The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-06-24

veteran startled the 20, 900 people in the
national Democratic convention at 0
o'clock last night by the air Of eve
won't 20 home till morning" There
was no particular occasion for sug-
gestive refrain lust at that time except
that the convention was in the depth
Of a labarynth OF confusion, but the re-
suit shows that the spirit of prophecy
which had seized the leader OF that
band was well justified by the events
followed. The heavens were sufused
with the yellow light q dawn when the
chairman at last declared the conven-
ton adjourned, and as the thousands OF
Democrats filed into the hall shouting
Wet .,iouaiy for Grover Cleveland, the
moro exuberant as they looked in the
direction OF the rising sun, declared
that tho hours OF sleep had passed, and
so indeed they had-not only for tho
victorious element, but for everybody
else, for thestreets have re-echoed with
ceaseless cheers for Grover Cleveland
ever since his nomination was declared
unanimous at 1920 o'clock this morning.
TUE RcDERIcK DnU OF rAMMANY.
Tammany was defiant to the end.
The greatest orator OF its organization
was marshaled for that the last moment.
As he hurled the greatest political phil.
ippic OF the ago into the very teeth OF
his opponents, the thousands of Cleve-
land enthusiasts were conquered into
admiration for his courage, and no ora
tor OF the national convention OF 1902
received more respectful consideration
than was accorded to the Hon. Bourke
Cochran, OF New York. At tho conclu-
sion the vastrhalI reverberated with en-
thusiastic tribute to his grandeur, bEt
the die OF destiny had becn cast. The
warning OF the eloquent New Yorker
was powerless TO check the great tidal
wave which twenty minutes later hurled
from its crest the nomination OF great
national convention at the feet OF
Grover Cleveland. The convention
brought with it many surprises. None
was greater than that tho committee on
resolutions should have been repudiat-
cd as disloyal to the revenue reform
principles Of the Democratic party, and
its tariff plank swept aside for the sub
stitution OF clause declaring against
the principles OF protection by main
taining that the federal government has
no power to impose tart duties in ex-
cess of tho revenue necessities OF the
government when honestly and econom-
icllly administered.
wArrERsoS's VICTORY.
In a Democratic convention con-
trolled bv friends OF Grover Cleveland
over two 10. one. it remained Tor his
principal opponent, Henry Wasterson,
Of Kentucky, to challenge the very
friends OF the recognized loader OF
tariff reform for ialtering at the crucial
moment and endeavoring to compro-
mise and temporize with the burning
issue OF the ago. 1t was the invincible
logic of Watterson, uttered with an
emotion almost terrible in its intensity,
that caused tile convention to pause on
tho brink; and so ably was the great
Kentuckian supported by the fiery Neal
OF Ohio, who opened the fight as dis
sentins member of the committee, that
n wave OF sentiment which all the
pleading OF Villas was powerless to re-
sist, swept over the assembly by a vote
OF nearly two TO one, tho committees
Recommendation was borne down and
another launched on that political
stream which flows in but one dlrec-
tion-tarifF for revenue only.
For time it was hard TO make tn 9
friends OF Cleveland in the various