The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-12-04
IL AD ICAL UCTS.
UNDERWOOD TRITNPWS-HE IS NOMINATED
For THE PRE.SLDENCI OF TIE
CONTENTION.
HAWXHURST ROUTED.

The caucus Of the Radical delegates held
in uunnicutt's Hall last evening, after
good deal Of wrangling over the exalted
merits of tie aspirants for the position Of
Chairman OF the Convention, ended the
contest by the nomination of the incom-
parable Underwood. The partisans Of the
rivals displayed a great deal Of detcrmi-
nation and zeal in behalf Of their distin-
guished faTorites. The contest was prolong-
cd and embittered. Underwood ; followers
charged home upon The devoted adhercnts
of the peerless HawXhurst, who for a
time held their position maniully; and,
buoyed up by the auxiliary stimulant of
the expiring fires of the insurrectiOnary
champagne of the previous nights Hawk
hurstian supper, they threw back the i'm
petuous assaults OF the gallant spirits VINO
had sworn to elevate the incorruptible
Judge Of this judicial circuit to the i'm
portant position Of President of the Yir-
ginia Convention.
This great contest of course, notwiti-
standing the undyiug spirit and determined
courage with which it was conducted,
must have its end, as all great contests
have, whatever be the degree of hcroism
with which they are disputed. The brave
men who fought under tie flag of Hawk
hurst, finding that human force could no
longer prevail against the overpowering
numbers of Underwood's band, sought
to gain by strategy what they failed
to win by valor-namely, the defeat OF
the judicial adversary Of their fAvorlte.
To accomplish this, they magnanimously
h,p II paI hnir
to the support of Sncad and Bowden, whose
friends had been shrewdy watching an
opportunity to carry OIL the prize when
tho hawk and the buzzard OF this ever
memorable struggle should have disa-
bed each other by their terrible on
slaughts. But the shrewdest strategy
and the most ingenious manGuvres some
times come to grief; so it fell out
with the allies, who, at this stage of
the game, attempted by combination to
turn the fate of war against the great I'm
derwood. First, Snead followed to the
shades of death the ghostly Hawxhurst;
the ill-fated Bowden closed the gloomy
procession Of the miserable victims OF the
triumphant Underwood, and the scenes of
dreadful combat were thus ended. Un-
derwoOd's standard waved DER the dead +,
his followers were jubilant, and his godlike
countenance was ii.umined with majestic
pride as the herald OF the field announced
the following grand result:
Underwood, SO; Bowden, Is; Hawxhurst,
| 9. These nine had crept from beneath the
body of their fallen chief, and flung their
votes in the teeth of the victor as On ex-
piring manifestation Of defiance.)
It was due to the nature Of this great
conflict that it should be announced in this
stately style. in conclusion, we have
only to add that the Underwood party
have determined to make an effort in Con-
vention to-day to commit the Radical
members by resolution to support the
nominations made in this august assem-
blage.
SECRETARY OF THE CONVENTION, ETC.
This caucus found little difficulty in
nominating George Rye, of Shenandoah
for secretary of the Convention, and Will
liam 3. Tall for sergeant-at-arms.