San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-10-27
KIoLBASSA KICKS.
HIS CASE CREATED A STIR THIS
MORNING
Meeting to Arrange Form Ct the AustIa-
Ian Ballot To be Voted at the
Coming Election.

cincts for the purpose of receiv
ing applications of the various
political parties, tickets and can
didates for places on the Austria
liam ballot for the election on No
vember 3rd.
The meeting was called to or
der by County Judge Callaghan
and on motion of Charles .4Zall
manzig, Ed. Braden, Jr., was
elected chairman. 1t was decid.
ed to appoint the newspaper re.
pOrters present to take down the
proceedings. The meeting then
adjourned to the Thirty-seventh
District court room.
The chairman then read the
names of the presiding officers of
the sixteen city precincts, all of
which were responded to but
two. and are as follows: Precinct
No. l, a. Gaul; No. 2, Phil Shar-
dein; No. 3, Eli Armand; No. 4,
John Kenney; No. 5, T. Barnes,
No. 6, Chas. Zallmanzig; No. Z,
n. c. Young; No. s. HI. Brendel;
No. 8, c. B. Mullaly; No. LOCUS.
Frasch; No. II, HI. B. Salliway;
absent; No. II, F. Bohn; No. 10,
Louis SPAIN; No. IA, E. Stoves,
absent; No. Is, Ed. Braden, Jr.;
No. IS. A. Baldus.
The chairman read the names
of the various tickets and candi-
dates to be placed on the ballot,
each of which are to be placed
on the ballot in a separate col
umn. The list includes the Re
publican national state ticket.
the Republican county ticket, the
Democratic national and state
tickets, the national Democratic
sound money ticket, Peoples par
ty ticket, Prohibition ticket, In
dependent county ticket, Citi-
zens' ticket and the various in
dependent candidates.
All the candidates and those
interested in candidates were on
hand to hear their names or the
names of their friends read and
given place on the ballot. Every
thing passed off as harmonious
as a prayer meeting until the
Citizens ticket came up, and
the name of the candidate for
county treasurer was read. Ben
kiOlbassa then arose and pro-
tested. He said he was the can
didate for that Office on
that ticket, as nominated by the
convention, and that he did not
withdraw and did not intend to
withdraw. He stated that the
plenary committee appointed by
the convention had removed him
from the ticket and substituted
Ferd. Herff and then removed
Mr.. Herff and substituted Ed.
Dreiss.
Here an animated debate arose
as to the power of the plenary
committee. Henry L. Vernon
and c. L. Bates, who represented
the Citizens ticket, held that the
plenary committee had as much
power as the convention and
could create and fill vacancies as
it saw fit.
Mr.. Vernon read a resolution
adopted by the convention, stat
ing that the committee was en-
powered to fill any vacancy on
the ticket, but it said nothing as
to creating vacancies. The chair
man asked Mr.. Bates if he meant
to say that the committee could
'fire" any candidate from the
ticket and the answer came in
the affirmative. The chairman
then asked if it was not a fact
that Kiolbassa was removed
from the ticket because, he would
not come up with the money for
campaign fund. Mr.. Bates re-
piled that Mr.. Kiolbassa "refus-
ed to give his share of the funds
required for legitimate purposes
in conducting the campaign"
Someone asked how it was
known that Mr.. Kiolbassa had
been nominated by the conven-
ton and the chairman replied
that he saw the reports in the
newspapers. Mr.. Bates showed
the following card to the chair
man, which read:
Public Notice:-Why Don't
the City Hall Ticket Fill in
Those Two Blanks? Vote for
Ben Kiolbassa, Independent Can
didate for County Treasurer.
He Won't be Bled nor Bluffed."
Mr.. Kiolbassa said he had