The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1892-07-01

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Church of Chicago, to offer PRAYER. He
asked that the convention be guided to
choose o representative of modern pro-
gressive Democracy and prayed that the
party might proceed to victory not for
the spoils of Office. Just aa the prayer
concluded the Iowa phalanx entered the
hall, the big blue banner with the pic
ture OF Horace Boies borne in front of
them. There were cheers from all parts
Of the hall, and the band inappropriately
struck up Maryland, My Maryland"
When the music ceased the temporary
chairman brought his gavel down and
announced that the first business Of the
convention would be the report of the
committee on credentials. He asked If
that committee was ready to report. Be-
fore any one could reply, Mr. Watson, Of
Minnesota, got the floor and in q brief
speech moved that the courtesies of the
platform be extended to ex-Senators Jas
II Doolittle and Lyman Trumbull. The
chair declared this motion carried with
out putting it. The chairman again ask.
ed il the committee on credentials were
ready to report.
Mr, Shaw, of Maryland, from the ex-
treme rear of the hall, replied that they
were not.
The chair-"At what time can the com.
mittee state that they will be readyP"
Mr.. Shaw-"Not before two o'clock"
This announcement was received with
a subdued murmer of disappointment.
The chairman enquired what was the
next pleasure of the convention, the COM
mittee not being ready to report.
Mr.. Bronson, of Kentucky, got the
floor and moved that the chair appoint a
committee of two to wait on the COM
mittee on credentials and ask when they
would be ready to report.
The motion was agreed to, and Mr.
Bronson, of Kentucky, and Mr.. Pollard,
OF Indiana. were appoiLtcd.
Mr. English, of Indiana, chairman of
the committee on rules and order of bus
iness, then took the platform and read
the committees report as follows: As
chairman of the committee on rules and
order of business have been instructed
by majority of that committee to sub.
nit the following report;
We recommend that the following or
der OF business be observed in this con-
vention:
Report Of committee on creden-
tials.
2-Report of the committee on organi-
zstion.
3-Report of the committee on resolu-
tlonS anu plaIlorm.
4-Report of the committee on ncmi-
nation of the President of the United
States.
5-Report of the committee on nomi.
ination of Vice President of the United
States.
Your committee further recommends
that the rules of the last national Demo.
cratic convention shall be adopted TO,
the government of the convention.
To the surprise of the convention, no
minority report was presented and on
motion the majority report presented by
Mr.. English was adopted without objec.
tion.
The chairman asked II the committee
on resolutions was ready to report
There was no reply and in the interval
that followed the band struck up lively
air.
At the conclusion of this performance,
Mr.. Phelps, of Missouri, was recognized
to present a zinc gavcl. He said: "Mr.
Chairman, in behalf of the zinc producers
and miners of Missouri, present to you
this gavcl. not madc from tin or stolen
from Nebraska homestead, but mined
and made in Jasper county, Mo-, and
bearing the inscription we need no pro.
lection, as protest against the mockery
OF legislation which imposes useless
tariff of thirty per cent. upon the metal
as pretext for taxing the lamp, pick
shirt and blanket of the miner more than
forty per cent. The miner is ready to dc
his part in giving the electoral vote OF
Missouri to the nominees of the conven.
tion by 10000 majority" The chairman
accepting the gavel repeated in substance
the remarks of Mr.. Phelps which had
been almost inaudible to the convention.
The chairman of the committee on reso
intions not being in sight the chairman
ordered the clerk to ask the delegation
to send to the desk the names of mem
bers of the national committee and of
the committee of notification.
The roll call was about to proceed
when Mr.. Owens, of Kentucky, asked
how the State of Pennsylvania was re-
corded. Being advised, he said: "In
the face of that, want to call the atten-
tlon of the convention to the fact that
New York is still Democratic"
There were mingled cheers at this an.
nouncement. Then the call of the roll
proceeded with the announcements being
greeted with cheers.
There was minute of suspense and
then the clerk announced theyote 564 ayes
and 842 noes. The announcement was
&reeteo with Gu eerlng and waving OF hats.
The New York delegate proposed three
cheers for Henry Watterson and the
New York delegation gave them hearth
ly. Next came the second attack on the
piatform-the opposition to the silver
plank.
Mr.. Patterson, OF Colorado, said there
was point of difference in the commit.
tee on resolutions II related to the
coinage plank and the substitute that
some Of the members from the South and
West offered considered the word "free"
before the coinage and substitute would
have 1t read as follows:
1--WE denounce the Republican legisla.
tion known as the Sherman act of 1890
as cowardly nakcsbift fraught with
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