The Indianapolis journal., 1896-06-14

ganization was regular having been organ
ICED prior to the Minneapolis convention.
He said that his delegation was largely
for Mckinley because of the feeling In
favor of protection. Still they had ordinari-
ly avoided instructions and would be salts
fled with any candidate nominated He
claimed that the Democratic party had be-
come minority party.
Mr.. McGregor. having referred to the
'rottenness'' of the Republican party OF
the South. Mr.. Hill, OF Mississippi. called
him to order. saying that Mr.. McGregor
must confine his remarks to his own terri
Mr.. John Grand, representing the other
set OF contestants, said the lilly whites
were not entitled TO consideration Re-
publicanS They were a political vacuum
political bandits They were Democrats in
all but name. Their organization was a
direct thrust at color. In support OF tnls a1s,
Whites demanded separate primaries Tor
whites and blacks. Coming down to the
merits of his own contest. he asserted that
his was the regular organization and called
attention TO the fact that the Lily whites
had been ''sat upon" at Minneapolis. he
asserted that the reformers had scarcely
been heard of since the convention of four
years ago; they were accustomed 70 hlber-
nate except when "there was something
in sight"
Mr.. Terrell. who was United States min
ister to Belgium under Harrison. followed
Mr.. Grant in support or the Black ana
Tan" element, while he was in turn fol-
lowed by Mr.. Love. a colored man, in be-
half OF the Lily Whites
At the conclusion of Mr.. Loves speech
the committee, without division, decided
the State committed of which Mr.. Grant
Is chairman. to be the regular organiZa-
ton. This is the. faction known as the
BLACK and Tans."
CUNEY AND GRANT.
This action had the effect of eliminating
the Lilly Whites" from the contest. leav-
ing the dispute to proceed between the
Cuney and Grant wings of the BLACK and
NJ; had fnr G
the alleged irregularities of the proceed
ings of the State convention called by DR..
Grant to elect delegates. Mr.. Terrell ap-
peared for the Cuney wing and Judge
Thompson, of Ohio. for the Grant people.
Mr.. Terrell claimed that Quincy had been
elected temporary chairman by a large
majority. Judge Thompson conceded this
but asserted that Quincy had accomplished
this end by circulating the report that Dr.
Grant had said that no colored man should
be made chairman and by promising that
the colored delegates should be protected
| in the presidential preferences. Judge
Who haS he sad eeded eee e State 81
yention to be adjourned when no vote had
been taken on motion to adjourn DR..
Grant then called attention to the state
| of affairs, whereupon the committee reor-
ganized and proceeded. The motion for
the election Of delegates; he declared, was
never put. After this alleged adjournment
| the Cuneyites left, and, 1t was charged,
| became bolters Of the sO1 delegates in the
convention 641 remained In the hall and
| participated in the proceedings. electing the
| delegation headed by Dr. Grant. 1t was
asserted on the other hand that no color
line was drawn in the election of
| to the national convention chosen before
| adjournment was declared by Chairman
a aa TO nave taken bR sS
viva voce method, no roll call being de-
| manded
| sharp lines were drawn and many Of the
| members participated in discussing the
merits of the question. among them being
| den and Clayton. II had become apparent
| during the hearing that the division be-
tween the BLACK and Tans'' was due to
The Grant people were all for Mckinley.
while the opposition was generally favora-
| bic to Allison and Reed. fractional feeling
ran very high and the convention was full
of exciting occurrences. There 1000
| people in the hall, many Of whom. it was
| stated. participated informally in the pro-
ceedings. The vote was first taken on
| seating the Quincy delegates at large. A
yea and nay vote was taken, resulting in
members refused to vote on this roll call.
| saying that they were convinced that
neither delegation should be given seats.
When the result was announced Mr.. FeS-
sender moved that it be declared the sense
of the committee that neither delegation
was entitled to be placed on the tenn
/
| The hearing in the Texas district con-
tests then proceeded in their numerical or
der. The contest from the First district
was between David Taylor and M. w. Law
| son on the side and Bailey Sharkes and J.
| Caldwell on the other. All four were COL
ored nen. 1t was stated that there We're
no Mckinley men in either of the delega-
| tions, Taylor and Lawson being for Reed,
and Sharks and Caldwell for Allison.- Tay-
| lor and Lawson were seated.
] From the Second district II. B. Kane and
| T. T. Pollard. who are said to be Mckinley
men, were seated. Their opponents were
| for Reed. The contest in this case turned
| on a charge that Hon. Webster Flanagan,
| who does not reside in the district had
carried the election for Kane and Pollard
| by the use of a lot of proxies. Flanagan
| was present and denounced the report as
IAN unmitigated lie." A recess was taken
until 1870 tonight.
| RUSHED ITS WORK.
The committee rushed business at the
evening session. No contestants appeared
in the Third, Fourth and Fifth districts
and the Mckinley men were seated. Aft
er a short argument the Mckinley men.
J. NJ Mccormack and Robert Armstrong
were seated with very little discussion.
In the Seventh Texas district w. f..
| Crawford and B. F. Wallace, Reed men,
were seated. In the Eighth Texas district
the contest was withdrawn and Marion
| Williams and w. j. Wasson were seated.
They favor Mckinley.
| In the Ninth Texas district Hugh Han
cock, colored and Paul Fricle were seated.
| They favor Mckinley.
| In the Tenth Texas district r. B. Haw-
! ley (Reed) and NJ. M. Rodgers (Allison)
| were seated.
| In the Eleventh Texas district after David
| Abner colored, had made a statement, the
| Hon.. ID. Is. Renfro said that in the dis
| trict convention the Reed-Allison forces in
troduced Democratic policemen with drawn
| pistols, who attempted to intimidate the
| Mckinley delegates. This statement was
/ corroborated by Abner. David Abner tcol-
| ored) and d. B. Renfro, both Mckinley,
were seated.
| In the Twelfth Texas district c. w. Og-
/ den and Joseph Tweedy (Allison) were
| seated. There was no contest filed in the
| Thirteenth, and Patrick 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 Tenth Texas. by which David Abner
| and Il. B. Rentfro were seated.was recon
| sidered and James O. Libby and G.. A.
| Townsend were seated. Mr.. Quay, who
| was a member of the committee by proxy
/ for the District of Columbia, moved to seat
| the contestants and contestees with a half
| vote each. He said that he did not want
| the dirty linen of Pennsylvania in the ma
| tional convention. 1t could notaffect the