The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-10-27
FORM OF TICKET.
CONFERENCE OF LEADING LAWYERS
AT WACO YESTERDAY.
The Attorney Generals Opinion Is Fro
nounssd Worthless and Form Of Ticket
Which Does Not Muzzle Texas
Voters Is Adopted.

Special to The Statesman
WACO, Oct. 22.-The conference
composed of attorneys from the eight
Texas cities having the Australian
ballot system met in this city today
for the purpose of agreeing on legal
ticket to be used in the coming cleo
ton. The meeting was called at
the instance of Chairman Matlock.
The conference convened at 2:4O p. H.,
over the First National bank. There
were present: w. N. Crank and }.
M. Coleman of Houston; A. II. Ora
ham of Austin; P. H. Meade and M.
A. Spoantz of Fort Worth;M. Sweath,
]. M. Taylor and Judge T. G. Alex
ander of Waco; A. p. Mosley and w.
b. Memson of Denison and d. D. Rry.
an of Galveston. Judge B. II. Bassett
of Dallas arrived in the afternoon, but
too late to participate in the confer
ence. San Antonio was the only one
of the eigh cities where the registra-
ton laws is iu effect which was not
represented. On motion G. p. Mead
of Fort Worth was elected chairman,
d. D. Bryan of Galveston, secretary.
Chairman Mead stated that the main
object of the conference was to deter
mine on the style and form of an elec-
tion ticket that would best meet the
requirements of existing laws in the
eight cities of Texas where registra-
ton is in effect. After consider
able discussion and presentation of
a composite form was finally adopted
which practically presents seven sep
crate and distinct tickets on one sheet
arranged in such way as to give
seperate column extra to each of the
political parties and factions present.
ing candidates for popular suffrage at
the coming election.
The ticket as adopted embraces two
Democratic columns, each headed
with the Democratic state
electors selected at the Lam
pasas convention, one of the
Democratic columns contains the
name of J. S. Hogg for governor, and
the Hogg state ticket. The other the
name of George Clark for gov
ernor and the Clark state ticket
with district, county and precinct
candidates arranged to suit various
localities. The third column en-
braces the straight Republican ticket
headed by the Republican electors,
followed by the Clark state ticket
headed by the name of George Clark
for governor. The fourth column is
also Republican and is headed by the
Lily White Republican electors fol-
lowed by the state ticket with A. J.
Houston for governor at it's head.
The fifth column gives the Peoples
party ticket, the sixth column the
Prohibition ticket and the seventh
column is left for Independent candi-
dates. The columns are perpendicu-
lar and parallel and with the names
of candidates 30 arranged that
anyone desiring to vote either of the
tickets straight can do SO simply by
running parallel lines down drought
the other columns, thus exploiting
the voting. There are to be no
column or dash rules on the ticket
and DO designating terms at the top
such as "Hogg," "Clark," "Lily
White.u The only caption over the
columns will be the word Democratic,
which appears over two columns;
Peoples party Prohibition and Inde-
pendents. The ticket will require q
sheet about seventeen inches square.
The names of candidates and the Of
ficers
for which they are running will ap-
pear in different styles of type, as may
suit the taste of those having the
printing of the tickets in charge. This
ticket will be recommended to the
| Clark executive committees in the
cities where the Australian system of
voting is used. The following resolu-
ton was offered by Mr.. Spoontz of
Fort Worth and was adopted:
Resolved, AS the sense Of the MEM
bers of the bar comprising this meet
ing, that it is perfectly legal for the
name of any candidate to appear more
than once on the ticket when such
name is furnished by the official rep
resentative of any political party as a
part of their ticket.
The following, offered by w. H.
Crank of Houston, was adopted:
Resolved, That 1t is the sense of this
conference of attorneys that the ticket
adopted by the commissioners court of
Tarrant county, wherein the names of
the several candidates for the same
Office belonging to different parties ap.
pear cropped together, does not con-
form to the law passed by the special
session of the Twenty-second legis-
lature regulating elections in cities of
over 10000 population.
After some further discussion of the
various conflicting features of the
present election law the conference
adjourned sine die.