Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-05-18

should prove himself the most brilliant
star was the question. The support was
said By some to be good. while others who
had seen the performance number OF
times were not slow to state that it was
peculiarly rotten, and if they did not have
a sympathiziug audience they would GER
tainiy he greeted with eat cali and misses
The first business after the convention
met was to hear the reports OF conf
mitteeS-
The committees were called in order
and the first report was that Of the COM
noittee on order OF business, which was as
follows:
= l. Report of committee on credentials
.. Report of committe on order OF bust
ness
8. Report of committee on permanent
organization
4. Report of committee ON resolutions
5. Adjourned TO allow the congressional
districts Co elect their delegates and alter
mates.
6. Report, BIZ districts, of the election OF
delegates and alternates. and the ratlIlca-
ton of the same by the convention.
7. Election of four delegates at large
and alternates.
PEFAA NENT ORGANIZATION.
The temporary organization was made
permanent by the committee on perina-
nent organization. The committee on Gre
dentiaIs reported only one contest-that
for Graham county. There were four dele
gates present with only two allowed py
order of the call The committee decided
that each of the contestants should be al
lowed one-half vote each. giving the cour-
ty full representation.
When the report of the committee on
permanent organization was READ the
chair again thanked the convention ana
was made the blushins recipient OF TWO
very handsome bouquets by some admir-
ing ladies in the boxes
After the adoption of the report of the
committee just named, a delegate from
Pottowottomie county said that as there
was minority report be desired 1t read.
The Chair-''What is the pleasure OF the
convention? Shall the minority report be
read?" Cries OF 10. no!)
Another member from that historically
pugnacious county-Pottowott0m
a point of order and insisted upon the
reading of the minority report, but the
chair having decided it not well taken, the
delegate contented himself with the sig
nifcant remark, Il see the tenor OF the
convention and now withdraw my motion,
simply because they don't want to see
what is behind the screens. The commit
tee reports were cal led for but the com
mittee on resolutions not being ready the
committee on credentials through the
chairman. Mr. Donohue, of Atchison, made
the following report, there being only one
contest, that in Graham county-two dele
gates-each OF the four was given seat
aud allowed one-half of a vote.
A Sumner county delegate asked that
the name Of j. L. Order be stricken out
and Mr. Stillwell, who had given Mr..
Order a proxy was now in the convention
hall. This brought to his feet Mr.. Grlder,
who said IF Mr.. Stillwell is here, he Is
here in obedience to the unholy solicitation
of other delegates, who do not want me TO
keep my seat in this convention. L OBJ
tanned my seat in this convention fairly,
without any fraud or decepti on and now
when Mr.. Stillwell demands it he has
changed his nina since this morning.
Just as came in this afternoon Mr.. Still
we'll asked me for his proxy which he had
given me- ! informed him that he was
too late, as it had gone to the committee
on credentials and was beyond my control.
The convention was with Mr.. Order,
and with "a great big No voted down the
PROPOSITION to substitute Mr.. Stillwell' S
name This incident made Mr. Order the
lion of the hour, and in response to loud
and irrepressible calls, he stepped upon
the stage and made a vigorous and excel
leEtly received speech, which stamped him
as one of the brightest young men In the
Kansas Democracy.
The committee on resolutions not being
ready, Mr.. c. H. j. Taylor (colored), min
lister to Liberia, beng called, stepped upon
the stage When he began with "Mr.
Chairman and fellow Democrats" the
novelty of colored Democrat caught the
convention and he was greeted with con
siderable cheering. He said the Demo
cratic party has been better to the negro
than he deserves. He eulogized the treat
ment President Cleveland had given the
colored people. Speaking of the Republi-
can party, Mr. Taylor said that Republic
cans would have colored people believe
that the creed ought to run, GOD the
Father, Christ the Son, and the
Republican party, three in one" [Cheers.l
He called Senator ingalls, ''the vitupera-
tive, sinewy, honey, caustic senator
Speaking of the colored propensity to bt
Republicans, he said his race had about
this sort of prayer: NOW | lay me down
to sleep, want to be Republican; pray
the Lord my soul to take, because l am q
Republican" Further on, speaking Of
the unanin1ity with which his race voted
the Republican ticket, he said they were
like lot of sheep with only one head, and
if they were going to continue that they
might just as well appoint zone able
bodied niger to cast the vote for the whole
race"
But when he came to speak Of President
Cleveland, who has done so mech for Mr.
Taylor's race, through the appointment Of
Mr.. Taylor to an Office created by the Re
publican party and which by the courtesy
OF that party has always been assigned t.
colored men. he became efferyescent and
actually "slopded over" His peroratioI
upon President Cleveland was as follows
That man of destinyi That immortal
and illustrious angel Of purity Tha;
second coming of Christ, etc.
ETC." After Mr.. Taylor's arnusinQ
speech, the convention, at 40 O'Clock
took an adjournment OF one hour for the
purpose of allowing the several congress
sioBal district conventions to select the
gentlemen they would request the eonven-
ton to send TO St. Louis as the district
delegates and alternates-
During the noon recess the First con.
- O..
lock and held meeting for the election Of
two delegates and alternates- The meet
ing. il seems, was called TO order more t.