Los Angeles herald., 1892-06-23
Exciting Scenes on the Floor of the
Convention.
Cleveland's Name Presented by Gov
ern0r Albeit.
Beies and Hill We're Also Placed in
Nomination.
The Tariff Plank Of tho Platform Modi-
aod to Suit Henry Watterson.
Free Coinage Voted
n Down.
Rx thc AssocIated Press.l

CHICAG0y June Zz.-A yOutnIul OlvlHe
Of the Methodist Episcopal church is
the first to give an official intimation
that God ia to be with the Democratic
party in the coming campaign. The
opening prayer in the convention was
very gratifying to the laymen Of the
Democracy today, and that the assur-
ance Of divine assistance is authorita-
tive, the wags insist, is amply demon
strated by the information coming, from
the church which they have 30 often
denounced as being disguised adjunct
Of the Republican party. The audience
gave demonstrative approval of the
sentiments expressed by the fer
vent young divine. He endorsed
the Democratic principles by asking
the Almighty to guide the trainers Of
the party platform 50 that every true
lover of liberty and of the rights OF
man, should be able to find place
where he might stand out tor prin-
siplsa that hsss made the past Of the
nation glorious; but the cheers could
no longer be suppressed, when he
asked that the nominees might repre-
sent. the spirit Of modern Democracy |;
progressive Democracy; Democracy
which is arrayed on the side of the
masses against the classes, and strives
TO lift from the shoulders of the people
the burdens borne for the benefit Of
: favored few.
AN INTELLECTUAL FEAST.
The first session OF the convention
was an intellectual feast. There was
very little in the way OF effective busi-
ness to be transacted, and dample oppor-
tunity was afforded for the regalement
of the delegates by a flow OF oratory.
The first speech Of the day was made by
Gen. John M. Palmer. The senator's
speech awakened all the latent political
fervor that was waiting for days to be
Quickened into enthusiasm by the stir
ring eloquence OF some popular leader.
Palmer, who is the recognized leader of
the Democratic party in Illinois, pledged
the electoral vote of the great state to
the nominee Of the convention, whoever
he may be, next November. He was
the only speaker Of the day who ignored
the tariff question.
''The Republicans at Minneapolis"
naid he, adopted a platform that is a
menace to the people of the country
because it promises a new force bill. AS
sure as Benjamin Harrison is elected
and the next congress is Republican, we
will have force bill such as the inge-
nuity Of John Davenport, or the devil,
may suggest"
The deafening cheers which followed
this sentence was an evidence that the
south at least would exert every possible
effort to prevent either of the characters
mentioned from ever having an oppor-
tunity to exercise his ingenuity in the
line of the senator's warning.
CHAIRMAN Wilson'S SPEECH.
Hon. William L. Wilson, of West
Virginia. is admitted by all to have
made the speech Of his life, in assuming
the gavel as permanent chairman of the
convention. In his whole speech there
was not stale expression, nor q aingle
hackneyed phrase.
''There is no self-government where
the people do not control their own
elections and levy their own taxes, (" was
his first indirect allusion to the force
bill, but the audience quickly caught
the sentiment. and the mammoth wig
wan reverberated with storm Of en-
thusiasm. He denounced the political
methods Of the Republican party by
saying that in every campaign the
privilege Of taxing the people would
continue to be bartered for contribu-
tions to corrupt them at the polls, and
that after every victory new Mckinley
bsll would be enacted to repay the con-