The semi-weekly miner., 1884-07-12

JULY ]
Governor Cleveland. (Cheers.)
The nomination of Mr.. Cleveland
was seconded by Harrison of Illinois.
Six weeks ago, he said. the cry was
Tilden and reform. Now it was,
Cleveland and reform (cheers). The
Democrats of Illinois believed that
the mantle of Samuel j. Tiiden had
fallen and rested gracefully on the
shoulders of Gre yer Cleveland. He
knew there was factious fight waged
against him.. He knew it was said q
great church would oppose him on
religious grounds. No, the church
never allowed its ministers voices to
be heard in the pulpit preaching poll
itics (cheers and cries of "never").
So it was said the Irish would knife
him. Were the Irish ever known to
knife the Democracy except for good
reasons? Here q prominent Irish
politician, of Chicago, shouted oat
from among the audience an angry
denial and the words 'yes'' and mo"
were several times exchanged be-
tween him and Mr.. Harrison. Final
ly order was restored and Harrison
proceeded with his SPECIFY He felt
assured that the nomination of Cleve-
land would help the Democracy to
win next November.
The nomination of Cleveland was
ably seconded by Jones. of Mime
sofa.
Thos. Grady, of New York, then
came to the platform. The point Of
order was raised that unless Mr..
Grady was going to second the nom
lnatiOn, he was not now in order, but
the chairman Overruled The point and
said that as he had recognized Mr..
Grady, that the gentle must be heard.
Grady then proceeded to address the
c0nventl IN. He said he should be
glad 10 second Mr.. Cleveland's NOM
ination, except that he knew
that gentleman could not
carry the State of New York. The
sure and unerring test of that fact
was that the last democratic conven-
ton of New York was equally divid-
ed against him and the delegates at
large were divided between his
friends and their opponents. At this
point, Bragg, of Wisconsin, rose to
make q point of order, but his voice
was drowned 10y shouts and yells
from the galleries. After there was
some degree of order, Bragg stated
his point to be that the order of busi-
ness was the nomination and second
ing of candidates. The chairman said
asimllar point of order had been made
IN the St. Louis convention, but he
had been disposed to be exceedingly
lenient in allowing the course of re-
marks supposing that Mr.. Grady
would come to the point of making a
nomination, but nnless he was about
to do so the chair would be Obliged to
sustain the point of order. Mr.. Man
ming, of New York, chairman of the
New York delegation, asked unani-
NOUS consent that Mr.. Grady might
be allowed to proceed irrespective of
the point of order. Unanimous con-
sent was given and Grady pro-
ceed, d with his speech. He
said the object of the convention
was to make q nomlna ion for presi-
dent that would be ratified by the
people at the polls. He did not claim
LAe Iris h or Catholics would fire
against Mr.. Cleveland, but the anti
monopolist element Of the States,
and laboring interests Of the State,
Catholic and Protestant Irish, Ger
mans and Americans are opposed to
his nomination, and would be op-
posed to his election. Mr.. Cleveland
had been elected in 1882 by majors
ity of 1872 900, but the last election in
that state showed Republican MAJ
joritv of Is ,597, making a change OF
2l1 900 in the Democratic vote. Here
a deal of impatience was manifested
by spectators. and cries of ''sit
DOWN. came firm the galleries
A threat was made that the galleries
would be cleared, and so Grady was
allowed to 60 on with his speech, but
not without continued interruption
from the galleries. He was told to
make that speech for Blaine, but the
chairman annou ICED with an air OF
determination that the gentleman
should have a full and fair OppOrtu-
nifty to say every word he was en-
titled to say.
Grady went on to discuss the veto
of the elevated railroad bill and to
show how the veto was injurious to
the working classes. He declared
the State of New York could not be-
carried by Mr.. Cleveland, not be-
cause of any Irish question, or any
Catholic question, but because of The
anti-monOpoly question, in which
the people had deep rooted feeling
that no man could be worse to them
in that regard than Mr.. Cleveland.
He knew of but one occasion in
which Gov. Cleveland was called
on to show his hand, whether he
was Democratic or something else,
and Mr.. Cleveland proved at that
time to be something else. He denied
that the fight against Cleveland was
the same fight against him as had
been made 8 years ago against I'll
den. IA motion for recess was
now made and negatively [!
Tue WCAS W SOAA>
from New York some men should be
taken who would not be antagon>
lied by antagonistic elements. But
the Democracy of New York took nc
such % .rtion. The Democracy could
carry New York for Thurman, Bay.
ard, Mcdonald or Randall, but not
for Cleveland. New York was a safe
State if the Democratic party was
kept solid, but not otherwise. ::
Cochrane, of New York, in behalf
of the minority of the New York del
"a tion, came to the platform to sc, {
oud one of the mountainous. but
wanted to 60 into statement of New
York politics. to which Gregg, of Wis
cons1n. objected, and against which
made q point Of order which was
overruled by the chair. Cochrane
declared amid shouts of incredulous
laughter that no person felt more
kindly than he to Mr.. Cleveland, but
he was too old friend of his to wish
to see him nominated for the presi"
dency. He was asked to give the
name of the candidate whose noml'