The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-09
DeIegatlOn TO Caucus After Every
Ballot.
STOOD BY THE BIG STEAL.
GeOrGidnS Helped Gust
MiChigdn'S GOldbuGS.

The Ballot I'm the Caucus of ths
Delegation stood IL for Bland and
s for Boies-Under the Unit Rule
the Missouri Candidate Gets the
Twenty-sIx Votes-How Each Dell
egate stood on the BaIIot-Ths
Delegation only waiting for an
Opportunity TO Stampede to Teller.
Chicago ILL.,, July S-when the Geor-
gia delegation met I'm caucus this morning
a poll was taken on the choice Of the dele
gaton for President. The result was IS
for Bland and s for Boies on the first
ballot
Capt. e. p. Howell and Hon Hal Lewis.
delegates-at-large, were absent from the
caucus, attending committee meetings.
and did not vote.
Chairman Patrick Walsh cast his vote
first for Boies, but when II became appar-
ent that the majority favored Bland he
changed his vote The Boies votes were
cast by Delegates j. J. Andrews OF the
Fourth district, ]. A. Morrow Of the Fifth
district, w. NJ. Gomman OF the Seventh.
w. ]. Mcbride and W. d. Burnett Of the
Eighth, Howard Thompson of the Ninth,
and c. II. Pendleton and w. II. Clements
Of the Eleventh.
The Bland men were J. Pope Brown OF
Pulaski. delegate-at-iarge; Patrick
Walsh, delegate-at-large; j. c. Dell and
j. A. Brannen Of the First district. j. Es
Donaldson and E. B. Burke OF the Sec
ond district, J. T. Hill and r. c. Houser
OF the Third. II. o. Howard OF the Fourth,
r. d. spalding OF the Fifth, c. T. Zach
cry and 3. M. Dover OF the Sixth, Mr..
McWhorter OF the Eighth, T. NJ. Peoples
OF the Ninth. and q. w. Warren and
j. T.. Farmer OF the Tenth.
The instruction for Bland was mada
binding only for the first ballot.
II was decided however, that a caucus
should be held on each ballot so as to
cast the vote Of the state for any OF tho
other candidates who might be selected,
the underlying motive being TO 30 to Teller
II there was stampede In that direction
In the fight over the report Of the Gre
dentials committee on Michigan the
Georgia delegation stood solidly for tho
majority report, which turned that stauo
over TO the silver column Mr.. Lewis, the
Georgia member of the credentials COM
mittee, signed the majority report but
he disagreed to that part OF It recommends
Ninth dictrict. One district turned down
he considered as far as the power OF
might ought to go, regardless of the right
The unit rule was put on the delegation
by the Georgia state convention and Geor-
gia was whipped bodily into the line with
the political-greatest poltical-theft since
the republican outrage of 76
South Carolina, under Senator Tillman
and Gov. Evans, also Joined in the theft
unanimously; but Florida, although di-
Vlded on the money question, cast her
eight votes for the minority report.
Yesterday the Florida delegation voted
four and four In the contest between
Senators Hill and Daniel When the
question of candidates comes up 1t Will
give three votes in the ranks Of the sound
money line and five for the silver candi-
dates.
In going into the steal that gave the
vote Of Michigan to the silver cause
to-day Georgia and the southern states
lent themselves to a transaction that
viii go down In the annals of the country
as a political infamy. The only parallel
is the notorious republican crime Of '76.
when the electoral vote of Florida, a
southern state, was the object of the theft.
Florida remembering this outrage for
got the division in her ranks on the sill
yer question, presented a united front
and cast her eight votes as the one re-
deeming protest of the south against
southern completely in the Michigan steal
With the recollection Of that and the
constant protest of southern states against
a blow at the sacred principle OF local
self government the south should have
been willing to surrender almost any
question of temporary policy rather than
that to-day's events should have come to
her. In the language of one of the speak
ers, who fought with a flowing tongue
Of eloquence to stay the mad tide, 1t was
an act that will be damning in its con-
sequences. 1t was not simply the question
of advantage Of one side or the other
that might be gained by the unseatina.
of the Michigan delegates. II was the
great question of the right of a national
body to go behind the action of a SOW
ereign state and dictate the qualifications
of that states representatives. 1t was the
setting of a predecent compared to which
a force bill for the southern voters with
federal bayonets bristling at every ballot
box would not be fraught with more
danger to the free expression of the
peoples will. If this precedent Is
to govern in the future, and the
democracy of the nation dominated by a
maddened majority. crazed on the single
idea of forcing a debased currency upon
the country deliberately said to-day that
1t was right in the future no state con-
vention can say that its delegates shall
be recognized. If the voice Of the people
Is to be centralized in the national organ
ization of the party in the future. any
state or states that happen to be in the
minority will be the playthings Of the