People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1896 — Quay Men Bolt a Convention. [ARTICLE]

Quay Men Bolt a Convention.

Pittsburg, Pa., April 1.-Bloodshed was feared at the Eighth legislative district convention Tuesday. The vote at the republicaA primaries Saturday was so close that the Quay people determined to get the three delegates to the state convention. The McKinleyMagee adherents had a score of police scattered through the hall. When the Quayites saw the kind of a reception they would get they bolted. Going to the Quay headquarters they held a “rump” convention. There they elected three delegates to the state convention and instructed them to vote for national delegates-at-large favorable to the election of Senator Quay for president. Of the twenty-seven delegates to the convention the Quayites elected ten. This includes the three elected at the “rump” convention. As Quay will boss the state convention his delegates will be seated and the regularly elected delegates thrown out.