Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-06-06

Cullom. Sabin, Plumb, Henderson,
Bowen, Dolph, Jones of Nevada.
Among the
REPRESENTATIVE
in congress forming part of the state
delegates and among the observers
were Boutel, Mulliraa, D'ngley,
Steward, Rec, Sken.Ier Busby,
Wadsworth, Williams, Walter Phelps,
Bavne, Bingham, Holton, Libby,
O'Hara, Smalis, Jeffords, kellsgg,
Hatch, Petubone, Othiltree, McKln-
ley, Robinson, and Hart of OHIO,
C4lkins, Brown, Peele. Struble,
Thomas, Davis, Adams, Washburae
of Mimi, Hoar, Anderson, Morreil
and Valentine.
The gavel used by the chairman is
beautiful piece of workmanship of
numerous pieces of hard wood closely
turned and highly polished and sur
rounded by band of gold bearing
the inscription: Presented to the
chair of the repub lican national con-
Co." A letter of presentation accom-
panied it which reads as follows:
"We have the pleasure no less than the honor,
wood from every state and territory in the union,
including Alas ka, ana the handle of it is from the
old charter oak tree of Hartford Conn. This gavel
| is of solid wood and through it the states will
speak with voice. II the delegates from all
1 the states and territories from winch this gavel
comes will act in q manner equally united, the
business interests Of the country will be conSery-
| ed
ORDER.
At 1924 the chair announced that
the hour having arrived for the meet
ing of the eighth republican national
now be opened by prayer by the Rev.
Frank Bristol, of Chicago. Prayer
was then offered by Mr. Bristol, as
| follows:
| THE PRAYER.
| God of our fathers we adore and worship Thee,
| and to Thee, by whose grace ana providence We
| are what we are as a nation, we would lift our
| hearts in divine thanks giving and evokng praise
| We thank Thee fer glorious natioual heritage
for this magnificent land of wealthy hills and fer
tile plains and for the laws and institutions which
| make it q land of progress and of liberty. We
thank Tt ee for our christian SreS, lovers OF free
| dom and of God, men of conscience and integrity,
whose names have jeweled history and the mem-
| ory of whose deeds is an inspiration to herolsm
| and patriotic pride. We thank Thee for Plymouth
Rock, for Yorktown for Appomattox forests,
| to mark the progress of rishteou-ness and the
higher law. We thank thee for the dec aration
| or Independence, the constitution of the United
States the emancipation proclamation, our blood
bought charter Of freedom We thank Thee for the
republican party and for its spendid history and
for its still more splendid possibilities and now
as e great convention enters on work which
will involve the most precious interests or 5ooo0
900 of people and in large sense the interests OF
our free Institutions, deroutly and most
earnestly supplicate the blessing of Almighty
homes, the stat and the parts of the nation
which they represent May the ambition OF pa
| triotism, the wisdom of craftsmanship and the
| righteousness of Christian consci nces possess
every breast and control every action, and may
the result of this convention be in harmony with
the will of God, concerning us and received with
| Joy by the people of the whole land and grant
Almighty God that the coming political cam
paign may be conducted with that decency, intel
| llgence, patriotism and dignity Of temper that
become a free and intelligent people: continue
thy mercieS to us; bless our country WI peace,
prosperity and universal light. May we never
deny the faith of our fathers. May we never
| cease to be a temperate. free, an Industrious
Sabbath keeping God fearing and a Christian
prope, blessed with the Righteousness which
''exaltoth nation
The call for the convention was
read by Hon. j. A. Martin, secretary
of the national committee.
SABIN SPEAKS.
Chairman Sabin, on behalf of the
republican committee, called the con
vention to order in its name. lie said
Chicago was known as the econven-
ton city. 1t was the field of repub-
lican victory. Here it was that that |
immortal patriot Abraham Lincoln
was chosen; here the party chose
that great chieftain Gen. Grant; here
it nominated that honorcd soldier,
that great statesman, that representa-
tive citizen, Jas. A. Garfield. Cheers J |
Every action of the party on this his
toric ground had been followed by |
victory. Having succeeded against its |
opponents on all former occasions,
it was about to put its house in order
for another conflict, IS consequence |
of a vote adopted by the last |
convention. The present body was
largely made up of men instructed by |
their own constituents, and it was
therefore to be hoped that the voice of |
the people would be largely puissant
IN its deliberations (applause). He
closed with an expression of hope
for victory, and proposed Hon. Powell
Clayton, of Arkansas, as temporary |
chairman.
When Chairman Sabin had con
cluded and mentioned the name OF
Powell Clayton,
Mr.. H. G. LODGE,
of Massachusetts, rose and proposed |
the name of John r. Lynch, OF Mis- |
sissippi. He said they had recognized |
the claim of the south, and therefore |
ne had proposed this second name as
one acceptable to republican con-
ventIon.
Silas B. butcher, N. Y, seconded
the nomination of Lynch.
At this point great sensation was
created by speech from w. w. Nor
row, of California He said that
harmony was essential. and that it |
could be best secured by not raising
any factional issue. It had been the !
practice for forty years for the ma
tional committee to select the tenn |
porary chairman of the convention, |
and a departure could not now be
made from the custom without ere |
atiug bitterness of feeling.
There were several delegates on
their feet to reply, but the chairman
recognized
GEORGE W. CURTIS,
of New York. The announcement
was greeted with the widest applause.
Mr. Curtis said this WAS the supreme
council of the party-the representa-
tives were met to open the campaign
of 1884. 1t had been unquestlonably
customary for the national committee
to name the temporary chairman and
for the convention 10 ratify it; but if
the party as here represented so de-
sired it also unquestionably had the
right to revise the action of the ma
tienal committee, in this matter, and
make the chairman of its own choice.
DRTMMOND,
of Maine, moved that when vote be
taken it be by call of the roll b.
states.
Stewart, of Pennsylvania. sustained
the action of the committee in the Sc
lection of Clayton in an eloquent ap-
peal. which was greeted with long
continued applause. 1t was evident
that
| THE BLAINE MEN WERE GETTING WARN
ED Up
and resolved to contest every inch OF
ground.
Mr.. Horr, of Michigan, argued that
| the question should be settled not by
-