The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-07-14
OBEYED INSTRUCTIONS.
THEY DID NOT HAVE A MAJORITY, so
THEY Booted.
The Tarrant County Convention Split and
Both Factions Nominate a Ticket
and Will send Coatesting Dele.
gates to Houston.

Special to The Statesman.
FORT WORTH, Tex, July 12.-In an
interview published in the Gazette
this morning Captain Frank Ball, a
Hogg leader, announced that the
Hogg men would bolt the county con-
vention today. At 10 o'clock the
Hogg delegation met in caucus at the
court room and confirmed this decis-
jon of the leaders. and appointed
Judge Steadman to lead the bolt. The
time of calling the convention to order
was postponed one hour by Chairman
Cantey of the executive committee 10
give lime for the completion of
the Hogg caucus. The first con-
test arose over the election of
the temporary chairman. The Hogg
men contesting the ruling of the chair
that prima facia delegates should
vote. This recognized both Clark and
Hogg delegates whose seats were con-
tested. Judge H. e Beckham was
nominated and elected by tn Clark
men by a vote of so to 40. A motion
was made that the chair appoint COM
mittees ON credentials. etc. The Hogg
side moved as substitute that each
precinct name its own committeeman.
The original motion prevailed. I'M
mediately Judge Stedman gave the
signal and the Hogg men filed out be-
hind him to the court house. Elihu
Newton, the most prominent Hogg
leader from the county, declared the
bolt was unwarranted, and refused to
go.
The platform adopted severely con.
demns the Hogg administration as
driving capital from the state, unset
tling land titles and stopping railroad
building. 1t favors an elective COM
mission and investment of the COM
mission with power to arbitrate be-
tween railroads and their employees,
favors the loan of the school fund up
on landed security, and condemns the
governors proposition to loan it to
railroads, favors girls industrial
schools, endorses the candidacy of
Clark and instructs the delegates to
Houston TO vote against Hogg all the
time.
One hundred and twenty delegates
to the gubernatorial convention were
elected, including leading citizens OF
the county. Instruction were given
for Superintendent Carlisle but for no
other state office. Major j. j.. Jarves
of the city and E. Newton of the
county, were nominated for represen-
tatives. Instructions we're given for
Judge Beckman for the state senate.
The boilers convention sent PROPOSE
tion to the regulars for the call of
another convention as to all except
the gubernatorial matter but it was
Indignantly rejected. 1t then elected
delegates to all conventions and in.
structed for Hogg, McGaughey,
Carlisle, Workman, Henderson
for comptroller and Bell
for congress. George Finger of the
city and Thomas A. Maddox of the
country were nominated for represen-
tatives and instructions were given
for James w. Swayne for state sena-
tor. Twenty-eight delegates to Hous-
ton were chosen. Both conventions
endorsed Mills for senator. The regu-
lars elected G. H. Meade county
chairman and the boilers nominated
Judge N. A. Steadman.
The town is much excited over the
bolt and talk is very bitter. The gen.
eral comment is that the event fore
shadows two state tickets at Houston.
The Gazette will say tomorrow that
the bolt proves the truth of the charge
that the Hogg managers have deter
mined to renominate the governor by
revolutionary methods. 1t is rumored
that the Hogg leaders were acting
under telegraph instructions received
from Austin.