The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1873-08-23
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rnE niruBLtsAN COSyESTi0N.
From the lully Herald, August Dl
Tie Republican Convention assem-
blod IN this city yesterday ut ]
O'Clock ~, and temporarily oraaI
acd by appointing General Nal
loy, Chairman, 4. l.. Price, See
rotary and Mr. Morrison, Assistan
Secretary. A little rumpus ensue'
upon these gentlemen taking thci
seats, when the venerable Judge Nor
ton mounted the rOstrum, stretched
out the wings of the American eagle
and decorated the 'proud bird' witt
the ".Americau flag" amid the most
intense excitement of his spectators
who ranged from big black to LITTLE
yalier, with an occasional sprinkle o.
plain white.
After the Judge oncluded, "confu-
sion worse COMPOUNDED prevailed,
while the tap, tap, tap of the Chair
mans gavel failed to elicit the slight
est attention. a Committee on Gre
dentialS, however, was finally appoint
ed, aud the Convention adjourned fol
dinner.
EVENING SESSION.
The Convention rcassemblcd in Tho
magnificent pavilion at Putz's Garden,
and opened quietly by calling the roll
of the different counties. The quiz
ctudc, however, was but the "calm
that precedes Storm With the as
sistance of three photographic report
ers we managed to save the following
prominent features of the evening SEES
sion:
"Mr. Cheerman, let's go to business"
"Mr. Checrman-" "Order." "Sit
down." "Mr, Cheerman," "Mr.
Cheerman," '"Mr. Cheerman." "Or-
der" "LOuder-Can't hear" Shet
up, dar, joe" "Mr. Cheerman--Let
me hdller, Jim, kin make him hear"
"Mr. Cheerman Ia feeble voice., Mr..
Chairman-Climb pole, say" "set
down dar, fore ] hit you wild dis
stick" "Mr. Chairman--Dis niger Is
sleepy and moves for to rejourn." Cries
of mo; go on wild yer rat killing dar."
"Mr. Chairman--I move dat n COM
mittee of eighteen be pinted on sum-
thin and u committee of thirty be
pinted on sumthin' else )" ''secOnd the
motion )" "previous question" "Mr.
Chairman--Dis niger got II leak i'm his
pocket and moves dat we go into BUSH
ness.u .Set down dar and keep dat
fly trap shet, fore put a mug on it,"
"Mr. Cheerman-WhoOpee" Ego in
lemons.n I" Mr.. Chcerman-Dem fell
Iers underyour stand amt taking fair"
"The gentleman from Washington"
"Mr. Cheerman"-" bring me glass
of beer" "more air." "wind;" "Mr.
Cheerman"-"t twinkle, twinkle, little
star" 9 Hush up, you d-n fool"
"My. Cheerman )" "burn n rag" 81
golly, I'se gwine--yu bet" "Mr.
Cheerman-Dog gone it; can't make
him hear me. MIR. CHEERMAN ~
"Yah! yah! yah !-got him dat time"
emusic :" "beer;" "air." "Mr. Cheer
man." shut up" "Mr. Chcerman-
dis niger is hungry" "Move we adj
journ." 'Sccond the notion" eight
O'clock" by a thousand tongues. ave
won't go home till morning" "Yah!
yahlo "question." "Move to table"
"Go to h--l.p "Mr. Cheerman"-and
we left.
From the Daily Herald, August AL
The delegates to the Republican Con-
vention assembled promptly at nine
O'Clock yesterday morning, in the pa
vilon at Putz's beer garden, and after
transacting some preliminary business,
proceeded to organize permanently,
which was effected by the election of
Judge Newton as permanent Chair
man. There was decidedly more de-
corum about the concern than OH the
previous day, notwithstanding good
many fractions members persisted in
yelling out "Mr. Cheerman," when
ever an intermissiOn in the general din
would offer any hope of n successful
hearing. The committee appointed to
draft platform reported soon after
order began to reign in Warsaw, and
in 1t sacrificed the last vestige of their
Ra,iealisIn to the vain hope that DEM
!. oefa,ir drntrines introduced into their
creed mi, II We the means of leading
the party int9power.
I'm, Platform Is paradOxical com
poui l. commenting and condemning
in one breath the principles of the party
as evidenced In the action of its chosen
leaders, Gen. Grant IL complimented
and his administration yindicated in
the first sentence of their platform,
but it winds up by insisting that his
treatment of the "gentle savages"
along the western border isn't just the
thing Texas needs, thus letting up on
one of the grandest ideas of their cio-
sen chief and the only one on which he
has ever shown any individualism in
his character. II We mistake not, this
is something that the Democracy have
long labored for and, in the extrem-
ity of the necessity superinduced by
Grants passiveness, its leaders in the
last Legislature took steps to provide
the very protection the Convention