The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-06-07

" oFcE Ol0VelhnU IOr HfeS1QenC by &C
clamation.
The chairman put the question, and
tnere was returned from the convention
laundering chorus. The chairman
therefore. announced that Grover
Cleveland, having received the unani-
nous vote, was the candidate Of tins
Democratic party for the Office
OF President of the United
States. When the nomination oil
Cleveland was announced by the chair
man another scene of wild cosfusion
occurred IN the convention, but dele
gates and spectators W. re too nearly
exhausted to sustain so prolonged q
scene as that which followed
Dougherty's spe CHI.
Flower, OF New York; have motion
which will send up. 1t was:
ResoEred, That when this convention ad-
Journlt be until IL am Tomorrow.
(Cheers.) (No, no, no.
The vote was put and negative fol-
lowed, and was declared by The Chair
man.
Mr.. Fowlar-That was not the reso
luton l offered. 1t is written en- the
other side OF the paper.
! Chairman Mr.. Flower offers
another resolution. 1t is, that when we
adj burn. we adjourn to meet at o clock
this evening. The resolution of Mr..
Flower is double header, written on
each side. II seems the secretary read
the wrOn, one.
| Voorhees,, OF Indiana, moved that the
convention take recess until 10 o'clock
tomorrow. The committee on resolu-
lions would not, he said, report this
afternoon. and the conyen ion would
have to be here tomorrow morning,
and the intervening time would be
properly used for securing harmony and
success for the Democratic party.
Boughtman. of Maryland, favored the
motion and called attention to the fact
that number OF the most distinguished
members of the convention were absent
| upon the committee on resolutions.
| Hensell, of Pennsylvania, said the
subordinate to the convention.
and could be directed by it.
He proposed to move that the committee
be instructed to report to this body at q
given time. Toe committee mad already
been in session nearly tWenty-four
| hours, and if 1t could no. agree within
that time il never coGld agree. Ii the
committee was not ready to bring in
one report, let 1t bring in two.
| voorhees, motion was defeated.
| Flower, OF New York, moved that
when the convention take recess it b.
to meet to.n:ght'at s O'Clock. The mo-
ton was defeated-yeas 387, nays $50.
voorhees, then moved that the con-
vention take a recess until tomorrow
morning at 10 O'Clock. There bad been
no differences existing III the proceed
lngs OF the convention up to this time,
but now there was a difference of
opinion and he thought it in the
N crest of justice and fair play that
recess should be taken.
White, of California, seconded the
motion, stating that he would aid, so as
not to prevent the nomination of ary
candidate, but because the convention
must have ths platform carefully and
deliberately adopted. When the Vice
President was nominated, it Woald be
hard to hold the convention together.
He knew gentlemen were ANXIOUS
to raise their voices for the same man.
He was in favor of it, b ut he thought it
batter that recess be taken.
Before the call of the roll OF
States on Voorhees, motion was cem-
pleted, twas evident it would nave
large majority, and at the suggestion of
VIZ VIAL IdO COANCAlIOIly NY uuduimOuS
cons ent, agreed to suspend the call and
agreed to the motion.
The chair at 1.58, announced that the
convention stood adjourned until 10
o'clock Tomorrow.
THE PLATFORM.
1t was after 1 o'clock this morning
when German, of the sub committee
on platform, addressed the COM
mittee in relation to the tariff
plank advocating substantially the -eit-
GRAFTON of the revenue reduction clause
in the platform of 1884. and favoring O.
reduction of internal revenue taxation.
Waters n replied efoquently and at
considerable length. appealing for an
explicit enunciation of the party's |
position on the tariff. on which it could |
go to The polls free from the stigma of |
an attempt to straddle this great issue, |
which, he said, had been Justly charged |
to the platform of 1884. On motion of |
General German, without action, the |
subcommittee, at 2 am, adjourned to |
$50 o'clock.
1t was within quarter of ten, the |
time set for the assembling of the con- |
vention, before the committee on plat |
form got together to-day. The sub
committee, which had been in confer |
ence until after midnight, reported its |
inability to reach any conclusion, and |
the committee as whole seemed prac-
tically where they began when they
started. The questions confronting the |
members were whether to refer the mat
ter again to the sub committee, to fisht |
it out themselves in committee of the
whole, or to relegate the whole subject
to the act of the convention. It was
freely predicted in the corridors outside
the committee room that that course
would be the upshot and that the con
vention would have to deal with q ma
.ority and minority report from lis /
committee on platform. AT noon
the resolutions committee began to
debate upon the platform under the
ten minute rule. The temper of the
is in favor of the reaffirmation
Of the tariff plank of 1884.
THE SCENE.
The Democratic National Convention
broke the record for the greatest display
If enthusiasm ever witnessed in a SINH
ar body. For over twenty consecutive
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