The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-27

! lican convention, which has been in ses-
sion in this city since Tuesday, adjourn
ed sine die this afternoon, after having
enjoyed the distinction of narrowly avoid
ing funeral, and had the not unusual
thing nowadays in Texas, a split conven-
ton.
The situation looked threatening at the
very start, this morning
The Mckinley men worked all night
among the negroes and succeeded in
bringing over quite number of them,
SO that this morning when the hour for
! convenlng arrived it found the Mckinley
men with an organized force occupying
the center of the hall, with a very deter
mined look on their faces and an air of
light surrounding them. Quincy, the chair
man OF the convention, when he mounted
the rostrum at 10 o'clock, took in the Sit
uation at a glance and seeing that the
Mckinney men were assuming formidable
strength, Immediately sent his emissaries
out for his forces, and pending their re-
turn he did not turn die in the matter
OF opening the convention, putting forth
the excuse that the committee on creden-
tlals was not ready to report. He finally
GOT HIS FORCES TOGETHER
about 1 o'clock and the same time the
convention was called to order The first
work Of the convention was the receiving
and adoption of the credentials commit
tees report. It's Introduction irnmedi-
ately precipitated a row, and while the
Mckinley faction made a determined fight
| arbitrary rulings. shut them out entirely
and organized the convention with the
Reed-Allison men in exclusive charge
THE PLATFORM.
The convention adopted platform
along the regular lines, the currency
plank of which read as follows:
we reaitlrm the historic adherence of
Gn lfT-r,
We demand an honest dollar of the great
est purchasing power for every class
allke; the largest issue of gold silver and
paper compatible with security and the
Interchangeable one for the other. every
dollar resting on gold as money of final
redemption. The Republicans of Texas.
ueGlare tnls 10 be, in their deliberate
llperal circulation of money and for the
maintenance of universal confidence
Inc convention then elected the follow
| ing delegates to the st. Louis convention:
n. W. Quincy of Galveston, an Allison
man; w. r. Mackemson Of Georgeton,
Reed man; E. H. Terrill of San Antonio
Allison man; c. H. Ferguson of Rich
m nond' Reed man. Alternates-W. F.
Gross, d. c. Kolp, J. C. Cain and r. c.
Smith. Electors-George c. Clifford of
San Antonio and Eugene Marshall of
Dallas
Hardly had the vote on the selection of
LONG-ANTICIPATED ROW
was in force. AS the chair declared the
men elected, wild whoop from the very
center of the Mckinley delegation pro-
claimed that the trouble had begun One
burly negro came through the jam, push
ing men in front of him as if they were
so much chaff and in his wake came a
hundred followers, wild with excitement
They gave every evidence that they in
FlGTl
spectators and the crowd on the stand
made frantic efforts to get out of
their way, but all to no pur-
pose. They we're on the stand
fronted by Quincy and his faithful fol-
lowers who received them with a hearty
welcome, far warmer than they antici-
pated. The Quincy men had no time to
crowd was on them. This mattered lit |
tie, however. as each man instantly re-
solved himself into a John l.. Sullivan
and combatted every inch of the ground.
a lunge at Cuney's head with his fist |
While he was quick, one of Cuneys fol- |
lowers was quicker. While he struck at
Quincy, he found himself confronted
BY A REVOLVER
in the hands of a negro, who, while not
so large, demonstrated that he could hold
his own against all corners. The two
men eyed each other for ten seconds, |
probably, when they both went down be-
fore the bowling crowd that was swaying
around and about them
In an instant. the platform was a
scene of wild chaos Excited negroes !
swayed to and fro in battle for twenty
minutes before an armed force of police
men could quell the riot. 1t was then
discovered that no one was dangerously |
hurt although one or TWO of the white |
delegates, as well as a negro or two,
were bruised considerably. AS soon as
order could be obtained, the convention, !
after disposing of few minor matters. |
adjourned since die without issuing any
instructions to delegates to St. Louis
Immediately after the regular con-
vention adjourned, the Mckinley faction |
took charge of the hall and organized
their convention in due FORM electing the |
following delegates to St. Louis: Dele !
gates-John Granite of Sherman, Frank
Hamilton of Austin. S. L. Smith of Colo
RADIO, w. E. Davis of Fort Worth.
Alternates-Ed Anderson, w. H. Love, |
r. G. Collins and Richard Allen.
Electors-E. P, Hunt and A. H. Cald- !
well.
This convention did not consider a plat
form but adopted a resolution endors-
ing Mckinley for president and instruct
ing the delegation sent from here to vote !
for him as long as his name. was before |
tho convention.