The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-07-11

manded and held the attention of the vast as
sembly. Governor Abbott, Of New Jersey, did
good work in seconding the nomination but was
a trife prolific, and had time called upon him by
the wearied hearers.
Allusion has been made to the speech for
Bayard by Cummings, of Massachusetts. Mr.
Cummings is comparatively young man, but he
has good presence, a strong voice. and knew
just what he wanted to say, and had the cour-
age Of hisconvictions, His speech made strong
impression against Cleveland. The Attorney
general of South Carolina made a good speech
for Bayard- Especially was that portion of it
well considered where he begged the Democratic
party not to underrate the strength of Blaine
THE PROMISES OF cLEvELAND's FRIENDS.
There is more idotic clatter to be heard here
among the advocates of Cleveland than one
could imagine would be possible You can hear
on every side that if Cleveland shall be the nom
inee this and that State will be certain which
are as surely Republican as Iowa and Vermont;
while even Maine is claimed as doubtful State
if the Democracy shall only nominate this colos-
sus of Erie county, who, four or five years ago
was the sheriff of his county and engaged in the
humble but necessary work ofreducing the Dem
ocratic majority by hanging two unfortunate
members of the party with his own hand
The South Carolina orator begged the conven-
tion not to be fooled with any false notion. He
roundly declared that James G. Blaine
was foeman worthy the best steel
the Democratic party could furnish. General
Bragg, of Wisconsin,; Colonel Kemp, of New
Hampshire Mr.. Doolittle, of Wisconsin, and
Governor Waller, of Connecticut, all spoke for
Cleveland and spoke well, particularly Waller,
who, at the close of the call, summed up the case
and said Connecticut, sitting as sworn jurors, on
oath, to the country declared Grover Cleveland
the man who most surely promised victory for the
Democratic party. Gen. Bragg paid his respects
to lTammany without stint. He said the people
of Wisconsin loved Cleveland, among other
things, for the kind of enemies he had gained .
Senator Grady was just in front of him when he
said this and, in the white heat of rage, flung
the epithet back in his teeth and then strobe
down the convention hall. A furious storm of
cheers and Kisses greeted the incident which
again illustrated the gall, or cheek, or courage,
or whatever you call it, of these Tammany anti
Cleveland men. So soon as quiet was restored,
Gen Bragg proceeded to blister Tammany. He
spoke of the fact that they had
introduced the labor element into the
convention as opposed to Cleveland.
For himself, he did not assume to speak for
| labor, but he had noticed that these men who
did assume to represent labor in political con-
ventions were generally the Swiss contingent,
whose principles were to be found whore the
purchase price was the highest. These men claim
to represent labor; the only labor they ever per-
IL
MI. Grady did not try any further Interruptions
with General Bragg
| The Tammany kickers are in bad odor here.
| Mr.. Kelly has kept remarkably quiet, and it is
understood is not disposed to push his opposition
to the extreme. Mr.. Grady is understood TO
hav 1 personal grievance against the Governor.
Mr.. Cochrane, who is Grady's partner in New
York, and who has only been in this country
seven years, conquered the respect of the CON
vention by his splendid speech yesterday, which,
by odds, is the one oratorical feature Of the oc-
| casion.
The hall has been we'll filed during the last
two or three sessions, but there are no
such outbursts of feeling here as there
The names of all the candidates are
received with a fair amount of applause, but
that for Cleveland which largely out-does all
the remainder put together, is not phenomenal
in extent or spontaneity. The city is certainly
nothing like 50 full Of visitors as it was last
month There are nocrowds, except at the Palm
er, and there is great WEAKNESS already felt
among the delegates and attendants. The only
question is, will the delay defeat Cleveland, and
if so, who is the man that will come out alive
after the succeeding cataclysm2 Mr. Cleveland
will either be the nominee or it will be some one
for whom very large number of his adherents
can and will vote. The friends of other candi-
dates have 50 opposed him. that, if they choose,
he can at least play the part of blind Samson
in the Democratic temple.