San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-06-18
THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
The Austin Meeting and What Was
Done There.

Done There.
Yesterdays LIGHT contained 6
notice of the special delegation thai
left San Antonio yesterday morning
for Austin to invite the state conven'
ton to hold it's approaching state
session in this city. The special tele
gram from Austin announced the
action of the committee.
Of the thirty-three seats in the com
mittee twenty-four were represented
The Twenty-eighth district in which
San Antonio is situated being repre-
scented by w. s. Messmer of the
LIGHT, member of the Republican
Executive committee for this district
The special car with its streamers
band, banners and an immense pla'
card running along the side OF the cal
was the great center Of attraction all
along the route. Among the passen-
gers on the way up who fraternized
with the boys were Col. Brack enridge
of this city and candidate for governor
Hall.
Arrived at Austin. the visiting del.
egation, headed by the bend, made
the march up Congress avenue in fiji {
style, and the band was the subject
of universal comment.
The meeting of the executive com
mittee was called to order at 1910
noon, by the chairman of the commit.
tee, Colonel J. G.. DeGress, of Austin
Mr.. Sam Mccoy was elected tempo
rary secretary and the roll was con-
stituted.
After calling the roll, the chair
man stated the object of the meeting
to be the determining of the holding
OF a state convention, its time and
place of meeting, and the basis of
representation.
Mr.. Messmer as member of the COM
mittee from San Antonio rose and in
vited the convention to the hospitali-
ties of this city, calling upon Mr..
James p. Newcomb as head of the
San Antonio party of invitation to
cnnvey the message of Bexar county
republicans to the committee. Adj
dresses were made by Messrs. New
comb and Tugwell, setting forth why
San Antonio should be chosen, and
then Mr.. Lock McDaniels put in for.
NAL nomination the name of of San
Antonio in very appropriate
speech. The nomination was second.
ed by Mr.. Messmer, and endorsed by
MIR. Quincy, collector of the port OF
Galveston.
Ex-Governor Flanagan reminded
the convention that if no other place
was mentioned but San Antonio. it
was not that no other city was desir-
Gus of entertaining the convention
but because of the recognized claims
of the Alamo City. Tyler would most
gladly entertain the conven ton, and
would come before the committee as
candidate for that honor next year.
The band played, cheers were given
for the old Alamo city and the COM
mittee fixed the time and place of
meeting on motion of Judge Rector
of Austin. Place-San Antonio.
Time, Wednesday, September 3, at
noon.
The committee then went into exc
cutive session to fix the basis of rep
resentation, which was upon the
presidential vote of 1855. Each
county has one vote in the conven-
ton; each 250 republican votes cast or
majority fraction thereof en-
titles to an additional vote,
and each 1000 democratic
votes or fraction thereof to an addi-
tional vote. Each county, no matter
how small its vote has thus one vote,
and if l5l votes were cast for Presi-
dent Harrison an additional vote,
thus msuring representation to coun-
ties of sparse population.
Basis of representation being fixed
committee adjourned at 2:15 p. M.
The South bound train was one
hour and forty minutes late leaving
Austin, and the engine whistled
down tracks for San Antonio at lilo
p. m. when Messrs Johnson and
Messmer of the LIGHT made tracks
for the Harrison banquet at the Elite
parlors, Commerce and Soledad street