The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1882-04-08
An Interesting Account Of Suppositi'
tiOus Gathering.

An Interesting Account Of Suppositi.
tious Gathering.
A number of prominent Republicans
met here yesterday in response to the
following call:
lCoNFIDENrIAL.1
You are invited to be present at Convention
of representative Republicans to be held at
to consider what line of public policy should
be adopted by the present Administration, and
to confer in regard to such measures as may be
deemed important to insure the continuation
of the party in power. 1t is earnestly hoped
that all sections of the party will be repre-
scented. Eminent speakers will be present
For the Committee.
s. W. DORSEY, Chairman.
The Convention sat with closed doors,
but the following is believed to be a
substantially accurate account OF the
proceedings. Mr.. Dorsey, as temporary
Chairman, in calling the Convention to
order, congratulated the members upon
the suspicious circumstances under
which they met. Business doomed, the
Treasury was full, thousand fat jobs
stretched out their plethoric pockets to
the patriots hands. There had been
unhappy dissensions in the party, but
the present seemed to him a favorable
time for harmony. One wing of the
party had had a square deal from Gar
field; the other expected it from Arthur.
Let every man who couldn't get an Office
get contract. A big appropriation
was the surest salve for old political
wounds. He would not anticipate the
opinion of the Convention as to the
proper policy of the Republican party,
but he felt sure that they would not
neglect the all-important subjects of in
ternal Improvements and the protection
of our foreign commerce. He would
not attempt to impress upon them his
sense of the gravity of their present
duty, because almost all of them were
conscious that they had big job on
hand. Laughter In conclusion he
referred with some asperity to the re-
cent attacks upon himself.
On motion of Mr.. Columbus Delano,
Mr.. A. A. Sargent was elected perma-
nent Chairman by reclamation. Mr..
Chorpenning and Mr.. j. B. Eads were
appointed committee to conduct him
to the chair.
Mr.. Sargent said that the grand old
party WuiCu Hdu pOuicu Oue ieo otCoSuiO
unstintedly during the war, and more
recently in Indiana, now, when the
Treasury vaults fairly bulged with
bullion, could not refuse anything to its
tried and faithful servants. 1t could not
afford to be economical. 1t would cost
too much in party sense. Let the
mean and niggardly policy of public
parsimony be left to Democrats, to men
of the stamp of Randall and Hewitt and
Holman. Economy was un-Republican.
If Republican Administration should
adopt it, it would disintegrate the party.
The needs of the hour were, in his judy
ment, ample provision for every soldier
and sailor who had been sick or injured
in the late war or since, a colossal sys-
tenn of internal Improvements, and the
construction of a navy such as the world
has never seen. He spoke IN terms of
praise of the Mormons, and said he was
confident that Utah would vote the Re-
publican ticket if admitted to the Union.
He referred in scathing language to
Democratic frauds in the South, and
favored the introduction of the "tape-
worm" ballot, which had been used
with much success in California. His
views in regard to the disposal of the
public lands were so well known, and
had been followed with so much profit,
that he would only allude to them.
" Finally" he said, "but one thing can
cast shadow over our deliberations,
and that is the doubt in regard to the
intentions of the President. Will he
dare to go back on us? As Hook down
upon the faces of so many of the old
guard. and upon the faces of so many
others who were once against us, but
whom we hope to have with us hence
forth in one common rally for fair di-
vision all round, cannot, indeed, /
cannot despair
Mr.. Keifer, for the Committee on
Credentials, reported that six States
were represented by 120 delegates, of
whom Ohio had 80. The Convention
then proceeded to ballot for Secretary,
with the following result:
Necessary to choice. 81
w. N. Rogers had. ......-.....
u. =. GOrnam II
o. ID. Babcock. .............--.....EO
Mr. Butterworth called attention to
the fact that the number of ballots ex-
ceeded the number of delegates.
Mr.. Sargent said that was nothing
unusual in Republican Conventions.
Mr.. Quay inquired if Mr.. Rogers was
| present. The Chairman said that he
was, but had evidently cast only one
vote. Laughter.
Mr.. Babcock was declared elected.
The Chairman then announced the
following committees:
Observation-Disclosures, Logan, Keifer, Dor
| eey, Boutwell,, Banks, Halstead.
TO Prepare List of Suitable Persons for a
| Reconstructed Observation-Disclosures Gamer
| on. J. W. Patterson, G. c. Gorham,
Postal Reform-Brady, Filley, Tyner, Upton,