Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-05

anu lie EOOh LnS
have manners and treated the Republi.
can convention properly. He wanted
the Democrats to know that the Republi-
cans were coming out of bondage. II
was like the rabbit and the coon. The
morning, muddying the water. One time
the rabbit got there first, but he
FELL IN THE WELL.
There were two buckets, one went down
as the other went up The coon came
along and said, "brer rabbit, how did
you get down?''
"Never mind how ] got down, brer
coon, - replied the rabbit, "get IN the
bucket and come down.
The coon did so, and when the two
buckets met the rabbit said: "Ah, brer
coon, you re coming down, but IN
coming out, - and he jumped out and
escaped.
So 1t is with the Republican party in
Texas, it is coming out.
The speaker jumped on the Republic
cans who tried to draw the color line
saying they were like the preacher who
had the hornets nest in his pants who
said he had GOO in his mouth but hell in
hls pants. The lily white has the devil
in his heart. The colored man did not
want
SOCIAL EQUALITY,
to eat at the white mans table and to
sleep in his bed. He wanted political
equality, and the white men to leave the
negroes wives alone. When this con-
vention is over every lily white this
side of Africa will be as black as Afri-
ca s blacklist sons.
The success of Brother Watts brought
out Cochran of Dallas, who then made g.
general political speech, arreigning the
Democrats and calling on the oolored
men to stick to the Re publican party.
The chairman called the meeting to
order at $3.50 p. m. Mr.. Rosenthal,
chairman of the committee on oreden-
tlals, appeared on the stand ready to
report. Before he reported the clerk
read the names of the following SER
geants-at-arms: j. l.. Forem, NJ. NJ.
Cone, James Scott, James Dotan, Henry
Green, and the chair ordered the aisles
cleared.
The chairman stated that the appoint
ment of G.. G. Pierce as member of the
committee on permanent organization by
him was q mistake, as Mr.. Smoote had
been regularly chosen by the district
from which he was a delegate.
Z. c. Claiborne made some protest
about not being recognized by the COM
mittee to which he had been appointed,
but it went no further. Mr.. Rosenthal
then rose and said the committee on Gre
dentials
HAS COMPLETED IT'S REPORT
and begs leave to report. At first pro-
pose to present the names of the uncon-
tested counties and their votes. After
ward will be presented the names of the
Selegates from the contested delega-
tons. This was the order of the report
and the secretary was asked to read the
report on the county votes.
Mr.. O'Neal, secretary of the commit
tee, then read as follows:
To the Chairman of the Republican State Con-
vention Assembled In San Antonio:
We, your committee on credentials,
beg leave to report that we find the fol-
lowing counties represented by uncon-
tested delegations that are entitled to
the following votes: (For the names of
delegates entitled to q vote we beg leave
to refer to the original credentials here
with filed and made part of this report
Then followed list Of counties 20 the
of 139 counties and 1871 votes.
Mr.. Renfro of Corpus Christi made a
protest against the apportionment to
Starr county of three votes, saying 1t
was entitled to four votes. This protest
was anted. Mr.. Renfro then pro-
tested against the apportionment to HI
dalgo county of three votes, saying the
county officers there had
been driven into Mexico by the state
troops. The protest was also granted
and Hidalgo county was given four
votes. On motion this part of the re-
port of the committee on credentials was
accepted.
MIR. Rosenthall then read the report on
the contested delegations, saying the
committee had decided as it did with
only one view-the good of the Repub-
lican party.
Each county was taken in turn. JEFF
ferson and McLennan counties were ap-
proved after Mr.. Rosenthal stated that
the committee had carried to heart the
contest. As for BeXar coun-
ty, they heard both sides,
which were ably represented. They
had tried to get both sides to oonclliate
their differences, but without avail.
They then decided to admit the delegs-
ton named. The convention approved
the report on BeXar county with perhaps
q dozen noes.
McUwitz, a oontestee from Harris
county, asked leave to make a few re-
marks about the report on this county.
He spoke in rapid manner as he moved
his arms in an auctioneering fashion and
UNBUTTONED HIS VEST.
Mr.. Rosenthal. for the committee on
replied that he wished the
to listen to both sides and TO
give the contestants as much attention as
had been given them in the committee
meeting.
The chair then recognized Mr.. Nc
PhersCn of Houston, one of the con-
.estants, who said: Representing as
10 delegation thrown out from the
county of Harris, l want to still say that
We represent the brains and the
OF the Republican
party of that county; but
hey have been made subservIent to the
legro power. We should have been able
% hold our own but for the dispenser of |
patronage in the state. defy |
him to put his hand upon the man of the |
White element who has not done
JUSTICE TO THE NEGRO.
He alone has antagonized the negro, |
poisoned bis mind and brought about |
his state Of things now existing in |
Harris county.