The Worthington advance., 1900-07-13
THE FIRST DAY.


Permanent Organiza ton and Ap.
pOlntment of Committees.
Kansas City, Mo-, July G.-Amld scenes Of
tumultuous enthusiasm beitting such an
event and such day, the democratic ma
tional convention began its sessions
Wednesday,. At exactly 1902 Chairman
Jones assembled the platform and called the
body to order. The first business of the
convention was the reading of the formal
call, by Secretary Walsh. Chairman Jones
announced the prayer by Rev. s. w. Neel.
Following the prayer came an address Of
welcome by Mayor Reed, of Kansas City.
Miss Fultoni, of New York, was intro
duced and sang 1.-The Star Spangled Ban
ner.' the audience standing and cheering
and applauding after each verse. It was
an innovation In national convention.
Then. as she finished the last strain, the
Fult0ni. the great mass of 10000 people
broke into the stirring words: my Coun-
try, 'Tis of Thee" singing it through with
unction and closing 1t with a cheer.
An Ovation to Hill.
Then. suddenly. somebody started the
cry for "Hill," "Hill." In an instant
Maryland, Tennessee, Louisiana, Missis-
sippi and New Mexico were on their feet
waving their standards and yelling 'T1ill;"
"Dave HILL
The pounding of the chairman's gavel
had no effect and for a time it looked
like concerted movement to stampede
for the New Yorker. AS delegation after
delegation rose in their seats and the
chairmans gavel fell, Mr.. Hill was COM
PEELED to rise and bow.
Tn1s was the signal for pandemoniun,
and nothing seemed to be able to stop
the torrent of applause. A few Kisses
were met with volleys' of cheers, and,
finally. 9. part Of New York's delegation
rose and joined the applauding hosts,
Croker. Van Wyck and the Tammany
delegation left theil seats, not joining in
1t. For fully ten minutes the applause
and disorder continued, the steady rap
Of the Eavel having no effect.
Finally. Hill. himself hoping to stem
the torrents of applause. arose. Then
themselves hoarse. "Hin," Platform"
they screamed.
Mr.. Chairman" he calculated, but his
VOICE was drowned in the fierce outburst
of applause. "Mr. Chairman" he tried
again to say, and then, drowned out
again, sunk, laughing, in his seat. After
15 minutes order was restored.
The call Of states now began, for NAM
ing the members Of the various commit
tees. This was tedious work. covering
all the caucus selections of the several
states and territories.
Adjournment was taken until after
noon.
The convention, at 4:5O o'clock, having
no business to transact. because of the
failure Of the committee to be ready to
report took recess until $3.50 p. m.
The Night Session.
At $685. Chairman Thomas raped the
convention to order, although cOnsidera-
BILE less than two-thirds Of the delegates
had arrived. There was considerable ex-
pectancy over the arrival of Senator Hill,
put ne failed to put in an appearance.
Gov. Thomas introduced ex-Gov. Altgeld,
or Illinois, who delivered an address. The
speaker unwittingly touched off a mine
by using the expression in discussing the
attitude Of certain democrats toward the
silver question: Now, my friend, HILL
That was as far as he got, for several
minutes. The name of Hill again started
the uproar that had marked the first ses-
sion of the convention. The demonstra-
ton lasted for many minutes.
Permanent Organization.
The report of the committee on rules
and credentials was read and adopted,
Chairman Thomas then called for the re-
port of the committee on permanent Or
ganization. When 1t was announced that
Hon. J. d. Richardson, of Tennessee, had
been selected as permanent chairman.
cheers swept over the great audience.
the audience, he was greeted by another
wave of cheers.
In his remarks Mr. Richardson said that
the republican party stands for empire.
The democratic party stands for the re-
public, for the declaration of independ-
ence, and the constitution of our country.
He denounced trusts. His arraignment
Of the failure of the republican party to
establish timetallism and the creation in
stead of a single gold standard was re-
ceived with manifestations of hearty ap-
proval. He declared President Mckinley
and his secretary Of state had done all
In their power to nullify and abrogate the
Monroe doctrine, and said democracy
stood for this doctrine and demands its
rigid enforcement. The policy of the ad-
ministration with reference to Porto Rico
and the Philippines was denounced %