The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-06-09

d Fields, L A Mccall, w A Caring.
ton, Walter Jesley, Geo A Hall, A {
Murray, ] E Babcock, M r Stringfel
low, J M Rice, o Nicholson, Fred
Opp, VIM Hubert, Jno B Durrett, E T
Solomon, F M Marpel, G G Kidd, inc
Baker.
On Resolutions-J j King, L w
Lanham, s d MCGEE, J M Standifer
o Davis, Seth Shepherd, b B Beard
L j Womack, J M Blanding, w L w
Dixon, L s Henderson, John E Craw-
ford, j G Wooters, John Smith, w 6
Kittrell, A Chester, + M Spencer, w
Middle, ID G CGiddings, II B Cressan, j
w Baines, E l. Dunlap, Il w Dodge,
A Q Baker, j L. Lewis, Geo + Perry,
q r Breedlove, s p Huff, G Meade,
R d Rugeler.
The convention then adjourned to
O'Clock p. m.
The committee on credentials met
in the comfy court house OF o. clock,
A. @. Brietz of Brazos county was
made chairman and j. M. Askew OF
Hopkins secretary. On motion of Mr..
Bower of Dallas roll call of counties
was ordered with the object of pass
ing upon credentials and ascertaining
in what counties contests were locat-
ed.
When Bowie was called Harrell,
it's representative, offered a, evidence
a clipping from newspaper which
gave the names of the delegates or
account of the proceedings which
elected them. Harrel stated that
he was willing to swear to it's cor
hIIt h
jected, saying the newspapers
were not sufficiently good evidence.
The Bowie delegation was seated,
however, by vote. Throughout the
long roll of counties the utmost care
was manifested in the acceptance OF
delegates. The object, of course, was
to bar out as many Third party peo-
pie as possible. The supporters of the
potato platform being regarded as
wolves in sleeps clothing and very
dangerous members of a political So
ciety under any circumstances. Fay
cite county was expected to furnish
more trouble than all of the others
combined. One faction is headed by
w. H. Ledbetter and the other by
Jonathan Lane. When Fayette
county was called Chairman Brietz
read an agreement signed by Ledbet.
ter and Lane waving any contest as
to be the present commission with the
understanding that the position of
neither faction would be compromised
and that both would go before the
credentials committee of the Houston
convention. This disposed of one of
the most seious stumbling blocks in
the path to an early report.
At this point a telegram was read
announcing that Blaine had Sc
cured the temporary organization of
the Minneapolis convention. The
communication was greeted with
cheers and yell of "Three cheers for
Grover Cleveland" which elected
some more noise.
Mr.. f. M. MARBLE of Quarat, was
heard by the committe on
Pan Handle representative. He
claimed that five counties had sent
proxies to Williams of Lamar and that
these counties had held neither mass
meeting nor primaries and conse-
quently had no right to proxies to
any body. He knew hundreds of good
honest lawyers in that section who
would have been glad to come to Lam
pasas as delegates. He did not see
why proxies should be sent to a man
living in an entirely different part of
Texas.
Chairman Brietz took the floor and
protested against allowing
an unorganized county one
vote for each unorganized
county attached to it merely for ju-
dicial purposes. He said it was mani
testify unjust that a thinly populated
western county with eight or ten
counties attached to it should be given
a convention vote equal in size to that
of the most populous counties. He
read Chairman Finley's call for the
and failed to find in it any
warrant for such practice. Bowers
of Dallas said that in the Austin con-
vention, when Throckmorton and
Hubbard locked and Roberts was
every unorganized county
lost one vote each.
Copnellee VI Eastland said they were
one vote each in the senatorial
Searcy of Washington said the rule
had been to allow unorganiZed
counties which had held conventions
or primaries their proper representa-
ton upon the floor of the state con-
He was backed up by Har-
real of Bowie; a clipping from the San
Express of two years ago was
adduced in evidence of the fact. A
resolution was offered authorizing the
acceptance of proxies from unorgan-
zed counties. A motion was made to
amend by accepting no proxies save
from counties which had held
and authorized prox-
les. Carried by 16 yeas
to IA nays, the chairman
not voting, and the San Antonio dis
5rict hog has no representation. A
light on this ruling will come up to-
The result did not affect the
proxies from the five unorganized
counties held by Williams of Lamar,
rs each of them had held conven-
ion.
Following is the platform and reso-
utions as finally agreed upon by the
tonight:
We, the Democracy of Texas, in
assembled, do hereby de-
'lare our devotion and pledge anew our |
idelity to the great party founded by |