The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-24
HAS TWO WINGS.
DEMOCRACY IN TEXAS SPLIT OVER
FINANCES.
Gold Standard Men Resolve to Cur
~ the Fight Into the Convention
and All over the State.

AUSTIN, Texas, June 23.-The two
wings of the Democratic party met
in separate session today for the pur-
pose of electing delegates to the Chi
cago convention, and as both factions
held separate conventions there was
very little friction in either meeting.
The gold standard convention met
at noon and with very little trouble
began to transact their business. They
decided to thoroughly organize the
Democratic party in Texas by electlng
a new executive committee, and to can
a state convention at Waco, on August
%. to nominate q full state tlcket
from governor down.
From this it is easily to be inferred
THAI. regardless of whether they are
recognized at Chicago or not, the gold
men propose to fight in the state and
their avowed intention as promulgated
today is to
GIVE NO QUARTER TO THE Sill
YER MEN.
They selected delegates to Chicago
and also elected. presidential electors.
They selected delegates from the, var
ious congressional districts, IN the state
and will knock ait the Chicago conVen-
rrhe rlatform adopted was strongly
Mandatory of Cleveland and Carlisle,
The convention adopted a financial
nlank of unusual length. 1t asserts
that any change in the present money
standard would precipitate a f1nancaal
manic to which the history of the world
furnishes no parallel, and demands
/ that the present gold standard pc
i maintained The coinage and clrcula-
/ fifn az silver is favored in slch
| amounts as can be kept at party
with gold The free and unllInlaeu
! coinage of silver is opposed as a meas,
IRE borrowed from the Popuilsts anu
fraught with dishonor and disgrace to
the nation and destruction OF the peo-
/ ple." It is further demanded that uhe
government
. RETIRE FROM THE BANhlN1
BUSINESS
and that its outstanding treasury notes
he retired and cancelled.
/ The various delegates were selected
as follows:
! Delegates at large to Chicago-Geo
Ozark ef McLenran county, Rufus
Hardy of Navarro county, E. 5. Con
rer of Lamar county; A. l.. Maflock o.
Tarrant county.
as follows:
A. l.. Watts of Dallas county; W. o
Davis of Cook County.
The district delegates were elected
as follows.
First diserict-W. C. Abercrombie, o.
! Walke:.
Second-Robert Mcclure, of Rusk.
Third-Colonel Johnson, of Smith
Fourth-R. M. Henderson, of Hop
kins
Fffth-C. w. Greers, of Denton.
Sixth-W. l.. Crawford, of Dallas.
SEVENTH. w Davy, of McLennan
E1ghth--B. B. Paddock, Of Tarrant.
Ninth-B. J. Hill, of Travis.
TemtY-M. L. Malevinsky, of Calves
ton.
Eleventh-Paul Wipprecht, of Saw
yel.
Twelfth-Perry Lewis, of Bexar.
Thirteenth-William Veale, of Stew
: ems.
The silver men in their convention
spent the whole day in arranging al
organization There is no particula
fight in this convention, save in tn,
matter of a few delegates to the Chi
cago convention, wherein some are try
ing to down Congressman Bailey, WIN
is very anxious to get on the delega
ton.
Tonight the convention is having
big wrangle over the adoption of thei
platform. There were two reports from
the committee ON platform and reso
buttons. The majority report favore,
silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 and tn
minority, presented by Johnathal
Lane. favored an endorsement o
Cleveland and Carlisle and a gol,
standard. Governor Hogg presente
a substitute to the majority report ia
voring the free and unlimited COMA g
of silver at the ratio of Is to 1, il
respective of the action of foreign gov
ernments This raised considerable dis
cussion which still was in progress a
. midnight when an adjournment wa
had until morning