The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-06-07

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}. fornians. A part of their tactics, too
e was the wild, but rather ineffectua
d shouting of the Hendricks club boy
q IN the corridors of the hotels
= They hurrahed Justify for Gray, but mad,
5 about all the noise themselves. The Thur
: man breeze developed into tornado this
= morning when the New York city delega
! tions, the county democracy aud Tam
many marched through the streets shout
ing for Thurman. The Tammanyite:
were most loudly cheered by the throngt
on the sidewalks and in the hotels and
within half an hour the Tammany men
were busily engaged helping their Pacific
coast friends in putting red bandonas or
the coats of all the multitude. This Thur
man emblem is everywhere to be seen al q
the nomination of Thurman is conceded
on all sides.
Sunday night the friends of Governor
Gray were encouraged to believe that
Congressman Scott would not show his
hand on the vice-presidency. They sci
much store by the well authenticated state.
ment tt at the president had refused to
express any preference, but Scott was
merely waiting until he could wind up
certain little matters which he had in
hand and this morning he gave the Thur
man movement such boost that the In
diana men were all but run off the field.
Scott persists in declaring that Thurman
is not the administration candidate, but
adds that Thurman will be nominated be-
cause the party want him and
because he is the strongest candidate.
He admits Thurman is his personal choice,
but denies that the president is in any
way committed to the movement. Still,
for all practical purposes the president
may as we'll be committed to it, and the
great mass of democrats believe tn
ticket will be Cleveland and Thurman,
| because the president so desires it.
The Pennsylvania delegation held a
meeting this forenoon, and after its ad-
journment the announcement was made
that two thirds of the delegates from the
Keystone state favored the old senator,
and that the minority would vote for him
under the unit rule. This, of course,
means that Scott has thrown his state for
Thurman, and when the fact became gen
orally known, there was no longer any
doubt of the success of the Scott pro-
gramme.
The Texas delegation had a meeting
this afternoon and organized by electing
Ex-Governor Throckmorton chairman and
w. @. Conner secretary. The following
delegates were chosen to represent Texas
on the several committees of the conven-
ton:
Committee on credentials-Juo. Book
out, of Dallas.
committee on permanent organization
Horace Chiffon, of Tyler.
,Nlo
Hon. Geo. Clark, of Waco.
COmmitte to notify the president-W.
H. Pope, of Marshall.
Member of the national committee
George I. Holt, of Houston.
Hon. D. G. Giddings was elected vice
president of the convention for Texas,
and Hon. W. II. Lightfoot, of Paris, was
chosen to second the nomination of Judge
Thurman for vice. president.
Governor ThrookmOyton read letter
from Congressman Mills, asking that his
name be not presented to the convention
for vice-president.
TUES DAYS PROCEEDINGS.
ST. Louis, June 5.-There is plan on
hand to simply re-affirm the tariff plank
of 1884, and omit all reference to the
presidents message. Henry Watterson,
who is member of the committee on
resolutions, said of the revenue:
"The old enemy of revenue reform is as
tireless, sleepess, and expert as ever, in
his purpose to confuse democratic coun-
sells, aud to play in the hands of protec-
tionism. When you hear man talking
about the re-adoption of the tariff plank
of 1884, set him down at once as an enemy
of revenue reform. The re-adoption
of the old straddle plank of 1884
on the tariff would not only fly in the face
of the presidents message and make the
withdrawal of the Mills bill necessity,
abandoning all the ground we have
gained in the last four years, and partiou-
larly the last six months, but would send
every true revenue reformer home sick at
heart and delight the republicans and dis
gust all honest men at such trickery, the
device of mere corporals guard COM
posed of men largely and personally in
terested in high tariff taxes, who are
making their last struggle to obstruct
reform. 1 am clear in my mind that
we should stand squarely by
the president and our friends
and representatives in congress.
The Mills bill Is simple measure, not yet
perfected, and liable to amendment of
course. The document which is to lay
down the fighting lines for the campaign
which is to last nearly six months could
not take it for basis, but we could give
support to the principles of the message
and the purpose of those in congress. We
should tolerate no straddles. Whether we
like it or not, we shall have to face the
music of the presidents message, and we
ought to face it like men,"
THE NEW YORK DELEGATION
met at Tammany's headquarters, and al
though the delegation is Overwhelmingly
for Thurman, not caring to antagonize
Gray's friends the following were adopted:
Resolved, That when New York is
reached upon the roll call for the vice
presidency, the chairman shall ask that
New York be passed.; that if permission
is refused the delegation then request
leave to. retire for consultation.
In this way New York was to avoid
voting until every other state in the union
shall have announced its preference. In
the debate upon the motion it was decided
that the delegation was controlled by the
unit rule, and that the unit rule meant
such action as the majority might choose
to order; that is to say the
delegation might divide its vote be-
tween four candidates and pre-
serve the spirit of the instructions.
This novel proposition seemed to receive