He further went on to say that Senator John Sherman was his preference, and advised the convention to place his name at the head of the Republican national ticket.
The speeches made at the convention by the delegates at large, and by other members, expressed without qualification the hearty and unanimous support of my nomination.
The joint convention for the election of a Senator was held on the second Tuesday of January.
I made my two days' speech on the silver question, already referred to, when the active politicians were absorbed in what was to happen in the convention at Minneapolis.
During all the period mentioned many names were canvassed, mine among others, but I uniformly declined to be a candidate, and said if I had a vote in the convention it would be cast for Harrison.
The persons named by the convention as delegates at large to the national convention, to assemble in Chicago on June 2, were William Dennison, James A.
This convention was composed of delegates from eighteen states, and included in its active members many of the most eminent Whigs and Democrats of a former time.
The convention then proceeded to form a state ticket.
If Congress meet, or if a national convention be called, and the regular army be put on a footing with the wants of the country, if I am offered a place that suits me, I may accept.
Painting, indeed, is not praised amiss with that word; painting is obviously an art that exists by its convention--the convention is the art.
Assuredly it is too far reduced to a monotonous convention to merit the serious study of races that have produced Cotman and Corot.
After thatConvention (which Macdonald confesses was a trifling affair) he continued his labors in various places.
That last day of theConvention was also the anniversary of Fourier's birthday, and in the evening the members held a festival at the Apollo Saloon.
This excitement gathered itself into a settled purpose at a convention held in Rochester in August 1843, which was attended by several hundred delegates from the city and neighboring towns and villages.
The call of theConvention was read, and they were asked if they could unite with the Convention according to the terms of the call, as 'friends of Association based on the principles of Charles Fourier.
The Conventionappointed to frame a new Constitution for the State of New York was then in session.
Their claim to sit as members of theConvention was therefore denied: but they were allowed freely to express their opinions, and treated with the utmost courtesy, without reply.
From an official letter to a Convention of Associations in New York, signed by B.
The number of attendants and their interest increased to the end, as was manifested by the continuance of the meetings from Wednesday, December 27th, when the convention had expected to adjourn, through Thursday and Friday.
Wattles, Valentine Nicholson and others, who, after attending a socialisticconvention in New York in 1843, lectured on Association at various places on their way back to the West.
Before proceeding to business, the secretary read letters addressed to the Convention by a number of societies and individuals in different parts of the United States.
Spain, France and England joined in a common military convention in 1861 in supporting certain claims of citizens repudiated by Juarez.
For the discipline of the clergy, he procured the convention of many synods, in which were drawn up his famous Capitulars.
Fulgentius publicly desired, at the convention of another council, that he might be allowed to yield the precedence to Quodvultdeus.
The history of woman suffrage in Ohio is a long one, for the second woman's rights convention ever held took place at Salem, in April, 1850, and the work never entirely ceased.
The following delegates were appointed to attend the national convention in Philadelphia in November; Mrs. Jacobs, Miss Amelia Worthington, Mrs. O.
The State convention of 1914 was held in Omaha in December and it was decided to organize more thoroughly and to seek the advice of the National Association as to how and when to try again.
The convention of 1912 was held in the Baltimore Business College, the afternoon devoted to discussions of plans of work, reports, etc.
The next convention was held in Jacksonville in 1902 and the Rev.
Mrs. McGraw prepared a very full account of the work in the Legislature to have it submit to the voters the question of calling a convention to prepare a new constitution.
The convention of 1914 again took place in Hartford and Mrs. Hepburn, with practically the whole board, was re-elected.
The annual convention was held in Calvary Presbyterian Church, San Francisco, October 5, 6, with an attractive program of men and women speakers.
On the eve of departure for the national convention in February, 1920, Mrs. Holmes, chairman of the Woman Suffrage Party, went to John M.
Hughes welcomed the convention for vice-Mayor McGee, who refused to do so.
A convention was held in Alexandria in July, 1918, and chairmen were appointed in forty-eight parishes in preparation for the State amendment campaign.
Beardsley has accepted the convention of nature itself, turning it to his own uses, extracting from it his own symbols, but no longer rejecting it for a convention entirely of his own making.
Simons declared several months before the Convention that "nothing could more thoroughly damn the work of the conference which meets in Chicago next June than the prevalence of the idea that it was an attempt to revive the S.
They reported themselves at the second convention as desirous of admission, but that immediate transfer of allegiance was impossible because they had two-year contracts with the operators which did not expire until April, 1908.
After an extended discussion of the seemingly unmixed evils of mixed "locals," the convention passed a resolution defining their functions.
The leaders of the Alliance refused to submit the acts of the convention to a vote of the members, and the old officials immediately declared them null and void.
Official reports to the fifteenth convention of the Western Federation of Miners held the preceding June, credited the I.
The Socialist Labor party group take the position that DeLeon was denied a seat in the convention in order to further the designs of the St. John-Trautmann faction.
General Secretary Haywood reported to the convention that the A.
This was the first conventionheld since December, 1916.
Consequently the term can hardly be used to mark off any particular faction in a convention of industrial unionists.
He wears bright ties, silk socks, soft collars, and very well-fitting light clothes, totally regardless of the convention which demands black from boy and master alike.
The convention of mess is only less nauseating than that of Common Room.
Anyway I followed the convention and felt inordinately important and wise for about two hours!
We did not know, and would not know for a year, the result of the Democratic convention at Baltimore, of the preceding spring!
A significant thing about the invitation cabled to this country for this convention was the fact that it was signed by Japan's leading captain of industry and the Mayor of Tokyo as well.
The World's Sunday School Conventionwas recently held in Tokyo.
Hear Senator Dawes before the Paper-makers' Convention at Saratoga in 1887: "There is one other feature of tariff revision much discussed at the present time which must not escape our attention, and that is free raw material.
Said Jonathan Smith of Lanesborough in the Massachusetts Convention of 1788: "We have no lawyer in our town, and we do well enough without.
There is, happily, now a movement on foot to abolish these adornments and turn the battle-field and its surroundings into a park, which by nature and association would be one of the most beautiful in our world.
The telegrams investing the Administrative Council with general powers to act on behalf of the General Convention of the Citizens' Representatives should be dispatched in the name of the General Convention of the Citizens of the Provinces.
After explaining the so-called "Law on the General Convention of the Citizens' Representatives" (i.
Tibet shall be an independent State, repudiating the Anglo- Chinese Convention of 1906.
Senate) that the question of Kuo-ti (form of State) should be settled by the Convention of Citizens' Representatives.
In order to enable the people to express their will through a properly constituted organ, the General Convention of the Citizens' Representatives has been created.
Sir Henry McMahon also submitted to the Conference a draft proposal of the Convention to the plenipotentiaries.
Since the promulgation of the Law on the Organization of the Citizens' Representatives, we, who are devoted to the welfare of the state, desire to see that the decisions of that Convention do not run counter to the wishes of the people.
His amazed father saw the child of the desert, where convention is made by your fancy and the supply of water in your canteen, go to the window and raise the sash.
There was no mistaking that father's sense ofconvention was the one thing that stood between him and my desire.
I say to a friend that if I had only a little Baptist water and Methodist fire, I could get up enough steam in half an hour to set the whole convention in motion.
As early as 1850, the Foreign Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention began to turn its attention to Europe.
It is inclined to be suspicious of any routine or convention whose direct practical benefit is not self-evident.
If you wish to see an American crowd in its most extraordinary aspect, you should go to a political convention for the nomination of a President.
But the most characteristic element of the early emigration was religious, and that not by convention and conformity, but by conscience and conviction.
If the faces of the southerners and their allies were elongated then, what will be their length when the news of such a convention shall reach their ears?
So Peter wrote the phrases, and a couple of days later he read in the newspapers an account of the convention proceedings.
At this time Worcester was the favorite place for every kind of convention of the friends of progress.
I began to be interested in public affairs and attended the first conventionof the Free Soil party which was held in Worcester.
After the Free Soil convention I was a Free Soiler, and such I continued, casting my first vote for John C.
