Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-05-12
NEW HAMPSHIRE DEMOCRATS.
A Delegate Who Wanted to Accredit
Grover ClsveIand's Virtues to Senator
Hill Gets Hiased for His Trouble.

Grover CIsveIand's Virtues to Senator
Hill Gets Hiased for His Trouble.
CONCORD, \. H., May 1.-THE DEM
ocratic State Convention to choose DEL
egates to the Chicago convention was
called to order in Phoenix Hall at IL
o'clock to-day by Hon. John 2. BARTLETT
of Manchester, chairman OF the State
committee. The officers and commit
tees selected at the meeting OF the State
committee last night were elected OIL
GERS OF the convention by acclamation.
Oliver E. Branch, of Weare, president,
was escorted to the chair and briefly ad-
dressed the convention. Mr.. Branch's
address was warmly received, references
to ex-President Cleveland being loudly
applauded. Mr.. Urch, of Portsmouth,
created a sensation by saying that he
came to represent those who had grew
ances against the Democrats who had
held and asDired to further high honors
at the hands of the party.
az charge" continued he, Grover
Cleveland and lis past administration
with disloyalty and unfaithfulness to
the rank and file Of the Democratic
party"
The speaker was interrupted by a
storm OF Kisses and cries OF put him
out" and "never."
The excitement was intense for a
short time. When the confusion sub
sided, Mr.. Branch ruled Mr.. Urch out
of order. A motion was made to pro-
ceed TO ballot for delegates at large,
and Mr.. Urch moved to table the mo-
ton. His motion was postponed and
balloting was then proceeded with,
Mr.. Sandborn Of Wolfboro. submitted
the following report of committee on
resolutions:
The Democrats of New Hampshire
app rove of taxation so adjusted as to
produce the necessary revenue for the
legitimate requirements OF honest gov
ernment, economically administered
with the least possible burden upon the
people, and affording such incidental
protection as meets every reasonable
demand Of American labor, and they de-
nounce the protective system so called,
developed under Republican govern
mental control and embodied in the
Mckinley bill of the Fifty-frst Con-
gress, as antagonistic in spirit and pur-
pose to every principle OF honest gov
ernment as strengthening monopoly
sather than encouraging labor and fos-
tering trusts and combinations with
which to gather in the substance OF the
people and in return for privileges pay
liberal tribute into the campaign funds
of the party through. whose instru-
mentality that system has been estab-
lished and maintained. They approve
of currency sufficient in volume for
the proper demands OF business, but
presenting no device which can be
manipulated TO the advantage OF any
individual or class at the expense OF any
other-a currency whose every dollar
is equal in value to every other. They
recognize in Grover Cleveland great
leader in tariff reform who with an en-
ergy that never failed, with direct
ness that never swerved, with a SUI
bIime faith that that never faltered led
the way through the reverses of 1888 to
an overwhelming victory in 1890, and
under whose continued leadership there
will be achieved a crowning triumph IN
1892.
Mr.. Urch created another breeze
by offering an amendment to strike out
the name of Grover Cleveland and sub
stitute the name OF David B. Hill.
Kisses and cries of "shut up" ''sit
down" and "put him out" and other
demonstrations of disproval greeted
Mr.. Urch's proposition and the chair
man ruled his amendment not german
and consequently not in order. The
ballot for delegates at large resulted in
the nearly unanimous election of Harry
Bingham, of Littleton; Frank Jones, OF
Portsmouth; Alva H. w. SullowaY, OF
Franklin; George B. Chandler, OF Man
chester. Adjourned.