Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-06-08
TucO Scenes.

| The convention has witnessed 5wO remarka-
BILE scenes, both of which have unsuccessfully
endeavored to portray by telegraph. 1t was
about midnight Friday night when Emory A.
Storrs, Chicago delegate, took the platform to
speak against the outrageous proceeding of
throwing out eighteen Grant votes in the Illi-
| nois delegation to make place for a correspond
| ing number of anti-Grant men. The
entire delegation of ~ from Illinois had been
selected by State convention, but nine Con
gressional districts came in and claimed Is
delegates, on the ground that the districts had
chosen them. In speaking of this, Dir. Stor rs,
who is physically small, but intellectually
| giant, said:
81 say to you, deal Justly with us ALL and
whatever individual preference this great con-
vention may express will be responded to, not
| half -heartedly, not despairingly, not doubt
| ingly, but with whole soul and In dead earnest
Nominate James G.. Blaine, if You can-(loud
| cheers)-apd when the gentlemen who are
cheering IL the galleries tonight are reposing
| under the soft summer sky, tired of politics
| and disgusted with its fatigues,
| you will find the followers of the grand, old,
silent soldier awake by their camp fires and
carrying the banner of the sluggard forward to
triumphant victory
| Such an outburst of applause and enthusi-
asm as followed this utterance was never wit
| messed on the American continent, and doubt
whether it can be repeated again. Both con-
| vention and audience fairly went wild. Even
the stately and digni6ed Oonkling mounted a
bench, and, seizing the New York standard,
which marked the location of
the delegation in the oonven-
tion, shook it high in air. Long John Went
worth was the next most conspicuous figure.
| He turned up on bench like giant, and
famed the air with handkerchief in one hand
and cane in the other. "Get up boys" he
/ shouted 'syell for Grant" And they did, the
galleries, the platform, the reporters and SEEM
| ingly everybody joined in the demonstration
The most ridiculous and extravagant displays
| of enthusiasm were resorted to- and the noise
| was fairly deafening. The Blaine men sat in
dumfounded silence. Amid the cheers and
yells portion of the convention
itself broke out In songs, and the
| delegates jumped up and down on the benches
shouting and singing. After twenty minutes
of this scence there was q little lull from sheer
| physical exhaustion, when some gallery god
sung out, three cheere for Blaine" This was
i the signal for the Blaine men to come to the
| front, and they did it we'll. Chicago is anti
| Grant and the committee had packed the gal
/ leries with Blaine adherents. 1t surprised eve
| ry one to see the Grant men able to make such
q demonstration in view of the packed galleries.
As the call for cheers for Blaine was made while
| the Grant tournament was partially in pro-
gress many did not know the difference, and
those who had the physical endurance, kept
right along with she Blaine gang for time.
If the Grant applause was wild and ridiculous,
the Blaine applause was wilder and more ridicu-
lous. When two large bodies of excited men
| and women start ont to surpass each other in
noise and enthusiasm, it makes music. One
old mana delegate-certsinly sixty-fve years
old, and perhaps 70, had an umbrella in one
hand and handkerchief in the other, and
swinging both arms over his head, he
jumped up and down, giving yell every