San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-09-27
DEMOCRACY DIVIDED +;
BUT THE RING AND STRAIGHT MEN
CARRY THE PRIMARIES
BY STRATEGY.

The Pendemonium at Krisch Hall-The
Strategic Movements at the Cock
Pit Saloon, and How the %
Precincts Were Carried.
The democratic primaries were held
on Saturday night and will long be re-
membered, as some of them were dis
graced by scenes almost unprecedented
in the history OF our city. As is we'll
! known democracy is split into two great
factions, the first representing those who
desire straight" nominations and the
| second those who favor free for all
race. Then again there is a large Sec
tiOn of democrats who oppose the ring"
and anything that Is of them, or from
them, is nauseating In the extreme
| These were the conflicting elements at
work and ii is natural to suppose that
where they met in strong force such
scenes as those presented would be the
inevitable results. The better class OF
democrats knew these facts, and made
| all possible arrangements to avoid it,
bnt could not, because in some instances
the party was beyond control. In the
FIRST PRECINCT
matters were quiet. orderly and pretty
unanimous. Mr.. j. Z. Hickman, Jr., was
elected chairman, and the secretaryship
was filled by the election of Mr.. A. G.
Dunn. The following delegates were
elected:
T. j. Devine, II. +. Barnard, l.. N.
Walthall, Simon Fest, Jr., +. Keller, +.
Shardein, j. Il. Dryer, +. Gonzales, b.
X. O'Brien, +. Villareal, j. f. Garcia, o.
Sinnot, 5. Cunningham, j. G. Menger,C.
Guergin, Il. CarOthers, A. G. Dunn, G.
MOckert, +. Gettinger, G. b. Mullaly, A.
Abr, Z. Austin, III. Lahourcade, Sam
Ewing, Joe Hutzler. George Stumberg,
j. L. Hickman, Jr., Fayette Walker,
Frank Dalcour. Ed. Dryer. Pat Brady,
A. Coffee, J.. III Still; and on motion of
Mr.. j. f. Dwyer, the delegation was in
structed to vote straight"
Matters were not quite so orderly and
unanimous in the
SECOND PRECINCT,
but there was nothing glaringly bad.
MIR. w. b. Hamilton called the meeting
to order and several nominations were
made for chairman, but no one seemed
disposed to take the position, and
eventually Mr.. Hamilton was elected
his own successor. Mr.. w. B. Smith
was made secretary, and it is scarcely
necessary to say hat he lIlled the posi-
ton, bat it was II tight squeeze Some
young democrats aired their democracy
while committee selected the dele
gates, who were named rs follows:
W. X. Storey, .. II. Z. Garrett, J. ID.
Morrison. Archie Chevalier, William
tennessee, VIM. Kearney, Newt. Smith,
Peter Shields, Z. W. Johns. j. L. w.
Street, J. A. Appler, VIM. Ferguson, w.
b. Hamilton. Theo. Anderson, Jr, WV.
McMasters, II. Cunningham, Ernst Car
Teton, Z. j. Lewis, Tom Shields, C.. II.
Garrison, +. D. Favllle, G. A. Keller, l..
G. Denman, Reagan Houston, II. p.
Drought, II. NJ. Rice, Erastus Reed, X.
d. jams, Lewis Giraud, Eugene
Giraud.
This delegation WAS uninstructed, but
it is understood that the majority are
''straights."
Tom Mullaly called the
THIRD PRECINCT
to order, and was elected chairman.
w. w. Walling was made secretary. A
committee reported the following dele
cation:
c. B. Mullaly, DIR. G. A. Johnston, c.
5. Robinson. W. X. Kingsbury, w. w.
Walling, G. Ii. Mayfield, Ben Kiolbassa.
| Ed. Kotula, Il. II. Micklejohn, Captain
| Edgar Scbramm. j. w. Maddox, George
Lewis, T.W Mullaly, Gustav Schramm,
| Thos. Ii. Franklin, A. w. Houston, J. +.
Hunter, J. Stappenbeck, Hugh McDer-
mott, Pat Campbell, f. Steiner, John
Gallagher, Bryan Callaghan, Joe Ryan,
c. III. Cotton, John. A. Green, ST., p. l..
Ripley. Edward Guilbeau, Chas. Felt
man, VIM. Page, Jacob Waelder, DR..
Moore, NJ. Lopez, Jno. f. Camp, VIM.
| CASTOR, Gus. Mauermann, Ed. Dillon, "A.
Halamuda, Geo. Spurrier, FL. Cassiano,
II. X. Judd, j. X. Mason.
| Maater Workman Salliwav kipked he
| cause the Knights Of Labor were not
| properly represented. (His name wasn't
on the list but the delegation was
adopted, as reported, and instructed to
vote straight.
| Matters opened quietly in the
| FOURTH PRECINCT
when the chairman, Major Cor
don, called the voters to order and was
was elected to fill the secretary's seat
The following delegation was then Sc
| lected by the committee: George
Schroeder, Ii. Pauly, E Richter, B. c.
| Riley, Geo. sampson, Bias Gortari, A.
Cohen, j. Faska, Tom Yates, p. Fox, c,
| +. Frommer, John 4. Sweeney, w. l..
| Thompson, Tom Mushall, George NJ
Gordon, S. 5. Moody, K. o. Stevens, c.
| +. Brown, j. N. GrOesbeck, K. G. Harm,
| Eugene Carolan, j. X. Gordon, w. ii.
| Clark, and adopted. Then Pauly as.
tonished the chair by bringing in reso-
luton ordering the delegation to vote
straight. This raised Ed. Stevens, Jr.,
| to his feet and jose Cassiano, Callaghan
Il Go. in particular, demanding a free
race, but the straights had the majority
and Eddie's elOquence wasted its sweet
ness on the desert air.
| At the
| TWELFTH PRECINCT
nothing important ccurred. Ed
Braden called the meeting to order and
spoke a fiddle beise aloud dot temO
crazy" and was elected chairman. vii
Braden was made secretary. Then Ed
Braden, Canuts Diaz, A. Dillon. j. G
| Gemblsr and Mr.. Sanchez were made
delegates and instructed to vote as Q
unit. No other instructions were
given, but it is straight. Ed. Braden
was also endorsed for county commits
sioner.
At the
| FIFTEEN1H PRECINCT.
Mr.. j. G. Chavanaux called the meet
ing to order and was elected chairman
and Blake Dewitt was chosen for secre
tary. The following delegates were
elected.-George Rowland, Blake De
Witt, Charles Pyron, Rosalino Diaz, A
Y. Walton and j. b. Chavanaux. Moth
ing decisive is known, but it is assumed
from past records that they are al
straight men.
Things were lively at the
TwENTY-sIxTH PRECINCT.
In this precinct the Junta Patriotica
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