The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1894-10-03


resulted 1913 to 80 in favor Of nomina
tons and the convention decided to g
into nominations IN short time.
DELEGATES WITHDRAW.
Just few minutes after the vote
was announced II. i. Howell OF Cole
tor, followed by every delegate from
his county, announced that ttey would
withdraw Irom :he caucus ana woulI
not remain il TIE Convention 70 take
part III its deliberations. NJ o Dan!Z
| ier made the SaD:e ANNOUNCEMENT FOG
/ tie Orangeburg delegation aGd they
marched out Ct the caucus. The FOL
lowing were the Orangeburg members:
J. a. Haus, J. y. paterHlE, jam S
Rowe, &. D. Rast, J. NJ. CToSswrl, J. B.
O'Ne&l Holloway, J. Z. DuSes, w. IS
.'rsZeyaat. Col. a. D. GootWIa and
! Il. NJ. Rush remained.
A number Of Individual memDerS of
the various delegations withdrew, as
| follows: J. Richardson and L. w. Par
ker of GreenvlIlt; Mr. Folk Of Barr
well, ore Of the secretaries OF the eau
Gus; Henry Fuller CT Beaufort; nearly
all cf the NewberIy delegation aad
over hall CT that from Spartanburg
The names Of the NewberrY aud Spar
tanbuTg delegates who pulled out
could not be learned.
Tne resolution on which the debate
on NOMINATIONS took plaza was intro
duced by G.. 2. Sanders Of SparCanburg,
and was that the convention deemed ii
expedient that nominations BE- Dlade at
this tine. Some of tie delegations
showed good, hSTd sense in their esti-
mates OF the political situation. In the
reports FROM the counties eighteen
reported that they couldn't be carried;
thirteen reported that they could be
carried and five were doubtful. Not
Withstaudirs that the delegates from
eighteen counties reported that they
would be beaten and were sensible 10
this report, a majority OF the delegates
favored nominations. Aiken and 40
beville reported that they would not
stand show. AbbeVille ssid she could
not csrry three hundred votes. Some
of the Anderson men thought they
could carry the county and some that
they couldn't.
Thirty or forty speeches were made
on the resolution of Mr.. Sanders. The
following were some Ct the speakers on
each si6e:
For uomipatioos-Paul Hemphlll of
Chester, I. B. Butler of Union, Mayor
Dargan Of Darlington, G. 5. NettleS of
Darlington, Mills Mooney of Green
vile, n. &. Gonzales Of Columbia, a.
3. Williams Of GreenVille.
Against nomlnatiols-Gen. Edward
McCrady of Charleston, l.. W. You
mars of Barnwell, J. f. Richardson of
Greenville, ". G. Mct1oWan OF A5be-
vile, NJ. Cromer of Newberry and
Martin Woodward OF Aiken.
After the speaking was finished a
rising vote Was taken on calling the
previous qaestlon. This ~aS done and
the question was called for. Then the
roll Of counties was called, but a yea
and nay vote was demanded and was
taken, resulting as announced.
PLATFORM COMMITTEE.
Shortly alter 2 O'Clock a platform
committee was appointed aDd the eau
Gus took recess OF an hour to give the
committee time 20 report. The plat
form was to he adopted before the con.
Vention went into nominations.
At $50 o'clock a motion was made to
rescipd the vote t,y which nominations
were decided on. The motion 70 res
cinj was lest by vote of 43 to IS. at
that hour it began to look very doubt.
ful if the caucus would make comma
ttoEs after al. 4 great many dele
gates had LETT the hall in disgust and
had refused to take any part IN the pro-
csedings. The attendance had dwin-
died very much and the nomination
people began to get frightened.
At 80 o'clock nothing had been
done. The committee oa platform was
still out and had not reported. at
3 80 o'clock the caucus looks like 1t Is
gong to make 8 complete fZZie on the
QueStitn Of nominations. So many
delegates have left the hall that there
is scarcely a handful sitting in the
chairs and standing around, at least so
1T seems through the glass doors.
Prominent members of the caucus who
have come out state positively that no
nominations will be made.
It IS learned that the COMMITTEES on
platform also has imposed upon 1t the
duty Of making tine nomination CT
State ticket. The committee consists
of one man from eacy county. n. e.
Gonzales IS the representative from
R.chland and Mike Brown from Barn
well. At O'clock this morning the
committee has not reported and there
are decided indications OF tllcaerIng on
all sides.
About midnight several notable Re
publican leaders came to the State Cap
itol. Their coming was mystery,th
exp!ana.i of which no one seemed TO
know anything. They stood in the
lobby down stairs. Auong them were
Bob Smalls, ,Brayton, Fred Nix, Edmund
Deas and State Chairman Webster.
They at first defeated all efforts to
probe the object Of their presence there
and il the city. 1t was finally aScer-
tanned. however, that they had come
here in advance Of their committee
meeting scheduled to be held next
Tuesday, for the purpose Of watching
to see wna5 the True Democrats" did
and what the Ifby committee did
thereafter bearing on the subject. II
was ascertalned further from pretty
reliable source that Il was their pur-
pose, in case no nominations were
made to call their State convention
Immediately and put out a full State
ticket. This IS given tor what it IS
worth, and may mean good deal ID
the long rue.
A few minutes after o'clock Col.
T. W. Woodward of Fairfield was ask
ed what the convention would dc.
Busted all to NELL" was his short but
forcible answer, and it told the story
better than a column OF h'gh-iloWn
words.
NO NOMINATIONS.
It was exactly 1. 10 O'Clock this morn
ing when the caucus threw open IT'S
doors aud tue convention began It's
work. The convention was IN session
precisely five latnutes when it aoJourn'
ed sine die without making nomlna-
,s,