The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-06-25
BATTLE ROYAL TODAY
REPUBLICAN CONVENTION IS
READY TO NOMINATE CAN
DIDATES AND ADOPT
A PLATFORM.
M'K|NLEY'S MAJORITY SAFE
WHICH WAS SHOWN IN A TEST
VOTE ON ADOPTION OF THE
CREDENTIALS REPORT.
.A DRAMATIC Scene WIS ENACTED
IN PLATFORM COMMITTEE-SIL-
NERITES GOING TO ROTT
IN PLATFORM COMMITTEE-SIL-
NERITES GOING TO BOLT.
SENATOR TELLER'S SPEECH BROUGHT TEARS
MORNING SESSION

st. Louis, June 17.-With a full hous,
below, where the delegates and altcrnates
sit, and but few vacant spaces in the gal
leries, the national Republican conven.
ton began its second days proceedings at
1918 a. N. Bringing the great body
to ordcrthe chairman said:
The convention will be in order. No
one will be admitted to the floor who has
not a floor who is not delegate
DIR. William G. Williams, pastor of
the Union NJ f. church of St. Louis, Will
invoke Divine blessing"
The delegates and alternatcs and most
of the audience rose while Rev Mr.. Will
Jams addressed the throne of grace as fol
lows:
"Oh, Thoue great and Almighty Father;
Thou to Whom all hearts are Open: all de-
sires known and from Whom no secrets
are hid; Thou who hast been our helper
in days past, Who must be our helper to-
day, and Who art the hope for years to
come; we bring Thee our prayers. We
pray to Thee be with us as Thou vert
with our fathers when in the day of small
things they stood resolutely in the land
and laid the foundations in this western
continent of civilization and gracious lib
crty. We pray to Thee Who has guided
MS, the people. in our peril. We pray to
Thee, God of Washington and of Lincoln:
we pray to the God who has been with us
from Plymouth Rock to this hour. We
pray today, as did the founders of this
great historic organization, when in high
dedication of themselves they took a larger
conception and higher conception of the
rights of man to find Il larger nation for
civilization i'll this western world. We
come to Thee, oh God, asking Thy bless
ings upon these Successors of the noble
fathers who are assembled here today
We ask that they may maintain the same
high ideal of their duties that guided their
worthy and noble ancestry. May these
men be dedicated to Thee. May they do
what they do in accordance with the will
of the Supreme Ruler. We pray that the
platform presented here may be framed in
righteousness; that the principles promul-
gated in this council may be cOnsonant
with the principles of the great Divine
will as revealed to man. We ask Thee,
oh God, that Thy blessing shall rest upon
the people of the great nation represented
here today. We ask Thee, oh God. that
before the people of this great nation NAV
be men after Thine own heart. to whom
the high behest of duty shall be but the
voice of God: men whom Thou dost ap-
prove and who shall seek here in this
country the establishment of that king
dom. which. coming down out of heaven.
is to be buldcd until it shall include all
nations and all institutions in this earth.
We ask Thee to guide in the deliberations
of this day and of this entire convention
and so guide the future of this historic
organization that this country of ours,
over which once brooded wars dark
Clouds Whlcn was once ehuansSreu ny
nelllSerehI lact l4' anu Mnion NV Nv,
ho nc,M" "n; t nnrif;ed nv The struggles
'.,,o hns ondurod shall forcvermore he the
a. nhnnnion Of mankind in tbe Garth
and tbo Irndar If the world in the works
"f man And nil this we ask in tho name
of and for the sake of the Worlds Re
deemcr and Saviour, Jesus Christ, our
Lord. Amen"
Sonotor Henry Cabot Iodcn of NIosso.
.husotts oddrnSsina thn choir said.
IT dosire to saw on behoIf of thp commit
foo on rnsolntions that the suh-committne
bos comnleted The draft of tbe nlatform
and that If is now under consideration by
the full committee, The COMMITTEES is
unohln to ronort this morning and asks
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