Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-04-29
DOMESTIC NEWS.

Ohio Republican State Convention.
COLUMBUS, April 2Sth.-The Republican
| State Convention met at IL o'clock this morn
| ing, A. L. CoDger in the chair. He urged
| that no mistakes be made and none be NOM
| mated but those whom the whole State can
support Congressman Mckinley was chosen
Chairman. His references to Sherman, Blaine
and Grant were received with applause,
mingled in the latter case with half dozen
Kisses, which were quickly drowned out
| Delegates Were then appointed to Chicago
from the several districts, with alternates.
Recess till 2P. NJ.
The Convention reassembled at 2 P. NJ.
and Benjamin Butterworth was chosen per-
manent Chairman.
| All the delegations were reported full, and
no contests, except in Licking county, where
the committee reported to seat the Sherman
/ instead of the Blaine delegation. Agreed to.
| The platform has been adopted. 1t in
structs its delegates at large, and requests
district delegates to vote for Sherman at
| Chicago and use all honorable means to
secure his nomination.
| Cheers greeted the resolutions.
| The demand for q division was tabled.
| The following State ticket was nominated {:
Secretary of State, Charles Townsend Judge
of the Supreme Court, George W. Mc1lvaine ;
| Clerk of the Supreme Court, Dwight Crow
| ell Member of the Board of Public Works,
| s. r. Hosmer; School Commissioner, A. p.
DeWon.
COLUMBUS, April 2Sth.-As near as can be
learned, eight out of the forty district dele
gates chosen to-day to attend the Chicago
Convention are for Blaine, but in one dis
trict (the Seventeenth) a resolution was
adopted declaring Sherman to be their second
| choice. Sherman's friends tonight claim that
the delegation will be solid for Sherman at
| Chicago.
The delegates at large are William Denni-
son, William Bateman, james A. Garfield
and Charles Foster. The Blaine delegates at
large received 209 votes.
| During the entire day Shermans name was
sufficient to call out the most hearty applause
as might be expected in Convention having
| 461 out of go votes, yet the applause which
| followed references to Blaine was given with
great earnestness.
Pennsylvania Democratic State COnven-
tiOn.
HARRIsBURG, April 2Sth.-The Democratic
State Convention met to-day. All hopes of
a compromise are at an end. Matters were
lively. The Randall people seemed to con-
| troll the entrances to the hall, and admission
even to members and telegraph boys was
difficult. Speaker Randall was present as a
l
| Wallace was delegate.
| There was much delay and many confer
ences between the Wallace and Randall
| factions before the Convention was called to
| order Finally committee was appointed
to settle the difference, and at lilo Chair
man Miller called the Convention to order.
| Cassidy then announced that matters were
harmoniously arranged, and the regular Dem
ocratic party, while standing by its position,
| .,o,,l1 ,at fol fhair hJy tho h nd
| for the sake of peace. He then named the
| committee to whom all contests were to be
referred.
This report elected much applause, and
several hearty speeches were made in its
| favor.
Wallace, especially, said he would yield all
| for the sake of united action and victory.
VIM NJ. Stenger said the nomination of
Grant meant perpetual power for the Duke
of America, and dissensions alone would
prevent Democratic triumph.
Recess till o'clock.
AtSP. NJ. it was reported that no report on
credentials was ready, and recess was taken
until tomorrow morning at 8 o'clock.
Whitman, Mitchler. Sheer and Cassidy
will probably be candidates for Electors at
large on the Wallace side, and Scott, Gowen,
Stenger and jerks on the Randall side.
HARRIsBURG, April 2Sth-The Committee
on Credentials tonight decided to admit half
of each of the contestiDg Philadelph dele
gates, with the understanding that each half
shall vote as a unit through its Chairman.
The committee also decided to request the
Convention to authorize them to proceed to
Philadelphia and take such measures
and adopt such rules as shall, in
their Judgment, best serve to reorganize
the party in Philadelphia, their decision to be
reported in writing to the Chairman of the
State Democratic Committee, and to be bind
ing and final, and the organization thus recog-
nized shall be the true and only regular organ
ization of the party.
The Wallace people tonight claim that the
delegation to Cincinnati will stand SO to Is in
favor of Tilden. This is without counting
the four delegates at large, who will be elected
tomorrow by the Convention
The Randall people claim that there are q
delegates who will go to Cincinnati to vote
for Tilden.
Connecticut Democratic state Conven.
tiOn.
HARTFORD, April 2Sth.-The Democratic
State Convention elected Thomas M. Waller
permanent President He denounced Hayes
elevation to the Presidency as fraud. The
Democracy at Cincinnati should not nominate
a man who could not carry his own State
Following are the delegates at large to the
Cincinnati Convention Alfred L. Burr, of
Hartford !; w. E. Parsons, of New Haven;
d. A. Wells, of Norwich; w. III. Brown. of
Salisbury.
District delegates were chosen, and the
two-third rule was adopted.
Resolutions were presented denouncing the
election of President Hayes as fraud call
ing for the nomination of candidate at Gin.
cinnati devoted to the Constitution and an
| 1ov, ,azf Is
will unite the party, and prescribing the unit
rule for the government Of the action of the
Connecticut delegation.
The Convention was harmonious up to this
point, when Blake of Bridgeport presented a
resolution as an amendment, which was
aimed at the candidacy of Samuel J. Tilden,
and declared that the party should not nom-
mate man, whatever may be his private
grievances, or however eminent, who cannot
command and receive the support of the en-
tire Democratic party, and bring it to success.
speech, naming Tilden, and declaring that he
could not unite the party, and that his nom-
ination would jeopardize its success.
This created great confusion in the Con-
vention.
Finally E. S. Cleveland, of Hartford. who
had previously been invited to the platform
got the floor, and denounced the resolution as
hrebrand, and read long written eulogy of
Iilden. During his speech Waller, President
of the Convention, called Vice President
Hollister to the chair, and at the close of
Clevelands remarks got the floor. He op-
posed adopting any resolutions or declarations
for or against Tilden. In the course of his
speech he said he did not know how many
delegates chosen were for Tilden, when a
voice responded. "Ten of the twelve"
Waller counseled harmony, and leaving the
whole question to the delegates whom he
said should they vote for Tilden would never
attend another Convention from Connecticut
A voice, " A frebrand."] He finally moved
the indefinite pos ostponement of all the resolu-
tions and the adoption of one pledging sup.
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