Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1884 — A Remarkable Scene. [ARTICLE]

A Remarkable Scene.

Senator Menzies, of Indiana, bad scarcely concluded the final announce* ment that Indiana desired to cast her entire vote for Thomas A. Hendricks when, as if moved by common impulse, the entire audience was upon its feet. A- moment later, like a flash of lightning, representatives of every delegation on the floor, bearing aloft the shields and banners emblematic of their states, mov* ed to the center ot the hall and surround ed the Indiana delegation. )'or fifteen continuous minutes cheer alter cheer, equal to the roar of heaven’s artillery, echoed through the structure and w s communicated to the thousands outside, then taking advantage of the temporary lull and musicians; who bad caught the enthusiasm of the moment, struck up the familiar song,- Auld Lang 8> ne.” The 4ffeon was electrical, and the scene one nevSf to be forgotten- The audience took up the song in a moment, and it was pealing forth from 15,000 throats. The delegates from Texas clasped the hands of their brethren from New York, and the men of Maine fell on the necks of their confreres from the territories, and strong men who but a few hours before bad been pouring foith grape shot of invective, sat back in their seats with tears pouring down their cheeks.

On the platform hand* were clasped in hands, each voice trying to outvive the other, and as the refrain “in the name of Auld Lang Bvne” was reached there was a circle composed of President Viles, Henry Wattersoo. General Black, Colonel Clunie, of Californta, Governor Waller, of Connecticut, and ex-Oov. Hubbard, of lexus, and a yard away Oon. Butler was ringimr the hands of delegates from Colorado, Even that staunch old leader of the Republican party, E. B. Washburn, of Minnesota, who had been on the stage throughout the convention, joined in the ovation with his tremulous voice as he waved a handkerchief over his head. Suddenly the bind changed the air from ‘ Auld Lang Syne” "to "Ameiica,” and again :Jie audience took up the patriotic refrain, with if possible more heartiness than before Succeed ing this oame “Home Rweet Home,” and , now gathering and exert!ng its voice with might, and main completely drowned the music of the band. The soprano notes of several hundred I mips w i, o W( , re scattered about the hall rang out high and clear above the more robust tones of their stronger companions and as the mingled voices of the assemblage died away in tne last, strains of “Home Sweet Home,” General Breck«nridge, of California, requested the band to play • Old Hundred,” and once nv-re the bb-miwl yoice ot those present gradually swelled to the mu«ic and rythm of u Praise God from —hum all blessings flow.” The demonstration occupied fnrtv-flve minutes. ADJOOBNHENT. Final’v the chairman got a chance to make the formal announcement of the vote. He said their had been 816 votes Cast, all of them for Thomas A. Hendricks; and that Mr/Hendrlcks was, therefore, the candidate of the national democratic convention for vice-president of the United States. [Cheer* ]