The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-07-12
WITHOUT A PRAYER.
Convention Opened Without the
Customary Invocation.

Customary Invocation.
At 1885. when Chairman White in
dicated his desire that the convention
should come to order not more than
two-thirds of the delegates were in at
tendance. In the West gallery, which
directly faces the chairmans desk, less
than one-third of the space was oc-
cupied. and in the north and south
galleries there was but a. small sprink-
ling of people. Either Intentionally or
by some oversight, the usual prayer
was omitted and in so far as the plat
form was concerned, there was no
clergyman present to open the pro-
ceedings with an invocation.
Senator Tillman of South Carolina,
made a motion that the doors of the
convention be thrown open to the pup
lie. that the people outside be per
mitted to occupy the vacant seats In
the convention hall, which motion was
received with much enthusiasm In the
midst of which the chairman an
nounced that it had already been done.
Senator Jones, of Arkansas, moved that
nominating speeches for candidates for
vice president be limited to five min
utes for each candidate. Before the
motion could be put Mr.. Bell, Of Mis-
souri,, said that his state presented the
name of Gov Stone, but could get no
farther. as the chair ruled him out Of
order, holding that the question was
upon the motion of the gentleman from
Arkansas, which motion was put and
carried unanimously.
The action of delegations in select
ing national committeeman was rat-
fled.
Mr. O'Sullivan, Massachusetts: II
am a free coinage man from the COM
monwealth Of Massachusetts: (Ap
plause) / am here to represent a. man
from that old commonwealth for the
suffrages of this convention. He is not
a millionaire and he has no money to
offer in this contest for the peoples
right. 1 come from the city and dis
trict that Ben F. Butler represented
in the Charleston convention of 1860,
and from which he bolted, but 1 do not
bolt, nor do my people from whom l
come (Applause) In this great hall,
where were gathered sixteen thousand
people, we witnessed yesterday a scene
unparalleled in this history of the
world in time of war or in time of
peace We saw man named who had
no voice pleading for him nor
BLARE OF TRUMPETS
to announce his candidacy, but stand
ing here, by the simple force of his
magnificent presence he swept this
convention of delegates off it's feet and
for the first time in many years, a rep
resentative convention nominated
man who was not slated by the leaders.
4 (Applause).
We were in the presence of a scene
THAT rivaled the gatherings in the Col
iseum in the days of Roman triumph
and the only incident in the history
of the world, which equals it, is that
when Napoleon returned from Elba,
and, without striking a blow or firing
a musket, took an empire by the magic
of his name. And the people of this
country, in opposition to the imitation
of a Napoleon, nominated by a Hanna
led convention, have nominated man
frcm the loins of the people,
You have given the Southwest the
platform. Carry the war into Africa
and give the candidate to the East.
Nominate a man from Massachusetts
who has the courage of his convictions;
who came out for silver in a country
where so out of 81 cannot tell you what
16 to / means. The war is over. If
you want to answer that sullen dele
cation from New York, which sits
there; if you want to prove to the ma
ton that you turned down the illus
trious leader of that state because he
represented gold and not the East, you
date 1 will nominate a man who was
once a gold man, but who saw the
error of his way; and propose to you,
my friends, to have ocean join hands
with ocean; to have the man from the
wheat fields Of Nebraska, where live
the producers, join hands with the
plain people of my state, where they go
in the gray dawn of morning by the
thousands to earn their bread by the
Of oh 49, Al
told them; the consumers, who buy
your wheat and who will vote for sill
yer to give you a fair price for that
wheat, in order that you may buy
clothes and cloth from them. I have
the honor and pleasure to name for
vice president of the United States a
man whose voice has ever been exer-
cised against OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Fred Williams, of Massachusetts.