The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1870-06-25
The Convention and Its Work.

The Convention and Its Work.
The delays of travel and the magnitul
of our full report of the proceedings OF til
Republican Convention have prevented 1t
appearance until this morning. To max
1t complete in one issue we yield to il aI
the available space in this paper, believ
ing the Convention m event of sutHciCn
importance to justify this monopoly G
one days INTELLIGENcER. We trust OIL
readers will find it an interesting, as W
have cndeavored to make it d fair am
truthful, account of the Convention.
But little space is left for comment thi
morning. The report indicates what tn
Convention was 1t was large in numbers
excellent in material, united in feeling
harmonious in It's action and enthusiast
over the nominations. All the hope
and predictions Of our enemies AM
the apprchensions of friends, were happi
" disappointed. The platform adoptcC
was much more advanced and the spiri
exhibited by the Convention much NOR
liberal and magnAnimous than we ha'
been led to expect. The resolutions EN-
brace the substance Of all that Nn.
Republicans have asked, full ell
dorsement of the action Of the Re
publican members of the Legisla
ture in adopting Mr.. FLICKs resolution
proposing tho suffrage amendment to til
Constitution ofthe State. They do more
They invite TO cordial cooperation will
our party all who sincerely abide the re
suits of the war as decisive Of the Ques
lions involved in it, without reference t
acts Of rebellion or their previous or pres
cnt political associations.
As Il practical illustration oft sincerl
ty, the Convention placed in the chair a
its temporary Secretary gentleman VIII
but recently was IN active Dcmocra'
(Gen. RUFFNER's selection for tempOrar.
President was the act not OF the Conven
tiOn, but of the Central Committee, thong
it met, We believe, the approval of the CT
tire COnvcntion.) II also listened wit
evident pleasure, and perhaps some prof
to IL speech from u gentleman who serve
through tho war in the Confederate Army
and whom the Convention had CHlle
10 the stand. At the same time til
Convention gave practical Illustration
its endorsement of the 18th Amendment
and n recognition Of the political statu
OF the colOrcd man, BY admitting Colorc
delegates TO seats. No political gatherin
that ever assembled in the State bCtor
had the courage to do any Of these thing
which this Convention did as matter {
principle. Who can doubt or deny, there
fore, that We are making progress toward
II higher standard Of political equity thG
has yet been recognized by either part
in this StateG
Our party has thus placed itself on
imprcgnable bOsls-broad enough to hol
all who may choose to stand on 1t, n
matter where they hAvO stood hereto
tore; and stable enough, because rcstin
on IN impcrishable principle, to promis
u future OF great, continued and GROWN
usefulness.
Concerning the scurrillous misrepresel
tations and perversions dispatched froI
Parkersburg to the Wheeling RegiSte
touching the Convention, its proceeding
and action, we have not space here
notice and contradict them in detail,
ought to be sufficient to say that thes
were manufactured by the practiccd han
Of nm old offender, with whose exploits
that line our readers, and much more til
readers Of the Register, have some familiI
rity. They are manufactured and dl!
seminated as part Of the desperate gam
of desperate and dirty Democratic polit
clans 10 break the force Of the impreSsio
which must be made throughout the Stat
by the numbers, tho harmony, the mod,
ration, the courageous manhood, the pra
tical wisdom and the warm enthusiast
that characterized our great and success
full Convention at Parkcrsburg last We'
nesday. This dirty game Of detractic
and talSehoOd will not win now any mol
thnn it has won in tho past; and the ie
lows who play 1t will soon find they HAY
played that game out even with their ow
political associates.