The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-08-07
.0qCITY NEWS.
DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION
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A PERMANENT ORGANIZATION
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SCENES AND INCIDENTS

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SCENES AND INCIDENTS
3 ,sst First Day.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
When the convention adjourned at
O'Clock yesterday, it was to meet at A
However, twenty-five minutes before that
time the committee on credentials gol
surfeited with the rejuvenating elixir fur
nished by Manly next door, and put fol
the Theatre, headed by Charles Bruce, esq.
its chairman. On entering, the Grove
being sufficiently large to do business ant
temporary President Harman, and az
interim Secretary Fisher being accessible
the committee presented its report, ant
the work Of reading and acting on its
necessarily dry details was commenced
This duty consumed couple of hours, ano
when the omissions had been supplied an6
the discrepancies adjusted, it was found
that many honorable members had done &
great deal of 6 talking with their mouths
before they fixed things to their liking.
m W Al SOUND OF MANY VOICES.
The tug Of war came after the list O
delegates had been called and in acting OF
the committees suggestion to supply vacan
cies, equalize the basis of representation
etc. The scene was the exact reverse O
everything we have been taught exists in
Heaven. The diabolical tumult LASTED
several hours. just imagine fifteen hun.
dred voices being upraised at one and the
same time-the deep manly base and the
piping and shrill treble united in chorus
of harmonious discord. Ancient rural
parties who were doubtless shining light.
Of piety in some cross-road church wher
at home, and who had never disporteG
themselves in the intricate mazes of the
courtly minuette, came nearer doing so or
this occasion than ever before. Some three
hundred delegates seemed, from their ener
getic movements and their voluble gesticu
lations, on the eve Of engaging in a genera
disturbance of the peace.
A PEAcE-IAKER APPOINTED.
At this iuncture, sober minded parties
seeing the imminence of a scrimmage
suggested that a posse conitatus be made
up to preserve order and prevent the possi
BILE effusion Of blood or gas. President
Harman so far acquiesced in the cry fol
peace as to appoint Mr.. Benz. 7. August
of this city, temporary sergeant-at-arms
Benjamin was willing but small, and was
soon swallowed up by the vortex Of thu
vocal revolution.
IRON-CLADs CALLED FOR.
Some were praying The protection O
friendly iron-clads; others would have
crept into q stove-pipe had one been about
Uninterested spectators were heard anx
iously enquiring sscan such things be p
There was no answer, while the confused
hum of human voices rose in multitudinous
array towards the peaceful dome of tn,
temple of the drama, which hung on its
balance in the trembling dalliance will
fitful fate, and looked, like the coon wheI
it saw Captain Scott, ready at any mo
ment to come down.
DR.. Burrows, who had been sent for tt
pray for the convention, and had been sit
ting in one place six hours waiting so t
do, got alarmed at the warlike manifesto
tions visible, and suddenly executing ,
neat combined summersault and back
spring, landed himself safely among tn
flies, away from danger.
4 Colonel Hartman, in his noble but un
ayailing endcayors to preserve order
knocked off one end of table with hi
gavel. Colonel Flournoy, of Halifax, will
singular disregard of Harman's feelings
proposed that the convention rub out ant
begin again by calling Colonel Bocock t,
the chair. Flournoy's desire to have ;
finger in anorganlzation pie was abbrevatet
lamentably by Harman, who decided hin
out of order.
PERMANENT ORGANIZATION.
The resolution empowering the chair t
appoint committee of three on perma
ncnt organization from each congressiona
district was called up. Major Ragwel
offered an amendment giving the delega
tions the power to choose the committee
and it was rejected. The original resolu
ton passed. Under it the chair appointe
the committee with Ro. Ould chairman
and it Immediately left for Manly's sa
loon. During the voting on Ragwell'
motion occurred the first lnll in the domes
TIC pandemonium, and still the babel {
sound surged upward with the power an
intensity Off forty-horse patent bee hive
WIlOSt tuIlhbtbdltba5 WclC VII tucit HE
spring raid for fruits and flowers.
The convention adjourned till s o'clocl
NIGHT SESSION.
On reassembling at night the conventio
was called to order. when Judge II. n
Watkins, Of Prince Edward, from the con
mittee on permanent organization, rea
the following list Of officers i
/ President-Hon. Thomas s. Bocock
Of Appomattox.
Vice-P -Presidents--H Hon. f.. M. Braxtol
of fredericksburg Colonel j. w. HintoI
Of Norfolk Judge w. w. Crump,
Richmond; Vim. Baskeryill, of Mecklel
burg Thomas s. Flournoy, Of Pittsylv
| MIA; VIM. M. Cabell, of Buckingham
Hon. r. I. w. Duke, of Albemarls
General w. I'll. Payne, of Fa
quier, and Colonel John Trout, of Roank
I 8 Secretaries II. r. Fisher, j. Bell Bgg
and VIM. Lovenstein, of Richmond, to
| assisted by the members of the Conserv
| tive press present. sf ssf
| Sergeant-at-Arms Colonel G. T. Or
tenden and b. T. August.
II 1t was unanimously adopted.
On taking the chair, which Colonel Hs
man seemed pleased to have chance
leaving, Colonel Bocock who was for yea
| speaker of the United States House Of
| representatives., made "a few brief remark
in his usual graceful and easy mann,
J winding up with an Invocation fo1 the ps
pie to do their duty by going for the T
publicans generally and specially in the I