Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-28
MILLS RETURNED.
Renominated Unanimously by the
Ninth District Democracy.
Speech of Hon. Geo. W. Tyler OF Bel
ton Placing the Navarro States
man Before the Convention.
The Oklahoma Legislature Meets The Demo
Gratis in the MaiorIty-Flfth Judicial
District Dead Lock
NINTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT.

NINTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT.
Special to the Gazette.
TEMPLE, TEX, Aug. 27.-The Demo-
cratic convention of the Ninth congress
sional district was held at Temple to-
day. The convention was called to
order at 10 O'Clock by Hon. W. W..
Searcy of Brennan, Washington county
temporary chairman, who in few words
declared the convention open and ready
for business.
Henry King of Burleson county was
unanimously elected temporary score
tary.
The following named delegates pres
ent, representing six of the counties in
the Ninth district, were appointed on the
credentials committee: DR.. s. Bowers
of Washington county; John s. Gibson,
Navarro county; j. B. Newton. Milan
county; w. r. Black, Falls county; Jo-
seph Miller, Bell county; A. j. o 'Brien,
McLennan county. After an absence of
ten minutes DR.. S. Bowers, chairman of
the credential committee, presented their
report, which was unanimously adopted
by the convention.
Hon. George W. Tyler then claimed
the floor, and spoke as follows, nomi-
mating Hon. Roger Q. Mills as congress-
man from this, the Ninth, district, amid
continuous applause:
TYLER's SPEECH.
Mr.. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Conven-
ton: The biennial assembling of the Democracy
of the Ninth congressional district is at hand.
Again come, commissioned by our constlt-
uents, to renew our devotion to the time hon
ored principles of Jefferson and Jackson, which
have been trans mitted to us by the fathers in
the platforms, creeds and practices OF the DEM
ocratic party, the party that was organized by
the people to perpetuate their liberties and Sc
cure to every citizen the protection OF just and
equal laws. state and national. The conquer
ing hero of ancient Rome was honored with
triumphal arch on his return to his constituents
and lrlands were placed upon his brow in the
presence of powerful senates and admirinR null
titudes. We do greater honor to our gallant
leader by welcoming him to a home in our
hearts and by consecrating our lives anew to
the great principles of human liberty viii CHI he
represents and which are, ike truth itself, i'm
mortal
In these days OF gloomy prophecy when men
stand in the busy mars of trad and utter dreadful
forebodings OF popular uprisings and approach
lips and hands uplifted with horror at. the
spectacle of the masses evlnc1ng an unaccus-
tome interest in the politics OF the country and
organizing to secu re desired reforms in govern
mental policy, it is pleasing tc .Grn to the man
who stands to-day the unrivalled
CHAMPION OF POPULAR RIeaf5
and who has achieved his greatest distinction in
the advocacy of the independence, equality and
responsibility of all citizens in the exercise
of their political rights. With him there is
morbid fear of universal political action no
distrust that the masses will madly rush to ruin
or revolution with wild schemes of paternalism,
but he has an abiding confidence in the honesty,
patriotism and conservatism of the people, the
courage to express to them his honest convic-
tons and thus aid them to perform intelligently
the duties of the hour.
Nor has he trusted in vain. The universal
anathema was pronounced by the people of this
whole country upon the cowardly betrayal of a
constitutional trust in the passage of the cleo
toral commission bill of 1877, which he, almost
solitary and alone had the manhood to denounce
from his seat in congress-, The Greenback craze
was crushed under the falling weight of its fiat
money dogma, but conservatism provided for
THE PROTECTION OF THE CURRENCY
as q circulating medium and for the remonetiZa-
ton of silver in ls7s-and he was champion of
that conservatism. When the great tidal wave
of moral REFORM swept over the country and
threatened to engraft itself immovabiy upon the
constitution of our state, he came to the yeo-
many of Texas, and implicated them with logic
with eloquence irresistible, and
with courage undaunted, to cling to their birth
rght-the priceless. God-given liberty Of Amer
lean citiZ ems, For years, in congress and upon
the hustings, he has waged unceasin war upon
the robber tariff. He has cleared away the
mystery Of Federal taxation. He has exposed
false guise OF duty upon imports, the millions
the masses of this country-are paying tribute
of their hard earnings to enrich the favored
naboDs OF Eastern factories. This system, up
held by the false notion that it gives employing mt
to labor and makes wages high. he has exposed
and denounced within the very shadow of the
factories and within the very assembly halls of
organized labor: and to-day the man with
brawny arm and sweating brow joins hands
with the unprotected consumer in every depart
ment OF business and profession life in
DEMANDING A REDUCTION OF TAXATION
upon the food and clothing of the people. Last,
but not least, when the farmers offered meas
ure IN congress for the relief OF the country, as
they believed, from the scarcity OF money and
pressed their bill with unprecedented zeal and
earneslness. he had the manly courage to cast
himself in the arena and warn them OF the i'm
and danger Of their scheme, and
trusted, as he always does. to patriotism and
sober second thought to vfndicata the correct
ness of his judgment and the honesty OF his
purpose. That vindication is already come.
The Democratic state convention at San Anto-
nio-the greatest convention OF the party ever
held in Texas and controlled almost entirely by
the agricultural constituencies Of the state OPP
posed in the unmistaksble terms OF its platfo rm
all schemes for loaning out the public money
products of the farmer or the bonds of the
banker; because a government having money to
loan is transcending It's constitutional power in
the collection of taxes from the people.
Upon all these great questions he has not
awaited the formation of public or party opin-
ion nor sought to float upon the popular tide.
W no Suiue Out MS luUguSns anu the IN
spired teachings of Democracy-wIth no shield
but his integrity and his patriotism, he has ever
stood forth, in the midst of the conflict,
BOLD AS A LION
and as glorious as an army with banners. An
appeal to reason has never been known to fail in
the long run, and he represents that Democracy
which believes that it is better that the people
should have the ballot in their hands than q
sense Of wrong and oppression in their heads;
that statecraft is not mystery, whose secrets
are known only TO the favored few, br Il q BUSH
ness in which every citizen is called upon to
perform an honorable part. As time rolls on he
wakes stronger and stronger in the doctrines of
Democratic faith, in the vigor OF his matured
and in the irresistible power OF his
eloquence. As each gale is waited to his South
ern home. it bears upon its bosom the tidings of
new victories achieved and fresh leurels won on
the floor OF congress and in the field OF forensic
discussion.
Democrat, patriot. statesman, spotless,
fearless, consecrsted to his people and to his
glory, 1 nominate him, Roger O.
Mills, for congress.
George T. Lester, Democratic nominee
to the legislature from Navarro county,
in the absence of the appointed delegate
from said county rose and after ten
minutes speech seconded the nomination
Of Hon. Roger Q. Mills W hich ,on motion,
was made unanimous.
The following resolutions in writing