The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-06-20
Senator ingalls, Description of
the COnYentiOn's Last Day.
Eastern Delegates Burst Into
Joyous Acclaim Every Time
GOLD is MENTIONED.
Boilers Treated Harshly Which
May Have 'SResults."
Speaks Of Depew's 'Snug and
FOxey Yisage."

The following is ex-senator John J.
ingalls, last letter from the st. Louis
convention. published in the New York
Journal.
St. Louis, June 2O.-The consciousness
that the great drama Of human pas
sions, ambition. greed and revenge
would eliminate today, attracted an
immense multitude to the convention
han at an early hour this morning.
The gray building was like a beleaugu-
ed citadel whose gates a disordered
army was striving to force. The at
mosphere was still suffocating with
heat. The audience filled all the seats.
overlooked into the corridors and al
leys and invaded every reservation.
Thousands of fans huttered and how
cred and wavered in invisible hands
with incessant motion, like butterflies
above the meadow. The assemblage
seemed charged with electricity that
flashed out into sudden sharp explo-
sions of applause at incidents which
were unimpOrtant.
Foraker, from the comittee on resO-
lutiOns, read the report on the plat
form. The arraignment of Democratic
policies and their results. the declara-
tiOns upon protection, reciprocity, arbi-
navy and sugar We're listened to with
Indifference. The pension plank was
heard with absolute silence. Cuba and
the Monroe doctrine had slight ap-
plause. but at the word Gold" the
delegations from New England and
New York and Pennsylvania broke
forth into tumultuOus demOnstrat tons
of JOY that were unconhned- They were
Joined by the converted bimetallistss
and the exultation of the capitalists
at their victory was so great that for
some moments it was impossible to pro
coed.
Teller's minority report and valedic-
tory and the departure of the silver
men was the only really dramatic and
exciting episode of the convention The
Colorado senator was not quite equal
to his opportunity. He is not always
effective in oratory. He knew that his
audience was not in sympathy with
him. His speech lacked conference and
evenness. But the pathOs was ex-
IRENE. His emotion Overcame him and,
as ne shook hands with his old party
friends and associates on leaving the
stage after forty years Of service as a
Republican, the scene lacked no ele-
ment of tragic interest
The silver seceders moved slowly
down the aisle, headed by a policeman
to clear their pathway. Respectful 81
lence would have been appropriate al
such q solemn ceremony, but the gold
gentlemen are not sensitive nor Sentl-
mental Their victory had not disposed
them to magnanmity. Before the pro-
cessiOn had reached the door the dele
gates and spectators rose with shouts
and cheers and Kisses and waving OF
flags and tri-cOlored plumes, and join
ing i'm the chorus of the Red, White
and Blue" which was long in subsid-
ing An unconcerned and uniformed
spectator would have supposed from
the performance that the alienation Of
friends and the loss OF constituencies
was a matter of rejoicing and a cause
of cOngratulatiOn. rather than of sOr-
row and apprehension
The presentation of the protest by
Senator Cannon of Utah at a later hour
was the occasion of a similar Ourburst-
He was greeted with grOans and Kisses
and impatient cries and affrOnting ep-
ithets. echoes of which may be heard
hereafter
The gold standard men having Sc
cured all they desired, the subsequent
proceedings interested them no more
Word was sent out that the nOmina-
lions were to be made and the work
of the convention finished before ad-
iOurnment.
The programme was carried through
vigorously. There was no hitch nor in
terruptiOn-
The presentation speeches were made
as the states We're called They were
all good, though not one was of the
highest order. Mr. Baldwin nOmina-
ton of Allison was, perhaps. the best.
He has the 0rat0rical gift, a majestic
physique and a voice like an organ peal
and LODGES address for Reed was rath
er a school boy performance and eX-
cited little interest and no enthusiasm.
DepeW considered his exhibition of Nor
ton as q joke, and went through his
lines with a covert smile on his snug
and foxy visage. One Of the surprising
things was the very vigorous and pro-
longed response to the speech of Hast
ings, presenting Quay, who has not gen