Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1880-04-07
THE VOICE OF TIOGA.
AN EMPHATIC DECLARATION FOR Sc

II
THE OLD wILMoT DISTRICT RALLY IN
| FORCE.
The meeting of the Republicans OF
Tioga county at Wellsboro, last week,
to declare their preference for Senator
Blaine as the Republican candidate for
President was briefly reported at the
time in special despatch to The
Press. The meeting was very large
one and representatives were present
from nearly every township and Dor,
ough in the county The following
extracts are taken from the very full
report OF the meeting printed in the
Tioga county Agitator of Tuesday last.
Hon Butler B. Strang presided, and
| in his speech said "It is against the
clear denial of the right of the district
to choose its own delegates that | am
here to protest 1t is not for the pur-
pose of inaugurating Blaine boom,
or to oppose Grant, or to say that
| will not vote for Grant or any other
man who may be fairly nominated at
Chicago, that I am here tonight. |
am satisfied majority of the people
wish Blaine nominated. We are not
here to organize a bolt, or for the pur-
pose of growing, but as representa-
tives of Tioga county, part of the
glorious old Wilmot district, where
the Republican party was born, we
are here to assert our rights. When
we are told that nothing can come OF
it, | say when the Republicans Of this
county make up their mind to stand
up for their rights they will find some
way to maintain them We are here
for the sole purpose Of asserting and
maintaining our right to be honestly
represented in the National Conven-
tion-the supreme council of the party
and of making known here and
there our choice of presidential can
didate" Applause.
After the reading of a letter from
Congressman Mitchell, in which he
insisted upon the right of the district
to elect their own delegates to Chi
cago, Hon. J. b. Niles made speech
in which he said: 1--WE are now en-
tering upon most important presi-
Dental campaign, and we should not
do anything to render the final result
doubtful. A prominent Democrat
said to me this day that it made no
difference who won at Chicago-it
would make no difference in the result
that no combination could be made by
| the Democrats that could beat our weak
est man. But in times like these we
should take no. chances. Under all
the circumstances, | believe James G.
Blaine the most acceptable candidate
now before the people. The events
which have recently transpired in his
own State have most completely dem
onstrated that he has great executive
ability, and no man now doubts that
| he would make a most excellent chiei
magistrate. His name is known and
houored in every household. In my
Judgment, with him for our standard
bearer, we can arouse all the old-time
enthusiasm of our Lincoln and Grant
campaigns and at the same time pre-
sent a name around which Republic
cans of all shades and differences ol
opinion and choice can heartily and
enthusiastically rally"
The resolutions reported by com
mittee, consisting of Major George w
Merrick, S. b. Elliott David Cameron
r. G.. Sanders and G. III. Seymour
were adopted as follows:
| ResoiUed That we assert, and insist upon the
1 .ht Of CnpurpQsinnal district tn select
| and instruct its delegates to the National Con
vention without dictation or coercion from any
| source we condemn and denounce the ac
| ton of the late Republican State Convention
! at Harrisburg, taken III disregard of that right
| and against the spirit and the letter of the cal
| for the National Republican Convention
| at Chicago, for Republicans Ito choose
two delegates from each Congressional dis
| trict," and against the protest of our represen
| tatives in the State Convention. and against
the prevailing and well-know choice of the
| Republican party in this district and IN thl;
| particular and in the enforcement OF the "unit
| rule upon tfe delegation 10 selected for the
| Congressional districts, we repudiate such ac
| ton rs unauthorized and unwarrantable and
not binding upon the Republican party of this
| district
| Resoiued, That we earnestly favor the nomi
nation of Hon. James G.. Blaine of Maine as
! the Republican candidate for President of the
United States, as the undisputed choice of a
| large majority of the Republicans of 1Ioga
| county over all other candidates and we here
by instruct out delegates 10 be selected for this
| district to support him and use all honorable
! means to secure his nomination al the National
| Republican Convention 10 be held at Chicago
/ in June next.
| Resolysd, That the President and Secretary
of this convention-Hon. b. B. Strang and J.
| b. Potter-and Lucius Truman, chairman OF
| the Republican County Committee, shall be a
committee to represent the Republicans OF
Tioga county, for the purpose Of comforting
| with representatives Of the party in the other
| counties of this Congressional district, with
power and for the purpose Of selecting, III their
! discretion, proper persons to represent the
/ choice of the Republican party of this district
| for a presidential candidate at the Chicago con
F, vention. And the Republican County Com.
| mittee of this county are respectfully
requested to appoint the allowed named com.
mittee as conferees to act with cOnferees from
other counties of this district for the selection
of delegates to the National Republican Com
| vention.
Major Merrick made an address
saying the Republicans of Tioga pro
posed to be represented at Chicago.
We propose not to submit to q 30.
called representation by men who
misrepresent us both by their politi.
cal character and the manner Of their ap.
pointment."
F. f. Smith, Esq, detailed part
of the political history of 1860, show
! ing that ct that time this district
claimed and exercised the right to ap.
point its own delegates to the Ma
tional Convention, and that the dele.
gates SO appointed refused to be
bound by the instructions of the State
Convention and voted in opposition te
such instructions.
Other speeches in the same vein
made, after which the resolutions were
adopted and the meeting adjourned
With cheers for Senator Blsiug.