Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-06-01

the delegates to be liberal with their cash
Almost the instant Mr.. Evans completed
his preliminary appeal, a subscription OF
81 900 from 7. f. Sturtevant, of Boston, wa
followed second later by another 81 ,OOOfron
r. H. Mcdonald, of California, who was
placed before the convention of 1884 for the
head of the ticket Then came j. B. Hobbs,
of Illinois. with : 900, and W. j. Demorest
of New York, who first put down $500 and
afterward raised it to $1,000. From this the
amounts went down to $500, and they came
in thick and fast. The Missouri delegation,
in conjunction with j. H. Crane, pledged
81 900, as did also delegate from Portland
Ore. and j. X. johnson, of Grand Rapids
Mich, like sums The subscriptions, as they
grew smaller i'll amount, increased i'll mum
Der, until the total reached nearly $4,000
Then the enthusiasm increased and A. M.
Wheeler, of Chicago, subscribed 5000
which melted the Californians to do likewise,
and Mr.. Sturtevant followed suit by raising
his subscription to an equal amount. Two
incidents which were received with tremen-
dous applause were the contribution by Rev.
Father Mahoney, a Roman Catholic priest,
of St Paul, of 500 out of his salary of $500
per year and the announcement that five
daughters of Gen. Upton, U. S. A, author
of Upton's Tactics, each subscribed 50
Father Mahoney was called to the
stage amid a perfect whirlwind of applause
and made a short speech. The total sub
scriptions reached about $4,000.
With everybody cheering with most up
roarious enthusiasm the convention then took
recess until 2 p. IN.
QIWhen the convention assembled in the
afternoon there was the usual half hour of
Bible reading and prayer, and notwithstand-
ing the pressure upon the time of the con-
vention and important business before it, an
other fifteen minutes were devoted to an en-
tertainment by an itinerant chalk artist
Judge Black, of Pennsylvania, brought up
the report of the committee on resolutions
with the statement that it was signed by all
but one of the committee The planks which
gained the most applause We're those leading
to woman suffrage, the prohibition of COM
binations of capital and the reduction of the
surplus, the latter being greeted with three
rounds. Sam Small read the report, and
Hon. John NJ Olin of Wisconsin, presented
a minority report signed by himself alone,
setting forth that the right of equal suffrage
to women should be settled by the states ac-
cording to the public sentiment in those
states, and declaring that as rapidly as the
Prohbitonists came into power they would
remit this question to the people to be set
tied at the hallot-box. At first the conven-
ity report, and for half an hour there was
confusion COMPOUNDED Several of the lead
ing suffragists however, dc manded fair play
for their opponents, the previous vote was
reversed and the report was read. Then the
majority report was taken up plank by
plank A number of amendments were
made, the first of Importance being to the
fifth plank, which was thought by one clause
to commit the convention to direct taxation
and an income tax, and the clause was
stricken out The great debate, however, oc-
CURED over the seventh plank-the one re-
ferring to suffrage-and a long time was de-
voted To talk on how longit should ba de-
bated The result finally reached was that
nobody should speak more than five minutes,
and that everybody should speak who de-
sired.
Mr. Richmond, of Wisconsin, took the lead
against the plank in a vigorous speech, in
sisting that the only issue of the party was
"down with rum" and that to go into the
work of educating G0,000,0O0 people on the
question of suffrage as they had been edu-
Gated on Prohibition would throw the move
nient back for quarter of a century MIS-
Merry weather, of Georgia, who threw her
arms and body into every conceivable attl-
tude urged the convention not TO listen to
the men of the north, who were SIMPLY IN
fants in the party. She had gone through
tie entire south and had found the sentiment
in favor of woman suffrage, and she begged
them to strike at the "most terrible system OF
slavery that ever existed" Mrs. Perkins, OF
Ohio, followed in the same strain, and DIN,
OF Wisconsin, in supporting his minority re-
port, aroused the ire of the Tennessee dele
gates by claiming to represent the south,
claim which they vOciferously repudiated
de said that the alliance with woman suffrag- |
lists had driven Walter Mills, the Little |
Chant of Ohio" grand old Jutkins and many |
other Prohibitionist leaders from the public |
platform, and that an adoption of the plank |
as reported would entirely stop the growth of !