Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-02-24

when after half an hours roll calling a
| special committee was completed to frame
the proposed resolution asking of congress
| the passage of the anti-option law.
| Willetts moved that the convention de-
mand the passage of the sub-treasury
| bill as means of relief for
the people, instead of petitioning
| Washington TO enact the proposed
anti-option laws On vote the sub-treas-
| ury substitute was showed under.
Kelly of Kansas, undauuted by the
fate OF Wiletts, sprang another
idea from the Sunhower state
He offered resolution that the appropria-
tion pending in congress for permanent
census bureau be Endorsed if provision
was made for continuing inves-
| permanent part of the work of
the bureau. The convention, after some
desultory discussion, adopted the resolu-
ton by an emphatic vote.
A discussion of the seemingly
| burning question OF free coin
delegates by Wilson, of Georgia, offering
resolution that the convention petition con-
| gress for the adoption of the pending bill
| for free coinage OF silver.
1Ir. Waite of Colorado hurled himself
into the breach and declared that the silver
men wanted no one-horse resolution; they
wanted silver plank where it belonged,
I in the convention platform.
He was taken at his word and the free
| silver resolution was unceremoniouSly
ordered dumped upon the table out of the
way.
The convention then adjourned until to-
| morrow.
THE COMMITTEE on PLATFORM
went into executive session as soon as an
| app oximately complete roundup Of the
| many members could be made. They
| went to work, hammer and tongs,
| behind closed doors, and kept
up their laboTs until far into
the night. Hugh Cavanaugh, general worthy
| foreman of the Knights of Labor, was
Tennessee, and S. McLallin of
Kansas secretaries. During lull
| Ignatius Donnelly, the leading member of
the committee, said it had practically been
| decided 10 incorporate in the plat
form the sub-treasury scheme, the
suffrage and prohibition. The latter point,
Donnelly said, would probably cause some
what Ct an animated discussion but be-
lieved in its modified form it
would be part of the platform.
sENsAsIoNAL SCENE.
Probably no more sensational, turbulent
scene was ever witnessed at great politi-
cal gathering than the startling one
| presented this afternoon in the big national
pitted against Southerners. Farmers Al
lance men against Alliance men,
and for many anxious minutes to
hundreds, the convention seemed
about TO break to pieces in q riot.
This extraordinary tumult took place with
scarcely moments warning. Scarcely
had the delegates to the conference re-
sumed their seats after q short
recess when the credentials COM
mlttee announced it was ready to present
4 final report. The first portion ELECTED
little interest 1t consisted merely of rec
concentrations for admitting to the conven-
ton represeu tativeS from a number of or
CARNATIONS that had been overlooked.
Then came the dynamite. EsL5 was an in
slant, though an indirect projection into
the convention of the issue for or
against immediate steps toward a third
party presidential ticket The question
was brought homo to The men from the
solid SoulG by nothing less than decision
of the credential committee seating two OF
the contesting or pro third party delegates
from the state of Georgia and the secretary
obhvious of dangera was launtily reading
to the convention that the committee had
concluded to seat c. G. Post, w. r. Kemp,
Palmer, division of the delegation be-
tween the contesting elements. Ere the
last name left the readers lips,
PANDEMoNIUM BROKE LOOSE.
Not only the Immediately interested per-
sons, but delegates all over the
hall began to yell, some for recogni-
ton, some in condemnation of, and others
in approval of the report Amid it all
Chairman Polk sat, grimly conscious of
human inability to stay the uproar. In
a momentary semblance of order he
recognized Moses of Geo .gia, an anti
third party man who raised the point that
the state gathering which selected his del
egation had given it instructions that it
should vote as unit on all mat
ters. By the report of the credentials
committee two strange and new delegates
had now been placed in the delegation. He
wanted to know if they were there with the
understanding that they were to submit
to the unit rule. Assuming they
were he moved the convention accept the
report with that understanding.
In a twinkling Post, one of the
feet, he was here, he said, as
a delegate chosen by the State
Alliance, Moses by the executive commit
tee. He was here in the interest of har-
mony. while that which Moses sought was
in the arms of the Democrats.
lance of Georgia favor Independent
political action and a small faction repre-
scented by the other wing was. not deserv-
ing of consideration.
Congressman Livingston fairly
shrieked the speaker, while the convention
howled like Comanches. ''had himself
declared in favor of selecting delegates all
of one opinion and then had chosen set of
men whose plan of purpose was as was
Livingston's own to act with the
Democratic party, to betray the Alliance
to that party, delivering the Alliance bound
hand and foot to the old Democratic rlng''
''rhe noted Alliance congressman thus
scorchingly denounced was sitting scarcely
u dozen feet distant.
The reappearance of Z. G. Brown of
Massachusetts, chairman of the committee
on credentials, was for moment more eff
fecuve than the contending factions, each
stopping to catch from what he might say
possible advantage to their side. He
stated credentials committee in its delibera-
tons decided to recognize the great seat of
the Alliance the state of Georgia. They
had found the men entitled to seats.
There were thus two vacancies
and in the interest of peace
these had been filed by selections from
the opposing force. The committee in its
action was not bound by conditions sur
rounding any section.
At this point New York delegate edged
in point of order that the motion to adopt
the credentials committees report with the
understanding that the Georgia delegation
was to act as unit was not proper.
The chair decided the point well taken.
Then came new motion to adopt the re-
port and the fight was renewed. AT length
Ellington of Georgia, from high
perch, declared the executive