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Show GENERAL. Arkansas Repu bit onus ft'im t (lie Bloody Shirt. Little Rock, 27. The republican state convention, held to-day, was oigauized by the election of the following fol-lowing : Joseph Brooks, president; G. H. Johnson (colored), G. A. Grace and N. B. Barton, vice-presidents; H. M. Cooper, R. A. Dawson (eclored) and J. P. Jones (colored), secretaries. Dawsoii and Jones declined de-clined to serve, and K. Levy and J. H. Smith (colored) were substituted. Mr. Brooks had been taken very suddenly and violently ill and it was -im possible for him to be present. Upon motion of Senator Dorsey, General Upham wan then declared permanent chairman. chair-man. A committee was appointed to whom all resolutions were referred without debate. Tne committee on delegates to the Cincinnati convention conven-tion rt-porled names and the report was adopted. The committee on resolutions then reported a series ol resolutions, the last of which declares Hon. O. P. Morton to be the choice of the republicans of Arkansas for president, and instructs the delegates to ote for him alone. Senator Clayton Clay-ton spoke against the adoption of this i resolution, though yielding to no man ! in admiration of Morton. Fulton j replied that he believed there were men in the delegation who were' friends of Mr. Conk ling. He wanted to bind all of them to vote for Morton. 1 Aa for himself he would not support Conkling. After a discsshn as to whether the resolutions should declare strongly tor Morton or not, Mr. Whipple offered of-fered resolutions as a suD-titute for the series already presented, leaving the delegates uninstructed. The original resolutions were, however, adopted I and the convention adjourned. |