The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-06-01
GEN. CLINTON B. Fisk
Nominated by the Prohibitionists
for President, Yesterday.
THE WOMAN SUFFRAGE PLANK
In the Platform Creates Lively Dis
cussion, as Also Docs the Tariff
Plank-Jno. A. Brooks Nomi-
mated for Second Place.

Admission to the hall was not obtain
able until half past eight and the i'm
mense crowd which had gathered beforl
the entrance could not in the short tim,
remaining before the convention houl
get to their seats.
1t was good natured crowd, howev
er, and the jostling and pushing was ac
cepted with perfect good nature. The
! Galleries OF the convention hall wert
filed long before the delegates seats
were all occupied, but Chairman st
John, in spite Of the empty seats in the
delegates division, tapped the conven'
ton to order promptly at nine o'clock
At that moment the Missouri delegation
entered the hall with a banner bearing
the names of Fisk and Brooks. Con
siderable applause was elected, but il
was not general.
The days proceedings were opened
with song, followed by prayer from the
Rev. A. N. Richardson, OF Kansas. The
Committee on Rules was announced MS
ready to make its report, and the chair
man was accorded the floor. He pro-
ceeded to read the rules rs recommended
by the committee as follows:
The sessions OF the convention to be
from 8 to 1915 and from to o'clock /;
debate TO be confined to five minutes to
each delegate, no delegate to speak more
than once on each question; votes to be
taken by u call OF the States, the chair
man OF each delegation to announce the
vote, absent delegates to be voted in pro-
portion to those present; nominating
speeches to be confined to one for each
State for each Office. The remaining
recommendations were not OF interest.
A TANGLE.
The convention Immediately proceed
cd to get into tangle on the rule limit
ing debate on thesufTrage question, those
most interested in this probable plank
in the platform objecting seriously to so
circumscribing debate. Those favoring
an extension Of the time OF debate were
len by Rev. W. T. Mills, OF Ohio, and
Delegate BaScom OF Massachusetts. The
latter gentlemen moved to extend de.
bate on the suffrage plank to eight hours,
the leading speakers to be selected by
the two parties and confne the debate
to them. On this the previous question
was moved and it was voted down.
The rules were then adopted US re-
ported, and thus the first ballot on the
suffrage question ended without de-
cisive victory for either side, as various
delegates iavoring the extension OF the
time oppose women suffrage.
The delegation from Texas, which
under the call was entitled to PC regular
and 90 provisional delegates, was then
permitted to cast the full vote, the Gre.
dentials Committee giving the State
credit for but 2S.
A special motion by Rev. W. II. Boole,
OF New York, to limit debate on the suf-
fringe plank to three hours often minutes
each was defeated, and the report OF the
Committee on Finance was presented.
Itrecommends the adoption of the Ma
tional Committees plan, already formu-
lated, for an assessment by States, with
the additional provision that voluntary
contributions be taken in the Conven-
ton. The report OF the committee was
adopted.
During the debate on the woman
suffrage question the various factions
gave free vent to their lungs, cheering,
Kissing and shouting eyes" and "No"
until the sound OF the chairman's gavel
could scarcely be heard few feet from
the stage. George G. Christian, n Chi
cago lawyer, took the delegates to task
in sharp manner. He told them they
were wasting their time, that their meth.
ods would not only subservc no good
but do great deal OF harm, and that the
question had been so thoroughly dis.
cussed in the prohibition press, and
throughout the printed matter for the
past six months, especially by those in
favor OF the suffrage plank, that every
body had made up their minds.
THE FINANCIAL PART.
The Finance Committee recommended
that Rev. ]. ]. Evans, of Illinois, be
heard on the subject of raisinga cam
paign fund. While the reverend gentle.
man was making his way to the plat.
form band which had been smuggled
in through the back door, rendered the
"Star Spangled Banner" Marching
through Georgia" and "Dixie," while
the hoisting OF n transparency with the
Inscription "Fisk and Brooks" evoked
a tempest OF cheers and yells. No sooner
had Dir. Evans gained the platform than
he commenced to follow alter the most
approved methods OF kimball, the once
noted church-debt raiser. He wanted
money, he said, and he was going "a
have It. They had no bribery commit.
tee, and money had to be and must be
gotten there and then. First he wanted
$1,000 bricks. There was dense silence
on the part OF the convention for several
moments, Evans meanwhile shouting in
true exhorters style. 1--WE want to save
the country from rum. It's for youl
country, your homes, your God. Who's
firtp
P. F. Stucdevant, OF Boston, was moi
present, but Chairman Dickie mean
while who had been hopping all over the
floor, announced that he had been au
thorized to start the ball, with the name
Of the man from the bean-eating State
"Thank Godw shouted Evans, and the
delegates applauded again and again.
"Who's next2" was demanded, ant
after a brief pause President R. II. Nc
Donald, OF the Pacific Bank OF San Fran,
cisco, rose and announced the second
$1,000. The delegates wanted to get o
good look at the venerable Californian
and they yelled for him until he gol
upon his chair, and bowed to the right
and left.
DOLLARS ROLLING IN.
Then came James B. Hobbs, of Illinois
with $1,000, and W. ]. Demorest, of New
York, who first put down $500 and after
wards raised it to $1,000. From this tht
amounts went down to $500, and they
came in thick and fast. The Missouri
delegation in conjunction with w. H
Crane. pledged 81, 600 as did also a dele
gate from Portland, Oregon, and j. X
johnson, OF Grand Rapids, Mich, lik,
sums. The subscriptions, as they grew
smaller in amount, increased in numbe
until the total reached nearly sos, 600.
Near the close Of the money gathering
in great enthusiasm was created by
subscription OF 1000 by A. w, Wheeler