Santa Fe daily New Mexican., 1896-07-08
MAKING HISTORY AT CHICAGO
Second Day of Great Democratic Ma
tiOnal COnventiOn-Attend
Numbers $4,000.
SILVER'S CHAMPIONS ALL POWERFUL
Nebraska Goldbug Delegates Invited
to Step Aside-Bryan Delegation
Seated-Michigan Contest Still
Pending in Committee.

Convention Hall, Chicago, July s.
Crowds began pouring into the Coliseum
shortly after 8 O'Clock this morning, bu
the heavy-eyed delegates, many of whom
had an all night vigil, we're late iii ar
irving. The band kept up fusilade o
lively airs while the people we're entering
and the scene early became brilliant AM
animated. A few minutes before II
O'Clock the delegates began to arrive.
RuMoRs OF BOLT RIFE.
Rumors of a gold bolt were rife ant
the arrival of the New York delegation
which was still in conference on this sub
ject, was anxiously awaited by the OLE
Democratic war horses among the silve
men, but many of the radicals expressed
ntter Indifference as to the course of tht
gold wing
The silver men entered with their pro
gram fully mapped out. They intended
to charge the gold army and drive them
as far as possible against such stubborn
resistance as masterful generalship could
offer.
At 10:l5, the Iowa delegates appeared
in body marching behind a Boies ban
ner aud we're cheered.
Chairman Daniel, with his long, black
hair falling to his shoulders, held an in
formal reception on the stage.
At 10:30, man bearing the banner OF
the W. j. Bryan club, of Nebraska, rushed
up through the south entrance, followed
by about 200 Nebraskans. They cheered
wildly and brief demonstration for the
boy orator of Platte ran around the hall
At exactly 1850 Senator Daniel raped
for order.
The spaces reserved for the New York
Massachusetts,, Maine, Maryland and New
Jersey delegations we're practically vacant
1t was explained that these delegations
we're still in conference discussing the
situation.
OPENING INVOCATION.
Rev. Francis Edward Green, an Episco-
pal minister of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, de-
livered the invocation while tho vast au-
dience stood and listened attentively.
The reverend gentleman's prayer fol-
lows:
eve praise thee, oh Lord, we acknowl-
edge thee to be the Lord. All the earth
does worship thee. We adore thee as
the acknowledged ruler of all the
nations, for by thee they are to
have their being. We worship thee
as the God of wisdom and truth, for of
thee cometh every good and perfect thing.
We adore thee as the great all father, for
of one blood thou hast made all the peo-
Piles of the earth. Reveal thyself to US
we beseeoh thee, alike as Creator, as
Father and as guide. Rule thou over us
for thou art mighty. Teach us, for thou
alone doth know the secret things of
eternity. Still the voice of our conten-
tion, for thou alone are the infinite God.
Especially grant thy blessing, we beseech
thee, to this great convention gathered
here from all parts of our fair land. In
the days that are gone thou did guide
our fathers. Teach us, we pray thee,
their children, O, thou alone, who canst
rule the unruly Wills"
The full list of temporary officers, as
proposed by the national committee, with
the exception of Senator Hill, went
through without objection.
FIRST BUSINESS OF THE DAY.
Chairman Daniel announced that the
first business of the day would be the re-
ports of committees.
A hitch appeared at once when it was
announced that the committee on creden-
tials was not ready with recommenda-
tions.
While the convention was waiting the
convention band was pounding away in
the high gallery over the platform. A
counter blast was heard in the far western
end of the hall, when the Bland band
hove into sight, filling up the long aisle
to the topmost row of seats, playing
"Dixie."
The Missouri delegates with many
Bland supporters climbed into chairs to
shout Maryland, my Maryland" This
inspired another demonstration.
Chairman Daniel put a motion that the
convention take five minutes recess and
be addressed by Gov. Hogg, of Texas.
The motion was carried.
GOV. Hoaa SPEAKS.
The former Lone Star governor, known
to the world at large on account of his
fight against the railroads in his state, is
easily the biggest man in the conven-
tion. His weight is not less than 300
the bass of church organ to hurl
thunderbolts against gold and Republi-
oanism. He began by congratulating the
convention on the proud opportunity be-
fore it. The tactics in not boiling, he
declared, should prevail in accordance
with the time-honored Democratic doc
trine of majority rule. He spoke of the
preservation of the liberties of the peo-
pie from the yoke of Republican rule.
The party, he said, made mistake four
years ago, which would not be repeated.
II the Republican party returned to pow
or it foreboded nation of minions and
millionaires. IT Democrats would stand
together that party could be for
ever laid out on the hillside OF
despair. He denounced the growing
tendency toward the Capitalization of the
government, which he said must eventu-
ally mean the oppression Of the people
by the bay onet to deprive them of their
liberty.
Then the speaker went into discussion
of the tariff question, his purpose simply
being to hold the attention of the con-
vention until the credentials committee
was ready to report.
DISTINGUISHED GUESTS.
Among the guests on the platform we're
Don M. Dickinson, Senators Dubois and
Pettigrew and Congressman Lowe, of
Minnesota. ,
Among the ladies on the platform were
Mrs. U. 8. Grant and Mrs. Potter Palmer.
The Texas ex.governor's attack on the
Republican platform met with hearty
sympathy from the audience. Some of
the gold men, however, showed openly
that they opposed some of his extreme
expressions.
When ex-Gov. Hogg finished, Senator
White assumed the gavel temporarily.
Delegate Money, Of Mississippi, moved
that senator Blackburn be requested to
address the convention.
The appearance of Senator Blackburn
oct the convention wild. The Democratic