Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-06-30

| ton. Tn. motion was adopted ard the chair
| man appointed Mr.. Walker. OF Missouri, and
| BIr Porter. of Tennessee, to escort the Ken
| tucxian to the platform. The committee
Sc, med unable to fiji Mr. Carlisle. and the gal
| ier:es continued to cry Carlisle spasmoiic-
| ally while the convention renamed inactive.
| Adjourned till p. N.
| Evening Session.
CHICAGO. June 22-when the convention re-
assembled, the atmosphere was almost unbear-
| able.
| The band fndiag Dixie" so popular in the
morning tried that afr over again several times
in a nedl;y Of other tunes and each time drew
| out answ 1rin yells.
| Chairman Wilson took his scat NJ Sis. but
| simply for the purpose Of enabling Secretary
Rell TO announce kilograms for .lasa.ss which
he did in characteristic fashion win lin. uD with
| the invitation Come and get en-. gentlem IN;
my page IS sick
few minutes later the new zinc gavel raped
| to order.
| Order was slow IN coming AMI so was bust
ness. II was fully twenty minutes before the
| con yeDt:oa WIS called upon to listen to any
thing else except the band.
! An innovation in the usual curse of pro-
cncdingS was made hy the chairman calling
| upon another reverend gentleman for a second
| prayer in the same days proceedings. TIE
gentl. man selected for this service was Rsv.
| ThOs. @. @ rerD. of Cedar Rapids, Ia lie wore
| the full black Of the Episcopal church He is
Il Tail man Win IUll trimlneI ] DlacK beard
| He spoke with a penetration that should be the
| envy of some of The orators who have addressed
| the convention. He prayed that they might
choose a man ''of clean hands and pure heart.
one who is above all selfish ambition, one
whose aim viii be his country and his God
At 60 the chairman announced to the i'm
patient convention that thu platform was ready
| and would be presented by Mr. Jones, the
| chairman.
| Mr. Jones from the platform, anil cries of
louder" which grew in intensity. said
| Mr. CHAIRMAN AND GENTLEMEN OF THE Con-
yESTIoE: pre- uIne that this committee in its
relations to the convention presents case of
| however, in behalf of my colleagues that any
delay to which you hav. been subjected was
| due TO no lack Of diligence industry on their
Let the secretary read.'l
Mr. Jones: If you will be a little quieter
perhaps there will be no difficulty in hea ring
1 am instructed by the committee resou
tons to present to you the report OF the
committee the following resolutions and to
ask their adoption. In order that you may
more distinctly hear what the committee has
prepared intend to ask the gentleman who il
familiar with the phraseology to read them for
me and as soon as they are read, shall move
the previous question upon the adoption OF the
platform.
Mr. JOINS clo,e1 by asking Mr.. Villas, OF Wis
consin to read the platform
Mr.. Villas began to do in his magnificent
sonorous voice and most impressive style.
The first mention of CIeveand's name in the
convention when Mr.. Villas. in the first
paragraph of the platform. real from Madison
to Cleveland" 1t called ont the joint enthu5i-
asm of the delegates The Syracuse men I'D
the cheering the Cleveland delegates and the
Cleveland men in the galleries sprang to their
feet waving hats, handkarchiefs and fans.
II was twenty minutes alter the shouting bs-
gan before Mr.. Villas could bring his big voice
| to bear on the convention again. and even then
il had to run brief com petition with n murTnur
of suppressed enthusiasm that continued to
! run through the audience
The further reading Of the document was at
times punctuated with applause: but its
treme length seemed to diminish its interest
When the silver plank was reached there was r
| stronger outbreak of approval than ut any por-
tion of the platform
| The familiar phrase, public Office il a public
| trust" which followed was promptly reco&-
nized and brought out another but very brief
Cleveland demonstration
! The civil service plank called out more Kisses
| than cheers. The galleries applauded the con =
| demnation of the republican Office hol1er's CON
| vention. Very few demonstrations were made
| by the delegates themselves at any point Not
| counting Interruptions the platfo.H occupied
| thirty five minutes in the reading. Its conciu-
sion was obviously welcomed a relief.
| Mr. Jones, at the close OF the reading said
"On behalf of the committee resolutions
| move the adoption OF the platform read
| This was met by cries of No Mr.. Neal. of
tative from the state of Ohio. appointed on the
| committee on resolutions, gaze notice Of my
| intention to present to this convention an
! amendment to the section of tine platform rela-
tive to the tariff have been unable conscien-
| tiousjy to agree with the majority OF my fellow
members upon that section of this platform.
| therefore gave notice To the committee that
would move in open convention to strike ont
all that section of the platform after he words
denouncing the Mckinley act, and TO submit.
the following:
I'VE denounce the republican protection a
fraud Icheersl. n robbery OF the great ma
jority of the American people. for the benefit
of the few [loud cheers. We declare 1t to be
a fundamental pricciple OF the democratic
party that the felsral government has nc
constitutional power to enforce AMI collect
tariff duties except for the purnose OF revenue
| only renewed and long continued cheerIpg1
| and demand that the collection of such take:
| shall be limited to the necessities of the gov
ernr,ent honesty and economically ad
ministercd"
Mr. Cochran asked that the report of th'
minority be- read again by the clerk for infor
| nation This was ordered and the clerk again
! | read the report slowly and distinctly
A delegate then asked to hear the part to b
struck out When the clerk had finished tn
reading Mr. Neal, who stin hsli the platform
said: Tho history Of our country demonstrate
| the fact that the American people will conside
, | and determine but one great public question a
, a time. Many questions in = government lii
ours with q variety of interests will neces
sarily attract some share of public attention a
: | one and the same time; but 1t Is none the les
true that some one question VIII overshado'