San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-08-25
REPUBLICANS
MEET AND SELECT THEIR COM
MITTEE.
A Locking Of Horns Over the Chair
mantle Meeting Was Well
Attended

! NhSStihS " as "
Attended.
The republican primaries of the
city were held Saturday night in
mass meeting at Mission garden to
select delegates to the county con-
vention, which meets August 30th.
Circumstances combined to make a
stormy meeting probable and expec-
tations were fully realized.
At p. M. the doors of the hall
were opened and the crowd began to
file in. The colored mems meeting of
Friday night informed the republican
League that they would be at this
meeting with their war paint on and
scalping tools ready for action. They
were there and the war paint was
plainly visible, and that they were in
a majority and proposed to make it
lively for any one who opposed them
was fact also plainly discernIbIe.
AS they entered the hall they all
took seats on the right of the room,
facing the stage. The spacious hall
was soon filled and standing room
was the rule for late corners.
Some delay was observed in opening
the meeting which brought forth
impatient stamping OF feet. Atlength
Mr.. T. T. Wander Hoeven, chairman
of the republican county executive
committee, appeared on the stage and
calling the assembly to order read the
call for the meeting. G. w. Ogden
h aY,1 TO tod that tho r,nat-
ing needed chairman and nominal
ted Postmaster S. NJ. Johnson for that
position. l.. &. Grothaus and James
p. Newcomb were also put in nomin-
alton. A. p. Tugwell, who put New
comb in nomination, called attention
to the democrats present and de-
manded five sergeants-at-arms. Pro-
ceedings were interrupted by George
Paschal wanting to know how many
democrats were present. Considerable
which Jim navis proceeded to deliver
q violent harrangue, when he was
hooted and Kissed down.
Major Barry, formerly from Corpus
Christi, made charges against Post
master Johnson, which the postmas-
ter denied. bv pronouncing the gen.
tt6Iudu Il lldI. hC poV bOkoh w SCt
hot. and the excitement began.
! sergeant-at-arms was then car.
l.. w. Madarasz, A. P. Tugwell, }.
pointed. With considerable diff
Guilty, arising from the disorder, the
vote for chairman was taken. The
T. toH on1
then upon Grothaus, and Newcomb
could not decide. Another vote
was then taken, and the
chairman decided amidst boots, howl
ing and misses that Mr.. Johnson was
elected. Mr.. Johnson assumed the
chair, and the scene which followed is
almost indescribabie, some cheering,
some bowling and Kissing, and gen
eral disorder prevailed.
Personal luminosity ran high; two
men, carried away by factional teel-
ing, engaged in fight, and what
seemed to be free row was immi-
nent. The friends of each went in
to rescue their man, and in the
midst of the combatants were the tall
figures of the police vainly trying to
fight, some one picked up chair and
hurled it half way across the hall
into the midst of the struggling mass.
A terrible row was almost on hand
but the police finally quieted the
crowd and restored order.
Postmaster Johnson then proposed
that Mr.. Wander Hoeven again take
the chair, and the vote taken over by
ballot. This idea was finally agreed
to, but the white side on the left
wanted the ballots written by
the voter himself, which was
ruled out of order, as three-fourths of
side on the right could not write
their names. 1t was finally decided
to appoint two tellers for each faction
and to divide the house-the Johnson
men on the right and the Grothaus
men on the left. E. F. Hertzberg and
G.. E. Abbey were appointed for the
Grothaus side and Henry Terrell and
George Paschal for the Johnson side.
The democrats were requested to
retire to the back of the house, and
with COED order prevailing, the vote
was counted. The counting consumed
considerable time, when a large por-
ton of the white crowd rushed out
for beer. and many of them got back
in time to be too late to vote. The
teIlers then announced the vote as
follows:
Johnson NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. IA
Grothaus. .......... 100
The cheers, boots, bowling and
kissing commenced again.
The "leftn seeing themselves de-