TEXAS STATE POLITICS.
WALLER COUNTY REPUBLICANS.
HEMPSTEAD, Tex., September 1. — This has been a lively day here. The genuine "blown in the bottle" Waller county so-called republicans met in convention to nominate a full ticket of county officers. Delegates from each of the five beats of the county were present.
The following are the nominees: County judge, H. C. Tompkins; attorney, Abner G. Lipscomb, present incumbent; sheriff Thos. S. McDade, present incumbent; clerk, W. F. Harper, present incumbent; assessor of taxes, Levi J. Starks, colored; district clerk, Joe S. Bradford; public weigher, Lewis W. McDade, colored; treasurer, E. B. Kemper, present incumbent; hide inspector, James Avery.
While this convention was going on, a mass meeting was held in another place, which was attended by a much larger crowd of colored voters. Rousing speeches were made by District Attorney Hanney, G. W. Dixon, John D. Shield and R. K. Chatham, colored, all strong republicans, advocating the people's ticket, and showing that its success is the only hope of redeeming the county from lawlessness and anarchy. Speeches were made also by Messrs. E. P. Alsbury, candidate for sheriff, and John M. Pinckney, for county attorney. The meeting unanimously indorsed the nominees of the people's ticket and resolved to work for victory. In former elections the straight-out republican majority in Waller county has been between 200 and 300. Now the party is about equally divided, and good judges estimate that the people's ticket will win, with from 500 to 700 majority.
The progressive colored voters of Waller county will no longer be bulldozed by politicians who care nothing for them further than to get their votes, and then when elected are the first to endeavor to send them to the county convict farm, while other men escape punishment because of the color of their skins. All that the colored men of Waller county want is fair play and justice.
"TEXAS STATE POLITICS.", Galveston Daily News, Sunday, Sep. 2, 1888, p. 4
* A month and a half after this, Lewis McDade and Thos. S. McDade would be murdered on the streets of Hempstead.