The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1891-1893, 1892-06-22

coinage of the product of the American
mines. This latter is to be urged in case
the first does not receive the support of
ma ajority of the committee on resolutions.
One of the delegates said the resolutions
were $50 plain and distinct that not
even Grover Cleveland could make more
than one meaning out of them"
Labor League and Worlds Fair.
Seven members of the executive com
mittee of the New York State labor
league are here to place before the com
mittee on resolutions of the democratic
convention, the resolutions passed last
Saturday night by the workingmen of
New York city favoring the $5,OOO,OOO
appropriation by Congress for the
Worlds Fair.
The Convention Hall.
CHICAGO, June 21.-Almost up to the
hour of meeting of the National Demo-
cratic convention the sound of the ham
mer hurriedly driving the last nails into
the wood work of the galleries re-echoed
through the hall. In the concluding
rush, a number of intended decorative
effects had to be abandoned and others
were materially changed.
The most conspicuous object was a
modest mahogany desk, bearing in front
the inscription in old English text
"Cleveland and Hendricks named from
this desk July 1884" This was the
chairman's stand It was fanked on
each side by a bunch of roses and SINH
lar bunch with half dozen laurels, in
pots, stood in front of the secretary s
desk Immediately below the chairman
The blue silk banners with the names of
States lettered in gold marked the loca-
ton of the delegates.
Entering by states.
The first cheers, rather feeble than
otherwise, were drawn by the entrance
of Boies club at II 80. The New York
delegation, headed b. Gov. Flower,
Bourke, Cochran, Murphy and George
Bains, came in directly afterwards and
were greeted with Tammany yell. AS
much as $40 seat was asked for front
seats in the gallery and they filled up
very slowly at these figures. There was
hardly man in the galleries who had
not his coat off, and some of them had
divested themselves of collars and vests
also. A flutter of fans gave tumultou;
motion to their aid. Pennsylvania en-
tered later with a banner so much larger
than any of the other States that cries OF
'pull it down, 'take reef in it" were
raised. Directly afterwards rain anC
thunderstorm arose, rendering necessary
the lowering of canvass around the al
and light spaces of the roof. The storm
however was not of long duration.
Called to order.
At 12 80 most of the delegates were il
their seats, but the galleries were scarcel,
filled. Chairman Brice, of the nationa
committee was on the platform. His en-
trance was passed unnoticed.
The Michigan delegation was the las
delegation to march in. It's big white
and gold banner was carried ahead of it
Five minutes later, ex-Gov. Campbell'
entrance was greeted with cheers an(
applause The Ohio delegates rising il
his honor. At 12:42 chairman Brio
called the convention to order and intro
duced the Rev. John Rouse, who opene'
the proceedings with prayer. At it
conclusion, chairman Brice presented t
the convention as its temporary officer
the gentlemen named in the followin
: list, which the secretary read: Hon. W
: G.. Owens, of Kentucky, temporar
chairman; secretary S. P. Sheerin, Ind
ana; assistant secretaries, II. H. Doyle
Penn. II. Sheppard, Va; c. Tile.
Mo- l.. A. Rowley, Mich: r. E. Wi
$ son, Miss. /; G. r. Defreest, New York
s J. c. Swayne, Ill; principal readin
! clerk, Hon Nicholas NJ. Bell; sergea1
e at arms, Hon. j. Bright. Ind. otfici
l.. stenographer, Edward Dickinson, N.
r The list was adopted without opposite
and the chairman appointed the follo1
:. ing committee to escort the temporal
e chairman to the platform. A. F. Steve
;, son, of Illinois; c. S Jewett, of Indian
it arose and walked up the aisle with Il
committee Mr. Brice retired, leavil
the space in front of the chairmans de:
# 10 Mr.. Owen.
IS Chairman Owen Speaks.
y The chairman said: 1.-TWO great da
Is gers menace the democratic party Oh
r. is external, the other internal The fiji
2 is the organized machinery of organic
n capital, supported by the whole pow
8, of the government; the second is a te
IS dency among democrats to make issu
1t among themselves. Two needs thel
d fore stand before us indispensable
lc success: unity and harmony. OF the o
e. this chair and gavel stand representative
es it remains for you to supply the other.
ID this spirit greet you, fellow democrats,
the advance guard of a grand army, sc
to forward to blaze a pathway to victor
G. How momentuous is your responsible
O. | need not tell you. If yo
O. work be done in wisdom the millic
toiling in mines and shop a
field will rise and call y
es blessed. The roll call of the repub
us attests that its heart and its conscier
il are with us in our war with the reput
to cans of greed. The best part of {
he party is a platform that challenge
RI appreciation and invites the support
e. the people The burden mnst be lift
he from the back of the laboror a
ht to that end It has the right to
90 mand that whoever bears our BAN
IS. must lift it above the smoke of conf
rs. and the din of faction, that every der
of crat Of the union may follow its lead
of exultant and iresistable combat
ell us not mistake. The gravity Of
dy situation demands the broadest patriC
ir- and every needful sacrifice. Our work
m begins here. Under the suns of sunni
rk and the frosts Of autumn we must Ca