Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-06-20
The delegates wanted to hear from Ma
hone and he was called for all over the

uoAR ATTEMPTS CANCELLATION.
Finally the Chair raped for order, and
Senator Hoar addressed the Convention
as follows: fully appreciate the desire
of the Convention to listen TO the gentle
man from Virginia in a matter in which
he is SO much concerned. And l will
linterpose but two sentences before that
desire can be fulfilled. They are these :
First, 1t is absolutely necessary in the
nature of the case that the National Com
mittee should make up the roll OF dele
gates who must deal with the organiza
tion Of the Convention. Otherwise We
shall be at sea, without chart or COM
pass. Next, General Malone and his
colleagues by universal parliamentary
law, the universal law Of all
Justice, cannot be permitted to vote
in their own case. Applause That
has been expressly held in previous Ma
Credentials will doubtless give the fullest
hearing to tho honorable contestant from
Virginia who has Just addressed us, and
those who are with him. / suppose the
Republicans Of this country feel peculiar
honor for the man who, bearing the hon.
orable nrgne OF Henry A. Wise (cheers),
has brought over the authority of that
great name to the principles of freedom
and Ropublicansm. Applause.] They
also Rave profound respect for the gallant
General who first broke the force Of the
solie South (applause) and has given
US seven Republican Representatives
to the National Congress. Between
tkose two men. who SO unhappily differ,
this Convention hereafter and the Com
Ir1ittee which is to consider the matter
twill doubtless make an impartial and
d just decision, btt appeal to my homer
i able friend Mr. Wise not to intefPose in
this moments discussion OF 9 matter
which cannot'hav the slightest practical
importance, Because, as hare said, no
man in this Convention, either on the
lCommitteesDr on the floor, will ever be
permitted to vote ia his own cause.
Applause and cries foc Mahone.l
i Senator Hoar retired and Mahone won
recognition from the Chair.
Il MAHolE rs HEARD FOR ms CAUSE.
MR. CHAIRMAN AxD Fr4Low REpuHaI
CANS Iconfess to you it is with no ordinary
embarrassment, with NO ordinary regret
that the representatives Of the great Re
publican party should be troubled to'con
slider q question Of dissension in respect
to the party In Virginia, but / want to
cay te you in response to what has beer
said to prejudice, ii that be possible, my
. attitude before this honorable Ccnven-
ton and those for whom / speak, the
regular organisation of the Republican
party OF Virginia, a party that has multi
piled its active political force since hac
the honor to enter it, from So,
600 to 114,0o0 [applsuse.l Il say
lfAsf I orf ov,I se x,f
speech OF egotism, not only the regular
Organization of that State, butJ represen
ninety per cent. and of the Republi
can masses of that Commonwealth. Ap
plause.l We are met here by gentlemen
who have done little to promote that de
veiopment in Virginia, but who have
done most to hold back the whesls o.
progress, never eQatent, and rarely nut
ting their shoulders to the wheel. They
come here with contests, and when
give the Convention an illustration, / will
satisfy them. doubt not of the insult
cheney of their prefensions which are
made before the Convention. l say as
before your Committee OF Gre.
dentials, as before this Ccnven-
tion. we shall be prepared tc
demonstrate that the delegates with
whom l am associated represent the
party Of that State at large here by over
GOO delegates out of 700, in Convention
called according to our party laws.
Who, / ask you, are those contestants ?
They come from eighty-one members OF
that State Convention who chose to de-
eide and form an organization of their
own, and here you have four delegates
pretending to contest the seats OF the four
delegates with whom 1 am associated
aid who come here by 600 votes Of the
Zoo delegates that assembled in
our State Convention. [Cheers. ]
sSalch are the people who come
here to contest our right in this
Convention. Fellow Republicans, when
you go down to look at those district
delegates, when tell you that from the
greet white district of Virginia, giving
you your Republican members OF Con-
gress by four thousand majority (cheers, }
when ] tell you that all the delegates Sc
great in its resources, great in its Repub-
| iicanism (cries of ''time, time''), when
| tell you that three persons, just three
persons, called Convention in that dis
| trict-just three, two of them delegates
and one an alternate loud laughterl, and
they constt ttuted Convention. Mr.. Lin
coin was called to the chair, Mr. Franklin
Pepper made secretary ,and Mr.. Pendleton
took the floor. On motion of Franklin
Pepper, seconded by Lincoln, Pendleton
was unanimously elected to this Conven-
ton as delegate, cloud laughter) but,
gentlemen, do not intend to detain you
with these details. give you that as
an illustration OF these contestants and
what they represent. Time, time.
Then you have two other delegates here
from another Republican district who did
not even pretend to hold certificates to
the Convention. They have certified by
some manner Of means, themselves as
delegates here, and this in the face OF a
regularly constituted Convention, fully
attended and unanimously acting. Now,
then, as to my position in respeat
OF this Committee on Credentials,
/ have agreed to place upon the rolls two
delegates from the First district, and two
from the Fourth. whose seats are not
contested. Thank God we have no kick
ers in these districts (applause), no Mug
wumps, and no Republicans who would
prefer to see Democrats succeed rather
than Malone. Now, then, here we have
four delegates admitted on this roll, and
the four delegates, with whom 1 am as
sociated, were admitted to the roll, and
now am advised that the National Com
mittee passed resolution that these del
egates should exercise the power and
privilege en- this floor OF naming
the committeeman upon the commit
tees you are about to constitute.
My people in asking me to serve upon
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