The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1884-07-17
GOVERNOR HUBBARD


Of Texas, taking advantage Of the tide
that had set In toward Hendricks, secured
the attention of the audience and smoke
indorsing the selection Of Hendricks az
lce-President.
BY unanimous consent O ballot Was
then taken, and with the exception of
one vote by Mississippi for Mcdonald.
which was aiterward withdrawn on the
ground that 1t had been enormously cast
The selection of Hendricks was unani.
nous from first to last, and 1t was off,
cially announced by the Chairman that
the
ENTIRE VOTE,
Vice President.
Between the conclusion Of the roll-eall
and the official announcement of the vote
there was scene probably unparalleled
In the history of political conventions:
one impossible Of Imagination and indie
scribable by pen.
LIKE YLASH OF LIGHTNING,
the representatives OF every delegation
on the floor, bearing aloft the shields and
banners emblematic of their States.
moved to the center Of the hall, and
surrounded the Indiana delegation.
For fifteen continuous minutes cheer
after cheer echoed throughout the hall
and was communicated to the thou
sands on the outside. Then taking ad-
vantage OF the temporary lull the musi-
clans struck up the familiar and soul
stirring strains Of
AUI4D LANG sYNE.
The effect was electrical; the scene one
never to be forgotten. The audience
In, N a.
pealing forth from 200 throats Dele
gates from Texas clasped the hands of
those from New York. The men of Maine
fell upon the necks of their confreres from
the Territories, and strong men who, but
few hours before had been
firing grapeshot invective into
one another, sat back In their chairs with
the tears pouring down their cheeks. On
the platform the delegates stood clasping
one another hands, each voice trying to
outvie the others. AS the refrain ain
the Name of Aud Lang Syne" was
reached there was a circle composed OF
President Villas, Henry Watterson, Gen.
eral Black, Colonel Clumle, of California;
Waller, OF Connecticut, and Ex-Governor
Hubbard, OF Texas. A yard away Ben
Butler was
wRINGING THE HAND
of delegate from Colorado. Even that
staunch old leader Of the Republican par
ty, f. b. Washburne, of Minnesota, who
had been on the stage thro ugnout the
Convention, joined In the ovation with
his tremulous voice, as he waved his
handkerchief over his head. Suddenly
THE BAND CHANGED THE AIR
from "Auld Lang Syne" to "America,"
and again the audience took up the pa
triotic refrain with, II possible, more
heartiness than before. After this came
"HoNE SWEET HOME"
and now the gathering, exerting its voice
with might and main, completely
drowned the music of the band. The
soprano notes of
SEVERAL HUNDRED LADIES,
who were scattered about the hall, rang
out high and clear above the deeper
tones of the men. As the mingled voices
of the assemblage died away In the last
erai Breckenridge, OF California, re-
quested the band to play
"OLD HUNDRED"
and once more the blended voices OF
those present grandly swelled to the mu-
sic and rhythm of "Praise God From
Whom All Blessings Flow" The demon
stration lasted for forty five minutes.
Resolutions Of thanks to President
Villas, Sergeant-at-Arms Bright, Press
Chairman Austin III. Brown, and other
officers, were adopted with considerable
and at 80 p. III. the Dem
ocratic Convention of 1884 adjourned
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