Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1876-04-15
The State Radical Convention.

The State Radical Convention.
| The State Radical Convention, the proceed.
| ings Of when we have heretofore published,
was not Us mild mauuered an affair as the telc.
| graphic accounts of it led US to believe. The
| New York Herald correspondent who was sent
to L. nciburg, to observe and narrate the pro-
cccdngs, says
| The Republican State Convection having
elected II delegation 20 the Cincinnati Convex
ton, and having adopted u platform, adjourn
Cd. Mr.. Banc may we'll cry, Save, OH !!
save mt from my friends! - if they are at all
like tn, 81 who nave managed his affairs here.
After my dispatch closed, at one o'clock this
morning, the Convention proceeded with in
creased bJlsterousncsS, the majority having no
regard for the righsef the minority, and cx.
! Congressman Plat ruling the mob with au iron
viii. At Que time a motion to adj Juru Was car
rice and declared to be in effect, and the chair.
mau had LETT his seat, but as lie attempted to
leave the plattOru he was called back by Platt
and resumed his gavel. Meanwhile number
o! delegates had lett the hall, under the i'm
preston that the proceedings we're ended for
The nieht. After this glariugly fraudulent re.
organ .tIon the Committee on Permanent o.
au'i Civil Rights * Representative of the First
District, rs chairman This at once provoked
cxctcmcn, among the colorcd delegates, and
was denounced By the mi rity of them as an
outrage aGt an irsrl.t. Remembering that, to
some ext mt, at the time when Mr.. Sencr voted
against the Civil Rights bill 10 the last Con
gress, Mr. Blaine was not exactly square, toed,
the nomination OF Mr.. Stuer, enragcd them and
increased their very natural devotion to Mr..
Morton. The white leaders, hGW9ver, inc!ud
irg he powerful office holders, held control Of
sufficient number Of blacks ADD rotten borough
delegates to accomplish their object, which was
t. chokc~uff any appearance Of opposition to
Mr. & alue. The result of this choking of was
directly manifest in an attempt on The part of
the CoukiIng and Morton men, under the lead
Of Captain j. II. Rvcs and Colonel Wood6n,
to withdraw from the Convention PcDdlDg
this attempt Major Wagner, a revenue agent,
made an Insulting remark regarding Captain
Rv1s, which the latter resented, and for the
nnmaut bloody rencontre was threatened.
CoIored delegate d. Mortie had been nomiua-
ted In opposition 10 Seuer, and the Blaine men,
after cb king off dcbIte upon the merits OF the
two Candidates, rendered an hours time to
delegate who could not speak three minutes to
save lis life. This Increased the turmoil and
was in effect and insult to De- Mortie, which he
felt keeny. The delegates we're nearly all GU
their feet, som rushing toward each other with
belligercnt intent, aud others attempting to re-
store order Rivcs and Wagper were prevent
ed from meeting, aud finally quiet was partially
restored.
AT this juncture, the chairman, without re
gard to auy motion for delay from the mioori-
ty, declared the report of the Committee on
Permanent Organization adopted. Ex-senator
Lewis got excited at these arbitrary proceed
inEs and dcnouoccd the chairman for his share
in them His dsnuncialiOn was so severe,
t.uthfu and deserved that the chairman COW.
81 before him., resigned his Craftsmanship,
aIiI actually fl Il from the stage, leaving the
& 0tlon without a presiding officer. There
was her scenc Of Understandable confusion.
This Was the cond time the chairman had
vac'ed his chair, and tor the second time he
was brought back by force at the command Of
his masters. After a few moments he called |
another colorcd map, 8eckIey, rotten borough |
delegate from Allegheny, to the chair ard left |
the hall in disgust. Buckley soon adjourned |
the Convention, under Platt's ORDERS. the idea |
being that 1t was necessary to place Carter the
regular temp rary chairman, or the Subse-
lueDt proceedings would be wholly devoid OF
Any VI EumUeTS OF the
so-caed delegates cou d DOT even recolIect The
names Of the courties they represented and
;hc chairman was constantly falling into buD.
lcrs by crcdting members to the counties they
ivcd in instead Of counties they were repre-
tnting for Mr.. Blaine 10 the Convention
Anst OF these were subordinate federal officials,
uGh - deputies, mail agents and clerks.
In iac'' .'arly the entire federal machinery
n the ota'e was literally used to secure the
Virginia delegation :, Cincinnati for Blaine.
y m. :, the most promi6t::. Office holders Who
were ass x Mr.. Piatt 10 ~. mausrsmen,
and n'1 T"1". Oft the Couyent'Hs .eTs CaI
master us.%t fsJU orseuson Fourth Dsr'fy
Richards, also Of that cry; 0I Rns'o
and D.puty Postmaster Jrtf,rds; S'eF t hu'se.
20 tu1aster Nichols, ct Norfolk Pot"Ho. ~,
Miller, OF Winchester; Specia Agent Wasn5a
D.pu1y Collector BralnhaIl, OF WytheVille;
Collector ksriey. Of the Moth District and
Dicseudolt, Inspector OF Merchandise at Nor
TX. Besides these there were halt a drz;n
minor official, OF the Custom Houses OF Nnr
folk, Petersburg, aud Richmond, and dele,
CATION OF depar, !uent cier Ks from Washington
90 the 6,or. The ''oully' boys were LED oy
braz faced negro Daued Malord, a mail agent,
and Diezeudort, white official from Norfoik,