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vention, he would offer the following resolu-

| and American industries; the passage of tn
pie from the Ubiquitous system of war taXatlo
known as the Internal Revenue.
| The delegates elected are hereby instructe
to vote against the unit rule, and to deman
such a change in the plan of organization a
will secure to the Republicans of each count
| the right to elect their own chairman, and I
/ the Republicans of each district the right L
| elect their committeeman or committeeman.
RESOLVED 3rd. That the delegates elected b.
| this Convention to the Congressional Distr1c
| Convention, be directed to report to the Con
| gressional District Convention to be held IL
Lexington the 10th day of May, 1888.
| Mr.. Craig said that he was sorry that Con
gresham Yost should throw a bomb-shell ii
their midst. He moved that the resolution b.
tabled, and ammo unced that it was not debat
able.
| Hon. ]. Yost maintained that he had thu
| right to speak on his motion-that no rule
governing debate had been adepted-that i
was mass-meeting and there should be fail
and open debate. Craig had nominated in hi
paper two to one in favor of the faction III
(Craig) represented. He said that District dele
gates should be elected by District Convention
that was the law of the party, and where the
other policy, like that of our present State
organization, was acted upon. 1t was only
where there was not even one whose Interest
was affected, to protest-ihat IL even one
Should protest. that then the law requiring
them TO be elected by districts should be COM
piled with, otherwise the delegations would
be unlawful and invalid. He dwelt upon this
branch some time. giving the opinions Of
prominent Republicans in Iowa and Ne"
Hampshire where that plan was adopted, as
there was not one to protest against it, FIVE
OF the Districts in this State have called DIS
trict conventions.
S. B. Alien said he left his home to come TO
this Convention with the hope that wise couh-
sells would prevail. He said that 1ost nao
been selected for one side and Craig Tor the
other because they were representative he-
publicans, and not because of their difference
of opinion in reference to the party organlZa-
ton. He spoke at some length In reply 10
Yost on the subject of the unit rule and plan
of organization.
When Yost arose to reply, there were loud
and conflicting cries-some calling Yost ana
Others Craig. In the midst OF the dln' the
Chairman was trying to make himself heard
whilst he was announcing that he would mol
admit of any more discussion.
Yost claimed the right 10 close the discussion
en- his own resolutions.
Henry Williams (coIored) quoting former
remark of Mr.. Yost, said there were no rules in
this meeting.
Mr.. Harvey wanted the Chair to appoint
Committee to recommend delegates. He did
not want any resolutions.
The Chair put the question on Craig's mo-
ton to table Yost's resolutions, and it was ap-
defeated by the sound. Then there
was again the usual confusion, and calls for
division, and Craig claiming the right to close
the debate on his motion to table the resolu-
lions.
Mr.. NJ. R. Landes said that the Chair had
not rendered any decision, and that there
could be no division till he had decided.
Yost and S. B. Allen were appointed tellers.
and the county Republicans, who alone were
entitled to vote, were requested to pass be-
tween the tellers who would count Them
Then this merry-go-round commenced, and
some of the colored, making themselves use
full passed several times through the polling
place. and after this had been going on fer
some time, but not yet finished, the Chair an.
the result as being-for tabling the
70; against tabling them. Go. Yost
one of the two teIlers, cried that the voting
was not inished-that some on his side were
there yet to vote.
Then we again had Bedlam and Pandemo-
mum blended-the cries being Yost and Craig,
showing both sides had good lungs sand were
willing to exercise them. In the midst of this
Erasmus Houff tried to make himself
leard. but failed, as the voice of Stentor could
rot have been heard in that terrible rattle and
lin OF yelling threats. He seemed to be aim
ng to pour oil on the troubled waters, and to
oacify the multitude. The only word we
could hear was harmony-that we heard sew
sral times, and whether that was the only
word he uttered or not, 1t was all we could
near.
Chas. Curry, Esq, then mounted "to ride the
whirlwind and direct the storm" In an
earnest and fluent manner he eulogized the
eaders of the two factions-Yost and Craig
and said they were not enemies, but friends
when fighting the common enemy-Dem-
'craey. There were two factions in the party
-one for Malone and the other against him.
lie did not think Malone was the proper per-
on to lead the party, though he was man of
,ower and strength. He had some kind
words for G. s. Roller, who had been his in
tructOr at school, and he had frequently asked
lin how be could be SO governed by Malone
When he replied that it was because he was
UGH an able man as always to convince him
hat he (Mahone) was right. He thought there
hould be both a change of Chairman of the
state Committee and of the party organiza-
ion.
Yost made the point of order that the Chair
nan of the Convention had announced the
-ote before the telers had announced it to the
hair, and appealed from the decision of the
but the Chairman was as deaf as an
oder and paid no attention to his appeal.
Henry Williams (coored) moved that the
papers of both Yost and Craig be laid aside,
md that they proceeI to elect delegates from
he floor and to be uDiustructed
G. s Roller moved to adjourn till next
The Chair decided that as there
vas a motion before the Convention, the mo-
ton to adjourn was not in order.
Notwithstanding he announced that de-
cision, he put the question, and the motion 10
adjourn was lost.
Williamss motion to elect delegates from
the floor was then put, and was lost, as indi-
Gated by the sound.
Mr.. Allen then said that he would nominate
from the floor. and, with CIaig's paper in his
b md, said something that we could not hear
as there were cries of no! no! the motion had
been lost and yelling and following, and a
perfect babel of incongruous sounds and
voices, every piece of The building having,
seemingly, found a tongue" Whether he
any name or not, or merely moved
Lhe adoption Of the paper with the names as
Craig had prepared them and had previously
read q few hours before, or whether any
change in them had been made we do not
know, as we heard nothing more than as above
given, but in the L idst of the noise when We
we're not aware even that a vote was being
taken, if one was taken, we were surprised to
hear the Chair announce that the delegates
were elected, and before we recovered from
this surprise, the Chair announced the Con-
vention adjourned.
After the meeting was over, we we're in
form ed that the names OF Jacob Yost and c. S.
Roller, who were on the list as offered by
Craig, were not on the paper, as we had sup
posed, that was offered by Allen and an
nounced elected by the Chair but that for the
name of Jacob Yost had been substituted that
Of Chas. Curry, and for the name OF C. s. Ro-
Ter, that of David Beard.
Thus ended one of the most remarkable
that have ever been held in this
county. and, as a colored man remarked, one
of the "mostest disgracefulest."
OF SECOND COUNTY CONVENTION
ANTI. MALONE.
Assoon as the county convention, the pro-
ceedings of which are given above, mad al
iourned, Hon. Jacob Yost took the stand ana
said that the action OF the convention just ad-
burned made the blacklist record ever made.