The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-07-05
CONVENTION GOES WILD.

CONVENTION GOES WILD.
After the Adoption of the Platform Remark
able Enthusiasm Is Displayed.
Then the convention broke over all re-
straint and went wild. Delegates arose on
their chairs. cheering and waving coats,
hats aud fans, and throwing things in the
air. Several delegates seized Br anch Of
Georgia, chairman of the committee on
resolutions and trotted him up and down
the main aisle on :neir shoulders
A number of delegates seized the up
rights, used to hold placards designating
the places of delegations, and rushed with
them to the platform, forming Gordon
about the whole platform.
Banners were also borne there. Frontier
county, Nebraska, bore placard Inscribed
WHAT is Home Without a Mortgages
Don't All Speak at Once" a picture of
settlers cabin was part of it, and on the
reverse side one big gold piece was in
scribed Twenty Dollars, 1892" the por-
trait OF the device on the coin being q
moneylender with long, avsricious nose
and noticeable lack of chin.
Tennessees banner pledged $4,000 votes
to the new party.
Virginia had George Washington as its
example.
Banners and placards were rushed down
from the stage, and the impromptu pro-
cession, 10 which new adherents were con-
stantly received. started around the body
of the hall in which the delegates sat, the
drummers heading the fnarcners.
Connecticuts banner said: Congress
and not the people, be damned" Shylock's
twins; Grover and Ben" The. crowd
broke forth time aud time again in ap-
plsuse;
WOMEN JOINED IN THE MOVEMENT,
and getting in line marched with their
male associates. The men not in line were
shouting encouraging cries OF fright, sis
teri After twenty five minutes of this
sort of thug, th5 leaders concluded to stem
the tide, but it was hEI1 work The re-
markable demonstration sill continued
forming in the center Of the hall. The
band played yankee Doodle,' and
Dixie while q number of enthusiastic
delegates sang party songs
Taubereck hadduring the latter part Of
the scene following the adoption of tie
platform been in despair, seeking to get an
opportunity to make himself heard.
GRESHAM HEARD FROM.
He was on chair wildly waving a tele-
gram just received. The surmise that the
dispatch was from Gresham spread like
wildfire aud from all over the hall people
rushed to get information from Taubeneck.
while others became excited aud added to
the confusion BY
ROWLING DOWN THEIR NEIGHBoRs.
The people on the stage were the noisiest
and Ingersoll of Kansas, regardless of the
,hos.- .ter
rushed up and vehemently warned them to
keep quiet.
The nti-Gresham men sought now to
create diversion against a stampede of
the convention to Gresham. Tauoeneck
finally got on the platform and was com
paratively quiet, but the attention was
again taken from the matter OF real inter
est by the chair recognizing instead of
Tsubeneck delegate named Wadsworth
of Indiana, who made rambling address
OF considerable length. Then aubeneck.
telegram in hand, was at last accorded q
hearing.
II haveu said he, 'just received a-tele-
gram from DR.. Hauser of Indiana. In
order that you may know what credit to
place in 1t, will tell you who he is. He is
the present candidate for heuteps ant gov
ernor on the Peoples party ticket and the
author of the celebrated work, is Marriage
Failure [Laughter.l This is the tele-
gram:
II have seen Gresham. If una Dimous,
he will not decline"
The effect CT this telegram was electri-
CAL Thousands of people sprang instantly
to their feet and thousands of voices
cheered again, and again for Gresham.
There seemed no doubt among those wildly
cheering enthusiasts that there were
majority of the delegates. Whether the
enthusiasm was an evidence of their
strength or not.
Immediately after the reading of this
dispatch, Brown of Massachuset took the
stage.
Equal rights to all, and special privi-
lege 10 none,' he said Loud cheersI. The
chairman has made the announce
ment that Gresham will accept If
nominated unanimously. TGries of
s'that's right and more cheering visibly to
the annoyance of the speaker. ] hold in
my hand letter from Chairman Page OF
the Virginia state alliance, in which he
tells me his name may go before this con-
vention for the presidential nomination,
and after a full. free, fair expression of the
convention, he is prepared TO abide by the
result. (F'aint cheers and laughter.) This
is Just little better than Gresham, who
wants it unanimous.
Here the audience arose en- masse.
..Gresham, Gresham, three cheers for
Gresham; Hurrah for Gresham'' rang
through the hall for several seconds and
the words were accompanied by
WILD MANIFESTATIONS OF ENTHUSIASM.
Brown yelled II do not propose to
attempt to stampede the convention with
the aid of the gallery. That is an old
party trick
A volley of hisses, loud, long and con-
tinued, greeted this statement, and again
Chairman Loucks interfered, shouting !:
This is q disgrace to the convention
Instantly Robert Schilling of Wisconsin
sprang to his feet: mo gentleman has a
right TO insult the chairman of our national
committee and our convention" He said,
amid ringing cheers: mo one has right
to SO insult US by making charges and
fraudulent inslnuations against the party 8
chairman
INDEsCRIBLE CONFUSION FOLLOWED
and insinuations were hurled back and
forth by the two factions. When silence
was restored Dr. Orr'apologized for any
thing he might have said in the heat of
the moment. Then Mrs. Lease elbowed
her way to the front AMI shouted in her
stentorian voice, ~ too have received q
message. | am authorized to say that if
the nomination is rendered unanimously
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