The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-06-16
AFTERNOON SESSION.

convention adjourning until 1:30 at
| the conclusion of his remarks.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
Promptly at 1:30 O'Clock the dele
gates reassembled, the first thing
done, being the adoption of the report
of the committee on credentials, seat
ing all the delegates present.
The report of the committee
on resolutions was then read
and adopted. 1t re-indorses the st.
Louis platform and pledges the party
to support no man for office from PFC
cinct constable to president who does
not indorse the st. Louis platform in
full.
Whereas, the so-called twelfth
plank of the st. Louis platform was
never there and we denOunce all at
tempts to put the same in said plat
form as being base, fraudulent and
intended to injUre this party as much
as possible.
On motion the chair then appointed
Messrs. G. d. Martin, A. s. Leak,
Jim Johnson, Milt. Caperton
j., and VIM. Campbell whose
duty it was to prepare list of dele
gates to go to the various conventions,
each name to be voted on separately.
During their absence Mr.. John Geggie
addressed the meeting, mentioning a
number of the "wants" of the party.
He started off by saying that they
were all conspirators and engaged in
conspiring to down the Republicans
and Democrats; that an officer was
liable to dispense them at any moment
and what the party wanted was a
change in the conspiracy law, that
would enable them to hold
their meetings legally. He
also wanted the constitution
changed so as to allow certain classes
of state work to be done by the day
instead of under the contract system
and thus allow the working man q
chance; demanded an equitable me-
channels lien law; the uniform text
book bill; the eight hour law, the
Australian ballot law and also wants
the convicts either kept within the
Jail walls or else worked on state
farms.
The committee then handed in its
report with the result that the follow
ing delegates were chosen:
To the state convention at Dallas
E. b. Wright, j. S. Johnson, M. In
gram, H. Childress, r. A. Ray, j. H.
Carl, F. A. Butler, G. ID. Martin, G..
F. Austin, e. V. Jones, II. TIegden,
ST., S. M. Scantling, w. III. Losson,
J. B. Oatman, M. G. Caperton, M. T..
Caperton, Paul Windy, John Geggie,
]. b. Cassidy, John Callfield, A. How
ard and J. w. Parrott.
The above delegation is instructed
for Gen. Henry E. McCulloch for gov
ernor; Jerome G. Kearby for attorney
general and to endeavor to have in
serted in the party platform q plank
favoring the Australian ballot law.
1t was during the selection of this
committee that an incident occurred
that showed most conclusively that
the party in this county, numbering
about 800, is dead agin" Governor
Hogg. While calling the nam es re-
ported back by the committee the
name of Mr.. Tom Bunton was an.
nounced, but before presenting the
name for vote the chairman said he
had statement to make in regard to
the gentleman. He said:
"Mr. Bunton stated to me a
day or two ago that he
intended to vote for Governor Hogg
but would support the balance of our
ticket. Now, the question is, do you
want to send such man as that to
Dallas?"
"No," NO." "Put him out" "put
him out" "oust him." came the ex-
cited cries, and when the direct vote
was taken on his name not single
"aye" was heard.
At this point in the proceedings Mr..
G. F. Austin introduced the following
resolution, which was carried:
"Resolved. That our delegates be
instructed to favor the continuation Of
the name-the "Peoples party"
Congressional convention meeting
at Austin-G. d. Martin, J. g. Call
field, E. V. Jones, j.; w. Parrot,
John Geggie, J. S. johnson, M. z.
Miller, A. s. Leak, j. b. Oatman and
II. Childress.
Senatorial convention at Burnett,