The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-07-24

The announcements were completed
 at ll;45. Delegate Dixon of Oklahoma
 then mounted the stage and, after ad-
 turing the delegates to be quiet and mot interrupt, introduced Clarence D. Comley of Oklahoma, who regaled the convention with some campaign songs He was small of stature, but he had good voice, and the words of his songs tickled the delegates immensely, and they applauded at every opportunity.
 despite his deprecating gestures. The words of the song dealt with the wop-
 ders of the Roentgen X ray, They made several allusions to MT CleN eland's
 fishing and duck-huntlng trips, and concluded with q prediction of the de-
 feat of the "gold-bugs' in November,
 An Alabama delegate then introduced
 Mistress Pennington" the campaign
 singer of Arkansas. She sang parody
 on Yankee Doodle Dandy" each verse
 of which concluded:
 Yankee Doodle. get your gun,
 Shoot the gold-bugs, every one,
 Yankee Doodle Dandy.
 Delegate Crawford of Kansas moved
 that the delegates of the silver conven- ton be admitted on exhibition of their badges. There were many cries of "No, l no" from the middle-of- f-the-roaders, who evidently thought they saw in this
 a move to pack the galleries with Bry- an shouters. Sergeant-at- Arms Me Dowell got on the platform and said 1t | was impossible to carry out instrue- tions. Thereupon Jerry Simpson 1 mounted chair and said 1t was no | mora tbap onr,,,,o, nn,,rtecv tn ayta,t,J | to the other convention, which was l here in common cause, the same priv | ilege which it had extended to the del egates to this convention. After some wrangling Chairman Butler, amid | howls of delight from the straightouts. l ruled the motion out of order. | MT Washburne of Massachusetts an | nounced from the stage that he had an | important motion to offer. It proved | to be one deprecating the talk of d l split in the convention. It was intend l ed to bind the convention and was as | follows:
 Whereas, We are all populists, and 1 deprecate the talk which has appeared | in some of the newspapers that there ! is a disposition on the part of any por- | tion of this convention to refuse to abide by the action of this convention; | therefore,
 / Resolved, That we repudiate all such | utterances as a reflection upon the fl i. delity of the members of the convention
 and Of the peoples party
 MT. Williams of Texas offered as an amendment that the convention declare for the nomination of a populist on a | populist platform.
 | MT. Washburne said the question of 1 preserving the organization of the
 grand party" was vital, and called for
 full discussion. A storm of protests
 came from the middle -of-the-roaders | and one of them made the point of or der that before the Convention was per- manently organized no such resolution could be acted upon.
 Delegate Henry C. Baldwin of Nau- | gatuck, Conn.,, jumped on chair and l indignantly shouted: If the papers | say we are asses, shall we pass a reso- lution saying that we are not?" Chairman Butler ruled that during l the temporary organization resolu- tion could be passed expressing the sense of the convention. Thereupon Representative Howard of Alabama | moved to refer the resolution to the | committee on resolutions.
 | Delegate Branch of Georgia follow | ed with motion to table the whole | subject.
 There was a great deal of confusion as the vote was taken, viva voce. 1 Chairman Butler decided that the mo- 1 tion was carried. This disturbing
 question out of the way, Delegate Will | lis os North Dakota moved to take a
 recess, but the crowd desired more mu- sic and speeches and promptly voted
 the motion down.
 The Arkansas member of the com mittee on credentials said it would take until o'clock for the committee to re-
 port, and moved to adjourn until that l time, but the motion was ruled out on
 point of order. Many complaints were | made by delegates on account of their inability to hear anything where they
 were seated. One from Wisconsin want | ed repeaters placed where the outer l fringe of delegates could hear the mo- tions made. A motion to that effect,
 however, was promptly voted down. There was some squabbling as to the time when the convention should ad-
 journ, and although the further an-
 nouncement was, made that it would be
 o'clock before the committee on ere l dentials could report, the convention
 refused to take a recess. and another
 song was ung from the platform. The
 band then occupied the time while the
 delegates famed and sought the water 1 barrels.
 l o,A0 tO Ia rl. ried.