Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-17
but the reports may be read and not
acted on until the committee on creden-
tials has reported,
Mr.. Fl. C. Mack then read the

| MAJORITY REPORT
| Mr.. CHAIRMAN-Your committee on platform
and resolutions would respectfully submit the
following report
l. We indorse the national Democratic plat
form adopted at Chicago in 1SsS and also the
state platform as adopted in San Antonio last
| August.
2. Resolved, that we denouuce the measure
now pending in the congress of the United
being legislation in favor of the few and against
| the many.
| B. That we condemn what is known as the
Federal election bill, now before the United
| States senate, and hold the same to be vicious
| piece of partisan legislatio and subversive of
the free institutions of our country, "a cal Gu
lated 70 disturb the peace Of the country.
4. We commend the course of ali the repre-
| sentatives and senators OF the state of Texas in
| the two houses Of congress.
| s. We recommend to our senators and repre-
sentatives in congress the passage of the bill
| now pending in congress known the Herman
| Indian depreciation bill
=. We condemn unconstitutional. unwise
and vicious, the heresy commonly known as the
| sub-treasury bill. G. B. PICKETT,
Chairman.
FIRST MINORITY REPORT.
| Mr.. Chairman:
| The undersigned would beg leave to submit a
minority report on clause l of the report of the
| majority, and would recommend that said
| words: ''That the vote of any Democrat on the
| sixth plank OF the said state platform shall not
be regarded as test Oh his democracy"
SECOND MINORITY REPORT.
We commend the course of Congressman Hare
and all the other representatives in congress
| from Texas. j. P. LESLIE, Grayson.
| w. ID. IsENBERG, Baylor.
81. c. MACK, Collin
| The committee on credentials now
| made its report. There were no contests
| and all the counties were represented by
| delegates elected except WiIbarger,
which had appointed Tulby A. Fuller of
Wise to represent it. The report was
unanimously adopted.
The debate on the platform was opened
| by H. c. Mack who offered the minority
report on the commission question, the
sixth plank of the state platform. He
said the vote of Democrat on this ques-
ton was in no sense a test of his DEM
ocracy. The party stood on principle,
| not on hobbies. As yet q commission
was an untried experiment, and before
| it had been tried he was opposed to put
| ting it in the platform or trying to read
| men out of the party who opposed it.
| They might as well try TO make the pas
| sage of new estray law test of DEM
ocracy. Some applause.
Yaucey Lewis of Cooke said it was out
side the province of a congressional con-
vention to review the acts of a state con-
veution and not right to burden con-
gressional nominee with such an issue.
[Applause.
John 7. Walker of Cooke said it was
question ali over Texas as to whether
Democrat could vote against the sixth
plank. Why not settle 1t in this district.
E.E. Blount of Collin" people of
the entire state have spoken on this
question and Democrats will obey. 1t
would be absurd for the Fifth district,
small minority of the state, to oppose
it. - Loud applause.
The vote being taken on Mr.. Mack's
minority report 1t was lost by vote of
20 lib for and so 1918 against.
Mr.. Leslie of Grayson called up the
minority report which mentioned Judge
Hare specifically for Endorsement and
moved its adoption.
J. p. Graham of Wise moved to strike
out both the minority and majority re-
ports on this plank.
Col. Pickett advocated the general in
dorsement as in the majority report.
The Graham motion was lost.
The minority report was then tabled by
a vote of fifty-one to thirty.
The majority report on platform was
then unanimously adopted.
Chairman Welborne said they had now
arrived at the point where nominations
for congressional candidate were in
order. Applause.
THE NOMINATING SPEECH.
As soon as the chair announced that
nominating speeches were in order c. B.
Stuart of Gainesville, took the platform
and said:
Mr.. Chairman and fellow citizens:
We have now reached that period in the
deliberations of this convention, when
these collected representatives must, in
the name of Democracy, issue its COM
mission TO some man who shall hereafter
bear aloft Its spotless standard. The oc-
cesion THAT calls US together 10 one of no |
ordinary interest. We are here to per-
form a sacred and solemn duty. The |
man upon whom we shall this day cast |
the honor of a nomination will not only |
represent the people of this district, |
not alone the interests of the state, but, |
in a large sense, the interests of the |
whole republic. 1t becomes us, there |
fore, before we place in his hands the |
baton of authority, to pause and think. |
Great dangers confront and surround |
us. It is true that no foreign enemy has |
raised against us his hostile flag; it is true |
that our slumbers are not broken bv the |
roar of angry cannon, but worse than |
this my countrymen, infinitely worse, |
that spirit of unrest and discomfort |
WHICH, III Otner times, has sappeo the
strength and destroyed the existence of |
free institutions is abroad among this |
people. The air is thick with rumors of |
discord and dissatisfaction. Under the |
operation of unequal and unjust laws the |
great arteries of commerce have become |
congested and the currents of trade flow
feebly and slowly. Labor and capital
are in open and deadly conflict. In |
many places the pillow lies rusting in the /
furrow and the reaper is silent. Agri-
culture, weak and disabled, pays tribute |
to the master who fixes in advance the
price of its products. Applause. Each |
day brings the intelligence that the
whirling spindles Of some factory have
ceased to run and that the furnace
fires have ceased to burn, and |
the American workmen with uplifted
hands, black with the dust and sweat of
honest tell, appeal to the powers that be
for protection against the operation of
unseen forces which imperi the existence
of his family. Who has done this thing?
What influences have wrought these
results? Surely history repeats itself.
They who have sown the wind are reap
ing the whirlwind. For nearly thirty
years, barring short interregnum, the
Republican party has had control of the
departments of the government. For