Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1880-02-18

THE PEOPLE AROUSED,
Indignation Meetings Being Held
Over the State.

MEETING OF REPUBLICANS AT SHARON,
MERCER COUNTY.
Tsneeal Correspondence of Pittsburgh Dispatch !
SHARON, PA. Feb. 1.-THE course
pursued by the delegates from this
(Mercer) county to the State Conyen-
tion excited great indignation not only
among the rank and file, but also
among the leading Republicans in the
various towns and townships of the
county. The Republicans of this
county are almost unanimous for
Blaine, in common with the Republi-
cans of nearly every county in the
State, and certainly of the other coun-
ties-Butler and Crawford-in this
Congressional district This fact led
the county committees In each county
to instruct the delegates elected to do
all they could to promote the nomina-
ton of James G.. Blaine for President
THOSE CUNNING DELEGATES
In this county S. Ii. Miller, Esq,
J. III. Carr, doorteeper in the House
of Representatives, as well as in the
house of Cameron, and A. G.. Grove,
an honest but pliable citizen of Sandy
Lake, were chosen, at Miller's earnest
request The committee unanimously
instructed the delegates to support
Senator Blaine, and Miller followed up
his success with an enthusiastic
Blaine speech. Whether he did this in
ignorance of the service that would be
required of him in Harrisburg, or for
the purpose the more effectively blind
ing the people as to his real designs, |
cannot say, but | do know that Mr..
Miller does not usually do anything
without fixed purpose.
The Dispatch has already given in
plain language the course pursued by
Miller when chairman of the caucus
how he refused to put a motion to adj
journ made by Blaine man, when adj
iournment would have broken up the
caucus, and how he put the same mo-
tion very readily when the Cameron
men had accomplished their purpose,
but when Wolfe, Koontz, Albright and
others demanded recognition that they
might ventilate the proceedings; also
how he and his lieutenants supported
Errett for temporary chairman, though
Hon George Y. Lawrence was the
Blaine candidate.
RINGING RESOLUTIONS.
The first of the local conventions of
the county was held in this city last
evening, and was one of the largest
and most earnest ever held in the place
Organization was effected by electiDg
Maj. Alex Mcdowell Chairman, and
that gentleman proceeded to appoint a
committee on resolutions composed of
Daniel Williams, j. H. Chandler, and
Joseph Barber After the transaction
of other business the committee re-
ported the following resolutions:
WHEREAS, The delegates to the
State Convention from Mercer county,
were unanimously instructed to use all
honorable means to secure the nomina-
tion of the Hon. James g. Blaine for
President, and whereas, said delegates,
by uniting to throw the organization of
said State Convention into the hands
of Senator Blaine's opponents-where-
by committee on contested seats was
appointed who threw out all the Blaine
contestants, regardless of their rights
to be ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS their
instructions and should receive the con-
demnation of the Republicans whom
they misrepresented. Therefore be it
Resolved, BY the Republicans of
Sharon in convention assembled, that
we condemn the action of said dele
gates.
Resolved, That in the opinion of this
convention, the delegates to the Chi
cago convention from this Congress
sional district should wholly disregard
the instructions of said State Conven-
tion and carry out the instructions
given by the several county commit
tees
These resolutions We're adopted
without dissenting voice and amid
the utmost enthusiasm Following
this, ringing speeches were made de-
no0ncing the action Of Miller, Carr