The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-03-09

Opposed TO tho Third Term.
WILLIAM NJ. gROsyENOR CHOSEN DELEGATE TO
TIC NEW JERSEY CONVENTION FROM ENG LIZ
w0oD--THg TBfaD.TgRM ISSUE sQgARELY
RAISED.
If,y telegraph to the New York Tribunc.I
EYGLEwO0D, N. j., March G.-Tbe Re-
publicans Of EngIewood township, Bergen
county, held meeting In EBXlewoOd Hall
this evening for the purpose OF electing
local officers and delegate to the Republl-
can State Convention at Trenton.
The meeting was called to order ut 8
o'clock by the choice Of Donald Mackay as
president. lie Is "a pronounced Grant man,
and this nomination was looked upon as
victory for the third term; but the real
struggle began when resolution was offered
by Oliver Drake Smith that the regular order
OF business, which was the nomination OF
candidates for the local election, be post
poned, and the meeting proceed immediate
| ly 10 the election OF delegates.
The motion was opposed by William WAL
ter Phelps, who represented the anti-Grant
party. He insisted that the regular order
should prevail. This was the first test
que, Ion, and the vote was watched with
great interest. The result was a triumph
for the anti-Grant men by q majority OF
twenty votes.
After the nomination OF local officers,
| George s. COe, president OF the American
Exchange Bank, nominated Daniel Drake
Smith as the delegate to Trenton.
Mr. Phelps then nominated Colonel VIII
liam NJ. Grosvenor, and, after brief nd.
dress cOmmendalory OF the candidate, said
| that be, Colonel GrOsyenor, and The TIVE
hundred Republicans in the hall would
gladly waive their individual preferences,
"which were sufficiently strong to elect a
Blaine delegate" and would unanimously
unite in sending Mr.. Smith unpledged to
the Convention il he would promise to vote
against the third term.
The proposition was received with loud
cheers. Mr.. Smith. in reply, spoke at length
upon the third-term question, arguing that
there vas no constitutional or reasonable
objection TO the right Of the people 10 choose
whom they would, aad to retain their SER
vices as long as they pleased. He showed
himself strongly in favor Of Grant through
out the whole course OF a long speech. but
asked to be sent to the Convention entirely
unpledged.
COone! GrOsyenor, on the contrary, be-
gan his speech by declaring his hostility to
Grant, and bis willingness TO vote for any
OF the Republican candidates named. His
first choice. ne said, was Blaine, and he be-
lieyed the Republican party OF the State
now was earnestly for the MAINE Senator
lie then answered at length the arguments
OF Mr. Smith as 10 the cODstitutionality Of
the third term, and showed the impolicy OF
nominating General Grant; "Cnder whose
presidency" be said, "the Republicans oil
the South had received no protection, and
the Republican majority Of seventeen states
had been losf.'
The meeting then proceeded to ballot
The result, which was reached about II
O'Clock, showed that Mr.. Smith received
100 votes and GrOSvenor 15S. The announce
ment was received with hearty cheers. The
meeting closed with "three cheers for Mr..
smith," proposed by Mr.. Phelps.
1t is said TO have been the largest Repub-
lican meeting ever held in Bergen county.
Altogether there weresnOt less than five
hundred persons present.