Daily Democrat. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 284, Ed. 1 Saturday, October 23, 1880 Page: 2 of 4
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The Democrat.
SATURDAY, OCT. 23, 1880.
For President,
W. S. HANCOCK,
Of Pennsylvania.
For Vlee-Prenideat.
WM. H. ENGLISH,
Of Indiana.
•enderntle State. 1'icket.
For^Governor
ORAN M. EOBEETS,
Of Smith County.
For Liaut. Governor,
L. J. STORY,
Oi Caldwell County.
For Appellate Judge,
J. MV HURT,
Of Dallas County.
For Attorney General,
J. H. McLEARY,
Of Bexar County.
For Comptroller,
W. M. BROWN,
Of Falls County.
For Treasurer,
F. E. LUBBOCK,
Ot Galveston County.
For;,Land Commissioner,
W. 0. WALSH,
Of Travis County.
AcKLirt and Billu have settled
their troubles in the Third Louis-
iana district. Acklin withdraws
aud will take the stump for Billu,
the nominee. Messrs. Allen aud
Crisp, Hoke and Willis, you are
advised to imitate the example of
these gentlemen.
The qualified voter can vote
where he chooses in Indiana with-
out any regard to his residence,
which may account for the vote of
Indianapolis being several thou-
sands in excess of the number of
male citizens of that city over
twenty-ODe years of age.
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
FOR COUNTY JUDOS.
We are authorized to annouao# the
name of
R. E. Bkckham,
as a candidate lor Couuty Judge at the
eusuing election.
FOR DISTRICT. CLERK.
We are authorized to announce
J. M. Hartsfihld,
as a candidate for re-elfection to the •fBce
of District Clerk of Tarrant county.
prbsidential'klkctors,
State at large,
E. B. HUBBAED,
J. W. THROCKMORTON.
There is great danger of the
Democrats losing their majority
in congress at the ensuing elec-
tion. The election of Hancock
would be a barren victory with a
Eepublican congress, and the
much needed reforms in the legis-
lation of the country would be
practically impossible. For this
First district—J. ;H. Jones, of condition of affairs, which appears
Alternates,
W. H “POPE,
Oi '.Harrison.
W. H. CEAIN,
Of Lavaca.
Busk county, elector; James E.
Hill, of Polk county, alternate.
Soeond district—0. B. Kilgore,
•f Van Zandt county, elector; J. G.
Dudley, of Lamar, alternate.
Third district—S. W. T. Lanham,
•f Parker, elector; E. 0. Foster, of
Graham, alternate.
Fourth districtr—E. A. Jones, of
McLennan, elector; Scott Feld, of
Bobertson, alternate.
Fifth district—John Hancock,
•f Travis, elector; B. F. Dunn, of
Fayette alternate.
Sixth district—John A. Baker,
•f Bexar, elector; E. D. Linn, of
Victoria, alternate.
For Congress,
OLIN WELLBORN.
For Representative, 17th Legislature.
B. B. PADDOCK.
Bro. Penn, the evangelist will
try hie hand on the Dallas bar.
He haB a powerful auxiliary in
Judge Aldridge.
The sooner that such irascible,
hotheaded and unthinking politi-
cians as Wade Hampton don
their angel plumage the better it
will be for the country.
The Indiana Democrats are not
much alarmed as we infer from
their refusal to divide the elec-
toral vote of the state with Gar-
field’s champion, Mr. Weaver.
The question which now agi-
tates the mind of the average Dal-
lasite is which that city needs
most: a board of trade, or the
country trade that Fort Worth is
getting.
Sarah A. Brown is on the
stump in Kansas as a candidate
for superintendent of public in-
struction. If the Jaybawkers
have a spark of gallantry in their
composition they will elect her.
Some of the independent Dem-
ocrats in this state might be ap-
peased by turning the state over
to the tender mercies of the Ee-
publican party once more. Their
course, if persisted in, will event-
ually lead to this result.
It is surmised that Mr. Hayes’
visit to the Pacific Slope was in-
daced by a desire to be out of
sight and hearing of the outra-
geous violations of civil service
order No. 1, resorted to for the
purpose of carrying Ohio and In-
diana.
The excitement over the fall
elections has detracted somewhat
from the interest felt in the arrest
of the notorious Benders or the
discovery of Charley Boss. With
the November frosts will come
accounts from enterprising detec
tives who have discovered these
widely advertised losses.
Hoke aud Willis in the Louis-
ville district, Crisp and Allen in
the Eighth Missouri distriot, the
Readjusters and Funders in Vir-
ginia, the Eepudiators and Debt-
payers in Tennessee—between all
these squabbles in the Democratic
ranks the Bepsblican outlook is
rosy.
imminent, the divided ranks of
our own party and the Greenback
issue are responsible. Only a uni-
ted opposition can defeat the Be-
publicans.
Every train that arrives in
Texas from the North and East
comes laden with industrious and
enterprising immigrants—who are
attracted to onr borders by the
reports which reach them of onr
prosperity and the inducements
afforded by the state to those who
are seeking new homes in a coun-
try which is progressive and pros-
pering, where they can harvest a
rich reward for the money and
muscle invested in the various en-
terprises demanding the outlay of
capital and labor. The past sea-
son has been a propitious one, and
the soil has yielded a generous and
liberal return to the husbandman.
Every artery of trade has revived
with the advent of good crops and
every branch of industry is teem-
ing with renewed life. Capital and
labor are everywhere in demand
in pushing forward the various
enterprises that are being prose-
cuted in all portions of the state.
The companies which are con-
structing new railroads in every
port of the state afford abundant
employment to every character of
labor. The new houses that are
being erected give employment to
mechanics and artisans. The abun-
dant harvest, still ungathered, re-
quires a large number of agricul-
turists and, in fact, there is a con-
stant and growing demand for
skilled laborers in all parts of the
state and the supply is coming to
fill the demand. This is immigra-
tion of a healthy character. Not
the kind stimulated by glowing
descriptions of the country sent
out by interested corporations and
associations, but the kind that
comes from the irresistible law of
supply and demand. The kind
that brings capital, either in the
form of money or labor, either of
which is indispensable to the de-
velopment of a new country, and
both of which are alike valuable
iu the development of a state or
section. The ice-bound regions
of the North, the sterile hills of
the East, the worn-out fields of
the South are all alike pouring in-i
to Texas hundreds and thousands
of their sturdy and industrious
sons and daughters who come to
the new Eldorado to aid in its de-
velopment and share in its pros-
perity. Texas extends them all
a cordial welcome. It receives
them with open arms and will re-
joice with them in their prosper-
ity and happiness.
.For County Treasurer.
We are authorized to announce
W. T. Ferguson,
as a candidate for re-election to the efflee
of county treasurer, at the ensuing elec-
tion.
We are authorized to annouace |^he
name of
J. B. Boyd,
as a candidate lor County Treasurer, at
the ensuing general election.
FOR SHERIFF.
We are authorized to announce the
name of
J. M. Henderson
as a candidate for re-election to the^offlce
of sheriff of Tarrant county at the^ensu-
ing, election.
Wo are authorized to announce
W alter T. Maddox,
as a candidate for the office ef Sheri# of
Tarrant county, at the ensuing election.
We are authorized to announce the
name of
D. M. Thomas
as a candidate for sheriff at . the ensuing
general election.
For County Surveyor,
We are authorized to announce the
name of
J. J. Goodfellow,
as a candidate for County Surveyor of
Tarrant county, at the ensuing general
election.
FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER.
We are authorized to announce ‘.the
name of
S. H. Holmes
as a candidate for commissioner tor pre-
cinct No. one, at the ensuing, election.
We are authorized to announce “the
uarne of
C. A. Daniel
as a candidate for commissioner of pre-
cinct No. 1, at the ensuing election.
We are authorized to announce the
name of
Thos. B. Maddox,
as a candidate for re-election to the office
of County Commissioner, of Precinct No.
four at the ensuing election,
We are authorized to announce the name
of
Wm. Harrison,
as a candidate for re-election to the office
of County Commissioner, of Precinct No.
two, at the ensuing election.
We are authorized to announce the
name of
J. B. Andrews,
as a candidate for i e-election to the office
of County Commissioner, for Preciuct No.
three, at the ensuing election.
For District Judge.
We are authorized to announce the
name of .
Judge A. J. Hood,
as a candidate tor Judge of the 29th Judi-
cial district, at the ensuing election.
FOR COUNTY CLERK.
We are authorized to announce the
name of
Frank Adams
as a candidate tor county clerk at .the.* en-
suing election.
We are authorized] to announce .the
name of
M. W. McLamore,
as a candidate for County Clerk at the
ensuing election.
We are authorized to announce the name
ot
J. W. Adams
as a candidate tor County Clerk at the en-
suing general election.
We are requested to announce "the
name ot
John W. Swayne,
as a candidate for County Clerk, at ]the
ensuing general election.
We are authorized to announce the
name ot
J .P. Lipscomb,
for the office of County Clerk at*“the en-
suing election.
FOR TAX COLLECTOR.
We are authorized to announce the
name ol'
Joseph Nugent
as a candidate for collector of taxes ol
Tarrant county at the eneuiag.election.
We are authorized to announee""the
name of
Tobe Johnson
as a candidate for Tax Collector at the
ensuing general election.
We are authorized to annonouuce the
name of
J. R. Law
as a candidate for Tax Collector at the
ensuing election.
We are authorized to announce the
name of
Dan Park hr.
as a candidate for Tax Collector at the en-
suing general election.
FOR ASSESSOR.
We are authorized to announce the
name of
Hunky C. Johnson,
[not Tobe]
of Fossil creek, as a candidate fur assessor
at the ensuing election.
We are authorized to announce
C. G. Mitchell
as a candidate for county assessor at the
ensuing election.
We are authorized to announce
Wm. D. Hall,
as a candidate tor assessor, at the ensuing
election.
State Democratic Platform.
The Democratic party of the shite of
Texas, in convention assembled, declare :
First. We heartily approve the declara-
tions of principles made by the national
convention at Cincinnati, aud cordially en-
dorse its nominees, pledging them the uni-
ted and enthusiastic support of the De-
mocracy ot Texas.
Second. We favor the free coinage and
full re-monetization of silver.
Third. We favor such actions by con-
gress, within its constitutional power, as
will prevent unjust discriminations and
extortionate rate charges for the transpor-
tation of inter-state commerce.
Fourth. We regard the maintenance of
a practical system of public free schools
ot the utmost importance, and to this end
favor the largest appropriation within
constitutional limits justified by the finan-
cial condition of the state. And we favor
the adoption by the next legislature of ap-
propriate measures looking to the lulfill-
ment of the constitutional requirement
for the organization and maintenance of
“The University of Texas.”
Fifth. We repudiate as false the charge
that the Democratic party of Texas has
been opposed to immigration, arid while
the constitution prohibits the use of pub-
lic money for the support of a bureau of
immigration, we urge the next legislature
to make ample provision for the collection
and dissemination of statistics pertaining
to our agricultural and other resources,
to the end that all seeking new homes,
knowing our great advantages, may settle
in our midst, extending to them a most
cordial welcome.
Sixth. The suffering and losses of our
people on the frontier enlist our deepest
sympathy, and we pledge Our most ener-
getic efforts to afford them adequate pro-
tection in person and property, and de-
mand of the general government that pro-
tection for our people thus exposed, to
which they are entitled under the const!
tution of the United States, and which
they have never yet received.
Seventh. We enjoin upon the next leg-
islature the duty of proposing such con-
stitutional amendments as will secure a
more efficient judiciary system.
Eighth. We favor the most vigorous
enforcement of the law for the suppres-
sion of all lawlessness and crime, and
pledge the Democratic party of Texas to
hold all officers to the fullest measure ol
duty and responsibility in that behalf.
Ninth. We demand the most rigid
economy, consistent with efficiency, in all
the departments of the government, and
favor the reduction of taxation as soon
as the same can be safely done.
THE
FOET WOETH
Iron-Mountain Ronii
National Democratic Platform.
First. We pledge ourselves anew to the
constitutional doctrines and traditions of
the past, as illustrated by the teachings
and examples of a long line of Democratic
statesmen and patriots, and embodied in
the platform of the last national conven-
tion ot the party.
Second. Opposition to centralism and
to that dangerous spirit of encroachment
which tends to consolidate the powers of
all departments in one, and thus create,
whatever be the form of government,
a real despotism. The separation of
church and state is for the good ot eacli
and of the common schools,
Third. Home rule, honest money, con-
sisting of gold, silver and paper converti-
ble into coin on demand; a strict mainte-
nance of the public faith, state aud nation-
al, and a tariff for revenue only.
Fourth. Subordination of the military
to the civil power, and a general and thor-
ough reform of the civil service.
Fifth, The right ol a free ballot is the
only preservative of all rights, and must
and shall be maintained in every part of
the United States.
Sixth. The existing administration is
the lepresentative of a conspiracy only,
and its claim of the right to surround the
ballot-boxes with troops and deputy mar-
shals to intimidate and obstruct electors,
and the unprecedented use ot the veto
power to maintain its corrupt and despot-
ic power, insults the people and imperils
their institutions,
Seventh, The great fraud of 1S76-77,
by which, upon a false count of the elec-
toral votes of two states, the candidate de-
feated at the polls was declared president,
and lor the first time iu American history
tlie will of the people was set aside under
a threat of military violence, struck a
deadly blow at our system of repre-
sentative government. The Democratic
party, to preseve the country from civil
war, submitted for the time, in the firm
and patriotic faith that the people Would
punish this crime in 1880. This Issue
precedes and dwarfs every other. It im-
poses more sacred duty upon the people
ol the union than ever addressed the con-
science of a nation of free men.
Eighth. We execrate the course of
this administration in making places in
the civil service, as a reward for political
service, and demand reform by statute
which will make it forever impossible for
a defeated candidate to bribe his way to
the seat ot a usurper by billettirig villains
upon the people. [This was read again
in response to demands and was received
with applause.]
Ninth. The resolution of Samuel J.
Tilden, not again to be a candidate for
the exalted place to which he was elected
by a majority ot his countrymen, and
from which he was excluded by the lead-
ers of the Republican party, ia received by
the Democrats ol the United States with
sensibility, aud they declare their confi-
dence in his wisdom, patriotism and in-
tegrity unshaken by the assaults of a
common enemy ; and they further assure
him that he is followed into the retire-
ment he has chosen for himself by the
sympathy and respect of his fellow-citi-
zens, who regard him as one who by the
elevating of the standards ot public mor-
ality and adorning and purilyiug tbe pub-
lic service, merits the lasting gratitude of
his country and his party.
Tenth. Free ships and a living chance
for American commerce on the seas and
on land. No diserimidation in lavor of
transportations or monopolies.
Eleventh. Amendment of the Bur-
lingame treaty. No more Chinese immi-
gration, exeept for travel or education ;
and for them, carefully guarded.
Twelfth. The public money and pub-
lic credit for public purposes solely, aud
public laud for actual settlers.
Thirteenth. The Democratic party is
the friend of labor and the laboring man,
and pledges itself to protect him alike
against cormorants and commune.
Fourteenth. We congratulate the
country upon the honesty and thrift of the
Democratic congress, which has reduced
the public expenditures $40,000,000 a year;
upon the continuation of prosperitv at
home and abroad ; and, above all, upon
the promise of such a change in the ad-
ministration ol the government as shall
iusure us genuine and lasting reform in
every department of the public service.
(DAILY AND WEEKLY.)
A Reliable Democratic
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AM Tamil. County In Particular.
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