The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-06-07

the resolution Of the gentleman from New
York. Mr.. Mccormick, ONE OF the three (,
charged Mr.. Conkling with having failed
IN support the candidate OF the last Ma.
tional Convention. This thrust was
cheered 10 the echo, and from thSt mo.
ment Mr.. Conkling was left 10 s0'uirm in
the miIe.
The browning affliction was heaped on
him by Mr.. Garfield, who led the cOnven.
ton out OF the trouble and buried the
New York Senator SO deep in ridicule that
| he will scarcely be able to recover during
the convention. When Conkling rose TO
ask question Of the Chair he was Missed
and laughed at from all parts Of the hall
and by the delegates, newspaper men and
distinguished guests. A motion to lay Mr..
Conklipg's motion on the table was about
to be put when Mr.. Conkling withdrew
IhisSresolution amid shouts OF merriment,
gufIawsand Kisses.
No public man ever made 80 wretched
an exhibition OF himself or more thorough
ly disgraced his State in public body.
The Pittsburgh Chronicle says:
West Virginia Is a small State. Bat she
grows plucky men. Individual speech
and action Is not restricted in West Vir-
ginia as much as in the great States OF New
81 York, Pennsylvania and Illinois. judging
from the way the Senators hold their
forces together.
| The Washington Post, Democratic in
3 politics, alludes to the episode in the fol-
: lowing language:
II was a pulyerized defeat that Mr..
lConklinp encountered yesterday, at Chi
caoo. in being compelled "amid storm
o Of hisses." To withdraw the motion he had
b made to expel three delegates from West
> Virginia because they voted against his
u resolution pledging the united support Of
i the convention to the nominees. These
delegates said they had no notion OF op.
J. posing the ticket, however constituted, but
I they didn't mean Conkling should swear
them to do anything. MIR. Mccormick
:. one OF the gentlemen whom MIR. Conkllng
4 proposed to kick out, came back at tht
i" distinguished Senator with the persuasive
:. ponderosity OF hundred.ton trip.ham
I" mer, when, in contrasting his record will
lConkling's, he said he had made one hun
k dred speeches in the campaign OF 1876
o while Conkling had made but one, ant
t, that reluctantly. This was the signal for {
y storm OF applause for Mr.. Mccormick, fol
lowed by groans and hisses for the New
e York boss. Taking one consideration
n with another, the affair was not happ!
a one for the head Of the third term trium
virate.
l. TIE Pittsburgh Dispatch referring to I
u highly Imaginative telegram, sent by it
u Wheeling correspondent, comments a
follows:
y According to our Wheeling special Ger
tain Republicans OF that city appear TO b.
Indignant at the action OF Mr.. Campbell
a OF the INTRLLIGENcEB, in the Chicago Con
/. yention yesterday. Let our Wheeling
:, friends 60 slow. II MIR. Campbell's posi-
u ton be carefully compared,with that oil MI
k Conkling, Mr.. Campbell will appea
o UNNECESSARILY superior to the lordl
Roscoe. Wheeling and West Virgins
should be proud OF citizen like MI
Campbell.
g The same paper adds the following.
j. Boss Rule must indeed be at low eb
n when Mr.. Conkling was even forced +
a withdraw his resolution to Gust the Yves
= Virginia delegates from the convention
lOf course it was only little cheap bun
J. combe on the part OF Mr.. Conkling-a sug
gestion that he believed the nomine
would be General Grant, but 1t raised
f. storm, and delegates insisted on retainin
n their freedom OF action after the conven
a ton. Mr.. Campbell, OF West Virginia, pu
70 1t well when he said that he owed allie
y glance TO no sovereignty except that GOV
IS cred by his own hat.