Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-06-22
BROKE LOOSE.
A Deluge Of Republican
Enthusiasm.
Wild Scenes Enacted in the
Chicago Convention.
Eight Of the More Prominent Candi-
dates in Nomination.
Supposed Plan of the Blaine Mana
gers to Cause a Deadlock
Individual Booms.
THE PLATFORM MEANS BUSINESS
Another Day of SweItering Hea
and Discom mfort-The Gossip
of the Day.

of the Day.
sCopygM, 1888, by the California Associated PressJ
CHICAGO, June 2lst.-The early hour set for
| the meeting of the Convention to-day pulled
| the weary ones out two hours earlier, and they
| were tired, sleepy, red-eyed and cross crowd
as rule. Now and then a man would come
| along who was brighteyed, cheerful and chip
per, but his appearance only made the cross
ones crosser. The ponderous and accurate
Chairman from California kept his threat of las,
night to open the Convention precisely at the
| time set. AT just 10 O'Clock there was the ring
OF an electric bell and the bang of the gavel
| and in another minute the Chaplain was inyok.
ing the Divine blessing upon the few people
and thousands of empty chairs. But the hall
filed up rapidly, and soon it was
a GIGANTIC swEAT-Box.
The heat was bad enough, but the peonle
sighed when they thought it was only the pre-
cursor to hotter afternoon and evening. when
II the lamps would be lighted.
Inc nrst event ol the da, was the appearance
OF Mckinley, who was Chairman on the Com
mlttee on Resolutin ms, who came up to read tne
platform OF course he was cheered Every
other man who arrives is cheered and Ohio mas
leading candidate and seven-nearly alI-of
the principal candidatt S were Ohio men origin
ally, and the two most talked of dark horses.
Mckinley and Foraker. are Onioans IL will he
pretty tight squirming for this Convention TO
avoid nominating an Ohio man, no matter what
part OF the country II may go to for candidates
WILD ENTHUSIASM OVER THE PLATFORM.
Mckinley read the platform in clear voice,
ana with proper pause and emphasis. There
was great scene when he read the de laration
that the Republican party is in favor of nro-
tecuon. The whole Convention sprang to its
n IN nVNd
galleries echoed back the roar The scene was
repeated when the Convention. by q rising vote,
adopted the platform unanimously. There was
question, no straddling and no preyaricating
no straw-cutting and no trying to use words that
have no meaning (nor with two meanings),
There was a
BOLD UNQUALIFIED EXPRESSION
OF belief and principle, and intentions. and as
one man the Convention ratified the declara-
ton with RI ging cheers.
After Mckinley and the platform came the
ouslness OF pntting i'll nomination and bringing
up ana unblankettng the aags for the great
lace. There was hesitation about going at it
and the speech making started out with cheer
ing. The roil-call of States began, and went on
unanswered until Connecticut was reached
Then man arose, and amid silence simply
stated that nnecucut presented the name of
Joseph K. Hawlev. The call went on until a
wild yell greeted the name of Illinois, and the
Gresham men cut loose tnelr man.
During the recess there came a blessed relief
III the cool winds blowing from the storm across
the lake. When the crowd reassembed the
people looked cooler and more refreshed and
gave attention to Gallinger of New Hampshire.
who made liv ly speech for Harrison. His
only trouble was tnat he did not recognize the
good stopping places and his speech seemed to
CONSIST OF series OF perorations
4 BoOsIER's YELL
An amusing feature of the post-recess Harrison
speeches was long Hoosier who sat near the
| stage IN the balcony Every now and then he
sPrang up, and, giving yell that will long ring
III the ears OF the auditors. spread open a huge
ian OF circular form. several feet across md
bearing the name of Harrison" Every time
this astounding yell sounded and that eXtraOr-
dlnary figure appeared the people shouted with
laughter and cheered.
After Harrison came Allisoa As Iowa was
called Hepburn made speech that was a
speech, though was too long, of course That
IS the ruling and regular trouble with them ali.
Every man wants to make a speech and once
started never knows when to stop But Hep
Durn MADE good points, which would have been
more impressive had he kept footloose
from his notes. Several other sueak-
eIs either read their speeches or
closely consulted their notes This is ridicnlons
ana lnXecusabe. IL is also an affront to the
convention : man who is honored by its at
tention ought to value such high distinction
/ ana prlvs'eSe enough to prepare for it. Bos-
worth, of Rhode Island, read his whole speech.
With the call of Michigan came
THE SENSATION OF THE CONVENTION
The speaker was Robert Frazer of Detroit a
noted orator of the Northwest, and he well sus-
tanned his reputation. He is Il burly man. with
large abdomen, heavy jaws and double chin
He is built much after the style of Cleveland,
but upon a slightly smaller scale. In gesture
and manner he suggests Bob Ingersoll-in the
doubling of his fists and his energetic manner
OF laying down the law. He soon had the house
IN an uproar, and it was shown that he had
things careful y fixed up for effect The ap-
plause and yelling came from the same quar-
ter The Interruptions were incessant and
amusing. From
THE GREAT HUMAN NIAGARA
OF the gallery came the same noise. CRYING.
W mats the matter with Bob Frazer?1 and a
thousand voices in unison thundered back in
answer an IN IeIky explosive utterances. "Oh, he s
al right. The same thing was done with
Alger name, while the rest of the Convention
enjoyed It, Some of the interpretations con-
vulsed the people with laughter.
THE GALLERY GODS.
-, once when Frazer got pathetic in describing
the suiIerlngs OF soldiers. he described a death
with No requiem but the shrek of the hostile
she'll In the SscoUd of silence that followed
one OF the boys III the gallery sent out the
sheut, "Nhee-e e-e! in the shrillest possible
note, ara all the pathos was drowned in irrey-
erent laughter.
1t was observed that Mrs Logan and her
daughter had been placed i'll prominent seat
in the front row of the balcony in a eonsnicu-
Gus place. Frazer dexterously drew attention
TO this. Mrs. Logan applauded and made mo-
tlons OF approval and encouragement and
stnileu t ana NODDED Finally frazer drew on
widow. ''-9
MRS. LOGAN SAT WEEPING
During this time, ard the ladies in the vicinity
joined her through sympathy The taste of this
part OF the Alger boom was variously com
mented on. 1t is true that Frazer made some of
as good points for his candidate as were ever
mace before any Convention. Especially
strong did he make the point tnat this is a busi-
ness man year, because the question is nro-
iectlon TO Americ industry and Alger is a
business man. There was
ANOTHER GREAT HULLABULLoo
When Frazer closed. Noves of Massachusetts,
eecla!eu that TINS was q question between the
American flag ana Democratic .'snuffr rag y
winch was greeted with screams of laughter
ARIZoNA's ORATOR sQUELcHEp.
Eggers of Arizona had dreadful exuerianea
Win the unruly and free-and-easy galleries
he began with the unfortunate remark that he
would say but one word and was sthupderstruck
at ihe Wild cheering that overwhelmed him
gaIn a.1 again he tried to go on but the yell
ing wenton instead. He got IL a word or two
ana tnen was choked Off again altogether
InaI unfortunate opeuing word about ruined
MS MS speech, and he got away from the stage as
soon as possible, though he managed to get in
enough wards to show that ne would hs va
made good speech.
ana so the thing went on. Man after man
wss placed IN nomination. and scene after scene
WsS enaeted-some impressive and others more
OF ieSs iudierols Taken altogether the das S
ana tse great crowd dispersed last evening to
cream OF stu livelier day on the saOrrow.
after the balloting commences
THE DAYS SESSION
CHAIRMAN Estee on Time, and Opens
Proceedings Promptly