The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-09-10
Tho Republican Convention.
APPOINTMENT OF THE CONGRESSIONAL COMMIT


TEE-rHE NOMINEE POLITICAL GOSSIP, &C.
The Republican Convention rezssembled
yesterday morning and selected the follow
ing Congressional Committee: Arthur A.
Splitter. X. A. Paul, NJ. l.. Perkins, Mar
shall Leonard, Lewis Robinson, W. =. Gray,
George Preston, Simuel Logan, John Cox,
Samuel Taylor, W. II. Carter, and Thomas
Nelson.
Colonel W. z. Nye is the chairman, w.
G. Roane secretary, aud r. A. Paul treas
urer.
A proposition to make the nomination
unanimous received thirty votes. Three OF
the Chesterfield delegates were either not
present or not voting.
For some reason the Convention did not
meet at Odd.Fellows' Hall yesterday morr-
ing. but met in the District-Committee room
on Bank street.
After transacting business not OF public
interest the Convention adjourned.
Charles p. Ramsdell, the nominee OF the
Convention, Is the present United States
marshal for the Eastern District of Vir-
gina, and resides at Halfway station. on
the Richmond and Petersburg railroad, In
Chesterfield county, to which county he re-
moved a few years since.
Surry county, and represented that county
with credit in the lower branch OF the Gen.
eral Assembly. In 1873 he was the capdi-
date for Lieutenant-GoveInor on the ticket
with Judge Robert W. Hughes for Gov
ernor and Daniel Fultz, OF Staunton, for
Attorney General, and made an active and
creditabe canvass OF the State.
Both In Surry and Chesterfield counties
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citizen and as a model farmer. His farm is
one OF the best in Southside Virginia, and
bis stock the envy OF all his neighbors and
friends. Mr.. Ramsdel has done much to
encourage the immigration TO Virginia OF
men like himself-men Of property, inteli
gence, and worth. AS United States mar
shal he has discharged his duties in man.
ner alike satisfactory to the Federal Gov
ernment and the community in which his
duties have called him. In fsct, the
nomination OF such man by such a
party is an event entirely unlocked for, and
so rare as to occasion great doubts rs to the
sincerity OF those making the nomination.
Indeed, 1t is loudly hinted that the
nomination party had no idea that Alr.
Ramsdell would accept, but by his nomna-
tiOn and subsequent declension and the de-
feat OF Maddox and Walker that they would
stave of a nomination at lest for the present,
and probably entirely, and thus accomplish
their purposes. With the exception OF Ro-
bert Peel Brooks all the slalwart opponents
Of nomination strenuously advocated the
nomination OF Ramsdell.
The vote as published in the Dispatch
Yesterday was, as announced by the Cnair:
Ramsdell, lS; Maddox, II; scattering, 3.
II was afterwards claimed by the friends OF
Maddox that there bad been mistake, and
that the vote should have been recorded {:
RamsdelI, 16; Maddox, IA; Southwark, 2 (;
Blrrell, /.
The nomination OF Mr.. Ramsdell had,
however, been announced, and a motion TO
make it unanimous rejected, and although
Mr.. Ramsdell, according to this. lacked one
vote Of being the choice OF the Convention,
an adjournment was had, amid considerable
confusion, and the result stood as an
nOunced by the Chair.
The friends Of Mr.. Maddox did not seem
to relish the proceeding; but, as will be
seen by the proceedings OF yesterday MORN
ing, all the delegates present voted to make
the nomination unanimous.
Mr.. Ramsdell was in the city yesterday
on attendance at the United States Circuit
Court. He left for his home at II O'Clock
noon. He is as yet at sea in reference TO
whether he will accept or not. His friends
say that be did not seek or desire the nomi-
nation; but, having been nominated with
out solicitation, he does not feel at liberty to
decline the call OF his party without giving
the matter due consideration. II may be
several days before he will make known his
intentions.
A Dispatch reporter yesterday conversed
with several OF the best-knOwn and most
influential Republicans In the State. All Of
them were of the opinion that Mr.. Rams.
dell could not accept the nomination with
out resigning his position as marshal. as the
duties Of that Office are clearly incompati-
bic with his candidacy. He is the general
supervisor Of election for the Eastern dis
trict, and has the appointment Of the depu-
ty marshals and super visors OF election. 1T
remains to be seen whether he will give up
the marshalship and take the chances OF an
election 10 Congress in district which Is
largely Democratic.
The opinion of all OF these gentlemen
seemed to be that Mr.. Ramsdell would de-
cline. In the event Of his declension an
other Convention will at once be called. II
is therefore more than probable that the
adyisement many DAYS, as he would doubt.
less desire TO allow time for the calling OF
the Convention and the election OF new
delegates fresh from he people. Should
new Convention be called the chances OF
Mr.. Samuel f. Maddox for the nomination
would he better than that OF any one at
present named in that connection.
Major Joseph Walker, who was so unan-
imOusly set down upon by the Convention
Wednesday, will hardly ever again be an
asprant for congressional honors, at least
in this district.
Chesterfield is fruitful IN congressional
candidates. 1t furnished one at the Con-
servatiye Convention at Ashland. The only
competitor to John 5. Wise in the Read
juster Convention at Hanover Courthouse
was Judge Gregory, OF that county, while
on Wednesday all three OF the candidates
Ramsdell, Maddox, and Walker-hailed
from the same county. Some OF the disap-
pointed delegates hlnted at bribery, &C., but
there was no tangible ground for the
charge. 1t is more than probable that the
true secret OF the action OF the Convention
is to be found in the fact that the no-nom-
nation party believed that their ends would
be better subserved in the nomination OF
Mr.. Ramsdel than in any other way. IL he
declined il might break up the nomination
scheme, and II be accepted they would baye
as their anjard-bearer one OF the best men,
il not the best man, in the Republican party
in the district.
The nomination was great disappoint-
ment to the Malone party, who worked
hard for no nomination. All Of their influ-
ence will now be eXerted to get Ramsdel to
decline, and to do all in their power either
to prevent the reassembling OF the Conyen-
tion, or in the event OF It's being held, TO
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