The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-06-26
FOURTH DAYS PROCEEDINGS.


sempled at O'Clock for an evening session,
ana Immediately on being called to order, Mr..
Depew arose and withdrew his name Us a presi-
GENITAL candidate. General Hastings, OF
pennsylvania, who had placed Sherman's
name before the convention, then moved m
adjournment, which was carried by a call of
treated below
Bob Ingersoll was seated on the platform,
near the chairman, and the great audience,
seeing that adjournment was certain, began
10 call on him for speech.
A REMARKABLE TESTIMONIAL
10 the esteem in which he was held by the au-
dlence was shown in the action of the great
tnrong In remaining perfectly quiet after the
chairman had announced the convention ad-
journed.
Calls for Ingersoll became general, and as he
arose ana faced the audience it seemed as if it
would lose its self-possesson in the enthus-
asm OF the greeting extended him. Then he
peg Pegan ms speech 1t was after the heart OF
his hearers, and the more he spoke the more
enthusiastic became his hearers. He was in
one OF his happiest moods and held his audi
ence enraptured by the magnificence of his ell
oquence. His beautifully rounded periods were
gems in oratory <and his ringing voice and dis
tngulshed bearing made him an ideal speaker.
After Haunting the bloody shirt and attack
ing the democratic administration, he pro-
ceeded to tell why he was a republican, in
winch his eloquence was as grand as his argu-
.i.SAV A'lidC4olS Duu INC auuleuC6 was WIN
him, and the mental giant welded it as play
thing in his hands. But the
SPELL WAS BROKEN,
and in an instant, in an unfortunate moment,
he forgot himself, and was hurled headlong
from the pinnacle of popularity to which he
had lifted himself.
In flight of eloquence he avowed that he
was for Walter Q. Gresham as the man who
could best lead the party on to victory. The
eject was instantaneous He had made ter
rible mistake, and he saw it. Every person in
The immense audience that was not for
Gresham felt that Ingersoll had taken an I'M
due advantage. They arose to Their feet in in
dlgnation and showed their disgust in the most
vigorous manner.
Cries of Outrage" "shame," infamous"
filled the great hall, and the speaker was de-
nounced as heartily as he had but moment
before been applauded Those for Gresham
cheered vociferouSly, bat of the delegates only
Illinois and Minnesota joined in the Gresham
rally The others sat in silence. For ten
minutes the scene was one of the widest con-
fusion. Some in the audience
SHOOK THEIR CLINCHED FISTS
at Ingersoll, who rested his hand on the chair
mans desk, and looked at the scene which he
had created. The anger of the dissatisfied
friends in the galleries of other candidates
soon spread among the delegates. The Ohio
ans arose to their feet and engaged in a debate
OF evident intensity among themselves. 9th
ers did likewise. Suddenly a majority of the
New York delegates arose, hats and hand, and
left the hall. Ohio followed suit, in then q
stream of delegates began to flow out.
Ingersoll still looked on, and once or twice
started to speak, but at the slightest evidence
that he was about to do so, the audience went
into the widest confusion. Kisses filled the
air, indignant rebukes were hurled at him
from all parts OF the hall. 1t was apparent
that he could not proceed. Fred Douglass,
who was on the platform, seized the gavei
which the chairman had left when he LETT the
chair, and began to rap and say something,
which nobody understood. He spoke to inger-
soil, after shaking the latter's hand, and the
latter then turned and sat down.
But even this did not quell the tempest.
which lasted in all over ten solid minutes.
After awhile things again quieted and Doug
lass took charge of the crowd, by common con-
sent. lie called up two or three speakers of his
own selection, one of whom recited ''Sheridan's
Ride" after a most dramatic fashion. But
then, this was too tame after the Ingersoll ex-
element and the audience dispersed with the
unanimous verdict that Ingersoll had played
the devil with himself and Gresham too.
This mornings balloting developed the fact
that Sherman was not as strong as his friends
thought he was. They counted Oh reaching
$50 votes, and had no idea that it would be less
than 900. They were startled when the first
ballot credited them with only 229, and saw at
once that they were in bad fix. OF his vote
over % hundred came from the south, leaving
but a little over a hundred from all other sec
prospects, and 1t became the general comment
that the Sherman game was up. There was q
very strong under current against Sherman
among the eastern and Pacific states delegates
inspired by the belief that ne would make a
weak leader.
commendation of the galleries and was larger
than expected, while Depew, Alger, Allison
and Harrison averaged the estimates which
had been made for them.
The field became little clearer for the sec
ond ballot. Editor Charles Emory Smith
withdrew Mayor Filter, of Philadelphia, but
it is understood that he stood by him as long
as contracted for to give him control of the
city patronage. Nearly all of the Philadelphia
delegates went to Sherman, which, with a
slight increase from other quarters, gave him
twenty more votes than he got on the first
ballot.
AIgcr jumped from "a to 116 and Gresham
lost six. This gave the Alger men chance
to display their enthusiasm, and they could
not have made much more noise if their man
had been nominated.
The third ballot dropped Sherman back to
IA and gave Alger six more, while it showed
Gresham to be nine votes stronger than his
first vote. Harrison and Allison pegged along
in dog trot and neither lostnor gained enough
to be noticeable.
Blaine's name run through tho ballotfng
from the first. California having announced
its sixteen votes for him. when first called, it
was the spark to the lntammable finder of
popularity which Blaine seems to have in the
convention. A howl of applause started from
California and extended to Maine. The spec
tatorS took possession of the assembla9e and
started to run it to suit themselves. The chair
man gavel was powerless to check the cheers
that filed the hall. The people wanted to APP
plaud California's selection, and did So The
confusion and cheering lasted for five minutes
and then the clerk resumed the call of the
states.
A feature of the balloting was the frequent
call by some obstleperous member of a delega-
ton for tine vote of a state by delegates. Some
Of the chairmen must have been in bad repute
with their colleagues, for several OF them were
not subjected with, notably with South Caro-
lima and Virginia. Every time Virginia was
reached, johnny Wise would rise and ask for
poll. The Wise delegates were not willing
TO trust Malone, and vice versa. Both OF
those worthless voted for Sherman, however,
on the first ballot, though Wise went to Gresh-
am on the next ballot. 1t will be observed
that there is not a very high sense Of honor in
this convention Of patriots.
EXCTTTN5T sTRTGGTE
CHICAGO, June 22.--Late last evening a
Blaine procession marched into the rotunda of
the Grand Pacific hotel with band OF music
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