The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-06-24
TpE TICKET COMPLETED
Cleveland for President and Steven.
son for ViCe-President.
A FIGHT FOR SECOND PLACE.
New York Casts Her II Votes
for Stevenson.

ny n Series OF Thunder storms-Me~a-
time the Delegates SANG " Grover. Grover,
Four More Years." aud tho Band Played
Popular Airs-The Grny M-n sore Over
the Defeat or Their Favorite and ChnrAs
Had ra,th-The Scene In the Aii-.l rht
Session OF the Convention-The Mob IN
tho Galleries Tried to Run Thlngs, snl
Chairman Wilson Was Utterly Inc~pn-
bic OF Preserving Order-Bo urke Cock.
rams Remnrka ble Speech.
CHICAGO. June 23.-The tired delegates, who
had been IN all night. were late in getting to
the Rookery In tho afternoon. They did not
get out OF their cots until about fifteen min
utes before the time announced for the Con.
vention to assemble to name the Vice.
President Then the Chicago cab mon
had picnic. Rain was falling in tor
rents. 1t came down in great bullets
OF water 1t WINS almost as bad IS
n Minneapolis hail storm. where the hail
stones in summer are as big as ones first The
streets were nothing more than miniature
lakes. The cabmen charged anywhere from
81 to SO for rido Of three blocks. and thun
you were insulted II you did not thank them.
The Rookery. or leo house. or cold storage
warehouse. whatever 1t ought to be called.
was in n condition beyond all expression.
The seats were soaked with water. and tho
stencil was insufrerable There is no desire
to do injustice to the people Of Chicago. but 10
has been made very plain to-day that every
thing associated with this Convention has
been achieved by a job-lot principle: street
fakirs blocked the way to the Conyen-
tion lumber shed. and flGuratively took
you by the throat and demanded rs cents and
so cents for tickets OF admission to the Con-
vcntion. Two days ago they demanded $25
for session. but the idea now was to get
everything and anything SO long as they were
not losers.
Inside the Wigwam there was q great audi
ence assembled. With tho rain shooting down
umbrellas were uplifted over the heads Of the
great audience. Just beneath the roof there
were great streamers Of red. white. and blue.
and the rain sitting through these colors fell
down upon the men and women in miniature
buckets Of red and blue Hundreds OF hand
some suits were destroyed and hundreds OF
artistic costumes worn by the beautiful women
Of Chicago were ruined. All the time the thunder
played on the roof like great bass drum.
The lightning came in through the openings
with vividness that startled even the worn.
out Now Workers and other anti Cleveland
men. Big yellow bolts PLAYED tag among the
big trusscs that held up the roof The msn
put on their hats and rubber coats. and the
water wraps and pulled up their skirts to
their knees.
The Convention hall was simply nothing
mora than a great pond. The desks OF the
newspaper men were saturated. With every
note they took down would come bucket Of
water. Up In the cock loft was the band. and
TINT was the only thing left to convince. the
delegates and tho great audience that the
end OF the world had not come. 3
Chairman Wilson was in his seat. and most
OF the time he stayed there he was tho same
helpless. inefficient. incompetent. weakened.
weak-voiced and jelly-like Chairman Heisa
very nice gentleman personally. but he I'M
doubtedly missed his calling when he was
flattered into accepting tho Craftsmanship Of
this Convention. though he received encour-
agement In the person OF DR.. Mary Walker.
who sat Just behind him. DR.. Walker was
dressed in all her toys. consisting OF her
Prince Albert coat and trousers with q crease
in them.
Tho Gray boomers started the racket They
had not the faintest notion that they were out
in the wet Under the manipulations OF VIII
liam c. Whitney and Don Wiskerando Dick.
inson Senator Voorhees, was induced to in
fluence the Indiana delegation for Mr.. Clevs-
land. The consideration was that Mr.. Gray
was to be named as Vce-President The
old Sycamore is suffering greatly from rheu-
matism. is out OF fighting trim. and Ia
not competent to cope with such young men
as Mr.. Whitney and Mr.. Dickinson. After
talking with Whitney and Dickinson he CON-
cluded that there was no chance for Gray for
first place. and after comma tcatfng with
Gray. bargain was fixed up BY which Gray
was to go on the ticket with Cleveland.
Indiana carried out this bargain faithfullyin
last nights session. So when the Convention
II ,,ta H~f a. l.
with a band playing Aud Lang Byne" and
waving 500 pumes. all colored gray. In honor
Of their favorite. They marched around
the great barn singing the praises Of Gray.
Meanwhile Don Dickinson WAS negot-
ating with all the Southern delegates
and begging them to support Allan B. Morse.
tho soldier lawyer. Of Michigan. Morss had
an arm torn of at tho baltic OF ChIckamauga.
He was Il sturdy fighter for year after that.
and he returned to Michigan. studied law.
and was elected Judge OF the Appellate Court
in a Republican stronghold. When Grays
friends saw that Dickinson had not tho least
idea Of carrying out his bargain. they walked
up to Dickinson. who. in the absence Of Whit
ney. was tho manager Of the show. and damned
him to his face. They called him all sorts Of
names and the remarks they uttered cannot be
printed here. They insisted that 1t was but
another form OF Cleveland ingrattude and Of
Cleveland Mugwump selfshness. They In
sisted that Gray could carry Indiana. but Dick
inson had no regard for his compact, and con-
tinued to do missionary work among the delo-
gates for Morse. All this time tho New Workers
sat grim and silent. Gov. Flower. Bourke
Cochran. Mayor Grant John NJ BoYers Sena-
tor McCarren. ard all tho others wore fully
convinced that tho Cleveland Mugwumps
would not play straight with Gray Yet they
Ind no sympathy for Gray, They were uutro