Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-04-10
DEMOCRACY.
NOTHING TOsE REGRETTED BUT
THE NOMINEES DEFEAT.
The city Democratic Central Committee
CT Dallas Publish = Statement to the
Democrats OF Texas-The Truth.

DALLAS, TEX. April 9.-The following
communication from the city Democratic
central committee viii be read with il,
| tercst:
To the Democrats Of Texas:
In view of the fact that the defeat Of
the Democratic nominee for MAJOR OF
Dallas in the election held on Tuesday
last has been claimed to be the rebuke
OF an attempt 10 merge the proper BUSH
ness Of municipal administration in i'm
proper uses OF an Irrelevant, informed
ding and dictatoiial party nominee,
the undersigned, members Of the
Democratic executive committee OF
| the CITY Of Dallas and of the special com
! Mittee chosen by them, deem i not If
relevant to make q statement 70 the Dem
ocrats Of Texas in order that the situation
may be understood.
The administration of the municipal af-
fairs q Dallas has been for years under
the cou.ro. Of sclf-uOminated officers. and
had become unsatisfactory 10 u majority of
the citizens Of Democratic faith: conse-
. quentIy the Democratic executive comTit-
C. then IL existence, seeing no sound rea-
EHvhy party organization should not be
! maintained II cities Us well rs IN the state.
deemed il their duty to call convention
Tor tuc purpose OF nominating u candidate
for mayor
The primaries preceding this convention
T we're generally well attended by representa-
( Ire DEMOCRATS.
( The propli-tv OF making o nomination
was question before the primaries and
was raised and debated III the convention
and decided in the Affirmative by u large
majority
! The names OF George c. Cole. ). II Web
/ ser ana ", I. Conn0r were submitted 10
( the convention ana each. through the friend
F!"cing nun IA nomination Tor its choice,
. u. ed -7taI ms word mad lDunp n ubiGp No
result.
Cole was fairly nominated on the second
( oa.-OI by L majority OF more than Two
! thros, a4a THIS Was afterwards made unan-
!Mous. lie IS man OF unimpeachabie pri-
yate character and Of proved fidelity to
( Deuoclaui principles.
Ike canu-taEeS III Tuesdays election
We GEORGE G. Cole, Democratic nominee:
". {. Conner, the defeated candidate for
: tn nomination; +. X. ROWley, Iudepcndcnt
ana y. Bio"ulce, The Republican ut.niuee.
ut thousand four hundred and forty
four vo-ge were polod, of which Cole re
c,lFrd ,I'l, COuuur, 1917; ROw.ey, AS and
Blowu!ee -.
The defeat " the Democratic nominee
cannot be- accounted for by the charge OF
disatectlou in the party. but IS believed to
he due 10 illegal voting, and the lavish cX-
panditure Of money. combined with. and
probably pruduciug, the almost solid sup
port OF the Republican voters. and ii this
connection II may be observed that At the
q, neral election in tais city in November
asst g.. Republican nominee Tor governor
received IG9 Votes. while the party uOIni-
nee for mayor il this election only received
tweutE-uIrc.
IN support Of The belief that many illegal
votes were cast in this election we call at
tcutiuu 10 he following fas,s:
IN the election held November (, $3.50, !:
"-'.'n , u! A''1t..'r anu q" s'1Le. county
'.''t -'y-lt. OH-ItI7 Nt!1 '.-t''e0 INC tCtIi
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