Gayles was again a delegate at the 1892 Republican National Convention in Minneapolis . Also in 1892 , Gayles ran for a seat in the US House of Representatives against Thomas C. Catchings where he received only 159 votes ( 6 % of the total vote ) in the face of suppression of black and Republican suffrage in Mississippi and other US States . The Chairman of the Third District Republican Executive Committee , Willis Elbert Mollison , stated that there was no chance of a Republican candidate getting elected , but that the Republican party wished to keep alive their organization and to control Federal patronage in the event of Republican Benjamin Harrison being elected president , although in the end Democrat Grover Cleveland won in that year . Gayles again sought congressional nomination in 1900
1892 Republican National Convention
1892 Republican National Convention
George W. Gayles