The San Francisco call., 1896-06-19
WALK FROM THE HALL.
Cheers and Kisses Follow the Bolt
ing SilVerites.

Cheers and Kisses Follow the Bolt
ing Silverites.
CONVENTION HALL, ST. LOUIS, Mo-,
June 18.-At 10:30 o'clock all the delegates
were in the hall, most of them in seats as
signed to their respective States, but many
still surged up and down the narrow
aisles, chatting pleasantly with each other
or consulting about possible combina-
tions. The galleries were closely packed,
the fair sex being well represented. While
all were waiting for the President to an
nounce the opening the time passed pleas
antly enough in listening to the strains of
the band stationed above and behind the
platform, the pleasure being somewhat
dashed by ditty in praise of protection,
sung by quartet of male voices.
AT 1926 the president, Senator Thurs
ton, announced that the divine blessing
would be invoked by Rev. John R. Scott
of Florida. Mr.. Scott, short, stout, very
dark negro, delivered short and feeling
prayer, beginning:
Father of all, from whose hands the CEN
turies fall like grains of sand, we meet to-
day, united, free, loyal"
He asked blessing Oh the convention
the Lord Prayer.
The chairman said the first order of busi-
ness was the reception of the report of the
committee on resolutions, and the chair
recognized for the purpose Senator-elect
Foraker of Ohio. Mr. Foraker as he
stepped upon the platform was received
with hearty applause. Mr.. Foraker read
the platform in clear voice with distinct
enunciation. He gave pointed emphasis
to the Endorsement OF President Harrison,
which was received with cheers, but not
with any overwhelming demonstration.
As Mr.. Foraker approached the financial
plank, Mr.. Teller left his seat with the
Colorado delegation and moved up to the
platform, where he seated himself at the
end OF the second row of seats to the right
of the chairman. With the opening SEN
tence, 1.-THE Republican party is unre-
servedly for sound money!" which Mr..
Foraker read slowly and very emphati-
cally, burst of cheering occurred, and the
applause was repeated with redoubled
volume when the pledge to promote an
international agreement for free coinage
was read. The cheering at this point was
so prolonged that it interrupted the pro-
ceedings for some time and compelled the
chairman to rap for order
The demand for American control of the
Hawaiian Islands received approval, but
the proposed building of the Nicaragua
canal by the United States and the pur-
chase of the Danish Islands for naval
station fell fat. There was surprisingly
little enthusiasm over the Monroe plank,
but the Cuban paragraph was greeted with
loud cheers, though the convention missed
the phrase demanding the Intervention OF
the armed forces of the United States in
Cuba, which had appeared in unauthor-
lied guesses at the platform. Influence
and good Offices appeared in place OF
iarrned Intervention.
Civil service enforcement was received in
blank silence, but the demand for free
ballot and the condemnation of lynching
ELECTED the enthusiastic approval of the
colored delegates.
The reading OF the platform as whole
was listened to with marked attention and
at the close it was freely cheered. The
reading occupied twenty minutes. Foraker
moved the adoption of the report as the