Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-04-24
THE TAIL WAGeED THE DOG
In New York Yesterday and Edmuuds
Delegates Were Elected TO Chicago.

In New York Yesterday and Edmuuds
Delegates Were Elected TO Chicago.
UTICA, y. v, April 23.-The arrange
ments are completed for the Republican
State Convention which meets here at noon
to-day. There is an intense feeling of un-
certainty as to the outcome of the struggle
for supremacy in the convention, but it is
generally conceded that the Edmunds dele
gates, if they work in unison, will throw
the organization of the convention into the
hands of either the Arthur or Blaine men.
The Edmunds men held several conferences
last night, and oyertures were made them
by the leaders of the Blaine and Arthur
forces, but they refused to treat or name
any terms other than naming four dele.
gates-at.large and temporary chairmen.
Proposition
of the Edmunds men this morning and the
latter named Andrew D. White, Edward
Packard, Theodore Roosevelt and Senator
John J. Gilbert as delegates at large.
George kerwin temporary chairman. The
EdmuCds men claim from sixty 20 eighty
dolssatss uhila tha sdhPrEntS nf Attn ut
claim few over two hundred. ltrequlres
two hundred and forty nine votes 10 con
uoi the convention and should the oomoi
cation hold there is likely to be short
session.
A later dispatch says: About noon the
Blaine men changed their programme for
delegates at large and substituted Roosevelt
and Gilbert, who were already on the com
hipstiOn ticket, for those OF Sloan
and Erwin. endeaVoriDg 60 become com
binatiun. The Edmunds men refused to
accept this compromise. The convention
was called to order at 1890. The roll call
showed the only contest 10 be the delegates
from Montgomery county: Roosevelt
then nominated Nathaniel G.. Boyn'
ton (Edwards-Arthur candidatel for
temporary chairman. Warner Miller
moved to substitute the name Of Edmund
Pitts for temporary chairman and roll
call was ordered.
PIatt Kissed.
There was tremendous applause min
gled with Kisses when Thomas G. Platt
voted for Pitts. The secretary announ.
ced four hundred and ninety one
votes cast OF which Boyntou had two hun.
dred and fifty.one and Pitts two hundred
and forty. Deafening cheers greeted the
announcement OF the result. The chair
man declared Boynton appointed. Boyn-
ton took the chair amid loud applause.
The committee on permanent organization
and contested seats consisting of two from
each judicial district and resolutions were
then appointed. Adjourned till 2:SO'
When the Convention reassembled the
Committee on Credentials announced only
one contest, Montgomery county, and the
committee unanimously agreed to seat one
half Of each of the coptesting delegations.
At the conclusion OF the reading OF the
platform the tellers announced the result
of the ballot for
Delegates at Large
as follows: Theodore Roosevelt 472, An
drew D. White 4O7, John J. Gilbert 342
Edwin Packard 2j6, Warner Miller 2lS,
Alopzo B. Cornell 23S. The chairman de-
clared the first four gentlemen duly elect
ed United States Senator Miller and eX
Governor Cornell were named on the
ticket with White and Roosevelt by the
advocates of the nomination OF Edmunds
at Chicago. The convention decided to
finish its work for the year. and Judges
Andrews and Rapallo of the State Couyt OF
Appeals were renominsted, Senator Nil
ler presented his plan for the liberalization
OF the Republican party and providing for
direct representation by the people in con-
yentions.
ON motion OF a colored delegse it was
decided that the colored voters should
have q representative on the electoral
ticket A resolution was adopted that the
next National Republican Convention be
requested TO provide that in future Nation
al Conventions representatives be proper
tiouate to the number OF Republican voters
of the State and Congressional Districts re.
spectively. The presidential electors and
State Committee were announced and the
con VI nfinn siinnrned