The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-07-06

| for remaining on the stand, and in self-defense
| McClernand had to drive them off,
! The final struggle on the platform came
when at the cor clusion of speech in which
| he took the extraordinary position that the
minority had no right to make an adverse re-
| port, because they were in the minority,
| Henry Watterson called the previous question.
Tremendous excitement followed deafening,
| dsordery confusion, in the midst of which
not less than dozen delegates addressed the
| Chair simultaneously and without regard to
the other. Each began shouting and gesticu-
| lating only to have his voice drowned in the
! great uproar. Gen. Morgan, of Ohio, who
demanded free discussion, was ruled out
of order, and the Hon. S. S. Cox, who in vain
had claimed recognition, and now, without
regard to the Chairmans.calling him to order,
| went on with harangue until McClernand,
utterly demoralized himself and incapable of
| res torIng order, shrieked for the Sergeant
alarms to put down Cox. Then Wal
lace, of Pennsylvania, demanded a division
strike out might be acted upon separately from
the motion to substitute. The Chairman
| granted it, but instead of putting the ques-
| ton, Doolittle was permitted to get the floor
| with his double standard, and, in defiance of
| calls to order from the Chair made the mo-
mentous announcement that his head was cool,
and was proceeding to read his amendment
when the irrepressible Sunset Cox broke out
again, only to be silenced by the reading secre-
tary in his call Of the roll OH the main ques-
ton as to the minority report. Cox ordered
the secretary to stop, and demanded that a
vote be taken on ordering the main question
which already had been ordered.
Doolittle kept bowling at intervals about his
amendment, but finally moved an adjourn
ment, which was lost. Other delegates whole
squads of them at once-began to yell unin-
teligently. Another motion to adjourn was
squelched. The reading clerk, whose imperti-
nent assurance was simply sublime, on his own
account began to explain to the convention how
the question stood, and ordered delegate who
interrupted him to sit down. Of all the disor-
derby crowds ever assembled indoors in this
city, the convention was the most disorderly-
was i'll fact mere rotous rabble with a dis
tracted Chairman over them until Herman of
New York, who has a big voice, made himself
heard above the din, and explained the ques-
ton to be voted on.
At last, after more disgraceful uproar, charge
able wholly to the determination OF the 1ilden-
ties to gag the Western Democratic vote, a vote
was taken, not on the question as it had been
divided, but upon the acceptance or rejection
of the minority report of the Committee on
Resolutions, and under whip and spur,
by a vote of sis against and
219 for. That vote signalized the
utter and hopeless defeat of the Western
Democracy. Though thereafter they con-
tinued their struggle to the end, and made
| gallant fight. too, the Democrats of the West
were there and then literally scalped. as Dan
| Voorhees, had SAID they would be unless the
South came to their rescue. The South
turned a deaf ear to all such appeals, and left
| the Western Democrats to their fate. The
| closing scenes of the convention were un-
eventful. There was noise enough, but there
was NO enthusiasm and no opposition to the
! machine programme, which was carried out
precisely as arranged last night. The Tilden-
ties, after bearing down all opposition and rid
ing roughshod overthe Democracy of theWest,
| grew alarmed at the triumph of their tactics.
| The lrate Western men had to be Modified. It
was no easy task, for they chafed under the
| indignities pressed upon them all the even
ing, and until the early hour of morn they
sulked, and swore, and limited at the posi-
bility of National Greenback Convent on
which they couldn't prevent being called to
nominate a Presidential ticket. Even this
morning, at the opening of the Convention,
| they still sulked, swore and muttered oaths.
| The machine programme was developed
when the roll-cali of States was made for the
| nomination of Vice President. The reading
| clerk rapidly slurred over the names of States
on the list until Indiana was reached, wnen
he made the call in his most stentorian
tones and waited, while the Tilden1tes
all over the hall, according to
their programme, cheered and shouted
''Hendricks!" But the Indianians were not to
| be easily Modified. After having sullenly
shaken his head at the applauding Tildenites,
| Senator Mcdonald rose, amidst renewed
plaudts and said the delegation was not
authorized to present Hendricks name. If the
convention insisted on nominating him, the
| convention would have to do it on it's own re-
| sponsibility.
Indiana would be satisfied, manifestly with
| kla,o 6o4 +HA Il
forced on Hendricks. They, however, were
quite ready to be forced, and 80, amidst a
| tremendous display of manufactured en-
| thusiasm, the nomination for the
second place on the ticket was forced on the
coy Indianians. Thus the candidate of the
lnfationist Democracy of the West was tackled
| upon the ticket as an assurance to the latter
that the Tilden platform didn't mean any
thing like what it seemed to mean, since Hen
| bricks himself could stand upon it, and there
on in due order Bayliss Hanna, of Indiana.
took the stand, and in his own phrase, buried
the tomahawk, and presented the pipe OF
peace to the Tildenites, against whom the
| Indianians had been threatening slaughter.
| One more surrender was forced by the Tilden-
ties. It was made when John Kelly, amidst
| tumultuous applause from the same throng
which yesterday hooted and Kissed him down,
made his way to the stand. The Tildenites, to
| soften in some degree, ostensibly at
| least, the humiliation OF Iammany
Chief, rendered him a tremendous ova-
ton, such as had not previously been
accorded to an orator in the convention. II
was evidently bitter cup to Kelly. He had tc
drink it to the dregs, and he did it awkwardly.
and could. scarcely avoid revolving even at the
| last moment.
His tone and manner tended to inspire the
belief that the support he will render the ticket
will be very liable to be of the back-action sort
| All the grist OF reconciliation that was ground
out did not serve to conceal the heartburnng
and soreness that the convention leaves behind
| it. There could have been no more significant
recognition of this fact, and of all that il
bodes than that the Tilden managers found il
necessary, as an extra precaution, to pass 8
resolution pledging the members of the con
vention to support the ticket.
GEN. r. M. GANG, well known
throughout Kentucky, has had an adj
venture. While buffalo-hunting on the
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