The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-06-25
STATE POLITICS.
NEW BRAUNFELS CONVENTION.
Proceedings of the Twelfth District Con-
grcssOnal Convention.

Proceedings of the Twelfth District Con
grcssi0nal Convention.
New Braunfcls, Tex. June 21.-(Spc
cial.D -Onc Of the most celebrated con
vcntiOns ever held in the Twelfth con
grcssional district of Texas, for the pur
pose Of nominating II congressman, was
called to order by the Hon. ii. G. Garter
of Santono at the court house in New
BraunfclS at . y. III. yesterday.
The delegates from the various cOun
ties were instructed to furnish the cXecu.
tive committee with their credentials, fol
the purpose Of finding out who was en-
titled to vote for temporary chairman
and secretary, and the same was allowed
fifteen minutes to report to the commit
tee. After an hours absence the com
mttec reported as follows:
BeXar county allowed 16 votes: Val
Verde |. Glasscock |. Blanco |, Buche |,
Coke /. Comal 3. Concho /. Crane /.
Crockett /, Gillespie l. Edward /. Iron 1,
Jeff Davis /. Llano . Kimble /, Ken
dali /, Maverick ], Medina |. Eastand |,
Mcnard |, Schlcicher /. Pccos |, Pre-
sdio .. Sterling |, Upton |, Tom
Green ..
$. b. Easlcy nominated II. c. Carter
rs temporary chairman and j. r. Halle
nominated w. W. Martin of Kerrville.
The roll was called and the ballot re-
suited: Martin %: Carter. 30.
Mr.. Martin was declared elected tenn
pOrary chairman, which he accepted with
Il very appropriate speech to The con-
vcntiOn.
II. c. Hildebrand was nominated as
secretary and G. b. Hudspeth as assis-
tant secretary and they were elected by
acclamation.
1t was then moved to appoint three
committee. of seven men each. one on
| credentials and basis of representation.
one on platform and one on permanent
organization.
A recess was taken to allow the chair
man to select the names of the various
| committees and he reported the follow
| ing names:
Committee on Credentials, Etc.-W.
w. Gatewood. w. i. Finley, T.. j.
Lewis, j. l.. Phelan, Il. ID. Linscy Scion
Committee on Resolutions and Plat
fOrm-T. o. Murphy, j. ID. Quinn. j. +.
Onion, J. IL. Halle, +. McGown and
ii. ii. Fitzpatrick.
Committee on Permanent Organization
III. II. Nenor, j ii. Clark, s. b. Eas-
| ley. l.. +. Dolch. w. b. Anderson. A. T..
Altget and j. G. Murphy.
The committees were allowed twenty
minutes to report.
The committee on credentials and basis
of representations. reported as follows:
Mr. Chairman-Your committee begs
leave to report as follows:
AS basis of representation we recon-
mend that each county be allowed one
vote for every 300 votes cast for Cover
nor Culberson in 1894 and ore vote for
Il fractional part in excess of 100 votes
50 east, and that each county represent
ut least one vote.
w. w. GATEWOOD,
J. l.. PHELAN, Sec.
The committee on permanent organiza-
ton reported MS follows:
To the Hon. w. w. Martin. Chairman
Your committee on permanent Organi-
zati0n and order of business bcgs leave
to submit the following report:
First-Wc recommend that the tempo
rary organization of this convention be
made permanent.
Second We recommend the following
| order of business:
First-'rhC recognizing and acting
upon the reports of the committees on
credentials, permanent organization and
platform and resolutions.
Sccond-Thc nomination of Il candidate
for congress for this, the Twelfth con
grcssional district of Texas.
Third-That all resolutions offered to
| he convention Except those reported by
the several committccs), after being rcad
to the convention and debated for not
more than hvc minutes. be referred 10
the committee on resolutions
Fourth-Thc selection of chairman
and executive committee for the en-
suing two years.
II. L. VERNON,
Chairman.
\. f. ALTGELT. Sec.
The report was adopted.
The committee on platform and reso-
lntlons reported as follows:
10 the Hon. w. w. Martin, Chair
man-We. your committee on platform
and resolutions, respectfully report as
| follows:
Resolved, That we are in favor of an
honest dollar, a dollar worth neither more
nor less than 100 cents.
We favor bimetallism and to that end
| we demand the free and unlimited coinage
OF both gold and silver at the ratio of
10 to | as standard money. with equal
legal tender power independent of the
action of any other nation.
Resolved, That the Democracy of the
Twelfth congressional district pledges
itself to abide by and accept the platform
of the national Democratic convention TO
Resolved, That we favor tariff for
revenue to support the government eco
nomically administered. and in levying
such tariff we favor an equitable adjust
lleht OF the same upon raw materials of
| the south and west, and we are against
discrimination in favor of the manufac-
tured articles of the north and east.
Resolved, That we are opposed to the
wholesale pension policy now practiced by
the government, and demand that greater
restrictions be thrown around the issue
of pensions.
J. +. ONION. Chairman.
THOS. o. MURPHY.
Ill. Ii. FITZPATRICK.
The Hon. ]. ID. Quinn. member of the
committee. brought in the following
minority report:
| We. the undersigned members. beg
leave to submit the following minority re-
port in lieu of the first resolution offered
| by the committee, and we submit the fol-
| lowing:
In view of the near approach of the ma
tional Democratic convention. which will
meet ut Chicago. July I. and in view of
the fact that such convention has ey.
elusive jurisdiction and will pronounce
authoritatively upon the financial issue,
and as delegates have been elected
through properly called conventions to
pass upon this question we relerote the