The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-06-12
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We're the Rag Baby Fellows
Nhinncd nj ChRrleHtOn?

whipped NJ CnAfleStOn.
The New York IieTaIfS correspondent
at Charleston telegraphS to that paper O
Saturday ms follows:
"Thc electors and delegates to 81
Louis being the last on the list in order
Of business, were not reached until long
after daylight, at which time the Assem-
bluge in the wigwams had degenerated 70 %
more OF free and easy mob than D9uy
governed by any parliamentary rules t
Everything passed of good hunioreI1y'
harmoniously and quietly, and tue lnIa- !,.
tiopiSts having been whipped into the
traces that resulted in coLlpFollIS.c III III
hard money naturally acquieSced IN Ill
the subsequent proceedings ,
And vet notwithstanding the remark oil
the HeralTs correspondent that the inila.
tiopi,ts were "whipped into the traces"
he roes on to say, further along in his
dispatch that, Financially analyzed," the
the delegation stands "seven inllationistS
and three advocates OF hard money"
The securing Of such a delegation (he
says) twas the only successful stroke of
policy gained by the sOfts in the COnven'
ton" How they gained this point is cx-
pIaincd thus:
"They waited patiently till this morn.
iug, when the hards, iatigucd by the Ia
bors Of an entire nights session, had princi-
palIy left the Wigwam in which the Con-
vention was held, and thus secured a ma
iority OF the delegation for the Ohio rag
baby. This was done under the manipu.
Iation OF II. S. Walker, the aspirant for
Congress, who signally failed in eilecting
the passage Of the imitation resolutions
and the hobby OF the removal OF the Capi.
tai. His chances for the Congressional
nomination are considered weakened by
the verdict against him in the COnvcn'
liOn."
We presume that the "hard money
men" in the delegation are J. n. Camden,
Of Parkersburg, and Wills BcalI, OF Wells
burg, (bolh bank men and bank oiliccrS),
and possibly also G. D. Camden. Sims,
one Of the delegates from the Third Dis
trict, is put down as M out and out Bill
Allen man. The balance OF the delegation
il said 10 favor Thurman for President.
"For second choice they are divided be-
tween Allen and Hendricks, one alone ol
tho delegates expressing u preference for
Bayard as a third choice"
Taken all in all, we are at "a loss to see
how it can be said that the rag.baby ele'
ment sustained much, il any, oil
a defeat at Charleston. The fl
nancial plank in the platform
adopted is certainly not hard money
declaration by good deal. So that il it
alone constitutes the defeat. OF the rag
babies they were not very heavily thrown
to the ground. Here is the financial reso'
luton adopted by the Convention:
"That while wc belong to a debtor
State, and believe that the Republican
marty has treated such States unfairly
ana unlUStlN DI lth hhahS'a' IN~St
while we favor an immediate repeal o!
the specie resumption act, taxation oi
United States bonds like other property,
and the abolition Of the present banking
system, yet at the same time we
emphaticaIly deprecate the effort to
divide the Democratic party upon
issues involving money only, and re-
commend that such issues be re-
mitted 10 the Congressional districts, or
Otherwise subordinated TO the great moral
and constitutional questions which un'
derlie the existence OF the Union and its
institutions.
Those who voted for the majority re-
port, Of which the above is a plank, may
consider it n great triumph over Walkers
minority report. And may be it was, but
when we couple with it the sending oi
seven innationists TO St. Louis the magni-
tudc Of the triumph does not seem very
applreDt,