The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-06-10

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sSrd birthday and Thompson's speech
In reply occupied some minutes. A
resolution admitting members of the
Urano Army of the Republic to any
seats in the convention unoccupied
thirty minutes after the opening of the
convention was adopted and a message
was read from the mayors of Titusville
ana vi City announcing to the world the
state OF distress and suffering that pre-
V"iieu IN those inundated districts and
making public appeal for aid.
Inc announcement of the committee
on credentials that minority report
would be submitted created consider
able excitement and there was n main.
lul suspense while these two reports
were being orally submitted, as to what
would follow. The general opinion was
that tho anticipated strength" between
the Blaine and Harrison factions would
be the interesting incident of tho even
ing. The majority report recommended
that twelve HARRISON delegates in Ala
bama, Mississippi and Louisiana be-
seated in place of the same number of
Blaine men, given place on the tempor-
airy roll, and tho minority recommended
That IL Blaine men on the temporary
roll be placed on the permanent roll.
The report of the committee on contests
in Texas, Kentucky, Maryland, South
Carolina and North Carolina and the
District of Columbia, had no political
Significance 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 COM
mittee as to seventeen votes. Polit-
i'ally the result was a gain of thirteen
votes to Harris On and one vote to Blaine.
net Harrison gain of twelve votes.
Ills gain included six votes in Alabama,
four in Louisiana and two in Missis
slppi. Tho gain in votes was owinr to
the TACT that the Harrison men had won
over three members of credentials com
mittee, thereby securing u majority.
When Chairman Cogswell moved that
the majority report be adopted, he was
loudly cheered by the Harrison dole
gates, and when Chauncey l. Filley, of
Missouri, moved to substitute therefore
the minority report the applause which
followed from the Blaine delegates told
the galleries that tho long expected
fight between the Blaine and Harrison
forces was on.
The chief point in Filleys' arrumenr
in behalf of the minority report was
that the regular organization of the
party In Alabama case had boon barred
from their regular place OF meeting by
United States deputy marshals, but
Massey, OF Delaware, maintained that
the case had been considered fairly
upon its merits aud that the msiority
report should be adopted. Knight, of
California, spoke warmly in favor of
the minority report. He declared that
the Moseley faction was recommended
by the majority to be seated, though its
federal officers had attempted to thwart
the Will OF the people oil Alabama. 1t
was enough that the Democratic party
suppressed the will OF the people IN the
South, without hundred thousand
Office. holders thwarting the will of the
Republi Ians in party convention. He
appealed for justice for the loyal Repub.
licans Of Alabama. loud applause
Intensified interest was lent to Knights
speech by the knowledge that he was
TO be the first man to second the nomi-
nation OF Blaine later on. The yipor
and eloquence the Californian displayed
captured the great audience from the
outset, and when he concluded the
cheering was intense. 1t was a Blaine
moment and supreme one.
One delegate tried to conjure II D preiu.
dice against the Office holding class. He
made an allusion of derogatory nature
to the people of the section fro n which
the contest came, which, generally
speaking. WAS that you cannot prove
anything by them. 1t was a bad break.
and large number of gallery occu-
pants Kissed and somo cried down"
galleries be cleared IL there were more
Missing, but he would hardly have taken
the job of an assistant sergeant-at.arms
and attempt to clear them. for the crowd
was excited and instantly intensity
interested.
Senator Wolcott, of Colorado, in
speaking for the minority repo:t,
warmly denounced not only the deputy
marshals in Alabama, but hundreds Of
ofhcehoiders, who were to-day present
In the galleries and in the hall of the
convention, crowding out the peoples
oeiegates In their frantic attempt to re-
nominate the President.
Wolcotts speech was answered by
Hart. OF West Virginia, who said that
he came from Southern State and vet
he was not an oiiice-holder
He came from the State of West Vir-
GINA which had given Cleveland but
500 majority in 1888, and would go Re.
publican in 1892. To him it was diff
cult TO conceive how five Of tho minor
ity should have more wisdom than IS OF
the majority.
Tne greatest interest was manifested
when Col. Ii. nj. Dntlleld, of Detroit.
tho Alger manager, arose to sneak In