Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-06-04


he made from custom without creating
bitterness OF feeling. There were sew
craI delegates on their feet to reply bu
the chairman recognized George VIM
Curtis OF New York. The announce
rnent was greeted
WITH THE WIDEST APPLAUSE.
Mr.. Curtis said this was the supreme
council of the party's repre-
sentatlves who met to open the
campaign of 1884, 1t has beer
professionally customary for nationa
committees to name temporary
chairman and for the convention tC
ratify 1t, but II the party as here repre-
sented 80 desired 1t, they also unques-
tionably had the right to reverse the
action of the national COMMITTEES in
this matter and make chairman OF
its own choosing. TFt
Drunimond of Maine moved that
whenever the vote was taken 1t be by
n call of the roll of the states,
Stewart of Pennsylvania sustained
the action of the committee in the Sc
lecti IN of Clayton in an eloquent APP
real which was greeted with long and
continued applause.
1t was evident that the Blaine men
were
GETTING WARMED UP
and resolved to contest every inch of
ground. Horr of Michigan argued
that the question should be
settled not by call of
the roll but by a call of the states; thus
the convention could do in half an
hour what it could not do in the other
To-. l.af
Mr.. Prentlss OF Missouri could not
the object of the PROPOSE
ton TO ignore the action of the national
committee. A refusal to indorse that
would 60 forward as q
stigma to man who was to be honored
as a citizen, a soldier and statesman.
Powell Clayton bore the mark of his
love for the national flag.
Mr.. Theodore Roosevelt of New
\ ork favorei the motion of Mr.. Lodge.
IL was not without precedent to set
aside the action OF the committee.
There were but two delegates to
the convention who had seats in the
national committees, and the conven-
ton should not be governed in such an
matter by the action of
A BODY OF OUTSIDERS.
He hoped that the vote would be
taken by a call of delegates. 1t was a
fitting time for the convention TO select
a man of its own choice, and he hoped
hat Mr. Lynch would be elected tenn
orary chairman of the convention.
Mr.. Cove of Illinois argued that the
question to be settled was whether or
not the action of the nation i commit
lee had been wise, prudential and in
.he interest of the Republican party.
II the national committee had failed
u this it should be set aside; other
wise it should be sustained. Was Mr..
Clayton fit man to preside tempo
rarily? He was known to many of
them and they were unwilling that &
stigma should be placed on his great
and grand name Applause. by
voting against the action of the ma
tional committee. They felt that it
would not be proper to 20 before the
to sustain the candidate of a
whose first act had been to
put down man who
CARRIED AN EMPTY SLEEVE.
Applause.
y delegate from South Carolina ad-
1ocated the nomination of Lynch, but
without meaning thereby any reflec-
ion upon Mr.. Clayton as a South
I'm Republican he wished the
election of Mr.. Lynch. Winston
of North Carolina supposed that the
action of the national commit
tee had no more force than mere
recommendation, and with all courtesy
to the committee, he would say that
he preferred somebody else. APP
plause. He honored Mr.. Clayton for
having served under the national flag;
but there were eight million colored
colored men in the country who de-
served recognition at the hands of the
Copiah and Danville APP
pealed to the nation in their behalf,
and would not appeal in vain. APP
plausel.
Reed of Mary land favored full and
free discussion of the question. He
carried heart true TO the Republican
party, and he believed it to be the best
interest of the party to elect Mr..
Lynch as its temporary chairman
Thurston of Nebraska expressed tie
idea that if it was the intention of the
convention to overturn the action OF
the national committee it should not
be done under IA pretext which
marked the real design. While recog-
MIXING the colored element they should
do justice to the element which
MADE 1T POSSIBLE
for colored man to sit on the floor OF
the convention. Applause.
benjamin of Arkansas sustained the
nomination of Clayton as IA man who
had done more than any other South.
ern Republican to elevate the Republic
can cause in the South.
The chairman quoted approvipgly
the decision of Senator Hoar ia the
last convention, to the effect thai
In the absence of any rule tn,
method of taking the question must
rest in the sound discretion of tn,
chair, subject, of course, to the action
OF the convention Of the people, ant
every delegate had an undoubted righ
To u free expression of his opinion and
To have his vote recorded. Applause.
The roll call was then proceeded
with.
When Virginia was called Gen,
Mahone's name headed the list of tn,
Virginia delegates, and when the sec
rotary called upon him to record hi
vote and the little Readjuster stood u,
to speak, great yell went up all owe
the house and the colored dele
gates waved their hats and handker
chiefs frantically. Senator Mahon,
announced his vote for John II. Lyncl
and another boisterous demonstration
| was made extending from the roar n