Wilmington daily gazette., 1872-09-14
The Radical G onvention.

ANOTHER REroRr--IUDdE HousToN's LETTER |
-NoIsE AND CONFt1SiON-wHiSkEY AND
WArER. DC, NC.
From the SUSSEX Journal.
At an early hour on Tuesday mornin, a
stand was ore. ted at the Brick Hotel and hand.
somely decorated with Aags ami evergreens.-
The Orphans Court being in session there was
quite number Of county people IN attendance
but not more than iifty Republicans from Sussex
county, and AZ the word had been passed around
for the culored voters ID stay at home. very few
were on the grounds. Bu VA handbiis large
enough l." cover the whole side ol n barn, aud
printed in all shades lad been posted all over
tho State, it WAS exIedled that the train would
bring shca crowd az was never iei"re in Sus-
sex. But, 10 what was The surprise Of every
body TO find on its arrival, that there were hu,
SIX cars and those only partially filled. A alnle
was hred from the cam, on the tram and the
procession headed by a baud Of music marched
to the Brick Hotel. A lev negro delegates were
sandwiched through tle whites, but for once
the RAIDS were WISE
BALLoTINa FOR CONGRESSMAN.
:, After the first ballot, DR. Davidson obtained
the n00r amid great confusion and said that 1t
mad been reported that Judge Houston would
rct accept the nomination for Congress at the
nands q the Republican party.-he was'Eree,
pared to say to the Convention that he would
accept i, and held letter IN his hand from
the Judge which would settle the matter
Voices. read the letter. The Doctor read a
par. OF the letter in which the Judge stated his
Willingness to accept the nomination il ten
oered 10 good faith. "A number of voices
called for the reading Uf the entire letter
treat noise and confasion followed. the whole
mouse was In II roar. the Sayel OF the chair
asn could not restore order, half dozel
speakers were hallOwing, and such scene q
coniuslon as cannot be described followed
presently the Doctor read the remainder q
the letter which was In substance that th'
1uoRe had been told OF great dissatisfaction
~ tue democratic ranks, &c, and that II wa
70 elected il he would accept the nomination
C The letter stated that he udge ous
onl dd 4ot believe much In such sid, hlN stil
70 would accept. A scene OF confusion fol
lowed. vixen some one asked would he resig
us po 'ltion as Judge amt stump the state
Uoctor u. replied that he was prepared to "a
tnat the Judge would enter actively into tn
canvass II nominated, and stump the stat
from the Brandywtne to Baltimore hundred
ballot was called for and resulted in til
election Of James X. Lofland.
Inc whole affair was really and truly II ten
Pest IN q teapot First We were told that thcr
would be thousands OF people here and til
~, W. Is there were s5O came on the naraEnd n!
,ao.e than 70 SuRex Republican,. were
tevn. One fellow from Wilmington saldt th'
Hethoqght from the big bills and the negl
Delegates that he had come to q radical NEE,
,pg, hut nearly every man he had met hel
was . democrat. Then all this noise aho,
ssttlQg the nomination was ridicAloNs Whe
We remember thai even tue Molt iaRgNiI
hopubliean would not indulge the hope th
under any circumstances could the Repnbl
can nominee be elected. So there was q
enormous amount Of gas and bnncomhe al
oil for naught.
MAJoR IOrL AND.
After the nomination OF Major I.onan,l "
made public hts friends rushed around hi
ana so'ne, wh0sa spirits were up by reason
4pflts d0,cn blubbered and clustered and
tNg force carried their yiltoTipas MAJOR
AeSpehkers' standt H - ,WH = ! !.
The speech ,ofAr. Lofland gave us nc
favorable opinion Of his ability In that partit
ar line than W. had entertained He ma,
however, THE mistake 10 usual on such Occ,
ions-he spoke too long. : =