The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-05-28
Districts Carried by Johnson Not
Permitted to Name the
Denver Delegates.
RAb|D FACTION CONTROLS
Conservatives Who Wanted to Send
Anh-Bailey Delegates to Denver
Were Scorned.. A Solid
Bailey Delegation,

Fort Worth, Texas, May 2S-No
anti-Bailey man win go to Denver as
a delegate, not even as an alternate
The Baileyites claimed and took
everything. There was a bare possi-
bility for a while that the Baileyites
would concede two delegates from
the eleventh district, which had been
carried so decisively by the Johnson
forces that many of the Bailey lead
ers thought it would be too flagrant-
ly an act of injustice to deprive them
of what they had won. Other consid-
erations were also urged why this
should not be done. For one thing
A. NJ. Kennedy and II. B. Terrell
who were among the stanchest
friends that Senator Bailey had when
his trouble began and who have re-
mained steadfast up to this moment,
are candidates for reelection to the
legislature from McLennan county
Mr.. Kennedy even has hopes of be-
ing speaker. McLennan county went
against Senator Bailey. Therefore, it
occurred to Mr.. Kennedy and Mr..
Terrell, neither of whom is a slouch
when 1t comes to weighing political
situations, that to grab everything in
the eleventh district would have a
very depressing effect upon their po-
'litical aspirations. Therefore, Mr..
Kennedy went before the committee,
which had been empowered to make
slate, and pleaded with them with
much earnestness to let the anti
Baileyites of the eleventh district
have what they had won. Friends OF
Mr. Kennedy supported his appeal
More than that, Hon. Jake Wolters
and Editor Wiley Mangum Imboden
made arguments to the same end, but
not particularly for the benefit OF
Messrs. Kennedy and Terrell, but for
the whole political situation in South
Texas. Editor Imboden especially
spoke with great fervor He said the
men from the black land didn't know
what it meant to fight. They had
everything their own way. but down
in the section he came from they had
a real scrap. They had started out
with a majority against them and
now they had won them over To
take such action as was proposed
now would cause many who had been
won over to go in revolt.
During the morning Clarence Gus
| ley was in favor of sending the an
ti-Baley delegates from the eleventh
district. In the afternoon he switched
over and was in favor of keeping
everything. What moved Mr.. Ousley
| to this change of heart and what
moved Hon. Jake Wolters was that
in the interim the Johnsonites had
offered a platform which criticised
| Senator Bailey as having made 6
dicker with the saloon men. This in
censed Mr. Ousley He declared a
once that the anti-Baileyites were
entitled to nothing and afterward
before the assembled delegates, hs
made something of an informa
statement as to why, in his opinion
they ought to be denied all repreSen
tation at Denver
| Mr. VOTERS change of heart wa
more gradual and while fundamen
tally, it was due to the same consid
Grafton, nevertheless 1t had differ
ent evolution. Mr.. Ousley abandoned
the anti-BaileyiteS in the eleventh
district before the convention haC
met in the afternoon. Mr.. Wolter
fought for them valiantly half wa.
Through the afternoon session, wheI
suddenly, and in somewhat a dra
matte way, he surrendered the con
test and consented that the Bale.
delegates from the eleventh distric
should be chosen, Notwithstanding
they were in minority in the lat
contest.
Delegates At-Large--J. w. Bailey
Cooke county. M. M. Brooks, Dalla
county. J. L. Storey, Caldwell county
A. ]. Baker, Tom Green county.
Alternates At-Large-J. R. Bow
man, Potter county J. r. Kubena
Fayette county. B. F. Looney, Hnu
county c. L. Brachfeld, Harriso
county
A full set of Bailey delegates wa
elected from congressional districts
The following were named to repre-
sent the fifth district: w. E. Spell
Hill county; James C. McNealus
Dallas county. Alternates: w. c
Bowman, Hill county; Fl. P. Mizel
Ellis county.
The presidential electors are like
wise Bailey partisans. Thomas d. Il
bell Of Rockwall county was selecte
from this congressional district.