Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1901-07-06
MERIDIAN CONVENTION
II Took One Hundred and Sixteen
Ballots and No Choice.
BEALL Is IN LEAD.
Kansas City Platform Endorsed in Full
and a Dark Horse Exclusion
Plank Adopted-knight Is
Temporary Chairman.

Meridian, Texas July What the
result OF tho congressional race in the
Sixth Texas district will be-. was a.
much IN doubt after tho tw" sessions
Of the convention hel,vhcro Thursday
afternoon as 10 was beife the conyen'
ton was called 20 order. one thing
only was disclosed and that was whore
Bosque county would 90 with her six
uninstructod votes She went TO Wear
Of Hill But the Bosque delegation is un.
instructed. and, like tho wind. may blow
whore itAsteth Bosque county placed,
the entries for the race were complete,
Beall having the polo with 80 votes,
Wooten next with 80 votes, then Wear
with % votes, johnson with Is and
Odoll with ~. Necessary 70 a choice, &c.
There being mighty little In this race
besides the qualification OF personal am.
bition and the fealiy Of personal friends,
most Of the ontory placing the candi.
dates In the running was Of the oulo-
CYSTIC order and highly complimentary
90 each OF the candidates personal cha.
mcteristics. attaiumout4 and achieve
meuts and likewise highly compimon.
tary 20 the field
IL being the Fourth Of July, tho con.
vention, very naturally, was new aud
then reminded of .ho Declaration OF Ia.
dependence and advised that the caudi.
date for whom tho orator spoke stood
squarely upon that platform and was
peculiarly qualified 90 push it along
Speaking Of platforms, Mr. Knight,
the temporary chairman. evidently knew
whereof ha spoke whom Doe said that no
matter what platform was adopted. ans
Of the candidates would stand on 10.
Tho platform committee brought in a
report which reannaai the allegiance
OF Sixth District Democrats 90 the rrin.
cip'cs enumerated in tho Kansas City
platform without specific mention u
any Of Thorn and the platform went
through without a wrinkle Besides
the Endorsement of Trinity Riyor ina.
proyemont, repairing of Galveston har.
Dor and Npro-siousclurCrning che death
Of Judge Burke, the platform contained
a dark horse exclusion plank This was
swallowed also. although it has been
understood that There wcro quito "a
number Of gentlemen near at hand vii.
ling 20 become Isaac's II a hopeless
deadlock should develop Tho cluvan.
tion Is ou record as in favor Uf picking
the winner from the present field Still
there is o. WAY out Tho convention has
said ,har DO hopes the nominee will b0
chosen from the avowod candidates bs.
fore the convention and believes % can
De done. II in tho course of human
events tho hopes tho convention should
be- dashed 90 pieces by unchanged CON.
ditous tho convention can very easily
amend its sense
W. NJ Knight of B1squo county was
elected temporary chairman w. l..
Alexander Of Bosque county temporary
secretary and f. b. Bmllio Of johnson
county temporary assistant secretary.
On motion OF W. A. Fields Cf Hin it
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tials, permanent organization mud plat.
form and resolutions De created. each
county selecting one member Of each
committee. The committees were con.
stitutcd as follows
Crcdentials-T. l.. Dunlap Of Bosque.
r. NJ. Scott Of Dallas. r. j. Cole Of
Ellis, d. L. Hodge Of Hill, J. r. Ran.
some Of johnson, j. s. Terry Of Kauf.
man, b. II. Johnson Of Navarro.
Permanent organization.-J. O. Phil.
lips Of Bosque, John II. Traylor of Dial.
las, J. C. Smith Of Ellis. William A.
Fields Of Hill, w. H. Bledsoc Of John.
son, J. 8. Grinnan Of kaufman. S. ].
Jennings Of Navarro.
Piatform-J. T. Glass Of Bosquo, ],
@. McNealus Of Dallas, John H. Sharp
Of Ellis, S Il. Boyd Of Hin, W. +. Ram.
sey Of Johnson. Thomas r. Bond Of
Kaufman, r $. Nebett o.! Navarro.
o. b. b. Colquitt Of Kaufman offered
a resolution and asked thatit beroforred
without being read
W. A. Stewart OF Johnson and J. o.
johnson Of Dallas were appointed ser.
geants-at-arms Of the Temporary organ.