The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-10-15
Won ROSENBERG ENDORSED.

Won ROSENBERG ENDORSED.
The Republican Executive Committe
Approve His Candidacy.
Under the call of Hon. Thad c. Bell
chairman of the republican cXecutiv,
committee of Travis county, said commit
tee met in executive session at No. IL
West Seventh street in this city, at
o'clock p. M. yesterday, at which tim,
an adjournment had been taken at II
o'clock a. m. to await the arrival of some
of the members of the committee who
had not reached the city. Upon being
called to order by Chairman Bell, al
members were found TO be present, eX
cept j. NJ. Swishcr, chairman of justice
precinct No. I, and Carl Beck, chairman
of justice precinct No. $, but John ii
Traynham held the proxy of Capt
Swisher and Hugh b. Hancock that OF
Mr.. Beck, and the secretary of the com
mittee, ID. :. Shanks of Sprinkle, not be.
ing present VIM. White, the member
from justice precinct No. 3 was, upon
motion, made secretary for the meeting.
The first business in order was the fol
lowing:
John II. Traynham. proxy for ]. VI.
Swisher. chairman of justice precinct No.
{. offered the following resolution, which
was unanimously adopted:
Austin, Tex. October 10. 1896
Whereas, At the adjourned session of
the republican county convention of
Travis county, Tex, held in this city on
September II. 1896, a resolution was
unanimously passed endorsing, as Il part
of the report of the county plenary COM
mite on ticket. on which committee the
republicans of this county We're repre-
sented. the Hon. VIM. Won Rosenberg. Jr.
for district attorney of the Twenty
judicial district, composed of Travis and
Williamson counties which resolution
was obligatory upon the delegates from
Travis county who had the power of cast
ing twelve (12) of the eighteen QSl votes
in the said Twenty-SiXth judicial district
convention: and.
Whereas. The said delegates from
Travis county in the said Twenty-siXth
judicial district convention held in this
city on September n, 1896. failed to car
ry out the will of the republicans of said
county as expressed in said resolution
by naming the Hon. VIM. Won Rosenberg
Jr., as our candidate for district attor-
ney for said district. the delegates from
Williamson county on he other hand. in
said convention. desiring the same done
but in lieu thereof appointed Il district
committee of three ~ with plenary power
to act in their stead, which district pie
nary committee has Il majority of its
members from Travis county who were
bound by the terms of said resolutions
and.
Whereas. One of said members of said
district plenary committee from Travis
county violated the expressed will of his
constituency by voting in district fusion
committee session with the populist Judi
cial district plenary committee of said
Twenty-siXth district. for the nomination
of another than the Hon. VIM. Won Ro-
Senberg, Jr., for district attorney of said
district, who was thereby nominated for
said office, but has declined the same.
and the said district plenary committee
has adjourned subject TO the call of the
said member from Travis county. who.
we believe, will never call said committee
together again; or, at least. not soon
enough to carry out effectively the ey-
pressed will of the republicans of Travis
county, and only then with the view of
again defeating it, therefore be it
Resolved, That We, the executive COM
mttee OF the republican party of Travis
county. Tex, in executive session as
sembled. acting in vacation for the re-
publican party of the county under the
laws governing republican organizations.
hereby suspend the functions of the two
members of said district plenary commit
tee from Travis county and set them at
naught, and hereby carry out the said
expressed will of the republicans of
Travis county, by directing the members
OF our party on the county plenary fu-
sion committee of Travis county to place
the name of the Hon. VIM. Won Rosen-
berg. Jr., upon all official and other bal
lots TO be used at the election on Novem-
Der i, 1916. for the district attorneyship
of said judicial district, he being hereby
named by us. acting as a county i'll lieu
OF participating in district action. for our
party as one of the political fusion ele-
ments upon said office in said county as
n part of said district fusion movement:
and ask the republicans of Williamson
county and the ropuliSts and sound
money democrats of both this and that
county, to take the same steps in said
matter as we, as county. are hereby
taking in said premises
y resolution, practically unanimously.
was then passed. offered by Mr.. Trayn-
nam. that the members of the county
plenary fusion committe belonging to the
republican party be requested TO vote to
hill up the blank for sheriff now remaining
open. and also another resolution by Cant.
Champion. member from justice precinct
No. 4, that the name of Jacob Bickler
be kept on the ticket for county superin
tendent of schools, and the committee
then adjourned subject to the call of the
chairman.