The Portland daily press., 1892-06-24
A FIRM BELIEVER IN THE
SPOILS SYSTEM.
He Has a Great Record for Turn
ing Out Republicans.
TIRED DELEGATES TAKE THEIR
LAST WIGWAM DUCKING.

Several Favorite Sons Presented for Vice
Presidential Honors Aroused What
Enthusiasm Was Left After the All
Night Session-Stevenson, the Efficient
Office Holder, an Easy Winner-The
Adjournment.
CHICAGO, June 23.-Jaded and languid,
with tired out look upon their faces,
the delegates wandered into the conven-
ton hall today for the last session, a
few appearing before 2, but the great
majority failing to put in an appearance
until long after the hour set for the
opening of the proceedings. At 2.27,
the Gray Club of Indianapolis, with a
velvet banner, on which was inscribed
the name of Indiana's S governor, marched
into the hall, preceded by a band playing
"Auld Lang Syne." They were received
with a great yell from the delegates pres
ent and the audience. Behind them
came the Hendricks Club of Indianapo-
lis, the members of both clubs flourish
ing long white plumes, and chanting a
nondescript air which fitted the words,
s'Gray, Gray, Isaac P. Gray
The measure of public interest in the
convention proceedings had sunk from
the mark of SIS ticket on the curbs
yesterday to $1.50 today. The fact of
the lessened interest was also told by the
many empty chairs in both galleries. The
tendency to give a crumb Of comfort to
Tammany was noticeable among many
delegates. John E. Russell of Massachu-
setts was type of this class. He had
been one of the foremost of Cleveland's
supporters. t'Tammany should have
fair show" he said to a friend as he was
entering the wigwam, "and I, for one,
will support whoever they will name for
second place."
There were many rumors of combina-
tions and purposes as to filling the Sec
ond place. 1t transpired that Bourke
Cochran of New York had been urging
New York's Y delegates to give solid
vote to General A. E. Stevenson o. Hi
nois. General Collins, in the meantime,
was among the Massachusetts delegates
canvassing them for Gray.
At 2.55 p. m., Chairman Wilson called
the convention to order. Prayer was Of
fered by Rev. Thomas Greene of Iowa,
and the chairman stated that the next
business was the nomination of candi-
date for the Office of Vice President of
the United States. [Cheers.] The chair
directed the clerk to call the roll of states
for nominations for that Office. On mo-
ton Of Gov. Porter of Tennessee, nomi-
mating speeches were limited to five min
utes and seconding speeches to two min
| utes each. The roll was then proceeded
| with. When the clerk called Arkansas,
toI HIo4 A,,1ro 4 i
to waive the right to nominate in favor
of Indiana, and the chairman introduced
Hon. John E. Lamb of Indiana,
Who Placed in Nomination Isaac p. GRAY.
Mr.. Lamb said, in part: 81 come from a
state which is the centre of the political
battlefield of the great West. Whenever
the Democratic party has listened to it's
| advice, whenever you have honored In
diana with place upon your ticket, you
have hada Democratic victory [applause7.
Now, in behalf of that state which has
never faltered, never sulked, and fought
every inch of ground, desire, upon be-
half of the united delegation from Indi-
| ana, to ask this convention to make it's
Is votes in the electoral college certain
by placing upon your ticket the name of
that honored leader who has never lost
battle, the Hon. Isaac P. Gray. [Cheers
long and loud. Our candidate has been
tried in the balance and never found
wanting. [Applause.] In the great con-
test of 1884, he carried Indiana for Gov
ernor by a thousand more votes than
Cleveland and Hendricks. The tongue
of SANDER has never been able to pierce
his Democratic armor. For 20 years he
has fought the battles of the Democracy.
He will fight them again whether upon
the ticket or not. Applause. But, my
friends, there is a certainty of Is electoral
Gray in Indiana Nominate that ticket
| and we will deliver the votes.' TGreat
applause.
When Colorado was reached it
yielded it's place to Illinois. and Mich
olas E. Worthington placed in nomina-
| ton Adlai E. Stevenson of Illinois. He
said: "For the Vice Presidency, for the
second highest place in the gift of the
| people, Illinois has candidate so fully
| equipped by nature and education, that
| it feels it would be political fault to
| fail to urge his name for the nomination
| before YOU. I name as candidate for
| that position man known by every
| woman and child and voter that ever
| licked a postage stamp in every village
and hamlet of the land, [applause] big
| bodied, big hearted, big Drained man, a
| man of commanding presence and digni-
fed mien, man whose courtesy in his
everyday manners, is rarely equalled and
never excelled, a man who in the admin
istration of his duties as assistant post
master general in the last Democratic
administration was the beau ideal of the
honest, the honorable,
The Useful and Efficient Democratic Office
| Holder.
"Like his great leader who bears your
banner, he believes that public office is a
public trust. He believes also that Dem
ocrats are the best trustees of this public
trust. [Cheers. We propose to make
l true what our Republican friends say Of