Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1888-06-27
N sPECTATOR AND GENERAL ADVERTISERS

sent, and say it in no spirit of egotism,
not only the regular organization of that
state, but represent ninety per cent. and
more OF the republican masses of that Com.
monwealth. Applause We are met
here by gentlemen who have done little to
promote that development in Virginia, who
have done more to hold back the wheels of
progress never content, and rarely putting
their shoulders to the wheel. They come
mere with contests, and when l give this
convention one illustration it will satisfy
them, L doubt not, of the inefficiency of
their pretenslons which are made before
tnis convention. l say, as before your
committee on credentials, as before this |
convention, We shall be prepared to de-
monstrate not only that the delegates with |
whom l am associated represent the party |
of that State at large, but were sent here |
by over 600 delegates out of 700 from |
convention called according to our party
law, requiring the republican voters to as
semble at their respective precincts at the
same day and the same hour to appoint
their delegates to city and county conven-
tons, and by them their delegates to the
State convention. | say that convention
such as this, constituted and composed of
nearly 700 delegates, sent you four dele
gates at large, Of which I have the honor
to be one. And who, ask you, 1 submit
to this convention, are the contestants
against these four delegates at large? They
come from opposing conventions. They
come from eighty-one members of that
| State convention that chose to secede and
| form an organization of its own, and here
you have four delegates pretending to con-
| test the seats of the delegates with whom
| a.1A11 1n
votes of 600 of the 700 delegates that as
sembled in oar State convention. Zap
plause. Such are the people who come
here to contest our right in this convention.
Ave, felow-republicans, when you go down
to look at these district delegates when /
tell YOU that from the great white district
of Virginia, giving you your republican
member of Congress by 1000 majority.
| TCheers, when tell you that all the dele
gates collected by that great district in our
State, great in its resources, great in its
republicanism. Time, time j Listen
while i tell you that three persons-just
three persons called a convention in that
district; Just three, two of them delegates
and one an alternate loud laughter land
they constituted convention. Mr.. Lin
coin was called to the chair, MIR. Franklin
| Pepper was made secretary and Mr.. Pen
dleton took the floor. On motion OF MIR.
Franklin Pepper, seconded by Mr.. Lincoln,
Mr.. Pendleton was unanimously elected to
the convention as delegate. Loud
laughter But, gentlemen, l do not in.
tend to dstain you with these details.
give you that as an illustration of these con-
testants and what they represent. Thine,
time. Why, you have two other delegates
here from another republican district who
| ,ot tn n
They have certified by some manner of
means themselves as delegates here. And
this, in the face of regularly constituted
convention, fully attended and unanimous
.ly acting. Now, then, as to my position in
respect of this committee on credentials
AS have been advised by member of the
national committee that committee has
agreed to place upon the rolls the two dele
gates from the first district and the two
from the fourth whose seats are not con-
tested. Thank God we have no boilers and
kickers in these districts, Applause and
laughter, no mugwumps and no republi-
cans who would prefer to see the dem-
ocrats succeed than that Malone should in
Virginia. Now, then, here were four dele
gates admitted on this roll, and the four
delegates with whom ] am associated were
admitted to the roll, and now am advised
that the national committee passed reso-
luton that these delegates should exercise
the power and the privilege on this floor of
naming the committeeman upon the COM
mttee you are about to constitute. So
being advised, and my people asking me to
serve upon this committee on credentials
might have suggested that of certain
course, but even there, even with such
contest as four delegates coming here from
1 n hOl Of nut nj
there and so situated, no man who knows
me would suspect that would vote in my
own case. Applause. But 1 submit that
it does not render me ineligible to sit upon
the cases Of those district delegates. am,
in that result, not involved.
''As FALSE AS YOU ARE FOUL
Mr.. Wise, of Virginia.-But you are in
the case of my district, for | charge you
with the frauds by which 1 was cheated out
of my seat"
Mr.. Mshone-''It is as false as you are
foul" General cries of "order."l
Mr.. Wise-"I will put the proper stamp
upon that at the proper time. Great con-
fusion then prevailed for moment.l
Mr.. Malone again attempted to. speak
but got no farther than 'Wen, gentlemen,
when he was Interrupted by loud and uni
versal cry of "Wise ~
Both gentlemen were becoming excited,
when Mr.. Spalding rose to a question of Or
der. He believed that the decision of the
chair admitting Malone as a member OF
the committee credentials was correct,
and he called attention to the fact that 10
appeal had been taken from the decision By
a regularly constituted delegate. The whole
discussion was therefore out of order Mr..
Butterworth, of Ohio, said the dispute be-
tween the two gentlemen from Virginia
turned upon the right Of Mr.. Malone to
vote upon his own case. 1t was impossible
to do that under the regular order of bust
ness. Of course he would be excluded from
the committee on credentials while his case
was under consideration. This was re-
publican convention, and it should conduct
its business in order. He therefore moved
to refer the whole matter to where it prop
erly belonged-the committee on credeu-
tals
TIE chair said chat he had already deei-
ded that the discussion of thu Virginia con-
tested case was out of order at this time.
Mr.. Wellington, of Maryland, moved that
neither of the contesting delegations be
given representation on the committee on
credentials.
Senator Hoar, Of Massachusetts,, opposed
the motion, and pointed out the danger
which might result from setting such pre-
cedent. A notice of contest might in that
event prevent great State like New York
from participating i'll the framing OF the
proceedings of the convention. He moved
to lay the motion the table, and the motion
was agreed to amid applause.
The convention then, at $3.50, adjourned
until tomorrow at noon.
A STUNNER FOR MAHoNE.-The action
of the committee on credentials of the re.
| publican national convention in seating the
Wise district delegates in the contested
districts, and its endorsement by the con-
vention by an overwhelming vote, is tho
most crushing blow ever dealt to Gen. Ma
i homes supremacy IN the republican party
of this state. To a man who has so long
been used to having his own way, the re-
suit must be CALLING in the extreme, and
those who know the general will readily
conceive that be is in no amiable state of
| mind Mr. Wise's victory is no less due to