Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1916-05-11
COUNTY CONVENTIONS SHOW A POS
sIBLE UNANIMOUS SUPPORT
FOR PRES. WILSON.
THOMAS B. LOVE ENDORSED IN
FORTY COUNTIES FOR THE
NATIONAL COMMITTEEMAN.
GALVESTON NEWS.l

Texas indor-cd President Wilson and the
national administration yesterday. lnsur-
ing a state democratic convention May p
at San Antonio overwhelmingly, If not in
deed unanimously. for the president.
Report received by The News show the
Endorsement u Thomas Il. owe Of Dallas
for. national committeeman ~ forty coun-
ties. No counties reported instructions
for Colonel J. r. Wolters Of Houston for
this office.
Each county that instructed with re-
gard to the head of the Texas delegation
EXPRESSED its desire that Governor Fergu-
son he selected
The o-called "anti-saloon league reso-
luton" seems To have been considered ~
only Il few countie-, and reports show III
adoption at no more than half . dozen
county conventions.
Although delegates to the Texas state
democratic convention viii have ironclad
presidential instructions, III the republican
convention the exact Opposite viii prevail.
Only one county gave any republican
presidential instructions. That was Rob
ertson. for Roosevelt. Most Of the re
pnblican conventions instructed for II. T..
MacGreeor as national committeeman.
which office ne now holds. and Endorsed
Phil r.. Baer. state chairman. The pro
grcssives held only a few county conven-
tions. and IL Cooke. Dallas. Galveston and
HINT instructed for Roosevelt Hunt de-
clarcd against n coalition OF the bun
mooser~ and ~tandpattcrs.
In addition to Mr.. Loves Endorsement
for national Committeeman Cass and Gal
weston supported Colonel II. NJ Johnston
for that Office: Lavaca Endorsed ). W.
Bailey for national committeeman and
Cooke for DELEGATE ut large. Other coun-
Ties instructed FOR VI. VI. Crane. A. II. Ne
rolinm of Waco. Louis y. Northam 81
Fort Worth. Robert J.. Warren Of Terrell.
peter Radrurd If Fort Worth and Judge
William Poindexier If Cleburne for ma
tionai coinmittccman.
Governor Ferguson. Congressman John
n. Garner. Frank G. Davis. San Antonio
Charle- n. Mill. Cor~icaua; Stewart X.
Smith. Beaumont; Horace Chiffon ana
General VI. VI. Crane Of Dallas received
instruction. % several counties for dele
gates M large.
Attorney General Iooncy'- administra-
ton ana his candidacy FOR reelection were
indor-cd bv various North Texas counties.
including hi home county. Hunt. which
also scommcndcd the Gcrman-imcrica
vote of Texas for their loyalty 10 the VII
son administration"
Marion county indor~cd the candidates.
of senator Culhcr~on and Governor Fer
rnson and Han county indurscd that If
+. VI. Campbell.
Dallas county refused to send any sena
torial candidates a~ delegates To- San An
tonic and adjourned without indor~ing
Thomas II. Love for national committee
man. which. the chairman says, was an
oversight.
Governor Fcrgu~on'~ home county APP
proved hi administration and sent HIM as
a delegate ~ san Antonio and declared
for HIM a. head of the Texas delegation.
The Travis county convention also named
the governor az u delegate and Endorsed
his administration
Only al Bcllvillc. III Austin county. was
mn expression made that y susceptible Of
an Interpretation contrary to an indorse-
ment of the national administration While
no resolutions were offered opposing or
lndorsing the president, the convention
there instructed it, delegates to the state
convention "to support the principle n
presented III the McLemorc ~rc~oIuuons.''
The resolutions sent ont and suggested
for adoption by the Anti Saloon League
were voted down III Orange and adopted
at Rockport. Uvalde and Bceville.
Governor Ferguson was lndorSed III
twenty counties IN South Texas tor the
honor of heading the Texas delegation TO
the national convention. Congressman
John y. Garner was ndor>cd in twelve
South Texas counties for delegate at large.
John Henry Kirby Of Houston and Stewart
Smith of Beaumont received the indorse-
ment Of half a do4n South Texas coun-
ties for similar honNS. Thomas II. Love
Of Dallas was indorSedrb by the conventions
of seven South Texas counties for the ma
tional conventions. Yelled criticism of q.
Ii. Colquitt'> efforts 10 obtain support Of
German American voters through the in
fluence of residents of New York was ut
tered by the conventions al Columbus and
San Antonio.
Robertson county republicans Endorsed
Roosevelt for president. but instructed
their delegates 10 the state convention IL
instruct the national delegates to vote foi
the presidential candidate having a major
ity Of the republican states. Fayette coun.