San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-08-13
CONVENTION NOTES,

The hall is cool enough, at all events
The street cars and the hackmcn are
doing thriving business.
Friday will hardly see the delegates
here.
Several kilograms were read out from
the speaker table.
| The convention is never SO happy as
when it can enjoy a few minutes recess.
! \ little fight just at one of the side en-
frances created a little stir last night.
Bowie county sports a delegate who
came all the way to San Antonio with a
broken arm to vote for HOgg.
| The Sergeant-at- and his assist
ants We're worked pretty hard. So were
the twenty bar keepers outside the hall.
If the sergeantS- alarms were to put
| out all of the people who had no badges,
| the delegates would feel more comfort
| able
The chairman respectfully invited the
| delegates who couldn't get seats to sit on
| the floor.
You should have heard how they cheer
ed the denunciation of distribution OF
| public moneys for educational purposes.
Chairman Tarleton: 1--WE seen some
| pretty noisy conventions, in fact some
| that were almost as bad as this one.
That was an interesting sight when a
a few stout men made struggle TO over
| throw the twO-thirdS rule and institute
| the majority rule instead. The attempt
was voted down by tremendous major
| ity.
Let no cOwardice prevail!' said chair
| man HucheSOn in his address. This
| may" cried some one in the audience.
| The house rOared.
A motion to place the grandson of Davy
| Crockett on the platform was adopted.
| He belongs to the Hood delegation. He
| chewS tobacco.
The quiet or unquiet of the convention
was broken now and then by the i'm
patient Nov | nominate HOgg," coming
from some rural delegate.
Between the motion to adjourn TIL in
the morning and the amendment TO adj
jOurn until . p. m, the chairman beat the
wooden table for order 81 times and
smashed several glasses.
Adams, of Preside county: Il have
done something in this convention al
ready. I've nominated HOgg twice in
succession
The man who is in the habit of giving
that ringing rebel yell has been spotted.
His presence never fails TO draw smiles on
some of the faces of the old inveterate
COnfederateS.
telegraph messengers brought their lot of
accumulated dispatches to the Conven-
| ton Hall for the chairman to call out be-
| fore the hundreds assembled.
Just before the opening of session after
| the first afternoon recess. the band play
| ed dOleful expressive funeral march in
anticipation of the numerous political
demiScS that were to follow.
Some complaint was raised on account
| of the scarcity Of seating space. This
was largely due to the smuggling in of
persons who were not delegates. The
spaces assigned to several districts was
fearfullv Crampcd, and all the aiSleS were
full.
The reporter has not had the OppOrtuni
ty to peer under the table-cOver, but from
the long and loud beats of the gavel to
quiet the noisy democrats, it appears that
the thickness of the table was beaten out
OF it.
The LIGHT was handed the following
for publication. 1t is from an Alliance
man. evidently:
! the vast quantities of ice water that she
don't furnish to the convention.
A DEL GATE
Fire-eater Hutchinson made himself
! talking encyclopedia last night for the
| delegates who continually asked for his
| opinion on the Australian ballot, Blair
| bill and Force bill. Old Hutch evidently
was not prepared to speak on the last
! named question, and the inveterate ex-
cOnfederateS who expected to hear some
thing superb on this point, didn t enthuSe
| little bit.
The Barnett men held a caucus at the
Southern hotel yesterday afternoon, in
which it was decided that Sam Ash, of
Houston, should place the name in nomi-
nation, and Senator Townsend, of Colo
| RADIO county, and w. S. Fly, of Gonzales
county, should second it.
Hon. r. j. Brown, of Sherman, one of
the earliest, ableSt and most prominent
commission advocates of a railway com
mission, and a Hogg man from jump to
finish, is regarded as good for the plum of
Perhaps more than any other man he has
worked hard to create commission SEN
timent.
Yesterday there was made apparent a
general inclination to decorate the princi
pal business houses on Commerce street
and Main plaza. Numerous and large
flags were suspended above the street,
while from the fronts of the principal
stores were floating remnants and stream
ers and bunting. The national cOlOrS
were displayed by almost all.
The Menger hotel is the headquarters
of the opposition, or of what there is left
of it. Most of the railroad men now in
the city are stopping there and gather in
groups to discuss the inevitable. There
is still a little sporadic enthusiasm left
for different candidates, and every five
minutes some tipsy delegate will shout
''Hurrah for Cook. Anybody to beat
Hogg." But that somebody is not pos
Sibility.
Tho TovoS Tar+oo, will bova n Slyatch