The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1892-05-25

States in forty years. No one had dared
to charge him with any dishonorable
or dishonest act. Applause from the
gallery AS private citizen Cleve-
land has taken his position on the great
questions Of the day. If there was
anything in the signs OF the times
Cleveland was the coming man. When
Cleveland is nominated what are you
going to do about It? What are you 60
ing to say in behalf of man whom
you have denounced as the tool Of Wall
street? A voice: "Vote for Tillman and
Clevelandn'l How can you do it when
you have out Of your own mouths de-
nounced him?
Mr.. Haskell warned the Convention
that if they passed the resolution it
meant that South Carolina would con-
tribute its share 20 the defeat Of the
Democratic party. He reminded the
convention that it was Wall street
which had elected Harrison in 1883,
and he closed amid the plaudits Of the
gallery.
Mr.. Gary, of Chester, wanted Boeis,
Of Iowa, and Hill for second choice.
DR.. Pope, of Newberry, explained his
objections to Cleveland on the ground
that Cleveland had at one time written
letter opposing the free coinage OF sill
yer.
HERE rs A soLON TO BE SURE.
Delegate Brown, of, Darlington, was
opposed to Cleveland because when he
was President be- loaned millions of
dollars to Wall street and not a dollar
to the farmers.
MOORE SHOWS HIS COLoRs.
Delegate Moore, of Charleston, repa-
dated the utterances Of delegate Their
rell, his colleague Of Charleston. He
said the reform delegation, with one or
two exceptions, were solid. for Grover
Cleveland, and repudiated delegate
Therrell's denunciation.
All this time there had been cries for
Benet from the Alliance side.
TRYING TO CRAWL OUT OF IT.
Mr.. Benet was now given the re-
mainder for the time to close the debate.
Mr.. Benet said it was not necessary to
argue the matter; he was in favor Of
the majority report. The resolutions
do not denounce Cleveland as a prosti-
tute Of Wall street. The prostitution
denounced was the action Of the Chica-
60 Convention il it should nominate |
Cleveland. The Democracy owes no
debt to Cleveland. It placed its for
tunes in his hands in 1854 and he |
wrecked them. 2hese resolutions were |
framed because something had arisen
since 1884 that some people do not |
seem to realize. There was a great |
change since 1884. This. convention |
comes from the people. [Applause.l
Has Cleveland not heard Of the Alli-
ance and the Farmers movement? If
it was true that Georgia had elected a :
Cleveland delegation, so much the
worse for Georgia and the Democratic |
party. These resolutions were framed
in order to place South Carolina against /
the danger of the Third party. There
was severe fight in this caucus last
night to strike out anything referring
to the Third party. Mr.. Benet init
mated very plainly that unless these
resolutions were passed there was dan
ger of the Democracy being swamped
by the Third party.
This ended this discussion. The
minority report was voted down loud
ly.
Delegate Simons, Of Charleston de-
manded the yeas and nays.
A DIsGRACEFUL PROCEEDING.
After good deal of confusion it was
decided to bolt the whole thing
the Ocala platform, the Cleveland de-
nunciatory resolution, and the Till
man laudatory resolution together.
There were no tellers appointed for the
roll, they were hardly needed. The
whole majority report was adopted
yeas 237, nays 40.
Of course the announcement was re-
ceived with the p]audits Of the Alli-
ance.
The convention, at II o'clock, reach
ed point where it seemed to be ready
to 60 into an election for delegates.
A STORMY SCENE.
The complete ticket had been made
up cut and dried and was ready to go
through with snap, and could have
done so but for the outrageous attempt
made to choke off the minority. A
very stormy scene was brought about
in this way. Nominations being called
for the Big Four were placed in nomi-
nation as follows: Tillman, Irby, Tai
bert and Stokes. :
AS soon as these names had been an
nounced and while Delegate Nichols,
of Spartanburg. was on the floor to put ]
up other names, motion was made
that nominations he closed. {
Nlr. Speaker Talbert was quick to put
the question and declared the motion !
adopted. S
Before Mr.. Nichols could read the {
names Of candidates Mr.. Haskell took
the floor to protest against the ruling {
of the chair, and Mr.. Gary Evans
moved that the complaint of the gen.
tlemen be dismissed.
This was carried with iurrah and r
with the evident approval Of the Chair. t
But Mr.. Haskell was not satisfied. He l
above the din and the con-
fusion, that the convention had no q
right to deprive DELEGATE Of the privi- q