The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1908-03-27

The National Committee Will nave
TO decide which of the Tennessee ag-
gregation is regular and which IS IT.
regular-which are the bolters ana
which the orderly.
No crowd of Negroes anywhere on
earth with one one-hundredth part OF
the intelligence, would have been gull
ty of precipitating such disorder as
was seen in the legislative halls OF
the Tennessee State Capitol on We'd
nesdav. March 25 There was an et-
fort made to hold two republican state
conventions at the same time in the
same hall, which was entirely too
small for one, and to have both chair
men occupy the same platform, the op-
posing sides being the Evans-Sanders-
Hale and the Oliver-Brownlow-Aus-
tin factions, each side claiming the
right.
The determination Of both factions
to control was shown by the precau-
tions of the former in laying plans
and the shrewdness of the latter IN
capturing the whole convention and
forcing the ns-Sanders-Hale peo-
ple out of the hall, not by main force.
but bv the superior generalship OF
their leaders and with some semblance
of right on their side. There was
fnllv an hour of the opening time
spent in scrapping.
The convention opened at 10 O'CLOCK
Wednesday morning in the historic
old room of the lower house of the
Tennessee Legislature, and fight al
once was begun. 1t was a hght IN
which hundreds participated from
time to time; a genuine rough and
tumble wild and woody affair prec1pi
tated by the efforts Of the Evans-Hale
delegation to take charge OF the ros
trum already held by the Ollver-Aus
tin -Brownlow wing. 1t should D'
stated just here that the Oliver hosts
who had come in on a special tralr
from East Tennessee at an early houl
Wednesday marched right stralgh
to the hall of the House Of Representa-
tives and filled the big auditorium
shortly after 6 o'clock. They had
kew to the hall all right and marches
in on the five unsuSpecting Evans
Hale guards and took the room. The,
kent it and held it straight throug
until the hour for the convention an
when the Evansville delegates Wake
into the room at 10 o'clock the Olive
men we're in the saddle. 1t was on tn
advent of the Evans followers that tn
rough house started
The appearance of Newell Sander
Iillard and others on the speaker
stand was the signal for a genera
rough house. The Oliver men SCENE
to recover instantly from their su
rrise and they made a rush to get II
Evans men off the speakers stand an
the rostrum as we'll They made
Newell Sanders and at Lillard ar
grabbed arms, legs, throats, coats, fec
hands-anvthing that was visible az
TANGIBLE and a terrible struggle toe
place that lasted for a time tn
seemed an age not only to those wi
rarticinated. but even to on-lookel
AT first the Evans men held the
ground Chairman Sanders, Marsh
Duggan. Deputy Marshal McLain al
other Evans men fought like demon
Collars and ties were torn off; m
were smashed In the face, beat oV
the head. kicked in the sides and sto
ach: some were picked up bodily a
thrown off the ton Of the speal1e
etand ont into tho surging mass
low One man almost got gun
Of his nocket on two occasions. !
othcr man rushed around the hall W
a hatchet he had pulled out of
back pocket.