The Portland daily press., 1896-07-27

| monkeys.
St. Louis, July 25.-Old Gen. Fields
spent most OF the morning in the news.
paper gallery and the boys had fun with
him asking him whether Bryan would
accept. The Generals answer was shake
of his orutch and this:
Young man, the Romans never asked
Cinoinnatus to lead them. When Rome
needed him the Romans said: Come,
and he obeyed the command. That's what
We will do with Bryan"
When the Rev. Mr.. Kemp of Washing.
ton, who runs race with Denver Pat
terson and Nebraska Gseene for the talk
ing championship, made his prayer this
morning, there was no less than 90 dele.
gates who screamed Question, :" Point
of order,' and the like but Mr.. Kemr
would not permit himself to be disturbed
and went right on praying.
One man who goes home from this con.
vention covered with glory is named
Worley, and he halls from Wisconsin.
| Morley is the man with the foghorn
voice, who acted at nearly every session
of the convention as repeater. Worley's
voice would win him fortune If it was
trained. 1t is not trained, however, to
do anything except to call out railroad
trains or something of that kind. When
he spoke in just his ordinary tone the
delegates in every part OF the big hall
We're able to hear what he said.
The convention had just begun when
| the clerk with the biggest voice bawled
out:
Ladies' and gentlemen, Mr.. Greene OF
Montana has lost his mileage book ana
his ticket to the convention.
| "And it's more than two thousand
miles to Montana yelled a voice tinged
with agony. Whether it was MIR. Greene
or not did not ba come known.
The resolution said that the making of
| gold had been successfully demonstrated
to number of delegates in the conven-
ton. 1t was thought that this might be
q sly slap at some of the delegates who
have been tal&ng about Mark Hanna s
money, but the man who introduced the
| resolution assured the reporter in all
| seriousness that it was possible to make
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| ing in the nature of a slap was intended
| in the resolution.
The convention has demonstrated on
| thing; that is, that no first-class Popu-
list can make speech without dragging
in either Deity or his satanic majesty
and hell. OF the 99S speec hes that were
made in this convention. 996 of thern
called Oh something divine before they
ended and $50 Of them spoke of the
| friends OF hell and the fortunes of the
damned. The Populists are also partial
to the words 'cruoify" and ''oross. -
They are partial to 1.-THE waving fields
Of golden grain" "The apple orchard
| of the NorS III and the orange groves of the
South and West.'' Even Ignatius DON
nelly of oFyptogram fame couldn't make
little speech without inviting half th g
Populist convention to go Give hundre d
miles lower than the lowest pits Of hell. I"
Marion Williams, one of the leading
l lights Of the Texas delegation got into q
fight before the convention took recess
yesterday. Stamp" Ashby was talking
to the Texas delegation concerning the
Vioe-Presidential nomination. Several
assistant sergeane-at-arms ordered the
Texans to keep quiet, and wrangls ell
sued. One Of Col. McDowell's assistants
spoke in tone that angered Williams,
who demanded that he go away. The
convention officer refused to do SO, and
Williams sprang at him.
At that instant Police Captain O'Mal-
ley, who had hastenea to the spot threw
himself between the Texan and the assis-
tant sergeant-at-arms and saved the lat
ter from being struck in the faos There
was general tussle for moment, and
Williams's opponent withdrew. Capt.
O'Malley threatened to eject all those
xzi off
to send for several more policemen, but
he got a promise that quiet would be
maintained, and the muss endeu there
The Populists have got an investigat-
ing oon mittee out to find who it was
turned out theslights on them at Friday
nights session just as the nomination
of Tom Watson was announced. The cleo
trio light company says that it had orders
to keep the lights going until O'Clock
in the morning, but few minutes before
they were turned out they received or
ders by telephone from the hall to turn
the lights because the convention ha
adjourned.
Who sent these orders, the Populists
came from no official of the convention.
They say that for half an hour before
the lights were turned out, Gen. Weaver,
Gov. Stone and another man were in
close conversation in dark corner near
the entrance of the hall. And they called
attention to the fact that it was just a
moment or two before Gen. Weaver had
endeavored to secure an adjournment OF
the convention and failed that the lights
fiokered and went out.
The Populists are carrying on their in
quiry on the plea that some one ought
to be punished because the lives of the
people who were in the building were en-
dangered by thelturning out of the lights,
but the chief reason is that they want to
know who it was SO as TO lynch him the
first time they can get their hands on
him. There was never madden sat of
men in the world than these Populists
were when the lights went out, and the
more they think about it now the mad.
der they get.
One Pop who made a hit at Friday
NIGHTS session of the convent on was
Can't. Burnham of Tennessee. He made
it by saying of the Democratic party:
Wiggling in and wiggling out.
Leaving the mind always in doubt,
whether the party making tho track
Was going east or coming back.
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