The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-06-11

INC rnelorlcai fegasus. win the power accu-
mulated from these sources, supplemented by in
SEPARATION imbibed from the grandeur Of the
state OF Illinoy" and the events of the war
the speaker swooped down upon the name Of
General John A. Logan Long-continued ap-
plause, waving OF handkercbefs and burrahs
for Logan greeted the mention OF the name OF
the candidate Of the Prairie State Like its
predecessor, this speech was OF unreasonable
length and unnecessary elaboration of detail
IL was followed by seconding speech by Gen.
eral b. M. Prentiss Of Missouri. The speaker
had the characteristics OF an exhorter of the
salvation army. After repeated efforts had
been made to choke off the old gentleman by
continuous applause, Kisses and cries Of "shut
Oil his wind brought him to time, after hay
ing quite obliterated the favorable effects OF
Senator Cullom's speech. The roll-call was
again resumed and received in silence till the
magic name of Maine was uttered. Had
"An the the asnds from heaven that fell
Pealed the banner cry of hell"
at that instant, within that hall, a greater or
more discordant din could not have been raised
within its precints. 1t was the prelude to what
will go down in the history OF this conven-
ton as the Blaine yell. Many times it was
repeated and prolonged through the long hours
OF that memorable night session. In the GAL
leries, on the stage, in the boxes, in the vast
central area and among the delegates, men and
women were on their feet, up in chairs, waving
hats, handkerchiefs, canes and umbrellas and
shouting in every key from the shrill, piping
notes of female infatuation to the hoarse brawl-
ing tones OF the professional whooper-up. For
many minutes the uproar continued The ex-
PLANTATION soon came out. Over two thou
sand Blaine cackers and heeers had been
struggled into the convention to boom for the
Man from Maine on this occasion When the
convention hall had been thus packed full, the
doors were closed and dense mass of twenty
thousand people outside filled the streets
shouting for Blaine, and making it impossible
for regular ticket-hoders-and even delegates
to tv. Avrafa n
stored, Judge West of Ohio, a blind man
famed for his oratory, began the exordium OF
the speech, the peroration of which was the
nomination of James G. Blaine. During the
greater part OF the delivery of his Grafton
Judge West was seated in high armchair
To give effect to some rounded period he rose
to his feet. His tall stature, his physical in
hrmities, the weirdness of his delivery, gave
peculiar interest to his effort, apart from the
thrilling fact that it was his special duty to
spring mine OF pent-up enthusiasm which
had already given an example of its terrible
explosive energy. By gradual approaches,
working upon the patriotic sympathies of his
audience, appealing to party pride and the
glory of party history, always firing over the
heads of the delegates to the packed masses of
spectators, he reached the object of his elo-
quent strategy, the naming of James G. Blaine
Had a veritable mine exploded beneath the
building, the result could hardly have been
more startling. Ten thousand people were in
flying toward the roof, forest of handker-
chiefs famed the air; the spectators in the gal
ler1es tore the flags from their fastenings and
waved them over the balustrades; cheers,
shouts, yels, Whistles the pounding of feet.
the humping of chairs, made Niagara of
sonorous roar. For nearly twenty minutes the
hurricane of demonstration swept the hall, and
the pillows of sound rose and fell like the
waves OF the ocean. The band caught up the
deafening refrain and added fresh stimulus to
mo mic laffo aNftb ..-sa IL.
convention had been resolved. When the
demonstrations tagged, some fiery fugleman
hourlshed his truncheon and the racketry
swelled into new strains of barbaric revelry
Coats went flying in the air. Chairs were
brandshed above the heads of muscular revel-
ers. callow youth beat the floor with a
piece OF scantling. Showers of paper billets
bearing the magic name of Blaine descended
from the galleries. A man in the boxes bor-
rowed the crutch of crippled neghbor, sur
mounted it with the tile of Bob Ingersol, hoisted
the ensign on high and thus contributed his
mite to the decorum and deliberation of the
occasion. Another spliced his cane to his UNI
brella handle, spread his banner, capped it with
his white hat and added the combination to
scores OF other grotesque and senseless inven-
| tions of men and women who seem suddenly
to have gone stark mad. No effort was made by
| the chairman to check the frenzed demonstra-
tons, and any effort would have been in vain
When it had run its course, from sheer ex-
the mob Of delegates, alternates and spectators
needed the sound of the gave and permitted
the slghtiess orator to conclude his speech,
which, ending with the formal nomination OF
Mr.. Blaine, was received with fresh burst OF
" loud and long-continued applause" Among
the intensely interested spectators of these
scenes was Colonel Ingersoll, who, eight years
before, in speech that gave him national fame,
| nominated Mr.. Blaine at the first convention
before which he was candidate Governor
Cnc no -ic ~
c. Goodloe of Kentucky, ex-senator Thomas
c. Platt of New York and Hon. Galusha A.
Grow of Pennsylvania, in speeches of weary
| length and conventional character, seconded
the nomination of Mr.. Blaine. The hour of
| midnight was reached when the speech-mak-
| ing and wild carnival of the Blaine clackers
and heelers permitted the resumption OF the
| call of the states. New York was the next
point of interest, and when the Empire State
was called, another tornado of applause, rival
| ing in duration and earnestness that which an
| nounced the coming of the Man from Maine
| swept over the assembled multitude. Hon.
| Martin |. Townsend OF New York did the
| honors for President Arthur. He was hardly
| equal to the occasion His voice soon grew
| hoarse and husky. He persisted in turning his
back to the audience and addressing the stage.
| The audience in front resented the bad man
| ners OF the speaker in ways more forcible than
| courteous. His speech was long and rambling
and to large number inaudible. His allu-
| HohS " Iuo oppoSitioh VI SohhilnsJ tuo pres
| ence in the convention of Platt in the interest
| of Blaine and of Collector Robertson in the
same interest, showing that Mr.. Arthur was
| relying upon his merits for his nomination
rather than upon machine supplemented by
| patronage, were received with mingled cheers
and Kisses. In spirited and appreciative
| speech, delivered in clear, ringing tones, Hon.
| II. II. Bingham of Pennsylvania seconded the
nomination of Mr.. Arthur, and was followed
| by Hon. John K. Lynch of Mississippi in a
| speech which was a model of good taste and
| brevity. Winston of North Carolina and Pinch
| beck of Louisiana closed the argument for the
denomination of the president. After an I'M
| successful motion to adjourn, Judge Foraker
| of Ohio responded for the Buckeye State, with
| the name of John Sherman. Either by malice
| pretepse, or through unskifulness in the con-
| struction OF his speech, he brought in the name
| of Blaine before he had presented the name of
| his candidate. The audience eagerly caught at
the bait or the inadvertence, and the result was
another Blaine jambore of ten minutes dura-
ton. Judge Foraker's appearance before the
| convention went far to explain to strangers the
| true inwardness Of Ohio's strange action"
| as he facetiousy termed it, last fall Judge
| Holt of Kentucky briefly seconded the nomina-
| ton of Mr.. Sherman, and then, in the course
| of events, brave little Vermont" was called.
| Ex- Governor Long OF Massachusetts responded
| in the following speech, which, addressed to
| the reason and the Judgment of the delegates,
not to the passions and prejudices OF the spec
tators, was with one voice declared to be the
pau of tho