The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1892-06-25

TIONAL COMMITTEE.
hosts of the Democracy and in a few
crisp words called the convention
which will nominate Grover Cleveland
for a third time for the presidency to
order.
Hosts of Democrats were about the
convention hall long before the APP
pointed hour, and by noon the great
galleries and the press stand and plat
form were all well filed.
At 1850 o'clock the first shout went
up. A blue satin banner, the ensign
of the Horace Boies club of Daven-
port, Ia, was borne forward to the
convention floor, and beneath and
behind it came the rugged men who
will sit in the convention and vote for
their governor to the last ditch. Close
behind followed Bourke Cochran,
Governor Flower and Lieutenant Gov
ernor Sheehan of New York. Behind
the trio came Richard Croker, and the
cry started: ''There's Croker, there's
the Tammany chief" While the New
Workers were seating themselves in
the hall Illinois filed in on the right.
40C OuAluS VI pduu HluSlC III the
rattle of drum beats preceded a mag
ni1cent blue banner carried by Penn
sylvania to their seats On the left.
Then in groups and in pairs and
singly other states trailed to their
places. Meantime the galleries were
filling rapidly and as they recognized
their friends among the delegations
shouts were launched out upon the air
that was growing momentarily more
dense and murky.
Just at noon there came a vivid flash
of lightning, while n booming report
Of thunder reached the anxious crowd.
Quickly followed a rafting of bursting
rain upon the roof, and almost in
stantly a stream of water flowed down
through a crack in the center, directly
upon the heads of the New York del
| egation. Umbrellas were hoisted and
the storm was on.
Mr.. Owens Made Chairman.
When order had been brought out of
the apparent chaos Chairman Brice
presented the Rev. John Rouse, who
offered prayer.
Then Secretary Sheerin announced
the temporary organization: Chair
man, William c. Owens, Kentucky;
secretary, s. p. Sheerin; principal read
ing clerk, Nicholas A. Bell of Missouri;
sergeant-at-arms, Richard j. Bright of
Indiana, Charles Jewett of Indiana,
and Thomas Wilson of Minnesota;
Adlai Stevenson of Illinois was named
to attend Mr.. Owens to the speakers
chair. After a greeting of applause
Mr.. Owens spoke thus:
Two great dangers menace the Demo
cratic party. One is external; the other in
ternal. The first is the organized ma
chinery of organized capital, supported by
the whole power of the government; the
second is the tendency among Democrats to
make issues among themselves. Two
needs therefore stand before us
indispensable to success, unity and har-
mony. OF the one this chair and
gavel stand representative; it remains for
you to supply the other. In this spirit ]
greet you, fellow Democrats, as the ad.
vance guard, of a grand army sent for.
ward to blaze a pathway to victory. How
momentous is your responsibility, l need
not tell you. If you work in wisdom the
millions toiling in shop and mine and field
will rise and call you blessed.
The roll call of the republic attests that
its heart and It's conscience are with us IL
our war with the representatives of greed
The best thought of our party is a platform
that challenges the appreciation and invites
the SuppOfU Oh inc peOpie. we CHI Succeeu
we must do more; we mus
deserve success. Above the wreck
IL need be, of selfish combinations
we must rear q temple to the plain people
and build q shrine so broad that every
lover of his kind may know it. The bur
den must be lifted from the back of toll
and to that end it has a right TO demand
that whoever bears our banner must lift i
above the smoke of conflict and the din o.
faction, that every Democrat OF the unior
may follow its lead in exultant and ir
resistible combat.
Let US not mistake. The gravity of thi
situation demands the broadcast patriotism
and every needful sacrifice. Our work bu1
begins here. Through the suns of summer
and frosts of autumn we must carry for
ward with unfaltering courage to a trium'
phant close. This again must be a cam
paign of education. The study of the corn
field, begun in the West and South, nus
be carried on to every hamlet Of the EasI
and North.
The people must learn their true relation
to the taxgatherer. They must learn tina
no railroad presidents champion the trib
unes Of the people-no taxmas
ters write our tariff bill. The.
must learn, too, that for per
sonal and political advantage theiI
and they will learn with shame and regre
that on the day the warlike message o
their president was read In the halls o.
congress the peaceful response of the littl,
eight by ten republic of Chill, accepting
the terms of the presidential ultimatum
was read in every capital of the world.
Our opponents must be measured by
their deeds and not by their professions
The Fifty-frst congress wrote the black