The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-06-09
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west VIRGINIA Conventions.

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/ CHARLEsTos, ~, A., June s-1:30 a. III
The Convention was called to ORDERLY
! Alexander Campbell chairman OF the Stat,
Committee, who nominated L. r. Hoffman
4 of Taylor, as temporary chairman. The
nomination was followed by a unanimous
election, and the appointment OF members
oithe press as secretaries. The appointment
OF committees was effectively and quickly
! disposed OF by the selection OF member
from each Of the twelve senatorial districts.
| > Arecessswas then takensto 9 P. M., when
the Convention was organized blythe cleo
ton OF D. D. johnson, OF Tyler county, as
permanent chairman and president, and J.
Bernard Peyton as permanent secretary.
| The entire day was spent in the discussion
Of financial resolutions favoring imitation,
which had the sympathy Of large ma
iority OF the Convention, but which were
defeated by having tackled on to them a
plank fayoring the submission OF the ques-
ton Of permanently locating the capital to
the people. This latter subject proved to
be very fre-brand of dissension among
| the delegates from the First and Second
congressional districts, who are opposed to
any scheme which may take the capital from
| Wheeling. -a" @H =,
1t is feared that the subject may defeat the
party in the November election, as the Re-
publicans will take advantage OF the dissat-
isfaction prevailing among the Democrats
on this subject, and make the removal of
the capital leading issue. The Conyen-
ton took areceSs until s O'Clock, when NOM
nations will be in order.
The inhationists are not to be defeated.
II no effort would get in the scheme upon
the reassembling OF the Convention to-nigh:
they would move reconsideration OF the
vote by which majority report OF the Com
mittee on Resolutions was adopted. IT was
then moved to lay that motion on the table.
Upon this the ayes and noes were demanded,
and it was laid on the table by decisive
vote.
This closed the discussion OF the financial
question, and the nominations were opened
by the announcement Of the names OF
Henry NJ. Mathews, OF Greenbrier; P. C.
Eastman, OF Mason, and Samuel Price, Of
Greenbrier, as candidates for the nomina'
ton for Governor. Mathews received 26G
votes, Eastman 131, and Price 100. Whole
number Of votes cast, 500; and Mathews
having received majority of oil, was dc.
clared the nominee for Governor.
The nomination was then made unani.
nous. The Convention will be in session
the greater portion Of the night making the
nominations for State officers and delegates
to st. Louis. The result OF the days work
can be briefly summed up in the partial tri
umph OF Conservative doctrine; the defeat
Of the infationists, and the harmonious pre-
servation of the Democratic organization Of
West Virginia. A delegation, which will
favor Thurman for President, will bt
elected to St. Louis, but owing to the
sympathy of the inaationists for Aller
the delegation will be uninstructed. a
preference may lie expressed for Sherman
The financial plank in the platform adopted
| by the Convention is as follows: "Thr
while we belong to debtor State, and be
lieyc that the Republican party has treated
such States unfairly and unjustly by it:
financial policy, and while we favor an i'm
mediate repeal Of the specie-resumptior
act, taxation Of United States bonds like
other property, and the abolition OF the
present banking system, yet at the same
time we emphatically deprecate the effort tc
divide the Democratic party upon issues in
volving money only, and recommend thai
such issues be RENTED to the congressional
districts, or otherwise subordinated to the
great moral and constitutional question:
which underlie the existence OF the Unior
and its Institutions
g.. The Suffolk Burglars.
Especial telegram to the Dispatch.l
SUFFOLK, June S.-The Suffolk burglars
have not been released, as stated in your
telegram OF to-day. Mr.. George D. Wise,
Of Richmond, came down on Monday, hay
| ing been paid in advance, as stated by him
to save the red-headed man. He procured
writ OF habeas corpus from Judge Bur
roughs, retllrnabe before Judge Blow, OF
Norfolk, who was absent. Upon his return.
ing, the prisoners were still undergoing eX-
animation. The Judge declined to notice
the writ There is evidence against them
which has not yet been brought out. They
will certainly be sent on for trial.
North Carolina Excursionists---
Drowned.
| Especial telegram to the Dispatclr.I
| CopIorv Time S-Tho RALEIGH ReScue
Fire Company and some 400 Carolina
excursionists arrived in the city this after
noon on q special train. The Norfolk City