Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-02-22
To Rsnnbiicans.
To the Republican Voters OF the Sixth Con-
gressional District Of Tezas:

| trict of Texas. At the state convention
| that met ~ San Antonio, Sept. ), 1890, j.
| NJ Mccormick of Dallas held the proxy
of DR.. j. L. Edwards Of Ennis, who was
our duly elected chairman. After urgent
| solicitation on the part of some of the Tar
rant county delegation, Mr.. Mccormick did
call the Sixth district in the absence of
| most of the delegation from Tarrant county,
and as for the letter of the gentleman. MIR.
Hart, who was elected chairman of the so
| called Cleburne convention, and has made
himself the champion of the usurping party,
| it will be seen that there were no more than
two of the Tarrant county delegation pres
ent out Of the whole delegation, who were
| all ready and anxious to meet with the
| Sixth district in convention. The claim
| that is now set up by the champion secre-
| tary Of the Sixth district is that Col. Big
ger was elected chairman of the district
! and declined to serve, and at the same
meeting before adjournment that the name
| of A. Brownlee was proposed and that he
| was elected. There are letters now from
| Secretary Hart in the hands of persons
| who were delegates to said convention ask
| ing them to substantiate the above. the
same statement having been made by him
at Cleburne. MIR. Mccormick was there
and Endorsed and confirmed the secretary
and he having been the chairman of the San
| Antonio convention should have been well
| informed in regard to what was done there.
| The following letters will show what these
gentlemen had TO say about this matter less
than one month after the meeting of the
! state convention at san Antonio and what
they said at Cleburne, and say now, over
seventeen months after said convention.
The following is q correct copy OF letter
signed by J. NJ. Mccormick, in answer to a
| question of mine of what was done in re-
gard to electing a chairman and nominating
a man for congress at San Antonio. The
following is the answer:
DALLAS, TEX, Sept %, 1890
G. W. Gillespie, Esq, Fort Worth, Tex.
DEAR SIR-Your favor of the 18th instant
just received on my return from Missouri.
If there was 10 congressional convention
held at San Antonio, l think there should
be one held to put up q candidate. DR..
Barter is agreeable to me, but he can not
get the full vote unless regularly nomi
mated. Yours truly,
The following from Mr.. ]. G. Hart, who
places great stress upon my being chair
man of the Twentieth senatorial district.
As do not owe my position to the agency
of Mr.. Hart l cannot see where this
cuts any figure in the case. The letters are
as follows:
DALLAS, TEX, Sept 80, 1890
&. W. Gillespie, Fort Worth, Tex.
DEAR SIR-Col. Bigger Just informed me
self chairman of the Sixth congressional
district. Now, | think, there is mistake
in some way. You are no doubt chairman
of the senai orial district in which you i've,
but not of the Sixth congressional district
We held congressional convention while at
San Antonio. at which Col. j. c. Bigger
We elected chairman and myself secretary.
Two gentlemen from arranJ partici-
patea IL thar meeting. One OF them was
Col. Gof of Fort Worth. Now, we are
not at all contentious in the matter, but
want to make no mistake. I also under
stand that DIR. Barter of the Fort is a can
d.date for congress. If so, let US get TO-
gether and indorse or nominate him regu-
larly, and organize plan by which we can
give him a hearty support. Let me hear
Immediately. Yours Eiraternally,
]. c. HART.
In the above it will be observed shat ].
G. Bigger was elected, which we all admit,
and as this was written but tweuty-seven
days after the convention, it is no doubt
correct, Gel. Bigg er having declined, there
was vacancy in that position. Six days
after mis- letter to me the champion secre-
tary addresses the following TO the honor
able chairman of the state executive COM
mittee which Mr.. Mcdaniel sent to me III 4
letter dated the 18th of September, two
days after having appointed me chairman
of the Sixth district: ITO try and adjust
this matter in some way that is satisfac-
tory, The following is the letter from
Hart to Chairman Mcdaniel.
HEADQUARTERS REPUBLICAN ExECUTIvEl
COMMITTEE, SIXTH CONGRESSIONAL Dis
TRICT OF TEXAS S2o MAIN STREET,
DALLAS TEX, Oct g. 1890
Hon. L. Mcdaniel, Chairman OF the State
Executive Committee
DEAR SIR-Yours of the 29th instant to
hand, contents duly noted, and
must say your views are fully
in accord with mineo and those Of the
club. We have just organized here, there
fore your reply was very satisfactory.
Now another question l want to raise is
this, while at San Antonio we held con-
gressional convention of the Sixth district
composed of six counties, to-wit: Dallas,
Tarrant, Bosque, Kaufman, Hill and john
son, ellis left OUT, and of the six counties
Bosque, Tarrant, Dallas and Kaufman were
represented There 1t was conceded unan-
imously that Dallas should have the chair
manship and Col ]. c. Bigger was elected
without opposition, yet under protest, he
stating that he did not want it, that he had
held the position before: he finally agreed
to accept IN the event no other Dallas man
wanted it. l had been elected secretary.
Then when we got all the Dallas delegation
together, again I placed the matter before
them. and after discussing it freely II was
agreed that 4. Brownlee Of Dallas should
take Col. Bigger's place as chairman. Then
I sent the name of j. Browulee up
to the secretary of the committee at San
Antonio as chairman of the Sixth congress
sional district Now comes man from
Fort Worth and says he is chairman OF the
Sixth congressional district; besides, ne
claims TO be the chairman of his senatorial
district. shouldn't think that he ought to
have the ''earth,n with barh-gire fence
around it to keep the balance OF US on, be
sides Brownelee is,,a gentleman Of integrity
and stands well in this city and wherever
known as man of influence and honesty OF
purpose. and we would dislike very much
TO see him displaced by any self-constituted
chairman that might ''bob up at any time.
The Fort Worth gentleman's name IS o.
w. Gillespie. Hoping TO hear your advice
on the subject am, very respectfully,
J. c. HART.
In the Hart letter written 70 me on Etae
3Oth OF September Col Bigger is named by
him as being chairman. and six days after
ward, October 9th, in sthe Daniel letter
A Browrlee is named by our eminent
secretary as being chairman, made SO, as he
says, in the same letter by the Dallas dele-