Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-06-24

Tennessee, nominating speeches were
limited to gve minutes each and second.
ing speeches to two minutes eacn' enu
the roll was proceeded with.
When the clerk called Arkansas, Mr.
Edwards stated Arkansas desired 10
wave the right TO nominate in favor OF
Indiana. The Chairman then introduced
the Hon. John Z. Lamb, OF Indiana.
LAMB NoMINATEs eovERSoReRAY.
Mr.. Lamb, In presenting the name OF
Gov. Gray, said:
"Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen OF the
Convention: When / was elected IS
delegate to this convention from my ois'
trict, hoped TO have the honor as weii
as the pleasure OF casting my vote Tor
an honored son Of Indiana Tor the Presi-
dency OF the United States, (cheers)
but when we arrived at this convention
we found that the majority had alreaoy
decided that another than an lndlanan
should lead the contest In the coming
campaign. Cheers. We bowed our
heads to their judgment and united
with the Cleveland Democracy. Great
applause. Yes, yesterday, Grover
Cleveland was the choice OF majority
of the Democratic party; to-day is the
unanimous nominee OF the Democratic
party, TappIause. and the question
which confronts this convention Is who
shall IL be that will have the honor to
hold up the hands and the arms OF the
candidate who carries the banner or
Democracy in this campaign. IRE
mendous cheering, and cries OF Gray
Gray.
where shall he come fromP lCrieso OF
Indiana, Indiana!l New Jersey, GOD
bless her, is always Democratic; Con-
necticut is surely safe, and when dawn
broke on US this morning after night
of struggle and toll, the eloquent tongue
OF the distinguished gentleman from
New York, the Hon. Bourke Cochran
Iapplausel whose name love to honor
told this convention that New YORK
was as rock-ribbed as Texas for any
Democrat that could be nominated by
this convention. Applause. That
being true, the seventy-two electoral
votes OF New York are solid for
THAT PRINCE OF DEMOCRATS,
Grover Cleveland (Applause). l am
from a State which is the center OF the
political battlefield Of the great West.
A state which has given TO the history
of American politics the immortal name
OF Thomas A. Hendricks (Loud Ap-
plause). Whenever the Democratic
party has listened to its advice, when
ever you have honored the State OF In
diana with q place on your ticket,
| whether IL was in the great battle or
1876. the fruits OF which victory were
stolen from us, or In the grand battle
of 1884, when you had Indiana on your
ticket, you had Democratic victory.
| Enthusiastic Applause.) And now In
[ behalf Of that State which has never
| faltered, never sulked, which has
| fought every inch of ground, | desire
upon behalf of the United delegation
/ from Indiana TO ask this convention TO
make Is votes In the electoral college
certain by placing on your ticket the
name OF that honored leader who never
lost a battle, the Hon. Isaac P. Gray.
| (Chers long and loud.)
"As our candidate, he has been tried
in the balance and never found wantlI-
| Applause. In the great contest Of
1884 he carried Indiana by one thousand
more votes than Cleveland and Hen
dricks. What more can say OF him2
The tongue OF SANDER has never been
able to pierce his Democratic armor.
For twenty years he has fought the
battle OF Democracy. He will fight
them again whether on the ticket or
not. Applause. But, my friends. II
there is certainty OF fifteen electoral
votes for Grover Cleveland and Isaac p.
Gray In the State OF Indiana, nominate
that ticket and we will deliver the
votes" Great applause.
When Colorado was reached II yield
cd its place to Illinois, and Nr. Nicholas
K. Worthlngton, OF Illinois, advanced
TO the platform and spoke as follows:
woRTHISGToN NOMIEATEs STEVENSON.
Mr.. Chairman and Fellow Delegates:
Illinois has presented no presidential
candidate TO this convention. II has
within its borders more than one favor
ite son whom IL wonld have delighted 10
honor, and who are worthy OF all the
political honors that could be conferred
upon them. But here In this great city
OF Chicago, 10 this great Commonwealth
OF Illinois, bordering upon the lake. and
the Mississippi, in the centre OF this
great Republic, the Democracy catch
ing the vibrations OF the ground swell
that came from the South and the East
aud the West, put aside It's fayorite
sons, for the time buried its State pride
and echoing back to Texas, Con necti-
cut and California with forty-eight votes
shouted the name of Grover Cleveland.
[ApplauseI.
"But for the Vice Presidency, for the
second highest place In the gift OF the
people, IL has a candidate so fully
equipped by nature and by education
that IL feels that IL would be political
fault to fail to urge his name for nomi-
nation before you. stand here 70 name
as candidate for that position man
that is known by every woman and
child and voter that ever licked post
age stamp in every village and hamlet
Of the land. (Applsuse) A big bodied,
big hearted, big Drained man; man OF
commanding presence, OF digni6ed mein.
a man whose courtesy in his every day
manners is rarely equalled, and never
excelled; man who, In the adminlstra-
tion OF his duties In the last Democratic
administration was the beauK ideal OF
an honest, honorable, useful and eff
eient Democratic Office holder. Like
his great leader who bears your banner,
he believes that public Office Is q pub
lie trust, but he believes also that the
DEMOCRATS ARE THE BEST TRUSTEES
Of this public trust Cheers. Nor can
the nrfda ~ ofica make him uFOud or