Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-06-28
Observation-Disclosures
rnn STATE CONVENTION TO ASSEM-
niE IN WACO.
Several Delegates Have Already Ar
rived-rhe-e rspresr Themselves
Us neins Hopeful OF ultimate
success--A short session.


7f"NN CONVENTION VIII be called to order
al 10 o'clock tomorrow morning al the
auditorium OF the city hall by Hon. II.
q Heath. chairman OF the state exccu-
tive committee. Il ls not believed that
the convention win be lengthy and Il
VIII probably conclude It's business FRI
any evening, Several delegates arrived
tonight md fairly large as wen az
representative attendance is expected,
The convention viii resolve Itself
INTO mass meeting tomorrow nlght
ana recitatlona, music and speeches
VIII DO the order Prof James A. Tate
OF Tennessee. acknowledged to be a
gifted orator. win deliver an address.
Chairman Heath arrived tonigh, on
q! TIE scuti, bound Missouri, Kansas and
Or. nurleson, Or. craunll and other
nrnnihent prOnihltionista expect there
WI wv De large attendance, perhaps over
The office uf the Texas BAPTIST stand
ard on South Fourth street will DO the
headgnariers while the convepuon Ia
nr. J II crannn win deliver the adj
dress uf welcome In the blue room OF
the city hall tomorrow morning, Hon.
~ 9. Heath, chairman OF the state
executive committees, win respond
" crnniilL who practically organ-
lA'd the prohibition party In Texas
and mas been its recognized leader
since that time. seated himself In the
hhptiat STANDARD office today and ~
nponded to the Gazette correspondents
injuries with cheerfulness despite n
icmpefature OF somewhere near 100 de-
What is tho outlook In Texas for
TIE Prohibition party. us you see it2'
was the first qucation,
The outlook for our party" Dr.
craEfli responded, was never bright.
err rhtre IL q revival OF interest In
prohibition throughout the entire state.
AZ the victories which are hcnR one
bN one recorded II favor Of local prnhi-
bitior amply testify"
what erect viii the POpuiist move
ncnt have on the prohibition party3"
"ncvond doubt. the ponullHt move
ment has retarded our growth TO some
extent from the fact that good many
carnest temperance men have gone into
that party
"whnt about the plank recently
adopted BY the populiat convention on
that subieot7"
''rhat is what was coming to-" re-
piled pr. crannll "Tho popuiist party
haa descended to the level thRt has fur
ynstH been occupied by the Democratic
md Republican parties and has
thrown ont III hid for the saloon vote.
The plank adopted nj tho convention
recently Ia session IA this city, taken
by itself would be- meaningless, but
Mr.. Sntlcr ~ Travis county. WIN was
a mrnher Of the platform committee.
gave the whole thing away when he
said n was put In Tor the purpose VI
capturing the foreign vote, which "
but another name for the nnti-prohih.
tlnn vote. Tho adoption Of this reao-
luton under the circumstances places
the PopullHt party nlnngaide ~ the two
old parties and makes it. like them,
utterly nubHrrvient 20 the liquor pnwcr,
My theory has always been. anyhow.
that every man and every party who
n not ayowedly against the saloon IL
for H. have mover regarded the Pop
ulpt party MS IN any sense favorable TO
prohibition, ana thia last convention
nsttler that question beyond nry sort
OF conjecture"
''Dn you anticipate that there wa be
any detection from the p0pulBt party
on account VI this notlonp
Possibly not during this campaign"
said DR.. Craniill. but the hold the
liquor power has on the party viii
gradually atrcngthen M the party
grows older and more anxious for
votes until, like the Republican aud
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