St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-13

~ ""s uoHfereu ABOUT SIX O'CLOCK NeQneS-
day night. The convention had been in
session seven hours continuously, the time
being occupied by the New York quarrel and
the presentation speeches naming candi-
dates. There had been numerous attempts
10 adjourn, but the galleries so
lntermlngled their voices in with the delegates
voting no, that the chair decided them all
lost.
Senator Wallace, of Pennsylvania, had
Just made motion to adjourn, declaring
that physical endurance could hold out no
longer. Mr.. Cochran also joined in urging
the adjournment, but it was agefn declared
lost. This was the only move that Senator
Wallace made in which he was not success
full.
Mr.. Cochran then took the platform,
beingthe next speaker after Grady, who, I'M
der the guise of seconding the nomination of
Bayard, had INDUCED in a violent philippica
against Cleveland and had been alternately
Missed and cheered. The greatest confusion
and disorder at any time of the convention
was during Grady's speech When another
Tammanyite arose the convention was not in
frame of mind to tolerate any more fool
ishness. The delegates were too
hungry and tired to think of much
else but adjourning but Mr.. Cochran had ut
tered but few sentences before he COM
manded attention and after few inter
ruptions at the outset, quiet and order was
secured in the galleries, which the almost iu
cessant hammering of the presidents gavel
had failed to secure for Grady. He spoke
with case, and nerve and feryor, his voice
strong and his gestures graceful. When he
intimated that he was nearly through, there
were loud cheers of go on, /" go on,
from both the convention and the
gaIleries-the hunger and fatigue being for
gotten in listening to the speaker. 1t would
be difficult for an orator to secure higher
triumph than those shouts to SEQ on ~
which greeted him in view of the surround
ing circumstances, except for the involun-
tary outbursts of applause from both friend
and foe. l never saw more quietand earnest
attention given a speaker than was accorded
Mr. Cochran when he uttered the following
concluding passage:
And, gentlemen, if these last few words of
warning, which are perhaps to be the last that
will come from New York to this conventional
they be needed as | believe they will, you will
find that every element of contest will be stilled:
that although may have been divided by the
wild waves of tumult, as soon as the gavel of the
chairman declares the nomination made, we will
become calm and placid as the bosom of lake
In summer. Though we may have been divided
before we entered these halls, we are but like
the countless riyulets that 90 to make up
mighty stream, and which, though turbulent and
violent while they are flowing in their separate
courses, after they have passed the point of
confluence merge together and roll
their united course to the
sea in a majestic tide. resistless in its strength
and mighty in its force. So with all these vari-
Gus conflicting elements Of the party, divided by
various preferences divided by local faction. l
trust, | believe, implore, and pray to the wis
dom of this convention that they will go out of
this door united in mighty mass, sweeping
i'll ITS path to victory and resistess by reason of
its very purpose, and grand by reason of the
leadership which will be chosen in the body of
this convention. Then there will be no reason
TO fear any religious question. Then viii there
be no reason to fear any labor question
disturbing the plans and the harmony
of the campaign The moment that the
choice is made the choice which have suggest
ed-as being the next which could be chosen af-
ter Gov Tildens decnaton-I believe that you
will hear but one prayer uttered throughout the
length and breadth OF the land, on eprayer which
will come alike from persons of every creed, and
rise from houses of every description of worship,
one prayer that will ascend to heaven with the
incense burned upon the Catholic altar well
rs breathed to God in the colder, more severe
and frlgid form of worship adopted by other
sects. 1t will be part of the liturgy of the
Epscopalism part of the prayer of the
Methodist minister. 1t will mingle with the
prayer that the Irish maiden will breathe at
nightfall, and that prayer coming from so many
thousands OF hearts will be for the prosperity of
our land. Applause. The prosperity of our
land 10 irnrfI1 ,rthr
See to it, gentlemen, that you make no mistake
by casting under the feet of mediocrity the prize
that should be reserved for the contention Of ex-
celleuce Applause, See that the presidency
will be garland that will crown the brow that
will be fit to win it, and it is with the humblest
and most complete confidence in the wisdom Of
this convention that suggest the grand old
statesman from Ohio, Allan G.. Thurman, as the
one upon whom the choice should fall.
No speech in the convention approximated
this in force and power, and it seriously
alarmed the Cleveland forces and well it
might, for it gave food for a good deal of
thought, and it required a great deal of brac
ng up during the night to prevent-its de-
moralizing effect am speaking of it now
rom a purely oratorical standpoint and it
deserves recognition. The recognition it re-
ceived at the hands of the convention was
higher than any compliment l can pay it.
CHIT CHAT.
Mr.. Fellows proved himself an able man
and brilliant orator. In the debate on the
New York unit rule on the first day of the
convention, he won his case and that was
the turning point or crisis in Gov Cleve-
lands cause. To the surprise of every one.
he was not heard again in the convention,
and th, ugh he was loudly called for in the
galleries to reply to Tammany he kept
silent. | should have been glad to have
heard some more speeches from him. The
delegates | cared to hear the least were the
oftenest on their feet
The fact that the Minnesota headquarters
were on the office floor of the Palmer, ena-
bling calls to be made without getting into the
crush Of going up and down stairs, caused
thousands of visitors to drop in during the
week and made their quarters a very popu-
lar resort. The St. Paul police force and city
council also made it their central point, from
which they ramlfed to all parts of the city.
The southern delegates would not go to
see 'the Siege of Paris" or "the
Battle of Gettysburg" because,
they alleged, ''the war is over"
The good order in Chicago during the past
week was due to the presence of the St Paul
police force. The ''crooksnknow better than
to cut up amy didos when they were in town
When the states gathered with their ban
ners in a cluster over Ansel Oppenheim's
head photographer was so struck with the
scene that he took negative. No other
Minuesotian received such n tribute-nOt
even Harry Lamberton, when he bowed his
acknowledgements in behalf of the applause
extended to Hendricks.