St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-06-11


doubt they would be found hand in hand
and shoulder to shoulder, marching on
to the election of their candidate.
{Cheers.) If the candidate of the gem
tleman from New York was nominated,
he (Hale) and his friends would work
by night and by day to elect him, and
in turn they should expect that if they
nominated their man he (Conkling)
would work night and day to elect
him. %
On call of the states, West Virgin
ia cast votes aye and noes. (Hisses.)
The total vote was ayes ZIG, noes 3.
COnkling said he wanted to offer an
other resolution, as follOws:' t
ReSolUed, That delegates who have
voted they will not abide by the action
of the convention do not deserve to
have, and have forfeited their votes in
the convention. (Subdued applause and
some hisses.)
Mr.. Campbell of West Virginia, who
had cast the vote of that state, defend
ed his position. He had suffered con-
tumely and violence foI his Republican
principles, and if he was now to be de-
MED the free expression of his opinion
in a Republican convention, he was
willing to withdraw from that conven-
ton. He had imbibed his Republican
! principles from the great New York
statesman, VIM. H. Seward. He has
been newspaper editor since the John
Brown raid at Harper's Ferry, and had
always consistently supported the Ma
tional Republican nominee, but he felt
that there was a principle in this ques-
ton. He would never go to any con-
vention and agree beforehand that
/, Whatever might be done by it should
have his endorsement. He always in
tended to guard his own sovereignty.
q (Applause.) He never intended that
any body of men should take that SOW
q ereignty from him. AS he had not been
v AFRAID to stand up FOR Republican prin-
! clples In Western Virginia, he was not
. afraid to go home and face his consti-
Z tuents.
~ ~ Mr.. Hale of West Virginia, who vot-
!, ed aye, defended the rights of his col
~ ~ league to vote as he saw tit-(applausel
= and to utter his own sentiments, as
an individual delegate.
Mccormick of West Virginia avowed
himself one of the three dissenters. not
d. because he did not expect to support
is the nominee of this convention, for he
of DID intend to do that, no matter who
Oy he should be. He was as good Re-
n publican as the gentleman from New
of York, and whereas the latter made
lis only one speech fer the nominee of the
to last National Republican Convention
Is, he (McCormick) made one hundred
es Great applause and cheers.) He op-
q posed the resolution only because it de
es clares that men are unfit to sit in thu
We convention if they differ from othe
members of it.
Mr.. Garfield of Ohio expressed fea
II that the convention was about to com
\ ~ nit grave error. He would state th
al case. Every delegate save three ha,
in voted for resolution, and the thre
20 gentlemen who had voted against it ha
10 risen In their places and stated tha
- theTn6nnaeettedd d, and Intended to supper
~ it was not in their Judgment wis
y thing at this time to pass the resolution
. which all the rest of the delegates ha
~ ~ voted for. Were they to be disfran
W W chised because they thought so (Crie
of No, no y That was the question
-, Was every delegate to have his Repub
- licanism inquired into before he wa
ie sponsible for their votes, not to til,
VI convention, but to the constituents
(Cheers.) He himself would never in
ID any convention vote against his judg.
e ment.
le Conkling withdrew his resolution.
u RULES AND ORDERS.
Il Mr.. Garfield, from the committee,
> reported the rules recommended for
, the government of the Convention.
~ The rule which forbids any unit rule
+ was received with applause.
~ Mr.. Garfield said he did not under
sfo +hat IL
" discussion, but only for information.
+ The only change from the rules of 76
were verbal merely, or effected their
10 Encouragement in more convenient or
If der, except that the committee had ad-
is ded to what was now numbered as
= rule 8, n provision clearly and explicit
10 ly embodying the uniform precedents
of all previous Republican conventions
y as to the manner of taking votes OF
70 States that are divided.
70 Mr. Sharpe of New York presented a
81, minority report of the Committee on
" Rules, signed by delegates on that
. committee from Alabama, Arkansas
w Florida, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missou-
n ri, New York, Tennessee, Virginia, Ill
i inOis and Colorado, recommending the
- adoption of rule s, being rule of the
convention of 1876, in the same Ian
n guage as in 1876.
70 There was sharp debate on the re-
70 port of the credential committee, pend
IN ing which convention adjourned unit
40 evening.
le 200 a. m. The minority report OF
in the ID Illinois district contest wa
ta adopted 387 to 353, and at 215 a. III
I'd convention adjourned.
Mt INCIDENTs-A BLAINE "sTORMr OF
~ APPLAUSE.
ut Mr.. Storrs of Illinois followed fo
the sitting delegates in pithy speec
which frequently elected demonstra
tions of approval. The sentence "nom
mate James G. Blaine if you willn wa
o. the signal for another grand outburst {
u applause, which was renewed and in
10 tensified. When he finished the sen
tence, "and then those who now shou
in the galleries shall by and by be re
posing under the influence of the sun
on mer sun, the followers of the grand oil
tie silent soldier will still be found wild
of awake and watching by their camI
fires and carrying the banners of I'll
20 sluggards, ,"-the scene which followc
and continued for several minutes VIZ
IN most exciting, a part of the galleri,
is and Grant men in the convention stant
ee, ing and shouting, the uproar PARTIAL
lat dying away and then breaking o.
no anew. Although the scene of excit
nd ment was continued for longer tim
it was clearly apparent that it was n
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