The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-05-07

! been perfectly immaterial whether tn
members of that body as committee
were silver men or gold men, and it wa
not necessary that there should hay
been. any more or them present than {
! majority of the committee. But to d'
what they did. and to make their actor
result as it will, it will be seen that !
was absolutely necessary to manufacture
| the body into a controlling silver commit
tee, whether right or wrong, fair or un
fair in the doing of it, as it was done a
Austin when they met and acted.
For, in n lengthy, confused set of rules
which few men would take the trouble t
analyze so as to find out exact!
what they were designed to ac
committee that the intolerant ant
prospective ajority-unit-rule SHOULD
! run through the whole plan from bottom
| to top. and that the primary election, as i
is called to be held on the 9th of June
| 1896, at from 300 to 5000 voting places
| III the state, with the annexed pledge OF
| abiding the result and voting for the nom
| inees, was made in effect, the election OF
the state executive officers, the same AZ
| though it was the regular general election
in November next. And the time fixed
for holding said primaries was such that
the present state officers being from diff
l'ltii' phi " VI ,hc H'"V'' ''puS" "'".
cated toGcther AT Austih, could aiohe JON
together in ticket to be voted for AT
such primaries. What other set of so
called silver men could have. in the time
allowed. formed ticket. and had time
to present their claims to office by II can
vass over the state? The answer is that
no others could have done it and that
must have been well known to the com
mittee when they were doing their work
~ AuStIh' rlShI ~ 'le liIiusl Vi 'liose
S S,ic oIncrrs. men scnS!plc ni'li w II
lhlilS 'nat mas rcS''i,ie e ,IlcN'"Ile con
sequence they are risHlluIlE pIrSuilleu W
nnNe l"IoSopn nlI ih.tl"tn 'i'"i eohS Sc
uur'e ~ ,'in't ~ 'n ,m,nS uonu us
.nFni nay - ;di io'c ~ uoni',2n seiiSe
"H wen AZ VI J"ui'i"i '''ei ii'i''"''o"
The plan OF that committee abolishes
the county conventions ana substitutes IN
place OF them the county executive com
mlttees, lhihg never heard OF before
III also III eHcct changes 'he powers OF the
stare conventions as heretofore exercised,
ana makes the one at Austin mere com
pu.hlion convention 10 count the Votes
lnat come up from tle primaries ior dei-
egates thhl VIII lheVliaply result, uhder
'me "hit rhh'' % selulls oniy so-caheu
SILVER men as ueleSa'es 10 lineage, leaV-
Ihs 'ne ilinorhS 9l so.cuileu soiu men
, I1I No,c ~ Nv primaries WIN 10 Noice
,h W., IL Ina. anu ui.uel
,,.;I, Ia,nc "ie ny iGIiueh,i"i 'ie' M
Mii w an so-yaheu sll.fr MN , -. me
Io a oe,i,ion AZ oit Wol.h WIZ nheWise
no ',it;l INV irit s,.
Gu " .ouhit sGe WIS ~ .lc can-
MINUTES ior state Offices, US ln.E come
"p i,o,i 'ne plil'a a WIEN nNu uele.
s", ,I1 anG Eoou h,eic"I.l'e aoIoun,un,
T., MI IL, un". Ii.ti w Iouii tt
~ am tt m I'LL ", e Wv Nv
hn r ''irot,i H.. IL r.,''it s a., G,.,,, w.
IN thn a,;thnt =; ~. oanto VI NV, m NJ t
H. ~. Gnu M,
he so.collnd silver mon These results
of both the so-called Democratic state
were evidently planned for.
forcsecn and designed by the so-callcd
state Democratic executive committee of
sixteen to fifteen. organized at Austin.
The two-thirds rule. if there should be
more than one set of candidates. will be
by the act of counting up the
figures to ascertain what state officers
had majority of votes sent up from the
primaries, through the county executive
Another result may be ex-
pccted is, that one of these state conven-
tons will appoint another state eXecu-
tive committee. not of the sixteen to fif-
teen order, but composed of all so-called
silver men, to organize the Democratic
party two years hence and thereby com
pletc what will be denominated by those
not in it. ring government. to be
maintained in this state. The
concession made by the chairman of that
committee. i'm his illogical explanation of
he meaning of the words that had been
prescribed for the so-colled gold mon to
.xpress their sentiments mon tbcir tick.
is. will be no relief against those rasults
,ut will rather serve rs n decov to oIInro
hon into tho nrimorins to cost thoi,. uso-
ess votes
c..,
III 'ne iur!ner uiscussioh Oh tliis SUD
ect l wish it to be borne in mind, for
'cference further ON, that the appoint |
nent of all silver men as representatives |
o Chicago, and of all silver men to be
presidential electors, were the pre-dctcr-
mined results that caused that committee |
o adopt the unusual and extraordinary |
et of rules necessary to affect them.