St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-09-05
The Routine Report.

nounced that as there didn't seem to be any
member of the clerical profession present.
the prayer would be dispensed with.
EX-Mayor Chase of Nebraska of the COM
mittee on resolutions said that the resolu-
tionS were substantially completed, but
were in the hands of a subcommittee for
formulation and wouldn't be ready for some
time, meanwhile he wanted to bring for
ward few statistics. He spoke Of the corn
production of his state and the heavy
bullion which was reduced at Omaha.
Omaha had doubled her population
in five years and her bank clearances last
month were over $40, ,000 600, and her COM
merce must be immense. At this point
Mr.. Chase said he would skip most of his
statistics, whereat there was a good deal CT
applause and laughter, with a few more
figures, and finally subsidized amid cries of
louder"
While waiting for the committee Oh reso-
lutions, some friend of H. l.. Gordon
called on him for speech, to which he re-
sponded with an explanation OF the little
muss in the Minnesota delegation. 1t was
charged by the Pioneer Press that there
was conspiracy between him and Donnelly
to capture the meeting of the minnesota
delegation at the Merchants hotel on Thurs
day morning. This he denied stating that
dent, and only called it to order after wait
| lug half an hour for some one else to do so.
He called the Pioneer Press a sheet which
was always wrong in principle and some
| times right by accident. Loud and long
continued applause. MI. DOnnelly inter-
rupted him to call the Pioneer Press an in
| famous sheet, which had also misrep1esented
him. More applause.
A PRODUCT OF MINNESOTA.
Mr.. Gordon, at this point, produced a
| blue-covered book and said he wanted to
read an extract, and by common Sutferance
the crowd allowed him to proceed. Mr..
Gordon read one line and then paused, as
follows:
Onward rolls the royal river" began
Mr.. Gordon.
''Bully!' said an Illinois man.
"What river?" said Dakota man.
"R0ll on" said delegate from Iowa.
81 bet it don't roll" screamed delegate
from Missouri.
Let it roll" said Kansas man.
Onward rolls the restless river" con-
| tinued Mr.. Gordon.
''Bet your life," said Minnesota man.
''How did you hear?" questioned dele
gate from Nebraska.
You can't prove it," said another Hi
nois man.
Bully" Bully for the river;;" 'Roll
on said half dozen.
''If you don't want to hear it you don't
have to-" said Mr.. Gordon.
so, we need it: we've got to have it. T"
said Congressman Lawler of Illinois.
i wish you would put the question of
whether you want to hear it or not" said
Mr. Gordon.
The convention-"Oh, we've got to have
| it;'' go on" Let it roll;' ''GiYe us the
poem"
Mr.. Gordon, when he saw that the con-
vention was trying to phase him, folded his
arms, and with his book of poems in his
hand, stood as unmoved as the statue of
Liberty Enlightening the World. He
REFUSED TO BE PHAsED,
and said he thought he could make himself
| heard if the convention would give him
| half show. He had been called ''Thun-
| dering Gordon" and if the audience would
allow him he would thunder SO loud that
the back pews would have little difficulty in
catching the thread of his narrative.
The convention apparently had nothing
against Mr. Gordon or his poem, and kindly
consented to let him go on. After he had
gene nearly to the end somebody called
time" This idea seemed to be favored
|
laundering the last Stanza his laundering
was as insignificant as pebble on the
beach, compared with the general clatter
that welled up from the body of the house.
Judge Atwater gained the speakers eye
and insisted on ringing down the curtain,
and in accordance with his ideas Chairman
| Warner called Mr. Gordon to order.
| Mr.. Hope of Iowa arose and moved that
inasmuch as this was the first poem ever
raised in Minnesota it be given free trans
portation to the seaboard.
THE PERPETUAL PICNIC.
Then somebody called for DonneI1y and
that gentleman took the platform, some one
remarking that there was no poetry about
him. He said he had no poem present, but
| thanked the convention for greeting him.
especially since he had been the subject of
a foul attack from an Infamous sheet. Mr..
Donnelly announced himself as the sole
representative present of the farmer inter-
est. If the convention were made up of
the producers, he would not be without in
f1uence here, for he was known as the
champion of that class. There were pres
ent lawyers and merchants, who had but
| little direct interest in cheap transportation
He acknowledged that he had been sat
down upon by the Minnesota delegation,
not that he would be afraid to compete
with them in brains, but that they were
possessed of broad comprehensiyeness of
capacity for sitting down. which he could
not equal.
Continuing, he said that this convention
is an organized raid on the treasury of the
United States. but justified by precedent;
and in the grab-bag OF national legislation
| the Northwest has thus far been ignored.