The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-06-10
THE GREENBACKERS.
A Motley Gathering at Chicago.
DENNIS KEARNEY ENTERTAINS THE
CROWD IN THE EVENING.

CHICAGO, June 9.-The National Greenback
Labor Convention was called to order at 1890
by +. T. Devices of Pennsylvania.
Gilbert De La Martyr was unanim ouslv
elected temporary chairman. Charles ri.
Lltchman OF Massachusetts and Perry P Max
on OF Kansas were appointed temporary secre-
tarles. ADout 6o0 delegates were present and
nearly 1000 spectators.
President De La Martyr, on taking the
chair, explained the principles of the party
and spoke of Gen. Garfeld's reference in Con-
gress to the Weaver resolutions as the last
untrue statement
The convention proceeded to the appoint
ment of the usual committees,
During the call of States, all of which ex-
cept Oregon responded, a delegate from New
York moved that the portrait of the late Zach
ariah Chandler, conspicuous over the stage, be
removed as it was obnoxious to the feelings of
the convention.
The chairman ruled the motion out of order
but promised the removal of the Objectionable
portrait.
Unanimous consent was given to the reading
OF the memorial from the Woman's National
Suffrage Convention by Miss Gage. Several
women delegates were present in the conven-
ton, among them Mrs. Josephine r. Stone
| from the Fourth Congressional District of
Massachusetts.
| The Maine delegation have selected Charles
| A. White for Vice President and James De-
vine as secretary; committee on credentials,
IL. W. opilnScT. COulmlGt6o Oh permanent or
| ganization, B. L. Smith, rules and order, j.
I'll. Blood; on resolutions E. H. Gove mem
Der OF the national committee, Thompson III.
| Murch.
After hearing the memorial of the National
| WOman's Suffrage Convention, the convention
took recess until 7.3O, when addresses were
made by Hon. NJ. Wallace M. P. of Canada,
| A. w. Wright of the Currency Reform League
of Canada, and Dennis Kearney.
Brick Pomeroy's Clubs.
The Pomeroy wing of the Greeaback-I Labor
party, calling itself the Union Greenback-
Labor party met today at Farwell Hall. Their
candidates for President and Vice President,
nominated at St. Louis last month ARE Stephen
ID. Dillaye OF New Jersey and B. j. Chambers
OF Texas. This convention is held in the in
terest Of party harmony to emphasize the de.
mand for dstinctlvely Greenback candidate
and to express hostility to any compromise or
coalition with the Democratic party managers,
which they have feared will be attempted by
the convention at the Exposition building.
AT the evening session it was decided to
merge with the National Greenback- Labor
party.
Another Account of the Show.
The Exposition Hall looked this morning
very much like theatre in the daytime. Ali
of the flags and banners within reach had been
removed, leaving the rough boards and timbers
| exposed. The banners designating States were
gone, but two or three delegations had written
the names of their respective States with char
| coal on bits of pasteboard, which were fastened
to the tops of sticks. The old squads of fire.
men and police officers are on duty, but there
IS new set OF volunteer dOorkeepers. The
delegates are rather rough looking, sturdy
set, as compared with their predecessors, but
they are grimly in earnest. Maine and Massa-
chusetts are evidently the directing spirits, and
when Scion Chase entered, a Ia Conkling, he
| was greeted with applause. A small but noisy
band played industriously, without much re-
gard to time or tune.
The spectators in the galleries and on the
floor back of the delegates seats numbered
perhaps thousand, and on the platform, be-
side the celebrities of the party and several of
the woman suffragers, who knocked unsuccess-
| fully at the doors of the Republican Conven-
ton Committee on Resolutions were two or
three visitors from Canada. The confusion
| which characterized the assembling of the
delegates and their endeavors to group them
selves by States was over at half-past twelve,
when r. P. Devices of Pennsylvania, vener-
able looking gentleman who officiates as chair
man of the National Committee, called the
convention to order Rev. Mr.. ingalls, of Des
Moines asked the Divine blessing, being inter-
rupted by an occasional cry of Louder The
| reverend gentleman informed the Lord that
the exalted and aristocratic preachers had de-
chned to pray for the convention, and when he
added, "Thou knowest, o Lord, that we come
| to Thee on our own hook" the delegates &C
tually applauded. A chorus of amens greeted
MIR. ingalls, effort at stump oratory, and at its
| close the prayer was heartily cheered.
Mr.. De La Martyr made long speech of
the usual sort. He thought the condition of
the country was unparalleled in the history of
| the past, paid an eloquent tribute to Lincoln,
whose appeal to the peoples love of govern
ment aroused an army which crushed as by a
fiat of God the most formidable rebellion in
the history of the world. He was himself ad-
palled by the vastness of the task which lay
before the reformers whose representatives
these delegates were, and declared that the
party was by the slight detection of last sum-
mer freed from the bummers. He closed with
| plea for harmony.
A storm of Kisses and noes was aroused by
an Ohio mans motion that all portraits except
that of Lincoln be removed from the hall, and
when Pennsylvania delegate earnestly pro-
tested he was cheered to the echo. A dele
gate from Illinois moved that the Republican
committee be requested to leave the pictures
where they are, and made an eloquent appeal
in behalf of the great leaders of the people in
the cause of liberty against slavery, Dennis
Kearney tried to choke him off, aud dozen
delegates yelled "Mr. Chairman" at once A
storm of wild uproar ensued, after which the
whole subject was tabled