Omaha daily bee., 1888-05-03

the affairs of the people of ireland hearty
encouragement is expressed to them in their
struggle for liberty and sel~f-government.
Liberal pensions to disabled and needy vet
Grams of the union army are recommended to
congress-; but jobbery and favoriteism such
as were exposed by President Cleveland's
veto measures are emphatIcally condemned.
For the best interests of all the people of
the United States and their more harmonious
cementing into a fraternial nation, sectional
issues and the keeping alive of the hatreds of
the late civil war are reprehended and de-
nounced.
Mr.. J. G. ". Hildebrandt read the follow
ing which was adopted:
Resolved, That, we, the democrats Of Ne
braska in convention assembled, congratu-
late President Cleveland in the wise selec-
ton he has made in the choice Of a successor
to the late chief justice of the United States
in so able a iurist as the Hon. Melville Full
Ter, of Illinois.
AT II ;05 o'clock the convention adjouuasd
sine die.
The Bees" Observer.
In appearance, the, convention lacked the
dignity, grace and imposing qualities which
generally characterize the gathering of re-
publican bodies. 1t was, however, more
thoroughly representative of all the classes
of the commonwealth, because in it were
found a great variety of character, extend
ing from the occupant of the sod house in
the regions contiguous to the unorganized
territory to the capitalist whose home is fur
nished with the latest improvements of the
times. Among the occupants of the gallery,
at least until the work waxed warm, were
several well known ladies, among whom
were noticed Miss Smith, daughter Of b.. +.
Smith, of Boston, Miss Nettie Collins, Miss
Balcombe, Mrs. Lyman Richardson and
Mrs. Col. Hall. The rear of the hall was
occupied by q number Of republicans,
among. whom were the chairman
of the council, a member of
the police commission and the auburn
headed attorney of the b. & M. who seemed
entirely at home in the camp of his political
enemies Another prominent parsonage,
who, however, was one of the accredited
delegates, was DIR. Harvey Link, of Willard,
in this county, whose grey hairs were about
as white as the snow under which his party
has slumbered these many years.
The gavel was hastily improvised. 1t con-
sisted of the rung and leg of a chair which
had been cut from a dismantled seat in the
opera house stage which had long been
placed on the retired list.
DR.. Miller was noticeable for his absence,
and MIR. Boyd quietly retained a rear seat
and did not make much effort in looking
after his interests until toward the close,
when it looked as If things were not entirely
Kearney, for perhaps the first time in
his career, was not called upon to talk
about the old party. Mr.. Boyle Of the
Mr.. Giddings, of Cedar, shot himself
frequently into the attention of the gather
ing and received a number Of Kisses when,
because he could not hear all that everybody
said, suggested that no more state demo
cratic conventions be held in Omaha. An
other amusing delegate was the eccentric
spokesman from Blaine county, who knocked
the chairman's patience into a wayside bail
by Fostering that functionary for constant
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gate had evidently been to an oil room. Matt
Miller's "Mr. Chairman in a high voice, such
as formerly woke the half dead echoes in the
legislature, was received with hearty laugh
ter and applause, as was also Lew May,
whose bashfulness caused him to be led to
the rostrum when he was appointed one of
the secretaries. Judge Crawford, of West
Point, was one Of the six men in the house
who wore glasses, and from his distant seat
looked Ike a spectre from another sphere.
there were $50 out of 45S votes
represented, the somewhat abridged pos
slbility of securing passes on the
railroads being charged with the absence of
many of the accredited patriots.
Beach l. Hinman, Of North Platte, did not
'spring" McShane, as it was thought he
would, but he unbosomed himself when the
plan was suggested that four delegates be
elected at large and two from each congress
sional district. He opposed the plan and his
insinuation that its meaning was that no
delegate would be elected who lived beyond
a point 200 miles from the Missouri set sus-
picious people coniecturing as to whether
what he said was true or otherwise. Some
of these were convinced that he spoke the
truth when he claimed that in the last
convention no delegate living west of a line
$50 miles from the Missouri had been chosen,
and these skept!cs were still more converted
to his views when the veteran delegate an
nounced that Douglas county had made u
'slate'' which it wished to force upon the
convention. The gentleman's amendment
was defeated, though its support was far
from frigid. One of his opponents, who
offered a good argument for his support
of the four-two plan, was O'Day, of
Neigh, to whom the old gentleman
gave a thrust when he said in support of his
own democracy, that he had never been
found in a republican caucus. O'Day WINGED
but bore the stab without a reply.
Charles Ogden's speech nominating Boyd
was short, apparently studied, excellently
delivered and in every respect appropriate.
MIR. Boyd's name was greeted with loud APP
plause, during which that gentleman quietly
occupied a seat off the center aisle, with a
face as inexpensive as If the tribute had
been paid to the king Of Dahomey. Cleggett's
speech. shooting Morton before the cOnven-
ton, was of inferior merit, but the applause
that greeted 1t was like the roar of the Janu-
airy blizzard. TIL seconding speech of Saw
yer, of Lincoln, was pitched In a high treble
and when the orator had finished his features
were as nyld as those OF "A mummy. The
applause which greeted it, however, was not
unlike that Of the brigade which swept the
field at Fontenay. 1t showed in a most I'M
m%istakable manner that the originator of
arbor tree was still a prophet in his own
country. 1t was at this point that the Morton
fight began, and the vote which Il. +. Morearty
of the Douglas delegation gave to that gem
tleman after IL had been announced that
Douglas was solid for Boyd, paralyzed, so TO
speak, the Boyd men into paroxysms of the
widest delight. Morearty was denounced as
a sneak and his vote failed to count, but
Morton stock took a jump heayenward, and
the home delegation began TO feel uneasy.
Morearty had received John +. Boyd's proxy,
and the latter was warmly turned over in
private for his transfer. BY the way of ex-
PLANTATION, however, the latter afterwards
stated 10 the Ben observer that he had been
appointed by his ward club as a delegate
without his knowledge or consent; that he
had declined to act because of business, and
said he would give his proxy TO a Boyd man,
that Morearty had called upon him, asked
him for the proxy, stated that he was in
favor Of Boyd, and accordingly he was al.
lowed to go To the convention. Others
claimed that the proxy had been granted be-
cause j. L. Boyd wanted TO oppose an
other man whose hame would come
up in the district convention, but he had no
idea Morearty would use his vote against the
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