The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-05-06

ooWucn Oliereu TWO resolutions. one ia
voring the denomination of President
Harrison. and tho other pledging an
earnest effort to secure instructions. to
this effect from the State convention.
NIGHT SESSION.
The Opera House was as hot as Il bake
oven. Delegates and visitors shed their
coats. and linen, spotlcsS and otherwise.
was very conspicuous. Several hundred
fans welded vigorously by muscular
arms manufactured little air and pre-
vented suiroca ion.
AT $50 General Malone entered tho
doorway and hundred delegates sprang
| to their feet. lie was cheercd until he
seated himself on the stage.
| Col Wm. e. Craig. of Staunton, fol-
lowed, and was greeted with applause.
There was a ves atious delay in CALI
ing tho convention to order. and the
delegates got in mischevious mood
They yelled at every man whose head
popped up for speech, and frequently
called for music. The band invariably
responded in manner that won demon
STATIONS Of appreciation of the excel
lent music rendered.
Tho committee on credentials re-
ported three contests, namely, tho
counties of Norfolk and Pittsyivania,
and the city of Lynchburg.
Tho committee named set Of dele
egates as entitled to thei- seats and ro-
ferred Pittsylvania TO tho convention
for settlement. Tho Sixth district con-
vention had settled the Lynchburg
case.
sQuabble arose over Norfolk county.
Mr.. Lindsay read minoriiy report signed
by live committoemeu, but admitted
that one of the signers, Mr.. Taylor, was
not present, but said he would sign tho
report. Mr.. Langston asserted that six,
majority of the committee. had signed
the report he submitted. The conven-
ton guyed Mr.. Lindsay numerically.
MIR. Taylor subsequently appended
certificate supporting the minority, and
| explained to tho convention his reasons
for doing so.
D. e. Asberry, colorcd, of Norfolk
county, defended in decisive words his
claims to seat, charging that an afida-
Wit he had Sled had disappeared, as had
the minutes OF the committee on Gre
dentials. A dozen other speakers fol-
lowed pro and con for over an hour. Ex-
citemcnt ran high and at times the
noise was almost deafening. Finally
Capt. McCaull moved to seat both del
egations, giving each half vote.
hurled at the chair until A. w. Ha iris,
colorcd, of Dinwiddie, obtained recog-
milton and in vigorous language de.
Tended tho Fourth district from asper-
sions he claimed Norfolk county dele.
gate had cast upon it.
At 1l:2O the previous question was
ordered and McCaull's amendment
adopted. The report of the committee
on credentials was then adopted.
The committee on permanent organi-
cation submitted the following report
which was adopted with ono dissenting
voice:
Hon. l. Fowler, CHI ,irman: Col. Asa
Rogers, secretary; vice presidents, First
district. a. s. Vest Second district,
Hon. Geo. Il. l'owdcn; Third district, G.
MINUS; Fourth district, w. A Jamison:
Fifth district, M. f. Brown; Sixth dis
trict, Geo. w. Wilson; Seventh district,
DR.. j. Webb; Eighth district, c. =.
McCaoe; Ninth district, Hartman New
borry; Tenth district, Caesar Perkins
The committee on resolutions submit
ted the following report:
Delegates at large-Genl. VIM. Ma
hone, ). Brown Allen, A. w. Harris
Hon. Henry Bowen. Alternates-Col.
j. s. Browning, R. A. Paul, NJ. c. Car
doza, j. w. Simmons.
Electors large-Hon. AT Mooklar,
Robert j. Walker
District Electors First. Joseph A.
Bristoc, second, ii. b. Nicholas: third.
Patrick keenan,: fourth, e. u. Mclean;
fifth, George ID. Gravely; sixth. s. Ey-
erett Sproul; seventh, Rev. A. u. Funk
houser; eighth, ii. Il, Dodge, ninth,
Stuart f. Lindsay; tenth, w. u. Frank
lin.
The committee recommended a State
committee to be composed of chairman,
ex-officio of the party and Eve members
of each congressional district, to be
chosen by the respective delegations,
and that tho executive committee be
composed Of the chairman of the State
committee and two others, to be elected
by tho State committee.
RESOLUTIONS.
The Republicans of Virginia in the
State convention assembled confidently
cite their past record of long suffering
| and unselhsh fidelity as an absolute
attestation of their present tnviolable
attachment to the principles and meas.
ures of the national party, and as an
unimpeachable surety of their future
constancy we steadfastly believe and
resolutely maintain-First, That the
present Federal administration. like all
former ones given to US by the Republ-
can party, has proved itself able, pure
and successful in all our affairs, foreign
and domestic, and that the American
people, enjoying unprecedented general
welfare, will not improvidently turn to
another party which heretofore has
only brought confusion, distrust and
disaster by obstructive and destructive
experiments in behalf Of a government
only for the benefit of government and
socalled governing classes, and not at
all for the relief and betterment OF the
governed masses.
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