The Jimplecute. (Jefferson, Tex.) 18??-1907, 1906-09-01
Proceeding Congressional Convention.

At the Democratic Congressional
Convention this district at Texar.
kama, August 25th, Hon. Morris
Sheppard was declared the nomi.
nee, and the following resolutions
from the Committee on Platform
and Resolutions was adopted by
the convention.
TO the Honorable G. G. Davis,
Chairman Congressional Conven-
ton:
We. your Committee appointed
on Platform and Resolutions, beg
to report as follows:
Be it resolved, By the Democra.
cy of the First Congressional Dis.
trict of Texas, in convention as
sembled, that we hereby renew our
loyalty and allegiance to the
deathIess principles of the Demo.
cratic party, and that we feel an
increasing pride in the fact that
Notwithstanding temporary ma
tional defeats these principles are
constantly rising higher In the af-
lection and appreciation of the
people;
That before the sacred affairs o.
the democracy we pay lust and aft
fectionate tribune to the memory of
Jefferson, Madison, Monroe and
Jackson and the other founders
who gave democratic principles
glorious expression and illustration
in the history of our country and
in the enactment of our laws;
That we feel the greatest gratif.
cation in the fact that contemporary
times have produced stalwart and
incorruptible champion of equal
rights and individual freedom, the
worthy successor of the democratic
founders and pioneers of a century
ago in William Jennings Bryan, to
whom the world has recently been
paying the sincere homage of deep.
est admiration and respect, and
whom we unqualifiedly endorse
for the democratic nominate on for
President in 1908;
That we condemn and denounce
the cowardice and criminal negli-
gence of the Republican party in
failing to revise the Dingley tariff
which imposes the highest fiscal
taxes on the people ever known in
our history, not excepting the
years of the Civil War, which has
produced an age of corruption and
graft unparalleled in the history of
all the empires and republics of
the world, which has polluted
every channel of business and
attained every phase of our econom
ic and political life;
That until these tariff rates have
been reduced and modified the
pretended efforts at reform in other
directions will be absolutely with
out effect and are but additional
evidences of Republican treachery
and oppression;
That we denounce the failure OF
the Republican party to pass q
railroad rate bill-giving definite re-.
@ lief against extortionate charges
$ and especially do we condemn the
failure of the President and the
administration to stand by the
Democrats in the Senate in the
battle for an effectiue rate bill after
requesting the aid of the Demo
Gratis;
That we endorse the course O
10 our Senators in the Congress of the
4 United States, and most heartily
q do we commend and approve the
o work of our Congressman. the
te Honorable Morris Sheppard;
3 That we believe that he hai
v done more for the people Of hi
.o district than has ever been done il
it's history before, ADD we presen
a him to the people Of the district al
4 one in every sense worthy TO rep
Z resent them in the National Con
/ gress Of the United States
& (Sign ID A l. BURFoRD,
( Chairman,
I r. C1,FlvART