Huntsville gazette., 1888-06-09

CATION TO put on neutral appearances,
and to abstain from voting until after all
the other States had been called.
Thurman's Selection Conceded.
| ST. LOUIS, June 5-The situation al
midnight, SO far as Thurman's selection
| is concerned, is unchanged. There will
probably be no ballot taken.
The determination of the New York
delegation last night to refrain from vot-
| ing is construed by anti Thurmanitesss to
mean that the New Workers are scheming
| to stampede the convention.
| Crowds of Gray followers gathered in
the lobbies of the leading hotels late last
night, and yelled and howled for their
| favorite. 1t was all to no purpose, how
ever, as in the language of one of the
Indiana delegates, 'It is too late to shout
now. The slate is fixed'.
| The Indiana delegation, at a meeting
last night, instructed its members to sup
port Henry Watterson for the chairman
ship of the committee on resolutions.
The fight for this place will probably be
between Mr.. Watterson and Mr.. German.
A member of the National COMMITTEE is
authority for the statement that the plat
| form will re adopt the platform OF 1854,
| and indorse the Presidents message. 1t
will declare for tariff reform, but will not
indorse the Mills bill in its present shape.
| Mr.. Scott, who, it is supposed, carries
with him in cold type the views of the
Administration as to what the tariff
plank should be, is apparently serene
with regard to the question. He said TO
representative of the United Press last
night that everything was moving towards
harmony in its most emphatic sense
Shortly after midnight a proposition
was made to the Indiana delegation to
withdraw the name of Governor Gray
from the contes. for second place, and 1t
is more than probable that this will be
done before the mceting of the conven-
ton.
ST. LOUIS, June 5.-rhe National DEM
ocratic committee met at noon yesterday,
Chairman w. H. Barnum presiding, and
Hon. f. 0. Prince acting as secretary.
All the States were represented, either
by the member in person or by proxy.
The proxies were given as follows:
Ignatius E. Grubb, of Delaware, to DR..
James A. Draper.
S. Corning Judd, of Illinois, 10 VIM g.
Goudy.
Miles Ross, of New Jersey. 10 Leon AD-
bott.
VIM. Steinway, Of New York, to Her
man Oelrichs.
w. j. Mccormick, of Montana, to j. K.
Toole.
J.B. Rosborough, Of Utah, to VIM. NJ.
Ferry.
B. B. Smalley, of Vermont, to Hiram
Atkins.
The reading Of the minutes Of the meet
ing of February y was dispensed with
| e&l~a
ment of hall was accepted.
On motion of M. Tarpey, of California,
Hon. Stephen NJ. White, of California,
was unanimously chosen for temporary
chairman of the convention.
On motion of Mr.. Semple, OF Alabama,
Hon F. q. Prince, of Massachusetts,, was
unanimously chosen fer temporary secre-
tary.
The following gentlemen were unani-
mously elected assistant secretaries in
the temporary organization: Alfred Oh
lendorf, of Illinois; w. W. Scott, of Vir-
ginia; T. E. Barrett, of St. Louis; Leo
pold Strauss, of Alabama; A. o. Hall, of
Minnesota; John Triplett, of Georgia;
L. E. Rowley, of Michigan; Olney Newell,
Of Colorado; T. ]. Single, Of Missouri,
and E. l.. Merritt, of Nebraska.
The following were unanimously chosen
chief reading clerk and assistants: Thos.
J. Petit, House of Representatives,
Washington. for chief reading clerk;
Michael T. Barrett, of New Jersey; F. o.
Walker, of Iowa: R. II. Henry, of Mssis-
sippi; j. Oscar Henderson, Of Indiana;
Joseph Carr, OF Missouri, and e. d. Saw
yer of Ohio, assistant reading clerks.
On motion of Hon. F. E. Dawson, of
South Carolina, Colonel Edward B. Dick
inson, of New York, official stenographer
of the National Democratic committee,
was chosen as official stenographer OF the
convention. This is the Fourth Nation al
Democratic convention in which Colonel
Dickinson has occupied this position.]
Colonel Richard j. Bright, of Indiana
was chosen as sergeant-at arms of the
convention, and Daniel Able, OF ST. Louis,
as chief doorkeeper.
The committee then adjourned until ten
O'Clock this morning.
The arrangements made by the Nation
al committee in regard to tickets IS as
follows: The chairman Of the National
committee has the distribution of the
three hundred platform tickets in his dis
cretion. Each delegate has seven admis-
sion tickets to the hall, including those
for himself and his alternate. The tickets
have five coupons, and can procure adj
mission only five times. A proposal by
Mr.. Goudy that if a ticket-holder left the
hall during session he should receive
back a coupon on which another admis-
sion could be obtained, was opposed on
the ground that the privilege might be
abused, and was withdrawn.
The tickets were printed by the Ameri-
can Bank Ncte Company of New York.
They are warranted to be as difficult as
bank notes to counterfeit. They are
printed in three colors, and are highly
artist tic in appearance.
Precipftated into a Ravine.