The age-herald., 1900-04-21
TWO DELEGATIONS
 FROM TENNESSEE Evans Delegates Bolt Convention
 and Elect Delegates. BOTH FACTIONS ARE BITTER Commissioner Evans Says Ballot Box
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 Nashville, Tenn, April 20-Tennessee will have two republican tickets in the field in the coming campaign. Likewise two sets of delegates will go to the national con vention at Philadelphia As expected the state convention split here today, the Evans contingent walking out and holding convention of their own. w. F. Poston of Crockett county is its gubernatorial se- lection, while John E. Mccall is at ehe head of the state ticket named by the con- vention over which Brownow presided.
 Pension Commissioner Henry Clay E4 ans will lead one delegation to the na- tional convention, while the other will be put in the background by Congressman and National Committeeman Walter P. Brownlow. Both delegations are instruct ed for Mckinley. The situation is the cut come of a bitter factional fight that has waged in the state for some time, and the action is not a surprise The expected storm broke in the state convention soon after it met today, and the Evans men bolted, about hundred of them proceed ing to amusement hall, where they held a convention of their own.
 The split came when the 'uncontcsted" delegates refused to substitute the minor ity for the majority report of the commit tee on credentials. That committee, after working until o'clock this morning, pre- scented majority report, seating Brown low delegates from sixteen contested coun- ties, and both delegations from thirteen counties The minority recommended the seating of Evans delegates in each in stance When the motion to substitute was lost, the boilers prepared to leave the con- vention. w. s. Tipton of Bradley county called on Evans friends to follow him out, and the confusion began. As the bolters filed out, there was much disorder and some missing. Finally order was restored and the majority report adopted.
 Brownlow NJ ade Chairman
 W. F. Brownlow was installed as perma- nent chairman and Henry R. Gibson Fos- ter V. Brown, G. N. Tillman and John E. Mccall were named for delegates-a a t-laree to the national convention A. J. Tyler, R. W. Austin, J. T. Settle and G. w. Porter were designated as delegates. The resolutions as adopted denounce the elec- tion laws of Tennessee, declaring they diff fer in no essential from the Goebel law of Kentucky. They declare for prohibi-
 
 in work shops, mines or factories, and re- fer to other state issues along republican lines. Allegiance to the St. Louis platform is re-affirmed. The administration of President Mckinley is warmly endorsed and his nomination at Philadelphia de- clared for
 Continuing the resolutions say:
 We are unreservedly and unqualifedly for the gold standard, and congratulate the country that the present republican congress has established by legislation the permanence of this standard We de- nounce the continuous fruitless agitation of the money question by the adherents of the Chicago platform as a menace to the stability of the country's finances and the unparalleled prosperity of the nation. We further denounce the monstrosities of the recent Nebraska platform, which is admitted to be the forerunner of the na- tional platform to be adopted by the Chi cago wing of the democratic party at it's national convention at Kansas City,
 ction Az ainst Trusts
 "We strongly favor state and national legislation for the suppression of dishon- estly organized trusts and combinat tions which create monopoly, strangle competi- ton and oppress labor. But we are oppos- ed to legislation which, under the guise of an attack upon such trusts and combina- tons, indiscriminately strikes at legitimate business interests, fairly capitalized and honestly managed. Especially to be de- plored Is the reckless absurdity of such legislation in the south, where new indus tries are springing up with a rapdity and on an extensive scale never before known, developing here resources and giving em ployment to labor.
 National expansion is an accomplished fact. We believe in taking no backward step. The new possessions we have ac- quired in consequence of the war with Spain are ours to deal with as we may see fit. To give them wise enlightened and humane governments. adopted to the de- gree of civilization to which they have attained, we believe to be the duty of the nation
 'In the inauguration of such govern ments the leaders of our party, under the able and tactful direction of the president, are manifesting broad and liberal states manship, of which we are justly proud. Especially do we commend the wisdom of the selection of Hon. Luke D. Wright of our own state as the representative of the south on the Philippine commission. With such democrats Senator Morgan of Ala bama, Senator McLaurin of South Caro- lima, and Judges Lurton and Wright of Tennessee endorsing the policy of the ad- mnistration in its treatment of expansion as an accepted fact, and in it's effort to establish in our new territory law and order, we contemplate with com pacency the denunciation of the admin istration by the Bryan followers, who are hell for war in times of peace and hell for peace in times of war "We repudiate the doctrine because per picking and difficult problems are met with in the endeavor to establish law and individual liberty in these new possess sions we should turn them adrift and leave them to their fate. Such a doctrine we denounce as puerile and pussilinamous, at once violative of our national obligations and our commercial interests.
 Prsui of War Results "We are proud of the magnificent results of the war with Spain and of the brilliant foreign policy of the present administra- tion, which, together, have made possible an open door to the trade of China and the far east, laid the ground work for the building of the Nicaragua canal and given to the United States high rank as a world power" Prosperity under the present administra- ton is referred to and the improvement of our merchant marine advocated. John E. Mccall, of Henderson county, is the conyention's choice for governor, and W. C. Hornsby, of McMinn county. for