The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-06-18

being next in order Mr.. Evans of Min
4eSota placed in nomination Mr.. C. w.
johnson of Minnesota.
Mr.. Yerkes named w. E. Riley of
kentucky; Senator Gear named Harry
smith. The two latter names were with
Drawn upon the understanding that Mr.
Johnson should be made secretary and
Smith assistant secretary.
So many names were mentioned for
| assistant secretary that Mr.. Fessenden
facetousiy suggested that each state and
territory be given an assistant secretary.
Mr.. Hahn put Mr.. Fessendens motion
seriously, moving that one secretary and
| three assistants should be chosen and
that each member of the committee
should be allowed to designate an hon
orary secretary.
The motion prevailed
Mr.. johnson was elected secretary and
Messrs Riley, Smith and A. b. Hum
phreys of New York, assistants.
j. II. Stone of Michigan, ]. Smalley of
Ohio, Il. $. Hatcher of Indiana and j.
X. Beall of New York were designated
as reading clerks.
On the motion of Mr.. Scott of West
Virginia, Rabbi Samuel Sale of ST. Louis
was chosen chaplain.
In the Sixth Texas district G.. w.
Ogden and Joseph Tweedy (Alison) were
seated.
There was no contest filed in the Thr-
teenth and Pat Dooling and o. L. Bacon,
| Mckinley men, were seated.
In the Alaska contest four delegates
were seated with half vote each. The
vote in the Eleventh Texas, by which
seated. was recOnsidered and James o.
Liby and G. Il. Townsend were seated.
In the Second Virginia district there
was a spirited contest. The contestants
and contestees We're seated with half a
vote each
The Sixth district of New York was
called. In this district Henry Safter and
George w. Palmer were contested by
Edward Ii. Schleuter and Henry C.
Fischer. Both delegations were for
Morton. The contest has been with
drawn and Safter and Palmer were
seated without opposition.
The Second district Of New York
Cornelius Van Colt and Hugh McRob.
erts PlatD were contested by Martin III
Healy and Abram Cole (anti-Platt. The
latter had no papers and Il request was
made by Mr.. Sutherland to postpone, but
objection was made and Van Colt and
McRoberts were seated.
In the Ninth district the same state OF
affairs was developed. The Platt mer
Charles III. Murray and John j. Collins
were seated.
THE TEXAS CONTEST.
The Texas contest was then announced
to be in order. This contest involves all
the thirteen district delegates, there be-
ing one set of contesteeS and two sets OF
contestants in each case. The question
in dispute between one of the sets and
the other two was party organization
and that between the other two of non,
conformity to party rules.
Wright Quincy heads the delegation
claiming to be regular
The question of party organization was
taken up, and II. f. McGregor, repre-
senting the lily whites, or reform dele
gates, addressed the committee in behalf
of that organization. He claimed that
his organization was regular, having beer
organized prior to the Minneapolis con
vention. He said that this delegation
was largely for Mckinley because of the
feeling in favor of protection. Still thel
had ordinarily avoided instructions anC
| would be satisfied with any candidates
nominated. He claimed that the Demo
cratic party had become minorit!
party.
Mr.. McGregor, having referred to tn
"rottenness" of the Republican part!
of the south, Mr.. Hill of Missouri calleC
him to order, saying that Mr.. McGrego
must conine his remarks to his own ter
ritory.
1t had become apparent during the hear
ing that the division between the blacl
and tans was due to difference on thu
presidential question. The Grant peopl
were all for Mckinley. while the opposi
ton were generally favorable to Allison
and Reed. fractional feeling ran yer!
high and the convention was full of eX
citing occurrences. There were 1000 PEG
pie in the hall, many of whom, it was stat
ed, participated informally i'll the pro
ccedings.
| The vote was first taken on seating TIN
delegates led by Quincy. \ yea and ma!
vote was taken, resulting in the negativ
by Il vote of II to % Several member
refused TO vote in this roll call, sayin!
that they were convinced that neither del
cgation should be given seats.
| When the result was announced MI
| Fessenden moved that it be declared tn
sense of the committee that neither dele
cation was entitled to be placed on tn
temporary roll, and this motion prevailed
The hearing in the Texas district contest
then proceeded in their numerical order.
The contest from the First district wa
| between bdNlu Lay lol anu W W. -
son on one side and Bailey Sharks and j
G. Caldwell on the other. All four wer
colored men, 1t was stated that ther
were no Mckinley men in either of tn
delegations, Taylor and Lawson being TO
Reed and Sharks and Caldwell for All
son. Taylor and Lawson were seated.
From the Second district, H. b. Gran
and II. Il. Pollard, who are said to be Mo
Kinley men, were seated. Their. oppc
nents were for Reed. The contest in TN
case turned upon charge that Hon. Wet
ster Flanagan, who does not reside IN TN
district, had carried the election for Kan
and Pollard by the use of lot of proxies
Flanagan was present and denounced tn
report as IAN unmitigated lie"
A recess was taken until 80 tonight.
The committee rushed business at tn
evening session. No contestants appear
ed in the Third, Fourth and Fifth di'
tricts, and the Mckinley men were seated
After a short argument the Mckinle
men from the Sixth district, j. NJ. Nj
Cormack and Robert Armstrong weT
seated. In the Seventh district w. L