Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-08-30
10 ABBOTT Wins.
lie Is Renomlnated in the
Sixth District.
P0lNDExTER CAUSES IT.
After His Withdrawal the Break
Up Follows.
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BURK'S VERY LOYAL FRIENDS,
BURRS VERY LOYAL FRIENDS.


Hillsboro, Tex, Aug. aa.-Chairman
Smith culled the convention to order
at $40 o'clock. There were but few
p. each delegation present and they
b. ~ tired and unrefreshed They
~, No 'lowly, however. and at s15
/r.,. 'ary Talbot arrived anu
$, - w q, .on. At 500 the chair
stat p he pending business be-
fore IN, Nentlon was the motion of
colquitt rrom Kaufman. When Mr..
Colquitt arose and said "As delegate
TO this convention I am very anxious
that this body make a nomination be-
fore 1t adjourns, and 1 therefore ask
that my motion lay upon the table
subject to call" and there being no
objections the chair so ordered and
said: 1.-THE next order of business viii
be very unusual one. calling the
roll"
II. p. Brown OF johnson moved that
recess of thirty or forty minutes be
allowed for the purpose OF eonsulta-
ton. Carried. a few of the delegates
from each delegation, except from Ma
varro, repaired to their respective eau
Gus rooms and the remainder amused
themselves in reading the morning pa
pers and in conversations. The with
drawal of Colqultts motion tcmporar-
lily seemed to have been preunderstood,
as IL caused no stir. and no one seemed
to pay any attention 70 what had been
done. During tho caucus the greater
number of the delegates left the court
room. so that when the caucuses
closed 1t was some time before the
convention could be or was called to
order. The convention was reconvened
at 10:lb o'clock.
g. w. Hardy OF Navarro offered the
following resolution, as he stated, in
the spirit of Cancellation: That a con-
ference committee consisting of twelve
mambers, three members representing
each candidate, be appointed to confer
together, looking to some method OF
making a nomination. That the forces
of each candidate respectively select
the names Of members to represent
said candidate upon said committee
and that said committee report back
| 10 this convention in one hour. The
l ehhNAAllNt u AAAI AkiANAlNHA ny EtAAh
/ committee TO be made known to the
convention and II no agreement be
made they shall simply report that no
agreement can be arrived at.
Hon Dudley Wooten OF Dallas then
| offered the following proviso, which
was accepted: provided that no
agreement shall be reported to the con-
vention nor any decision of said COM
mittee shall be OF any force and effect
unless the same Ia the unanimous sense
of the committee"
After some discussion II was ngroed
by unanimous consent that the report
OF this committee would only be an ad.
visory one. and would not be binding
| on any delegation, Mr.. Hardy OF Ma
varro county said that was the in.
tention OF the motion. but that he
thought any unanimous report Of 9
committee would be adopted by th'
body creating said committee. The
vote was called for by counties and So
taken, resulting In Of yeas and no nays
The following names were then an
nounced as the members selected &c
compose said rdvisory committee, SO
lected by friends OF Hardy: ]. ]. Nc
Clellan, A. L. Stone and John Garrlty
OF Navarro; selected by friends Of Poin
dexter, j. A. 9eall OF Ellis, ]. w. Adami
OF Bosque and s. c. Paddleford Of
Johnson; selected by friends OF AID
bolt, A. NJ. Douglass. a. 7. Mchinnor
and t. f. Mastin OF dill; selected b,
friends Of BurlS Dudley G. Wooien ane
Job Gunter OF Dallas and o. b. Col
Quit OF Kaufman.
The convention then, Mt 1888 ad
tourned for thirty or forty minutes OF
longer to allow the necessary time tol
ire conference committee to make ~
report The convention was rot re
convened until IL o'clock Mr.. RoDin7or
OF Bosque county moved that me soh
yention stand adjourned until o'ciooi
An order to give the committee ample
time in which to report Unanimously
carried. . a.. ao,.,o.,s
as well as the conference eon ~ .hssi
aled in rapidly. They went 70 the me-,
,.ss places with a quicker stel
LA everything indicated that some
thing would be done; "a. .o,.,,i.
A. P. McKinnon of Hill SAID; Genie