The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-18
HAD A HOT TIME.
second Days Proceedings Given in
Detail.


ST. LOUIS, June with full house
below. where the delegates and alter
mates sit, and but few vacant spaces
in the galleries, the national Repuo-
ucan convention began its second day s
proceedings at 1910 a m. In bringing
fhe great body to order, Chairman
Fairbanks said:
THE convention will be in order. No
one win be admitted to the floor who
has not a, floor badge, or who Is not
delegate. DIR. William G. Williams,
pastor of the Union Methodist church,
of ST. Louis. Will invoke the divine
blessing
The delegates and alternates and
most of the audience rose. while the
Rey DIR. Williams addressed the
throne of grace as follows:
THE INVOCATION.
20, thou great and eternal one;
thou to whom all hearts are open, all
desires known and from whom no Sc
crets are hidden. Thou who has been
our help in days past, who must be
our helper today and who art our nope
for years to come, we bring to thee
our prayers We pray to thee to be
with US as thou vert with our fathers
when in the day of small things they
stood resotutely in the land, and laAd
the foundations in this western CONT
nent of civil and religious liberty. We
pray to thee who hast guided US, the
people, in our peril. We pray to the
God of Washington and of Lincoln;
we pray to the God who has been with
us as an agent from Plymouth Rock
to this hour We pray today as thou
vast with the founders of this great
historic orga niZation, when in high
dedication Of themselves they took a
larger conception and a, higher concep-
ton of the rights of man to found a
larger nation for civilization in this
western world We come to thee o
God. asking thy blessing upon these
Successors of the noble fathers. who
are assembled here today. We ask
that they may maintain the same high
idea of their duties that guided their
worthy and noble ancestry. Mey these
men be dedicated to thee. May they
do what they have to do in accordance
with the will of the supreme ruler.
We pray the platform presented herr
my be framed in righteousness; THAI
the principles promulgated in this
council may be conSonant with the
principles of the great divine will re-
vealed to man. We ask thee. o God,
that thy blessing shall rest upon the
people of this great nation represented
here today. We ask thee, o God, that
the men whom this council shall place
before the people Of this great nation
to represent their thought and their
programme may be men after thine
own heart, to whom the highest of
duty shall be but the voice of God /;
men whom thou dost approve and who
shall seek here in this country the es-
tablishment of that kingdom which.
coming down out of heaven. is to be
buifded until it shall include all ma
tons and all institutions on this earth
We ask thee to guide in the deribera-
tons OF this day and Of this entire
convention, and so guide in the future
of this historic organization that this
brooded wars dark cloud which was
once endangered by belligerent factions
and which now. thanks be unto thy
good providence. has become united,
purified by her trials, stronger by this
struggle she has endured, shall forever
be the fit champion of mankind in the
earth and the leader of the world of
the works of man. And all this we
ask in the name and for the sake of
the worlds redeemer and Saviour
Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen
ASKED FURTHER TIME.
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge. of
Massachusetts,. addressing the chair.
said:
II desire to say, on behalf of the
committee on resolutions. that the sub
committee has completed the draft of
the platform. and that it is now under