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

This was gala night. The scene in the
Exposition hall was the most brilliant I have
ever seen since that memorable night when
the nominating speeches were made in the
Republican national convention four years
ago. The Exposition hall has been enlarged
since the last convention, and though it is
not so large as four years ago, it is about as
immense as the naked eye
can take in without the aid of
a telescope, and hence there is no ground for
lack of brilliancy on account of the size Of
the audience. There 500 gas jets
lighting the hall. Every seat
is filed, and the attendance
OF ladies which always adds to the brilliancy
of an occasion (this is thrown in for glory
is tenfold greater than at any previous ses
sion OF the convention. The convention at
the outset, at least when I write these lines,
is exceedingly quiet and the immense audi
ence is wonderfully orderly. I will not
vouch for what may happen in the way of
turbulence before adjournment, but there
were no five minutes of the June conyen-
ton as quiet and orderly as the past hour has
been. There have been only two outbursts
OF applause this evening at this writing.
A few moments before the convention
WIS called to order, / stepped down to the
delegate seats to speak to the Minnesota
members and had just began to congratulate
Harry Lamberton upon his having lost some
flesh since yesterday, when the band struck
up and began to play ''Lo the conquering
hero comes,'' and simultaneously a great
shout went up, which the galleries quickly
reached. [ was not sure whether the applause
was for Lambe or myself, but as 1 saw
no reason why they should applaud Lamber-
toms loss of flesh, and he arose to bow his
acknowledgment, I arose with him.
determined to at least share the honors with
Winona. Just as he and I lowered up to-
gether some small and officious boys shouted
s'There's Hendricksp' This sort of dashed
my hopes and when the next second a dele
gate jumped up and proposed "Three cheers
for Vice-President HendricksI', the distin-
guished representatives of Winona and st.
Paulsa down hard, the Winona one so hard
that he seemed to lose more flesh. j. G..
Wise of the Mankato Reoteo and C. F. Mac
Donald of the St. Cloud Times discovered the
mistake but Lamberton Immediately SUBJ
seribed for their papers and the GLOBE, and
paid year in advance all around and we
agreed not to say anything about it. / did
not like to loose the story by making such an
agreement but the years. subscription did
the business and I joined the triple alliance.
As | am stopped from telling the story now
propose to leave it as sort of memoir for
To-;
The other outburst was when Ben Butler
came in with his persistent attachment Mr.
Drinkwater, whose name is a peculiar syn
onvm for the beverage of the convention
Ben had second round of applause when,
just after the convention had been called to
order, he marched to the platform TO be pre-
pared to present his minority platform
le2o-t.
Driher, of Chicago, got in little taffy for
Tilden in the shape of resolution which is
to be sent him, but the first disturbing ele-
ment Of the evening was when a delegate
from Arkansaao moved to abrogate the two
thirds rule in future conventions. This was
put down overwhelmingly, but not until it
had created quite disturbance.
THE PLATFORM.
There were two platforms presented -one
from thirty-seven members of the commit
tee, and the other from one-Butler. When
the clerk read the minority report, he an
nounced it as ''Mr. Buffers platform.n In
support of his platform Butler got in dig at
civil service reform by saying that Geo.
Washington could not pass the examination
required tor 81 200 clerkship.
Converse and Watterson replied to him
and then the convention set down on him
by vote of 714115 to 971z.
Clunei, of California who has a warm side
for Butter thought to help him out, when
this overwhelming vote in his tariff plank
had been given, by stating that he under
stood Butler withdrew the rest of his report
but Butler prepared to die game, and the
vote was to be divided, but he withdrew
nothing, and so to please him the conven-
ton voted him down again.
The platform sees the Republican doeu-
ment in length and everything else and goes
it con siderable better. Each party can hold
an entire political meeting by reading its
platform.
VOTE AT LAST.
IT had been given out during the day that the
Cleveland force wanted vote tonight for
show of strength and consequently it was not
unexpected when Jacobs, of Wisconsin, fol-
lowed the adoption of the platform with a
motion for ballot. There was a storm of
objections. and Grady and Cochran, of New
York, were among tine vociferators, but the
ballot was ordered, and proceeded to the
close with considerable confusion. As
usual, there was row on New York,
but the chairman of the delegation
announced that there were seventy-two votes
for Cleveland under the unit rule, but in the
delegation there were only forty-nine, the
other twenty-three being divided between
Bayard, Slocum and Flower.
When Ohio was called Durbin Ward pro-
tested that the delegation had not been
polled, and was peremptorily ordered by the
chair TO take his seat.
When an Illinois man voted for Hen
bricks, he arose and begged its withdrawal,
because it placed him in false position to
his friend, Mcdonald. But the vote was not
withdrawn, and it is the same number Gar
field started with.
Ohio first gave twenty-one for Hoadly,
twenty-four for Thurman, and one for
Cleveland. The insincerity of the Hoadly
boom, and the alliance to make the ticket
Cleveland and Hoadiey was apparent when
Mclean announced a change of the vote
when the roll can was ended, giving Cleve-
land twenty-one, and cutting HoadIy down
to two
There were loud cheers when 392 was an
nouReed as ClevsIand's vote, but I did not
not notice any undue enthusiasm on the
part Of the New York delegation. They ex-
peeted better things