The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-08-13

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! to protect the limited supply that
We have and viewing the situation
from foreign states and with regard
| to the laws that have been passed
to protect their food supplies, we ask
that the state legislature be instruct
ed, or requested, to pass such laws
statutes on those questions that will
enable the fish and oyster commits
| sioner and his deputies to properly
protect the interests of the people in
this great food supply and we desire
| further to have such legislation as
will increase and protect the fisher
les of Texas.
Prohibition Plank.
Is. We demand the submission
| by the thirty-frst legislature of the
state of Texas of unconstitutional
| amendment to the people of the
| state of Texas for their adoption or
| rejection prohibiting within the state
of Texas the manufacture, sale, gift,
exchange and interstate shipment of
spirituous, vinous and malt liquors
and medicated bitters, capable of
prod ucing intoxication, except for
! medicinal and sacramental purposes
We recommend that the prohibit
ton amendment demanded by the
recent primary election be submit
ted to all qualified voters at special
election to be held in 1909.
We declare that at such election
a vote for or against the amendment
shall not be considered test of dem
ocracy as it is not the purpose of
this convention to commit the demo-
cratic party for or against state pro-
hibition.
Your committee further recon-
! mends the adoption of the follow
| ing resolution:
The fact that neither the state nor
party, by a vote of the entire state
has the right to elect either state
senator or representative, is conclu-
sive that they have no right to in
struct them adversely to the ex-
pressed will OF their local constituent
| cy The manner of election under
the constitution and the laws of this
state, adopted and enacted by the
democratic party of this state,
shows the party devotion to the doc
trine of local self-goyernment advo-
Gated by our democratic fathers and
so dear to all democrats.
! Resolutions.
Realizing that in the development
of our state the prosperity of our
| people is dependent largely upon the
quick and economical transporta-
| ton of their commerce, we approve
and recommend the adoption by the
! federal government of wise, liberal
and comprehensive policy for the i'm
provement of the waterways of our
| country and especially recommend
and request our senators and mem
| bers of the congress to use their in
| fluence and best efforts to secure
adequate annual appropriations with
provision under continuous contract
| for the deepening, widening and en-
| larging of the harbors of the state,
the proper and continuous construct
ion of the intercostal canal and
the early improvement Of our rivers.
| Whereas, 1t has been the impress
sion of some of the people of the re-
public of Mexico that the citizenship
and officials of the border counties
of Texas have not used due diligence
in the apprehension Of those persons
who have violated the neutrality
law Of the United States in the re-
cent commission of unlawful, out
rageous and unmerciful depredations
upon the inhabitants of the Mexican
republic, therefore, be it
| Resolved. That we, the democracy
of Texas. in convention assembled,
do hereby pledge to the republic of
| Mexico the hearty cooperation of
the cOnstabulary of our state in the
determination of any of these In
fluences and conditions that may
| threaten the amicable relations now
existing between the United States
and Mexico.
We deeply deplore the death of
former Governor S. w. T. Lanham.
| who in his life embodied the highest
standards of character and citizen
ship and whose distinguished service
to the state and nation has endeared
his memory to democrats through
out-the land, and we tender our sim
cere sympathy to the members OF
his family in their bereavement.