Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-08-02
THE DEMOCRACY.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE STATE OON-
VENTlON.

1AE D0MOOnhOls
PROCEEDINGS OF THE STATE OON-
vENTlON.
Tho Platform Readily Made-stronE Nomi-
nations and General saiisiaction-
An Harmonious Assembly and
Safe Dellveranco.
Harrisburg Dispatch to the Press.
The convention was slow in getting
itself into order. The Hummelstown
brass band blared away until tweuty
minutes after 10, when State Chairman
Hensel, after hurridly asking of his lieu
tenants Are you ready ?" raped with
his silencing gavel. The delegates looked
about on their increased numbers and
strange faces with an air of bewilder.
ment. These secretaries were announced: /:
E. P. Kisner, P.Gray Meek, s. W.Shadle,
]. B. Lichty, ]. E. Moran and George g..
Hoffman.
Journal Clerk Shade agitated his hand.
some moustache while he called the roll.
Meanwhile moro delegates and more out
siders struggled in. Harrity balanced
himself on a rear window sill, seeking
fresh air. John Donohue upheld the
dignity of the Fourth ward ON front
seat, while near by drooped the long
moustaches of Crawford. Robert L. James,
of Northampton, black whiskered and
bright eyed, smiled from the middle of the
floor. Hensel, sitting square in the mid;
die of the stage, studied faces new and
old. P. Gray Meek, clerk of tho House,
rubbed his silvery gray, well-trimed hair
as he vainly tried to crowd the roll of the
convention on tho end of his tongue,
whence the list of the ten. dollar. a.day
representatives rolls so trippingly.
the slim figure of Senator Kennedy filled
the fraction of chair near by. Major
Walker, of Erie, the giant of the House.
dwarfed both Kennedy and the rotund
speaker, Faunce. Editor Steele, of Schuyl.
kill, ran his fingers through his long hair
and looked whcle volumes for McCOol. A
single shrinking young woman in blue
lent patch of color to one t0rner of the
stage, which was, for the most part, filled
with the officers of the convention and
newspapers writer's. John II. Fow loomed
dangerously like suppressed foghorn in
the central position on the floor.
Lehigh In the CHAIR.
The roll was at last called. The com.
mittee on credentials had only to decide
whether Franklin county should have five
or four delegates. Senator Humes nOmi-
mated Robert E. Wright, jr, of Lehigh
county, for temporary chairman, and with
a sudden gush of sound, he was swept
into his Office, and roundly applauded as
he stepped to tho platform.
Mr.. Wright returned thanks for the
honor done him, and besought kind judg-
ment for his conduct. He launched into a
| IN, n,,1o nf thu nounnorcfio N
party, which tickled the convention all
out cheers, and of the extra session, which
fell on silence. "For the first time in a
quarter of century every department OF
hands" brought out yell of triumph.
"The record Of the Legislature" he went
on, "except SO far as obstructed by Re
publican tactics, is the best proof of how
our promises of retrenchment and purity
havo been fulfilled. We can point to
every act of our superb governor Zap
plausel to show how we have kept oul
promise of purer administration of the
laws. The heart of the people is will
him. The people have learned that the
oath to uphold the constitution mean.
something that when it commands ar
apportionment tho state must be appor
toned not that it cannot be apportiOned
because it costs too much money. Thil
is not matter Of dollars and cents. 1t il
to be decided whether the constitution
shall be the law of the state or shall bt
blocked in its operation by small bod,
of Obstructionists." -. "....................
The rules of tho House were made th'
rules of the convention. Provisions wa
made for the apDOintment of the commit
tees on credentials, organization and re
solutions. Then the temporary clerica
machinery was made permanent, and tn
convention ran into it's first contest over ;
vote as to whether its mid day recess
should last until o'clock or only until 1
The vote was laughingly close-175 for
and 178 for 2 o'clock. The result, showing
a scrupulous count, novel to conventions
was received with laughter. After Ions
struggle with Democratic names, whicl
the delegates seemed determined to ge
right to an initial, the convention adjourn
ed until 2 o'clock.