St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-06-20
WISE is WRATHY.
He Objects to Allowing Malone
Pass Upon His Own Case.

Pass Upon His Own Case.
Special to the Globe.
CHICAGO, June 19.-Congressman
Wise, of Virginia, was Immediately
upon his feet and made his way to the
platform amid the plaudits of the vast
assemblage. He said:
81 am here claiming to be the chair
man of the Virginia delegation. We
are here permitted by this call to have
twenty-four delegates from the state of
Virginia, and of that twenty-four
twenty are contested and four uncon-
tested. The four uncontested dele
gates are from the First and Fourth
delegates are the four delegates at
large, and the delegates from the Sec
ond, Third, Fifth, Sixth. Seventh
Eighth, Ninth and Tenth districts. By
the decision of the national committee,
with which we make no issue, the dele
gates at large from Virginia have been
held to have prima facia title to
place upon the roll with the representa-
tives from the First and Fourth dis
tricts. The result is that four of the
delegates on the roll have contests and
four have not. Thus eight, but one
third of Virginia's representation now
THRILLING WITH THE RIGHTS
of the Republicans of Virginia is the
issue here, which eight have associated
themselves together with their COM
rades and placed William Malone upon
the committee on credentials to pass
upon his own case. Applause. Gen
tlemen, that matter has been going on
in Virginia for some years. and the de
cision is always in favor of the plaintiff.
Laughter and applause.l William Ma
homes name is sent here by William
Malone to decide whether William Ma
hone is a delegate or not. And l assure
learned in the battles of Virginia that a
free ballot and fair count are the
dearest boon of national RepublicaniSm.
l have learned in the long struggles
which we have waged there that no
man ought to be permitted to be
JUDGE AND sUIToR BOTH.
And yet the proposition, gravely pre-
sented to this convention by these eight
men, four of whom are contested and
all of whom are led by him, is that, in
this contest. be shall go upon this COM
mittee and have vote upon his rights
and mine. Now, Mr.. Chairman, and
gentlemen of the convention, say it is
not fair. 1t is not right that these eight
men should go on the committee
On credentials, upon the committee on
rules, upon the committee ON per-
manent organization, and decide in
behalf of Virginia what the policy of
this convention shall be, what the rules
of this convention shall be, when it
may be that within twenty-four hours
they will have their hats under their
arms walking out of this convention as
never having had right to have voice
in, 1f, fnir A
our rival delegation to make this issue,
and on this issue we stand before the
country. l appeal to this convention to
to say: "Gentiemen, your difficulty is
unfortunate. Gentlemen, we feel like
you, that
TEARS RATHER THAN WORDS
should express the feelings which we
have about this unfortunate contro-
versy; but, gentlemen, until it is settled,
neither of yeu shall be judge. juror,
witness or counsel in this matter.
[Cheersl. For my part / am willing to
trust to the honesty and the justice of
fOrty-fve states and territories of this
Union until this unfortunate struggle
shall be decided; but l don't want,
when your case is presented, to have
William Malone on the committee of
credentials to remain in when we have
retired, and vote on his own case, when
we are gone, and perhaps when unrepre-
sented there [tumultuous applausel;
and so l appeal to the convention to
consider this matter and appeal from
the decision of the chair, which places
William Malone on the committee on
credentials, and | rely upon the justice
of this convention to reverse the ruling
of the chair on that point. As to the
other committees, it is matter of utter
Indifference. [Applause].