New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1892-06-15
EFFECT OF a MAGIC. N NAME..
How it Aroused Enthusiasm at the Mime
apolis Convention.
The Immense Throng Of Visitors Grow Wild
over the Mention Of Blaine

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4 tions and the thousands who were pres
ent on Friday in all probability witness
ed the event of their lives. The Jour
nal in attempting to picture the scene
says:
When at the platform stood the first
orator of the day, handsome Senator
Wolcott of Colorado, the paramount hour
of the convention had come. A magni-
fcent man, master of magnificent ora
tory, eloquent with splendid American
eloquence, he aroused the great audience
| to tremendous enthusiasm, such a patrio-
| tic enthusiasm as never resounded before
along the bank of the mighty river pass
ing in no greater majesty before this
dominating hall than the majestic state
craft cause of the man who was named
by the eloquent mountianeer of the West.
Again and again and yet again the ap-
plause resounded. Applause at the splen-
did oratory, applause at the magnificent
ly polished periods, applause for the
man who had been named.
Once more the hall has resumed mo-
derate quiet and then an aged but stall
wart man has mounted the platform, the
man who but yesterday passed his S3rd
birthday, Col. Dick Thompson. In short
simple sentences he placed in nomination
the present President of the United Stat
es, leaving to other lips more complete
eulogium When he had completed he
was cheered with cheers long, loud and
Of the most pronounced and patriotic
character.
But after William Henry Eustis, Min
nesota's fervid orator, had seconded the
nomination of Blaine in speech Of the
most impassioned eloquence, there came
the most wonderful spectacle ever wit
messed in the history ofconventions. Like
a marvellous maelstrom, or like an ava
lanche, or like an ocean turned into a
world -girdlipg river, or like magnifi-
cent comet in resistless course through
out universe of stars swept the mighty
enthusiasm The man who sat near an
other man knew not what words were on
his fellows lips, so great the pandemon-
ium of noise. And yet it was more than
pandemonium-it was the resistless flow
of the concentrated spirit Of the great
mass Of the Republicanism of America.
There was nothing that could stand be-
fore it. No human barriers.cou stem
the mighty tide. No such scene was ever
enacted upon the continent. The cheers
were not to be stilled by the band which
was drowned as a sea would drown a
pebble. Every possible demonstration
highest places in the auditorium that men
could reach by climbing they reached,
and there they waved their gonfalons of
/ victory. Minutes passed. They length
cned by fves and tens and still the tum-
ult swept torrent-mad through the audi
torium. Once stilled, it again sprang up
louder, more magnificent in it's demon
stration.
Far back of the speakers stand a
4 beautiful woman rose in the sea of faces,
rose with snowy parasol in her gloved
hand and gracefully lead the mighty
throng, her waving parasol, like some
white plume, leading onward Thous-
ands upon thousands caught from her
motion the rythm of the hour. Soon the
4 magnetic name Of the greatest states
man of his time was on the lips of all
his friends. With the splendid swing of
concerted movement the nameswept back
and forth, up and down the mighty aud
I. itorium. The applause which greeted the
nomination of the President was naught
i but summer zephyr, a breeze for the
cheeks of fair sweet flowers; that which
i followed was the hurricane from across
the mountain tops of a nation, before
which forest must fall. No words
could portray that scene, The back
ground of a nation was before that throng
and high upon the immense canvas, but
one face could be seen, the face of him
as,,
who was highest in all hearts For 26
long minutes the applause continued
1t was more than applause, it was ova-
4 ton in its noblest form. The matchless
oratory which followed TO second the
candidature of the President was the or.
atory Of one man, the demonstration
which preceded was the irresistible ora
tory of a nation.
Then came the polished orator Of Am