St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-06-07
SHOUTING FOR GROVER.
Delegates and Spectators Indulge
in Pandemoniac Yelling for
Full Twenty-Three Minutes.


Full Twenty-Three Minutes.
ST. LOUIS, June 6.-When Mr.. Dough-
erty finished his speech at 12:061a the
delegates and audience set up a yell.
After simply yelling for half a minute
they began to get enthused, and some of
the more ardent peeled their coats and
commenced waving them. About this
time the door of the capitol at the end
of the platform was swung aside, and i'll
the panel appeared portrait of Cleve-
land, occupying the center of the facade
of the capitol. Then the delegates and
the audience went wild, and with
furious energy, worked their voices and
their bodies in their efforts to testify
their approval of the nomination. A
band somewhere in the galleries started
up Marching Through Georgia." and
the air or the sentiment, nobody knew
which, elected tremendous outburSt
of cheers. At this time about third of
the delegates and, perhaps. one-fourth
of the audience produced bandana hand
kerchiefs and waved them frantically,
and in response to this fresh incentive
there was national swell outburst of
noise. Then one man in the gallery
took his new plug hat and sent it sail
ing across the space over the heads of
the delegates and 1t was caught by
party in the opposite gallery with the
eXpertneSS of professional base ball
player. After.
EIGHT MINUTES OF BEDLAM,
Chairman Collins thought the thing had
gone far enough, and thumped and
pounded for order. but with every
thump of the gavel arose new section
of yells from the assemblage, and Chair
hn in, in
At this juncture Daniel Dougherty
mounted a chair in the center of the
New York delegation and waved flag.
From all parts of the hall delegates
gathered in about Dougherty bearing
the standards of their respective states
and formed in a circle around him,
holding in a sort of canopy over his
head the placardS bearing the names of
the states. In marked distinction from
the scarlet bandanas, the standards of
Indiana and Kansas were decorated
with stripes of black silk, indicating
the adherence of the parties who bore
them to the cause of the present COM
missioner of pensions Under the can
of United States flags were introduced,
and the tableau as thus completed was
greeted
WITH PANDEMONIAC CHEERING
and howls and yells. A young fellow
in the upper gallery broke in on the up
roar with the mellifluous strains of a
melodeon, giving still more internal
tone to the turmoil. Among the audi
ence in the rear of the delegates num-
Der of people produced flock of big
yellow eagles, which by some arrange
ment were made to flap their wings, and
so far as any one knew in the terrific
uproar they may have also screamed for
the Democratic nominee. When the
demonstration at last subsidized compar-
atively, John B. Castleman and A. o.
De Jarnette, of Kentucky, carried the
Kentucky standard on the platform and
planted it beside the chairman's desk to
emphasize the second which Kentucky
proposed on Grover Cleveland. Eight
cen minutes of unadulterated BedIam
seemed to be enough to suit the dele
gates, and they sank back into their
seats, but the audience were not salts
fed with this allotment OF time, and
continued the uproar five minutes
longer, when they were finally brought
to order.