The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-18

] OF the Republican party, and as we
have met TO plan and act for the fu-
ture welfare of the nation, ii gives me
great pleasure, Mr.. Chairman and gen
l,lleneD of the convention, to bring
l you the greetings and hearty good will
of the Minneapolis children ard in their
behalf and through them. in the be
/ half of the children of the republic
! place this table at your disposal dur
/ ing the deliberations of this conven-
! ton. tApplause.)
The Chairman-In accepting this
table for the convention the chair de-
sires to send back words to the boys
| OF Minnesota that even as our Re
/ publican fathers handed this United
States down TO us, united under one
flag. so that every man within its
borders could share in its blessings and
it's opportunities, so will we, the Re
publican party of today, hand down
its government under the Republican
institutions with all the rights, privi-
leges and opportunities for the boys to
/ come. (Cheers.)
Gentlemen of the convention, the
next order of business is the report of
the committee on credentials, and the
chair recognizes the chairman of that
committee.
Mr.. Fort, New Jersey-I present the
by its direction:
Your committee on credentials re-
spectfully reports that they met i'm
mediassely after the adjournment of the
session of the contention OF, the 18th
instant, and organized by the election
of officers of the committee. And since
that time we have been
GIVING DILIGENT ATTENTION
to the business of the convention.
Your committee would report its ac-
ton in the cases before ii with its
recommendation thereon. AS to the
state of Delaware, the right to repre-
sent the state of Delaware in this con-
vention was claimed by two full sets
of delegates. A patient and full atten-
I ton was given to the hearing of this
case. The contestants for the right to
represent that state in this convention
will be designated as the Anthony Hig-
gins delegation and the ]. Edward
Addicks' delegation. Your committee
recommends that the following per-
sons be seated as delegates and al
ternates from the state Of Delaware
one delegates and alternates headed
by Anthony HigginS). applause and
cheerS.) In the contest in the state of
Texas for delegates at large from that
! state. your committee gave attention
to that case, and heard the contest
ing delegation whom we will style as
the Quincy delegation, and Grant dele
CATION. We recommend that the dele
gates and alternateS at large from
Texas, headed by John Grant, be adj
mitted to this convention. More ap-
plause and cheers.) AS to other mat
tiers of contest presented to your COM
mittee, notice of which was given to
the national committee and heard by
it, we recommend that the roll of dele
gates and alternates to the convention
from the several states and territories
and the District of Columbia, as pre-
pared by the national committee for
temporary organization be approved
as the permanent
ROLL OF DELEGATES
and alternatss of this convention. A
as adopted by this committee is here
with submitted:
Immediately on the conclusion of the
report Chairman Thurston said:
recognize Mr.. Hepburn, Iowa, fer the
purpose CT submitting a minority re-
port. Cheers, yells and hisses.)
Mr.. Hepburn took the platform and
addressed the convention as follows:
Mr.. President and gentleman of the
convention: The undersigned members
Of year committee on, credentials dis
sent from the report of the majority of
the committee in this: We are unwill-
ing to accept the roll of the delegates
as made by the national committee.
CHEERS and hisses) The national COM
mittee did not attempt to consider the
merits of the cases presented by any of
| the one. hundred and sixty odd con-
testants applause and hisses) or the
Irregularities of the credentials pre-
! sented and passed upon by the national
committee. l am informed, in consider
alton OF the contested cases before the
national committee, it was distinctly
and
REPEATEDLY STATED
that the action of the committee was
Only TO secure a prima facie roll. and
that the contestants would be given
an opportunity to be heard upon the
merits of their cases before the com
mittee on credentials when appointed
None of these contestants, except those
from Delaware and those from the
state at large from Texas, have had
any hearing upon the issues here
made before any competent tribunal.
CHEERS and cries.) In those two cases
heard by your committee on creden-
tlalS. not one word of the testimony
adduced was laid before your commit
tee. Affidavits were fled there by the
score, but no man knows what they
contained. save as their contents were
stated by the gentlemen making argu-
mentS on one side or the other. Yor,r
committee on credentials pe1-sistpntJv
voted down propositions, specifically.
TO investigate the cases from Texas
other than those from the state at
large, those from the state of Gait
I those 1,o CT,
lana, and one gentleman. a contestant
from Louisiana, makes the statement
that he has never had even a hearing.
upon which to base a. prima facie case
made no by the national committee.
that he was not in the city until after,
his case had been heard, and that his
lips
HAD BEEN AT ALL TIMES SEALED.
From the state of Louisiana, from the
state of Alabama and from the Twelfth
district of Missouri
Here the speaker was interrupted by
cries, shouts, groans and cheers from
the galleries and from the floor of the
convention by the friends of Chauncay
/. Fflley, of st. Louis, who is from the
Twelfth district. Two or three times
Mr.. Hepburn attempted to proceed, but
was interrupted by a tremendous out
break from Filley's friends. When ST.
lence was at length restored he pro-
ceeded fureher to read, as follows:
Il say. there has been no investiga-
ton of any of these cases except six
from the state of Delaware and four
from Texas, and more than 100 Repub-
Icans-delegates as they claim with
their. credent.als-with their cases. are
cTowdfng now to be heard, in order
that the matters involved may be
properly Strengthened out. (Cheers and
cries of good, good'') We deem it a
most dangerous precedent to permit
the national committee to pass final