The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-06-24

Baysrd 8, Hancock o. Vermont,
Hancock 10; Virginia. Baysrd 10,
Field 9, Hancock 3; West Virginia,
Thurman Z. Hancock 8; Wisconsin,
Baysrd 6, Hancock 1. Morrison 10,
Mcclellan l, Field 2.
Alabama Was again called and
voted Bayard z, Hancock 2, Field 5,
Thurman, y. Massachusetts added
! vote to the former vote for Field,
making his vote , The totals OF the
first ballot were announced by toe
chair. Whole vCts cast, 1851 Bay
ard 1854, Field 65. Morrison -;
HANCOCK 161; Hendricks 493, Thur
man 6S1, Seymour s. II. LoYeland 5,
Payne 81, Mcdonald 3, Randall 8,
Tilden SO. Lsthrop l, Mcclellan 2,
Black 1, English |, Parker /. Jewett
l, Ewing 10.
While the clerks were adding up,
the band played Dixie" the first
strain of which took g large part OF
the audience to thsir feet with cheers,
redOubled as Yankee Doodle" fol-
lowed. The chair announced that 10
one having received two-thirds, there
was no choice.
Breckenride. of Kentucky. moved
to adjourn 10 10 tomorrow. Adopted
and adjourned at 6 10
The committee on platform has
finished its work, and will be pre-.
pared to report tomorrow morning.
The platform as it now stands re
afirms the platform adopted at St
Louie. and is in its main feature on
the line OF the late Pennsylvania
resolutions. adopted at the convention
OF the party a few months ago, aud
from the pen of Jerry Black There
is also strong anti Chinese planK
and resolution in praise of Tilden
and Hendricks and an eloquent ar
raignment of the republican party
for the fraud OF 1876. The financial
plank declares for gold and silver
convertible into coin.
1t is stated confidently at 10 to-
night that Bayard will lose his
Georgia votes on the second ballot,
and that Hancock will get ten new
votes from Michigan and the solid
votes OF Alabama and Arkansas.
Hancock's friends are jubilapt. The
Tammany men have just gone to
Hancock's headquarters to serensde
his managers, and promise them
their cordial support OF him if be
gets the nomination.
rrka nt,S-oea ~o,,1,,4,o., hc
platform has been adopted by the
committee in the precise form de.
manded by the Pacific Coast Nam
bers. 1t is said to be very strong.
When Colorado was called. Browp,
of Colorado, seconded the nomina-
ton of Field in the follwing speech :
I say to this great convention in
behalf OF the state OF Colorado, that
we desire to second the nomination oil
Hon. Stephen ]. Field. Applause
We do not do this because of any
affinity OF neighborhood, but because,
like tue chiValric BayaTd, he is q gen.
tleman, Statesman, patriot and
jurist who is without fear and
without reproach. Our state
icries OF louder, louder.) Brown
Oh 1 talk loud enough for you to hear
me; just keep quiet Our state sits on
the eminence of the continent where
the gold sand flows equally to the
orient and the ocean, and our rivers,
like our political sentiments, flow to
the north and south. daughter and
cries Of LOUDER
The chair-The eyes of the world
are upon this convention; let us
prove ourselves worthy OF its high
est admiration.
Mr.. Brown-When. in 1876, we
elected to the office of president
of the United States Samuel ].
Tilden, by an immense ma
jority, they counted him out
by the most infamous of all
(Cries OF time.) Infamous frauds.
Time time, and lsughter.) Wien
fraud. larceny. perjury, murder.
cloud cries Of time, time, laughter,
and a voice, "rspe," amid loud
laughter everything else in the
world that is infamous. loud cali
Of time and laughter amid which the
speaker retired.