The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-08-20
MANY BALLOTS TAKEN.
Efforts Of The AntiStreetmau Forces
TO Agree Came 10 Naught.
MILAN COUNTY MAN MADE A GAIN
wo votes from Molennan and Is
NOW Only Six Votes Shy Of the
Nomination.

waco, Texas. August 19-rbs oorron.,ou
mat is In session to elec+ n oona,s..
49,. 'ne lhlrd supreme judicial dis
ta,,s ueu up seventy-hve ballots were
na..s, quay making a total Of 21o. but no
~ mas been made. There has been
az anus OF dark horse talk TODAY. but tho
an,i e4s nas not been located yet. The
n''''ieclhan forces have tried 70 scroo
~ que OF TIE candidates that onn,s. hir,
'us 'heir Efforts SO far have proven frti,a
tonight there was a split in sprra,,,,
deleratss Two oil the McLennan conpty
bin, 800 went 10 Streetniau That gnve
M. nm elghty-six votes, which is six shs SUI
- 80 noihihatlon, 1t is believed mat ton,nr
t St candidate will be chosen and tho
be the man '"at nc VIII
Al OF the delegates we're In their ntooos
mneI chairman Robertson called tho con,
aehuQn TO order. The roll call nrnr.e,l,,l
haiio,,na mere VA, was no change for the FIRST three
TO Judge Cochran "c Note
r, On me l45th ballot Judge Fishers votc
ran up to nifty and Furmail dr"nprdS 'o''
ana IN 6 eae l46th ballot Bell, Travis, Mills
IN that ballot the vote stood Strentn,,n
rlsner q. Furman II, Surratt is
On the 47th ballot Fisher Ind gained
w W., more votes aud had seventy.thrce
Strcetman vote. III Vne
In the 14sth ballot the tables changed
~ urinan and that gentleman received
SlAty'ohe votes, but there was no change
III the streetman vote.
In the 18th ballot Bell and Wi,itor,so,,
we're sun nirtng with one another and
thurman had received all of the oppositien
TO stTeetman, except the Surratt vote. This
put Judge Furmans vote at seventy five
vote. '-s S'' ee'ii"n
On the 150th ballot nearly the combined
opposition went to Surratt and the Me
n ,.etna county candidate had seventy-hve
votes to his credit and this time II was the
McLennan county delegations time to an
plnud, but streetman still led.
On the lolst ballot Travis gave half of
Williamson then tossed the bouquet back
10 travis and gave Judge n. A. Rector j.
Judge 7. r. Cochran and Judge L. l..
Penn ., and still there was no nomination
Judge Fisher received about half of the
thurman vote on the l52d ballot, hut Street.
mans forces stood firm
ON the 1J3d ballot Bell county gave her
vote to w w. helms, but there was no
other change
Judge strcctman's vote went up to eigh
ty-four votes In the 154th ballot but he
was still short Of the nomination six votes
When the 151th ballot was reached ] s.
Phelps of Travis county moved that the
convention adjourn to meet in Austin next
Monday Judge Pendlcton OF Bell county
moved as substitute that 1t adjourn to
meet at Marlin. w. w. Nelms moved that
1t 90 TO Georgetown, and Colonel ]. T..
Shropshire moved that in lieu Of all mo-
tions that the convention adjourn to meet
in Brady City.
On the 162d ballot Judge Shropshire of
Brady City received fifty votes, but the
Strectman forces stood firm.
There were all kinds of changes in the
1881 ballot. Judge b, II. Rice Of Marlin
received the votes Of Bell, San saba and a
number of other counties. Judge Clark Of
Waco received Irion and Blanco counties
votes, hut still there was no nomination.
On the next ballot an announcement OF
the vote was called 1t was as follows;
Strectmnn 81 b. II. Rice 20, Fisher 20,
Norris IL, Surratt Is.
On the 16jth ballot Chairman Robertson
was given tho bouquet receiving thirty
seven votes. and Judge Rice Of Falls coun-
~ also received nice vote,
The convention adjourned until o'clock
this afternoon
This afternoon there was no special
features outside Of one incident, Hou.
Warren W. Moore, district attorney Of
Travis county. was called on for "A speech.
He declared in his speech that the convcn.
tion was n reproach upon the Judiciary OF
the State That the nomination was the
property Of the convention and II II could
not nominate one Of the FIVE men before
the convention 1t WAS Its duty TO get some
man not In the race and nominate MIN.
However, his advice has not been needed
yet.
Tonight numerous attempts were made
on the part Of the opposition to Streetman
to get together, hut all efforts failed. ~
II 40 the convention adjourned until y
o'clock in tho morning.