The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-06-20
VOLUME xxxyI-NUMBER 26O.

10 Dattle, Stlll lives, anu ue ID ucTt WIN u
t. and present to you John @. Fremon
a Of Nebraska.
'. Gen. Fremont was greeted with gres
,r applause rs he was presented. He wa
lr unwilling, he said, to delay the busines
is OF the Convention, and therefore h
n would consume only few moments O
time. He was happy and proud to re
d ceive here in this great national Assem-
II bly, the welcome given by his friend
+ and companions OF many years-by hi
party friends, by the men and the som
n OF the men with whom it has been hi
Q conspicuous honor to have associated il
y the first opening campaign OF 1856. [Ap
= plause.l
: FRED DOUGLAS
0 was then presented, amid cheers and
!, applause. He hoped, lie said, that the
!. Convention would make such a record
! in its proceedings as to put it entirely
out OF the power of the leaders OF the
: Democratic party and the leaders OF the
I Mugwump party to say that there was
no difference between the Republican
party and the Democratic party in re-
spect 10 the class which it represented.
! Applause. The Democratic party had
always been faithful TO its friends, and
its friends had been the shareholders Of
the South. The Republican party should
be faithful to its friends, and the men
with black faces had ever been its
friends. Let the black men be remcm-
bered in the platform which the Convcn-
ton would adopt, and let it be remeni-
bered that thls black man was not
stripped OF his constitutional right to
vote. Let the platform speak out for
equal rights for all. Let not the party
be driven from its duty by the cry Of
"bloody shirt" Let it wave us long as
the blood shed shall be found on it.
Applause.
The Government that could give lib.
erty in its constitution ought to have the
| power to protect that liberty in its ad-
minstration. Applausc1.
When Mr.. Douglas had concluded Mr..
Foraker arose in his seat and was
cheered. He asked for the Committees
on Rules, Resolutions, Permanent Or
ganization and Order OF Business us con-
stituted by the different States. The
| AJGNlGlulS W lGuA lllG llhlllGH
OF the committee for permanent organ.
zation. When the Virginia members
name was reached il was stated that two
names had been sent up by contcsting
delegations from that State. The chair
said that he would submit the Virginia
question to the convention when the
full list of commiteeR had been read.
While the Secretary was reading the
names OF the committeeman and Correc-
tions were being made, Gen. FitZsim-
mons and Assistant Secretary Carson
Lake sent up magnificent baskets OF cut
flowers to Miss Rachel Sherman, daugh-
ter OF General Sherman, and to Mrs.
Thurston, wife OF the Temporary chair
man OF the convention, who occupied
the seats in the ladies' balcony on the
right oi the platform.
Immediately back OF Miss Sherman
sat Mr.. Walker Blaine.
When the reading OF the list OF COM
mittees had been completed the chair
man stated the question before the con-
ventiOn was us to which OF the contest.
ing delegations from the State oi Nir-
gina should be permitted to name the
members Of varie1G committees. The
National Committee, he said, had placed
uHon the rolls OF delegates as prima
facie entitled to seats the delegati0n,at-
large headed by William Malone, Zap.
plause.
There were also four district delegates
from Virginia whose seats were not con.
tested. Unless the convention should
otherwise determine, tho chair would
hold that for the purpose OF participant
ing in the temporary organization the
four delegates, at the head OF which was
William Malone, together with the four
whose seats were uncontested would
have the right to name the committee
membership,
John s. Wise, OF Virginia, roses in re-
sponse 10
CRIES FROM THE FLOOR
and the galleries and took the platform.
He was here, he said, claiming to be the
chairman of the lawful Virginia dclega-
ton. The State was entitled, under the
call, to have twenty-tour delegates, and
out of those twenty.four twenty were
contested. The delegates ut large,
headed by Malone, had been held to
have n prima faCie title, and had been
placed on the rolls together with the
four district delegates whose seats were
not contested. These eight, but one
third OF Yirginia's representation, lcdby
William Malone, whose triAing with
rights and Repuhlicanism in Virginia
was the issue upon his own case. That
matter had been going on in Virginia
for some years. The decision was Rl-
ways in favor of the plaintiff. William
NLahone's name was sont up by William
Malone to William Malone 10 decide
whether William Malone was delegate
or not. Laughter.l He had learned in
his battles in Virginia that fair count
was the dearest boon Of National Repub.
licanism. Applause. He had learned
that no man ought to be permitted to be
Judge and suitor both, and he hoped that
the decision OF the chair, putting Ma
hone upon the Committee on Credentials,
would be overruled, II would be mani
testify unfair that Malone should 20 on
the committee, and pass upon his own
case. 1t might be that within twenty
four hours the eight men who selected
| llllll lulsllb uI lShNlAlA VIZ hNll NitH s'tNA
hats under their arms, with the decision
OF the convention against them. APP
plause,l Until il is settled neither side
Shall be Judge and jury in his own case.
1 am willing to trust the iairness and
honesty of OF the Republican party from
the other States OF the Union outside OF
Virginia, but do not want William Ma
hone to remain on the Committee on
Credentials and vote on his own case
and prejudice mine. |, therefore, appeal
from the decision OF the Chairman Of
the Convention.
The chair said that he didn't de-
sire to be understood in his decision
to prevent any gentleman making any
motion looking to the settlement OF the
dispute, and the chair would gladly en-
terrain any motion to that end. Scna-
tor Hoar, OF Massachusetts, said that the
convention evidently desired to hear
Mr.. Malone, OF Virginia, but he desired
to interpose two suggestions before the
matter proceeded further, First that
the Credentials Committee must make