The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-05-30
The Clarksburg Convention
LOYALTY" I'm COUNCIL
Unity of the Brethren.
SCENES AND SAYINGS
what was Done and How
w They Did II.


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The small politicians swarmed al
Clarksburg, Harrison county, on Thurs
day to attend the Radical Convention
The "loyal" members of the Legislature
were ont in force. Shoals of candidates
with their dependants, blowers ano
strikers, mingled in the mass. one
hundred delegates from Harrison were
renorted in attendance. These elements
made up the body which, under the
name and style of representative Con-
veution, gathered at Clarksburg to So
lect victims for the October immola-
tien. The people, who are expected to
do the voting, were noticeably absent
We never before witnessed COnven-
tion at which the outside attendance
was 40 wretcbedly slim. But the BLACK
Crookery carried its own audience
along, and having gathered together
its ponderous parts, heavy men, utility
men, clowns, elaquers, carpet-bagges'
plunder-mongers, thunder-pumPers, TO-
CUES, roughs and rubbish, the grand
combination opened out its perform
ancc.
OPENING OVERTURE.
After the temporary organization
with General Powell as Chairman had
been effected, gourd-headed tatterde-
malion, named Newlin, from Monroe
county, opened out with production
in chin-music, upon the instrument
with which Sampson performed his cele-
brated battle.piece. The barden of his
strain concerned the organization OF the
Convention. He wanted to be Chair
nlau of all the Committees, and there
fore moved their appointment, one after
the other, with rapidity of utterance
that, added to his other gifts, might gain
him a frst-class place as Peter Funk
auctloneer. His semI-quavers were sue
ceeded by the sweet notes of other aspi-
rants after applause aud eminence,
Aside from the matter of individual
prominence, two different plans of or
ganization seemed to work the chief
discord among the rival gab-grinders.
One gang wanted the President to ap-
point the Committees. Another desired
TO have a member for each COmmi ttee
selected by each Senatorial District del.
egation. From this point the division
ook its departure.
DEPRESSION.
About this time, a gentleman from
Wood county, who shared with few
others the hopeless duty of making the
Convention respectable, sought to har'
monize and "enthuze" the wriggling
conglomerate by proposing three cheers
for Grant and Colfax. His motion excl
ted little interest but was carried, where
upon, under direction of the Chairman
who like Gideon ofsold instructed ant
manosuvered. his forces with view to
prodigious fuss, the band -sunderet
their mugs and blew their shells, ant
then as if each had snuffed his nei gh
boris breath, sank back exhausted un
der the operation.
HOSTIIITIEs REsUMED-A MULTIFARIOU
MUDDLE.
This depression over, the chief horn
blowers resumed their windy discords
Somebody's motion, amended by SOME
body's amendment to the motion o
somebody else, was adopted with singu
lar unanimity, owing to the fact tha
all understood it in the same way
Then some malignaAt genius prompted
an officious Obseurity to move a recon
sideration. This was followed by de
bate, iaterspersed with points of order
and ending with motion to table
which the Convention furiously resolved
to do, though with manifestly indis'
tict notion of what it was proposed tC
reconsider, amend or table,
THE CHAIR COOL AND CAPABLE.
The Chair, with promptness and
GOODNESS that showed his eminent tit
ness for the first place in this conclav(
of caterwanlers, announced that under
the resolution just adopted the Com
mittees woald be appointed, and ordered
the Secretary to read them from lis
which had been prepared with marvel
Gus CELEBRITY.
DARK SUSPICION AND LUCID EXPLANA'
TON.
To neutralize the manifest fragrance
of "cut and dry" the Chairman o
the State Executive Committee an
nounced that the Convention Commit
tees had been arranged by his Commit
tee, after consultation with the various
Senatorial delegations. The Secretary
just here inconsiderately read off thu
name of man not in attendance at III,
Convention, and the pious fraud wa,
promptly exposed. Half-a-dozen mem
bers from the rOttenest regions of seal
awagarie declared,that their delegation
had never been consulted. Somebod,
raised the question that no resolution
empowering the Chair to appoint thes
Committees had been passed. Anothe
said that it had been passed.. but re
considered. Another argued that i
had not been reconsidered, or passed
but tabled, while Others confidently as
sured the Convention first, that tn
resolution had not been voted upon
second, if it had, it had been defeated
third, if it had not been defeated it ha,
been tabled, and fourth, if it had no
been tabled the question had not beel
taken upon it, and anyway it was no
proper to trust the Chair in the matter
and they wanted each delegation t
choose its own Committeeman.
SNUBBING, AS A ElNE ART.
! The Monroe ceuntV nonenity a1ra,1, 1,