The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-09

gan, a sandy-haired man with straw
colored gnustache and imperial, con-
Guided the debate on behalf of the mi
nority.
Delegate. o'Donnen of Colorado per-
formed the same Office for the major
ity Just before Mr.. O'DonneI1 began
several hundred Bland boomers came
up through the north entrance and
created am enthusiastic demonstration
in favor of their candidate.
Mr.. O'Donnell said:
Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the
! Convention. l thank God l have lived
to see the time in Democratic con-
vention when no threat of the gentle
man from. New York can
DRIVE IT FROM DOING ITS DUTY.
Great APPLAUSE The cause of the
four men represented by the majority
report is as honest as the silver dollar.
/ (Appiause and cheers.)
Gentlemen, in the case of the four
4 sitting delegates, whom the commit
tee proposes to unseat, SO apparent was
the fraud that men representing gold
states voted for a part of this report.
| You talk about upsetting the will Of a
sovereign state! The purpose of the
committee is that the will of the SOW
| ereiSn STATE may and shall be heard.
We are not here to be suppressed. We
are here that the truth crushed TO
earth in Michigan may rise again and
soar aloft. but expression and voice of
the people of that state may not be
! stified We are here with this report
TO COMPEL THE TRUTH
to be spoken for the state of Michigan.
! Now, gentlemen, l ask you to sustain
/ the report adopted in the committee
Is votes in the affirmative to in the
negative. 1 move the previous ques-
| ton
AT the close of O'Donnel1's speech
| amid loud cries of Vote, vote" from
the impatient crowds, Chairman Dan
iel put the question, first on the adop-
ton of the minority report to confirm
the sitting delegates in their title to
the seats. The roll was called. Ala
bama, the first state called, started a
revolt against the majority. Although
solid silver delegation, a challenge
[ of her vote developed the fact that
seven votes in the delegation favored
the gold delegates. But under the unit
rule Alabama's % votes were cast
against the minority report. The god
men got all out of Caufornta's Is silver
votes two of which were cast by Sem
ator White and Congressman Mcguire.
1ndiana's silver delegation furnished
of their 80 votes for the gold dele
gates. Delegate Haldeman. of the Ken
| lucky delegation. by a challenge, I'M
| covered two affirmative votes in that
delegation. There were three votes in
| the Massachusetts delegation for seat
ing the silver delegates and 1 in Mary
lana. Mr.. Stevenson, of Michigan, cast
! the % votes of his state, in which there
are II silver votes, in favor of keeping
THE GOLD MEN IN THEIR SEATS.
Their was wild cheering when ex-Gov-
ernor Flower cast the u votes of New
York for the minority report. 1t con-
tinued fully minute. The gold dele
CATION mounted their chairs and waiv-
ed their handSerchiefs while the gal
leries grew perfectly frantic. They
shouted, whistled, stamped their feet,
flung their hats aloft and turned the
convention into pandamonium. The en-
thusiasrn rose and fell, only to rise
again Ike the oncoming tides of the
ocean. Up to that time it was the
most enthusiastic scene of the conven-
ton.
Chairman Daniel tried to secure or
der with his gavel, but the raps were
swallowed up in the awful din as the
crack Of a 10Y pistol would be by the
roar of a voliey Of hundred-ton guns.
the band broke in with the strains of
one of Sousa's popular marches, but it
had no effect on
THE TEN THOUSAND PEOPLE
who were yelling like mad. When the
music ceased the demonstration grew
fiercer. The silver men were irfuri-
ated. They were evidently convinced
that the galleries were packed.
Chairman Daniel held up his hand
for order, but he was not needed. He
ordered the clerk to call the roll, but
that officials voice could not penetrate
the whirlwind of sound The silver
men in the galleries Kissed The silver
leaders on the floor were manifestly
disturbed. Governor Stone, of Mis-
souri,, moved hastily up to the stage
70 consult Chairman Daniel
Senator Cockren worked his way
around to where the Illinois delegation
sat. Others moved hither and thither.
1t looked almost as if the silver men
had been stricken with panic. Sud
denly, Governor A1tgeld got upon his
chair and faced the chairman. His face
was silhouetted against the roya pur-
pie standard of the Illinois delega ton
and his long. learn. arm was extended
toward the chairman,
APPEALING FOR RECOGNITION. |
The silver delegates regained their
composure as they saw that strong
masterful figure towering above the
forest of waving arms, mistaken by
the tuTnult raging about him. Gradu-
ally the storm died away, after being
revived once or twice by a New York
delegate who shouted for Hill AS it
finally subsidized it left Altgeld still
standing resolutely with his face to the
chairman and the surgeant- alarms, /
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The demonstra ton had lasted eighteen
minutes.
The sergeant-at-arms had been Wild
ly waving his arms for five minutes. /
AS the tunult died away he was able /
to make an impression.
1.-THE chairman, he shouted, desires |
TO make a statement and L am sure /
this Democratic convention villa listen /
to him"
Senator Daniel who had been facing
the arena with set lips and folded arms .
stretched out his hands He said:
DANIEL IS FIRM.
Il shall direct the secretary to stop
IN the convention until /
order Is restored" and then he sat
down in his chair and folded his arms
again.
Governor Altgeld had been standing
in his chair over by the Illinois stand
ard with Cockrell. Martin and Stone
gathered about him. He secured re-
cognition by the medium of a messen-
ger sent to the platform, and he
shouted II rise to point of order. I
desire to challenge the vote of Michi-
gan. We are proceeding here under
the rules of the Fifty third congress-
His sentence was cut short here, al
most definitely buried and over
under