The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1880-05-11

The pefiisens question Nas At this jnncsure
put 70 the chairman, How many niggefs do
you hear at oacaf'
J. Z Lee waa nominated - pesmaaent chair
man and eiecaea By acciazAaiion n L Brown
and w. H. Simpson were elecied secretaries.
A resolutio0 to nominate one Senator was
carried. Amer some confusion II was decided 10
| call the roll
II became evident after the cali had proceeded
| that Joseph f. Les would secure the nomination
and motion to discontinue the ron aud make
| the nominalon Of Lee unanimous. was carried.
| The convention then proceeded to nominate
candidates for the Assembly.
Here another scene Of confusion occurred
Mr.. Bisbee swung his nst: through the air and
| dessdndsd order. Any number Of candidates
were placed In domination for the Assembly.
and the ron was called with the following re-
suit:
Whole number Of votes 95; w. II. Lucas, 80;
r. ]. Brown, So
The nomination Of Brown was made unani-
nous
General coBfusion. Every one talking. Cato
Lee became quite pathetic in speaking Of his
ow-worker, John Mattel.
The second ballot resulted as follows:
Whole number Of votes g.; John Mattel, a;
Alfred Grant %; Huggins, 1; Hodges l.
The result Of the ballot vas received with loud
cheers, and it made John happy man.
Frank NGilltard tcoloEedT made . speech pro-
testing the further drawing Of the color line.
He demanded that some white men should be
nominated. stating thai the colored people had
been running the thing and II was nothing more
than fair that some AnglosSaxons should secure
some of the shoils. Cato Lee was also in favor
of Anglo-Saxons. John Mattel offered TO with
draw in favor of any white man. and became
very eloquent IN landing the People Cham
pion W. FL Lucas.
An animated debate sook place, everyone
talking, shouting and howling at once A rough
and tumble fight took place at this time between
two delegates, and it looked at one time as that
| all the delegates would take hand. The par
ties were separated by Marshal Mays and the de-
bate on Anglo. Saxons was resumed. A second
| fight now commenced and neither tongne nor
| pen could do justice 10 the scene. The body Of
the hall was filed with q struggling mass of
black humanity, striking. pushing. swearing and
| struggling Ike q horde of wild Comanches
After awhile, Andy Thomas, rose to personal
| explanation, and indulged in q TRADE of abuse
| on the sergeant-at-arms. lie also took occasion
to advocate the claims Of an Anglo-Saxon, w.
81. Simpson.
LaVilla here made an earnest appeal ior rep
resentation on the ticket
The report Of the Unionhere closed, and what
follows is from the Bssae Of the 7th:
| When we went TO press yesterday afternoon
the Republican county convention was stiIl in
session. They had just dEished nominating can
didates for Assemblymen aud when we left the
han to take the copy TO the Offer all The mem
bers were endeayoring to climb upon the chair
mans desk, in order 70 make speech or 70 see
what the secretaries were writing The rapping
Of the chairman upon the desk did no good, and
general discord and confusion prevailed, Though
al of the members seemed 70 be in the best of
humOr. During the afternoon, however, and
after much labor Of the Chairman trying to bring
the meeting to order, they succeeded In making
the following additional Nominations
Delegates to the Congressional Convention
H Bisbee, Jr., Cato Lee, E. Fortune, John PeIote,
T. W. Hodges, Fl. n Huggins, n K. Sawyer,
Benz. Jordan, March Ponder, John e. Chestnut
| Benz. Niblack and H. J. Bradley
| Executive committee-J E. Lee, Alonzo Phil
| lips, Frank Gilliard, Harrison Morrison, Warren
w. Shell, Robert RobinsOB s. b. Dennis, Mitchell
Ohappen, l. w. Thompson Robert Wilson, Will
liam Sherman, James Wilson, w. r. Garvin, s.
L. Tibbits, Morris More. James Flowers Nc