The daily gazette., 1882-05-11
CAMERoN'S TRIUMPH.
FORCING HIS TICKET INsTHE
CONVENTION.
NO SHOW FOR THE INDEPENDENTS
Only One Little slip-Up on Farmer Butler
Heating McManes ON the Supreme
Judgeship.

HARRISBURG, Pa, May 10-On the reas-
semblng Of the Republican State conven-
tion this afternoon General Beaver was
nominated for governor by acclamation and
then came what was considered to be the
great struggle of the conventlon-the Su-
preme Judgeship.
Petit of Philadelphia was the first on the
floor and he nominated Rawle In really
well-cut speech. He was followed by George
s. Graham of Philadelphia, who brought
Judge Thayer's name before the convention.
Thirty-two members of the Philadelphia
delegation had last night agreed upon
Brewster, but McManes was convinced this
morning that it was too much to offer the
Gas Trust counsel for Supreme Judge, and
during the recess Of the convention. the dele
CATION changed It's vote to Judge Thayer.
Grahams speech for Thayer elected uni
versally favorable comment. He not only
got Thayer ON the track for Judge, but he
Withdrew the name of Colonel Dick, upon
whom the thirty-two had united for Con-
gressman-at-large. Brosius of Lancaster,
nominated Judge Livingston. Dalzell of
Allegheny, whose speech was much better
than his voice, nominated Major Brown, and
Robinson of Delaware, closed the speech
making on the Judgeship by offering John
| Clayton.
BY this time considerable restlessness was
displayed, and it was evident that no more
| speeches were wanted. Nesbitt of Blair,
| however, managed to nominate s. s. Blair
| without a speech Just In time to save himself
from being cut off by Rutan, who insisted
upon call of the roll. 1t was apparent
that there were as many candidates in the
field as were needed and a hope still fingered
in the hearts of the machine leaders that if
| too many were not brought in TO demand
| ppu Al inn vntng RaNVln niFht hn npmf-
mated without the trouble of second
ballot.
RAwLE NOMINATED.
Ii was soon found however, that one ballot
did not produce result. 1t was: Rawle,
115; Brown, ~; Thayer, 80; Livingston
| l5 CLAYTON, 6; Blair, I. This left Rawle
IL votes behind IA nomination, and another
trial was had Some changes were early
noticeable, and it was evident almost from
the start that the ballot would be decisive.
Nearly every one was keeping tally, and 1t
was known before the call had been COM
peted that Rawle had been nominated.
The result was: Rawle, 1872; Brown, 81 /;
Livingston, II; Thayer, Z.
On this ballot nearly all the Philadel-
phians who had previously voted for Thayer
went for Brown, under the lead of McManes.
Graham, however, whose name was at the
end of the Philadelphia list, resented this by
giving an emphatic Rawle vote. There was
a great deal of anxiety on this ballot and
delegates were watching things very closely.
Colonel David Taggart was occupying the
chair in I.ear's absence and he had trouble
to repress the excitement. There was some
cheering when the result of the ballot was
announced and the nomination of Rawle
was made unanimous on motion of ex-Sherifi
Leeds of Philadelphia.
EASILY DECIDED.
William T. Davies was nominated by
aeclamaton for Lieutenant-GOvernor and
then the convention engaged in u struggle
over the position of Secretary Of Internal
Affairs. Within five minutes no less than
seven candidates were in nomination, as fol-
lows: John NJ. Greer of Butler, Jacob G.
Heiman of Lebanon, L. l.. Christman OF
Washington, Lucius Rogers of Mexican, A.
G. Boyle of Indiana, A. X. Kunket of Phila-
delphia, and Charles q. Beale of Adams.
The name of Aaron X. Dunkel was with
drawn before the ballot was started.
Everybody expected 1t would take two
ballots TO get Greer through, but he made ii
on the first, with three votes to spare. lie
was not made safe until the last county on
the list was reached and did not get both
votes from his own county. The result oi
the ballot was Greer, 129, Rogers, 81; Hell
man, 30 Christman, "a; Beale, 6; Boyle, 2
There was no demonstration when the result
was announced and Rutan fearing evidently
that everybody else would forget it moved
/ that Greer's nomination be made unani
nous.
TIE CONGRESSIONAL FIGHT.
Following upon this were some rather
more entertaining incidents than had been
previously presented. The work of selecting
Il candidate for Congress was started, and
Just as soon as Hays of Chester had finished
II.
. nrer Butler it seemed to be the occasion fol
setting up complimentary candidates. Ten
, or eleven of these were hurried into the field
in the course of the succeeding ten minutes
some for the purpose of compliment, but
+ some in a spirit of good nature and to afford
variety to the entertainment.
+ The list embraced the following names
when completed and the ballot was started
Samuel Butler, Chester; j. E. Mcfarland
Crawford; Thomas w. Marshall, Allegheny
+ j. s. Van Voorhees,, Fayette; j. s. Biery
! Sehuylkill; j. q. A. McConkey, York
u William Lilly, Carbon; +. d. Lockwood
: Philadelphia: w. B. Roberts, Crawford
i George ii. Huff, Westmoreland. Marshalli
name had been offered without attracting
much attention, by Alexander Grove, Jr.
of Philadelphia. 1t was done, however, t.
: give some of the Philadelphia delegation {
u chance TO get away from Butler and nothing
, 4 more was thought of it for the mement.
u u The machine programme was to nominate
II Butler by accamation, but in view of thu
number of candidates ballot was pro
ceeded with, and the opening vote showed {
- tendency to Marshall. This was regarded
a as an opportunity to smash the slate, and b.
the time the Allegheny delegation wa
reached its members were themselves full o
the Marshall business and they gave him
solid vote.
rT 1NJpEDF TO MARSHALL,
This set the convention on fire. In al
y parts of the house men were on their fee
/; and some mounted the chairs. The presid
e ing officer couldn't restrain the confusion
L Fifty delegates sought to be heard at once
II and scores of arms were waved toward tn
chair to attract attract attention. 1t seemed
for a time as if it would be impossible to ge
order enough to find utwhat all the uproa
= = was for, In moment an unusually strong
~ ~ voiced delegate made himself heard abov
- the din and changed his vote from Butler t.
Marshall, He was followed by man
others. and then the complimentary cand
dates were one by one withdrawn, the eX
a citement seemingly increasing with ever
/, new announcement.
re It was as remarkable scene as has bee
p enacted in State convention in a Ion
time. 1t was plain that Marshall's nomina
ton was now inevitable. Two-thirds of tn
convention was now on its feet cheering fo
m him. Harrison Allen was up above thos
ut Immediately lysurrounding him wildly gesticu
ha latin0 and finally, when he could max