Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-04-16
ALARaE UusyEsrrON.
How the Delegates GOT TO ordo

now the DeieBates Got TO OTdct.
BY Associated Press.
HARRIsBURG. Pa, April 1G.--The
weather this morning was an agreeable
disappointment to tho people attending
the convention. The sun shone brightly
and tho air was warm and pleasant ia the
opera house where the Republican conven
tion was held. The stage was filled with
visiting statesmen and reporters long be
fore the delegates settled in their places.
Cooper saiis the Convention to order.
At 1925 the usual brass band was ST.
fenced and Chairman Cooper raped the
cow ention to order. After roll call the
only contest announced was that from tho
Fourth Allegheny district. Ex Senator
Waddell, of Chester, was made temporary
chairman and in his opening speech
strongly advocated harmony in tho party
arrangement.
The order Of business was then agreed
upon as follows Appointment of commit
tee on contested seats, committee on organ.
ization, committee on resolutions, perma-
nent organization, election of state central
committee, election of delegates at large,
| election of electors at large and ballot for
congressman at large.
Blsine Tor President.
After the appointment of committees
mittee on resolutions be instructed to re-
port a resolution naming Blaine for presi-
dent and Lincoln for vice president.
| Keller, of Centre, moved to amend so as to
instruct the delegates at-large also to vote
for Blaine. Harley accepted the amend
| ment and the motion as amended was
passed by vote of 200, to 81 negative
| the latter came one from Allegheny and
| the rest nearly all from Philadelphia. A
motion to have the name of Lincoln stricken
out, because to make him vice president
now would be to injure his prospects for
the presidency four years hence, was ruled
out of order. The chair then appointed
Elwood Rowan chairman of the commit
| tee on permanent organization, and a.
| Lowden Snowden chairman of committee
on resolutions. Various committees were
then notified where to meet and the con.
vention took a recess for one hour.
Grow on the TarIn
The hours recess stretched itself out to
double that time. Upon reassembline
the committee on permanent organization
presented a unanimous report nominating
Grow for permanent chairman, together
with a number of vice presidents and sec
retaIies. The report was adopted aud
Grow took the chair amid much ap
plause. In reviewing the politica
situation he dwelt on the tarif
/ issue, cbaracterizing the resolutions passeC
at Allentown last week as meaningless auC
deceiving. He was for protective tariff
which would secure the laborer of thi
/ country comfortable living Tor him
self and family. Cheapnoss of com
modities is not to DO desired
when it comes at tho expense o
tho wages of the laboring mar. Ht
argued further that in ninety. nine case,
out of one hundred reduction of duties
would not reduce the price of goods to con
sumeTs. Free trade, no thought, was
merely a logical theory based upon mis-
taken facts.
the state U0mmi tteo.
Chas. Emery Smith, editor Of the Phila
delphia Press, then made euiogistie
address in favor of Thomas V. Cooper
being retained as chairman of the STATE
committee. A motion to proceed with Jh'
election Of electors at large was degeate,
and the work of forming the state com
mittee proceeded. Ono member from
each county was appointed.
New system.
Bayue, of Allegheny, and Kaufman, O
, Lancaster, advanced a resolution insti tn
ting system of representation in tn
Republican state conventions doin
away altogether with senatorial dele
gates, and recommending one delegat
for every one thousand voters il
, each representative district, with one extr
representation for each fraction of fiv
hundred or moro. After somo debat
= Quay, of Philadelphia, moved to lay th
} resolution on the table, which was lost.