The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-03-27
They Bolt the Regular Conven-
tion in Texas.
HOLD ONE OF THEIR OWN
Reed and Allison Men Control
the First One.
TWO SETS OF DELEGATES
When the Credential Committee Re-
ported Pistols We're Drawn and
There Came Near Being
Funeral

Austin, Texas, March 26.-The Re
publican convention which has peen in
session in this city enjoyed the dis,
tinctiOn of narrowly avoiding a funeral
and having the not unusual thing now
adays in Texas, of a split convention.
The situation looked threatening
from the very start this morning. The
Mckinley men worked all night among
the negroes, and succeeded i'm bring
ing over quite a number of them, so
that this morning when the hour for
cOnvening arrived, it found the Nc
kinley men with an organized force oc-
cupying the centre of the hall, with
very determined look on their faces
and an air of fight surrounding them.
Cuney, the chairman of the cOnven-
ton, when he mounted the rostrum at
10 o'clock, announced that the com
mittee on credentials was not ready to
report. 1t was / o'clock when they put
in an appearance, and the convention
was called to order. The first work was
the receiving and adoption of the ere
dentials committee report It's intro
duction Immediately precipitated row
in which the Reed-AllisOn men were
victorious
The convention adopted a platform
along the regulation lines, the currency
plank of which reads as follows:
I'VE re-affirm the historic adherence
of the Republican party to sound
finance. We demand an honest dollar
OF the greatest purchasing power for
every class alike; the largest issue Of
gold, silver and paper compatible with
security and the requirements of trade,
all OF equal value, interchangeable one
Tor the other, every dollar resting on
gold as money of final redemption.
The Republicans of Texas declare
this to be, in their deliberate Judgment.
the only basis for a large and liberal
circulation of money and for the main
tenance Of universal confidence"
The convention then elected the fol-
lowing delegates to St. Louis: n. w
Quincy, of Galveston. Allison man. w
X. Makemson, of Georgetown. Reed
man; E. II. Terrell, of San Antonio. Al
llson man; c. II. Ferguson, of Rich
mond, Reed man. Alternates: w. +.
Goss, ID. c. Kolp, John c. Cain and r.
Il. Smith. Electors: George G. Clff-
ford, of San Antonio, and Eugene
Marshall, Of Dallas Hardly had the
vote on the selection of electors been
announced than the long anticipated
row was i'm force,
AS the chair declared the men elect
ed hurley negro came plovip,r
through the jam pushing men in front
Of him as ii they were so much cbaF
and IN his wake came half a hundred
followers greatly excited. Thev gave
every evidence that they intended to
capture the speakers platform. The
spectators and the crowd on
the stand made frantic eff
forts TO get out Of their way
but all to no purpose. They clambered
upon the stand in an instant and there
they were confronted by Quincy and
his followers
The first negro to reach the stand
made lunge at Cuney's head with his
fist As he struck ne found himself
confronted by a big revolver in the
hands of another negro. In an instant
the platform was a scene of wild chaos.
Excited negroes swayed to and fro for
20 minutes before an armed force of
policemen could quelI the riot No one
was dangerously hurt although one or
two of the white delegates, as well as a
negro or two, were bruised considera-
bly,.
As soon as order could be obtained
the convention, after disposing of a few
minor matters, journed sine die with
out issuing any instructions to the st.
Louis delegates.
Immediately after the convention
adjourned the Mckinley faction took
charge of the hall and organizing their ~
convention in due form, elected dele
gates to St. Louis: Delegates, John
Grant, Of Sherman; Frank Hamilton,
Of Austin; s. l.. Smith, of Colorado,
and w. r. Davis, of Fort Worth.
d. r. Anderson, w. TT.
Love, r. G. Collins. and Richard Allen.
The electors named were e. p. Hunt
and A. I'll. Caldwell
This convention did not consider
platform but adopted resolutions en-
lorsing Mckinley for President and in
structing the delegates to vote for hm
as long as his name was before the