The morning times., 1896-06-14
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tocertify the rolf call. Meanwhile two votes
were changed and the final result was an
nounced-ayes, %; nays, 60
Mr.. Hahn moved that both delegates be
seated with Il half vote each. Coffee and
sandwiches were brought in at l2:i5. De-
bate was iDaugurated and the committee
:cttIed down for siege.
The consideration or the South Carolina
sontests was an interesting feature of
The days session of the ma tional committee.
In his own behalf Robert Small made
bitter attaci, upon his opponents. The
lilywhites, he insisted, had no standing
In the State, they had no excuse for ex-
is,ence, and they were entitled 10 neither
the recognition nor the respect OF the
Republicans of the nation.
In the city OF Charleston, where Col.
Melton had said $500 white men Will be
ready to join the ilywhite party, the facts
were said Small, that perhaps taat number
of men, or more. Were willing to join
not so much the Republican party. as any
party that would help them 10 down"
Ti,iman and his diSpensary law and give
them free rum in their city and their homes.
National Committeeman L. III. Brayton,
also one of the contestants, spoke in bis
dual capacity. He was repeatedly In
terrupted by Senator Thurston, who at one
adopted the club or black and white
club system.
WOULD NOT TOLERATE 1T.
Col. Brayton replied in the affirmative,
and Senator Thurston rejuiBed that neither
the Republican party nor the Republican
convention would ever tolerate system
of organization that did not permit every
man to take part in all preliminary pro-
oeedings.''
what about the League of Republican
Clubs. of which you have been PRESIDENT"
rctorted Col. Brayton.
"Thats another matter" replied the
senator and a laugh went around the
room.
The rival delegations having Withdrawn.
Mr. Long of Florida promptly moved the
seating of the Webster-Small delegation.
Col. Settle. proxy for Cowles OF North
Carolina, proposed as substitute the
seating of the Bra yton- Melton quartet.
The roll was called amid considerable ex-
element. 1t resulted in the rejection of
the substitute, to 21. This was first
blood for the anti-lilywhites, but when the
motion to seat the Webster-Small dele
gates was about to be put, Fesenden of
Connecticut moved that the Delaware
precedent be followed and both sides be
excluded from the temporary roll.
Delegate Catron of New Mexico moved
tflat eHCn ueleEaIfDu DE seated Will Il
half vote each. The proposition to seat
Doth delegations was defeated, 16 to 80.
The question required on Fessendeu's mo-
tion to exclude both delegations and re-
ferred the issue TO the national convention.
Another roll call was demanded. Again
the liIywhites encountered defeat to "a.
Then the minority gave up the fight, a nd the
WebsterSmall delegation was seated on
q viva voce vote, with about ten nays.
This vote takes out of the convention a
total OF sixteen delegates, who are noted
In Mr.. HanDa's handbook of delegates of
contestants as having Reed preferences"
At lao p. IN. recess of twenty minutes
for lunch was ordered.
OFFICERS OF THE CONVENTION.
The selection of the temporary officers of
the onveDtion had been the special order
for 2 p. m, but it was considera big after
that time before the Committees got to-
gether again after recess. They then got
down to business Immediately.
Col. c. W. johnson. OF Minnesota, who
was the secretary of the national conven-
ton of 1892, at Minneapolis, was unani-
mously chosen secretary of this conyen-
ton.
W. G. Riley, of Kentucky, was made first
assistant secretary: Harris II. Smith, Wash
ington, second assistant secretary, and
a. B. Humphrey of New York, secretary Of
the Republican League, third assistant
secretary.
For chaplain, Rabbi Samuel Sale, of St.