The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-06-18

principal ana interest, OF what he owed
them, The best type of successful bus
mess man, he turns to politics, to be
successful minister abroad, to the eXecu-
five and administrative branches of gov
ernment, to be the most popular vice
nresident and the presiding officer of that
most august body, the senate of the
United States.
Orr present deplorable industrial and
financial conditions are largely due to
fine fact that while we have u president
and cabinet of acknowledged ability.
none of them have had business training
or experience. They are persuasive reas-
oncrs upon industrial questions, but have
never practically solved industrial prob
lens. They are the book farmers who
raise wheat at the cost of orchids and
sell it at the price of wheat. With Levi
p Morton there would be no deficiency
TO be met by the issue of bonds, there
would be no blight on our credit which
would call for the services of a syndicate.
there would be no trifling with the deli
cate intricacies of finance and commerce
which would paralyze the operations of
trade and manufacture.
Whoever may be nominated by this
convention will receive the cordial sup
mort. the enthusiastic advocacy of the
Republicans of New York, but in the
shifting conditions of our commonwealth
Governor Morton can secure more than
thc party strength, and without question
in the coming canvass, no matter what
issues may arise between now and No
vember. place the Empire State solidly
in the Republican column.
1t was exactly 3:17 when Ohio was
called by the secretary and Governor
Bushnell arose to announce that Senator
elect Foraker would speak for the Buck
eve state. But the convention would not
be restrained. With a wild roar the Nc
Kinleytcs on the floor rose to their feet,
and the thousands in the galleries went
frantic with enthusiasm. The members
of the Ohio delegation unfolded small
silk banners and swung them about their
heads while all over the floor was waved
the tall. tri-colored plume of the Ameri-
can Napoleon. The plumes were fixed to
the end of staffs several feet in length
They had just been distributed, but some
of them were still in their cases as the
delegates waved them aloft. The APP
pearance of the popular and magnetic
Foraker on the stand was the signal for
another outburst, which subsidized as he
motioned for order.
M'KINLEY ENTHUSIASM.
Senator Foraker got no further than
the name of the statesman. Even before
the last syllable has passed his lips. with
one great swell the delegates and the oc-
cupants of the galleries sprang to their
feet and let out Il yell that would have
driven out of the pastures the far-famed
bull of Basham. The precise time when
this violent eruption occurred was 3:1S
p. M, as indicated by the clock. Senator
Foraker stepped mOdestly back and with
his hand raised, seemed to deprecate the
simultaneous movement of voice and ac-
ton on the part of the people. Chairman
Thurston hit the desk four or five thumps
with his gavel, but the crowd paid no
more attention to him and his gavel
than if he were located in
an outlying member of the solar system
The crowd had it all to themselves, and
they howled. Then they got down and
of this kind had to be enough. and they
climbed upon the seats again for another
session of yelling from these elevated po-
sitions. AS if shot from the air from
concealed batteries, a thousand variegat-
ed plumes flashed into the air, almost con-
cealing the thousands of flags, handker-
chiefs and umbrellas that were being
wildly tlourshed by the enthusiastic
crowd. State standards were uprooted
and carried up and down the aisle, every
body shrieking. A large picture of Maj.
Mckinley was hoisted, and there was Il
swelling of the noise In an effort to
bring about a state of quietness the band
behind the chairman struck up Marching
Through Georgia. Instead of listen
ing 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 rOllicking songs of the nation.
Among the hearty voices could be heard
the softer notes of the hundreds OF wom'
en- whose handkerchiefs We're flying in
the air from the galleries The crowd
out-yelled the band, but the frantic gestic-
ulations of the musicians were the only
evidence that the band was in it at all.
After the instrumental music ceased the
crowd took up the song and marched
through Georgia with an air accompani-
ment of many thousand feet to correspond
with the tune. After while there was
an ebb in the volley of noise, and the in
struments started in this time with 'The
BattleCry of Freedom Again the audi
ence helped out the musicians, and the
''Battle-Cry of Freedom" was shouted out
in style which reminded old-timers of
the war time, when no collection of loyal
Americans, not even prayer meetings. was
considered complete without an outburst
of stirring songs
At $3.50. the awful uproar having then
lasted some twelve minutes, the chairman
made futile attempt to check it with his
gavel, but it was no use. and he gave 1t
up with a grim smile ut the crowd in the
front. who for the first time since the open
ing of his administration refused to do his
bidding. After the shouters had tired
themselves out with the "Battle-Cry of
Freedom" and subsidized into ordinary
bowls the band took another whirl at it
with America" and as the solemn strains
of the national hymn hoated down from
the elevated position occupied by the must
clans, the people again took up the an.
swer and with something like an approach
to harmony. which the sweet voices of
the women largely assisted. Immediately
upon the conclusion of the anthem the
yells became wilder than ever before, but
plumes and flags and standards, and even
outer garments of the enthusiastic mob
in the hands of their excited bearers,
danced and whirled as if they were COM
ponent parts of vast kaleidoscope. In
unison with the sentiments of the occa-
sion the band itself became instruments
of anarchy and jumped in with the jingle
of Yankee Doodle" influenced by the
spirit which influenced everyone in the
hall. apparently.
Mr.. Hanna mounted a chair and delb-
erately kissed both hands of Senator
Foraker, who had touched the match to
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