The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-07-14
CONVENTION IN
A GREAT UPR0AR
NAMES OF CANDIDATES FOR
PRESIDENT PRESENTED.
FOLLOWED BY WILD SCENES
Great Demonstrations Are Made When
Judge Parker and Editor Hearst
Are Named by Eloquent
Speakers.

st. Louis, July S.--lne ueHOcIdIlc ma
tional convention Friday night adopt
ed platform by viva voce vote
and listened to nominating speeches for
president. Judge Alton B. Parker was
named by Martin w. Littleton and Will
liam Randolph Hearst by d. M. Delmas.
Both orators were applauded at length.
Nominating speeches fer favorite son
candidates and seeonding speeches for
both Parker and Hearst occupied the
convention for several hours. The con-
vention hall seats about 10000 persons,
and from appearance hundreds more had
been admitted. The floor and lower and
upper galleries contained thousands of
sweltering men and women oblivious to
the fact that the crowded condition of
the hall endangered every life.
Parker Named.
The great climax of the convention,
the nomination of candidates for presi-
dent, followed Immediately upon the
adoption of the platform. Chairman
Clark proceeded to that order of business
without delay. Alabama was called and
yielded to New York Mr.. Littleton's
speech nominating Judge Parker i'm
mediately pleased his audience and
when he concluded pandemonium
reigned. Flags waved, banners were
leld aloft and great as was the crowd
delegates carrying the standards of the
Parker states paraded through the con-
vention, pushing, trampling and fight
ing all who INSTRUCTED their progress.
The scene was one of tremendous confu-
sion. Then was enacted a scene that re-
called an incident of the democratic con-
vention in Chicago which nominated
William Jennings Bryan eight years
ago. Like Minnie Murray, the woman
in white" who from gallery over the
stage led cheering for Bryan, two girls
in white sprang to the front of the plat
form and waved flowers and flags. The
young women were Misses Adelae and
Evelyn Haywood, of st. Louis. With
renewed outbursts the immense throng
cheered them until picture of Judge
Parker, on a by 9-foot canvass detract-
ed the thunderous cheering thousands.
L
utes. Even then ten minutes elapsed be-
fore the chairman dared to call the next
state. Arkansas yielded to Tennessee
and Senator Carmack took the platform
andseconded the nomination of Judge
Parker. There was great confusion dur
ing the speech.
Delmas Names Hearst.
California, a Hearst state, was next
In order. D. M. Delmas, of that state,
was recognized and there was some
cheering as he made his way to the
platform, but it was not prolonged. The
hall was bedlam when Mr.. Delmas
concluded. Mr.. Delmas' address which
closed with the name, William Ran
dolph Hearst" was the signal for cheers,
which, while enthusiastic, were much
less in volume than those that followed
the mention of Parker's name.
A six-foot portrait of Hearst was
taken to the platform, another of SIM
liar size was raised in the gallery and
another of similar size was raised in the
gallery back of the platform, while nu-
merous smaller portraits were shown on
long poles raised from among the dele
cations. The parade around the hall
which had been carried on during the
preceding demonstration was quickly
undertaken, California leading off with
it's great banner of white and gold, Ari-
IONA, Nevada, Iowa, South Dakota,
Washington and Wyoming joining, in
the order named, some of them carrying
pictures of Hearst The banner of the
Illinois delegation was carried into the
line, but the majority of that delegation
did not follow it. At first, but few of
them rose, and only a fraction of those
followed their flag in the march. The
galleries Joined Justify in the Hearst
applause, making perhaps, stronger
demonstration than they had made for
Parker.
Again and again the Hearst men
marched around the hall, cheers greet
ing them at every STEP. Fully dozen
times the line completed the circuit, and
then the California banner was carried
up to the speakers platform, and the
other states massed their emblems at
the foot of the steps, the men who bore
the emblems cheering and waving them
with great energy. The flag of Illinois
was the first to resume its place on the
floor and the others followed gradually,
while the chairman pounded for order
War On Iowa Delegation.
When Iowa was reached on the roll
call of states, ]. F. Rhinehart, of New
ton, sprang to his chair and declared
a second to Mr.. Hearst.
But Sam S. Wright, of Upton,
mounted his chair and shouted: ION
behalf Of the unbought and unpur-
chasable delegates of Iowa"
At this point rush was made for
Wright by some Of his colleagues in
the delegation. 1t became evident at
once that trouble was on. Wright
sprang forward ON the chairs to get
out of the reach Of his antagonists.
An Arkansas delegate across the aisle
reached out his hand and motioned
him in. The convention was thrown
into an uproar. Rhinehart rushed for
ward to the platform. He was at