The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-07-11
D. G. WOOTEN NOMINATED
Dallas County Man Won Out Finally,
Getting Hill COunty'S Vote.
DAY WAS CONSUMED IN cAucUslNG
At the Afternoon Session and on Ballot
No 4o46 the Deadlock Was
Broken.

Dallas. Texas, July 10 The Tong dead
lex has been broken and tho sixth dis.
trict democratic congressional convention
Is thing Of the past. After n six days
contest and On the 4ol6th ballot Hon Dud-
ley g. Wooten Of Dallas was nominated to
succeed Congressman r. L. turke. Tho
etcuon viii be held next saturday and
there Is no doubt whatever OF the sue
cess OF the democratic nominee.
Mr.. Nooten, who was nominated al The
close of one OF the most memorable con
Nehtions IN the states history. l. one OF
tue best known men in thu state He was
TORN IN Missouri educated at Princeton
ana IS scholarly and lcerned His repuh.
hcah opponent Judge Philip Lindsey Of
Dallas' has no hope Of success
Tue attendance of the delegates OF The
congressional convention this morning was
very Hight. Even the fnl vote of tha BAL
ils delegation never put In an appearances.
"lilam Nj. Knight was the only remaining
member of the Bosque county delegation.
AM me other delegations were reduced sc
cordingN. Very little ON the surface was
done AZ the session before noon
Al about $3.50. half hour behind The
appointed time the convention was called
II order. Even the the proceedings were
sTNed for a few minutes TIL the Boslun
county delegation, IN the person OF Mr..
Knight, could arrive. When Mr. Knight
came In the roll call on the SDS0th ballot
was taken II stood without change:
beall o3' Wooten 30; johnson -. few
pauots had geen taken when Major Grin.
nan OF Terrell moved that recess uf a
qau hour b. taken IN order to give the
tl RhIlon from kaufman county an op
porlunity to caucus IN the hope of rcneh,
ftf Ia "A nflF No
( recess was ordered and the Kaufman del
tEatlon NJ once r9tirCi to the council cham
! Der below. Upon arrived there Major Grin
nan was made chairman and George G. .
made.
l.. s. Terry Of Kaufman said that so FAR
ms hc could see, the only thing Kaufman
could honorably do was to continue to vote
for 3eail This was applnudcd by SO ne
Ellis county delegates in attendance,
w. NJ Knight of Bosque said he had
no suggestion to make
Dr. G NJ. ltosser of Dallas said the
Dallas county delegation wouU stand by
Mr.. Wooten to the last and that, further
than this, he could offer no suggestion.
made OF Nlr Wooien il Dallas county ami
sHiG their delegation felt tina Mr. Wooteu s
/ reputation was AZ stalk, and thar they
Judge II. b. Tempieton NJ" Of y waxah Tn,i
/ spoke for Ellis county He said they did
/ rot say they would forever VOTE fer Jack
}
I to see him nominated He added that
/ tEey had been listening foi Johnson coun
/ ty to come to their aid.
DR.. A. NJ. Douglass spoke for Hill cuun.
| ty. He said Hill county stood ready e.
| make u nomination ut any moment, that
] her sixteen votes would nominate and d.
/ ciarCd in favor of nominating one Of the
/ three candidates II they could ard sone
| body else II they had to-.
w. f Ramsey. speaking for Johnson
| county said they wanted nomination. too
Z CXnpCtpd
] Odtll should have been nominated, but
! that time had gone. II one Of the three
candidates before the convention could not
be nominated he wanted the convention
to nominate somebody else
! j. W. Edens of Corscana represented
/ Navarro. He said he wanted DR. Johnson
! but If II was made evident that he coult
| not be nominated his delegation would
help nominate somebody else,
Gus speech OF action. II none NJ III" can
didates could be nominated. then another
should he taken up and made the nominee
! j. s. Woods Of Kaufman closed thu
sneechmaking. He favored immediate nc
ten and said there should be a nomlnn
tlon before noon in order that "Molli'
and the babies and all the democrats a.
! home might hear the good news
The caucus then dissolved after accom-
plsmng nothing.
menced again. johnson county asked To-
a caucus. and they did nothing; Dallas
county. Bosque county ana mn cnunN
sy rs were returned OIL the rolls. TheI
the convention adjourned till o'clock
lFm Two hours this afternoon rnGeusei
prd conferences were all that WIRE a.
TENTED ON the 4045th ballot Hin COMMIT
went to Wootcn and announced thni the
meant to stay there. Then Johrso1 COUNT
asked for time 10 caucvs. the delrgmc
were out one hour ON the next hallo Cha'r
man Ramsey cast Johnson's twelve vote
for MI Wooten, This action ended tn
long struggle Jack Bcall, amid tn, cheer
nf mo convention. graspcl MIR Wooten'
hnnd and In an elonuent sneec moved Z
mako the nomination unauiinous Ut
johnson seconded the nomination anu !
Wr. Woctcu was brought before the con
ycrtion and made his speech OF acceptance
The most remarkable convention III tn
-. -. 81 NC dist riot WIS al an end.