The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1870-06-25
AN ENTHUSIASTIC & HARMONIOUS CONVENTION.
A GOOD DAYS WORK.

OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES wIGwAM-TIGE
CROWD.
The Republican State Convention
which made nominations at Parkersburg
on Wednesday, the 22d inst, was the lar
gest in numbers, and the most gratifying
in its results, Of any Republican Conven'
ton previously held in the State. 1t was
undoubtedly the largest convention held
in the State since its organization, save
the Democratic Convention ut Grafton in
1868. The unusual interest in the Con
gressiOnal nominations to be made there
for the First and Second districts, and the
vital importance Of harmonious action on
the question raised by the proposed
Amendment to the State Constitution
brought out unusually large delegations
This interest brought also many who were
not delegates and made the crowd incon-
veniently large, The hotels were damned
from office to attic, and rooms and beds
Wednesday mid Wednesday night were
not 10 be had for love or money. Great
numbers were also tho guests OF private
citizens who opened their houses most
Hospitality. The Kanawha delegations
quartered on board the steamer that car
ried them.
Numbers of delegates arrived in the
city by river and rail Tuesday; and Tues
day evening meeting Of delegates was
held at which some sixteen counties were
represented. The Kanawha delegation,
with Governor STEVENSON and band
aboard, came up on the Mountain Boy,
which arrived shortly after noon Tues
day. The Panhandle delegation went
down on the Major ANDERSON, and reach.
cd Parkcrsburg just after breakfast hour
Wednesday morning.
The Ohio county delegation organized
On the boat Tuesday night by appointing
Captain HENRY WALLACE, Chairman
md JAMES n. EWING, JR., Secretary, and
held meeting In the Court House at D
o'clock next morning and selected their
members Tor tho several committees.
The Market House which the live Re-
publicans Of Parkersburg had prepared
TO accommodate the Convention, was adj
mirably adapted to the purpose. 1t was
building high and airy within, open on
all sides, about two hundred to two hun
dred and fifty feet in length by fifty or
sixty in width, and made IN excellent
wigwam. The whole space was seated
from end to end, large stand being erect
ed on one side midway the length. On
this were tables for the officers and for
the reporters of the press, a number Of
whom were present. The PRESIDENTS
table was graced by handsome bolt
Quets contributed by the fair hands
of the Republican ladies of ParkcrS'
burg, and others were afterwards added by
Mr.. A. G. LEONARD, the Chairman of
the Wood county delegation, who success
sively presented, in the name of the 10
dies, magnificent bouquets 10 the tempo
rary and permanent Presidents of the
Convention and to the nominee for Con.
gress in the First District.
A feature of tho Convention not 10 be
overlooked was the presence of from n
dozen TO twenty colOred delegates, who
were scattered through the several dele
cations and who in all respects ComportGd
themselves like intelligent gentlemen. 1t
is equally worthy Of mention that in no
quarter was there the slightest manifesto.
ton Of dissatisfaction at their presence.
The white delegates also conducted them
selves like gentlemen in being entirely
oblivious Of the fact, so far us any outward
sign manifested the contrary, that the
delegates were not all Of equally fair COM
plexion,
BY the hour Of assembling the crowd
had filled the wigWam, those III the ccntra
part being seated, while in the mort
distant portions Of the building they stoot
closely crowded together 1t is diff
cult to estimate the number. The
reporter of the INTELLIGENCER tel
cgraphed the number of delegates (noI
"pcrsons'O present at fully five hundred
but it must have been more, rs Wood
county alone had couple of hundred on
the ground. The crowd in the building
was variously estimated from the stand Al
q thousand to fifteen hundred, and by
some still higher. The scene was u stir
ring one. Two bands were stationed
about midway between the stand and
each end. One was the Alpine from