The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-06-23
PEN PICTURE OF THE PROCEEDINGS
A Slow Morning Session. but Excitemeut
Enough In the Evening.

A Slow Morning Session. but Exeitemeut
Enough in the Evening.
CHICAGO. June 22.-Is 1t an unlucky star that
hangs over this Convention? Are the gods
offended2 Or why is it that I'D to night
fall to-day 1t has been moro and more
-ffahe=most common place. the tamest. and the
most disappointing OF National Conventional
1t was soaked with rain again to-day. but that
Is not what is the matter with 1t. That only
caused the putting up of four or five umbrellas
in the hall. The trouble Is harder to define.
There is not any enthusiasm. The managers
do not manage it. The prize speakers are ell
fiat failures. Yesterday it was as lifeless as q
bear in Information. To-day it was a mob.
Under a lowering sky nearly 10000 persons
assembled in the dark. foul-smelling. aud dan
Gerous wEwam. and from the moment that all
the seats were occupied until an adjournment
was had the whole institution was run by the
galleries. 1t was the galleries instead Of the
Chairman that ruled the order OF business. It
was the galleries that cailee for some speak,
ers and hootel down Others It was
tho galleries that filled tho air with
such whoops and catcas and riotous .
noises that oven the leaders Of tho party. rem.
dered helpless by the foppy managers. felt
that they were in the hands Of the Chicago
mob instead Of in the presence OF q delbera-
tive political Convention. Mr.. Owens OF Ken
lucky might as well have been one OF Mrs.
Jarey's wax works for all the control he had Of
the mob. and when Mr.. Wilson. tho idol Of the
Clevelnnditcs. was put In the chair as the per-
manent officer. he showed about as much
nerve and backbone an oyster. 1t was
thought that Mckinley made Il bad Chairman
at MINNEAPOLIS. but Wilson was a holy show
alongside Of Mckinley.
1t was an impressive thing to see the white
forms of 10000 faces above tho solid flesh OF
hoIia m, snI n farro
If we were back in Rome al the Coliseum. 1t
was terrible thing to feel oneself penned
In by this too. too solid flesh. with the certain
knowledge that if n man cried fire or beam
should break it would take at least thirty.min
utes to get out. 1t was also u solemn thing
for the correspondents to look straight in the
faces Of moiety Of tho shrewdest politicians
of the continent and to know what Volcano
like fires of anger and OF hatred were smoul-
dering behind these countenances. 1t was
fearsome thing to hear the crowds shout for
men like Fellows and Cochran to address
them. and to know that Fellows and
Cochran and scores OF other men
were SO excited with anger that,
should they loso their Judgment and
mount the platform and let out their heartfelt
grievances. the very devil would be to pay in
| the Democratic party A great sigh OF relief.
unvoiced and unheard. but none the less com.
OF every decent Democrat when the Chairman.
after u threo hours session in which nothing
at all had been DONE announced an adjourn
ncnt until sunset.
Tom Johnson. n sinElo-taX crank from Ohio.
first attracted tho attention OF the disorderly
mob by motion that Roger =. Mills Of Texas
DO cal ed on foran address. 1t was character
istic OF tho undiscirlincd and unmastered as
scmbly that Mr. Mills could not be found. It
who were wanted could not Le found. Yester-
days Convention was characterized as a Con-
ventiOn in tho air. Todays meeting was
Convention in tho fog Aftor the
failure TO find Mills there were cries for Palmer
of Illinois The picture on tho floor at that
time was intcrestins Lieut. Gov. Sheehan
made himself II picture by again keeping on
his feet continually that most OF the time
he apl the waslish-loGking Bragg of Wiscon-
upon them selves. He acted as il he thought
himself tn" manipulation Of his party. Palmer
made what might 10 called AN old FASH
toned camp meeting Address. IIe adopted
the h.gh-Eo,cl voice Of II Methodist oNhorter
He worked his arms like Two pump handles.
Those WHO could not ! ear what he WAS
saying mLst have thought that he WAS chop-
ping wood ii lie had been hit with bullet he
could not have been more eiTectualy killed az
a cand date. Nevertheless he Was entitled to
respect. and yet the gallery gave him none.
They interrupted his almost every sentence.
and when he said. Select Democrat ana