Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-07-05
LAST NIGHTS SESSIONS.
Proceedings of Convention During Late
Hours of Yesterday.

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Kansas City, July 5.-By 4:30 o'clock
yesterday afternoon the various dele
cations were in their seats for the sec
ond session of the convention and the
band was pounding out ragtime and
entertaining the crowd which occupied
every foot of room outside the space
reserved for the delegates and alter
mates.
Chairman Thomas gavel fell, calling
the convention to order at 4:43. When
partial order was finally restored Chas.
is. Hampton, of Petrosky, Michigan,
read telegram and greeting from the
democrats assembled in Tammany hall,
New York, celebrating the 124th ami
versary of The declaration of indepeud-
ence.
Chairman Thomas announced that
the committee on credentials was not
ready to report, Joseph Daniels, of
North Carolina, was recognized by the
chairman for motion to adjourn until
$40 p. m. Chairman Thomas at 4:51
amid much confusion, declared the mo-
ton carried.
At $3.50 p. m. Chairman Thomas rap
ped the convention to order, altho con-
lsiderably less than two-thirds of the
delegates had arrived. There was con-
siderable expectancy over the arrival
of Senator Hill. But he failed to put
in an appearance.
| Notwithstanding the small number
of delegates present, it seemed to re-
quiree for them wholly disproportion-
ate amount of time to come to order as
compared with the two preceding ses-
sions.
BY the vigorous use of his gavel for
several minutes, Chairman Thomas
succeeded in securing something APP
preaching order and announced:
''The convention will now be address
ed by Ex-Governor Altgeld, of Illinois,
pending the report of the committees"
| The announcement was greeted with
applause.
| Congressman Sulzer entered the hall
at this iuncture. 1t was his first APP
pearance on the floor and altho not
the recipient of much applause he was
cordially greeted by many delegates as
he passed them. From the New York
delegation, however, Sulzer received no
recognition, not handshake, not a
SMILE
During the early portion of Altgeld's
address, the hum of conversation in the
galleries and among the delegates was
so loud that not much of what he said
was audible except to those close to
him. His representations of demo
cratic success next fall were signals
| for vocal spasms, and when he declared
that if the democrats of the country
had not sufficient confidence in their
delegates to entrust the cause of de.
mocracy to them, they would not have
sent them here to nominate candidate
for the presidency, the crowd was or
/ its feet in an instant, shouting and
waving hats and handllerchiefs with
the greatest enthusiasm.
MIips Name Downs AltgeId.
The speaker unwittingly touched of
a mine by using the expression in dis
cussng the attitude of certain demo
Gratis toward the silver question. Nov
my friend Hill" that was as far as
he got; for several minutes from al
sides of the hail. particularly from the
southern delegates came loud cries o:
"Hill," Chill" but mingled with thu
cries for the New Yorker came hisse!
III pleHly DGSlJilS tiiS fiSoiooo usS "
the gavel, all semblance of order wa!
lost. Nothing could be heard save th'
call of "Hill," and disappearing Kisses
1t was not possible for Altgeld tx
continue Immediately, and as the com
: mittee on rules was ready to report
Altgeld discontinued his address ant
left the platform.
: The report of the committee OF
rules, endorsing the rules of the las
democratic convention, was read an,
adopted.
The report of the committee on ere
dentials seating Mark Cohn and P. +
: McCabe in the New York delegation
, the Clark delegation in Montana, an,
giving one-half vote to each delegat
! in Oklahoma, was read.
The minority report dissenting iron
the decision in the Oklahoma case wa
: presented. There was some objection
] made by Murray and Vandiver fror