Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-06-29

on luG olaSo.
The committee on Rules and Order of
Business reported rules for the govern
menJ of the Conventions and recommend
ed the manual of the Ohio House of
Representatives r as the parliamentary
guide The report was adopted.
The committee on Credentials not be-
ing ready TO report, the convention took
d recess until 6 y o'clock.
Upon re-assembiing, there was con-
siderable delay before the committee
came in with their report, which event
ually was made by Col. Farrar, of Cam
bridge, chairman of the committee. The
Belmont, Harrison and Noble county
delegations were reported full and no
contests. The UpdegTaT delegates from
the I'd ward of Steubenville were re
ported as entitled to seats, and the Tay-
lor delegates from Guernsey county
were certified as the regularly accredit-
ed delegates, but the committee reported
"a resolution severely copdemning the
manner i'll which said delegates were Sc
lected, and recommended that the con
vention adopt uniform method for
the selection of congressional candidates
in the future throughout the district,
and that the congressional committee
hereafter be more careful in the future
in the wording OF their call.
A motion to strike out the resolution
of censure failed, and the report of the
committee T,,s adopted, the committee
discharged, aid thus was settled a ques-
ton which promised to engrOss a large
share of tAu time of the convention.
Under the rules the next business in
order was the presentation of candi-
dates by counties in their order, and the
chair so announced.
Belmont being called, J.B. Smith, Esq
of Bellaire, presented in neat speech
the claims of Col. c. i. POOrman,0f Bell
aire. to the support OF the convention.
The venerable Col. J. W. Bush1eld, OF
Cambridge, in easy, pleasant and fOrci-
bic style, told of Col. }. d. Taylor, his
struggles in early life, and his successes
in civil and Military life in later years
and won for his candidate au outbursU OF
applause. Maj. J. II. Surratt, of Sleu-
venville, seconded the nomination.
Harrison county, by Hon. j. c. Jami-
son, in appropriate style and fitting
words presented her favorite son, Sen
ator d. 4. Ho,lingsworth, and Capt. O.
s. Holloway, Of Flushing, in his inimit-
able style, seconded the nomination.
Next came jefferson county. by 7. 3.
Coulter, who was the Bob Ingersoll OF
the convention. Mr.. Coulter's speech
was one of those rare ones, where sim
pie, forcible words were woven into
sentences of rare beauty, and which told
of the distinguished and honorable SER
vices of the man whose claims he cham
piOned. Mr.. Coulter, by his eloquence
won the vocifer9us plaudits Of the con-
vention, and while lie did not name his
candidate, his illusions pointed so clear
ly to Hon. J. T. Cpaegraff, that at the
clUse-of his remaThs cheer after cheer
rang through the convention hall. DR..
J. S. Ely, of GAINESVILLE, seconded the
nomination of Hon.J. T TUpdegraff,as the
ablest Representative the district ever
had in Congress.
Next gallant little Noble came up
smiling, and Capell Weems presented in
a highly original and entertaining
speech, the name of Hon. J. NJ. Dalzell
The effort of Mr.. Weems was brilliant
one, and marked him as the genius of
the convention. The heart of the con-
vention was carried away by the "boy,
as he termed himself.
BALLOTING.
On the call of the counties for the first
ballot NJ c. Mitchell, chairman of the
Belmont delegation, announced 2S for
Updegrnff, 15 for Poorman and I for
HollingS worth.
Hon. C. j. Albright, chairman of
Guernsey delegation, 80 solid for Taylor.
Hon. d. Cunningham, chairman OF the
Harrison delegati on, announced H0l-
lingsworth q, Updegratf 3.
Hon. w. \. Walden, chairman of the
Jefferson delegation, called Updegraf
%, Taylor S, ,Poorman ?, HoIlingsworth L.
Nh AbeY Young, chairman of the Noble
county delegation, voted 10 for Dalzell,
3 for Updegraf.
The total in the first ballot was:
Updegratf ...........-....... 62
HOlling5Worth -........ 20
DalZell ....... .... .............. 10
Total. ............. .......... 162
One hundred and sixty-fve ballots
were had without change, except on the
Tooth ballot when Harrison coquetted a
little with Noble by giving Dalzell two
votes, which didn't stick long enough to
get solid, but returned to their first love
on the next ballot. During the evening
repeated motions were made to adjourn,
but they were persistently voted down
until at last the delegates becoming
weary and worn, and despairing of ar
irving at conclusive result, at 11:3
the convention adjourned until o'clock
on Thursday morning.
SECOND DAY.
After the session of last night had
ended the delegates interested in the
success of the Republican party, and in
securing worthy Representative for
the 18th district, retired to their respec-
tive hotels, and to the soft couches so
generously placed at their disposal by
the good citizens of st. ClairsYille,
hoping that the dawn would rescue the
convention from the deadlock, which
seemed to be tightening upon it, while
schemers more bent on personal advance
ment than interested in the public good
spent the most of the night endeavoring
to work up plans Of combination which
would nominate this or that candidate
and to eoncoct defamatory stories to the
injury of those not their particular ia
VOriteS.
The morning opened bright and love
ly, and all nature conspired to make our
visitors haTpy. Early delegates and
others were upon the streets. and but
tOn-holing went on with unabated Wig
or until the convention, Il little behind
time, was called to order at 81 o'clock,
when the chairman's gavel fell, and
without any preliminaries balloting be-
gan. The 16Gth ballot resulted the same
us the first, and so Oh up to the 2O9th
ballot, when five of Updegraff S votes
went to Poorman, increasing his strength
to p, and diminishing Updegraff S 10 81.
The vote was unchanged for three bal
lots, when on the 212th ballot Belmont
cast 30 votes for Updegraff and IA for
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