Alvarado Bulletin. (Alvarado, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 34, Ed. 1 Friday, February 25, 1898 Page: 3 of 8
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DEMOCRATIC COUNCIL.
TEXAS AND TEXANS.
ANTI TRUsT CASE.
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WANTS A DITOHCI.
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barrels to the well, a day.
Messrs. Hammond,Ellis and Jones,
NwE\EUN benevoveut
Legvow. . .
Dallas, Texas.
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TVRM HANCOCK, See’y.
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flowing wells and two wells
pect d to come in this week
Captain James Garrity has
motion to insert the tariff recom
mendation to the Chicago platform
was carried.
Work of the State Executive
Committee.
geance.
The following tortures are re-
cited in the official document, and
in each case the name of the vic-
FREE,—A asoy’s Printing Outfit will be
mailed to every boy who sends a new sub-
scriber with 500 for a half year’s subscription
to the State Demoarat. A better outfit for
a year’s subscription and $i. Address State*
Demeerat Austn. Texas.
July. Fized for Primaries, and August 2
for State Convention, with Galveston,
asjthe Place
of Ohio and Pennsylvania, but as
yet no money has been put in evi-
dence or papers signed, though an
agreement has been reached.
• Texas University.
The Washington Post of Febru-
ary 17, says of President Winston,
who is on a visit to the national
capital.
President George T. Winston oi
the University of Texas was seen
Dallas, Feb. 22—There were
several hundred leading Demo-
cratic politicians here to watch the
work of the state committee.
Pursuant to the call of Chairman
J. W. Blake the state executive
committee met in Dallas today,
for the purpose of setting a date
for the primaries, establishing a
test of the democracy of the par-
ticipants in the primaries and nam-
ing the time and place for the state
convention.
The committee was all present
except two.
After making a short formal
talk, Chairman Blake read and
submitted the following, by way
of suggestions.
Be it resolved by the State Dem-
ocratic Executive Committee of
Texas:
1. That the charman of the State
Democratic Executive Committee
is hereby instructed to call a State
Democratic Convention to be held
Resolved, by the State Demo-
cratic Executive Committee, that
the following test he and is hereby
prescribed as a prerequisite for the
qualification of all persons who
may participate and vote in the
democratic primaries to be held
during the year 1898 in Texas.
1. Are you a democrat and will
you vote for the democratic nomi-
nees at the ensuing election?
2. Did you vote for the opposi
tion to either the national ticket
nominated at Chicago or the state
ticket nominated at Fort Worth at
the general election held in No-
vember, 1896?
An affirmative answer to the first
question and a negative answer to
the second question will be neces-
sary to qualify the proposed voter
in the ensuing primaries.
Section 10 ot Chairman Blake’s
report (and the last) was adopted
without any opposition.
The three subsections of Chair-
man Blake’s report, which follow
the ten principal sections, were
then considered.
Mr. Robson moved to strike out
the last two of these sections, stat-
ing that he was opposed to the
tarriff principles outlined therein
and that he wanted to take the
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to whom torture has been applied.
Schoolmasters, it appears, have
ven-
cently finished that run twenty-
five barrels a day. The oil men
themselves insist that the field will
not average over ten to fifteen
FRATEENAL SOCIETY—Sick. Accident, To
tai Disability, Life's Expectancy, and Deatt
Benefit®. Finest plans in the world. Orgart
ters wanted every w here Address,
A priest in the village of Zer-
novtzi was hanged by the feet for
three hours and then by the arms
for fourteen hours. A wet cord
was bound tightly around the
head.
All the prisoners at Kumanova
were beaten until their flesh came
off in strips. The women were
outraged.
A bomb was exploded lately at
the residence of M. Messine, at
Montipeller, France. He was a
former president of the chamber
of commerce. Serious damage
was done, but there was, fortun-
ately, no loss of life. The police
have found other bombs in that vi-
cinity.
The total number of deaths by
the Maine disaster is 258.
Roome 205,.206- 208, Cockrell Building.
Deltas. Fax
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ing myself upon my honor to vote
for the nominees of the democratic Chicago platform straight. His
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Prisoners Remanded to the Custody of
Texas Authorities.
Washington. Feb. 22.—In the
case of William Grice and others,
under indictment in Texas for
violating the anti.trust law of that
state, the United States supreme
court held that the federal circuit
court had erred in granting a writ
of habeas corpus when no proper
exigency arose for such interfer-
ence, and therefore reversed the
decision, remanding the prisoners
to the custody of the state officials
The court did not enter upon the
merits of the anti-trust law
Grice and others, engaged as
agents for the Standard Oil com-
pany, were indicted in McLennan
county, Texas, on the charge of
conspiracy against the anti-trust
law, and he appealed to the federal
circuit court for a writ of habeas
corpus before his trial. In decid
ing the case, Justice Peckham said
that while the circuit court had
jurisdiction in cases such as this,
nevertheless, “circuit courts ought
not to exercise that jurisdiction by
the discharge of a prisoner unless
in cases of peculiar urgency; that
instead of discharging them thoy
should leave prisoners to be dealt
with by the courts of the states,
and that after a final determina
tion of the case by the state court,
the federal courts will even then
generally leave the petitioner to
his remedy by writ of error from
this court.”
The court proceeds to say that
the jurisdiction is an exceedingly
delicate one for the federal courts
and should not be encouraged un-
less in most exceptional cases.
After reviewing the case at some
length the justice adds:
“This whole case is clearly
nothing but an attempt to obtain
the interference of a court of the
United States when no extraor-
dinary or peculiar circumstances
exist in favor of such interference.
Upon the facts we think no suf-
ficient case was made out for the
exercise of j urisdiction. We come
to this decision irrespective of the
question of the validity of the state
statute and without passing upon
the same or expressing any opin-
ion in regard thereto ”
He adds that if Grice’s appeal
had been after conviction a differ
ent question would have been pre-
sented, but that under the circum-
stances no other course than that
taken was possible, and hence the
merits of the state law can not be
entered upon.
Directions were given, there-
fore, for the setting aside of the
habeas corpus, and tne order dis-
charging the prisoners, and to en-
ter an order remanding the pris-
oners to the custody of the state
officials.
The effect of the decision is to
require the completion of action
by the state courts before the in-
terveution of the federal courts.
He Says Dera LaOrmsy Frem Drugs Gvem
by the Vendettm,
Richmond, Ky.,Feb. 20.—In-
terest in Gen. Cassius M. Clay
and his child wife, Dora, has been
revived by the report that he will
shortly institute divorce proceed
ings to free himself from his
strange alliance with this peasant
girl of 15. From a personal friend
of the general, to whom he com*
municated his intentions, the Post-
Dispatch correspondent learns that
he has definitely made up his mind
to this end, and has already re-
duced to writing the plea on which
suit for divorce will be brought.
It will not be on the ground of
incompatibility of temper or in-
fidelity, but the petition will al-
lege lunacy, reciting how Dora
has been drugged by members of
the vendetta until she is no longer
herself
erage twenty barrels per day. schoolmasters, it appears,
There are several of the wells re- been the special object of
THE CORSICANA OIL WELLS.
A reporter who has been gath-
ering facts gives out the following
information:
The find is about two and one-
half miles in length and appears to
be about one mile in width as far
as developed. The wildcat pros-
pecting wells to the southwest of
rhe city proved failures, the Gar-
rett well having been abandoned
at a depth of 1,300 feet with no
signs of oil There are several
wells being bored northeast of town
one about eight miles out. A com-
pany is forming to bore in the
Kerens neighborhood. As nearly
as was possible to ascertain and
keep count there are now 72 wells
flowing oil in the developed area.
Of these the South Oil company
ha- 17 and this company also has
4 dry wells. It is the pioneer com
pa ay and has done most of the de-
veloping and experimenting. They
have under contract four more
wells, over two of which derricks
are in place and derricks are going
up for the others. The Texas
Petroleum company owns and con
trols the output of thirteen wells.
This company has one dry well.
The Oil City company has five
at the Raleigh last evening.
“Texas,” said he, “is the only
Southern state where no one talks
yesterday, last year or before the
war. Everyoody is moving for-
ward with determination that Tex-
as shall realize its manifest destiny
as the greatest state of the Ameri-
can union. It is the old south and
new south boiled together, and
seasoned with Germans, Swedes,
Irish, Scotch, English, Yankees
and westerners. The sweet social
life and gallant courtesies of the
party and to support and abide b y
its action.
10. Each committee of the sev-
eral counties in preparing ballots
for the primary elections is re-
quested to have this pledge printed
upon the ballot.
In addition to the foregoing res-
olution, I trust and desire that the
committee shall go to the country
with an unqualified endorsement
of those great questions of railroad
policy for which the party de-
clared in national convention in
1896, and that matchless champion
of those cherished principles, Wm.
J. Bryan, specially emphasizing,
first an opposition to the financial
policy of the republican party and
our loyalty to the cause of silver,
independently of the action of e ll
other countries; second, our oppo
sition to the tariff for protection
and the adherence to the funda-
mental and established democratic
principle of a tariff for revenue
only; third, opposition to all trusts
and all class legislation and to the
establishment of a monied oligar-
chy in America.
J. W. BLAKE,
Chairman.
After a little skirmishing over
section 9, a motion prevailed to
vote on Mr. Blake’s suggestions
separately.
The question of auctioning off
the convention to the city bidding
highest came up first, and by a
vote of 22 to 27 the committee de-
clared against asking any bonus.
Galveston, San Antonio and Dal
las were then placed in nomination
for the city of the convention, and
the result of the vote was: Galves-
ton 24, San Antonio 3, Dallas 2.
The second, third and fourth of
the chairman’s resolutions were
then adopted without dissent, but
the fifth suggestion provoked much
heated discussion, and finally the
following amendment was adopted:
“Resolved, that we reaffirm our
allegiance to the traditions and the
honored customs of the democratic
party, and believe that through
the action of county executive
committees it is most practicable
to obtain an expression of the in-
dividual democratic voter and that
said county executive committees
are more specially familiar with
local conditions and therefore bet
ter capable of reflecting the wishes
of the individual voter as to the
method of selecting delegates and
controlling their expressions,
therefore that the manner of se-
lecting delegates to the state and
other conventions. Provided that
the matter of voting primary elec
tions or primary conventions is left
to the various county democratic
committees.”
J uly 9 was fixed as the date of
holding primaries instead of July
2, as in suggestion 6
The seventh section was adopted
without discussion and the eighth
got through very easily with but
slight change.
The fight of the day was on the
ninth section, outlining the chair-
man’s ideas of a test.
Speeches were made and amend-
ments and substitutes offered and
voted down. Finally the resolu-
tion of Col. Ike Standifer was
adopted. It was follows:
uleiuewe,auay. tim is given: Hot irons thrust
A small refinery is promised by 1nto mouths, legs broken, splinters
------ tt -- -- - "if — -T----- driven under the nails, naked feet
placed on hot stoves, hanged by
the feet fifteen hours, tied to
horses’ tails, beaten to death,
hanged by feet over fire.
old south, the push and progress
of the west, the sturdy selfreli-
ance of the German and the
Swede, the ingenuity and enter-
prise of the Yankee, the brawn
and brain of the Irish and the hard
common-sense of the English and
Scotch are all united in Texas. I do
not believe there is a finer popu-
lation on the globe.
The state does not consider itself
prosperous, but compared with
the other southern states it is very
prosperous. There is in Texas no
such Doverty, except among Mex-
icans, as oppresses fully one-fourth
of the population of Maryland,
Virginia, o North Carolina, South
Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia,
Florida, Alabama and Mississippi.
Texas is the laborngman’s para-
dise. People are flocking there
from all directions and the next
census will tell a wonderful story
of its growth. The population is
now fully 3,000,000.
“The State University, now on-
ly fourteen years old, but ranking
among the best colleges and uni-
versities of America, is at the head
of eur great system of free public
schools. Its faculty have all been
selected regardless of any local,
sectarian, political or other consid-
eration, excepting alone fitness.
They come from the leading uni-
versities of this country and Eu-
rope.
I he university is expanding and
improving all the time. During
tne past year the teaching force
has been increased nearly 25 ppp
cent. Additions are now being
made to the equipment whereby
the laboratories in physics and
biology will be greatly enlarged
and strengthened. A buildihg
costing $40,000 was recently given
to the medical departmene by Mr.
George W. Brackenridge of San
Antonio to be a home for young
women attending that department.
Last year a young lady was grad-
uated an M. D. and many are now
pursuing the course.
“The requirements for admis-
sion in all departments of the uni-
versity have recently been in-
creased, but there is no charge for
instruction. The total number
of students is now 800, and it is an
aggregation that the whole state
takes pride in. The young men
are earnest, ambitious, free from
rowdyism, and no doubt the pres-
ence of 140 bright, refined and as-
piring girls have materially con-
tributed to giving the entire stu-
dent body its high status. With
us coeducation has been a marked
success. ”
Horrible Tortures.
A delayed Constantinople tele-
gram: The note of the Bulgarian
agent to the Turkish government,
protesting against the treatment
which Bulgarians have been sub-
jected to in Macedonia, reveals a
state of affairs similar to that
which existed in Armenia. It
states that villiage after village
has been surrounded by the Turk-
ish army, that wholesale arrests
have been made and that the pris-
oners have been subjected to un-
heard-of tortures.
The note gives a list of the vil-
lages and the names of the victims
the R. Q. Mills land five flowing
wells, and is boring others. His
contract calls for a well to be
bore 1 to every ten acres, and there
is about 1000 acres of land in the
tract. He has one dry well.
Mr. Dorington of Dallas, has
four wells and is boring others.
West and Hardy have four
wells one of which is not worth at-
tention, and will be for the present
abandoned.
They are boring one additional
well and have arge leases which
they may develop at an early date.
Hardy and Halbert have two
wells. Read and Kingsolving
have three wells, and the Long
Co has three also.
Hardy & Hardy have one well,
Lea & Beason have one well, and
are borring another.
W. F. Colquitt and Co. have
two wells and are boring two
others.
Pinkston & Gibson are boring a
well.
O E. Hyndman struck a fine
flow Saturday in one well and is
boring another.
The Tnree Charley’s well has
been joined to the pipe line of J.
S Cullinan and was No. 65 of the
flowing wells thus far joined.
There are other wells and other
companies, but is very difficult to
find out exactly the situation with
out seeing all of the parties who
are Interested in the matter. H
L. Scales has some wells—three it
is believed.
This will give an idea of the sit-
uation.
There are over fifty derricks in
an area of less than a mile square
now; most of them just being put
up, or ready, to be taken down af-
ter a well has been finished.
The Southern Oil company is
making preparations to pump sev
eral of their smaller wells. The
outf ut is claimed by many to av
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in the city of ——-— on Tuesday,
August 2, 1898, for the purpose
of nominating candidates for state
officers,
2. That the basis of representa-
tion in said state convention shall
be one vote for each 300 or frac-
tion over 150 votes cast for Gov.
Culberson at the state election in
1896, provided that each county
shall be entitled to at feast one
vote.
3 1 hat in view of the fact that
the admission of an unlimited
number of delegates to the con
vention hall often makes the con-
vention an unwieldly body and in-
terferes with an orderly, fair and
prompt dispatch of business and
is a positive hindrance to delibe-
rative work in a convention; there-
fore, the state chairman is direct
ed to have the hall so arranged
that delegate seats shall be provid-
ed for only the actual number of
votes to which each county is en-
titled and that only such number
shall be admitted to the space pro-
vided for delegatez.
4. Each county is hereby re-
quested to elect not to exceed one
delegate and one alternate for each
vote to which it may be entitled
on the basis herein fixed.
5. Believing that primary elec-
■ tions are the best and most satis-
B factory method of obtaining the
■ choice of the peopie for candidates
I and delegates and that uniformity
. - in holding primaries is essential
in securing the fairest expression,
we therefore request the demo-
cratic executive committees of the
several counties to adopt this
method for determining the choice
of their counties for United States
senator, state, district and county
officers and delegates to the coun-
ty conventions. We recognize
that in a few counties where there
is no thorough organization this
method may be impractical, yet
we request a compliance with this
resolutiou wherever possible.
6. We hereby designate Satur-
day, July 2, as the date of holding
primary elections throughout the
state and insist that each county
shall adopt said date. ,
7. All primary elections shall be
held in strict conformity with the
state election laws as far as practi-
cable, and the democratic precinct
chairman is hereby constituted pre-
siding officer for his voting box.
8. All primary elections shall
be held under the direction of the
executive committee of the county
except as herein otherwise pro-
vided.
9. The following pledge shall be
necessary to admit one to vote in
democratic primaries or conven-
tion in addition to being a quali-
fied voter under the state law: (A)
I am a democrat and accept the
platform adopted by the democrat-
ic national convention at Chicago
in 1896 as the only authoritative
declaration of democratic princi-
ples until changed by a subsequent
national convention of said party.
(B) I renounce allegiance to all
other political parties, and in good
faith vote in this primary, pledg-
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Pardue, P. H. Alvarado Bulletin. (Alvarado, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 34, Ed. 1 Friday, February 25, 1898, newspaper, February 25, 1898; Alvarado, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1453943/m1/3/?q=music: accessed June 20, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Johnson County Historical Commission.