The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-09-28
TWOLETTERS
From, the Democratic and Rcpuh.
lican State Committees.
CHAIRMAN DAWSON'S LETTER
To the Trades hwrmbiy Is Explicit In De-
inning thn Sentiments Of tho Party.
Secretary Hyrmr, Of tho Democratic
Committee, Unable to Explain sathfac-
torily About that Failure 10 Embody n
Labor Declaration In die Platform.

Some time ago, the Ohio Valley
Trades and Labor Assembly made an
effort TO have embodied In the plat
forms of the two big parties. declara-
ton In favor OF the clght.hour day In
municipal, county and state employ
mcnt. The letter to tho Republican
committee was received after tho plat
form OF the ParlIerBburg convention
had been adopted or the resolution OF
the labor people would have received
attention. As It was, the Ohio county
Republican convention adopted the
resolution chnmploned by the trades
assembly
The Democratic state convention met
In Wheeling several weeks after the
Republican state convention. SO that
there was no excuse for the ClGht-hour
day resolution, which had been for
wardcd to state Chairman Chiffon. be-
Ing omitted from It's platform, AS Is
well known, the committee on resolu-
lions paid no attention to the request
OF the assembly.
AZ yesterdays meeting OF the trades
assembly, the following letter from
w, Il. Il, Byrne, secretary OF the COM
mlttec on resolutions OF the late Demo-
cratic convention, was read:
SUTTON, w. Va. Sept. II. 1896.
~. C. Bocs. esq, secretary o. V. T. &
l.. a.. Wheeling. W. Va
DEAR SIR:-On my return home
from ten days absence | found your
letter OF the Sth inst, forwarding a
resolution OF your assembly, requesting
me. as secretary of the committee on
resolutions OF the late Democratic state
convention held In the city OF Wheel
Ing, to state why action was not taken
by said committee on certain resolu-
tons.
Il do not know that I will be able TO
furnish you Just the information
sought. but will gladly give you the
benefit Of what know about the mat
tor.
"Mr. Holly G. Armstrong, chairman
or the committee on resolutions, Mr.. J.
W. Arbuckle and myself, US secretary,
we're constituted q subcommittee TO
%Nft and report to the full committee
tina resolutions. The subcommittee
went to the city OF Wheeling from the
park. about hall past four O'Clock, pre-
pared the resolutions and returned to
the convention about 0 o'clock p. M, 10
find that the convention was still In
session and clamOring for report from
the committee on resolutions. We had
a meeting OF the full committee and
adopted tho resolutions as reported
from the subcommittee. and directed
them to be reported 20 the conventions:
whereupOn, gentleman from Wheel
Ing. who, ! think, was the member
from that district on the committee,
whose name l do not now recall, pre-
sented what I suppose to be the reso-
lut!0nS which are the subject OF en-
Quiry. stating that the same resolu
tons had been presented TO the Repub-
llcan convention recently heretofore
held Mt ParkershurE and by that con-
vent!on turned down.
ut WAS suggested by some of tho
members Of the committee that Il was
then very late to undertake the COM
sidcrati0n OF the subject matter by tho
committee, and that the same should
have been submitted 10 the sub-cOm-
mittce, TO whom Il had been agreed
that all questions Involving the plat
form, should be submitted for Invcst!-
CATION; and as that had not been done,
expressed themselves a. not being SUI
fciently advised upon the questions In
volved to pass upon them intelllgCntly.
1t was thercupOn decided that the re-
port OF the committee should be made
10 the convention as already adopted,
and II seemed to be the understanding
that the resolutions In question would
be offered by the gentleman who pre-