The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-07-12
S'E::IC0M|!!D'l.P I !! ! !.
Thomas A. lieudricky, Of Ilans,
Nominated for Vice. President
To tho Tunes OF "Auld LaugByne''
and ''Old Hundred.n
Several Names Presented Elht all
Finally withdrawn, I'D.
Leaving q Clear Track and 10 0p.
position to Nendrlcke n
The lightning Comes vaS Near
Striking Henry q. DatA.
lilo Wisely Concluded 10 Shy In
Out Of the Rain.
Leaving q Clear Track and 10 0p.
position to llendrlcks n
The Lightning Comes vaS Near
Striking Henry q. Da{b.
lilo Wisely Concluded 10 Shy In
Out Of the Rain.

Special Dtpateh 10 tx lnleiiicnao1. a II XIV
Il Chicago Jaly 1.-THE sessiof thls al
: teinoon was more remarkable thin hat Q
:. this morning. Everything was eolfusio,
. and neshins defined till "Co1ae.rolp Wal
lace, Of Pennsylvania, nominated Hen
d1lcis, when Il ball was surrendered Il
the fifteen thousand people fotnsarly hal
an hour for iurg exercise. 1n&afa, which
had suffered a terrible humilh,bn In th'
morning, fought very shy Of 'tSs move
and General Msrze sni'gon'Esd IL Wal
lace'sterridc elcqusnce, bsoksd by tha. o
nearly every State n the Union, 20. up I
degree Of enthusiasm that would hay,
made Tilden think he Is no. hall a old Al
hoi, could he have seen Il. 5ja.i y
GOING SLOW.
It was more bois.erous than Ia Tho morn.
iug and much more sincere. Slilllndianu
believed 1t wss q hollow mockery, and
every appearance ot sincerity and lail
dealing had to DO held out belo.e she &C.
copied The situation and voted 10, Hen.
bricks. The truth Of the matter ID the
leaders OF the delegation, and even tie
more obtuse inemben felt that there had
been double political murde, In their
s!ate In the mosaiug, and they did not care
themselves 10 be accessories to q thru.
They thought that Hendricks with charac.
teristic treschely bad slain Mcdonald and
that he had been slaughtered 10 turn by
the convention.
Dan VOORHEES, and Hendricks did not
attend the afternoon meeting Ut at.
Neither did Wade Hampton, Rsnsom OF
the galaxy Of seuato,s and C,sugreismen
who were chsgrjned at the defeat Of Bay.
ard. E'..
TAAAANf BRAVES DlsGRySrLKD. al,
John Kelly, his sachems and aagamoreu
packed their traps early in the afternoon,
shook the las! vesligs oi Illinois real estate
from their moccasins and lett !or home TO
sharpen their tomahawks for MI attack on
"big 1cjun" Cleveland. Kelly would give
no assuraucs Of his future Intentions, bu.
shook hl, head omiuorsly whenever te
was questioned.
IIKSny as nooM.
1t now leaks out that H.nty G. Davis
had distcla:1 boom roused up for him.
self f,r Vice President, aud it was pune.
tured only an hour or two before ii was
ready to a,at. p4vis had arranged with
the New Yo.ke.s to. neminale him and
carry lin through the convention, repre-
sentirg that Wtat Virginia was de-
batable ground aud he was the only mar
who could carry it, lie ives acceptable te
the New Yorktrs and a number Of othel
large delegations, but at noon to day itwsl
dsoidoa to bp|d . meeting Of New Yolk
0aio, Pennsylvania and Iadiana delegates
for an Interchange Of idsas. :
The Davis boom was proposed and a,
htss iavofably received, ,whenitwss thought
best to aend Tor an outsider
HOW. IT WAS pgScrrAEn.
who frankly told the msnbe1s that Davis
could not carry West Virginia at al; thai
he hsd fallen out with Lswis Baker, Of the
Regater, who would use his paper and In
auonce against him and defeat Davis il
possible. That settled Davis, and then the
Hendricks echeme was sprung and per
leqsed. @a e'',hsa
Davis Is much disappointed At the mis-,
carriage Of his little boom, and the end !.
no. yet. .s,a tGIf
Tbs West Virginians leave for home to-
night. -l-.z5 h, e.,7
Chicago is on grand hurrah tonight.