The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-06-19


| creased prosperity. No other name 50
completely meets the requirements of
the American people; and no other
man 50 absolutely commands their
| hearts and their affections The shafts
| of envy. malice and dereliction lie
broken and harmless at his feet. They
have already been shot and shot in
vain. The culver is empty, and he is
untouched; and that is SO because the
American people know him, trust him,
| believe him, love him, and no efforts
to disparage him can succeed.
"They know that he is patriotic, and
that he is an American of Americans.
| They know that he is wise, that he is
able and true and they want him for
President of the United States,
| They have already so declared,
not in this or that State or
section. but i'm all the States
and all sections Of our country, from
ocean to ocean. and from the Gulf to
the lakes. They expect us to give them
chance to vote for him. 1t is our
duty If we discharge that duty we
will give JOY to their hearts, enthus'-
asm to the campaign, and triumphant
victory for the cause, and he, in turn,
viii give us an administration under
which the country will enter upon a
new era OF prosperity athome and glory
and honor abroad. BY all these tokens
of the present, all these promises for
the future, in the name of the forty
six delegates of Ohio, [ submit his
claims to your consideration. Cloud
cheers).
Senator Foraker got no further than
then name of the Ohio statesman. Even
before the last syllable had passed his
lips, with one great swell the delegates
and the occupants of the galleries
sprang to their feet and let out yell
that would have driven out of the
pastures the far-famed bull of Basham.
The precise time when this violent
eruption occurred was 3:18 p. m, and
it was indicated by the clock confront
ing the Speakers desk. Senator For
aller modestly stepped back and with
his hand raised, seemed to depreciate
the simultaneous movement of voices
and the action on the part of the peo-
pie, and Chairman Thurston hit the
desk four or five times with his gavel,
but the bowling chrowd paid no more
attention to him and his gavel than if
he were located in some outlying
member of the solar system.
\ REMARKABLE DEMONSTRATION.
Then the crowd had it all to them
selves, they howled. The first move
| ment was to mount the seatswher theye
yelled awhile; then they got down and
did some more yelling. A little eXpe-
| rience of this kind seemed to be enough
and they climbed up on the seats for
| another session of yelling, in these ele-
waited positions. 1t seemed to be the air
from some concealed battery, the varie-
gated plumes waved in all directions,
and the thousand American flags and
handkerchiefs that were wildly flour
ished by the enthusiastic crowd. State
standards were uprooted and carried
| up and down the aisles by shrieking
delegates. A gigantic portrait of Gov
ernor Mckinley was hoisted to a posi-
tion in front of the gallery opposite the
| chairman's desk, and as the picture
caught the eyes of the assembIage
| there was an immense swell in the vol
'ume Of sound which filled the spacious
hall
In an effort to bring about a state OF
| quietness, the band behind the chair
| man struck up Marching Through
| Georgia." Instead of listening quietly
to the instrumental music, the crowd
simply drowned it out by singing in all
| sorts of voices and in all kinds of time,
| the rolling words of the song. After
| the instrumental music ceased, the
| crowd took up the song and marched
| through Georgia with an air accompa-
nimemt of many thousand feet pound
| ing the floor in an attempt to cores
pond with the rythm of the tame.
| After a while there was an ebb in the
volume of noise, and again the instru-
ments started in, this time with the
Battle Cry of Freedom and again the
| audience helped out the musicians.
At $3.50 o'clock, the awful uproar hay
| ing then lasted some twelve minutes,
| the chairman made a futile attempt to
| check it with his gavel, but it was no
use, and he gave it up with a grim
smile at the crowd in front, who for
| the first time since the opening of his
| administration refused to do his bid
ding.
After the shouters had tired them
selves out with The Battle Cry or
Freedom" and subsidized into ordinary
bowls, the band took another whirl at
| it with America" and the solemn
strains of the National Hymn floated
down from the elevated position occu-
pied by the band, the people again took
up the air, and this time with some
thing like an approach to harmony, in
which the swell of voices was largely
assisted. Immediately upon the con-
clusion of the anthem, the yeIls be-
came wilder than ever before, the
pIumes and flags and standards and
even outer garments of the mob in the
| hands of their excited hearers danced
| and whirled as if they were compo-
nent parts of a vast kaleidoscope. In
unison with the sentiment of the occa-
sion, the band itself became an
instrument of anarchy, and jumped i'll
with the jingle of Yankee Doodle
| Influenced by the spirit which Animal
ed everyone in the hail. APP
parently, Mr.. Hanna mounted
| a chair and deliberately kissed
| both hands to Senator-elect Foraker
who had touched the match to the
mine and produced the great explosion.
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