1887
[No Heading]
Joseph
W. Dunkerly and Levi Cerf took out full naturalizations
this morning.
- January
27, 1887, Dallas Daily Herald, p. 8, col. 2.
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Local Notes.
Forty-three
foreign-born citizens took out naturalization papers yesterday,
preparing to vote on the liquor amendment.
- July 11, 1887, Dallas
Daily Times Herald, p. 10, col. 2.
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SCHEME OF THE ANTIS
_________
To Carry the Election
on the 4th
of August.
_________
Dallas the Headquarters
-- Naturalization
Papers Paid For.
_________
Foreigners Fed and
Clothed at the
Expense of the Anti-Prohibitionists.
_________
For the
past few days, the deputy district court clerk has been busy
making out the first papers of foreigners to become citizens.
The unusual number of applicants caused your reporter to make
some inquiries outside which partially disclosed a deliberate
plant on the part of the leading anti-prohibitionists to concentrate
all the unnaturalized foreigners at Dallas and furnish them with
money to procure naturalization papers in order that they may
vote at the August election. As a further security that they
will vote as directed, they are
FED AND OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
until after the day of election. Their
headquarters are known and, so far as that is concerned, there
seems to be no secret in the matter. Men make application for
their papers who cannot speak a word of English and have been
but a few months from their native land. Can a foreigner vote
upon his arrival in this country upon making declaration, through
an interpreter, that it is his intention to become a citizen
of the United States? If such is the case, the antis will pour
into this State before the 4th of August, thousands upon thousands
of such men. An American is required to live in the State one
year and six months in the county. If the foreigner has not the
right to vote upon his delcaration of becoming a citizen, then
it is of great importance that such men should be informed.
The fault is not with the man,
but the schemers, the wire pullers. It is a trick by which the
antis propse to carry the election.
It is presumed that the same game
is being played in all the cities in the State in which railroads
centre.
- July 14, 1887, Dallas
Daily Herald , p. 1, col. 5.
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THE UNNATURALIZED.
_________
The Men Who Are
Expected to
Defeat the Prohibition
Amendment.
As was
stated in yesterday's HERALD, a large number of foreigners were making application
for their first naturalization papers. They were sent to the
clerk's office with a card bearing the name of Mr. Bohny, or
some other prominent saloon men, or conducted to the clerk's
office by some one whose business it is to look after the unnaturalized.
The following are a few of those
who have in the past two or three days, declared their intention
to become American citizens. If these men have not been in the
state twelve months, it is not their fault that they vote without
authority, but the men who take or send them to the clerk's office:
Ephram Fredland, Adolph Bessard,
Leo Warburg, Gustave Soeffers, Wm. Germs, M. Dragua, M. Digrazier,
August Thomas, Leo Walter, Peter Brandind, Chas. Danminsky, H.
Metzer, Adam Burgman, Jene M. Guillomard, Ferd Dreschsel, Chas.
Pester, Chas. Butts, Mark Bessard, R. Hamierschmidt, John Waggner,
Earnst Zschect, Robt. C. Klene, Christian Reed, John Krauss,
L.P. Erickson, C. Anderson, Leo Whitfield, Geo. Meyers, sr.,
Rudolph Gasshardt, S. Schiffman, H. W. Engard, Lewis Burrolt,
T. H. Tuck, Ed Grof, Gustave Schultz, Lorens Winters, Ludwick
Fern, Ed Beornist, R. Beilhory, Eugine Kline, H. Leehlke, H.
Bassons, H. Robinwitz, Simon Rubonowitz, Joseph Levy, Sigmond
Mandell, Joseph Louchard, P.G. Mofli[?], Joseph Rahner, Albert
Schuman, Albert Huber, Geo. Herbold, H. A. Lawson, L.J. Holm,
Henry Burisel, Peter Nook, S. Roth, Carl Hinz, Louis Kolm, Jacob
Blatman, Chas. E. Mardolz, L. R. Dichiara, Valentine Bixenatein,
P. Facen, H. V. Brucks, Henry Nuss, Stephen Fahrlander, John
Gisell, John Wring, Gottlieb Corlen, Max Bauer, C. F. Eylmann,
R. Smidt, Peter Miller, F. Fehremback, Gottlieb Schuettzer, Joseph
Haas, Christ. Luhr, Edward Sell, Herman Helfer, John Zischang,
Max Subsit, S. Latterman, Max Birderstadt, Joseph Lang, E. Miller,
Joseph Oirmelang, Alex. [all given], Thomas Beggs, Jacob Amsler,
Chas. G. Schaufele, Max Steller, Gat Grob, Joseph Wessner, R.
Wetzel, Pat Connell, Herman Schuaber, Albert Duecke, John Schmidt,
F. W. Nehmeyer, H. Nehmyer, Chas. Galip, Eugene Clander, P. Ja_met,
L. Massage, Casper Steimer, Adolph Rechter, Frank Wsdeig, Wm.
Breuning, Emil Hartfield, Harry Chant, Louis Jabens, James Buckenmayer,
Henry Dahl, H. Helfenstein, Fritz Hoage, S. L. Mayer, Jacob Hintermann,
Chas. Cuchhimer, Chestain Moser, F. Kindberg, A. Cuner, Felix
Hintermann, Henry Tobian, G. Turner.
- July 15, 1887, Dallas
Daily Herald , p. 3, col. 2.
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MORE UNNATURALS.
In addition
to the list of two-hundred naturalized immigrants for voting
purposes published in yesterday's HERALD, we give the following batch of late arrivals
to American citizenship through the port of the county clerk's
office, expenses paid by the saloon men. THIS IS A FACT AND WE
CAN PROVE IT. Will American citizens stand such imposition? Here
is the list:
John Brunk, Gottholf Bochle, Fredrick
Horl, Charles Petezelk, Adolf Schoch, Frank Muller, Julius Billman,
Henry Bean, Charles Stange, Hugo Arons, Henry J. Ludicken, Fred
Parker, Edward Hinterman, Charles Miller, John Stemert, Louis
Sprunger, Eugene Phenren, Charles Leonhard, Phelix Hinterman,
Henry Brans, Abraham Heer, Henry Westerman.
- July 16, 1887, Dallas
Daily Herald , p. 2, col. 2.
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[Editorial]
THE prohibitionists
in every county should have vigilant committees to watch and
detect illegal voting or fraudulent handling of votes or returns.
All good people of Texas should be determined to prosecute to
the end of the law every illegal voter or fraudulent election
officer. They cannot defeat the amendment except by fraud, and
they know this and admit it by their importation of illegal voters.
- July 18, 1887, Dallas
Daily Herald , p. 2, col. 1.
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[Editorial]
THE papers
of Dallas one year from now will be pretty well filled with reports
of trials, convictions, and sentence of three or four hundred
unfortunate foreigners who are now being imported into Texas
and their naturalization fees paid by the organized saloon-anti
forces. It may seem hard that these men should be made to suffer
for their ignorance, and Justice would really demand that the
manipulators who are the guilty ones should be punished. But
the law will only reach the illegal voter, and some one must
be punished as an example. These poor deluded people have their
expenses paid enroute to the trouble, but will the antis stand
by them and get them out of it? If they so intend, can they defeat
the law when it is clearly proven as it will be, that the foreigners
brought into Dallas three weeks before the election are illegal
voters? They will be arrested on the spot.
- July 18, 1887, Dallas
Daily Herald , p. 2, col. 2.
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Local Notes.
A leading
adopted citizen of Dallas declares ...that he disproves the schemes
of the Antis to import and vote the tramps of the United States...but
the parties marched to the court house everyday by the Antis
are not citizens of this county.
- July 19, 1887, Dallas
Daily Herald , p. 1, col. 5.
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TO THE FOREIGN VOTE.
To the
new importation of foreigners who are being naturalized for the
purpose of votes against the prohibition amendment, the HERALD would
respectfully suggest through those of their countrymen here who
are well enough read in English to be able to interpret for them
and who are honest enough to warn them of their danger, that
this question of prohibition that the are expected to vote down
has two sides, and friends as well as opponents; and its friends
do not expect to sit supinely by and submit to fraud and outrage.
The friends of prohibition will be at the polls and all about
there, and there will be those whose especial business it will
be to know who are qualified voters and who are not, and all
illegal voters will be duly arrested, tried and punished. Here
is the law, and the friends of justice and right among our population
from foreign countries, whether they be pro or anti, would do
an act of justice and kindness to their ignorant and deluded
countrymen by explaining to them fully this law:
"Article 165. If any person
knowing himself not to be a qualified voter, shall at any election
held vote for any officer to be then chosen, or for or against
any measure or proposition to be determined by said election,
he shall be punished by confinement in the penitentiary not less
than five years.
As to the first proviso, "any
person knowing himself not to be a qualified voter," the
law will be read and interpreted to each foreigner offering to
vote, and then if he casts a vote, he will be a proper subject
for five years in State's prison.
- July 19, 1887, Dallas
Daily Herald , p. 2, col. 2.
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Last Installment.
The following
are the latest anti importations: They declared yesterday at
the court house: -- A. F. Von Derwolk, Hollander; A. J. Rubenstein,
Russian; Jacob Meyer, Swiss; Samuel Bachman, Russian; J. Patterson,
Irish; Jacob Attler, German; Peter S. Seisks, German; Theodore
McMeininge, German; Henry Schnobel, German; Christian Haage,
German; Joe Schanblinsky, German.
- July 19, 1887, Dallas
Daily Herald, p. 4, col. 2.
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[No Heading]
The Sherman
Herald quoting the HERALD'S article on the importation of non-English speaking
people and naturalizing them for voting purposes, asked these
pertinent questions:
Will free born native American
citizens quietly sit down and see their will defeated by foreigners
imported and naturalized for the purpose?
Can any honest anti consent to
such a bare-faced outrageous wrong against himself as a bona
fide citizen of Texas?
Will any honest foreigner who has
faithfully earned and is entitled to his citizenship countenance
such a glaring wrong!
Can any right-thinking man, native
or foreign born, remain with a party guilty of such a crime?
for it is a crime, against justice, against right, against law
and all common decency.
- July 22, 1887, Dallas
Daily Herald (Evening edition), p. 1, col. 4.
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[No Heading]
The antis
are preparing to treat the new foreign immigrants like the scheming
and unscrupulous politician of the South used the ignorant colored
man the first years after his freedom. They got offices at the
expense of the fraudulent votes of the colored man and then left
him to get out of the trouble as best he could. The colored people
learned better, but it cost them, just as it will cost these
new immigrants months of trouble and imprisonment to learn that
the antis can't make voters out of them till they have complied
with Texas laws.
- July 22, 1887, Dallas
Daily Herald (Evening edition), p. 1, col. 4.
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It is Wrong.
A prominent
citizen of foreign birth, an anti, declared to the HERALD man
this morning, that he no sympathy for a scheme by which tramps
of all countries are being marched to the court house and prepared
to defeat the will of the people of Texas. "I consider,"
said he, "that I have a right to vote; because I am acquainted
with the sentiment and customs of the country and identified
in interest with the people; but many of these imported voters
are not qualified by sentiment or law and it is wrong to have
them vote."
The HERALD man agreed with him and admired his spirit of
fairness and frankness.
- July 27, 1887, Dallas
Daily Herald (Noon edition), p. 1, col. 3.
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FALSE ALARM, 'TIS
HOPED.
An Austin
dispatch reports a rumor to the effect that certain free grass
politician are going to make an effort in the State Immigration
meeting to get a declaration against the lease law as the cause
of the cessation in immigration to Texas. If they do make the
effort, and will also blame the lease law with the drouth, the
measure will be more apt to pass. If the report should be true,
the HERALD regards it as the greatest injury to the immigration
move which could just now be inflicted; and if the question of
lease law and free grass is sprung in that convention, the people
of the State will but be confirmed in their suspicion and belief
that the real interested opponents of the lease law are also
opposed to immigration and will leave nothing undone to keep
the western counties free from the invasion of the "man
with the hoe." It is to be hoped by all who earnestly desire
the success of this immigration move and the progress of development
in Texas, that there will be no such dissention as that feared
by the Austin correspondent, and the most fruitful harmony will
prevail. The State administration
is pledged to immigration and the development of Texas, and Gov.
Ross declares that the power of the state, if necessary, shall
be used to secure in undisputed possession and enjoyment settlers
upon all that is desired of the thirty million acres of school
and other public lands. Texas is nearly a unit in this sentiment,
and woe should be to the man or interest who would dare counteract
or retard the movement.
- December 19, 1887,
Dallas Daily Herald, p. 4, col. 2.
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[No Heading]
A NEATLY printed
and well-written pamphlet, "Some Suggestions to the People
of Texas," on the all-absorbing immigration question, is
being circulated among the citizens of Dallas and incoming delegates
to the State Convention. It is a practical and thorough discussion
of the subject and deserves to be carefully read by every man
who goes into the convention to-morrow. The author's name is
not given, but the manner of treating the question is conclusive
evidence that John Howard, the prime mover in the present immigration
move is acquainted with the needs of Texas, and understands,
too, how the need may be supplied. Read it.
- December 19, 1887,
Dallas Daily Herald, p. 4, col. 2.
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THE CONVENTION
_________
IN THE INTEREST
OF IMMI-
GRATION.
________
Largely Attended
from all Parts
of Texas.
The following
is the Dallas reception committee of the immigration meeting:
Gen. W. L. Cabell, J. T. Trezevant,
Jr., W. L. Griggs, B. Blankenship, J. P. Murphy, J. C. O'Conner,
Seth Shepard, W. C. Connor, E. M. Powell, Alfred Davis, R. V.
Tompkins, B. Gibbs, C. A. Keating, J. T. Elliott, W. L. Hall,
W. W. White, Thomas Field, W. H. Flippen, E. P. Turner, R. F.
Gray, E. M. Tillman, W. H. Abrams, Henry Exall, W. E. Hughes,
James Moroney, R. H. Chilton, J. M. Galbraith, W. G. Sterrett,
E. G. Childs, Arch Cochran, W. C. Padgitt, Luther Reese, Ben
McCullough, W. B. Wright, John N. Simpson, Ed G. Bower, Sam Klein,
W. J. Betterson, H. C. Burlew, W. J. Keller, Geo. N. Aldridge,
Joseph Dickson, W. L. Crawford, R. B. Godley, C. H. Cooper, W.
D. Wylie, Henry[K?] Leake, W. W. Leake, C. E. Gilbert, John Cochran,
Major Ewing, Frank Doremus, Philip Sanger, Frank Cockrell, Geo.
H. Plowman, S. J. Adams, L. Fellman, J. S. Armstrong, W. S. Simkins,
John Henry Brown, Robert Gibson, I. Reinhardt, Chas. Fred Tucker,
Henry Coke.
The doors of the opera house were
thrown open at 10 o'clock this morning and delegates began to
file in until the lower floor was filled to packing. As they
entered, they were seated and divided into senatorial districts--all
even numbers seated on the right aisle and odd numbers on the
left.
The personnel of some of the representative
bodies were striking and novel. The Sherman delegates wore high
stovepipe hats with a broad band of white about three inches
in width, and on the lapel, a fine banner on which was printed:
SHERMAN,
The Athens of Texas;
Sends Greetings to the World.
Population 13,000.
Connected With All Trunk Lines
Leading to the State.
The Heart of the Northern Cotton
Belt.
The Garden Centre of the State.
Banking capital...............$1,000,000
Invested in factories........500,000
Invested in public school buildings ....75,000
Invested in fine colleges...........100,000
Invested in public buildings.......225,000
Count seat of Grayson county
with a population of 75,000 and an area of 960 square miles.
....
The temporary
chairman-elect then came forward and was introduced by Mr. Daugherty.
He made a brief address and his remarks were cut out for the
occasion. He opened by saying that "such a representative
body of business men are seldom gathered together on earth."
The meeting he styled, "unsectional, non-sectarian and non-political."
A fit name he had for every section of the vast Lone Star.
...
Mayor Connor
then came forward and extended a hearty welcome to the delegates
in the name of Dallas' municipal government.
A motion was made and seconded
that a committee of one from each senatorial district be selected
by members of each respective district to constitute a committee
on permanent organization and credentials. After some discussion,
the motion carried and a recess of five minutes followed.
...
Mr. Exall
said that in accord with the wishes of the delegation, he had
had a conference with some of [the] railroad officials who expressed
themselves as ready to co-operate with the delegates when organization
was complete.
...
Hon. S. B. Maxey was conducted
to the chair and was engaged in an able address when the HERALD report
had to close.
- December 20, 1887,
Dallas Daily Herald, pp. 1 & 3.
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PURELY BUSINESS.
The question
of immigration for Texas is simply a business proposition. The
people of Texas advertise the resources and advantages of the
state as a business man offers inducements for trade. A healthy
immigration is a boon to any state and is courted by all. A good
immigration of homebuilders and enterprising industrial and manufacturing
people would be a great advantage to our state and a business
benefit to all commercial and industrial pursuits; it would populate
and develop our waste places; make the desolate plains productive
of the various materials of commerce and manufacture, and establish
factories where nor are houses importing from other states. We
here in Texas have an empire of unoccupied territory, rich enough
and with a climate favorable to the profitable growth of nearly
every product of this continent. These inducements properly presented
to the people of the worn out, frigid, and high-priced-land states
of the north and east, would induce many to come to Texas, be
a benefit to the state and a blessing to the industrious immigrant.
- December 20, 1887,
Dallas Daily Herald, p. 4, col. 2.
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[No Heading]
The question
of who is to blame for the lack of immigration the past two years
is a thing of the past--a dead issue. The question now is, who
will want to pull back? It is a question of work now for to-day
and the future to atone for that which has not been done. The
HERALD
believes that people of Texas are in dead earnest, that the railroads
will be willing co-operators, and that the result will be a great
boom for Texas and thousands from the old states made happy and
prosperous by their move to Texas.
- December 20, 1887,
Dallas Daily Herald, p. 4, col. 2.
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THE CONVENTION
_______
GETS DOWN TO WORK.
________
State Organization
Agreed Up-
on and Perfected.
AFTER Chairman
Moody had finished his talk on accepting the chair yesterday,
the proceedings were of a somewhat stormy nature, and much heated
discussion was indulged in while it seemed impossible to keep
down little local antagonistms which kept trying to crop out.
In order to act in a business way
with railroads, Col. Simpson offered a resolution providing for
a committee of eleven for such purpose, a committeeman to be
selected from each congressional district.
Amendments and substitutes followed
thick and fast and were as rapidly disposed of. The general demand
of the convention seemed to be to find out what the railroads
proposed to do, and in line with the desire for light on the
subject Maj. R. G. Lowe, chairman of the Galveston delegation,
arose and after a few preliminary remarks, asked to offer in
reading a letter from W. H. Newman, third vice-president of the
Mo. Pacific Ry. Co.
The document is lengthy, but the
important points in it are covered by the following extracts:
* * * "The heavy movement into Texas
of actual settlers in former years has been during the months
of September, October, November, December and January; the prospectors
generally go into the State during the spring months. On this
account, we do not think the results of the present movement
to induce immigration into the State will be shown until the
fall and winter months of next year, but active work should be
commenced at once and agencies started early in the spring to
induce propsectors to come into the State and look over the ground
for the purpose of bringing the people they represent during
the fall months of 1888." * * *
As it is important that early action
should be taken in the matter I hope it can be arranged that
the conference between the railway people and this committee
can be brought about at some point in Texas during the holiday
week. I am to some extent selfish in this, as I have to be in
the state during that week and would like very much to be present
at such a conference. Should your Tuesday meeting agree upon
a plan of this kind, I would suggest that you bring about this
conference through a request that Mr. Waldo, chairman of the
Texas roads, will invite the several lines to send representatives
to such conference. Developments at the meeting may suggest some
much better plan of handling this matter. When we discussed the
matter some months ago, I little though that a suggestion from
the Texas press to the people of that state would so soon develop
the fact that the Texas people are alive to the necessity of
encouraging immigration into the state and that it would have
such a strong support on their part.
The meeting on Tuesday willl develop
whether there is a solid support on the part of the people behind
the present agitation, and I think it will be found on the part
of the railway companies that they will at once meet it with
such promises as will give additional encouragement to the movement.
Yours, very truly,
W. H. NEWMAN.
A delegate
from Tom Green county offered an amendment to Col. Simpson's
resolution requiring the committee to report at 10 o'clock this
morning.
This brought Mr. Paddock of Fort
Worth to his feet in a fighting attitude against the resolution.
He said that it would be impossible to get a conference with
railroad managers until during the holidays and he moved to table
the resolution, which was done after a great deal of discussion.
Mr. Henderson of Hopkins, then
offered a resolution that a committee of one from each senatorial
delegation be appointed, by the respective delegations, to report
the order of business at 10 o'clock this a.m. This resolution
was lost for a time in the confusion that followed.
Mr. Paddock wanted as a substitute,
a committee of 31, consisting of one from each senatorial district,
to draft an address setting forth the advantages of the state,
a committee of 11, being one from each congressional district,
to confer with the railroad managers of Texas and the Passenger
Traffic Association on the subject of rates, and instructing
each community to organize a board for the purpose of disseminating
statistics and information about Texas. He supported his substitute
by an address, after which followed more confusion and Mr. Browning
took the floor in opposition to Mr. Paddock's substitute. Mr.
Exall, Mr. Evans of Grayson, and Mr. Daugherty, all spoke in
favor of state organization. Mr. Bryan T. Barry wanted local
organizations. Upon a vote which was finally reached, the resolution
and substitute were tabled by 689 ayes to 181 noes, the 18th,
14th, 20th, 23d and 25th districts voting no.
Mr. Browning then offered a resolution
creating a committee of 31, one from each senatorial district,
to which resolutions of the place of work should be submitted
before adoption by the convention. The resolution was adopted
and the convention adjourned until 9 o'clock this morning.
The folowing is the committee on
resolutions:
1. J. P. Cooke; 2, W. C. Bodford;
3 A. Pope; 4, J. Kiser; 5, R. M. Grahan; 6, W. R. Cote; 7, T.
T. Gammage; 9, J. T. Bradley; 10, W. L. Moody; 12, E. Crew; 14,
H. B. Stoddard; 15, Bryan T. Barry; 18, A. R. Collins; 10, J.
M. Browning; 20, J. P. Smith; 22, J. R. Moore; 24, W. P. Gaines;
25, O. McGaffey; 26, V. Veldon; 27, W. A. Fitch; 28, F. B. Chilton;
29, Henry Sayles.
...
HON. S.
B. MAXEY,
Chairman,
SIR.-- We, the committee selected by your honorable
body, beg to submit the following as a substitute for the resolutions
referred to us:
1st. That a committee of 31 be
selected to be composed of 1 member from each senatorial district.
That each senatorial district represented
in this convention select at once, its members of said State
committee, and that the senatorial districts not represented
in this convention shall have the right to hereafter select their
representatives in said committee to the end that all Texas may
particiapate in the benefits of this organization.
The said committee shall be known
as the "Immigration Committee of Texas."
2d. The members of said committee
shall serve for the period of one year, or until their successors
have been elected and qualify by accepting the trust.
The members of said committee shall
be selected hereafter by the people one from each senatorial
district at such time as may be fixed by said committee--vacancies
in the committee shall be filled by the senatorial district in
which the vacancy occurs in such manner as the commitee may provide.
3rd. The members of said committee
shall receive no compensation for their services, but it is expected
that each district will pay the actual expenses of its member.
4th. The State committee shall
elect from their own members such presiding officers and such
committees as such committee may deem proper, and said committee
shall have the power to provide what number of the committee
shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business and
shall make all rules and regulations necessary for its own government.
The committee may employ a secretary and such other agents as
in its judgment may be necessary and fix the compensation of
such employes.
The committee shall have the power
to make all other contracts necessary to carry out the purposes
of its organization.
6th. It shall be the duty of the
State committee to hold a conference with the railroad authorities
of the different systems of railroads having connections into
the State of Texas, and with the authorities of railway companies
operating in the State of Texas, to the end that the best possible
rates may be obtained for prospectors, excursionists and immigrants
into and through Texas in every direction.
It shall further be the duty of
said committee, as soon as may be practicable after said railroad
conferences, to submit an address through such channels as said
committee may deem best to the people of Texas, which address
shall embrace a report of the conference of said committee with
the railroad authorities, and shall also embrace a plan for local
organizations for immigration purposes throughout the State,
and the ways and means of raising the necessary funds to advertise
the resources and advantages of the State to the world, to the
end that every county in the State contributing to the immigration
fund shall receive its equitable share in all advertisements,
statistical reports or other printed matter published by or with
the authority of said committee.
It is the purpose of this organization
to induce by a truthful representation of the advantages and
resources of Travis, the investment of capital in the State and
the immigration to the State of all law abiding people who may
be seeking new homes, and it shall be the duty of said committee
to do everything that may be necessary to accomplish said purposes.
The details as to how the objects of this committee is above
expressed shall be accomplished and entrusted to said committee.
This is not intended to preclude
any district, county or other subdivision of territory from advertising
its resources to any extent it may deem proper.
We respectfully suggest that the
importance of this movement requires that the work of the committee
shall commence at once and to the end that there may no delay,
we suggestthat each senatorial district pay over at once to the
representative selected by such senatorial district on said State
committee the sum of $100 constitute a fund for said committee
until funds can be raised through the county organizations.
W.
L. MOODY,
Chairman.
After the
second reading, the report of the committee was adopted over
only one dissenting vote.
Chairman Moody vacated the chair
and called Vice-President Andrews to preside over the meeting.
Tarlton, of Hill, called for 15
minutes recess in which time delegates could elect their senatorial
district representatives for the State Central committee, which
was granted.
The house was called to order and
pending the report from the districts, Mr. Browning offered a
resolution requesting an appropriation from congress to be used
in obtaining deep water on the Texas coasts, which passed.
Another resolution requesting the
Texas legislature to take steps looking towards the development
of state mineral resources and providing for a state geological
survey, was offered and passed.
Reports from senatorial districts
were then handed in and shows the State Central Immigration Committee
made up of the following names:
1, Jams P. Cook, of Liberty,
2, W. S. Moss, Sr., Henderson.
3, Jas. H. Carter, Marshall.
4, J. H. Henderson, Texarkana.
5, R. M. Henderson, Sulphur Springs.
6, S. Zukeoman, Mineola.
7, E. C. Dickerson (all given)
8, T. C. Foster (all given)
9, John T. Bradley, of Houston.
10, H. M. Truehart, of Galveston.
11, W. J. Caven. (all given)
12, D. C. Giddings, of Brenham.
13 and 14, ----- ---------
15, B. T. Barry, of Corsicana.
16, J. S. Daugherty, of Dallas.
17, H. M. Spaulding. (all given)
18, A. R. Collins. (all given)
19, W. B. Plemmons, of Armovilla (sic)
20, J. Peter Smith, of Fort Worth.
21, J. R. Thompson. (all given)
22, J. H. Finks. (all given)
23, Geo. C. Pendleton, of Belton.
24, Joseph Nallie, of Austin.
25, J. B. Bridges, of Luling.
26, J. M. Bronson. (all given)
27, S. P. Simpson (all given)
28, T. B. Chilton, of Pecos City.
29, Henry Sayles, of Austin.
30, A. R. Barney. (all given)
31, W. J. Levain, of Clarksville.
Austin,
through one of her representatives, extended a general invitation
to the people of Texas to attend the dedication celebreties of
the State capitol which occur next month.
The convention was called to order
at 2:30 this afternoon.
Judge Watts of Weatherford read
a set of resolutions offsetting the impression created abroad
from false statements that Texas does not want immigration. The
resolutions were adopted.
At this juncture, Col. D. C. Giddings
for the State central committee, stated that the committee had
a consultation with railroad men who were here, in the parlors
of the Grand Windsor, and that it was agreed that the committee
should meet a full representation of all railroads of the State
and those leading into it in the Merchants' Exchange at Dallas
the 29th instant at 10 o'clock a.m. He further added that a full
representation of the members of the committee be present, as
permanent organization would be effected at that meetin. Upon
motion, the report was adopted.
A Grayson county delegate then
offered resolutions on the homestead law requesting its amendment
adversly to the interest it now protects. This proved a fire
brand, but was extinguished by a very decided vote.
Adjourned sine die at 3:30.
- December 21, 1887,
Dallas Daily Herald, pp. 2 & 3.
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A MOVE FOR RESULTS.
The immigation
convention, which is now in session in Dallas, composed of business
men from all parts of the State, is doing good for the cause
of Texas development. The work of the convention is not complete;
but good feeling between the people and railroads, and good results
are already to be seen.
Mr. John
Howard, of Wichita Falls, who was the first man to suggest and
urge this work upon the papers, who all along has given it very
active support, is the traveling passenger agent of the Mobile
and Ohio railroad, and to-day he sent the following telegram
which speaks for itself, and which will no doubt bring the desired
low rate:
DALLAS, TEX., 12-21-87.
J.
L. G. CHARLTON, G. P. A., M. & O. R'y,
St. Louis, Mo.,
The Texas Immigration Association
have met, organized and decided to commence business at once.
A large fund for advertising purposes, &c., has been raised.
All railroads in the state are represented and are favorable
to the move. I consider it a rare opportunity for the Mobile
& Ohio to advertise and make herself immensely popular with
the people both in and out of Texas by being the first road to
place on sale both round trip and straight tickets from St. Louis
and other points to all Texas points in connection with the Cotton
Belt and other lines at low rates. I trust you will look favorable
on this matter. Should you so decide, please wire me at once
that I may advise the representatives of the people here assembled.
I think this is a move of the greatest importance, and if we
take the inititation step, it will immediately make us the most
popular route to the great southwest. (Signed,) JOHN HAWARD.
Traveling Passenger Agent Mobile & Ohio Railway.
- December 21, 1887,
Dallas Daily Herald, p. 2 & 3.
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1888
American Citizens.
Emil Fritz
and Jacob Waespi filed application for final naturalization papers
this morning.
[circa] May 2,1888,
Dallas Daily Times Herald, p. ?, col. 3.
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[No Heading]
The tide
of immigration is turning into Texas...the Memphis and Little
Rock road, during three days of this month, handled 2,000 excursionists
whose destination was Texas.
- July 31,1888, Dallas
Daily Times Herald, p. 1, col. 4.
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1889
NORTHERN EXCURSIONISTS
COMING.
_________
Richard Couch, the
Immigration
Missionary, Heard From.
Col. Exall
stated this morning that information received from Mr. Richard
Couch, the authorized immigration agent of Dallas, who is in
Illinois, is of the most encouraging character. The people of
that state are making extensive enquiry regarding property and
the general outlook in this city as a field for the successful
operation of manufactories. He writes that he is working up an
excursion from that section to Dallas, and a large number of
people are preparing to join it and visit the city on a tour
of personal inspection within the next sixty days.
Mr. Couch desires it stated that
he will gladly receive and distribute general information relative
to the advantages and resources of this city or section, as assistance
in this direction will prove advantageous in forwarding the cause.
His address is Richard Couch, northern immigration office, Decatur,
Ill.
Col. Exall states that the work
is practical, earnest and to the point.
- January 5, 1889,
Dallas Daily Times Herald, p. 5, col. 1.
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Dallas County
Statistics from the Agricultural Report.
Population in 1880: 38,488 in 1887: 77,323
males: 39,721
females: 37,602
Americans: 53,789
Colored: 8,427
English: 1,896
Germans: 4,332
French, 1,269
Danes: 593
Hebrews: 1,179
Irish: 3,764
Italians: 213
Mexicans: 187
Spanish: 128
Swedes: 615
Norwegians: 49
Poles: 13
Russians: 196
Chinese: 33
Scotch: 429
of all other nations: 211
In the county: 13,779 white families and 1,404 colored families.
- January 29, 1889,
Dallas Daily Times Herald, p. 4, col. 3-4.
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1891
Record
of the Courts.
14th District.
Hyman
Mittenthal, who has been a well-known resident of Dallas
about 15 years, renounced his allegiance to the czar of Russian
yesterday before Judge Burke and filed a declaration of his intention
to become a citizen of the United States.
- January
1, 1891, Dallas Morning News, p. 12, col. 5.
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SUBJECTS
OF UNCLE SAM.
______
Fifty
Aliens Naturalized up to
Last Evening.
The
chances are that the largest vote will be polled in this city
next Tuesday in the history of Dallas. Politicians estimate that
close onto 7000 votes will be cast. More than fifty had filed
notice of their intention to become citizens of the United States:
George B. Morris, Ireland; John B. Campbell, Canada; Jacob Wetzel,
Bavaria; John Kanady, Ireland; John A. Goetz, Germany; Nigih
Mareon, Syria; Naseff Coury, Syria; Joseph Jalanaty, Syria; Kaleel
Horra, Syria; Julius Egger, Switzerland; John Hughes, Scotland;
Sacob [Jacob?] Schaffner, Switzerland; Adolph Bernott, Germany;
Rudolph Konzelman, Switzerland; Reinhard Frey, Baden; John Ferdnand
Schneitter, Switzerland; Albert Grob, Switzerland; Michael Henry
Peterman, Canada; G. G. Lepolese, Italy; Charley Hellwig, Germany;
Alfred H. Hagerman, Canada; Charles E. Haggerty, Ireland; Patrick
J. Buttler[Ireland?]; Pat Moran, Ireland; G. R. Luton[?], England;
Hawkeen Jenson, Norway; Ephfrim Hoag, Germany; Soloman Schwartzman,
Russia; Nick Negro, Italy; Pat Colin, [Ireland?]; John Donnely,
[Ireland?]; Patrick James King, [Ireland?]; James Behan, [Ireland?];
Jerry O'Connor, Ireland; H. S. Baas, England; Thomas Firmano,
Italy; Herman Eilrich, [Germany?]; Henry Mundt, [Germany?]; August
Benat, Germany; Alexander Watson, Ireland; John J. Schaffner,
Switzerland; Wm. Seire, Germany; Jas. S. McDonald, Nova Scotia;
Wm. Andresen, Germany; Abe Katz, Hungary; Wm. Rupeter, Germany;
Denny Roberts, Ireland; Stefano Famano, Italy; Andrew Yarrish,
Poland; Abell Jalalatz, Syria.
- April
1, 1891, Dallas Daily Times Herald, p. 7, col. 2.
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New
Citizens.
The
following parties filed their declaration of intention to become
citizens of the United States yesterday: Oak Hanson, Sweden;
Cicero Mote, Italy; Joseph Tichlenstein, England; Jacob Nathanson,
Russia; Robert W. Young, Germany; Leon Beyrle, France; Ernest
W. Cooper, England; Louis Schniedka, Russia; Fred Bauer, A. H.
F. Franner, Hanover; John E. Jacobson, Norway; Bert Johnson,
Norway; Oscar W. Severnson, Norway; August E. Jacobson, Norway;
E. A. Hoffman, Germany; Johannes Yensen, Norway; George Wascher,
Switzerland; Patrick Carr, Ireland.
- April
3, 1891, Dallas Daily Times Herald, p. 3, col. 4.
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New
Citizens.
Wm.
Such, Bohemia; H. Herneman, Germany; August Tychesen, Germany;
Wm. Buerkle, Germany; Charles Linstram, Sweden; G. W. Johnson,
Sweden; P. Arnoff, Russia; George King, Poland; Carle Carnato,
Italy; August Miller, Switzerland; C. R. Johnson, Sweden; Adloph
Ehert, Germany; Thomas E. Kinsella, Ireland; Thomas Mayall, England;
Jacob Frietsch, Germany; Emile Nagel, Germany.
- April
3, 1891, Dallas Daily Times Herald, p. 5, col. 4.
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POLITICAL POINTS
PICKED UP
_____
To-Day By The Times-Herald
Reporters.
Up to date,
100 citizens have been turned out of the naturalization hopper.
The following parties declared their intentions yesterday: Sebastian
Nute, Italy; Sourgi Mullasano, Italy; Giovanni Cucci, Italy;
Guiseppa Biasini, Italy; Herman Michel, Germany; Henry Buttmeyer,
Germany; John Friezch, German; George Ulbricht, Germany; J. H.
Barker, England; John O'Day, Ireland; Michael Busch, Germany;
Charles Schwick, Germany; H. Solomon, Russia; L. J. Lawsen, Sweden;
Augustine Italia, Italy; Owen Kinsella, Fred Herzog, Germany;
John Lawsen, Sweden; William Henry Sockett, England; Charles
Stolzenberg, Andrew Reists, Germany; Louis Herbe, Bohemia; Louis
Pulvermasher, Prussia; Victor Todaro, Italy; John Ryan, Ireland;
Richard Auer, Germany; Gottlieb Kerner, Germany; Fred Schussler,
Norway.
- April 4, 1891, Dallas
Daily Times Herald, p. 3, col. 1.
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RYLIE RUMBLINGS.
_______
Numerous Small Thefts--A
Newsy Letter.
Special to the Times-Herald.
RYLIE, Texas, June 12.-- ... Kleburg has in the person
of Capt. H.[?] Soppitt, one of the few followers of the
anomalous teachings of Tolstoi. Born in the great city of London,
he came to this country to escape the---what he terms--disgusting
servility of the lower classes to the aristocracy. Becoming a
citizen of the United States, he joined the ranks of Democracy,
of which he is a staunch supporter. The captain lives in a cosy
blue painted cottage in which is a well stocked library replete
with standard works on political economy. Beside his gate is
erected a flag staff, and when there is a death in the community,
the stars and stripes is fluttered at half mast. There is one
day the captain celebrates, the fourth of July. He says the TIMES-HERALD is
the only exponent of Democracy pure and simple that is published
in the city of Dallas.
- June 12, 1891, Dallas
Daily Times Herald, p. 6, col. 1-2.
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[No Heading]
P. J. Butler
took out final naturalization papers yesterday.
- July 29, 1891, Dallas
Daily Times Herald, p. 1, col. 5.
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Proceedings of the
Courts.
JUDGE TUCKER'S COURT.
Crossman
Vicevick, an Austrian, expressed his desire before Judge
Tucker this morning to become a citizen of the United States
and thereupon was granted initiation papers by the judge.
- November 10, 1891,
Dallas Daily Times Herald, p. 4, col. 2.
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1892
IMPORTANT MOVEMENT BY
_____
Bishop Brennan to
Promote Im-
migration to Texas.
The Right
Rev. Bishop Brennan has received so many letters from the older
states and from abroad, asking information concerning this country,
its resources and its possibilities, that he has determined to
give shape and system to the movement toward Texas which his
writings and discourses have inaugurated. The bishop proposes
to encourage the coming here of people of some means, who will,
at cone, identify themselves with the solid citizenship of this
commonwealth. The following letter, under his hand and seal,
shows that the movement will be actively conducted and that it
gives promise of much success:
PRO-CATHEDRAL OF THE SACRED HEART, Dallas, Tex., April 21. -- Desirous of directing
in their own, the church's and the country's interests, a good
class of immigrants to Texas, I hereby appoint the Rev. John
F. Coffey, LL. D., my secretary, promoter of immigration for
the diocese of Dallas, which in extent, fertility and resources
is easily capable of sustaining a population of 12,000,000 or
15,000,000 people.
THOMAS FRANCIS
BRENNAN.
Bishop
of Dallas.
- April 27, 1892, Dallas
Daily Times Herald, p. 5, col. 3.
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THE COURTS.
JUDGE TUCKER'S COURT.
Ex parte
vs. T. J. Roach; application for final naturalization
papers; granted.
- May 6, 1892, Dallas
Daily Times Herald, p. 4, col. 2.
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A DAY IN THE COURTS.
JUDGE TUCKER'S COURT.
Ex Parte
vs. John E. Swenson; application for final naturalization
papers granted.
- May 25, 1892, Dallas
Daily Times Herald, p. 1, col. 3.
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A DAY IN THE COURTS.
JUDGE TUCKER'S COURT.
John A.
Pope was granted final naturalization papers yesterday.
- May 31, 1892, Dallas
Daily Times Herald, p. 1, col. 1-2.
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[THE COURTS]
JUDGE BURKE'S COURT.
B. C.[?]
DeFreese application for final naturalization papers granted.
- June 10, 1892, Dallas
Daily Times Herald, p. 4, col. 4.
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THE COURTS.
JUDGE TUCKER'S COURT.
John Tomsin
and Thos. Cahalin were granted final naturalization papers.
- October 29, 1892,
Dallas Daily Times Herald, p. 2, col. 5.
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THE COURTS.
JUDGE TUCKER'S COURT.
H. E. Storkloff
was granted final naturalization papers.
- October 31, 1892,
Dallas Daily Times Herald, p. 1, col. 4.
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[Editorial]
AGENTS of
the big steamship lines protest against congress closing the
ports to home-seekers of other lands. The ports should be closed
to criminals, to paupers and to adventurers, but the industrious
and hardy haters of oppression, who wish to enjoy the blessings
of republican institutions and erect homes in this country for
themselves and their children, should not be barred. The Democratic
party will never bow to the know nothing god and proscribe a
man on account of his religion or his nationality. Bill Chandler
of New Hampshire, a lineal descendant of Massachusetts witch
burners and colonial tories, is the author of the bill pending
in the senate. Chandler and his Radical colleagues should shoulder
the responsibility of the same. Keep out the vicious and pauper
criminals, but do not discriminate against the honest, the industrious
and the intelligent.
- December 17, 1892,
Dallas Daily Times Herald, p. 4, col. 2.
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1893
Added
August 2, 2004:
A DAY IN COURTS.
Judge Burke's Court.
Motion docket:
Ex parte
Fred Mithol; application for final papers of naturalization.
- February 13, 1893,
Dallas Daily Times Herald, p. 1, col. 2.
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1894
COMING TO TEXAS
FOR GOOD HOMES.
______
IMMIGRATION POURING
IN FROM
OKLAHOMA AND THE NATION.
______
Heavy Arrivals Also
From the Old States,
Small Farms Being Looked For--Mr.
Morgan Says North Texas is Full
of Immigration Caravans.
O. M. Morgan
has just returned from a trip over a large portion of North Texas.
He says immigration is pouring into the State in a human stream
from Oklahoma and Indian Territories. The movement is particularly
heavy around Gainesville and into Grayson and Collin Counties.
Mr. Morgan saw ten families in
one camp down near Wills Point, in Van Zandt County. They had
come from Oklahoma and the Nation.
All up and down the border line
between Texas and Oklahoma and the Indian country, the roads,
and in many places, the open prairie, are flecked with caravans
of immigration wagons.
In addition to the great influx
from her northern neighbors, north Texas is receiving thousands
of home-seekers and prospectors from the old states.
Mr. Morgan says there is also a
considerable movement toward South Texas. The opening of the
mouth of the Brazos has made the country tributary to it desirable
for modern farming, and in many places, lands have increased
from $3 to $30 per aces. The new-comers are mostly looking for
small farms. The bulk of them are well-to-do financially and
have had good farming experience, and are better equipped than
immigrants usually are.
- August 25, 1894,
The Dallas Daily Times Herald, p. 1, col. 5.
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Two More Citizens.
Frank Barbian
and Henry Harbrecht, of Wittenberg, Germany, were admitted
to American citizenship in Judge Gray's court this morning.
- October 5, 1894,
Dallas Daily Times Herald, p. 6, col. 2.
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1899
THE LOCAL COURTS.
Ex parte,
John Evans, application for final naturalization papers,
granted.
New suit filed: Ex parte, John
Evans, application for final letters of naturalization.
- June 7, 1899, Dallas
Daily Times Herald, p. 8.
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