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tions and the convention decided to &C
into nominations in short time.
DELEGATES WITHDRAW.
Just a few minutes after the vote
was announced M. L. Howell of Collie
ton, followed by every delagate from
his county, announced that ttey would
Withdraw from the caucus and woulo
not remain In the convention to take
part In its deliberations. M. 0. DantZ
ler made the same announcement foT
the Orangeburg delegation and they
marched out OF the caucus. The FOL
lowing were the Orangeburg members
J.. Il, Hane, j. A. Peterkin, John S
Rowe, &. D. Rast, j. M. Crosswell, J.B
O'Neal Holloway, 7. E. Dukes, w. b
Trezeyant. Col. A. d. Goo1wio and
H, NJ. Rush remained.
A number of individual members OF
the various delegations withdrew, as
follows: J. Richardson and l.. w: Par'
ker of Greenville; Mr.. Folk OF Barn
we'll, one Of the secretaries of the eau
Gus; Henry Fuller of Beaufort; nearly
all of the Newberry delegation aud
over half of that from Spartanburg
rhe names of the Newberry aud Spar
tanburg delegates who pulled out
could not be learned.
The resolution on which the debate
on nominations took place was intro.
duced by G. p. Sanders of Spartanburg,
and was that the convention deemed 1t
expedient that nominations be made at
this time. Some of the delegations
showed good, hard 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.
withstanding that the delegates from
eighteen counties reported that they
would be beaten and were sensible In
this report, majority OF the delegates
favored nominations. Aiken and Alb.
beyille reported that they would not
stand q show. Abbeville said she could
not carry 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 of the speakers on
each side:
For nominations-Paul Hemphill of
Chester, T. B. Butler Of Union, Mayor
Dargan of Darlington, G. s. Nettles OF
Darlington, Mills Mooney of Green
vile, N. G. Gonzales of Columbia, A.
B. Williams of Greenville.
Against nominations-Gen. Edward
McCrady of Charleston, L. W.. You.
mans of Barnwell, ]. F. Richardson OF
Greenville, w. G. McGowan OF Abbe.
Vile, Mr.. Cromer OF Newberry and
Martin Woodward Of Aiken.
After the speaking was finished a
rising vote was taken on calling the
previous question. This was done and
the question was called for. Then the
roll of counties was called, but q yea
and nay vote was demanded and was
taken, resulting as announced.
APLATFORM COMMITTEE.
Shortly after 2 O'Clock a platform
committee was appointed and the eau
Gus took recess OF an hour to give the
committee time to report. The plat.
form was to be adopted before the con.
Yention went into nominations.
At 23O o'clock a motion was made to
rescind the vote by which nominations
were decided on. The motion TO res
cind was lost by a vote of 43 to 70. at
that hour it began to look very doubt.
full if the caucus would make nomina-
tions after all. A great many dele.
gates had left the hall In disgust and
had refused to take any part in the pro-
ceedings. 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 on platform was
still out and had not reported. at
3 30 o'clock the caucus looks like 1t Is
going to make q complete fz7le on the
questitn of nominations. So many
delegates have left the hall that there
is scarcely handful sitting In the
chairs and standing around, at least 80
1t seems through the glass doors.
Prominent members of the caucus who
have come out state positively that no
nominations will be made.
1t is learned that the com nittee on
platform also has imposed upon 1t the
duty of making the nomination Of a
State ticket. The committee consists
of one man from eacy county. N. u.
Gonzales Is the representative from
Richland and Nike Brown from Barn.
we'll. At 4 o'clock this morning the
committee has not reported and there
are decided indications of flickering on
all sides.
About midnight several notable Re-
publican leaders came to the State Cap
itol. Their coming was mystery the
explanat lion of which no one seemed to
know anything. They stood In the
lobby down stairs. Among 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 in 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 wnat the "True Democrats" did
and what the Irby committee did
thereafter bearing on the subject. 1t
was ascertained further from pretty
reliable source that it was their pur-
pose, in case no nominations were
made to call their State convention
Immediately and put ont a full State
ticket. This Is given for what 1t is
worth, and may mean good deal In
the long run.
A few minutes after 1 o'clock Col
T. W. Woodward of Fairfield was ask
ed what the convention would do.
"Busted all to hell" was his short but
forcible answer, and 1t told the story
better than a column of htgh-ho WI
words.
NO NOMINATIONS.
It was exactly 4. 10 o'clock this morn
ing when the caucus threw open Its
doors and the convention began Its