El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-04-06

basting in good part, while George
Wallace got awful dry and went up TO
take a drink of water: {. w. Fa-Set'
leaned quietly against the "l'"esS
S and in meditaLlve mood several
others sat uneasily in their seats and
looked as though they had got into the
wrong pew, but they gritted their teeth
and With determination Marked on
their cOuntenance promised ID get
even with the reuring chairman loi
throwing cod water on their own meet
ing. w hen the speech OF the chalf-
man ended, each drew a long breath
aud throwed their sleeping loot over
the other leg.
The meein' then got down to the
business of endorsing the talk OF the
retiring chairman about buying voters
by cleo ling Hon. Jonn M. Dean char
mau. Mr.. Dean was elected by accla-
nation AID if there were any DESCENT
ing votes they were so low that there tlr-
ing chairman failed to cou 1t them, ana
MIR. Dean, be ne very modest ana re-
t,riug, had to be helped To his seat oy
Messrs. LeighClark and j. II. Sm!tn
The new chairman then started IN on
d extern peran Gus speech IN which ne
told the democratic party of Ell Paso If
it would do as he did it would always b :
democratic and hold office. He told
about the defeat of Bryan and said toat
defeat was caused by certain sO-calied
democrats ''bolJlug" the Chicago
nominee. At this point Charles Dav-
is looked as though he wanted to say
something, but he didn't. AS Mr..
Dean quit talking there was uproarous
applause most of the noise being made
by Charley Fdssett, who had woke up
from his meditative mood during
Deans speech.
Then the business of the love feast
had been reached and after golo
through the form aliLy of appointing
committees on credentials, order OF
business, etc, some one suggested
that it was the proper time to appoint
d committee on platform, but Charley
Davis rose to point OF order and said
the convent on did not need platform,
inferring that its line of procedure
| was already mapped out and that de-
| mOcratic platforms were only waste
of blank paper. He might have said
| that there were so many different
! kinds OF democrats gathered here that
! there was liable to be paralyIlc shock
! if they tried to stand on one platform
When the report from the committee
on order of business cime in and the
report had been very elAborately read
| by d strict Clerk Escaieda. George LOOK
| took it into his head that things " ere
working too quietly to Look democratic
| so he made a kick and started LITE
| smoke that looked once as though il
would be famed into a flame. but just
as twas getting lutte warm, Captain
| Beall arose aud dOused the fire in q
smooth talk. TINS was the only in
stance. outside of Harper's speech, tina
in any way dis surbed the love feast, anc
then the body got down to the noml
| mating business.
| Tue convention went through the
form atty of nominating and voting fol-
each nominee separately, but thu
whole transaction showed that it was
cut ana dried affair and that the dele
gates were wei drilled in the part
they had to act. The following tickle
was nominated and it carried ia q jitfy
| without the slightest opposition.
Judge Joseph Magotfin, fer mayor
George LOOK, alderman first ward
John Burton, alderman second ward
A. M. Robinson, alderman third ward
John Drummer, alderman fourth ward
After the business OF the meet
ing was finished the cleo
ton of a democratic chairmal
for the ensuing year was prop Sc !
but the ''cut aud dried' part of tn
convention was over and the ware
heelers had not prepared the dele
gates so far ahead as chairman. s
when the name of George Wallace wa
sprung there was quiet of a few
moments and Capt. Charles Davis b
gan to rise out of his chair and by tn
time he hal reached his full height b
had that convention grabbed aud h
just simply in a pretty little speed
nominated Capt. T. J. Be4ll. Wne
Capt. Davis SAT down Wallace aro-
and stated that he was not there to b
run over by juggernaut car and h
gracefully withdrew and Captain Beal
was made chairman for the ensuing
year.