Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-07-15
AFTERNOON SESSION.
Capt Dovener Nominated With the Great
est OF Ease,

AFTERNOON SESSlONs
Capt. Dovener Nominated With the Great
est OF Ease,
The delegates appeared very prompt
ly for the second session, and with
them came the Hancock county delega-
ton, who selected o. 5. Marshall for
the Committee on Permanent Organiza-
tiOn, James Bradley for Credentials and
II. R. Sweeney on both Resolutions and
Order Of Business. One or two gentle
men timidly ventured on the stage along
aboat a quarter OF two, and taking
courage from this, a few others
went up, hut most Of them left again
when Chairman Lynch called for order
at 2:1O and called for the reports Of
OF Committees. The audience was very
smail-there being, in fact, but fifteen
persons Ia the gallery, and not over
fifty in the dress circle, although the
band was still out in the street. The
Convention refused TO be orderly for
time, although the Chair insisted upon
it, and be finally went ahead as best he
could, remarking, as one question was
put, I suppose the Convention heard it.
L
ever, and the question, although once
adopted, had to be put over
again. The Committee on Permanent
Organization named J. L. Hooten, Of
Marshall, on Permanent Organization,
and L. o. Williams, OF Harrison, as
Secretary, with w. S. Fsris, of Ohio,
as Assistant The name of Mr.. Hooten
was greeted with applause, and the
report adopted. Messrs. Dawson, of
Ohio, and S. S. Faris, Of Harrison.
escorted the Chairman to the platform.
AS he appeared on the platform, M.
Hooten was loudly applauded. He was
introduced TO the Convention by Tenn
porary Chairman Lynch, and said:
GENTLEMEN OF TIE COMMEMORATIVE
I say that l thank YOU for the honor you
have conferred upon me, / mean every
word I say. 1t is an honor which any man
ought 10 be proud Of. | will say TO you
right here that this is year tor work, and
I do not intend TO detain you with a lengthy
speech. You have a work to do this after
noon, that will help 70 tell on the history Of
this nation in the future We are bere,
my fellow citizens, to nominate the next
Representative in Congress from the First
Congressional District Of West Virginia.
"A
stick a pin right there. Applause. As l
have had occasion to say before Conven-
ton in this State, thisi a Republican year.
Laughter and applause, and cries OF
that's it'll have had occasion TO attend
Conventions ia this State within the last
three weeks-One at ParkersOUrg and one
at New Northumberland l do not eXag
gerate when / say they were the finest Con-
ventiOns | ever saw assemble in the State
of West Virginia, and have never
yet seen finer Congressional Con
Convention assembled in the State tnan
the one before me. This OutpOuring of the
people means something, and that some
thing is this; That the Republican party
intends TO redeem the State of West Vir-
giuia this fall Applause, And we in
tend % begin to-day by nominating gen
tleman who will redeem the First Con
gressional district, lApplausel and at Hun
tington we Will follow it up by nominating
a ticket which will redeem the State. APP
plause. have Just been reading the lead
ing Democratic paper published IN
West Virginia, and l read in it a
short eXtraCt-about so big-cred-
tied 20 Congressman Mcmillan, in
which be calls the attention Of the people
OF this State, together with the people OF
all the States, TO the fact that we are
very highly-taXed people The people Of
West Virginia found that out long ago.
Applause We have been bearing that
burden ever since the State passed into the
control Of the Democratic party. When
the Republicans went out Of power in this
State and the Democrats come in the State,
as I recOllect, didn't owe dollar, and in
addition had an irreducible school found,
which had never been borrowed from by
the State, of $2500OO A NOice-ltS lie.
Our Democratic friends will say they have
never increased the rate Of taxation. Per
haps in one sense they have not The num-
Der of mills on the 500 is, perhaps, no
greater than 10 was under Re
publican rule, but TO provide ways
and means to carry on the affairs
OF the State they every ten years increase
the value of property. What is the result!
the State and they will tell = on. l see some
BraxtOn county citizens here. The Asses
sors have increased the value of property
in BraXtOn sixty per cent, and the State
Board Of Public Works added to il eleven
per cent. Take the neighboring county of
Gilmer. The valuation there was increased
sixty per cent, and twenty-five per cent.
has been added 70 il since. Go all over the
interior Of the State and you will find that
state Of affairs existing, and hence l say
our people are aroused on this question OF
taxation imposed by the Democratic party.
/ believe the thinking people Of this State
are tired Of that state Of affairs, and would
rather trust the destiRieS of the State to
the party which left it in the coEdItion it
was when the Democratic party took con-
troll"
After some generalities the Chair de-
clared the Convention ready for bus
mess.
The report Of the Committee on Or
der Of Business was read and adopted,
and then the report OF the Committee
on Resolutions was called for 1t was
read by J. X. Hall, Of Ohio, as fol-
lows
THE PLATFORM.
The Republicans Of the First Congress
sional District Of West Virginia, in Con-
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