San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-06-17

silence and DIR. WILDER G. Williams.
Methodist minister of st. Louis,
delivered the invocation.
Henry Cabot Lodge, chairman. then
/ arose to ask for the committee on
/ resolutions the privilege of sitting
/ during the progress Of the convention.
as the subcommittee had completed
the platform and that it wasnow be-
ing considered by the full commit
tee. He asked leave TO report this
afternoon.
Minor matters We're brought to the
| attention of the convention by Powell
| Clayton, of Arka nsas.
The chairman called for the report
of the committee on credentials but
| il made no response and that commit
tee was passed.
Senator Sewall, of New Jersey,
and Senator Wellington, of Mary
land, asked unanimous consent to
make report of the committee on per-
| manent organization and on rules,
but objections were heard.
A motion by Senator Wellington, of
Maryland, that the convention take
recess until two o'clock was buried
under an overwhelming chorus of
| Noes"
Chairman called loudly to know
what was the further pleasure of the
convention.
Several resolutions We're handed up
and referred to the committee on
rules without debate. Then the con-
yention seemed to be at standstill.
Senator Sewall of New Jersey, again
Jumped to his feet, and this time NOV
ed that the report of the committee on
permanent organization be received
out of order. The motion was nut
and carried.
Senator Wellington Indignantly pro-
tested that the motion was out of ord
er, as the convention could not sus-
pend the rules, and his point was
warmly supported by Delegate Little
field, but the chair ruled both gentle
men out of order, as the convention
had decided to receive the reports.
When the reading clerk, who inton-
ed the committees report 10 the house,
announced the name of John Nj.
Thurston, of Nebraska, to be perma-
nent chairman, there was an eruption
of flags and cries from delegates, and
another demonstration greeted the
name of U. S. Grant, of California.
There was some opposition to the adop-
tion Of the report on permanent organiza-
tion, but this was finally done and Sena-
tor Thurston was escorted to the plat
form. In the course of his address, he
said:
Eight years ago had the distinguish
ed honor to preside over the convention
which nominated the last republican
president OF the United States. This
generation has had its object lesson and
the doom of the democratic party is al
ready pronounced. The American peo-
pie will return the republican party to
power because they know Its administra-
tion will mean the supremacy Of the con-
stitution of the United States, mainten-
ance of law and order, protection to every
American citizen in his right to live, TO
labor and to vote, vigorous foreign
policy, the enforcement Of the Monroe
doctrine, the restoration of our merchant
marine, safety under the Stars and |
Stripes on every sea, In every port, a |
rev, nue. adequate to all governmental ex- |
penditures and the gradual eXtinguish- |
rency a. sound as the government |
and untarnished as its honor, whose |
dollars, whether Of gold, silver, or paper |
shall have equal purchasing and debt |
paying power with the dollars OF the |
civilized world, a protective tariff, which /
protects, coupled with reciprocity which |
reciprocates by securing the best market |
for American products and the opening /
of American factories to free coinage OF /
American muscle. A pension policy just /
and gracious to our living heroes and to
the widows and orphans Of their dead
comrades: government supervision and
control Of all transportation lines and
rates; protection to the people from all
doubtful combinations and unjust eX-
action Of aggregated capital and corpor-
ated power; American welcome to every
God fearing, liberty loving, constitution
respecting, law bidding, labor seeking.
decent man, and the exclusion OF all
whose birth, whose blood, whose condi-
tlon and whose practice would menace
the permanency OF our free institutions,
endanger the safety of American security
or lessen the opportunity Of American
labor; the abolition of sectlonalism;
daathless loyalty to all that is truly
American and patriotism that is ever
lasting as the stars"
No point of his speech was lost upon
the assembly, but that which provoked
the most enthusiastic uproar was the
that he had presided over the
which nominated the last re-
publican president, and was now address
Ing that which has TO name the next re-
publican president.
j. Henry Fort, chairman OF the COM
mittee on credentials, announced that the
committee would be unable TO report un.
I'll this afternoon.
Thereon the convention took a recess
until 2 p. m.
THE VICE PRESIDENCY.
The contest over the vice presi-
dency will probably put life into the
just as soon as the nomi-
nation for president has been made.
The fight lies between Garrett A. (
of New Jersey and Levi p.
of New York. The tide seems
to be toward Morton in spite of the
protests of the anti-Platt faction in
New York. However. the situation {
may change very rapidly in either di-