The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-07-09
WILLIAMS Named.
MORNING SESSION.

MORNING SESSION.
Resolutions Committee Was Not
Ready to Report.
st. Louis. No. July S.-Chairman
Clark arrived at ten minutes after 10
and was received with a few handclaps-
Twenty minutes after the delegates
were in their seats no word had Deen
received from the resolutions commit
tee and Chairman Clark dispatched
messenger to learn when 1t would De
ready to report. Private advices were
to the effect that it would be several
hours before the report could be pre-
sented. and the prospects for shortr
session grew stronger. One OF the
secretaries shouted through the meg
aphone, THE band viii please play
/ Home. Sweet Home.
There was a wild cheer from the
weary. perspiring delegates and specta-
tors as the familiar strains floated out
on the air. Anything with the word
home" seemed to please greatly, for
the cheers were repeated a few minutes
t later when Ny Old Kentucky Home
was rendered. Dixie" called forth the
/ inevitable yeIls, and the Texas delega-
ton added to the enthusiasm by un-
/ furiing their lone star flag and waving
! it wildly.
Cheers For Williams.
| Temporary Chairman Williams soon
came down the aisle chewing leiSurelT
at that ever-present cigar and was
greeted with cheers.
The band was requested to play "Oa
the Banks of the Wabash" and the In
diana delegation showed its apPreciaI-
/ ton by climbing on chairs and cheer
| ing Justify.
/ The messenger which Chairman Clark
| had sent to the committee on reSofu-
tons returned with a gloomy report or
the reasdiness and the waiting contiIA-
ued.
| At 10:4s a. m Chairman Clark aros8
and let fall his huge gavel- The clerk
| picked up a megaphone and announced
! that the session would begin with
! prayer by Rabbi Samuel Safe OF St
Louis The delegates and spectators st
once arose and stood during the eonvo-
| cation.
Order the First Law.
At the conclusion of the prayer an
! announcement was made at the order
/ of Chairman Clark that he was deter
mined TO have order and that any per
sons raising a row will be taken out
by the police
| A demand was made for the report
| Of the resolutions committee As no
report was forthcoming it was deter
mined to call the roll of the states for
| the purpose of having the names Of the
next national committee announced
/ There was cheers at the announcement
of the name of Robert d. Sullivan as
| committeeman of Illinois, but the dem
onstration assumed still larger proper
lions at the mention Of Thomas Tag
! CART of Indiana, which followed.
! The Pennsylsylvania delegation arose
and saluted the announcement OF J. N
Guney as their national committee
man.
A call for the committee to meet at
| the jefferson hotel as soon as the con-
vention adjourns sine die was made
Another call was made for the report
of the committee on resolutions.
Speech by Hobson.
A motion was made and carried that
Richmond Pearson Hobson Of Ala
tbama be invited to address the con-
/ vention.
| MT. Hobson accepted the invitation
and made his way from the Alabama
I delegation to the platform. He was
| greeted with round OF applause and
the usual cries Of Louder" when he
had uttered but a few words. He COM
| piled promptly with the request and
revealed the best and strongest voice
that has been heard in the cOnvsn-
ton.
what president has been brave
| enough to enforce the law against the
| labor union viOlator Of laW?' It was
a Democratic president. he said, and
| applause greeted the assertion.
He passed on to the color question
and declared that when thee black or
! yellow races came into contact with
| white people, If that race would not
commit suicide, il must remain absO-
lutely distinct A shout from the
southern delegations greeted this state
ment He declared that Booker T
Washington would soon outlive his IN
doubted usefulness If he did not ceass
to yield to the teachings and influences
of the Republican party and its chief
tains.
Bearer Of Good News.
The committee, headed by Represeh-
tative Ollie James, which had been
dispatched to the rooms OF the resOlu-
lions committee, presented itself and
Mr.. James was introduced amid ap-
Diause. His announcement WAS
Your committee appointed to wait
upon the committee on resolutions re-
port that they have discharged that
duty. The committee informs Us that
they viii be unable to report to this
convention until 8 o'clock tonight, at
which time they will bring IN an unan-
| imOuS report signed Dy every member
| of the committee"
Great applause and cheers greeted
| this statement, and as soon as Mr..
James could be heard again he con-
cluded:
New York, Nebraska, Virginia and
Wisconsin have all Joined hands and
will bring in a platform that viii carry
Us to glorious victory II November"
Again the convention voiced its
rIeasvf1r at the news and a mighty
shout went up.
Mr. James followed his last announce
ment at once with a motion TO adjourn
until s o'clock tonight. A second was
at once heard and the motion was car
ried, the session closing at HIS.
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