The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1884-07-11

The army of the Tennessee, at tletime of Gen
| Grants return IN loi9.
The proceedings quickly took an interest
when the resolution to proceed to call the ro. OF
stotes for the nominatio3 Ef candidates for the
FIRST f nlace on the tckS Ias introduced. This
was q Cleveland nreaknfc and the opposition
Immediately began towage war uponit. Vari-
| ous filibustering moves were made The vote
was in some respects o test vote. Tnc ballot
nroceeded undisturbed until New York was
called, and Chairman Eanning announced "72
| nays' There was great cheer from the gal
leries. and then Senator Grady arose and ex-
citedy challenged the count. He was cheercd
| and Kissed. and for a few moments the specta-
TORS ran the convention. The chairman proved
himself resolute presiding officer, however,
and, after securing silence, hushed the disturb.
| ers with a few scathing sentences, which were
cbeered. Grady's protest was not needed, and
the chair, later on, decided that the New York
delegation must abide by the unit rule, as in
| structed by the state convention. The roll call
having been completed, several states reported
| changes in their votes, and the result of the
| ballot was announced to be 2S2 yeas and 52l
nays. The motion was therefore declared lost,
| amid storm of cheers from all parts of the
| hall. The resolution was then amended by
| provision that no vote for candidates shall be
| taken until after the platform is adopted by
viva voce vote. All s0rtsof flibustering tactics
were then adopted to secure delay, but they
| did not avail.
GOV CLEVELAND PRESENTED.
When the state of New York was called,
| there was q good deal of cheering and waving
of hats and handkerchiefs on the part, princi-
| pally, of the spectators in the galleries. at
3 :55 o'clock Mr. lockwood, OF New York, came
to the platform to put in nomination Gov
Cleveland. He said that the responsibility
which he felt was made greater when he remem-
| bered that the richest pages of American his
| tory had been made mp from the records of
| Democratic administrations, and remembered
| that the outrage OF 1876 was still unavenged.
No man had greater respect than he for the
honored names presented TO the convention,
but the world was moving and new men, who
had participated but little in politics, were COM
| inr to the front. [Cheers. Three years ago
he had the honor, in the city of Buffalo, to pre-
sent the name of the same gentleman for the
office of mayor Without hesitation, the name
of Grover Cleveland had been accepted as a
candidate GApplause in the galleries and
from portions of the delegations. The result
of the election and of the holding of that office
was that in less than nine months the state of
New York found itself in position to want
such a candidate, and when, in the convention
OF 1882, his name -as presented for the office
| Of Governor of the state OF New York, the
! same class OF people knew that that meant
honest government; that it meant pure govern
ment; that il meant Democratic government,
| and it was ratified. Applause. Now the
Democratic state of New York came and asked
that there be given to the Independent and
Democratic voters of the country, the young
| men of the country, the new blood of the coun-
try. the name of Grover Cleveland. TCheers.l
The nomination of Cleveland was seconded
by Messrs Harrisop,.of Illinois, and Jones, Of
| Minnesota.
Mr. Apgar, of New York, in speaking in favor
of Cleveland Sald
AS Tilden was nominated to the presidency
because his two years as governor had COM
mended him to the people of the whole United
States, such is Gov Cleyeland's situation. For
more than u years tIe balance of power in the
state of New York " been held by a large un-
attached vote VIII fiongs to neither political
organizations. nave in the state probably
about 6O00a0 ffess VIVA will vote the Demo-
cratic ticket, ION EssAIf syltm you may nomi-
pos pots tbs ss MAJ fS say Nha aa g III
circumstances. Now, outside of both these
organizations there are 100000 men in the
state of New York who dosnot care a snap of
their finger whether the Democratic party or
Republican party, as such, shall carry the eec-
ton They vote in every election, according to
the issues and candidates presented. These
men actually hold the control of the politics of
New York in their hands. You must have
their votes or You cannot win. Every time for
20 years past when we have appealed to this ell
ement victory has perched upon our banners.
When we nave failed to do SO defeat has come.
These men unitedly, to man, implore this
| convention, with the vast majority of the Dem
ocratlc party presented by the delegates OF the
| Democratic party in this convention, to nomi-
nate for the Office of president GOV Tildens
successor, elected governor for the same reason.
| They ask you to place him in nomination in Or
| der that all the elements opposed to longer
| continuance of the Republican party in power
may be united and make its defeat entirely
certain. Loud applause.
BUTLER WITHDRAWN.
| Although it is generally understood that But
| Ter has withdrawn from the fight in favor 'of
Bayard, the fact still remains that he has never
| given up the idea that somehow or other, the
| nomination would come his way, the idea of
| his managers being to wait until the two lead
| ing contestants exhaust their strength in ham
mering each other, and that then he will come
| in at an oppcrtune moment and walk off with
| the prize 1t IS very evident that if Cleveland
! is nominated Butler will bolt. Whether he
means to run on an independent ticket is sdll
! an open question, but his ideas were foreshad-
/ owed by remark made to one of the commit
/ tee to resolutions, that if Cleveland was nomi-
nated the resolution committee would have its
! labor for its pains: that Cleveland never could
be elected. lie also remarked to the same gen.
tleman, after he had been to the convention,
| that he was afraid they would nominate him,
for which reason he ran out OF the convention.
The Third Days Session
[By Tel. graph to the REroEMER.l
| The convention called to order at IL :0j and
at once proceeded to complete the call of states
| fol the presentation of candidates. Soon after
| the session was called to order Hendricks en-
tered and was greeted with tremendous cheer
ing.
1pm-The committee on resolutions is still
in session. 1t is said no decision has yet been
reached and it is doubtful if ballot be ready
to- day.
Mayor Harris arose TO a question OF privi-
lege wishing to dencance the assertion of Coch
ran, of New York, that the galleries were filled
Yesterday, with his police and henchmen in
the interests of Cleveland.
Lis m-The committee on resolutions have
sent in word that they viii probably not be
ready to report before p m.
30 d m-Tbe call of states has begun for
the presentation of candidates. Charles III Man
SER of Missouri has taken the platform 20 sec
ond the nomination of Thurman, at the men,
ton of whose name there was conspicuous
demonstration.
A delegate from Missouri exclaimed that
Missouri was not for Thurman, Tut for Cleye-
land another said 1t was for Bavard. Both
were ruled out of order.
The name of Hoadly of Ohie, was presented
by Mr. Powell and was greeted with applause.
There was considerable cheering when Penn
sylyania was called and there was renewed
cheering when Senator Wallace, of Pennsylva-
MIA presented Randall as a man whose name
had been connected with principal events for
many years, and said that while many OF MS
colleagues were wealthy he was still poor. He
had been a leader in the house of representatives
for u wears and has resisted the lavish expendi-
ture of government monies. The nomination
was seconded by Abbot of New Jersey who said
there could be no contention over the name of
Randall. Daring his remarks, Abbot men
toned Cleveland, when enthuslasuc applause
broke ont which lasted for some time. He
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