St. Paul daily globe., 1884-07-11

ernors and twcnty-three Democratic legisla-
hun dred and fftv-three electoral votes out of
four hundred and one. This was eneour
aging to the Democrats and they cheered.
Before he named the specific candidate whose
nomination he was seconding, he reached that
| eloquent passage which l reverted to in my
yesterdays telegram, ''the noblest Ro-
man of them an,'' I am happy
to say that this was not another Roman, :"
but the same old Roman" that was present.
ed to the convention yesterday in the person
of Allan G. Thurman, of Ohio. Nearly all
of the Romans live in Ohio, or did at
! some period of their existence. In fact, the
whole state of Ohio could be set down as a
body of ''noble Romans" and it is ''the Ro-
mans'' which increases the population Of
that distinguished country. He made one
rather unfortunate allusion, however, when
he supplemented his ''uoblest Roman argu-
ment by stating that Thurman was ''the Bis
marck Of America, leaving it an open
| question as to what Senator Thurman's views
would be upon the hog product
| FhOBAbll A IOIh1D hEhIN1oNE-NN1'
| It is no great credit to man to announce
that he is a hog, and I am afraid that some
might construe his connection of Bismarck
with Thurman in that direction. This is es-
pecially so when 1 recall that in 1880 the
state of Ohio might have had another "no-
blest Roman nominated for president, who
could have been certain of being elected, had
I 81 hoa fnr ,Tc
The state of New York was giving its sew
enty-two votes unanimously for Henry B.
Payne, of Cleveland, and the Ohio delega-
ton was, as now, about equally
divided in sentiment between the two
candidates---one of them Thurman and the
other Payne. The convention had instructed
for Thurman, but, as his case was hopeless,
an effort was made on behalf of the portion
of the delegation which was in favor Of Payne,
to induce the Thurman men to 90 over to
Payne's support. In view Of The unanimous
vote of New York, Payne would have been
the nominee, and beyond ali question the
president of the United States. The Ohio
delegation hired hall in Cincinnati to quar-
rel in, and in that sense behaved better than
the New York delegation has in this conven-
ton, for they kept their quarrels out of the
public gaze. Senator Thurman, sitting
in his home in Columbus,
directed them never to surrender,
and though the Payne portion of the delega-
ton were in the majority and inclined to
kick over the traces, they finally concluded
that it was better to allow the Thurman men
to have their way than to 60 into convention
with a divided delegation. The result was,
that New York, disgusted with the inability
of Ohio to come to the support of her favorite
son, dropped Mr.. Payne after two ballots
and Hancock was nominated and defeated
as the world now knows, and as every poll
tician Of any sagacity might have known at
the time he was put in the field. This is
simply passing tribute to the allusiOn of
the speaker to Bismarck.
He concluded his address by announcing
that there were a thousand men in the city
for Thurman and not fifty for Hoadly and
promising several things on the authority of
that portion of the Ohio delegation which sup
ports Mr.. Thurman. He also threw a little
tub to the Tammany whale, by speaking of
them as having one hundred thousand votes
on the side of labor, and notifying them that
if Thurman was nominated and they did u OF
see that he was elected the blood of the
murdered Democracy would be on their gar
ments." This was polite and loudly cheered
by Tammany was glad to see he worked
in ''the Ides of November" That was
popular topic in the convention in June,
but has unfortunately been omitted up to
this stage of proceedings, but we uow have
it on the official record. As he sat down the
cheering was loud and there was great wav-
ing of red bandanas as far as the stock which
been thrown about the street yesterday
would 90.
The next incident was the appearance of
delegate from Missouri, violently shouting,
and though the chairman notified him that
the call of states was in order and that he
was out of order, he managed to announce
that the majority Of the delegation from Miss
ouri were in favor of Cleveland, notwith-
standing the speech of the gentleman who
had just taken his seat.
HOADLY TO THE FRONT.
Though Thurman had been nominated
last night and his nomination seconded by
several speakers the state of Ohio, that has
so many 'noble Romans, ." had not been
reached in the roll call. It was next on the
list, however, of anv state that had a candi-
date to present, aud came to the front with
its distinguished Governor Hoadly j. E.
Powell, of Delaware, Ohio, was the speaker
chosen to present his name. l had known
Mr.. Powell as a beardless school boy at u
time when the future great men of
the country we're being educated in
the "nobest Roman" state, but nearly
a quarter of a century has passed since I have
seen him, and since then he has become a
prominent politician. His speech was not a
remarkable effort | think as much because
there was no great enthusiasm for Hoadly in
the delegation as from any lack of oratorical
ability in the speaker himself. The fact is
the Ohio delegation have not the least idea
of securing the nomination for Hoadly, and
they are all tore up by the selection OF
Durbin Ward aud Thurman, as two of the
delegates at large. Their only ambition hen,
was to prevent Senator Thurman from being
the nominee and they centered on Hoadly,
or that portion of them did, who opposed
Thurman, not expecting the nomination for
Hoadly but to use him as club TO beat
Thurman. The presentation Of Gov. Hoad-
ly's name explained to the convention that
Ohio was divided, and the generally accepted
theory in conventions, is, that where can
didate cannot secure the united support of
his own state he must 90 to the wall. The
applause was exceedingly moderate, more so
than in the case OF any other candidate that
has been presented.
SAM. RANDALL.
Senator Wallace, of Pennsylvania, re-
sponded when that state was called. His
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