Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-06-07
PRESS DISPATCHES.

will vote for Wilson, His friends are san
guine of success on the second ballot.
1t is stated that COlfaX has written a
letter, ordering the withdrawal of his
name under certain circumstances.
The platform committee were in session
! till dawn this morning.
The cOlOred part of the Virginia delega-
tion have kicked in the traces and resolved
! to go for COlfaX.
A GENTLE delegation from Utah was ad-
mitted
The Convention is denseIy packed. Ev-
cry State and Territory is represented.
The States will be called alphabetically
upon all questions. ..|-.
The platform will be disposed of before
nominations.
! The roll shall be called on nominations
when a majority has been reached for any
candidate.
The question of unanimity shall be put
when the chairman of a delegation shall
state the vote for each candidate or propO-
sition.
The five minutes rule was adopted.
Resolutions will be referred to commit
tee on resolutions without reading, but
resolutions from the Union League will
be ordered to be read, by vote of the Con-
ventiOn.
The National Committee consists of: AL
dUdltd, ClGuOGI AIhdllSdS, Sld1 COu lOl-
ida, Gleason Georgia, Tanning; Ken
lucky, GoodlOe; Louisiana, Cassanaul
Maryland, Fulton; Mississippi, French
South Carolina, Moses Tennessee, May
nard; Virginia, Mills; West Virginia,
CreswGll
The proceedings, while waiting for a re-
port from the platform committee, were
somewhat incoherent, the blacks and
whites contending for the rOstrum.
The rules were then suspended and
Grant was nominated by acclamation.
The vote for Grant was unanimous. In
casting the votes of the delegations, each
chairman made little speech which was
received with great good humor. The fol-
lowing is not among the most eXtravagant:
POpham, of Virginia, said her Republi-
can people were marching forward under
her banner Sic-SeD2per tyrd1l1iS. Indeed
next autumn she will put her armed shield
upon the head of the Democratic party.
The Gods are just, and Virginia must and
will be redeemed. [Cheers.]
The Convention united in singing John
Brown" when the nomination was an
nounced. After Henry Burley subsided,
motion was made to suspend the rules and
nominate Vice President. Carried.
Pennsylvania nominated Wilson and
Massachusetts seconded the motion. In
diana nominated COlfaX and Michigan
seconded the nomination, Mississippi also
seconded the nomination, Lynch, color
ed, saying it seemed to him as if the spirit
| OF Lincoln Is here, and he remembered what
that patriot said on one occasion, when he
SAID 1t was not safe time to swap horses.
Inc proceedings We're interrupted by the
entrance of the platform COMMITTEES which
reported in effect as follows:
The resolutions speak of the orreat cour
age of and the duties performed bv the
Republican party in suppressing the re-
belliOn, emancipating slaves, enforcing
the laws, developing the internal resources
of the country, encouraging and promot-
ing immigration, collecting the revenues
and reducing the national debt and ex-
press the belief that the country will not
entrust the government to any party or
combination composed chiefly of those
who have resisted every step of this bene-
fetal progress. They hold that the recent
amendments to the Constitution must be
sustained and carried out and that hOnOra-
ble peace with foreign nations should be
maintained.
That the civil service should be reform
ed; that no further grants of public lands
should be made to corporations; that the
revenue should be such as to furnish a
moderate balance to be applied to the re-
ductiOn of the public debt and that the
revenue, except such as is raised from to-
bacco and spirits, should be raised by du-
ties on imports, which duties should be ad-
justed so as to aid in securing re-
munerative wages to labor and pro-
noting the Industries, prosperity
and growth of the whole country
that the future bounty of the govern