The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1870-06-27


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A RFsoLUTEoS recommending the adop-
ton of the Flick Amendment failed by
large majority in the Committee on heso'
Misunderstanding dispatch 10 HE9'''eF'
This is positively untrue. No vote was
taken in the Committee on the Resolu'
tons in reference to the FLICK Amend
mcnt. Two propositions were before the
Committee. As has been previously
stated in our columns, meeting Of delega-
tons embracing about third OF the State
had been held the evening before, and
had agreed on the two resolutions which
appear in the platform rs the fourth ana
fiNh. The resolutions offered in the Con-
vention by Mr.. HUBBARD were accepted
by the Committee as the basis OF the plat
form, and these two resolutions OF the
meeting were offered in lieu of the cor
responding resolutions in the series
offered by him. No vote was taken on
substituting the one for the other
nor was any vote necessary, Tor
Mr. HUMANE perCeiving that lie
got NIL the substance Of his own rcsolu-
tons very willingly accepted in place Of
them the resolutions adopted by the
meeting the previous evening, which
others were satisfied to take us q basis OF
complete harmony, Mr.. HUBBARDs reSo'
luton endorsing the FLICK Amendment
was not rejected by the Committee; twas
not acted on by the Committee, for he
withdrew It in favor Of another which In
sured complete harmony and yet was just
MS full an endorsement Of the amend
ment as his own. The Registers reporter
docs not preserve consistency, for in tho
same dispatch from which we have quoted
he says the platform reported by the Com
mittce endorses the Legislature for sub
hitting the Constitutional Amendment to
the people," Now iii were true that the
Committee had voted down one resolution
OF this character and adopted another
identical in substance, what of it? 1t
would only show that the preference was
about the verbiage. But as VIC have said
the Committee did not vote as between
the two resolutions ut all
What gravels the Register is the fact
that the Convention did accept and cn-
dorse the FLICK Amendment, and that
this action Of our party renders not only
untenable but fatal the attitude into which
the managers of thatconcern forced their
own party at Charleston, which inevitably
forces into inaction and lukewarmncss, If
not open revolt, the most intelligent and
progressive men Of that party, besides
chilling and rcpulsing and driving into
sympathy and future cooperation with
the Republican party, the now disIran-
chised men of the State who are looking
10 the FLICK Amendment for relief.
In this connection, We make another
quotation from the same source:
1.-THE liberals Of the Convention are dis
gusted with HUBBARD for not insisting
upon pIedging the party to the Amend
menL, and claim that he deserted them
because they were so badly outnumbered."
This a silly falsehood, shown by what
we have already said and by the action
of the Convention. The fight of the eX-
IRENE wing of our party was made on the
Northcott. Newlin minority resolution,
which was q cross between the Carl
Schurz plank Of the Chicago platform,
and Mr.. Newlin's pet scheme of lcgisla.
tive class or graduated amnesty. The
talk ofthe liberals being Outnumbered is
simply foolish because untrue In the
committee, seven signed the report of the
liberals and four the report Of the other
wing. In the Convention, the vote was
Ale for the liberal platform to eco for the
NorthColt.NGwlin platform. ......f
Tint our readers may see what we state
rs TO the action of the Convention on this
question is true, we append here the 9Th
plank of the platform, which was adopted
without division with great cheering
9Th. That the Republican party Of West
Virginia fully endorses the action OF its
representatives in the Inst session of the
Legislature in submitting the question of
amending the Constitution to the people
Of the State, and at the same time rcCog-
Mics the right of each individual to think,
speak and vote thereon according to his
best Judgment and the dictates Of his own
conscience.
THE Republican delegates from the