New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-09-07
THURMAN UNABLE TO SPEAK
AN ATTACK OF CHOLERA MORBUS AT HIS
BIG MEETING.

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CONDITION NOT CONSIDERED sERIoUs-THE
| MADISON SQUARE GARDEN FILLED
| WITH DIsORDERLY DEMOCRATIC
| CROwD-THE SPEAKERS AND
| SOME OF THE OFFICE HoLD<
Frs WHO WERE
PRESENT.
With the aid Of fireworks, and music and all
the stage properties Of campaign enthusiasm the
Democrats got up big meeting last night to
honor Judge Thurman. Madison Square Garden
was filed. and Twcnty-sxth and Twcnty-sevcnth
SITS, where arrangements had been made for over
| flow meetings were well nigh cholScd But the Old
Roman" succumbcd to an attack Of cholera morbus,
and had to end his speech after he had been on
| hS feet n few minutes. lie was taken at once
to the Fifth Avenue Hotel where he soon became
mere comfortable and went TO sleep at an carly
hour. His physician says the attack is not serious.
| 1t was sad disappointment to the Democrats
who had come to feast their eyes on the Old
Roman" and drink in wisdom and inspiration from
his words. And he had said the day before that
he would make his voice heard by ten thousand
people
DISCOURTEsY TO OTHER SPEAKERS.
| Enthusiasm for the Old Roman led the crowd
to be discourtcous to other speakers. Chairman
bing merely by being extremely brief and simply
introducing Roswell p. Flower rs the chairman Of
the meeting Mr.. Flower had prepared an clabo-
rate speech, but after the Old Roman" was seen
on the platform the crowd simply refused TO listen
TO It, and howlcd for Thurman after a fashion that
would brook no denial. Mr. Flower. who had once
cherished Presidential aspirations himself found
himself rudcy and cruelty suppressed by the big
gcst Democratic audience that he had ever
faced But he consoled himself with the
reflection that loyal Democratic papers would print
next day the speech that he would have delivered
if he had had the chance How the crowd dId
howl when the Old Roman stood up 1t kept
cheering him for nearly ten minutes. Some OF
this was due to the fear that if it didn't keep on
shouting for Thurman it would have to listen
to the rest of Mr. Flowers speech.
The crowd was too eager to hear the Old
Roman to perceive that there anything
wrong about him. But that was apparent to the
observant the moment that he stood up His
face was almost as white his hair His eyes
were dull There was none of the fire about
him that an Old Roman in good health exhibits.
For several minutes the crowd kept the poor
sick old man standing there before it would give
him chance TO open his mouth. And when he
did try TO speak not word could be heard at
looked perplexed Dismay was depicted IN the
faces CT the corps OF stcnographers who had been
specially engaged by some Democratic papers to
take the "Old Roman" verbatim.
They moved the table that ran in front of the
speakers stand and got right under Mr. Thur
man, but only few of them succeeded in catching
anything that he said This is one version of his
remarks:
Allen &. Thurman is poor, weak. broken down man.
hayo been Ill this afternoon and am In no condition
10 speak 20 an immense audience ike this When see
you | am almost induced 10 make an effort but am
really too I'll.
The vast audience did not hear word OF this.
They could only see a white ced, feeble old man
and see that his lips moved. Then suddenly they
ceased TO move Some Of his friends the plat
form Jumped to his side and supported him until
he was seated in a chair Somebody on the plat
form with q good deal Of presence of mind gave
signal which started the band playing again.
The audience didn't know what to make Of it and
many expected that he would make speech later
! in the evening.
HE WAS PLAINLY A SICK MAX.
But Immediately after being helped to seat
he was seized with fit of vomiting. DR.. Cold
tbwaite. the housc-surgcon of the Fifth Avenue
HOTEL who was on the platform, gave HIM some
brandy and spirits of ammonia In few min
helped off the platform. A body of stalwart po-
cemcn cleared passage through the
crowd. and when the street was reached Judge
Thurman was assisted into carriage and driven
hac, to the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Here Dr. Cold
thwaite attended him and he was at once put TO
bed
IN hour later his son. Alien w Thurman, said
There is nothing serious the matter with father
II is only case OF old fashioned cholera mornuS;
He's had it once before in this campaign. He'll
hn oil riolt IN M
slightest doubt He had the stomach ache TINS
afternoon, followed by vomiting-the regulation
cholera mOrbus DE-. Goldthwatc was called In
and patched him up He ought not TO have gone
to the meeting, but he insisted on gong because
he didn't want TO disappont the people that had
| turned out to hear him. -,
Then he sent this telegram 10 MIS- Alien tr
! Thurman, at Columbus. Ohio:
n you see in the morning papers that father Is sick
don't be in any alarmed. lie simply had an old
fashioned attack cholera morbus and Is all hight now
WHAT TIE PHYSICIAN SAID
DR. Goldthwate said that he not at all
alarmed about the condition Of his DISTINGUISHING
patient but felt assured that he would he all
right in the morning. No other physician was
called in. The report that it was simply
case Of old-fashioncd cholera morbus' quieted the
alarm that was felt in the hotel, when 1t became
known that Judge Thurman was SICK.
The official bulletin of DR.. Godthwalte, the
house-surgeon of the Fifth Avenue Hotel issued
at 10 80 o'clock, was as follows
Fifth Avenue Hotel Sept. 6, 1888
Judge Thurman was pcHccuy wei up 10 'oV P H.
when he complained Of nausea and pain In the bowels
after followed by free vomiting and purSing. having
attack Of cholera morbus Against the advice OF
his soD. Allen W Thurman he would attend the meeting
az Madison Square Garden had recovered from
the effects Of the attack His effort caused some return
of prostrao. At 10 80 he Is sleeping
quietly, with good pulse and bad effects nom the az
tack H. GOLDTHWAITE, NJ d.
1t was also stated that the Judge did not eat
ANYTHING all day. Dr. Godthwaite wished this
to be known because some people had said that
probably he had eaten something that had dis
agreed with him.
A REGULAR DEMOCRATIC CROWD.
At the meeting in Madison Square Garden many
people displayed more zeal than judgment in
trying to get near the speakers stand. The surg
ing Of the crowd against the barricadc which
divided the seated portion of the audience on the
main floor fronting the speakers platform from