The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-08-20
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ABSENCE OF THE HORNEY-
HANDED DELEGATE AT
FORT WORTH is PAIN
FULLY APPARENT.
JOHNSON IS TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN
HONORED AS THE ONLY DEMO
CRATIC EDITOR IN THE STATE
OF TENAS.
JUDGES DENRAN AND DAVIDSON RENOMINATED
Without Opposition by the Judicial Con-
vention-Administration Gang Work
ing for Storey for Railroad Com
missiOner-The Committe Rec
ommends Coon Potter for
Permanent Chairman
JUDGES DENAAN AND DAVIDSON RENOMINATED

Fort Worth, Tex. Aug. 1S.-(Spccial)
Two weeks ago today there was con-
vention assembling in Galveston that
bore allegiance to the cause of silver and
espoused its many advantages on every
momentous occasion. The Galveston
meeting was participated in by men who
wore long, shaggy boards or short, choppy
ones on none at all. Irrespective of their
boards, however. if one CHANGED to look
at their hands they found corns thereon
produced by that constant toll that bears
out the Biblical instructions of procure
your daily bread by the sweat of your
brow
The Galveston convention was partici-
pated in by men of ideas-some of them
peculiar, but all with ideas and with no
fear or hesitancy in expressing them
They consumed four days and nearly four
nights in pushing their IDEAS into the
forum of the convention. but they were
patient. Each man was given his pro
rata of time, and during the allotted time
he told his views They nominated their
state ticket end went home. Some said
that they had been hoodwinked by q
crowd of leaders who had agreed to de-
liver them, lock, stock and barrel, to the
republicans, but | am prepared to say
that if the men in the Galveston conven-
ton are to be delivered they are fully
aware of the terms on which they are
to be handed over. But to return. Down
at GALVESTON the people met to express
their views. They were inexperienced in
parliamentary tactics or political machin-
cry they were in session four days, oc-
cupying the convention hall thirteen
hours out of the twenty-four each day.
but when they wound up late Saturday
afternoon they were satisfied that they
had not labored in vain. They were
slow, ofttimes lonesome, but they toied
on with their whole heart in their work.
They had elected a state ticket and eX-
pressed their adherence to their funda-
mental principle, which was the Stree
and unlimited coinage of silver at the
ratio of 16 to l." They spoke out in un-
mistakable terms for the object dear to
their hearts, and the brightness of their
eyes bespoke the eaSerncss with which
they awaited the result of the battle they
win out TO a successful victory. That
convention at Galveston was what is
commonly known as "a populist conven-
ton" They met two weeks ago today
and now l find myself in the midst Of an
other convention quite as much in line
with the Galveston convention as it were
possible for the counterfeit to be like the
genuine. Here in the city of Fort Worth
which, according to geographical loca-
ton, is near Dallas, is assembled a con-
vention that apes the populist conven-
ton which recently adjourned in Calves
ton. This convention here advocates the
free and unlimited coinage of silver, and
while it does not now declare for govern.
ment ownership of railroads, it is pre-
sumed it will bring that issue to the fore
ere long to keep in line with the party it
is aping and which held forth at Calves
ton only week before last.
WHICH 10 hoh III Stf'
sion here, is known under the old time
banner Of democratic state convention"
though there are those who challenge the
application of the name to such wan
dals' as these, who, they charge, are
trying to destroy the present government
as did their predecessors.
Nevertheless this convention sails un-
der the banner of democracy, though its
delegations are known in the political
dictionary of the present day as "pODo-
Gratis" Such are the men who comprise
this convention. They espouse silver and
for what cause? The true blue pOpulist
convention at Galveston two weeks ago
espoused silver because it was one of the
foundation stones of the party. 1t
was its bone and its sinew.
1t was the life of the party itself. Its
very blood of existence. At Galveston
the yeomanry of the country were heard
talking in open meeting. The voice Of
the working man was lifted in earnest
appeal, and while he was unquestionably
in error in his views, he still spoke with
the force of sincerity and earnestness of
sound convictions. He spoke out that