The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-06-24
CLEVELAND.
Victory ?1'sA's Oh The
Ey-?rHsii!aat' ) Banner.
NOMINATED ABOUT : O'CLOCK this
MORNING ON first BALLOT.
A Long, Stubborn and Bit
Ter Fight Of Nearly
Ten Hours.
Henry WattersOn's VictO-
nv OH the Tariff Plank.
David i. Hills Friends Stick
to Him 10 the Last.
Tammany Died Hard But Says 1t Will
Support the NOminee-Exet-
ing Scenes.
Henry WattersOn'S VictO-
ryOn the Tariff Plank.
David i. Hills Friends Stick
to Him 10 the Last.
Tammany Died Hard But Says 1t Will
Support the NOminee-Excn-
ing Scenes.

CHICAGO, June est was day
light before the Democratic cOnven-
ton adjourned this morning, after
session of nearly ten hours. The
greatest part of its work had been
completed in the nomination Of Cleve-
land as the candidate for President,
after one of the bitterest preliminary
struggles ever seen.
Greater in adversely than in victory
was Henry Watterson, the distin-
gufshed Democratic leader who march
ed to the platform the indOmitabie
exponent Of the proud principle of
tariff reform, aud assaulted the
Committee on Resolutions so success
fully that he carried the convention
by storm and succeeded in defeating
the majority report and adopting the
minority presented by Hon. Lawrence
T. Neal, of Ohio. The latter unequivO-
cally disputed the constitutional right
of Congress to impose tariff duties i'll
excess of the actual revenue nece ST.
ties OF the government.
The mutations of politics will never
better be eXemplified than in the bal
lot cast upon this mOmentOus ques-
ton. Arrayed side by side with
Henry Watterson and solidIy in IA
vor of a plank tersely declaring
against all protection to American
industries were the seventY-twO votes
of the Empire State and the twenty
six votes of Iowa. In the short but
decisive debate WattersOn proved
more than a match for the great Wis
consin Senator, Villas, for he an
swered all the latter's quotations
of past Democratic platforms by
simply asserting that it was the
duty of the Democratic party to
be always advancing, and that
the tariff declarations of eight
years ago were no longer sutfi-
cient to satisfy the masses, who were
now clamOring against the tariff rob
berry. Once more, too, Henry Waiter
son proved, despite all the bubbles of
the recent State convention, that he is
still the uncrowned monarch Of the
Blue Grass State. Every admirer of
the great kentucky leader-and they
numbered thousands on the floor and
in the lleries-j Oined in the ap
plause which quickly followed with
| the announcement that the solid vote
of Kentucky had been cast in favor Of
sustaining Henry WattersOn in his
! fight against the Committee on Res
OlutiOns.
1t fell to the lot of Illinois, how
ever, at the critical moment, to turn
| the tide which for a few minutes
! threatened destruction to the cause OF
| the radical tariff refOrmers. Until IL
! linois was reached the vote had been
rather against the substitute of the
gentleman from Ohio, but when that
state cast its solid fOrty-siX votes in
favor of the amendment, it being
known that Cleveland was the choice
of the Prairie State for the presiden-
CIV and all doubts as to the support of
the substitute were removed and the
call of the succeeding States devel-
oped an overwhelming sentiment in
favor Of the most radical declaration
that the Democratic party has ever
made upon the question OF tariff re-
form.
The contest over the silver ques-
ton was brief and decisive. Mr.. Pat
JeTBOu, Ol COIOIauOS PISSCAtCu LII
nority report declaring in favor OF
free coinage, but after a brief argu-
ment by him it was promptly defeat
| ed by an overwhelming vote.
| The remainder of the platform was
we'll received, although slight evil
! dence that civil service reform Is not
vet accepted as good Democratic re-
! Iigion by the rank and file of the
party was furnished by the misses
( which promptly greeted the reading
Eof the resolution.
The first mention of Grover CleVe-
land in the Democratic convention,
was reserved for the opening clause
| of the platform, reported by the COM
mittee on resolutions. The ovation
which instantly followed was typical
of all great national conventions, but
! il was almost rivaled by the scene
which followed the mention OF the
name of David B. Hill an hour later
by Gov. Albeit. The Hill people
made the most of the incidental
mention Of their leaders, name by the
gentleman who named Cleveland,
and as twenty minutes wore on with
out any abatement Of their enthusl-
asm, Mr.. Albeit looked particularly
| i'll at ease, and evidently wished he
| had refrained from pronouncing hiS
attribute to the distinguished New
| Yorker.
Hon. VIM. c.. Dewitt, of New York
in placing Hill in nomination de-
livered carefully prepared Grafton,
and contained u very emphatic warn
ing to the National Den ocracy
against the error of nominating a
presidential candidate who was re-
pugnant to the Democracy OF his own
State. The Hon. J. r. Fellows, of
New York, in secOnding Hills nOmi-
nation, displayed his usual forensic
ability, and the efforts of the Cleve-
land people to hiss him down were
signalIy unsuccessful in affecting the
puRnacions orator of the New York
Democracy.
Gov. Boies, of Iowa, was placed in
nomination by the Hon. John F.
Duncombe, OF that State, and the
Iowa people were not behind their
opponents in demonstrating their
LOYALTY to their favOrite leader. Henry
Watterson, whose tariff victory made
him the hero of the day, seconded
Boies in q few we'll chosen words.
The other seconding speeches were
received with i'll disguised impatience
by the delegates aud audience who
were DESTROYS of reaching a final
vote, until that of Gov. Patrick Col
Inns was reached. His well directed
and terse sentences captured the
crowd and flxed the attention OF the
| delegates.