The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-08-16

We recommend H. j. Bell of Wich-
lta county for sergeant-at-arms and
the following assistants: w. G. Ever.
heart of Grayson county; d. A. T.
Walton, Bee county; J. r. Mobley,
McLennan county; Ben Cabell, Dali
las county; Monroe Allen, Colorado
county; il. j. Kivlen, Dallas county.
The following order of business in
making nominations is recommended:
First-Governor
Second-Lieutenan governor.
Third-Attorney general.
Fourth-Commiss ssioner of the land
office.
| Flfth-Comptroller.
Sixth-Treasarer.
Observation-Disclosures of public
instruction.
Eighth-Chief justice of the supreme
court and two associate Justices; q
4 presiding judge of the court of crimi-
!; nal appeals and two associates. On
motion of Lewis Wood the order was
amended to nominate the associate
Justices of the supreme court and
/ court of appeals one at time.
| Ninth-The election of chairman of
the state Democratic executive com.
mittee.
Tenth-The selection of member
of the committee from each of the 81
senatorial districts of the state.
On the question of the mode of max
ing nominations, we would say that
inasmuch as tits generally understood
that nearly all the delegates to the
state convention are specially in~
| structed as to the two.thirds andthe
majority rule, we refer that question
to the delegates of the people in con-
vention assembled. This latter propo.
sition stirred up the animals, and mo-
tinns and counter motions flew thick
and fast. After score of perspiring
/ gentlemen had shouted themselves
hoarse to catch the speakers eye, the
| point of order was made that the next
thing to do was to install
I the permanent chairman, and
the chair ruled the point
was well taken and discussion was
shut off.
General Handy was escorted to the
| platform and introduced by Tempo
rary Chairman Fleming, who retired
after thanking the convention for the
honor 1t had bestowed upon him. Mr..
Handy took up the gavel and, after
making a few appropriate remarks,
declared the convention organized for
business and Immediately began to
go at 1t in hilarious manner.
! Mr.. Beverly of Collin was first to
secure recognition from Chairman
Handy, and introduced o motion to
amend the report Of the committee on
organization by declaring that the
convention shall adopt the majority
rule. He attempted to speak in favor
of his resolution but 1t was hardly
five minutes before he was interrupted
| by the cries of "Time, ,u"Vote,n "Stay
wild 'em," and "Order," and the ap-
peals of the speaker to give him
chance were of no avail and he was
obliged to quit.
Hon. Chas. Stewart of Harris was
the next to get the floor and moved to
substitute the two-third rule for the
majority rule, and he too undertook
to make speech and mounted o
chair. They listened to him for q
while but 1t was not long before he
was saluted with howls and questions.
The convention didn't want to hear
| speeches and Uncle Charlie, too, had
to sit down. Delegates hoped up
from every direction when he stopped
and for five minutes there was an in
describable hubbub, but r. q. DeGraf-
fenreid of Palestine got the floor and
moved to table the Stewart substi-
tute.
Russell Kingsbury of Waco made
he point of order that report al
eady adopted cannot be amended
and the chair ruled that point well
taken and asked Mr.. Beverly II his
motion was offered as an amendment
or as an original proposition. GAS an
amendment" was yelled from differ
ent quarters, but Mr.. Beverly denied
| this and stated he had offered 1t as
an original proposition.
~ then claim the floGr,u shouted
Dudley Wooten, who was figuring In
the convention as "The gentleman
from Parker who lives In Dallas.
\ Mr.. DeGralfenreid shouted that q
motion to table was not debatable, but
the chairman gave Mr.. Wooten the
floor and he started out to advocate
the maintenance of the two-thirds
rule. An attempt WIS made to rattle
him and shout him down, too, but he
was too much for his interrupters and
he made them listen to him.
When he got through shouts of roll
call" and other cries split the air and
it was 10 minutes before the sergeants-
at-arms and the speaker could get
enough quietude to proceed. The
question was stated several times be-
fore it was understood and two at
tempts to call the roll proved to be
failures, but the third was q charm and
the vote was finally proceeded with
and resulted In vote of 481 to 374,
the motion to table the Stewart reso-
luton carrying by majority Of 107.
After the announcement Of the re-
suit the convention turned itself loose
: and delegates crowded In front OF the
speakers stand and began lombard
ing him with motions, among which
was a motion to adopt majority rule
by acclamation. Dudley Wooten
finally secured recognition and offered
motion providing that candidates
should receive majority of three con.
secutive ballots before being declared
: nominees of the convention. The