Breach Widens in Texas GOP Conventions Clash in Waco
Two rival Texas Republican state conventions elected separate delegates and presidential electors in Waco, all amid a staged power struggle. Ferguson led one faction, McDonald the other, with both claiming temporary chairmanship and raising the specter of a split that could affect the Philadelphia national convention. Hawley Green and others were named delegates, while electors were chosen for at large positions by each side.
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Waco
Philadelphia
Henry Ferguson
Ferguson
McDonald
Burns
A. J. Rosenthal
W. G. Robinson
Paul Fricke
R. E. Hannay
McDonaldites
Fricke
Hannay
McKinley
Hawley
Green
RE. Hawley
Washington County
Wilbur FP
Crawford
Milam
H. R Green
R. B. Hawley
William M. McDonald
M. M. Rogers
George Moore
Otis T. Bacon
J. M. Moseley
A. L. Maynard
Edwin H. Terrell
Bexar County
W. A. Love
Collin
Texas cotton mill drive gains steam in Cuero
The Galveston News notes Texas aims to expand cotton mills with Cuero deciding to build one and Hargrove estimating a need for 1000 mills statewide. It highlights southern growth, Paris expo expectations, and broad national concerns including bubonic plague fears and Gen. Joe Wheeler’s political moves.
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Texas
Cuero
United States
San Francisco
Hargrove
Bryan
South
Galveston
Family Horse For Sale At Brazos County
A sound well conditioned horse is offered for sale as safe for a lady. Apply to J. H. Connell at College. A call meeting of Brazos Union Lodge is set for Friday night March 9 to confer the Master’s Degree. Full attendance requested by P. M. Raysor, W. M.
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Houston Post
Houston, Brazos and Northern Railway
Sugarland
Hempstead
Clay Station
Brazos River
Bryan
Calvert
Brazos Valley
Clay
Caldwell News- Chronicle
Eagle
J. H. Connell
Brazos Union Lodge
P. M. Raysor
W. M
Flour orders and hay for sale from local firms
Three cars of Albatross and Queen Bee flour praised in a thirty day claim. Cole Bros reports 84 sized orders and expects another car of Albatross and Queen Bee flour. A car of alfalfa hay on the track for sale cheap by F Moore.
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Cole Bros
F. Moore
Social Democrats and Socialist Labor Vote for Unite
At the national convention in Indianapolis the conference committee from both parties urged amalgamation as necessary and expedient. The report signals the likely nomination of Eugene V. Debs for president and Job Harriman for vice president, with Harriman indicating agreement.
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Indianapolis
National Social Democratic Convention
Socialist Labor Party
Social Democratic Party
Eugene V. Debs
Job Harriman
California
Harriman
Outline of platform from national Socialistic Democratic convention
The platform calls for revision of the federal constitution to broaden popular control, public ownership of industries and utilities, national labor laws, public works for employment, free inventions with public remuneration, and equal rights for women. It also supports initiative and referendum, recall, and international arbitration, while condemning militaryism in Porto Rico and capitalist wage suppression.
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Indianapolis
National Socialistic Democratic Convention
United States
Committee On
Porto Rico
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Bob McKinney
Franklin Bros
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Texas Bakery
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Telephone
Wooten & Harder
City Bakery
J. Caywood
Pearl Wooten & Harder’s
Paul M. Baylor
Bryan, Texas
James ‘Drug Store
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