The record-union., 1896-07-09

relating to committeeman from Mich
lgan, and it was agreed to.
With those exceptions the report was
adopted
WHITE TAKES THE CHAIR.
committee Of three was then ap-
pointed to escort Senator White, the
permanent Chairman, to the chair, the
committee consisting Of Finlay Of Ohio.
Mcconnell of Illinois and Senator Vest
of Missouri.
Senator Daniel, In retiring from the
Temporary Craftsmanship, expressed
his deep sense of the honor which he
had enjoyed, and introduced Chairman
White as the distinguished Senator
from California" (Cheers.)
Senator White, on taking the chair,
spoke of the convention as an assem-
bling of men from every State and
Territory in the Union, and said he was
prepared to extend full, equal, absolute
and impartial treatment to ALL Every
question before the convention should
be, he said, considered carefully and
deliberately, and while the voice of the
convention wss crystallized into judg-
ment, that judgment should be binding
on all true Democrats. (Cheers)
I'VE differ, perhaps" he continued,
ION vital issues. We meet in friendly
contest, presenting what seems to us
proper and right. We submit our views
to the candid judgment of our brethren,
and on that judgment we will certainly
rely. We find in life numerous instances
of hopes unrealized. Men of promi-
nence pass away, some to oblivion,
others because they are summoned to
another shore, but the Democratic
party will not die even when we all
have ceased to live" (Cheers)
When the differences that challenge
consideration tonight have passed into
history the Democratic party-the guar
dian of the peoples rights-will endure
to bless mankind. (Applause) My am
hltlon and yours are but for a moment
" neither | succeed, or whether you sue
ceed, IN impreSsing my views or your
views on the convention seems now of
supreme Importance, but will not seem
81 In the future. In this council cham
per the Democratic party looks for the
Vindlcatfon of its existence The people
look TO US here for the righting of their
wrongs and for the defense of the Con-
stitutlon-the great bulwark of our lib
critics.
We are here tonight it's best, it's
truest and its most loyal defenders.
There is no sectionalism here, none
whatever Equal and impartial justice
to all this land the triumph of the peo-
pie as eXemplified and expressed in De-
mocracy, is the object for which we
have assembled, and to carry out that
object l will consecrate my best eff
forts" loud applause.)
Clark of Montana, rising in the body
of the hall, produced silver gavel from
the mines of Montana, which he ten
dered to the presiding officer in the
name of the delegation from that State
The Chairman remarked that in the
absence of objection he would feel COM
relied to accept this handsome token
from the Montana delegation
No objection being heard the silver
gavel was passed up to the Chairman.
ADJOURNMENT
Senator Jones of Arkansas Chairman
Of the Committee on Resolutions, an
nounced that the committee would meet
Tomorrow morning at $50 o'clock.
This was taken by the heated and
excited audience as an indication of an
immediate adjournment, and for the
second time in the course of the day an
lncipient panic partially developed
People in the galleries began to move
out with a rush and a corresponding
movement was started on the floor.
Trouble might have ensued, but the
Sergeant-at-A raising his big
voice. commanded his deputies to Stop
those men,
When some degree of order had been
thus restored a movement to adjourn
until 10 a. m. tomorrow was declared
carried. and at 9:3S o'clock the second
days session ended