Huntsville gazette., 1884-04-19

could not blame the colored man from the
fifth district on that committee. whose want
of education and intelligence did not en-
able him to perceive and cope with the
trickery that has been practised.
The Chair: didn't know the delegate
ico7ldn't read and write.
Mr. Parsons: But somebody else did who
had him put on that committee.
Dallas county has two contesting .lelega-
tions here. One of these ought To he ad-
mitted. Both are not entitled to seats. AS
to the harmony they urge, why dida't they
apply it t. Montgomery county Mr. Par
SONS proceeded to discuss the reasons for
the amendment he proposed to offer, and
denounced the report of the committee as
tainted with fraud and corruption.
| He would ask .he colored men in whose
| interest had they come here He would
warn them against following the leadership
of particular man. You are found at the
at the Safe conventions and what are you
there and here for? Is it to do the bidding
of some particular boss When it comes
to an Office there's any pay in, l ask you
what do you get The offices are all held
by that crowd (alluding to the Turner
| ST t'obach crowd.) We had no Republican
Representative in Congress and the Fede-al
patronage was placed in the hands of Mr.
Turner, Chairman of the State Executive
Committee.
| The gentleman from North Alabama,
| (Sheets) said he would swallow the report
of this committee. let it be what it might.
Thank God THAT he had such healthy
stomach with such strong digestive powers;
led never suffer from dyspepsia or indi-
gestio1.
| Mr. Parsons proceeded to animadvert
upon the Office holders and office-seekers
who he said, are attempting to run this
convention and the Republican party in
their own interests.
III. Glover interrupted the speaker with
some remark about his amendment.
Mr.. Parsons: When God made you if be
had amended you you would have been a
better man.
Mr. Parsons resumed amidst points of or
der raised aod interruptins, and urged the
convention to adopt the amendment offered
and TO give the contesting delegates fair
hearing. Better remain here for days than
that these mea be treated unjustly and
wrongfully.
Mr. Turner replied, saying he had too
much self-respect and too keen sense of
decercy to reply to the remarkable haran-
que to which we have just listened. He
would rather submit to an injustice than to
please the willing ears of captious Demo
Gratis in the lobby waiting to catch such
utterances We had listened for an hour
or more to speech when we ought to have
adopted the amendment offered that didn't
require two minutes consideration. He
charged Mr. Parsons with speaking to gain
time in order to adjourn until tomorrow
in order that influences might be brought
to bear upon some of the delegates to bring
them to his own way of thinking.
Mr. Knox: I wish to make suggestion.
Mr. Turner: beg to be excused. under-
stand the gentleman is not delegate on
this floor.
Mr. Knox: That's the point wish to call
attention to. The report of the committee
so far as Chiffon county is concerned is
fraud on its face.
delegate: I know Mr. Knox to be del.
egate from Chiffon county
MIR Turner: Are you delegate
The delegate am, sir.
Mr.. Turner moved as substitute for the
whole business, that the report of the COM
mittee be adopted, with the exception of
the Mobile, Montgomery, Dallas, Chiffon.
Washington, Jefferson. Bibb, Conecuh and
Washington. And that the claims of con
tAstan,s from those counties be heard by
the convention in ten minute speeches,
except Mobile, Dallas, and Montgomery,
who shall be allowed twenty minute
speeches.
Mr.. Turner's substitute was adopted.
A motion was then made to act upon the
counties having contesting delegates, sep
arately. Adopted.
| Judge L r Smith made o eonciliatory
speech and appealed to the convention to
economize its time. The county Of BIB
was called. Mr.. Booth, Of Autauga, made
statement in regard to the proxies held
by Mr. A T Hughes and Mr. H A Wilson, OF
Montgomery. as delegates from Bibb coun-
ty. He said as they did not reside in the
county Of Bibb they were ruled out. He
believed the parties parporting to have
made these credentials never saw them and
that they were fixed up" for the occasion.
Mr. Heyman, chairman of the credentisl
committee, said the credentials in question
were placed by the Secretaries in the hands
of the committee; and the committee had
no right to go behind them, as they were
the only ones from Bibb county.
Mr. Wilson explained that he had the