The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-06-18

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National convention cleared the deck
for action TODAY. Two sessions were
held. one of an hour in the morning,
and of three hours in the afternoon.
The permanent organization was erect
ed. and the permanent chairman, Sena-
tor .Tohn NJ. Thurston, of Nebraska, as
sumed the duties of presiding othcer
at the morning session, and the report
of the committees on credentials ana
r11les were received and adopted at the
afternoon session. This leaves the pat
tie royal to come over the platform
and the nominating of the candidates.
1t is probable the platform would also
have been disposed of tonight had IL
not been that night session would nave
interfered with the mammoth Mchln-
lev parade, previously arranged for TO-
night.
Nothing could have been in more
striking contrast with the dull, feature
less session of Yesterday than bhe bril-
liant animated and enthusiastic con-
yention of to-day.
The hall was filled to its utmost ca
nacity with spectators keyed TO the
highest pitch of enthusiasm. 1ester-
day the mention OF the names OF the
great leaders of the party evoked a
demonstration. To-day it was ike ap-
piying a match to a powder magazine
to name distinguished man, and sew
eeral times when there was no occasion,
the exuberant galleries concluded their
explosions with a chorus OF shouts Tor
Mckinley
At the morning session there was
brief contest over the questlon or pro-
.ceeding with the election of permanent
officers before the report OF the com
mittees on credentials had been heard,
Senator Wallington and Congressman
Mudd, of Maryland, and delegate Lit
tlefeld, of Maine, vainly protested that
it was irregular, and that there was
no convention until the credentials or
the delegates had been passed upon,
but their angry protest was set aside
like chaff before the wind. The conven-
ton, beaming over with delight, was
in no temper to be delayed at the after
noon session, the first test of strength
between the Mckinley followers and
Morton men came, and demonstrated
the fact that Mckinley has majority
of over hundred in the convention.
While the convention was proceed
ing with it's work a dramatic scene
was being enacted in the committee
on resolutions. The group of western
silver men, headed by Senator Teller,
of Colorado, announced to their col
leagues when the financial plank in
the platform was agreed upon by a
vote of 40 to II, that they had reached
the parting of the ways, and that moth
ing remained for them but to with
draw from the convention.
1t was thought that there would
be violent recriminations and wild
words of denuciation when the final
announcement of the break came, but
instead it was the parting of old
friends in sorrow not in anger. The
silver men felt themselves swept on
by an irresistible fate and with pro-
testations of regret they cast the die.
Speeches were made by Senator Teller,
who joined the Republican party at
its inception and who was an ardent
supporter of Lincoln and who for
twenty years has represented his State
in the Senate of the United States as
Republican, save for two years in
the cabinet of Mr. Arthur; Senator
Dubois. the handsome stalwart young
Senator from Idaho, whose father was
nominated for Secretary of State of
Illinois by Abraham Lincoln; young
Senator Cannon, of Utah, whose father
was president of the Mormon church;
Representative Hartman, the young
and vigorous Congressman from Mon
tana; Lennon, of California;; Mott,
of North Carolina, the son of DIR. Mott
the secretary of the silver party, and
the delegates from New Mexico, Ari-
zona and Oklahoma Territories had
voted with them in committee and
they, too, made speeches but. did not
announce their purpose to withdraw.
The gold men in the committee were
filled with compassion and there was
not dry eye in the room while Sena-
tor Teller spoke. Senator Dubois,
Cannon and Delegate Mott broke down
completely and wept like children.
Senator Lodge, who replied, spoke
words of tender sympathy as if the
occasion were some great personal be-
reavement. He eulogized Senator Tel
Ter and his colleagues, but declared