The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-07-25
His Name Received With Great Favor
And His Nomination Seconded by
a Score of States,
All Other Candidates Withdrawn ana
His Nomination by Acclamation
Assured.


california millionaire, is expected here
to-day.
Many believe that Ex-Governor st.
John viii eventually withdraw his decln.
alton and accept the nomination of the
National Prohibition Convention for
President if it can be made by acclama
ton.
Ex-senator Pomeroy, of Kansas, re-
Gently nominated Presidential candidate
by the anti-Secret Society party, is also
On the ground and entertains hopes of
securing the nomination.
The Committee on Resolutions is in
session this forenoon and expects to have
the platform ready in time.
This second day of the Convention
opened hot, the thermometer ranging
from - to 100. The delegates are wear
lng travelling busters, and in many cases
have discarded the outer clothing and
appear in their seats in their shirt
sleeves.
TIE OPENING.
Precisely at $40 a. IN. the Chairman
raped the assembly to order. The
proceedings opened with prayer, By
Rev DR.. Lee, of New York, followed by
the hymn. Jesus | My Cross Have
Taken" Massachusetts presented the
name Of NJ. II. Richards to be a men,
Der of the National Committee. Ken
lucky presented Rev. c. NJ. Cole and
o. J. GLADDEN. for members of the same
committee. At ten O'Clock the motion
was made and agreed to that the
ROLL OF STATES
be called to place in nomination Presi.
dental candidates. Owing to the alb
sence OF Colonel Babcock of California,
who is to place Dr. Mcdonald in nomina-
ton, the call of States was temporarily
postponed, and John d. Finch, of Ne
braska addressed the Convention on
"Prohibition periodicals."
At 1890 the call of the roll was begun
In response to "California" Babcock, il
q vigorous speech, declared DR.. Melon.
aid was one of the greatest leaders the
Prohibition party ever possessed. He was
the man hated and feared by the whisky
interests Of California, and no better evi.
dence of this could be found than in the
violent manner in which he had been as
sailed by those interests. The speaker
reviewed the temperance career of Nc
Donald, and declared that the man who
stated
M'DONALD'S BITTERS
Contained alcohol uttered a deliberate
faIschood. Applause. He concluded
by asking, in the name of the people of
California, that Mcdonald receive at the
hands of the Convention that recognition
which his work and iiberality to the cause
justly entitled him.
The call was then resumed. Illinois
being reached, Hon. George c. Christian,
of Chicago, took the stand for the pur-
pose, he said, OF presenting the name of
a candidate who needed no defense and
would not have to conduct a defensive
canvass. The name which he was to
present was above all other names
under the American flag -was
that of man known in every
household in the land; man whose rec
ord is as bright as the MONDAY SUM- a
man who had seen war, who had lived on
the bloody plains of the West, who had
gone through conflict after conflict, who
was the very high priest of prohibition,
who could carry with hun force Of fol-
lowers not possessed by any man named
distinguished patriot and magnificent
leader, that whole-souled Christian,
JOHN p. ST. JOHN,
Of Kansas Prolonged applause.
When Kansas was called Miss Frances
Willard supported the nomination of 81,
John in an eloquent speech briStling with
points which awoke all the enthusiasm
of the audience. She pictured his early
life and career, characterized him as
man OF the masses, whose name would
never be effaced from the roll of immor-
tails of the country, a man whose name
was not given HIM to die.
She spoke of having known him as a
little man aud barefoot boy with feet of
tan. She had seen him go out into the
world unfriended, unguded, making his
way toward the West.
CROSSING THE BIG MUDDY
with but dollar in his pocket, gettin.
to Pixies Peak and across the Rockies
and Sierras. She had seen him when
other men were asleep studying Black
stone and Coke. When the war broke
out he did not want to be drafted
but voluntarily barred his breast to the
enemy She saw him next elevated to
the position of Governor of a great, free
State and the idol of his party there.
He was the pathfinder, the John c. FIRE.
mont Of the new campaign. She applied
to him the words of the English poet lau-
reate :"As some divinely gifted man, whose
life in low estate began, and on simple
village green, who bursted his births in
vidious bars, and grasps the skirts OF
happy chance, and breasts the blows of
circumstances, and grapples with his
evil star who makes by worth his
merit known, and grasps the futures
golden key and mouds u mighty
States decree, and shapes the whisper OF
throne, and climbing on from high to
higher, became on fortunes browning
slope the pillar of peoples hope, the
center of our hearts DESIRE" Loud and
long applause.
Kentucky supported Mcdonald as the
most available candidate.
G. 7. STEWART.
Colonel Eustls was introduced when
Maine was called, and in u brief adj
dress, In which he protested against the
tendency to slight the old war horses of
the party, he placed In nomination Hon.
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