federalism and Capitalization
| OF power; that party which IS the party
of the tree people, because TO man,
however humble, can stand be-
meath its flag and call himself
q slave. CApplause.l If. there
| fore, it be conceded that the solution
of our present difficulties depends
upon the application of Democratic
| principles, we must here and now find II
| man to represent us who understands the
| difficulty and knows how to apply the
| principle. What manner of man do we
need? What qualifications do We de-
mand? What, may | ask, shall be his
stature? First and above all he must be
honest and true; he shoul be deeply
read in the science of government and
thoroughly familiar with the needs of
his people: he must be Democrat who
knows and honors the glorious achieve
ments of his party and whose heart beats
| quickly at mention of its history and its
| traditions; he should be nothing OF the
| time-server, everything of the man; he
! should be little of the politician, much
| of the statesman; he should unite the
| conservatism of wisdom with the ag-
gressiveness of youth; he should be wise
| enough to know the right and fearless
enough to maintain 1t; he must be brave
| enough to stand in his place in congress
and speak in defense of the weak and
the oppressed without fear that some
self-conseious critic Will denounce him as
| demagOgue; he must hold his
office not as an emolument
but trust; he must not
merely promise, but he must perform.
II he cannot always command he must
not, like Achilles, sulk in his tent, but
with his battle ak in his hand he must
follow wherever the torch of Democracy
leads. Subject to this test I nominate ii
man who is the living embodiment of
L
nominate q man whom two states claim
and have delighted to honor; man who
has already written his name upon the
history of the times; man whose past is
prophetic of his future. l nominate that
magpanimous, magnetic, magnificent
young patriot, Joseph W. Bailey.
The speaker had hardly pronounced
the name when the delegates were on
their feet cheering tumultuously, until
the court room rang again with the
thunders of triumphant Democracy.
H. Clay Mack of Collin county sec
onded the nomination. He said: cit
affords me immense pleasure TO second
the nomination of j. W. Bailey. l feel
unequal to express the feelings of the
people of Collin county who have so
unanimously Endorsed him at the polls by
the largest majority ever given a man
who had respectable opponent, and
Judge Hare was respectable opponent
and patriot, but somehow it was in the
air that Bailey was 20 be the next con-
gresham. The Northwest counties
raised the Bailey standard and Collin
thought it could not do better than join
the jubilee and make the welkin ring.
We all admire patriotism. courage and
generosity, and Bailey is all these.
When he takes his seat in congress he
will fill the place once occupied by our
honored Throckmorton applause1 ably
and fully. He has the ability and can
be trusted. Collin county comes into this |
convention with feeling of just pride |
for her course. Although accused OF |
being young, Bailey won the old gray
haired fathers, the young, the able |
bodied and the decrepit. All will join in |
electing him to congress-. Loud ap- |
plause].
R. Cobb of Wichita Falls said: cit is |
meet that Wichita, which claims the |
honor of having first instructed for |
Bailey, to second his nomination. L |
know of the fidelity and integrity of the |
Baileys of Mississippi, and when the |
news goes there TO his aged |
uncle that We have nominated |
his nephew unanimously 1t will delight |
his heart. - He quoted from Thomas
Il. Benton IS advice to put young men in
office and closed by moving that Joseph |
W. Bailey be declared the unanimous |
choice of the Democrats of the Fifth dis
trict for congress By rising vote.
Every one in the room rose and cheered |
until they were tired.
Yancey Lewis of Cooke, Stonewall |
TIugle of Montague, J. P. Leslie OF
Grayson, r. Cobb of Wichita and George
Herndon of Collin were appointed COM
mittee of five to notify Mr.. Bailey OF |
his nomination.
Mr.. Lewis explained that the reason
Mr.. Bailey was not present was that q
relative was seriously ill.
I. NJ. Standifer of Denison was elected |
chairman of the executive committee
Of the district. E.. P. Hill of Cooke
offered the following, which was unani-
mously adopted:
Resolved, that this convention hereby &C.
knowledges its appreciation of the courtesies |
extended it by the citizens of Decatur and the
delegates from Wise county.
The convention then adjourned sine dfe.
EIGHTY-sEvENTH DISTRICT.
Special to the Gazette.
GoLIAD, TEX. Sept. 16.-The Eighty
seventh representative district conven-
ton met here at $3.50 this evening. DR..
Blake of Dewitt county was appointed
chairman and ]. NJ. Boyd of Goliad
secretary. The following counties were
represented: Arkansas, Calhoun, Dewitt,
Victoria, Refugio, Jackson and Goliad.
When the time came for appointing
committees on credentials and permanent
a delegate from Arkansas
county moved that one delegate from
each county be appointed, whereupon,