The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-07-04

| gavel had no effect and for a time it
looked like a concerted movement to
| stampede for the New Yorker. AS del
egatiOn after delegation rose in their
seats and the chairTnan's gavel fell, Mr..
Hill was compelled to rise and bow.
This was the signal for -pandemoniun,
and nothing seemed to be able to stop
the torrent of applause. A few Misses
we're met with volleys of cheers, and
finally a part of New YorIx's delegation
arose and Joined the applauding hosts.
Croker Murphy. Van Wyck and the
Tammany delegation kept their seats,
not joining in it.
For fully ten minutes the applause
and disorder continued, the steady rap
of the gavel having no effect. Each time
new state standard was pulled up and
waved the applause began anew. After
his seat, but he could not disguise the
qualification that he felt at the recep-
ton accorded him. Friends urged him
to take the platform, but he kept shak-
ing his head negatively. On the plat
form the chairman and the sergeant at
arms tried in vain to get order.
Finally Hill himself. hoping to stem
the torrents of applause, arose. Then
the delegates and the crowd hoWled
themselves hoarse
Hill" Platform they screamed.
Mr.. Chairman he calculated. but his
voice was drowned in the fierce out
burst of applause. Mr. Chairman he
tried again to say and then drowned out
again, sank laughing in his seat.
Just before the demonstration over
Mr. Hill began, Delegate Joshua Mills,
a former congressman from Maryland,
advanced toward the platform occupied
by the presiding officer with a waving
Maryland standard. There was so much
noise throughout the hall that he could
not be heard four feet from where he
stood. He said that he had risen to
move the thanks of the convention to
the young lady who had so moved the
convention by her rendition of a song
which had been written by a Maryland
patriot. The motion was announced in
Mills most energetic manner but he
was not heard by a single delegate and
the presiding officer found no opportuni
ty to submit it.
When after fifteen minutes order was
restored Governor Thomas administer
ed a stern warning to the assemblage,
stating that the convention was here to
do business and that if the spectators
order the officers of the convention
would be directed to clear the galleries.
CHEERS FOR OvERMYER.
The call Of states now began, for NAM
ing the members of the various commit
tees. This was a tedious work covering
all the caucus selections of the several
states and territories When the name
of Carter Harrison was called as the IL
linOiS member of one of the commit
tees it brought out a round of cheers
and calls for Harrison, which for a mo-
ment, threatened to be a repetition of
the Hill demonstration. The names of
David Overmyer, Senator Blackburn
George Fred Williams w. J. Stone, al
SO ELECTED cheers. When Augustus Van
Wyck was announced as the New York
member of the platform committee
there as a storm of mingled Kisses
and cheers and another demand for Hill,
Delegates Grady and Malloy of New
York led in the applause for Mr.. Van
Wyck's name. 1t took a vigorous play
with the gavel to restore order and al
low the call to proceed.
After the name of the last commit
teemen had been given, Chairman
Thomas announced that a motion had
been made extending the thanks of the
convention to the lady who had sung
the Star Spangled Banner 1t was car
ried.
A delegate from Ohio secured the at
tention of the chairman by violent geS-
lures, and then mounting on his chair
as he was recognized moved that an
invitation by extended to Mr.. Bryan to
visit the convention A wild cheer of
applause went up before the chairman
had been given time to hear a second
to the motion. While the cheering over
the Bryan motion was at it's height
the booming of a brass band was heard
at the south entrance and down the
aisle in front of the chairman's desk
came the band which came here with
Clark of Montana. and behind it in
column of twos or as nearby as they
could keep that formation the Jackson
ian club of Nebraska. The band was
playing Dixie" and the old air re-
ceived the yell of delight which greetS
1T always. The members of the jack
sonian club had with them a large
number of ladies and as there were no
seats for them a dense throng was
soon packed in front of the chairman's
desk. It was impossible for Chairman
Thomas to hear a word uttered four
feet from his desk, but some delegate
near him made a motion to adjourn I'M
til o. clock, which was at once put and
carried amid confusion so great that
not one delegate in twenty knew to
what hour the adjournment had been
taken.