Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-05-25
Congressional Convention,
Can't Danford Re-n0minated by
ACcIamation.
FAILURE OF AN ATTEMPT TO
ENDORSE BRIS TOW FOR
THE PRESIDENCY.
Large Attendance and Noisy
Session.

day TO nominate candidate Tor Con-
gress. Pretty full delegations were in
attendance from neal all the counties
and jefferson and Belmont were un
usually well represented. About II
o'clock the delegates repaired to City
Hall, and effected Il temporary organ
iZation by the selection of the Hon
Samuel Knox, of Harrison, as tempo
rary chairman.
Mr.. Knox upon assuming the duties
imposed upon him, said:
Gentlemen of the Conuention:
1t is proper and l cannot do less than
to return to you my thanks for the
honor conferred upon me by being call.
ed to preside over your temporary or.
ganiZation. The occasion is one of deep
interest to the Republicans of the Six.
teenth District. The time and the oc-
casion crowd the mind with thought
with suggestions and "reminiscences OF
the triumphs of the past and of hopes
of the future. The time the hundredth
year of the Nation, the seventy-ffth
of the State, and the twenty-second
since the National Republican Party
was organized. Since which time what
a history has had our Nation-a history
unparalleled in modern times. Slavery
checked in its onward march TO uni
versdl empire-an almost unmatched
rebellion crushed-the shackleS of four
millions of slaves broken, and these
millions brought into the light of Lib
erty, and clothed with the habiliments
of citizenship and with suffrage dis
rupted-a seemingly disrupted Union
restored and order made generally
reign when anarchy reigned before;
a large part of an immense National
debt paid, and measures put into opera
tiOn for its ultimate extinction; the
National faith appreciated, upheld and
preserved, and the Nation made to
stand in the exalted position of the
Great Republic of the world. In all of
which the Sixteenth Congressional Dis
trict of Ohio with devoted patriotism
has borne her full and equal share. In
the future as in the past L doubt not
she will maintain her integrity and
proper place in the phalanx of Repub-
lican districts. And Whatever patriot
ism demands to be done she will do to
advance all the interests of the people
of the District, State and Nation.
But one word more-if corruption
has crept into the public service, if
wrong has been done, it is tine Republi-
can,party alone to which the people can
look with hopeful eyes that the wrongs
will be corrected and the unfaithful
punished. 1t is the only party which
has said, "let no guilty man escape.
1t can furnish the capacity, personal
integrity and purity essential to good
government. 1t will be done, and the
Republican party will still be the party
of the Nation, and its progress will be
onward, bringing to the Nation high
er prosperity and greater renOwn.
Upon the conclusion of his address
II. Ell. Anderson, Of Guernsey, w. B.
Hearn, of Harrison, and j. b. Long
ley, of Belmont, were chosen tempo
rary Secretaries.
The following committees were then
appointed
On credentialS-G. NJ. Wise, of Bel
mont; J. A. McEwen, of Guernsey :;
G. Foster of Noble; H. S. Black, OF
Harrison; and 5. P. Riddle, of Jeffer-
son.
Committee on Permanent Orsaniza-
tiOns-Capt. s. F. Dean, of Belmont,
L. B. Hibbs, of Guernsey, S. r.
Thompson, of Noble, d. Cunningham,
of Harrison, and j. Il. Updegraff, OF
Jefferson.
On Rules and Regulations-C. w.
Carroll, of Belmont, DIR. J. T. McPher-
son, of Guernsey, Hon. Charles Hare,
of Noble, Milton Yost, of Harrison,
and Benz. Comley, of Jefferson.
Committees were notified to meet in
places designated for their use, and the
Convention took a recess until 1880
Pm.
AT half past one O'Clock the Conven-
ton re-asSembled, and was called tC Or
der Ly the chair. Reports OF commit
tees being called for, Mr. Wise of the
Committee on Credentials reported all
the counties represented and no con-
testants, and recommended that the
delegates present be allowed to cast the
entire vote of their counties; the report
was adopted.
G.. w. Carroll, of the Committee on
Rules and Order of Business, made
report which was adopted.
Hon. ID. Cunningham of the Com
mittee on Permanent Organization re-
ported for permanent officers of the
the following: President,
Hon. j. L. Updegraf, of Jefferson;
ice-Presidents, Charles Hare, of No
BILE, Isaac w. Hall, of Guernsey, Judge
Robert Martin, of Jefferson, II. W.
Smith, of Belmont, and Harvey Heed,
of Harrison. Secretary, w. a. Hunt,
Of Belmont; Assistant Secretaries. It. |
Z. Thompson, Il. "a. Anderson, w. b. |
Hearn, 2. b. Conn.
DR.. Updegraff was presented to the
Convention as its Chairman, and re-
turned thanks in neat and appropriate |
speech for the honor conferred upon
him. In referring to Capt. Danford he |
said that the Republicans of the 10th
District may justly congratulate them
selves, that the District, true TO the
glory of its old renown, has now in the |
Councils of the Nation a man who has |
achieved a national reputation
and added lustre to the annals of his
party and his State.
The permanent Secretaries were in
vited tn their seats and the chair an
nounced that the nomination of can
iidate for Congress was in order,
whereupon the Hon. S. Knox, of Har-
flsson, arose and in short speech pre-
;ented the name of Hon. l.. Danford.
and moved that the rules be suspended
ana he be nominated by acclamation.
The motion was received with applause
md the chair put the question which
Vas unanimously carried, amid wild
'heers, throwing of hats and waving of
landkerchiefs.
The nomination of a Presidential
l.:ector was next proceeded with. The |
persons were placed in nom.
nation: Hon. Chas. j. Albright, Hon.
J. DInbar, David Cunningham, J. It.
dcPherson, Hon. Chas. Hare. Al ,
right and Hare were Withdrawn, and