Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1881-06-10
THE SECOND BALLOT

candidate was laid upon the liable.
A motion was made to adjourn and lost,
when
THE SECOND BALLOT
was proceeded with, and resulted:
Grnra .oA mi
MASSEY, Observation-Disclosures. 245 e6-1Oo
wise, 1oo7
Total number of votes cast, 1877 66-1C0
BOOM FOR R1DDLEBGkGER.
At ten minutes past twelve, after the
announcement Of the second ballot, MIR.
Lindsey, Of Norfolk, rose. and in an ami
mated speech nominated Harry Riddle
berger. This was received with great APP
plause He said his voice had been heard
all over Virginia. and that he is the worst
abused man in the Common wealth. He
said it was n Walk-Over for RlddleDerger,
Lewis and Blair.
General Groner came Oh the stand, and
was urged to the back of the stage by his
friends. 1t looked as if he wanted to
withdraw.
MIR. Giddings made a stirring speech for
Massey. which mad splendid effect on
his friends. r
Mr.. Fowler, of Washington, was the
next speaker He mapped out speech on
a high line; but the Convention didp t
want to hear him, and a colored brother,
waving flag from box, cried OUT" Who
are you for?" He said he was fol- Gamer
on, and after that there were more people
who wanted to hear him.
MIR. RIDDLEBERGER SPEAKS.
At % MINUTES past IL, Mr.. Riddleberger
came to the front and was received with
applause He said lie didn't understand
that he was black horse in REIMBURSEMENT
or any cause he ever espoused. He did
not want to be stumbling stone. He did
not want to be candidate for Governor.
1t is an Office that should not be sought.
Whoever among the candidates shall be
nominated, he would support with his
whole heart. He called upon the >Shenan-
doah delegation to do as they had been do
ing.
SPEECH FROM MR.. JONES
Mr.. Jones, of Orkney Springs, followed
in speech in which he pictured General
Mahone's fight with "the Bourbons" at
Washington this spring, and described his
fight for Riddleberger as a. candinate for
Sergeant-at-Arms Of the United States
Senate. This, said he, was fight prelim-
power that can be enforced By the Beur-
bOns will be used by them this fall. and
they will be as proscriptive, said he, as the
Bourbons of the Senate are. He urged
the nomination of Riddleberger.
Secretary FauntlerOv said he was sur
prised at the nomination of his brilliant
fellow-citizen of the Valley. He had come
with preference for another, but he stood
in the Senate in March and heard the bru-
tai attack on III. III. Riddleberger.
Here there was great confusion, and the
speaker tried in vain to be heard. Points
OF order were raised that he had spoken
over five minutes.
The Chair overruled them on the ground
that the resolution did not apply to this
nomination. Mr.. Fauntleroy proceeded
and denounced the conduct of Democratic
Senators, saying his blood broiled as he
witnessed it. He called them old political
Know othing dead-beats. There were
now cries from every part of the house of
MIR. Chairman, rise to point of order. D
The Chair raped and the noise increased.
To drown the speaker they resorted to ap-
plause, and it seemed as if Bedlam had
broken loose. There was period of calm,
during which DR.. Wise
NOMINATED GENERAL MALONE.
This was received with with wild ap-
plause, and there were cries for Cameron
and Massey.
The Chair raped again in vain, but the
body was too excited to hear him, for
hoarse cheers and yells drowned his gavel
Everything that had preceded was tame
compared with this scene, and the Chair
deserved sympathy in his vain efforts to
restore order. The only hope was that
they would have to cease from sheer ex-
haustion.
CAPTAIN JOHN WISE GETS SILENCE.
Capt. John Wise now went to the front
and begged for Gods sake for one moment
of silence He got it. TIE desire of his
heart was to beat Bourbonism and see re-
adjustment triumph. He would throw
Malone, Cameron, Massey, Groner. and
Riddleberger aside to save the great cause
He moved the Convention adjourn.
There were cries of mo! no!''
The Convention voted to adjourn unit
10 CLOCK to-day.
THE VOICE OF TRUTH DIsGUsTED.
A colored reporter of the Alexandra
"Voice of Truth" who sat in the midst
of the "knights of the quill" and wore a
linen buster and famed his dusky brow
with a palm-leaf fan, was heard to remark
that this is the most ignorant and disor.
derby Convention it has ever been my hon.
or to attend.''
The Second and Last Day.
On Friday morning DR.. Wise withdrew
Gen. Mahone's name, saying he had made
the nomination without the Generals
knowledge. The name of Capt. Riddle.
berger however, was not withdrawn and
on the first ballot Shenandoah voted solid
ly for him. After that ballot Mr.. Riddle.
berger came on the platform and after
thanking those who had supported him
asked them to vote for some one else. The
vote of that county was then thrown
Cameron. S; Wise, 2; Massey. l, and Gro
ner, /.
Just as the result of the ballot was about
to be announced the friends of John S.
Wise retired for consultation.
THIRD BALLOT.
The first ballot taken on the reassem-
bling of the Convention was the third. 1t
resulted:
cameron ......... ......... 29l 6S- lOO
UfOueF .lO4 5U-lUU
Massey .Z57 6O-lOO
wise ...: -. ....""..". 80
Total number of votes cast ........742 68-100
Necessary to choice. ............"372
A resolution was adopted to drop the
lowest candidate after the next ballot and
the fourth and last ballot was proceeded
WITH.
TROUBLE IN ROCKINGHAM.
Rockingham, through the chairman of
her delegation, gave seventeen votes for
Cameron. This announcement was O5jec-
ted to, and several gentlemen from the
county arose and one by one took their