The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1906-05-30
TRULY IN A TURMOIL
State Democratic CONVENTION Of Ten.
nes.ee TaibnlenL
FREQUENT FIGHTING
Entire Afternoon Of Tuesday Is he.
voted to u Irnilless Attempt
TO Bring Abaut Temper.
airy Organization.

Nashville. May 36-The State Dem.
ecratic convention. which met here
Tuesday TO select candidates for gov
ernor and railroad commissioners. ad
1ourned at s ie O'Clock In the evening
until 10 O'Clock Wednesday morning.
without having effected temporary or.
ganization. II was decided TO be the
most turbulent body OF the kind that
ever assembled IN Tennessee. pande.
monlum and free fights were the rule,
and 1t was with the utmost difficulty
that any sort OF record OF the pro
ceedings could be made Adjournment
was reached after an understanding
was reached between leaders of oppos-
Ing factions that the three gubernatori.
al candidates, Governor Cox, Congress
man Patterson and Judge Bond. shottId
each name four representatives who
shall constitute a committee to decide
on temporary chairman. Before this
agreement was effected the battle
over contested delegations occupied
the entire time Of the convention,
which is the largest In the history OF
Tennessee politics. Many counties are
contested, and the auditorium where
the convention sat was taxed to its ut
most capacity. The services Of the
police were necessary from the start.
Vice Chairman Alternately Of the
state committee called the convention
to order al noon. There was confusion
from the very outset, and when the
call of the roll Of counties for selection
Of temporary chairman began. the up
roar steadily increased. Challenges
opened with Crockett county, and
when Davidson county was reached
battle royal was on. the widest ex-
element prevailing. The county was
finally passed, the contest going to the
committee on credentials. not then
named, and slowly the roll call pro-
ceeded every move marking a fresh
contest. Though Chairman Alternately
is a splendid presiding officer, he was
often swept aside, and with many
speaking and shouting from various
parts OF the hall, none could be heard.
Once the chairman laid down the CAV
81 and advanced to the front of the
stage, as he says, to make himself
heard When he went back for the
gavel, Luke Lea of Davidson county,
a Patterson supporter, had it, and was
essaying to act as presiding officer.
Alternately protested, Lea was obdu-
rate, and from then on there were two
presiding officers, and pandemonioum
on the floor. At length council of
war between the leaders brought about
a temporary truce. and adjournment
followed.
The campaign just closed was the
most heated and bitter that has taken
place In this state in years. OF the
gubernatorial candidates, Hon. John |.
Cox succeeded to the governorship
when Governor Frazier was elected
senator to succeed the late General
w. B. Bate. Hon. NJ r. Patterson is
son of the late Hon. Josiah Patter-
son, and at present represents the
Tenth district in congress, and Judge
John r. Bond is a leading iurist Of the
state.
Hon H. Clay Evans, probably the
strongest Republican in the state, 1t is
prA tically certain, will receive the
Republican nomination, and this fact
adds interest TO the action of the Dem
ocratic convention.