The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-05-21

| The convention reassembled at 1880
j. &. Sparr. of 10 Davies offered the fol
lowing resoluti3p.
| ResolUed. That Gen u. s. Grant. O
Illinois, Is the choice of the conventio
for President of the United States.
A motion was made to substitute th
name of K. Is. Washburne. and motio
to refer to Com mittee on Resolutions
Spar moved to table this, which was dom
by viva voce vote, under great con
fusion. The motion to substitute W ash
buree's name was then put by the chai
and lost, when amid increasing confusion
the original motion was put and carries
on a viva vocs vote, A call of counties
was demanded by the anti-Grant mel
A point of order was made that tablin,
a motion to refer tabled the entire sub
Iject. The chair overruled this. The rol
call resulted. ayes 1856, nays 307. and tn,
resolution was declared adopted. The
announcement. of rhe sresult occasionec
great applause. lasting several minutes
hundreds of delegates rising and cheer
ing.
Crosby, of DuPage. moved that the
various Congressional districts select
| delegates and alternates to the pationa
| convention and be declared the choice oi
| this convention, wicb would have result
ed in the choice of Blaine delegates 10
several districts. This opened great
| contest before the convention.
Senator Logan opposed this motion
Ia speech of considerable length,
| in which he advocated the right of the
majority OF the convention to send TO Chi
| ea2o ia solid delegation instructed for
Grant. lie cited precedents to show that
Illinois conventions had always instructed
6nIQUafas
rity of the convention desired the ncmina-
ton of Grant and had right to send as
delegates men who would earnestly sup.
port the man Of their choice They could
not expect to secure Grants nomination
by sending any delegates opposed to his
nomination. He favored Grant because
he believed he could and would be elected
and declared that with ferty-two solid
votes from Illinois Grant had enough votes
to nominate him on the first ballot. The
antl~Grant men occasionally interrupted
the Senator with questions and each side
expressed their approval or disapproval of
bis remarks. The debate continued at
considerable length, Senator Logan speak
ing several times. G. w. Thomas made
a strong speech. He claimed that the call
of the national convention invited each
Congressional district to send two dele
gates to Chicago. His district (the I7th)
had chosen delegates who had their ere,
dentials 10 their pockets and proposed to
go to Chicago and assert their rights, He
moved TO amend Loqan's motion 90 that
the committee should simply report dele.
gates at large.
Gray, of Fulton, said the Ninth district
had elected delegates having six anti
Grant votes to four for him, Tt would
crush cut the party to ignore these dis
tricts. Kirk Hawes of Chicago said the
delegates had been seated from Cook
county on the ground that they had been
seated by Senatorial districts They now
proposed to try the same plan In selecting
delegates.
Logan asked the Grant men if they
proposed to allow delegates opposed to
Grant to be sent to Chicago and appealed
to them 10 vote down thu amendment to his
nioliOn. Considerable feeling was exhb.
tied dGri1g the debate, and at times consi-
d rable confusion.
Herman Raster, Of Chicago. said the
minority were fighting for principles. He
counselied peace aud warned the majority
not to abuse their poger
The debate was continued unit! II,
when the confusion became so great that
business was suspended, q series OF
motions and points of order, ETC., beiag
made. At AS Senator Logan suggested
that each side agree upon the amount of
time they wanted for debate; that the
time of debate be limited to that time,
and the vote then be taken. This com
promise was not agreed TO and motion
to adjourn till morning was voted down.
At l2 o'clock order was finally restored
and the roll called on an appeal from the
decision of the Chair that the convention
had right to order the previous question
The chair was sustained by Gal to 46.
Another attempt at compromise as to the
time to be allowed for debate failing, the
previous question was ordered at 1890 by
$50 to 243.
An amendment to Logan's substitute,
which provided that the convention should
simply select delegates at large, was de-
fea;ed by 304 ayes. TO $50 nays The roll
was called on Logan's substitute for the
appointment by the chair of u committee
to select district delegates and delegates
at large. This was adopted at l O'Clock
by $50 ayes 20 304 nays.
The chair Immediately announced the
committee which consisted of nineteen
Grant men.
motion to adjourn to A. NJ prevail
Cd a: 1915.
SPRINGFIELD. May 2I.-The Republi-
can convention met this morning at 9
o'clock, all delegations fully represented.
immediately alter the opening prayer, Mr.
Ford of Henry, from the committee ap.
pointed 10 selec; delegates. reported the
following, delegates: lst-John Went
worth OF Cock. w Crawford of Cock.
AltcrDates. Stephen A Douglass, DR. s z
Ledgwick. 2d-A N Wright at Cook, j Ohm
Baumgarteu. Aiternate4. Il ) futhill, q
W Woodnan 3i-Johu l. Beveridge.
Homer c Cook Alieruates. l. Kadish,
S vi Milard OF Lake. 4th-N & Thomp.
son of Winuebago. Il Il Smith OF Winne-
bago Alternates, n kavelin Of Kane,
Il K Wolcott of Kane. 5th-J B Brown
Of 10 Davies. w H Holeomb of Ogle
AIternates. Miles White of Stephenson, n
; ScovIlIe of Whiteside. 6th-Henry L
Noble of Lee. G n W Whitney of Bureau
AIternates, w Ii Shepard of Henry. Ii j
Seviuden of Putnam. 7th-E E Ball of
LaSal!e. Geo w Hollebbeck of Kendall.
Alternates, Z " Willard of viii, Francis
Bowers of LaSalls. Sth-J B Wilson of
Iroquois, II NJ Snow of Iroquois. Alter
mates, R j Hanna OF Kaukakee, Ira Z
Mosier OF KaBkakee. 9th-Jaeob Mar
ston, Fulton, Z II Whiting. Peoria. Al
ternaiss, Vim Jackson. Stark. Mar
tin kingsmaD. Peoria. l0th-Kosea
Dover. Schuyler, T P Burgett,
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