The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1891-1893, 1891-12-06

iunioi uiu not cause much excite
ment. The pangs of hunger had
begun to tell on many members and
the nonotony of the roll calls was
conducive to drowsiness. Callinu
the roll exhausted the two secreta.
ries and at the beginning of the s.h
ballot Messrs. Dockery,o of Missouri,
and Warner, of New York, were
substituted for them.
THE EIGTH BALLOT
showed a change. 1t was as follows:
Crisp "a. Mills 81, Springer ls,
McMillin Is, Hatch 5, Stephens |.
lhls was a loss Of l vote for Crisp
a gain of two for Mills, a loss of ?
for Hatch and Stephens one. Ter
ry, Arkansas, Springer man, and
krabbs, of Pennsylvania, who had
supported Crisp, voted for Mills, on
this ballot. Another Springer man
voted fo' Hatch. The only changes
in
THE NINTH BALLOT.
was the change of German, of Mich
lgan from Crisp to McMillin and a
loss OF one vote, tina. of Stout, of
Michigan by Springer to Crisp.
IN THE TENTH BALLOT
members generally began to believe
that dead lock would result and a
number of them telephoned to their
residences that they would not be
home tonight. The tenth ballot
resulted in a gain Of one vote for
Crisp and a loss of one each by Nc
Miliin and Springer One of Nc
Millln's Kentucky supporters failed
TO vote, and Crisp regained vote
io>t ~ him on a previous ballot.
There was some amusement mani
tested by the members over the per-
sistency of Mr.. O'Nein, of Massa-
chusttts, in voting for Stephens of
his State. Mr.. O'Neill toreshad-
owed this action OH his part during
the recent gubernatorial campaign
in Massachusetts, when he an
nounced that he could not vote
for any of the declared candidates
for the Speakership, because
ali OF them were in favor of silver
legislation. He therefore cast his
complimentary vote for Mr. Steph-
ems. Of the l3 Democratic mem
bers from Illinois present at the
caucus only seven voted for Spring
er, but these stuck to his standard
through its vacillating progress.
They were McGann, Darberry,
Newberry, Steward, Snow, and
Gable, while those whose who de-
serted Springer and went to Mills
in accordance with the in
tentlon expressed last night
were Wilkes, Scott, Fithian,
Lane, Forman and Williams.
When the hour hand of the clock
was moving on towards ten Mr..
Hatch got the Missouri delegation
together for the purpose of bring
ing back to him the votes of the en-
tire delegation. Messrs. O'Nelll
and Mansur refused to attend the
conference. Mr.. Grips managers
were also busy endeavoring to ar
range deal with the Springer
forces. The 1lth, 18th, 18th and
l 4 ballots resulted in no breaks oc-
curing in the Illinois and Missouri
delegations. McMillin's solid
phalanex was broken in the 14th
ballot by the desertion of Covert
OF New York, one of the
original Is who gave their vote to
the Iennessean, to the Mills ranks
A change of no material differ.
ence was shown by the ID and 10th
ballots, Mills gaining l vote and
Crisp losing one On the former and
the 10th showing a gain of ? for
Crisp and a gain ofone for Mills
The other candidates neither LOST
nor gained. The fuctation of the
ballots was largely due to the alb
sence OF several members from the
hall whom their names were called
The result of the 18th ballot show
ed no change in the situation the
standing of each candidate being as
follows: Crisp 81, Mills, 81, Nc
} Millin 10, Springer II, Hatch 5
Stephens /. Total 227.