Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1888-06-15


Iage was hailed with wild applause When
the committee on permanent organization re-
ported the name OF Hon. z. A Collins for
president Of the convention there were loud
cheers from the New England contingent,
and an entire absence of the nerve destroy
was observable. Indeed, up to this time the
vocal explosions of the southerners drowned
everything else.
PERMANENT OFFICERS:
Chairman-Hon. Patrick A. Collins, Mas
Iachusetts.
Secretary-H H. Ingersoll, Tennessee.
Assistant secretaries-Alfred Orendorf,
illinois,; T. E. Barrett, Missouri; w. w.
Scott Virginia; o. NJ. Hall, Minnesota;
Leopold Strauss Alabama; L. G.. Rowley,
Michigan; John Triplett, Georgia; 1: ).
Lingle, Missouri; o. Newell, Colorado; L. l..
Merrill. Nebraska
Chief reading secretary-Hon. Thomas
Petit.
Sergeant-at-arms-R j. Bright.
When the committee to escort Mr. Collins
TO the chair passed down the aisle to the
Massachusetts, section, and Mr.. Collins arose
in his place and shook hands with the mem
bers OF the committee, the convention
cheered loudly, and the cheers were re-
newed as the party mounted the steps to
the rostrum. Mr.. Whites remarks in in
Producing the president of the con-
vention were well received, and as
Mr.. Collins stepped to the
front, the entire Massachusetts delegation
arose and gave three times three hearty
cheers for the foremost member of their
body. Mr.. Collins opened in the ordinary
tone Of voice with which he is accustomed to
address Faneuil Hall audience, and it took
about five minutes for him to measure the
acoustic properties of the building and en-
able him to fill the hall in every corner, but
as he proceeded his tones became stronger
and louder, and his remarks were listened to
with attention on every hand, He did not
show the lung capacity of his predecessor,
but he was more eloquent, and his remarks
were more in the line of an address of the
presiding officer to a convention than were
Mr.. Whites He rolled off his sentences
very rapidly, and when the delegates had
cheered his fine utterances, the time con-
sumed from his opening was 20 minutes. Mr..
| Collins now invited the ce-presdents from
| the different states to take seats on the plat
form, and the orchestra in the main gal
| lery played march as the gentlemen filed
| up and took their places. At 1L30 o'clock
| President Collins announced that com.
munication from the committee on resolu-
tions was to the effect that it would he i'm
| possible for them to report before 8 o'clock.
| When the communication from the
| woman's suffrage committee was read there
were some Kisses, which were speedily sup.
| pressed, and then amid cries of LET her
CO." Let her 60" leave was granted that
one of their number address the delegates.
Unfortunately the ladies' representative was
not possessed of lung power sufficient to
make her remarks heard 40 feet from the
platform, and realizing this fact, she at last
| turned over her manuscript to the official
reporter, relying on the press to give circu-
lation to her views and those of her asso-
ciates on the question of the ballot for
women.
The decision of the convention to proceed
to call the roll of states for the nomination
of president and vice-president was hailed
with the loudest and most extravagant ap-
plause, and, when Alabama relnquished her
right under the alphabetical rule to make
the first presentation and gave way to New
| York, the cheers were renewed as the gray
haired and white-bearded orator of the EN-
pire state, Dan Dougherty, appeared on the
platform. He was cheered repeatedly, and,
after he had said: "My countlymen, ten
der my fraternal regards" and at once
launched on to the mention of the choice of
the democrats of New York for the presi-
dency, and pledged the electoral vote of the
! greatest state in the Union to Grover Cleve-
land, scene of confusion followed
Thousands of men and women uprose
in the spectators Seats and sec
tion after section of heads were ele-
waited in succession, like the rolling of sue
cessive waves upon strand, the delegates
following the example, until everybody in
the hall was on his feet, every voice raised
in cheering, every right hand lifted in dem
onstration, and there was futtering of
white and red bandanna handkerchiefs
throughout the spacious edifce. Mr. Dough-
ertys declaration that ''public office was a
public trust" and that under Grover Cleve-
lands administration integrity stands at ev.
cry foot of our vast empire, made a scene of
wild confusion. All this was surpassed be.
yond description, however, when the elo
quent orator, in his peroration, announced
II give name entwined with
victory-I nominate Grover Cleveland"
Hats, banners, handkerchiefs, canes, every
thing and anything that could be used with
which to make demonstration were in the
air in an instant. Cheer upon cheer, loud
and prolonged, went up and down, down and
up the auditorium, delegates and spectators
alike taking positions on their chairs, in the
effort to make themselves seen and heard.
At the entrance to the White House, as por-
trayed in the great picture which hung over
the rear balcony, an oil painting of President
Cleveland was placed, and pandemonium
seemed to break loose. Dougherty proceed
ed down the aisle to his seat, and was greeted
on every hand.