Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-22
CONVENTION DAY.
Precinct and County Conventions
Held Yesterday.
yopng, Hsrdeman, Reeves and Bee
Counties and Red River Prim-
aries Instruct for Hogg.
,rJge Cook Speaks at Corsicane-Chairrnan
Finley Raped Over the Knuckles.
Wheeler Speaks at Cisco.
,nrcIyCr NO. /, EAsrLAND COUNTY.

EtsTLAND, TEX. June 21.-The DEM
,.ratc convention of precinct No.. 1,
rastland county, met yesterday at 2 p.
Hon T. B. Wheeler was unaSi-
mousy endorsed for governor; Hon. ].
Moore, for attorney general, but not
unanimously, and Hon c. U. Connellee
nr representative. Delegates were
elected to the county convention which
conyenes on Monday next. The senti-
sment of this convention was not tested
m the commission question, but it is
mixed all the same.
WHEELER AT CISCO.
srscial to the Gazette.
CISCO, Ten. June 21.-Hon. T. B.
Wheeler, candidate for governor, ad-
dressed the people here to-day. Owing
10 this being the day for precinct pri-
maries through the county, the gather
ing was not as large as it would have
otherwise been. There was, however,
ante q large crowd from the country,
and the speech was we'll received.
SPOKE AT SHERMAN.
special TO the Gazette.
G. Turner, Maj. Il. +. Brown, brother
Of Capt. Tom Brown, and G Webb, ad-
dressed the Hogg club this evening at the
courthouse, after which many went for
ward and joined the Hogg club.
AUSTIN COUNTY.
Special to the Gazette.
BELLvTLLE, TEX. June 21.-Dr. R.
". Thompson, chairman of the Demo-
cratic executive committee of Austin
county, names Saturday, July 10 for the
county convention at Bellville, July IL
for primaries. The county is consider
ably stirred up and what the result will
be cannot now be figured out, but it is
believed to be Hogg. Candidates for the
county offices are getting numerous and
there will be q scramble.
YOUNG COUNTY FOR HOGG.
Special TO the Gazette.
GRAHAM, Tx, June 21.-The county
convention met to-day at Graham and
unanimously instructed for Hogg for
governor and Lanham for congress. a.
r. Mcdonald was endorsed for tioater
for Young, Jack aud Wise counties.
RANGER PRECINCT.
Special to the Gazette.
RANGER, TEX, June 2l.-The Demo-
Gratis OF Ranger precinct met to-day for
the purpose of electing delegates to the
county convention. j. Il. Barnes, L.
f. Medaris, j w. Hogue and W. N.
Covington were chosen delegates and
{ instructed to vote for James Hogg and
the railroad commission.
STEPHENS COUNTY PRIMARIES.
Special to the Gazette.
BRECKENRIDGE, Ten, June 21.-The
primaries met to-day and the impression
iGthat Hosg win carry the county, and
another will be added to the constantly
increasing list of delegates for the able
attorney general,
DIDN'T GET 4 CROWD.
Correspondence of the Gazette.
OLD ROUND Rock, TEX. June 90
The fire company of Round Rock is to
give barbecue here the 25th inst. All
the fire companies IN the county are in
vited The various candidates of the
county are expected to be there Ell masse.
They will be the principle speakers of the
occasion.
Your reporter was informed that
Commissioner Hall was at Georgetown
yesterday according TO appointment 10
make speech, but could not get enough
people together to talk to. The people
down here believe in Hogg, and it is
supposed he will carry this county solid.
THE DRUNDIERS ARE DIVIDED.
LAMPAsAs, Tex, June IS. 1890.
TOthe Gazette.
Nv attention has been called to a
Especial TO THE GAZETTE from Dallas
in your edition of June l3. which, it is
to be presumed, was written by your reg
uar correspondent of that city. While
have ever been averse TO appearing in
the newspapers of the country, especially
In any of the political agitations with
which our people are too often burdened,
yet cannot "sit idly by' and allow so
erroneous q statement TO go unchal-
lsnged
Your correspondent or writer, in his
sagerness-we will suppose-for news,
concludes his somewhat lengthy ''politi-
cal manifest with the unconditional
sud sweeping statement that "every
commercial drummer of the state,
whether he be citizen or Texas or of
Massachusetts,, is an active anti-Hogg
man, - and emphasizes the assertion by
saying that 'fmany of these drummers
have lost and are losing good customers
by reason of their mixing IN the political
affairs of state in which they haYe not
even d vote.
Now il is not 10 be supposed that the
snthor of the special referred to above
oherishes any luminosity or even ill-feei-
ing towards the citizen drummers OF
Texas, or the Boston, New York, Chica-
70 or elsewhere drummers, for the record
Of THE GAZETTE is too well known TO ad-
nit of any such construction, for as the
World well knows in the very hour of
smoke aud battle THE GAZETTE has never
failed to champion the cause and to
honor the men who have ever been in the
frOnt rank in developing, educating and
Promoting that commercial Intercourse
which is always the forerunner OF cIvili-
lat!on of a nation. But of one, native
born and of long standing of the class
referred to, rise TO deny this accusation.
That the drummers do "mix in the
Political affairs of the state, - as they do
on all live topics of the day, 1 will not
deny, but il should be known, as mat
Ter of fact, that on the question at hand
they are very "badly mixed, aud ]
doubt very much whether the honorable
Gentleman OF antl-commission leadership
has for his following even majority of
tbe class who are made TO appear as a
init and solid phnlanx against 1.-the
man who is destined soon to occupy the
chief magistracy of the Cuion's greatest
state. Very respectfully,
ID. NJ. OLDHAM.
Y HOUSTON AND HARRIS COUNTY MIXED.