The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-09-17
DOWNFALL 0F CUNEY.
THE BLACK AND TAN IDOL
MET HIS WATERLOO
YESTERDAY.
GRANTS VICTORY WAS COMPLETE.
FERGUSON ELECTED FOR TEN
PORARY CHAIRMAN BY AC-
CLANIATION.
CARRltD ON ADMIR|NG SHOULDERS.
GRANT WAS IDOLIzED BY THE
CONVENTION TO A GREAT
EXTENT.
ONLY TEMPORARY ORGANIZATION WAS AFFECTED
And Convention Adjourned Till Today,
Lily Whites Put Out State Ticket
and Plenary Power Committee.
Burke Withdraws From State
Craftsmanship Race-Con-
vention Proceedings.
GRANT WAS IDOLIXED BY THE
CONVENTION TO A GREAT
EXTENT.
ONLY TEMPORARY ORGANIZATION WAS AFFECTED

Fort Worth, Tex. Sept. 9.-(Special.)-
Many of the delegates turned up this
morning in rather a delapdated condition
Campaign fire water had transformed
many of the negro delegates into walk
ing distilleries and one passed with
difficulty through the line of their breath.
Others who had walked the streets all
every evidence of knowing what it was
to have gone through the mill. Many
scenes enacted at the Austin convention
are being enacted here. Many of the
negro delegates are hungry, many are
without sleeping accommodations, not
that there are not enough eating and
sleeping houses. but for the reason that
they are broke. A negro never seems
to profit by experience. They went to
Austin without any money, expecting the
bosses to take care of them, and they
came here in the same blind faith. Here
they were expecting Green to hustle, not
barrel, but hOgshead, but they count
ed without their hosts If he has opened
even a keg | have not been Informed of it,
do not mean to intimate that | wanted
or needed any of the keg, but | have
listened to many negrO's song of woe
since | arrived, and from them | received
my information that if any barrel has
| been tapped none of its contents has drift
! ed their way. One or two of these
worthy delegates told me only this morn
| ing that they had been deceived in this
| as in the Austin convention. Nobody
| blames the negro for being II Doodle
him his cue and | rather glory in his
fleeing some of them if he can, but
do hate to see him get left as he is doing
| so often nowadays. Some of those here
are as much down in the mouth IA
though they were suffering from one OF
those attacks of collie that are so preva-
lent in "early existence days" They
have cause to be so, for they have been
deceived by the politicians into coming
here after a golden calf and getting a
shower of morning dew instead as they
wander along in the dawn of early morn
| will say. however, that some of the
| politicians have opened their hearts and
bought the negro food, but as to any reali'
| zation of his dream of wading in golden
shekels the negro is not realizing any OF
his speculations. He is here, however
and told me last night that he was going
to stay the thing out. if he could possibly
keep body and soul together and there
is no danger of his dying before now and
when he gets home.
All day yesterday the old Austin freeze
out game was played until the negroes
began to wonder if they were going tc
be subjected to another deal such as
Quincy gave them in Austin. The cause
of all the delay yesterday, however, was
due to the fact that the executive com
mittee was trying to patch up tempo
rary role and also adopt some means OF
bringing about harmony. The negroes
who were not in the push, however, coult
not understand all this, though be 1t sale
to their credit they stood Loyalty to theil
guns and raised no vigorous kick at the
siege they were subjected to, though
can personally testify to the WEAKNESS
they experienced in sitting in the conven
ton hall from II to awaiting some
action by the executive committee and
Chairman Grant. The negro is nothing
however, If not of an iron constitution
and he never wavered. Some few were
found nodding in their seats this morn
ing, but the majority were as much or
the alert as ever and looking as shrewdly
to the right and left as they did the first
day of their arrival. Many of them have
been here since Sunday and there are
more of them here, too, than there ever
were Mt a republican convention before
/ don't know what brought them. Some
say it was a search after dough. Others