Year: 1878

candidate Tor congress, was made. Since


the appearance OF that announcement
4 many warm responses have been made
from all parts of the district. and We
are no less surprised than grstited by
! the warmth and unanimity of the peo-
! pie in his support This week he spoke


in Wsxahachie and in Ennis num-


Der of letters from prominent and in,
huential citizens, are to the effect that
I the people OF all classes are very greatly
1 pleased, not only with the man person.
ally. but with his positions on all iuipor-
itant questions now interesting the peo-
pie He is soundly conservative and at


the same time progressive. While feels


ing and expressing lively interest in
( the national questions of finance. labor
/ troubles. the tariff and foreign police
his thoughts very naturally turn with
all their strength 10 his own state and


the rich and populous district which he
aspires to represent in congress No


measure having for its direct or remote
object, the development of our wonder-
ful natural resources, aud the early &C.
cupancy of that advanced position in
the state TO which she is entitled, will
be neglected by him. He will not be
content with this merely negative de-
votion, but will exert TO the fullest,
all those splendid qualities with which
he has been 50 lavishly endowed by ma
ture. to force our state and his own
district up to that elevated plane which
tit is entitled to. and should by all
means occupy. North Texas. and more
especially the Third congressional dis
trict, has learned the worth OF due
care in the selection of representa>
tive. and also the value of
greatness and ability in the occu.
pant of her chair in congress.


In her earnest advocacy of the olaims
of Col. Wellborn she is striving to give
this district a successor to Gov Throck-
morton. who is every way worthy and
well qualified to succeed him, with


honor to himself and advantage to the
people. It's Col. W's purpose TO visit
every county in the district before the
convention meets, and to see as many
of the people as possible. We have no
fears OF the result If he carries out this
programme, because one only needs see
and hear him to rs CONVINCED of his
ability and the integrity and patriotism
of his every hope and ambition. He has a
powerful personal magnetism attaching
to him warmly all the honest and fair
people who come in contact with him


This taken with the singular purity of
his life and the unselnshness of his pur
poses, appeals very strongly to the sup>
port OF the people. Letters received in
this city from the western counties of
the district saow that in Hood, Johns
son, Erath, Shaekleford, Young and
Wise, he is very strong, and the hope is
growing rapidly into certainty that he
"itA AotA "a map tsy Vi tBcih. w Cstn
say to our friends on the frontier that
their interests will be safe Ia his hands.
No man in the state has clearer ap.
prehension of their wants, and the
splendid possibilities of that peerless
region OF our state than has Wellborn,
and no man will work more eagerly or
inteilisently TO serve them than he.
Scattered over ali the territory of the
third district are numbers of old
mately the subject of our sketch.
and to those who do not know
him. we can say that he has been rear
ed in the same school of politics
which made our old mother>state illus.
trious by rea.on of the exalted character
of her devoted public servants. such
models as Troupe, Crawford and Berrien,
in the older days, and Gordon, Hill.
Stephens and Pierce Young, of her later
and more glorious history. By the de-
votion and true statesmanship of this
ccterie of exalted patriots. old Georgia
vas the srst OF our bruised and broken
southern states to throw cd this shaakles
of military reconstruction and recon-,
mence. under vastly changed circum,
stances, that career Of energy and en>
lightened policy which had won for her
in ante tellan days the proud sobrigua
OF the Empire State OF the South"


Drawing his political inspiration from a
source such as this. we dc not hesitate 9
to say to our progressive people from
every part of the district, that they vii!


have no reason to blush for or complain of
their representative in congress, should
he be their choice. Indeed, we are grati>
fed beyond messure at the warm recep>
tion our nomination has met with, and it
will be proud day for US when we can


announce to the people that their favor


lie has received the nomination. So far,


the canvass has progressed satisfactorily,


and we do not doubt but it will 20 on
| in this way 10 the end