The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-10-20
THE TICKET FIXED.
What the County Commissioners Did at
Their Meeting Yesterday.

What the County Commissioners Did at
Their Meeting Yesterday.
Yesterday morning at 10 o'clock |
representatives of the Clark and Hogg |
wings of the Democratic party, the
Republicans and the Third partyites
met with the commissioners court, at
their invitation, to arrange ticket to
be used at the coming election, which
will be conducted under the new Aus
tralian ballot system, in force in
Texas this year for the first time.
On the black board was sketch of
ticket made by Major w. M. Brown,
containing the Democratic (Hogg),
Democratic Clark Republican Hous-
ton), Peoples Party, Prohibition and
Independent tickets arranged in per-
pendicular parallel columns, the first
and third being headed 0y the Hon.
Geo. Clark and in fact under all the
headings appeared the full tickets,
thus putting on the name of any one
candidate as many times as he was
nominated or endorsed by any party.
The first speaker was Capt. &. q.
Sneed, who stated that he did not in
tend to speak in his capacity as
chairman of the county Democratic
executive committee, voicing the
sentiments of his fellow committee.
men, but as private citizen, DESTROYS
of securing legal and impartia
ticket. He then made the following
suggestions to the courts which he
presented In his characteristic, lucid
and torcible manner.
First-That the names of the candi-
dates should be placed under headings
designating the recognized political
! parties.
Second-In case of division OF par
ties each faction or wing should be
arranged separately.
Third-That the name of no
candidate should be placed
under any party heading
unless such candidates should have
been regularly nominated or endorsed
by such a party.
That the name of any candidate
shall be placed under the heading OF
any and all parties which shall have
regularly nominated or endorsed such
candidate.
Capt. Sneed referred to the ruling
of Assistant Attorney General Henry
. and asserted that 1t was In no way
binding.
Col. j. ]. Faulk was the next
speaker and stated that he was of the
3 opinion that the assistant at
. torney general had placed
the proper construction on the
law in his opinion, and argued that
4 the name of any one candidate should
3 appear only once on the ticket He
q claimed that he spoke not from any
, partisan motive, but only to obtain q
= fair and legal ticket, or one that
i would stand the test of the courts;
Q claimed that Hogg had nothing to
o lose should Clark's name appear more
;, than once on the ticket, as the ballots
J thus cast would undoubtedly be de.
8 clared illegal, and as Clark would poll
t more votes from the cities than Hogg,
j. when the ballots were declared illegal
: the loss would be more
@ on the former than the latter. He
l. cited no authorizes save his own and
8 the opinion of the assistant attorney
general.
IS He was followed by Mr.. A. fl. Ora
i ham who jumped onto the opinion
+ of Mr.. Henry. He charged that tht
> authorities quoted by Mr.. Henry anC
n which he (Graham) had looked vi
+ we're not to the point and that the al
legged opinion was entirely unsupport
ed. Among the authorities cited by
Mr.. Henry was Paine on Elections
= $50 and 554. Mr.. Graham claimed tina
1t the section omitted by Mr.. Henry
10 553, was the only one which sustained
d his position that the name of any on
II candidate should appear as often O.
IT such candidate was nominated or en-
dorsed by any party. He also citet
and read several other opinions ant
authorities which sustained his posi-
~ ton.
= Mr.. Frank Hamilton endorsed tn
'r style as indicated on the blackboar,
es and demanded for the Republican
a party one straight column headed b!
20 Judge Clrak, their candidate.
Dr. Commissioner Newning moved tina
le the blackboard style be adopted
which motion prevailed by unani
nous vote.
Mr.. VIM. Won Rosenberg, ST., thel
T suggested that at an early date tn
court have printed in the daily paper
v the full ticket; that the several candi
ID dates if they did not like their al
le rangements complain to the court an
o that date before the election, to
+ fixed by the court, the official tickle
be printed The suggestion wa
adopted and the several parties wer
requested to submit to the couI
a their full and complete ticket
~ for publication at once.
"a Mr.. Charles Evans was then al
o. pointed supervising judge Of electio
IL In the First ward to succeed Nj
- Patrick Scott, resigned, and til
y oourf adinurned