The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-09-01

in doubt, provided the same wise general
management shall be exercised that has been
exercised in the past. We stand before the
world with our institutions throughout our
state that will compare favorably with those
of every state in this Union. The Republi-
can party comes before you to-day and asks
you for continuance of the power for two
years to come, which it has held in the past.
The reason they ask this is because or the
way and the manner in which they have
conducted themselves In the past. lap
plause.] l again thank you for the honor
conferred upon me.
TEMPORARY SECRETARY AND COMMITTEES.
On motion of the Hon. A. II. Morrison of
Berrien James H. Stone of Wayne was cho-
sen temporary secretary. The following men,
bers of committees were named by the chair
men of the several delegations:
CREDENTIALS.
First District-George Dorr and H. B. Thayer
Second-E. B. Abel of washtenaw and N Car
penter of Lenawee
Third-E. Q. Nichols of Calhoun and Milo Goss
Fourth-T F. Giddngs of Kalamazoo and VIM.
Altman of st. Joseph
Fifth-Amos f. Lee of Ionia and David Stock
Sixth-S s. Walker of Clinton and VIM. Ball of
SEVENTH H. Hill of Lapeer and DR.. R. @.
Eighth-Dr S. g. Brown of Isabella and Robert
Ever of Saginaw
Ynth-H r. williams of Antrim and s. Henry
Tenth-John r. wlmot of Tuscola and O. W.
Stone OF Roscommon.
Eleventh-wm. +. Swift of Marquette and R.
Goodrich of Traverse.
PERMANENT ORGANIZATION
and order of business
First District-Philip Mothersill and Henry
Kle of Wayne.
second-Gen. Geo; spaplding of Monroe and
f. 0. Grosvenor of Hillsdale.
Third-N. p Loveridge of Branch and R. F.
Tecum of Eaton.
Fourth-A H. Morrison of Berrien and Kirk
Fifth-Geo. d. Steketee of Kent and Isaac
Ferguson of Ottawa.
sixth-sumner >Howard of Genesee and Daniel
seventh~R. II, jerks of ST. Clair and J. @.
Wnterbury of Sanilac. -,
Ninth-Thos r. Smurthwaite of Lake and
VIM. Z. Amber of Oceana.
Eleventh. H. Stafford of Marquette and w.
@. Nelson of Leeanaw.
RESOLUTIONS.
First District--James Caplis and George Stark
Second-E P. Allen of washtenaw and
Cornelius Quick of Lenawee.
Third Austin Blair of jackson and NJ.
Fonrth~s. i. Reed of Cass and N. A.
Hamilton of Berrien.
Eft, TfthNG sOT]S ., ud FAR of Ottawa and
Sixth-s. r. Billings of Genesee and
Peter Dow of Oakland.
seyenth-Milton II; Butler of Macomb
and Frank Whipple of st. Clair.
Eghth-Ezra Rust of Saginaw and Geo.
NJ. Dewey of Shawassee.
Ninth-Gen. Byron NJ Cutcheon of Manis-
tee and j. E. White of Oceana.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. TrOttHr OF IuScOla and
Den +. Award of Clare.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT Breitung of Marquette
and II. G.. REYNOLDS of Grand Traverse.
On motion of Col. DeLand the different
delegations were requested to hand to the
committee on permanent organization the
name of one person from each congressional
district for vice president, one for secretary
and two for tellers
THANKS TO GOV. BALDWIN.
The Hon. VIM N. Brown of Isabella then
addressed the convention as follows:
Mr.. PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN OF THE
CONFERENCE.-The state central committee
have requested me to submit for your con-
sideration a resolution which l will read. l
need not say that it will be unanimously
adopted. If you ask me the reason why
the committee submit this resolution, the
committee answer by pointing you to the
Republican majority of $4,000 which ex
listed in this state at tho November election
of $780, The resolution is as follows:
Resolved, by the Republican state convention
of the state of Michigan, That the thanks of the
Republicans of Michigan are hereby rendered to
the Hon. H. p. Baldwin for the untirng zeal
ergy and great ability and for the unselfish man.
ner in which he conducted the campaign as chair
man of thea state central committee, which re-
suited in giving the party one of the greatest vic
tories known in Michigan.
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resolution was unanimously adopted by
rising vote.
The convention then took a recess till 2
p M.
Afternoon Session-Permanent Organiza-
ton.
At the opening of the afternoon
session the galleries of the academy
of music were well filed, among
the audience being large number of ladies.
While the delegates were being seated songs
were given with good effect by the Kalama-
zoo quartet glee club.
THE COMMITTEE ON CREDENTIALS
reported about 700 delegates present
and the report was adopted. There
were delegates in attendance from every
county except Delta, Isle Royal, Keweenaw
and Mackinac. There were no contesting
delegates.
PERMANENT ORGANIZATION
The. Hon. Sumner Howard of Genesee.
or the committee on permanent organization,
reported the following officers:
President-The Hon. Thos. w. Palmer of
Wayne.
Vice Presidents-First district, John s.
Newberry of Wayne; second, w. II. Pottle
of Washtenaw; third, Chas. L. Gorham of
Calhoun; fourth, L. P. Alexander of Ber-
rien; fifth, Hampton Rich of Ionia;
sixth, Geo. w. buckingham of Gene
see; seventh, Richard Winsor of
Huron; eighth, G. G. Ellsworth of
Montcalm; ninth, H. H. Holt of Muskegon;
tenth, James Birney of Bay; eleventh, Sam
uel a. Stephenson of Menominee.
Secretary-Daniel l.. Crossman Of Ingham.
Assistant secretarys: at large, Delos. Philips
of Kalamazoo; first district, Charles II.
Bergman of Wayne; second, Michael McIn-
tyre of Hillsdsle; third, Dwight L. Smith
OF jackson; fourth, e. =. Root of Kalama-
zoo: fifth. L. 7. Sherwood of Kent;