People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-07-15
INTERESTING SCENES.

The Peoples Convention Enthusiastic Over
the Platform Interesting Demonstra-
tiOn.
When the committee on re solutions reported
the platform 10 the peoples party national con.
vention at Omaha, lively scene followed
The banners which bore the state names Of
the delegations were seized and brought upon
the platform, and their bearers clambered upon
everything that could be mounted and writhed
and wrestled about in an endeavor 10 get each
banner highest, and Georgia somehow got there.
Three men got Mr.. Branch the chairman OF
the committee on resolutions, on their Shout
ders and carried him around the hall.
and then the banners left the platform
and there was procession, and all the
time the men out OF the burrows and the
factories yelled and yelled with such lungs as
labor makes. The band played all the time,
but only the throbbing Of the big drum made
itself audible above the clamor, Just now and
then you could make out that the horns we're
playing The Girl Left Behind Me-" which
was very appropriate under the circumstances
or Dixie" or yankee Doodle, or March.
ing Through Georgia" or Maryland, My Mary.
land" TWAS Kansas band, and II had go"
10 It.
The bowling never ceased Now IL rose as
the picture Of Washington was shown in the
procession; now the portrait Of President Polk
called out its tribute.
"What Is Home Without q Mortgage" was
the motto OF the Frontier county Banner and
on the other side were the satirical words: ain
Gold We Trust"
A lot Of old soldiers got together and went
marching around in the wake Of the banners
singing "Were Coming Father Abraham,
Three Hundred Thousand More"
Arkansas got wOman's hat on its banner
and bore It proudly. Virginia also c.rried a
feminine insignia in the shape Of millinery.
Maine put on a woman's bonnet Texas bore
tin dinner pail on her banner
Mrs Lease Mrs. Emory, Mrs. Todd, Mrs.
Digs and Mrs. Vicory were lifted over the rail.
ing and made 10 march in the procession. A
delegation from Massachusetts and another
from Mississippi carried cotton-headed
darkey, 70 years old, on their shoulders In
the hands Of the old negro was the American
flag They stopped, making tableau Of vivant,
beneath the chairman's seat and some old sol
diers played away Down South in Dixie" on
their shrill flies The banner Of South Dakota
was given into the hands OF Mrs Muir OF thai
state 20 wave An old Pennsylvania delegate
held Bible aloit in his hand and shouted
@Amen. amenl"
Somebody with tremendous baritone got u
singing Good bye old party, good bye" ant
Dr. Fish. Of St Paul. the publisher OF the Great
West, got an immense black bordered squar,
OF bunting and wept on It That set the men OF
again.
There was terrible excitement No doub
about that Though the faces Of the delegate:
we're the brown faces Of working men they
cleaned out white now from the tossing, sway
ing shouting crowd The white locks, silk
and long, Of old DR.. Severance could be seer
above the others in the Wisconsin dele
CATION He was elegantly dressed as som
man Of WashingtOns time might hav
been. Another remarkable figure was that o
Buck Barry, Of Texas, an old pioneer, witt
gray hair streaming over his shoulders and {
picturesque beard that almost hid the fact tina
he had no collar Beside him sat negro dele
gate. Over in the North Carolina delegation
Revis, a negro, sat surrounded by confederates
In the speakers gallery Bright Eyes, the In
| dian woman VINO was one OF tne nrSt 70 ugl
for the liberty and enfranchisement Of the race
watched these scenes with the sad and astut
eyes Of one who knows how difficult it is 10 &c
justice done even after the discovery has beel
made as TO what justice is
Someone brought a telegram from somewher
which stated that Mr.. Wanamaker has refuse
to permit Mrs. EmorJ's book Seven Finance;
Conspiracies, 20 be circulated through II
mails. No one seemed to doubt the authentic
~ Of the telegram. The news was receive
with groans Kisses and cries Of anger.
Then. somehow, they. got TO yelling agar
Now they would yell for one man. now for al
other. The classic head Of Ignatius Donnell
brought out a shout whenever 1t appeared q
he moved about the hall Senator Cannon, {
California was target Alex. Campbell, h
old time greenbacker Of Illinois, was paid h
tribute Now the sight Of the banners Of
northern and southern state in iuxtapositio
brought out the rebel yell and the union shou
The enthusiasm subsied at length as the It'd
suhsides-to rise again at the proper hour.