The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-07-12

up the aisle to the clerks desk planting it on the
ramparts and moving it in excited fury until
Colonel Villas ordered Sergeant-atA Arms Bright
to sit on the effervescent patriot
During this protracted ebullition Mr.. Hen
bricks sat in his seat, an aureole Of conscious
pride about him, inviting the descent of
the lightning which seemed to be playing
about his head. Dan Voorhees, strobe to the
front and stood upon the platform, surveying the
surging roaring ocean. Everybody knew that
it was to withdraw Mcdonald, and to transfer
the vote of the State to Hendricks; but, like
everything else Indiana has done, it was the
wrong time. The call Of Illinois had not been
completed, and when quiet was sufficiently re-
stored to hear the remainder of the announce
ment, which showed that Cleveland had gained
ten votes in that State despite the fuss and
noise, the Hendricks boom was collapsed. al
though Governor Abbott of New Jersey, at
tempted to put little more wind into it by
giving eleven votes from New Jersey to zone of
the men who were robbed in 1876" Pending the
call, Pennsylvania asked to retire. When the
call was completed Cleveland had gained forty
four votes, which would give him total of 436.
Pennsylvania returned and the chairman an
nounced forty-tw votes for Cleveland, gain Of
thirty seven, which put him up to 473. This
practically settled the question.
HUMILIATING SPECTACLE.
Change after change followed, until it was
seen that he was nominated beyond question,
when the ubiquitous Menzies attempted to
move that he be made the unanimous nominee,
which motion was again out of time, and the
only thing he could do was to change the vote Of
the state from Hendricks TO Cleveland, while the
same Sergeant Bates took the banner of the State
and marched over to the New York delegation
and offered the allegiance of Indiana, whose del
egates from the first had Extensively opposed
every movement Of Clevelands forces but now
obsequiously begged to be tackled onto the tail
of the victorious Empire State. 1t was a very
humihating spectacle. 1t recalled the conduct
of the State in Cincinnati in 1876. It revealed
the utter lack of heart and sincerity there was
in the Mcdonald movement. 1t vindicated what
the Journal said the day after the State conven-
ton, that sthe delegation was instructed for
Mcdonald but constructed for Hendricks. The
effort to make Mr.. Hendricks the Democratic
Garfield was fat failure, and in short
time the tally sheet was cast up, the
vote announced, the nomination made unani-
nous, and the convention took recess in order
to consult upon the man for the second place.
While the Hendricks demonstration was going
on Mr. William Henderson, the president of the
Mcdonald Club was an interested observer from
the stage. His face twitched with nervous
anxiety and anticipation. He seemed to see, in
the not very far future, those green fields and
still waters for which his soul hungered and
thirsted; but like his distinguished relative, the
vision was entirely inusory
Austin II. Brown, the Little Miss Flite" of
the Indiana Democracy, looked down upon the
struggling mass with his wooden-Indian smiles
wondering whether his long pending suit in the
chancery of politics was not about to be decided
in his favor.
Mr. John Kelly and his Tammany lieutenants
greatly enjoyed the few minutes during which
Mr.. Hendricks's boom rode like cockle-shell on
the crest of the wave. The great sachem Joined
in the tumult, supported on either hand by
Grady and Cochrane. No one begrudged
them their brief season of delrium
Their lines have not been cast in
pleasant places during the past week, and the
convention really enjoyed seeing them for
once with their faces wreathed in smiles and the
cookies Of their hearts warmed and cheered.
Before the nomination was formally an
nounced the mammoth portrait of Cleveland,
which did duty at the New York headquarters,
was brought into the hall and displayed from
the chairman's table.
In the impossible event of Cleveland's election
to the Office for which he has been named, moth
inp Nould he foo GOOD for Daniel Mannino Tho