Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-08-18
maintain. promote. defend, and preserve
them. lApplause.l
TYLER eRouenT BEFORE THE BODY.
He Accepts His Defeat Gracefully and
,t.h FxceiIsnt Honor,


He Accepts His Defeat Gracefully and
with Excellent Bumor.
There was continued cheering when
0'ferrall finished. and the band played
Dixie"
! n seemed that the convention would be
satisfied with nothing but speech from
this defeated candidate from the South
west.
A committee OF three was appointed TO
inform Major II. q. Kent. of his non.ins-
ton for Lieutenant Governor. The chair
named Messrs. Flood, Ryan. and Atkins o.
the committee and they departed upon
their mission.
Major Tyler was now presented and
made capital speech, which was brimful
OF humor. He kept the convention in q
constant uproar until he reached his con-
clusion. when he became serious and nm
isbed In m endorsement for O'ferrail
which thrilled the hearts of not only the
O'Ferrailites, but the followers OF ooth
Buford and Tyler. Major Tyler spoke as
follows:
Mr. President and Gentlemen of the
Conveniently first remark IS that IL
seems TO me a Democratic convention,
especially when IL assemblies here IN
Richmond in the hot month OF August.
is the stubbornest thing l ever saw-it
wont take n good thing when 1t can get u
for nothing. ILaughterl.
Ia the next place / will remark that this
thing ~ getting rather monotonous.
General Nye once said that the gene
rality of mankind in general are disposed
TO exercise oppression on the generality or
mankind in general" Somebody caught
HIM UP at this point and said: y on had
better stop General. II seems 10 me you
are coming out at the same hole you went
In at"
This il the case with me. | have about
come out q: the same hole / went II at,
and in the language OF the Immortal ION
Watson will somebody tell me Where
am at?" lRenewed laughter ana CRIES
of Next Governor. Well, the oniv way
that can account for tins state OF nuaiIs
is on the hypothesis, rs Brother Baxter
once said. 1.-The other man must have
gotten the most votes"
WHY AN HERE?
Well. why am here again? Why am
again escorted before a Democratic cor
yention under these embarrassing crcum-
stancesI
TO endorse your nominee. you say.
Well. yes | will do that. i would en-
dorse your nominee even If 1t had been
myself
Endorsing the nominee is not such
bard thing TO do--itis saying so when you
don't want to. Much laughter.I
This thing of endorsing man all OF n
sudden that Won have been trying to down
with all your might IL, as have before re-
marked. the refinement of cruelty.
But here il goes. Ii nobody else will
endorse MN reckon | will have TO do IL.
| am ready TO give him my endorsement,
but tell you would rather give him any
thing else. / would rather give him the
As.atic cholera, or the hydrOphobla, or
the bran.fever. and believe if bad had
a little while longer to run after him l
would have given him all these and many
other diseases. / had HIM so badly scared
1 am afraid have disqualified him for the
duties Of the high Office TO which you have
nominated him, and believe you had bet
ter reconsider and nomitate me yet.
lGreat laughter
4 man was once being whipped by order
Of CONTINENTAL, and ali during the
whipping be was in the greatest glee and
laughed as il his sides would split. On be-
ing asked what he was laughing so for he
SAID 1t was because he was playing
such good Joke on them. They were
whipping the wrong man" think you
have beaten the wrong man.
ENDORSE The NOMINEE.
Endorse your nominee? Why, yes, of
course | will 90 il. 1t seems to me | can't
well help myself. Between him and me
there has never been. as far as ! know,
one ripple of personal unpleasantness.
If he will excuse the expression, he Is
yerv good fellow, the truth Is II took a
very good fellow TO beat me, and believe
If there had been few more good fellows
IN this convention be wouldn't have done
it, 1t is the ones IN here that are not good
fellows that | have cause OF complaint
against. | hope that they will 60 of and
say their prayers and repent Of the evil OF
their ways. Continued laughter.
But 1 reckon | had better come right
down TO this thing of endorsing, or some |
BODY might think am sore-headed. Well.
| may be sOre-headed, but | am not
kicker. In the language of one whom we
might all delight to initiate, am
Democrat" Yes, from the top of my head
10 the sole of my feet. all the way round.
all the way through, all the way up, and
all the way down. am a Democrat, and
IN obedience TO the mandates OF my party
| bow, and give to your nominee my
hearty endorsement. Loud appause.l
GO FORTH TO WIN.
Let US co from this hall united band
of bro hers, bound together IN one co m
mon cause. and fight as OF wore for the
triumph of the principles of our grand old
ID mocratlc party, AMI for Virginia and
NirgInlans
The kneht,iest Of tae knightly race,
Who since the days OF old,
Have kept the lamp OF ch'yalry
AEght In hearts OF gold
To my friends on this floor and through
out the State. who. like brothers In tno
flesh. have stood bv me from the begin
nlng with faithful, loyal. and unsclfsh
devotion. such as binds my heart 10 them
with hooks of steel, say God bless YOU
and help me ever to cherish in fondest
memory your noble proof of love and con-
tdence. lGreat applause