The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-08-14

were selected.
Editor Shaw of Dallas moved that before
the adjournment of each session of the
convention, an intermission of five min.
vtes be announced, to give the friends of
the different candidates q chance to all
nounce caucusses and such like. The mo-
ton carried.
After the announcement of several eau.
cusses to be held during the afternoon, the
convention adjourned to meet again at
p. m.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
Chairman Tarleton called the convention
to order promptly at o'clock this after
noon, and the attendance was fully as large
as it was at the mornings session. The
committees not being ready to report the
convention adjourned until O'Clock, p. m
NIGHT SESSION.
When Chairman Tarleton called the con-
vention to order tonight the delegates were
all in their places. The committee on Gre
dentials made the following report
Hon. B. D. Tarleton, Chairman: Your
committee on credential and basis of repre-
sentation beg leave to report as follows:
l We recommend that each county be
allowed one vote for every 300 votes cast for
Gov Ross at the last general election and
one additional vote for every fraction of 15O
or more, provided that each county either
organized or unorganized shall be entitled
to at least one vote.
Q. We recommend that no proxies be al
lowed except in cases where such proxies
were authorized by the county conventions,
or in cases where there is no regular dele
cation, or in cases where no regular dele
gates are present but have given proxies
duly executed.
8. We find the vote of this convention
upon the foregoing basis is 908 votes.
On motion the reading of the names of
the delegates was dispensed with.
On motion the above report was anani-
mously adopted.
The committee on permanent organiza'
ton and the order of business submitted
the following:
Mr.. Chairman, your committee on perma-
nent organization and the order of business
report as follows:
We recommend as the permanent officers
of the convention the following named
officers:
For permanent president Hon. j. Hutch
erson of Harris county.
For vice presidents of the convention
Geo. O'Brien of Jefferson, Scott Field OF
Robertson, John P Groom of Van Zandt,
ley OF Denton, w. H. Getzendoner of Hills,
A. B. Davidson of Dewitt, Everett Lewis OF
Gonzales, J. M. RosenbrouSh of Bell, T. e.
Sneed of Travis, B. r. Webb of Callahan
For permanent secretary-S. H. Davis of
Uallas.
For assistant secretaries - Henry E.
Early of Tarrant, Ed Kaufman of Calves
ton, A, NJ. Kennedy of Limestone, w. L.
Sergeant of S;onewall, S. l.. Samuels ot
doches
For sergeant -at-arms-D. A. T. Walton OF
Bell, with assistants John S. Mcconnell OF
Childress, John e. Adams of Johnson, and
should the necessity arise we recommend
the appointment of assistants by the pres;-
dent OF the convention.
We recommend the following as the
order of business of the convention: In
balloting for officers the order of balloting
shall be as follows:
l. For governor.
2. For lieutenant governor.
g. For attorney general.
4. For Comptroller.
5. For treasurer
6. For commissioner of the general land
office.
7. For superintendent of public instruc-
ton.
8. For the election of a State executive
committee together with chairman there
for.
We recommend that the rules of the
house of representatives of the twenty first
legislature of the State of Texas be adopted
to govern the convention in its delibera-
tions.
Respectfully submitted.
r. Il. STEEL, Chairman.
A. G. briefly, Sec.
Mr.. Sam'l II. Brashear moved to amend
the report of the committee by substituting
the two thirds rule for the majority rule.
krryns III l.. 4 l.
amendment on the table and the motion
carried.
The committees report was then adopted.
On motion the chair appointed the fol-
lowing gents to conduct CaptainiH Hutcheson
to the chair: Hon. w. J. Swain OF Red
River, Hon. WIS. Fly of Gonzales and
Mr.. w. M. lmboden OF Cherokee. Capt.
Hutcheson was introduced by chairman
Tarleton who paid him high compliment
and in his usual graceful and eloquent
manner Capt. Butcheson returned thanks
to the convention. He said he would
not trespass upon the tirne of
the convention for moment even II it was
not for the fact that there was nothing to
do until the committee on platform made
its report and which could not be done
until tomorrow at9 a. m He referred to
the convention as the noblest body of men
that ever assembled In Texas, You are
Illt VI dll Ulle GLASSES anu no
particular class-the laboring man. the
merchant, the professional man-and we
have a solemn duty and obligation to them
to perform. He reviewed the history of
the State, pronounced a beautiful pane
gyric upon Texas, the grandest State in the
great sisterhood of States" AS | stand here
and look over this sea of faces | ask myself
the question, what are we if not the Dem
ocracy of Texas? l see the men who stood
by Cleveland and fought for hls election
the tried and true workers of the Demo-
cratic party. (Great applause)
He said he would speak but moment
more. [Cries of 60 on; speak an hour !
He said the victor, however, must be mag
The reason why certain ele-
ments had neglected the party in the past
was because the party had neglected them.
They must cone back. What we have
fought for-the laurels-are ours. He then
discussed measures, calling the attention
of the convention TO certain ones. He
wanted to see the b-treasury bill struck
and was GLAD to know that the Blair bill
was dead beyond resurrection. 1t was
painful Tor him TO think of the force bill
He thought the war was over. He
did not believe even' the Republicans
would resort to such thing. He believed
their attempt to pass this bill but pro-
claimed the death Knell of Republicanism
in this country. He knew but one thing
about the Australian system. IL had been
put on trial in Tennessee and was the
means of defeating the Republican, there,
but il might not work so well in TeYas He