The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1892-06-15

and to our children the inalienable rights OF
| popular self government. One OF the in
/ strume ntalities by which that great right is to
| be preserved Is the institution under God OF
| the republican party, and We are today in the
execution OF the great trust. which has been
! con6ded to u.s. TO lay the foundation Of another
/ triumph in the coming November, which shall
/ assure to Us, and for years to come to eur pos
terity. that this 10 the hsppiesa the most pros
| porous, the frsest and the grand
/ est governments upon the earth.
| / cannot trespsss upon your patience by
entering upon the discussion OF political ques-
| tons now. / simply rose to return to you my
| sincere and heartfelt thanks for your oongrat-
ulations and to promise you in return that
will meet you here somewhere else in this
/ broad land again four years hence, Applause
| and cries sf good, good, and l Will do as
have done In my time before-sid you IL the
| selection OF another republican candidate for
| the presidency. / have passed through,
actively, fifteen presidential campaigns. The
first vote / ever cast for president
Of the United States was for Henry Clay
| the great champion of protection. The proud
| est vote / ever cast in my life in a legislative
| body was in 1892 for the tariff of that year and
| hope to see the time come whom the public SEN
| timent in this country shall so far indorse that
| great bill which bears your konored name. sir.
/ there the speaker turned TO Chairman Mchin-
lev and the convention applauded vociferous-
ly1 that neither faction nor party shall ever be
able successfully to attack it. Now. then,
| four years hence.
During the cheers which followed these
remarks the electric lights futtered and
the convention was enveloped in almost
| total darkness for few seconds Alter
moments pause Col. Thompson continued:
Your chairman has instructed me to talk un-
| I'll the light comes back. The light has come.
Am not, therefore, 70 eased from the oollRa-
| ton which you posed upol. me! There
I
| larions that / will maet you here
| again four years hence, and hope TO see
our honored chairman here, 30 that we may
| greet him as the author of bill which had
stood the test Of four or five years OF attack by
| its adversaries and yet remained unassaiied.
| The democratic party propose to destroy 1t by
| piece-meal, like rats RnawinR al the ropes OF q
ship seeking to sink it, when the great ship
moves onward and bids defiance to the storm.
l return to you again, therefore, my heartfelt
thanks for your sympathy, your congratula-
tons and your kindness. lApplause.I
Appeal of tho Oi Regions.
The clerk then read the following reso-
lutions:
TTTUsvILLE, Pa, June s.
| Col. John J. Carter and +. B. Simpson, Dele
gates Pennsylvania Delegation:
Our citizens earnestly request you TO notify
the people of the country, through public
nouncemenT before the convention, OF the ter
rible loss OF life and property and consequent
suffering among poor people from the recent
| food and fire here and at Oil
| City. The proceedings of the conVen-
| ton have absorbed the attention OF
the country and filed the newspapers
| to the exclusion of full accounts OF our disas-
ter, which will not be realized unless more d.
reetly brought TO the notice of the public in
| this way, thus preventing subscriptions to the
re ief fund now absolutely necessary to prevent
additional suffering and death.
Make known the extent of our loss and as
sure the convention that every dollar OF relief
| furnished will be hosestly and faithfully dis
tTibuted by competent and faithful citizens
among the sufferers.
E. o. EMERSON, Mayor Ttusville,
W. 6. HUNT. Mayor Oil City.
The Chairman-"With the consent of
the convention l will recognize the chair
man of the committee on credentials and
permanent organization to make a report"
The Row Begins.
The announcement of the committee on
credentials that 4 minority report would
be submitted created considerable excite
ment and there was painful suspense
while the two reports were being orally
submitted as to what would follow. The
general opinion was that the anticipated
test of strength" between the Blaine and
Harrison factions would be the interest
y.
| ity report recommended that twelve Har-
rison delegates in Alabama, Mississippi
and Louisiana be seated in place of the
same number of Blaine men, given places
on the temporary roll, and the minority
recommended that the twelve Blaine men
on the temporary roll be placed on the
permanent roll. The report of the com
mittee also covered contests in Texas,
Kentucky, Maryland. South Carolina,
North Carolina and the District of Column
bia, but there was no political significance
in these contests and the report was unani.
nous on these cases.
The majority report sustained the
national committee as to twenty-three
votes and reversed the national committee
as to seventeen votes. In Louisiana the
national committee was sustained as to
four delegates-at large and four district
delegates and not sustained as to four
other distric: delegates; in Maryland not
sustained on two votes; in Mississippi
sustained as to two district votes and not
sustained as TO two delegates-at-large
each faction being given a half
vote instead of the Hill faction e whole
vote; in North Carolina sustained on
three votes; District of Columbia sus-
tanned on two votes; Utah, not sustained
as to one vote (by splitting the delegation
DcLWcSu Tie TWO lhCLlOns) AldDhIlh bu5-
tanned as to eight and reversed as to six
votes. Politically. the result was a gain
of thirteen votes to Harrison and of one
vote to Blaine, a net Harrison gain of
twelve votes. This gain included six votes
in Alabama, four in Louisiana and two in
Mississippi The gain in the votes was
made owing TO the fact that the Harrison
men had won over three members of the
credential committee and thereby secured
a majority.
A Hot Fight Begun.
Wallace Of New York announced the
purpose to fight the report on the floor as
to the votes.
When Chairman Cogswell moved that
the majority report be adopted he was
loudly cheered by the Harrison delegates,
and when Chauncey l. Filley moved to
substitute the minority report therefor
the applause which followed from The
Blaine delegates told the galleries that the
long expected fight between the Blaine
and Harrison forces was on.
The chief point in Mr.. Filley's argument
| in behalf of the minority report was that
| the regular organization OF the party in
the Alabama case had been barred from
their regular place of meeting by u. s.
deputy marshals, but Mr.. Massey of Della