El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-12

Henson was called out by cOuDtles IN
open conven tion and request mad that
wherever delegates believed that it
was wrong, the meeting would inves-
tigate and if found wrong recidify the
count. Forty-two votes from the Pan
which had been passed, and
the party who held the credentials
claimed were shut out, were then re-
ported for Ferguson, making his
majority about seventy votes.
General Malloy, Mr.. McCutcheon
and myself. participated in this meet
ing, but Captain Dillon stayed out and
acted with the Mcdonald people. Upon
my motion, "a committee was appointed,
consisting of Senator Burns, of Harris
County, George jackson, of Tom Green
County, and myself, to wait on Chair
matter back to the roll-call and have
the secretaries figures canvassed AMI
either verified or corrected in accordan-
ce with the vote as cast, assuring him
that If tbs Ferguson people were
wrong to the extent that Mcdonald re-
CClfSo VIC LhoJOIiOys hO iit ebOi w"
jections would be made to his conduct
ing the convention, but if Mr.. Fergu
son had received majority Of the
votes that we would expect the tenn
porary craftsmanship to be placed in
his keeping.
CHAIRMAN GREENS S ATTITUDE
Chairman Green received the COM
mittee politely, but was firm in
the position that he had passed the
gavel over to Mr.. Mcdonald aud had
no right to demand or request
the return of same: that
he had announced the result from
figures that he believed to be correct
and that he vas still confident that
Mcdonald received at least hundred
more votes on the roll-call than Fer
guson. He intimated that Assistant
Secretary Henson had been bought
up to juggle the tally list and certify
to it after he had tampered with 1t.
His spokesman, Hon. Chas. Ogden, of
man had the right to announce the re-
suit from any source that he believed
to be correct and that he had made no
In not waiting for the report of
the secretaries before declaring Nc
Donald elected.
after the committee reported back
to the meeting it proceeded to organize
and adopted resolutions, etc. When it
came to the election OF delegates at
large, Hon. r. B. Hawley was elected
by acclam alton without dissenting
voice. Q. M. Ferguson was then placed
in nomination and Chairman Green's
name was brought forward with mo-
tion that Ferguson and Green be both
declared delegates at large by scclama-
tion. This raised quite a tempest,
which resulted in the names being
separated and Ferguson being elected
by acclamation. The name of Chair
man Green was again offered and
motion to elect him by acclamation was
carried by good majority, although
few parties voted no. Some of the
delegates in voting for Chairman
Green explained that their conventions
had instructed for Congressman Haw-
ley and State Chairman Green, and
although they believed that Green
had made mistake in declaring Nc
Donald elected they did not feel that
disobey their instructions. For the
remaining delegate at large, several
names were put in nomination and the
roll call was taken, resulting in the
election OF George B. jackson, of Tom
Green county, by good majority. The
roll call showed I'll votes cast out of
total of about 900. This, however, did
lot signify that the McDonaldites
would have had but 200 votes in their
for many of the counties rep
resented were in the same position as
Ell Paso county, which was that those
Of the delegates attending should cast
yhe entire vote of the county; conse-
luently, where part OF the delegates of
; county attended the Ferguson con-
Tention and part the Mcdonald con-
vention, the county would be repre-
'ented in both. The slternates elected
oy the Fergusonites were r. E. Han
hey of Waller county, J. A. Smith of
81 Paso county, M. M. Rodgers of
Fayette county and d. w. Shields of
Irayson county. Paul Fricke of Wash
ngton county and Wilbur +. Crawford
If Milan county were elected to repre-
sent the tickets as electors a. large.
BARRED OUT OF THE HALL
"Before the completion of the bust
hess by the Ferguson delegates, the
people were ready to use the