The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-05-22
CONVENTIONS.
Illinois Gives Grant 43 Votes
A Bitter Fight.
Minor Matters.

VI OCO W OOts OpaAC . AOcOlOlAOh N0S
adopted amid a scene of the widest
confusion and excitement.
Crosby moved that various Con-
gressional districts select delegates
and alternates 10 the National Con-
vention, and that they be declared
the choice OF this Convention, which
would have resulted ia the choice Of
Blame delegates in several districts.
This opened q great contest before the
Convention. Senator Logan opposed
this motion in a speech OF considerable
length, il which he advocated the
right of the majority of the conYen'
ton to send to Chicago a solid dele
CATION instructed for Grant. He
cited presidents in Illinois as TO unit
instructions. They could not expect
to secure Grants nomination by send
ing delegates opposed to his nomina-
ton. He favored Grant because be
belied he could and would be elected,
and declared that with ioriy-two
solid votes from Illinois, Grant had
enough votes TO nominate him on the
first ballot.
@. W. Thomas, Of st. Clair, made
a strong speech. He claimed that
the call of the national committee in
vited each congressional district 10
send two delegates to Chicago. His
district, the seventeenth, had chosen
delegates who had credentials in their
pockets. and proposed to go to Chi
cago and assert their right. He
moved 20 amend Logan's motion, 60
that the committee should simply re-
port delegates at large.
Gray, of Fulton, said the ninth
district elected delegates having
thirty-three anti-Grant votes to four
/ for him. 1t would crush out the
party to ignore these districts.
Kirk Halves, OF Chicago, said dele
| gates had been sent from Cook County
on the ground that they had been
elected by senatorial districts. They
now proposed to try the same plan in
selecting delegates. The previous
question was ordered at l o. ciock.
Thomas Amendment to Logsn'e
substitute. which provided that the
committee should simply select dele
gates at large, was defeated by 304 tl
$50. The roll was called on Logan's
substitute providing for the appoint
ment by the chair of a committee tC
select district delegates and delegates
at large. This was adopted at l, by
$50 TO 904. The chair Immediately
announced the committee, which
consisted of nineteen Grant men. A
motion to adjourn to 9 am. prevailed
at 1.15.
Springfield, 81. - The republican
convention, this morning, appointed
a solid Grant delegation to Chicago.
Following are the delegates at large:
John a. Logan, E. a. Storrs, E. B
RaUm, D. T. Littler. The Blaine
men refused to vote when the previou;
question was called for the selection
of Grant delegates to Chicago; but il
was carried, and the motion Wss then
made for the nomination by the
committee on delegates to Chicago o.
q state central committee. The vote
stood-syes. 2743; nays, 252{. Logan
offered the following, which was
adopted:
| ResOEUed. That General U. s
Grant is tbs choice Of the republican
party of Illinois for the presidency,
and the delegates from this state be
instructed to use all honorable means
to secure his nomination by tbs
Chicago convention, and to vote SIS a
unit for him, and the said delegates
shall have power to I'LL al vacancies
| On motion of A. ~. jones, the
chairman of the convention was in
struCted to telegraph Grant that Hi
nois stands by him with ~ votes fol-
president. The motion was carried,
loud cries of mo" being heard. St.
Clair county presented d protest
stating that it had appointed d slegates
to Chicago according to the conditions
of the call, and now they were sci
aside aud others put in their stead.
Delegates from the third, fourth,
ninth, thirteenth, tenth, fifth, second
and sixth districts concurred in this
protest. Logan then offered the fol-
lowing apd suggested that it be the
only platform.
Resolced, that the republicans oil
Illinois in convention assembled, de-
clare that they will support the
nominees of this convention for state
offices and the nominees of the Chi
cago convention for president and
vice president.
The resolution was adopted by 2
rising vote, amidst the greatest en-
thusiasm, the vast body OF delegates
unanimously rising to their feet, and
cheering enthusiastically. A resolu-
ton directing the secretary to notify
the republican convention of a la
hama that Illinois sends 40 votes for
Grant, was offered, but Withdrawn on
account of great opposition.
Gubernatlorsl candidates were then
put in nomination, being Messrs
Cullom, Folt, Renaker, Hawley,
Smith aud Carr.
The Committee here reported the
state central committee and presi-
dental electors, and the list was
adopted.
The first ballot on governor result.
ed: Cullom, 2l93; Renaker, 1851;
Hawley, IS; Fort. 81; Ridgeway, 76;
Carr. 50; Smith. 81. Necessary to
choice, 347.
Balloting continued without much
change. Before the fourth ballot
was announced the break began and
large number of changes were
made to Oullom and Renaker. The
former received tRo-.hirds OF the
votes, aud Cullom's nomination vas
made unanimous with a rousiug vote.
Henry s. Dement, was nominated
for Secretary OF State, Edward Ruiz
for Treasurer, and James Mccartney
for Attorney General.
Chicago, 21.-Tri6une' Springfield
special states that ten OF the congress
sionsl districts have entered their pro.
test and deny the right or authority OF
the Logan element in the convention
to throw out the anti Grant dele
gates, and that these districts had |
previously chosen delegates who will
take their appeal to the national con-
vention.
Selma. 21.-The republican state
convention passed, by 1lS to 50, the
following resolution:
ReSolved, That the choice of the re-
publicans of Alabama for President Of
the United States ia the illustrious
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