Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-08-03

BRAz0S DEMOCRATS
I HOLD CONVENTION
Select Mixed Delegation to Ell Paso
and Indorse Wilson AdmnIls.
tratIon

The Democratic County Convention
convened In the county court room at
the court house Saturday afternoon at
2 o'clock.
The meeting was called TO order by
County Chairman Il. w. Crenshaw and
upon motion ED Hall was selected tenn
porary chairman and ed S. Derden,
temporary secretary.
The following committees were ap.
pointed;
Resolutions-y. d. Hudson, chair.
man, W. c. Davis and +. l.. Hender.
son.
To Select Delegates-w. G. Taliafer-
70. chairman, w. C. Boyett and r. Il.
Dunlap.
A motion was made, seconded and
passed that all votes be taken by pre-
cincts.
The committee on resolutions filed
a majority and minority report on one
item OF the report which caused q
lengthy and heated discussion. The
majority report, signed by V. b. Hud.
son and W. c. Davis, Endorsed the WI.
son administration. while the minority
report, signed by F. l.. Henderson, in.
dorsed the Wilson administration,
Senators Culberson and Sheppard and
Congressman Hardy. The minority
report was adopted. The resolutions
in full as finally adopted by the con-
vention we're as follows:
Whereas. the Democratic National
Administration, under the splendid
leadership OF President Woodrow VIII.
son and with the aid and patriotic CO
operation. OF the Sixty.third Congress
is entitled to the commentator OF
every Decocrat in America. because OF
the following epoch-making achieve
ments:
% II has revised fearlessly and
withour favoritism or privilege. after
sixteen years of Republican failure. an
unjust burdensome. and extortionate
tariff law.
(2) II has enacted a fair income
tax law, which shifts the burden Of
taxation from those least able to bear
II to those who have for years evaded
their Just share of the burdens Of gov
ernmnt.
CD 1t has emancipated the com.
mercial and industrial interests Of our
country from Wall Street domination
by the enactment OF a Banking and
Currency law. which has been sorely
needed for a third OF a century. and
under the operation OF which the
country freed from the dangers Of
recurring financial panics.
"a 1t has exposed and forever
throttled the insidious lobby, which
has exercised banefui and controll-
ing influence on legislation for many
years.
60 1t has enforced effectively, and
with serious and honest purpose, the
existing antitrust laws, breaking up
oppressive trusts that were born un.
der Mark Hanna, that multiplied un.
der Roosevelt and Morgan, and that
went through a sham process Of dis.
solution under Taft and Wickersham,
and II has taken the first steps looking
to the enactment OF antitrust laws
for the complete eradication OF harm
full monopoly and the restoration Of
competition, as promised the people
by the platform pledge of the Demo
cratic party.
60 It has had the courage to re-
peal an infensible and hypocritical sub
sidy and at the same time asserted TO
the world that this government holds
sacred its treaty obligations with for
eign countries.
CD 1t has maintained the Monroe
Doctrine, and with remarkable patti.
ence resisted the lingo and the dema-
gogue by adhering to consistent pol
icy of cooperation and fair-dealing
with all our sister republics in the
Western hemisphere.
60 It has not been controlled by
the sordid, selfish special interests,
but has responded to the demands OF
the people for the legislation in the
interest of the great masses of the
people.
90 1t has achieved the most won
derful record of constructive legis-
lation since the civai war
Therefore. be 1t resolved. That we,
the Democrats of Brazos County, In
convention assembled, indorse the
administration of Woodrow Wilson
and the earnest and uniform support
given him by our own two Senators
Morris Sheppard and G. A. Culberson
and our Representative, Rufus Hardy,
and especially do we endorse the tar.
if and currency Legislation, and we
hereby instruct our delegates to the
State Convention. to be held at FL
Paso, Texas, on the 18th day of Aug,
| 1914. to see to It that an appropriate