The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-07-09
BLAND AND A BOLT
This Seems TO Be the Natural
Outcome Of The Chicago
Convention.
NO QUARTER TO GOLD BUGS
Silver Majority Proposes to Continue
to Run the Convention to Suit
mSelVes-W Wransle Owe, ths
Settlement Of the Michigan Dele
gate Contests Advocates
0uSted.

through d listless morning session, the
Democratic national convention wit
messed two scenes tonight which COM
pensated those whose pent up feelings
had been given no vent In the earlier
part of the day. Men and women Joined
In the demonstration for each contend
ing faction Of the Democracy. They
shouted and cheered. sang and cheered.
and fairly turned the great convention
hall into pandemonium.
1t was during the roll call Of states
on u motion to adopt the minority report
of the committee on credentials that
both demonstrations occurred. The
majority of the committee had sub
mitted report unseating members Of
the Michigan state delegation and pro-
viding the silver contestants should
take their places Chairman Daniel
had put the question on the adoption
of the minority report and the voting
Of states was proceeding with compara-
tive quiet and some preciseness. When
New York was reached Chairman
Hinckley's large frame loomed up un-
der the little bannerett that indicated
the loyalty of the Empire state Demo-
Gratis. There was d silence for brief
second. then Mr.. Hinckleys voice rang
out New York casts her Y votes aye"
A great cheer went up from all parts Of
the hall. The delegates on the floor led
the applause. some Of them rising to
their feet to give better space for the
display Of gymnastics which their en-
thusiasm forced upon them.
HUGH GRANTS TURN"
A man among the spectators rose and
waved his hat and in an instant the
audience was up, seemingly Ell masse.
and people We're cheering like mad men,
Things began to quiet down after few
minutes but the playing of the band
broke in as though 1t were intended as
signal to renew the applause. Up
again came the eastern delegates and
up came the spectators. In the midst
of the New York seats beared man
jumped up on a chair and waved his
hat. He shouted something TO his fel-
low delegates and nearly every man
among tho New Workers leaped to his
feet, many standing on their chairs and
shouting like men gone wild in delirious
JOY. The leader of this feature of the
demonstration was Hugh j. Grant. ex-
mayor of New York. swaying back and
forth, one hand holding his hat in the
air the other waving colleagues and
spectators to their feet, he looked the
impersoration of leader. Those tiers
OF men and women packed closely to-
gether in the great temporary temple
of Democracy Immediately responded.
up, up." was the cry Of the New
York men. UP, up" cried the dele
gates pledged to gold. up, up be.
came the slogan of the vast multitude
and soon delegates on the floor. and
many thousands who care to see not
10 act were jumping. yelling, waving
and doing every other thing that ex-
cited men ever dc to show the trend Of
their feelings. Whenever there was
the slightest inclination toward a. ces-
sation of the cheering. the Tammany
yell went IN and the volume Of sound
swelled to Its fullest again.
In that mysterious and indefina bic
manner in which all those who have seen
great demonstration of this sort can
appreciate, cheering suddenly, decreas-
ed in volume and seemed to be dying
away But Hugh Grant knew his sub
jects, and through his lips came the
name Of David B. Hill. Shouted with
all the lung power at his command:
Hill, Hill David Il. HILL" became the
cry Of the thousands who had q moment
before shown signs of abating enthus-
iasm. Up again came the delegates
and audience, every man and woman
hn nf hA
manager So great became the volume
of sound and so widespread the confu-
sion, that Grant, Hinckley and the man
who was the object of it all--David Il.
Hill-whO had sat quietly and calmly in
his chair while the tumult ragged. finally
appealed by voice and gesture for quiet
and order. But they might as well have
urged TO attempt to subdue SO many
Comanach Indians and though things
came quieter for an instant when Chair
man Daniel endeavored to make a state
ment, the multitude seemd only to gain
greater vehemence by their brief pause
and yelled and wasted with such hearth
ness that the demonstration went be-
yond its former bounds.
Governor Altgeld arose to speak but
he was showed down and Kisses COM
mingled with the shouting. Grant and
the New York leaders used their efforts
to stay the multitude and little by little
they gained their object until such Or
der was restored as enabled the chair
man to make an appeal for quiet.
BLAND BANNER WAVES.
The second demonstration was a repe-
tltion Of the first and was intended as
the counter charge of the silver men.
They found their cue in the announce
ment Of the vote which showed that the
minority or gold report Of the creden-
tials committee had been rejected and
again pandemonium reigned. A Bland
banner and Bland band kept the en-
thusiasm from tagging and coats were
taken on and waved wildly, news
papers and hats were thrown in the air