The evening times., 1899-09-05
DELEGATES In DISORDER
Uproar in the Republican Conyen
ton at Marlboro.
Veteran Politicians Say They Never
Saw Before Such TumuItuOus
Scenes-lt lis Said That Prince
George County VIII Go Democratic
at the Election Next November.

county had stormy time yesterday and
finally adjourned over to September IL
without nominating county ticket. The
| convention broke up IN disorder without
doing anything, burr taking sober second
thought, reassembled and elected fifteen
delegates to the State convention, one from
each election district, and then adjourned.
The trouble was; brewing all the fore
noon, which was devoted to caucusing and
wire pulling. The cpiyention was called
to order by the present chairman of the
State Central Committee, Henry w. C1ag-
gett. He urged the members to be quiet
in their work and nominate good, strong
ticket, and then gave up his seat TO E. E.
Perkins, who was chosen chairman of the
convention. The committee on credentials
retired and reported, the delegates were
seated and nominations were then declared
in order.
Edward t. Benton, jr., of Bladensburg,
moved that the election of members of the
State central committee be made after the
! county ticket had been named, and this
was approved by the convention, if shouts
and cheers could be considered as yeas"
But j. M. 7. Fisher offered as a substitute
that the nominations for the State central
| committee be voted upon at once, and
|
| w. I. S. Jennings, and s. r. Rollins as the
! committee.
| Mr.. Benton said: THE people of Prince
| George county did not intend to stand this
| bossing any longer. The Ryon faction,
| which is running r. N Ryon as a dark
horse candidate, had fixed up a ticket with
| Sydney E. Mudd two weeks before the pri-
maries and it was not of the people a
choice. but their own
| Then qn2uai a yh ic I'd tn a
| scribe. All the delegates rose to their feet,
| crying for recognition from the chair. Nu-
merous leaders jumped upon the platform
| and addressed the convention. All were
shouting and yelling themselves hoarse.
No attention was paid to the chairman s
| cry for order, and he finally left the as
semblage. The confusion continued for
! sometime, and the meeting finally broke up
| with nothing done and no agreement as 10
when the convention should be called again.
The break up was attended by much dis
order and confusion.
The outcome of the whole affair, it was
thought, would be that Representative
| Sydney E. Mudd, in order to get the State
| central committee would be obliged to let
Mr.. Ryon drop and concede the treasurer S
| place TO Robert w Hunter. who had by
long odds the best of the primary meetings
on Saturday. Mr. Mudd said sometime ago
| that he would not interfere, but there were
! unmistakable evidences of his influence
| throughout today's convention.
After cooling off in the outer air for
| sometime Chairman Perkins got the con-
| vention together again. The behavior OF
| the delegates on reassembling was striking
| ly in contrast with their disorder at the
| first meetinng. They proceeded to the busi-
ness of electing the delegates to the State
! convention, and fifteen were chosen, after
which the convention adjourned till Sep
tember II, leaving the makeup of the Gen.
| tral committee unannounced and the coun-
ty ticket not nominated.
| Some heated speeches were made during
the turmoil in the convention by negro
| delegates, who composed majority of the
| convention. One colored orator said that
| the black men were more numerous in
| Prince George county conventions Tor
! twenty seven years and ii was time they
| took the matter of tickets away from the
whites. @z-t
The Laurel delegates left Marlboro before
the reassemblinS of the convention They
! left their Proxies with County Treasurer
| Castle, with Instructions to cast votes for
no candidate on the ticket from the Laurel
district. e.
Mr.. James p. Curley, of Laurel, candi-
cate for States attorney. said: I'VE le-
fused to go into slate making. ! was the
only candidate for the nomination for
States attorney who made fight for the
place and carried his home district. and
| was only asking for the consideration due
| me-"
UeIeran politicians say that they never
saw IN this county such AN uproar in con-
vention Representative Mudd did not ap-
pear at Marlboro, and he is blamed for the
outcome. 1t is claimed that he went into
| a secret combination recently with r. n.
| Ryon register of wills, and the latter S
| following and thereby secured control OF
| the convention, with the understanding
that Ryon was to be the nominee for coun-
! ty treasurer, although he was not known as
candidate for the place Mr.. Mudd 6
| change of front was great surprise 10 the
victors in the Laurel primaries on Satur-
day, who have always been among his
| stanchest friends in Prince George coun-
| ty. while the Ryon element has opposed
| him, and up to a short time ago were cut
spoken in their antagonism.
| When the convention met it was found
| that the Ryon people had majority Of the
| thirteen districts seated, there being con-
tests from Piscataway and Spalding' s
Then the committee on credentials seated
| the Ryon delegates from these, thus giving
them full sway.
| Mr. E. E. Perkins, who was put in the
chair, has been classed as an anti-Mudd
man. and was appointed by Gov. LoSndes
inspector of one of the State tobacco ware
houses, when the Mudd people were
| removed from them by the governor. Mr.
| Perkins was unable to exercise any con-
troll over the convention. The reading OF
| the list of names for new State central
committee set the delegates and specta-
tors to whooplng, each side trying to yell
down the other, although the Castle peo-
| pie recognized that they would be in the
| minority when the voting began. Unable
| to secure order, Chairman Perkins walked
| out of the town hail. in which the conven
ton was held, and waited for the crowd to
| quiet down.
| Luther Brashears, of Laurel, a candi-
| date for county commissioner, was offered
a place on the ticket for House of Dele
| gates, but refused to take it. The trouble
| is laid at the door of Mr.. Mudd, whose
latest display of politics" it is said
means the loss of Prince George county
to the Republicans at time it was con-
sidered certain for that party The split
among the Democrats is claimed not to
approach in magnitude that which resulted
from yesterdays convention. The upper
part of the county, say the Curley dele
gates, might have held it's own, but for the
| impossibility Of getting Vincent, Of Bla-
| densburg, and Shea, of Vansville district,
to reach an agreement by which one should
| withdraw.
| District League.