Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-05-06
COUNTY PoPuLIsTs.
4. nousrse TINE IN
81 y. .opo YESTERDAY.

al
y W." ., and Delegates In
s' yo,e for Him-Dei-
IN. sent 10 All Places
= u Tex. May 5,-Pursuant TO
!. q \ he county chairman. r. j.
= 4. peoples party convention
= ne pIstrict court room for
''e.' ,'s q selecting delegates TO
y ~ confessional, senatorial and
s'A,' .ayentions. In the absence
~ INIT, S chairman ]. F. colter
y .onyention TO order and IL.
y was elected chairman pro
~, appointing committees ON
',.,,.l, and resolutions the conven-
addressed by Hon. Jake
i Van zant county in speech
u, one hour. He was only TO
n,til the committee on creden-
Ia get their report ready. and
.geutly his remarks were not
"a a. they would have been If
4, known from the beginning how
i could speak.
t.ndled the politicians of the
NO parties without gloves from
..,,y 10 end. He charged that
Nd harmony Of the two factions
as the Hogg and Clark factions
4, Democratic party was u base
and only done because the two
ri.ei the growing strength of the
'uss and they were growing des-
J, and were actually whipped in
sDnr t. He went on to great
4. moving how the Hogg faction
4 to dive up their platform aud the
4 faction their politics" in order
knnplIsh this end. He had a great
70 say in reference TO John II.
"a, and his recent letter, and char
hid him as the most dangerous
IA all the Democratic party to
IF,rulIsts. He spoke Of how Reagan
4, years ago. through his smart
/ .nIng work, beat down the green
X party in this state; how he ad-
tkhsd bic followers not to fight the
|1hsck movement, but instructed
: instead to Just wait until the
h Democratic committee met and
I Just slip into their platform a
|zback plank. thereby assuming in
|ilger way the foundation on which
greenback party stood. He also
the matter of the Houston con-
d5n in the same category, charging
Hogg faction, who. he claims. or
/ Hogg himself, as the tools of
IL Reagan, had tried to get all or
|aeh Of the Third party platform in
rs to catch all or a good part of
suckers, and that since they had
I'd that the thing would not work
had been forced TO fall back on
rod love and that they really had
lfseei and taken into their family
TX, cuny and the coons," or had
INTO Clark's family, He went on
lehgth TO show how George Clark,
laGrange, had spoken in the OPEN
q The campaign against free coin
q silver and In the last breath Of
y Ach fully and emphatlcally in
*t,the Cleveland administration
now Lanham had followed and
e q his favorlng the unlimited free
we Of silver, and he also fully, and
'0ai reserve, Endorsed the admins
loa' MT Rhodes denounced as one
Ne Democratic tricks by which
had enslaved the tolling people
is state for so many years. He
'soi the serious expression that one
aopserve on many faces nowadays
SAD that was sure indication
'ney We're coming to the Popu-
ne spoke OF how his friends
g approach him and ask him about
y SAD the serious man would pos
Y uee'are himself a Democrat, but
I hhally say, well, / believe l
''.y out OF conventions from now
.'p vote for the man instead of
p.t'y' and how the friend would
MN to not vote against Democ-
u he couldn't vote for it.
I, !, ar Rhoades said he himself
Y not vote for any man living in
,a'e' He would under all oircum-
y vote for principle. He would
'o'e for a dishonest Populist
~ honest Democrat, and advised
4.siers to do likewise. He dis
: ar Exall as chairman of the
rsiauc executive committee and
-''e as chairman of the national
,H'sue executive committee at
! ahd proposed to show how in
.4as case a few years since he
s i OF a party that declared
''1iorm for the free coinage Of
4nu against national banks, and
! same time was president of the
nahkers' association, and spoke
! ne CHR. ExalD would meet the
- used Jew at Saratoga and how
~ ~ would say, well, Mr.. Exall.
! ron Texas, l believer" yes,
p'esident Of that body" "well.
s0ou' that platform down there
'selares for free coinage of sill
On well. Mr.. Jew, that's all
lou y. DON'T know our people down
mats the way we have to
ae'n 10 keep the boys in line"
1 Rhoades went on at some
+, Supplying the same kind of ar
~ ana applying 1t to Mr.. Brice