The age-herald., 1898-05-26
THE REPUBLICANS
 OF JEFFERSON Held Their County Convention at Bessemer Yesterday. NO COUNTY TICKET PUT OUT Whole Convention Characterised by Senseless WrangIing Delegates to State and
 Congressional Convention
 Executive Committee.
NO COUNTY TICKET PUT OUT
Special Dispatch to The Age-Herald.

Bessemer, May 25.-The county conven- ton of the republican party was held yes- terday at the city hall at Bessemer, and was characterized by senseless wrangling All day long, No county officers, not even a legislative ticket will be put out, so this knocks up the scheme of the 'cits' who port their candidates. In fact. little or no mention was made in the convention of any county ticket.
 The county executive committee, con- sisting of forty odd members, of which W. R. Pettiford, colored, is chairman, met at Il o'clock in secret session. The main thing done by this committee was the en- dorsement of M. l.. Fowlkes, colored, of Birmingham, as temporary chairman of the convention, and Dr. s. H. H. Washing ton, colored, also of Birmingham, as temporary secretary, and A. J. Hanlin, as assistant secretary. The committee also attempted to decide on the matter of prox- ies, but they ended in such a hopeless "scrap" that they referred the matter to the convel on.
 The convention assembled at 1 o'clock, accepted the temporary officers endorsed
 
 for dinner. proposing to meet again at 9 o'clock.
 Along about 3 clock the convention was called to order and the credentials com mittee, through it's chairman, Postmaster w. c. Hanlin, of Avondale made it's re- port as to who were and who were not delegates. This was immediately accepted. The convention then tried to pass on the proxies. and for more than four mortal hours these ardent representatives of the 'grand old party" wrangled hopelessly. Everybody had something to say which he cried at the top of his voice.
 Jesse T. Shaw, colored, of Birmingham, Is said to be the leader of those of the re %kblican "outs" who are opposed to those who are ''in" office. It seemed to be his sole object to block the proceedings of the convention, and he succeeded ad- mrably. Time after time he rose to point of order,' this being about the only way he could obtain recognition, and made his motions and his arguments.
 A Wild scene
 The widest scene of the convention took place when the roll call was finished. The contested delegations from beats IS and 3S had not yet been decided, but nevertheless Hanlin moved to make the temporary or- ganization of the convention permanent, and decide the contests afterward. Then the ''outs" began to howl and for fifteen minutes Hanlin was unable to put the question for the chairman c. c. Caperton and ten or fifteen others of the most ve hement negro delegates fairly climbed up on the platform, shaking their fists in the face of Hanlin, who, by the way, is white man, and using every threat in the category against him. Chairman Wm. Vaughn, of the state executive committete Et,a oil A1zA 1A1 aAAx. and the permanent organization was put off until beats IS and 8 were disposed of.
 After "jawing' for an hour or more about which of the. two rival delega- tions from beat IS were entitled to a seat, Vaughn happened to remember that that beat was entitled to two delegations. Of course, all this debate had been useless.
 The contest over the rival delegations from beat B was also finally settled, af- ter long ''scrap."
 The temporary organization of the con vention was then made permanent and the following delegates elected to the state convention, which meets in Montgomery on June (:
 w. C. Hanlin, M L. Fowll1es, A. J. Prince, Dr. Vaughan, J. c. Wilson, R. Kemp, Jas. Fox, w. H. Harney R. A. Moseley, T. w. Walker, J. O. Diffey and Wm. Vaughan.
 The alternates are as follows:
 Vim. Bryan, Vim. Rush, c. c. Caperton, W. A. Stowe c. A. Bevilia, R. c. Delaney, J. R. Richardson, Jescse Shaw, Merit House, J. W. Hughes, ". B. Greene, ". R. Pettiford.
 The following are the delegates to the
 congressional convention, which is to meet in Birmingham next month:
 J. W. Hughes, A. l.. Ruffin. A. L. Wilson, c. c. Caperton, R. c. Delaney, A. H. Par ker A. H. Donaldson, Geo. B. Hanlin, R. w. Skinner, Jas. M Smith. A. Wade, E. A. Brown, and M. T. Fowlkes..s
 The alternates are: A. J. Prince, Syl D. Jones. R. R. Hooker, J. H. Frazer, T. B. Lawler, - Fisher. B. A. Brown, Ber- " Wood, Jesse Shaw, J. ". Bruce, I. T. Love. w. H. Anderson. Wesley Coleman,
 The following is the new county execu- tive committee elected last night:
 w. H. Harney, A. J. Prince. J. R. Rich ardson. Walter Mcclure, R. T. Ruffin, A. H. Parker, J. c. Posey, R. c. Deloney, Nick Ficling, William Vaughan, B. A. Brown. w. c. Haniin, J. w. Donavan, T. B. Lawler, J. 0. Wilson, B. J. Robin son, s. T. Brooks T. W. Hughes. Dr. s. S. H. Washington. J. o. Diffey, c. c. Caper- ton, Syl D. Jones. J. D. Glover, F. D. McAlpin, and M. T. Fowlkes.
 w. H. Harney was elected chairman of the committee for the next two years, and J. W. Donovan. secretary.
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