The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-07-11

IANN NsAN ~
In tho union, l was ono OF the Mlchi-
gan Democrats, who. when tho vote
was challenged on the election OF a
temporary, chairman OF this convention.
voted for tho free oliver candidate. /
have always been u free silver ina
and l wng q member OF tho committee
on resolutions In tho state convention
two years aBO that nominated that
honest old man, Fisher, on n free silver
platform. hut | want TO say this to you.
my friends and fellow delegates. we
have got votes enough In this convcn-
ton by II two-thirds majority without
committing highway robbery"
A Roman admiral was about TO go IN
TO battle when 1t was found there was
something wrong with the ornclcs. IiO
WINS told the sacrch chickens would not
drink. "Wen make them drink, then"
no cried. Throw them Into the sen"
No necessity for u diagram, Is there"
What did that mob OF parGtlcs caro- for
warnings? Party traditions were moth
Ing to them. When they interfcrcd they
were thrown overheard,
There was n man In that convention
who held more power than any Demo-
cratic politician In the party. lie can
never be elected to the presidency OF
the United States because OF his alien
birth, yet he was pressing the button
and the delegates were doing the rest.
Ills name Is Altgcld. Ills tendencies arc
towards anarchy. Did you ever notice
the resemblance OF his pictures TO Cult
eau? or him Delegate McDermott, Of
New Jersey, wrote 10 the New YORK
World:
"AltSeld was In evidence to-day, and
being in evidence, brought back the pic
lures OF che man who cried GLORY!
glory!" when he. was hanged for kill
Ing President Garfield. But AltEeld has
more buttons. lie Will not be hunGed;
h. will die RICH"
Temporary Chairman Daniel had n
rhetorical jag on when he made his
speech on taking the chair after tho
convention had ~bludgeoncd Hill. He is
an oricntallst In imagery, and how
those warm, iiorId sentences did flow!
Here Is a sample spasm:
II am happy, gentlemen, to know
that AS the majority In this convention
Is not personal, neither In any sense
Is It sectional. II blends the palmetto
and the pines in Maine and South Caro-
lima. 1t begins with the sunrise In Mary
land and spreads into Il sunburst In
Louisiana and Texas.
at pours down Its rivulcts from the
mountains Of West Virginia anu makes
Wyoming, Idaho. Utah, Nevada, Mon
tana and Colorado"
How In the nane OF geography or
topography can anything-even OF thu
''mOuntain dew" brand-pour down In
rlvulets short OF u NnRhic delugc. and
make u great lake In that far-0n cline?
The convention has been compared to
tho cave OF Adullum OF scrlptural fame.
The authority for that reference Is to
be found In | Samuel. xxli:l-2: David
therefore departed thence. and escaped
to the cave .tdullum. And everyone that
was In distress, and everyone that was
in debt, and everyone that was dScOn-
tented, gathered themselves unto him:
and he became n captain over them;
and there were with him about four
hundred men,"
Pretty neat. Isn't It? The only differ
ence Is David didn't have n twO-thlrdS
majority. Perhaps the committee on
credentials hadn't reported when the
papCr went to press. We arc not told
this. but II might have been the case.
The bIcyclIsts ought TO have a partic-
ular reverence for Ex-Governor Hosg.
OF Texas. who grunted n few lines In
the convention. He Is said. In n OF his
hts Of temporary insanity. 10 have char
acterIZcd the innocent n healthtul
wheel as "a d%romedary for dudes"
The castles that this free silver. Pop
ulstIc hybrid Democratic convention
have erected in their platform stand on
atmospheric foundations.
One n almost smell the torch OF the
inccndiary and hear therrumble OF the
tumbril hurryinG some victim to the
caress OF Madame Guillotine, after
reading the proceedings of the owen
ton.
Some claim that the ticket has n
good chance. So has n SNOWFALL In the
hottest loungins chamber OF Tophet
II 1t has.l e US sing with esthct!c Bun
thorne:
Oh. to be waited away
From his black Aceldama OF SORROW.
Where the earth OF n dusty to-day
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