Morning journal and courier., 1880-06-05

f clamor about Illinois is wrong Let me sa
 to you Blaine and to you Edmunds men , you can beat the old soldier, go in and win l Prolonged cheers and applause.) clain
 nothing not due every citizen of this gran' Union, nothing for General Grant that VI do not concede to your delegates. We do no
 tell you we will bolt your nomination ant
 won't. If you can beat us do so. We vii
 stay here until you do so. But your old sol
 dier has carried you to many victory and h.
 cannot be beaten by tricks. (Cheers.) D,
 not steal his votes. I have been told tha
 the California delegates have accepted thei
 credentials on conditions. Is that SO
 Frank N. Pixley, of California, replied We have been so insulted we hardly dare re
 ply. We accepted our places untrammellet
 for Blaine. (At the mention of Blainei
 name the whole audience waved hats an6
 cheered hstily for fully five minutes.)
 When Logan resumed there were hisses
 from the galleries, and the Chair directed tho
 sergeant-at-arms to cause the arrest of any
 man expressing disapprobation. MT. Logar l in resuming said: My proposition wal 1 this, that while certain States claimed to bt
 represented by delegates from districts they 1 themselves should accord to each and every l other State the same rights. Your President | is not chosen by districts. Why then should you take up this district idea without notice | to the States? If the National Committee
 adopt this rule, we will willingly follow. ] l never make threats, God forbidl But can. | didate in his own State should not want to | control candidates in other States by his | methods. I appeal to this convention to un-
 derstand the position of the Illinois delegates | and give fair play. think, Mir. Chairman,
 the committee should have changed the reso- lution so as to give an opportunity for fair | and free discussion of this matter.
 Mir. Conger said he had made no motion to l limit debate
 The Chair-The pending resolution is of 1 fered by the gentleman from Wisconsin. l Mir. Quarles, of Wisconsin, asked how much l time was wanted.
 MT. Logan-We will accept any suitable l time and not quarrel over it.
 MT. Harrison-I suggest an hour on each, | although we have had an hour already, 1 Ben Butterworth, of Ohio, said :: The resolution ts precisely worded It author | lzes either side to appear by some one out side the convention. If we hear them in side we shall hear quite enough, and I move to strike out that clause conflicting with rule of the convention. MT. Butterworth then offered resolution, which was passed, giving two hours to debate.
 The hour was getting late. A two hours contest, which would probably be drawn out to three, was going on and many hundreds of the audience, alternates and guests left the building. The chairman waa obliged to rap several minutes for order to be restored and stated that the question on the report of the committee on credentials. MT. Logan asked whether 1t was proposed to devide the question or to adopt it as whole. The Chair declared it divided. MT. Conger said that it devolved on him to present the argu- ment in favor of the majority report. He as- serted that 1t was always the rule of the Re- publican party in Illinois that delegates should be selected by districts. No reason is apparent for the innovation. We stood against the doctrine of State sovereignty in the late war and called the greatest soldier of the nation to lead our armies to put down this heresy. It ill became Republican con- vention to declare the right of State to take away district representation and thus take further steps ill heresy that has cost much :? We can't endure that the grandest man and the greatest State should at tempt to remove this theory of representa- tion. The people are the only sovereigns in this land and they shall determine until the end of the republic what shall be their laws and who shall be the executors of them (Applause) The report of the majority is correct in principle, correct in practice and should be sustainnd.
 G. B. Raum appeared for the sitting dele gates. He said: 'sWe represent the law and custom in the selection of delegates in this State and are willing to rest the case the law and long years of precedents in our own State. There is not and never has been a uniform rule among the States in the selec- tion of delegates to a convention. When there is Illinois will cheerfuIly acuuiesce The State convention has always selected delegates instructed delegates and sent them to the conventions of the Republican party In 1860 1t was resolved ''that Abraham Lincoln is the candidate of this State and the dele gates from this State are instructed to use all honorable means to secure his nomination by the convention Do us justice and you will leave those eighteen men in their seats
 Elliott Anthony. contestant asked that the practice of the State be upheld. He denied that the practice was as represented, and as- serted that the uniform practice had been to select delegates by Congressional district conventions. He quoted from the proceed ings of the State conventions in support of his argument,
 Ex-Collector Murphy, of New York; asked the speaker if he had not said to him that he would under no circumstances vote for Grant.
 Never. I neither thought nor said so. :" was the reply (Applause.)
 MT. Strohpacker, of Alabama, arose to question of privilege. Being excited over the allusions to the Germans he said: We are tired of this bugaboo. Take it away. We are not Germans. We are American citizens and good Republicans
 
 platform and said that proposition was made to abolish in this State the State con ventions. It would not work. He hoped that Maine and Ohio would not attempt to force upon Illinois their methods He denied Anthony's statement that ten districts be taken for the constituted Republican party of the State. He asserted that the history of Illinois conventions and precedent had been followed. We decline to be wronged. 1 conjure you to stay your hands I am not in favor of the Liberal Republican resurrection. Nominate J. G. Blaine if you can (cheers), and when the gentlemen here cheering in the galleries tonight shall be reposing under the blue summer sky, tired of politics and dis gusted with it's vanities, you will find followers of the gallant soldier awake by the campfres carrying banner of the soldier triumphantly to victory. GOO people stood up and swung their hats and cheered. It was a scene un- equalled. MT. Conkling and his group of New Workers stood upon chairs and waved their handkerchiefs, and MT. Conkling him. self waved the New York banner MT. Hoar strolled his beard as one amazed Um- brellas, parasols and banners were waved high in the air on the end of slaves on which the State banners had hung. Conkling an- swered the galleries and they cheered again. The Chair abandoned hammering his desk in disgust and the policemen were lost in the crowd. The New York delegation started songs, 1.-The Year of Jubilee'' and Marching Thro' Georgia, :" which were taken up by the crowd. When Mir. Storrs made his third effort to renew his speech the crowd broke out again, and the noise was deafening and could be heard mile away. The second outbreak was greater than the first Men seemed to be drunk with excite ment and sprang on the benches rushing into each others arms, shaking hands and em- bracing, and laughing, crying and shouting. Five hundred men took of their coats and swung them in the air. The infection ex- tended to every doubtful delegate on the floor. Illinois and Ohio joined the jubi- lee. Among the incidents was that of Colonel Bob Ingerson standing on 8 chair and way ing flag and red handkerchief. Maine at last fell into line, and up went all her dele gates to the top of the benches shouting at the top of their svoices, waving their hand kerchiefs, hats, coats, umbrellas, etc. Mrs. Colonel IngersoH sprang on chair on the stage the Goddess of Liberty, draped herself in one American flag and waved