Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1880-05-01
THE REPUBLICAN, COUNTY cox
yENTION.


yesterday, as per programme, at Eureka
Hall. The gathering was not overwhelm.
ingly large, though excruciatingly enthusi.
astic and harmonious. There we're but few
delegates present from points outside Of
Eureka and Ruby Hill. The whole affai,
was intensely Blaine. The bare mention
Of his name was sufficient to whoop 'em
up. Had any one dared to have said a
word in favor of the savior Of the coun-
try" he would have run imminent danger
of being Stayed on the spot. If the name
Of Grant was mentioned at all it failed to
touch a responsive chord anywhere. The
SENTINEL is sorry for Grant. He deserves
better of the American people, and espec'
tally Of the Republican party. He bay
oneted Hayes into the Presidential Office,
and thus gave the party an additional -four
years at the public crib. For this, if for
nothing else, he deserves to be held in
grateful remembrance by the faithful.
At the appointed hour, Mr.. J.. j. Work,
Chairman Of the County Central Commit
tee, in a brief speech called the Convention
to order, and announced that a temporary
organization was in order.
Hon. Thos. Wren was chosen temporary
Chairman, and Lieutenant Geo. R. Am
mond selected Secretary. The usual COM
mittees came next as follows:
On Permanent Organization and Order
Of Business Messrs. Foley. Randolph, Van
| derleith, Douglas and Crowell.
On Observation-Disclosures. M. M. Johnson,
Longley, Mulick, Fenstermaker and vanini.
On observation-disclosures. w. W. Bishop,
Clute, Dunkel, Ayres and Colerick.
Then followed a recess of half an hour
to give the committees a chance to perfect
their work.
On reassembling the Committee on Gre
dentials reported that one hundred dele
gates were entitled to seats in the Conven-
ton, but nothing was said about the num-
Der OF absentees. No seats were contested
The Committee on Permanent Organiza-
ton and Order Of Business submitted this
programme: For permanent oficers-Hon.
Thos. Wren, President DR.. j. H. Lukens,
Vice President; Geo. r. Almond, Secre-
tary. As the order Of business-First, re-
port of Committee on Credentials second,
the election of permanent officers third,
report Of the Committee on Resolutions ;
fourth, the election Of eleven delegates to
the State Convention.
Mr.. Wren, on taking the Chair, thanked
the Convention, and gushed for Blaine and
the propriety of the delegates to Chicago
being instructed to carry out the will Of
the party in this State. He omitted any
mention Of the course of Nevada's delega-
ton in the Cincinnati Convention in 1876,
at which time the said delegation might
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Maine statesman.
Hon. w. W. Bishop was the next gentle
man to break the oppressive silence. He
hurled the annexed resolutions at the Con-
v%ention, which were adopted amid earth
quakes of applause
Resolved, That James G.. Blaine is the
choice of the Republican party Of Eureka
county for candidate of the National Re-
publican party for President Of the United
States.
Resolved, That the delegates from Eu-
reka county to the State Convention be,
and they are hereby instructed to vote in
the State Convention in favor of instruct
ing the delegates to the National Conven-
tion to use all honorable means within
their power to secure the nomination of
James G. Blaine as Presidential candidate,
and to vote as a unit for him as long as
his name is before the Convention as a can
didate for nomination.
Resolved, That the delegates from Eu-
reka county to the State Convention are
instructed to vote as a unit upon all ques-
tions to be voted in said Convention.
Resolved, That no person who shall be
selected as a delegate to the State Conven-
ton, shall be permitted to give a proxy to
any person, except it be to some other reg
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to the State Convention. 1t is also
Resolved, That the delegates in the
County Convention from the four delegate
| districts shall select the number Of dele
gates allowed to their respective district,
and the delegates SO selected shall be
elected by this Convention as delegates to
the State Convention.
And then the Hon. W. W. Bishop took
the floor and spoke to his platform. We
have always liked Bishop. He has a gall.
Also he has ideas and words, and is not
afraid to express them. He didn't want
any Jones, or Sharon, or Mackay, or Dag
gett in his, as delegates to the National
Convention. He wanted simon pure
Blaine men, and would be content with
nothing else. Blaine was Enthusiastically
the choice Of the Republicans of Nevada,
and he didn't want to see the State mis-
represented, to put IL no stronger, as it was
in 1875. The speaker was for men who
would carry out the expressed will Of the
party, and to make dead sure of the dele
cation doing this, he was in favor of send
ing them to Chicago under instructions,
regarding the meaning of which there
could be no question. The speaker also
said a good many other things in his usual
acceptable style of delivery, and succeeded
in stirring the Blaine blood in those pres
emit to an extent that brought forth several
rounds of applause.
At the conclusion Of Mr.. Bishops re-
marks the following gentlemen were
elected, by districts, as delegates to the
Austin Convention
First District-O. Fl. P. Baily. Second
District--O. Dunkel, NJ. NJ. johnson, J.. J.
Work. Third District-Thos. Wren, W.
W. Bishop, M. D. Foley, E. r. Clute, L. p.
Anderson. Fourth District. 81. Holmes,
Phillip Bluett.
Mr.. j. j. Work is said to be the only
Grant man on the list.
The old County Central Committee was
continued in power until the meeting of
the regular County Convention some
months hence.
Each delegate was requested to throw in
a dollar to defray the expenses, and the
Convention adjourned with cheers for
Blaine.
Military Epaeaion