Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1876-04-20
THE REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION.
COLUMBIA, Tu esday April IL, 1876.

COLUMBIA, Tuesday April II, 1876.
At noon the House adjourned, and such
members of the State Convention as are not
members of the Legislature, came in and took
seats. There was good deal of caucussing,
in which J. j. Patterson was prominent. The
plans of the anti -Chambersinites now began
to be developed. 1t was known that the State
executive committee had decided last night to
put none but delegates, accepted by them as
regularly elected, upon the temporary roll of
delegates, which would bar out twenty nine
Chamberlain men, including the Gailliard
delegation from Charleston, from participa-
tion in the organization of the Convention
and the election of temporary president, who
appoints the committee on credentials. Cur
tbs, of Richland, colored, henchman of e.
liott, who is chairman of the executive COM
mittee called the Convention to order, and
directed that all delegates should 60 to the
executive committee-room and get tickets.
The Gailliard delegates remained in the hall
as the only way of securing admission. At a
quarter to one Elliott formally called the
Convention to order. Patterson sat imme-
diately in front of the chair. On Pattersons s
right was Judge Mackey, and behind him was
Cardozo. Governor Chamberlain was four
or five rows from the front, with E. w. NJ.
Mackey some seats on his right, and Bowen
on his left. Judge Carpenter and Comptrol.
Ter Dunn said nothing during the session, but
voted steadily with Patterson.
Elliott now ordered that the roll be read,
and Governor Chamberlain inquired what
names were on the roll. This elected the fact
that none of the Chamberlain delegates who
are contestants we're on the roll, and lively
and disorderly debate sprang up. Chamber
lain demonstrated the injustice Of the ruling
of the committee, and Cardozo announced
that he, with minority of the committee, had
protested against such action. Bowen inter-
rupted Chamberlain to remind him that there
was a contesting delegation from Horny, and
that, if all delegates where there are contests
we're ruled out until after the temporary or
ganization, Chamberlain himself would be
excluded. There is no such contest in Horny,
but Chamberlain said he agreed to the prop.
ostion; that his voice was for peace, not for
war; and where any body of respectable Re.
publicans had elected delegates to the Con-
vention, he would not put his heel upon them,
whoever they were, but would demand for
them the opportunity to be heard, not as
strangers who had no rights, but as delegates
entitled to impartial justice. [Applause.
Chamberlain's motion that, in calling the
roll the delegates from Charleston, Barnwell,
Colleton and Oconee, where there are contests,
be notified, was now before the body.
Swails, colored, who is one Of the Patterson
Ring, made the objection that there was no
Convention until the roll had been called,
and Elliott sustained the objection, and went
upon the floor, where Worthington instantly
joined him. Whittemore was now in the
chair, and Swails pressed the point that con.
testing delegates must wait until after the or
ganization.
Maxwell, colored, proposed that the rival
DELEGATIONS be admitted and each have half a
vote.
Points of order we're as thick as the dele
gates heads. One delegate wanted to know
who were to vote on the pending question.
Whittemore beloved that only the delegates
on the roll could vote. This decision pro-
voked cheers and Kisses.
Green (colored) made the point that no
business was in order but calling the roll.
Whittemore ruled that the point was we'll
taken.
Cardozo appealed from the ruling, and
wanted to know who should vote on the ap-
peal. The excitement was rising to fever
heat. Several delegates were on the floor
calling for the roll and raising points of order.
Judge Mackey sprang to his feet and said
to the president: "The question is, not wheth-
er you will recognize US, but whether the