The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-05-01
Ghn :GntelIitgeulcer,
The STATE Convention.
MAnrlssnuN0, April 80.

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ro,, IA, E4ar Of &e HhEis'nc6.
' " IA all over Tho delegates aro
.,,I tor Blaine and the Blaine men
."o, @ everything. It was the peoples
snh,, @ nnd they won II. No machine
aenm a have achieved It, and tho
,S,syd s tsc.ica Of very able and untirins
msu could no, prevent It, Without un.
tiulpess to anybody, i! may be Rald that
,ha advance guard Of tho anti Blaine iorcea
canned In Mariuuburg Yesterday to see
Sh., II anything, could bu faysd from the
;mn.ndinp wreck. When the First Dis.
,rjr, LeleSu.cn reached hero this morning
somebody was on every street corner to
inIo,m them that there would be
M attempt TO control the convention or
Ietlec! It from Glrsigh! B;ainc coursc, that
those veuslcmen who had INDUCED tho
hmm hal Beer It blghted by tho Hurging
wave Ct the popular will and now they
would submit gracefully TO tho inevitable
ard le. the tide roll on unoba'ructed.
There were those 80 little Rkillcd in poli.ica
thatthuy feared II they did not doubt the
riitbeariug Greeks, and this fear was
strengthened by the presence OF many oil
our Republican friends lrom Washington
and elsexhero and there seeming great
Eoljcitude Tor tho Success OF certain aspir-
ants wnoGe Baineism 1t wss feared WAS
no, "rock ribbed" and ancient as the sun,
that pood nature ran through 1t all with
,he kindly but .esoluIe determination on
the Blaine side not 10 be caught in trap,
and no. to give ground Tor the assertion
that Blaine had not gathered in everything.
II WAS with this general understanding
that the delegates went into convention.
A, oace It was apparent that some very
fine work was going on. and the Blaine
men WHO wero under no leaderahip were
wondering whether i! would be possible
. for well handled minority to overcome q
handsome majority. To this feeling per-
haps more than to anything else is to be
attributed the resolution which aroused
the convention and developed its lively
spirit. The Committee on Resolutions wau |
good Blaine committee, but even in that
body there was opposition to any form Of
instruction, however mild. But other mem.
bers, representing considerable part Of
tue convention, wanted to pa-3 resolu.
ton which, while it left reasonable free.
dom would tie up any delegate who might |
slip iu under cover and be disposed TO |
trade on his opportunities.
The sentiment Of the Convention wes |
pronounced enough without any resolution
OF instruction, bu! when that resolution was
attacked by all anti Blaine man to whose |
Bkillful leadership rallied all the other
anti.Baiue men of divers lips it was at once |
seen that the Blaine men could not afford |
to have it voted down. Mr. W. 2. Hub.
bard, though not pselerrirg Blaine,
was under instructions from Ohio
county and III addition to that recognizing
the sentiment Of his own people and of |
the State he would not have voted for
anybody no. in accord with that senti-
ment. But Mr.. Hubbard is opposed to in.
structious Of any kind. He is fond Of de.
bate, in which he shows TO good adyan-
tage, and is always listened to with re-
spcclul attention, and whom the anti.
Blaine men OF q very different sort
rushed to his support there was but one
thing 10 be done-put that resolution
through or have it flashed over the country
that Blaine had been beaten in Blaine
convention. This brought 10 the support
Of the resolution men who did not prefer
it, but who we're not willing to be- placed
even indirectly in the pcsition of desertipp
Blaine under fro,
The debate IVES esruest, full of spirit
but without rancor or offending nersonali-
ty. II leaves no wounds and therefore.
nothing to heal. The vote was not a test
Of Blaine's strength. That will be found
in the solid Blaine delegation. Many gem
tlemen as thorough Blaine men az there
in tho ftpn,,nnt,oy, nnpnuaI Tho