Wheeling Register

A GOOD TICKET

Named by the Belmont County
Democracy

At St. Clairsville Yesterday—A Full Re-
port of the Day's Pro-
ceedings.

ST. CLAIRSVILLE, August 11.—The Bel-

mont County Democratic Convention, held
here yesterday, drew together as delegates
ninety-two of our representative Democrats,
as well as a large number of others who were
attracted to the scene by reasons of personal
interest or mere curiosity. Your reporter
arrived in town about nine o'clock this
morning, and already some of the principal
streets in the vicinity of the hotels were al-
most blocked with vehicles of every descrip-
tion.

THE DELEGATES

were all in by eleven o'clock, and from then
till noon one could hear almost any one's
nomination predicted, and some of the
prophets were even willing to back their
opinions with money. Before dinner indi-
cations and opinions seemed to confirm the
belief that Hon. R. J. Alexander, of Bridge-
port, and T. J. Irwin, of Martin's Ferry
would be the nominees for Representatives,
while the Treasurership seemed to be awarded by about equal numbers to George
Kern of Bellaire, J. T. Craig of Martin's
Ferry, and James B. Ryan of St. Clairs-
vville.

One thing that made it look

A LITTLE BRIGHTER

for Kern and Craig than for the latter gen-
tleman was the fact that while Mr. Ryan
had made no effort to get the nomination,
the other two aspirants had been canvassing
the county for several weeks. Before noon,
however, it became noised about that Kern
was fast gaining strength and would prob-
ably be nominated on the first ballot.

At about eleven o'clock the delegates
met in Welday's Hall on Main street, and
were called to order and organized into a
meeting by J. M. Reilly, chairman of the
executive committee. After a few words to
the delegates and outsiders concerning the
places set apart for delegates, and a
request that there should be no encroach-
ment upon said space by wire pullers, he
called upon Rev. Robert Alexander to in-
voke the blessing of the Almighty upon the
assembled body and His guidance in their
action. The reverend gentleman then de-
livered

A SHORT PRAYER

in which he asked aid in the work about to
be done by the assemblage and thanked the
Most High for the many blessings we as a
public enjoy. Mr. Reilly then nominated
R. S. Clark,

of

Union township

for temporary chairman, and James
B. Ryan, of Richland, as temporary secre-
tary. Mr. Clark in his opening address
said among other things that he was pleased
to meet with so many staunch Democrats of
Belmont county and reminded them that
for the first time in twenty-four years they
had been allowed to enjoy the privilege of
meeting in a convention while the national
government was under control of a Demo-
crat, and that they should lay aside all per-
sonal prejudices of any nature and work as
one unit with but one goal in view and that
the preservation of

THE DEMOCRACY.

He also granted them the comforting as-
surance that any mistake that might be
made in his rulings would be of the head
and not of the heart, as his sole end and
aim was to see such men put on the ticket
as would be a credit to the party and have
the strength to be elected. He also cited
the fact that we now had a national gov-

ernment headed by a man whose acts, so
far as purity and justice are concerned,
would compare favorably with Washington,
Jefferson or Lincoln. The time has arrived
for which Gen. Grant asked at the end of the
war when he said "Let us have peace" and

A REUNITED COUNTRY.

That peace for which he asked has been ex-
plained and has surely come about in its
full force when such men as Generals Sher-
man, Joe Johnston, Phil Sheridan and
Buckner, will travel clear across the conti-
nent to have the pleasure of acting as pall
bearers at the funeral of the man who
fought for that peace only as a duty and
not for the honor and pleasure it afforded
him.

The roll was then called by the secretary
and questions arising out of double
representation in several instances were re-
ferred to the committee on Credentials.

Dr. John Cook, of Bridgeport, then
moved that the Chairman appoint the com-
mittees necessary to form a permanent or-
ganization.

The Chair then appointed the following

COMMITTEES

On Credentials—H. G. Wilson, Albert
Kennon, M. J. W. Glover, James Dunfee
and T. J. Carr.

On Rules and Order—S. O. Hamilton, T.
J. Smith, R. C. Myer, J. G. Owens and O.
J. Lucas.

On Permanent Organization—J. C.
Mitchell, H. W. Bigley, J. A. Greenlee, J.
H. Patterson and Carl McIlvaine.

The Convention then adjourned until one
p. m.

Afternoon Session.

The convention reassembled shortly after
one o'clock and proceeded to business. The
first thing was the action to be taken on the
reports of the several committees appointed
The first one heard from was on rules and
order of business. Their report was full and
comprehensive, and named R. S. Clark, of
Union Township, for permanent Chairman.
and J. B. Ryan, of Richland, as Secretary,
with J. B. Darrah and Hamilton Eaton as
assistants. The report was adopted.

The committee on Credentials found it
necessary, in compliance with long estab-
lished rules, to reject two of the proposed
deligates on the grounds that two of the
townships had more representatives than
the number of Democratic votes cast called
for. Their report was also adopted

W. N. Coffland then presented the fol-
lowing resolution:

MEMORIAL RESOLUTIONS

Whereas, in the wisdom of Him who gov-
erns the nations; He has taken from our
midst our illustrious fellow citizen, Gen. U.
S. Grant;

Therefore be it resolved, that we, the
Democratic party of Belmont county, Ohio,
which, in convention assembled, do sincere-
ly mourn his loss, feeling that in his death
the whole country has sustained the loss of
a true friend; one who was valiant in battle
could when the enemy had yielded to the
force of arms, see in the future a united
people, and contributed not only to that, by
the conditions of Lee's surrender, but by his
every public act and especially in his late
utterances to the grand reunion of the
mighty nation.

Resolved, That we are voicing the senti-
ments not only of this nation but the peo-
ple of the world, and send to the afflicted wife
and family our sincere sympathy in this
their great bereavement.

[Signed]

M. J. STIDD.

W. N. COFFLAND.

NOMINATIONS

for Representatives were then called for and
resulted in the following names being placed
before the convention:

Isaac T. Myer was
presented by George Meek, of Bellaire; T.
J. Irwin by J. H. Day, amid great applause;
Judge Thomas Cochran presented the name
of David Wagner, Esq., of Pease township
R. J. Alexander was named by James
Taggart. Harvey Danford was placed be-
fore the convention by J. H. Patterson.

Upon a ballot being taken R. J. Alexander
was declared nominated, he having received
59 votes, 47 being the number necessary to
choice. The nomination was made unani-
mous.

Before a ballot was taken to choose a
second representative, the names of Dr.
Riggs and Marshal Thompson were pre-
sented. On

THE FIRST BALLOT

Irwin received 30 votes, Wagner 25, Riggs
16 and Myer and Thompson 2 each. Before
the second ballot was taken the name of
James W. Laughlin was put in nomination
and the ballot showed that he had consid-
erable strength, the result being:

Wagner 36, Irwin 24; Laughlin 19. Dan-
ford 13. Before the next ballot was taken
Mr. Glover requested the convention to
distribute their candidates so as to give the
greatest strength, and his speech was fol-
lowed by a similar one by Mr. Stidd, who
at the end nominated Mr. Glover, who de-
clined, and at this juncture James Follansbee, of Bellaire, withdrew the name of T. J.
Irwin, by the request of the latter.

Another ballot was taken, which resulted
in the nomination of Mr. Laughlin, he re-
ceived 65 votes and Wagner 27. The nom-
ination was afterwards made unanimous.

NOMINATIONS FOR TREASURER

were then in order. Amos Shepherd pre-
sented the name of William Warnock; D.
H. Milligan presented Richard J. Reilly, of
Bellaire; Samuel Taylor named J. T. Hen-
derson; H. G. Workman was presented by
J. W. Shannon; S. Q. Hamilton, of Bellaire, nominated George Kern, of Pultney;
J. T. Craig was presented by Thomas Coch-
ran, and George W. Medill by A. C. Dar-
rah; H. W. Glass then named James B.
Ryan, of Richland township, who
afterwards, although he positively refused,
was nominated and his nomination

MADE UNANIMOUS.

John Marlow, of Pease, was then nomi-
nated by J. M. Reilly. The first ballot
gave the following result:

Ryan 25, Kern 24, Reilly 10, Craig and
Henderson 7 each, Workman 3 and War-
nock 2.

The second ballot did not result in a
choice, so the third was called. It resulted
in the nomination of James B. Ryan, he
getting 54 votes, Kern 44, Medill 3 and
Henderson 1.

W. N. Coffland moved to suspend the
rules and nominate Owen Mechen for the
office of County Commissioner by acclama-
tion, which motion was carried.

James Cook was presented by S. Q. Ham-
ilton for Infirmary Director. James Tay-
lor, of Wheeling Township, was also named
but declined. A motion was made to nominate Cook

BY ACCLAMATION.

which was carried

Mr. Reilly moved to lay aside the rules
and nominate Isaiah Nicholas for county
surveyor, which motion also carried. The
convention was then dismissed and an hour
spent in hand shaking among the candi-
dates:

Nothing but the utmost good will and sat-
isfaction was expressed at the result, and ap-
parently all are satisfied that a good, strong
and winning ticket has been put in the
field.