Birmingham state herald., 1896-06-16
NO CHANGE IN REPRESENTATION,
So the Committee Voted-What Clayton
 and Y Youngblood Said.

So the Committee Voted-What Clayton
 and oungblood Said.
 St. Louis, June 15-Club quarters were at a premium in the Southern hotel today, and as a result the national republican committee was compelled to pack itself in a small guest chamber on an upper floor The first business in order was a proposi- ton to grant four additional delegates to the District of Columbia, and it was laid on the table by vote of 20 to 1. Then Colonel Youngblood of Alabama asked that General Longstreet who is in the city, and whose eyesight and hearing are both affected, be given the best seat on the platform, where he could observe the proceedings. The proposition caused con- siderable discussion, and was finally re- ferred to the committee on arrangements. Governor Bradley of Kentucky, an ex member of the committee, came into the room at this point and was heartily wei comed. The question was raised whether the temporary roll of delegates should be regarded as finally completed, and the chair replied that it would so be under stood unless a motion to reopen was made. A Mississippi delegate was on his feet for this purpose, whsn Colonel Payne of Wisconsin was recognized to submit motion relative to a change in the basis of representation to apply to the next na- tional convention.
 
 not competent to deal with the question Gen Powell Clayton of Arkansas raised the question of consideration.
 "The south has been told time and time again by the republicans of the north to work out it's own salvation" it; let us alone, for Gods sake. The un- seemly things that have been charged against our people in some of the south ern states would not have occurred if they had been left alone. I make no re- factions on any candidate for the presi- dency or his friends. I apply it to all of them. Don't interfere with us and you won't have these unseemly contests. I was let alone in my state, and as a result we come here with a solid delegation"
 After considerable discussion Colonel Youngblood of Alabama secured the floor. He said that the effect of the resolution would be to induce the democrats to employ extraordinary methods for suppressing the republican vote. What the committee ought to do was to rebtfke the methods adopted ed to discord and division among the re- publicans in the southern states. Until 1880 the idea of corrupt men coming into the south in the interest of a presidential cam didate was unknown, but at that time four distinguished men came among the south- was the Grant-Blaine contest, and every one that was listening must remember 1t. They came from New. York, they came from their pockets filled with poodle. They mixed this man and they fixed that man; they dis rupted the southern republicans, and as result the old conditions have never been restored Let them stop their fixing, let them stay at heme The republicans of the south will take good care of themselves. The proposition submitted by MT. Payne would open the gates for further corruption. The republicans of the north started the corruption, and the first men accused of it were in the senate today. Let them keep their poodle at home.
 MT. Cary declared that under the change proposed the great states of Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania and Illinois would have almost absolute, control of the party nomi- nations, and he urged that ample protection be given the small states, as the constitu- tion provided. The vote was taken on the substitute of Mir. Powell Clayton, and 1t was carried viva voce. st ttt
 Before the demand for the yeas and nays could be carried out MT. Fessenden moved to reconsider the vote, saying he had sub stitute to offer. Tiic vote was reconsidered and he offered a resolution as a substitute for all those then pending declaring it to be the sense of the committee that 1t was in- expedient to make any recommendation to the national committee on the subject of a change of representation. This was carried