Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 34, Number 21, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 June 1888 — Page 2

TIIE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27, 1888.

REPUBLICAN CONVENTION.

A WEEK OF TURMOIL AND DISORDER. The Numerous Candidates - How They Killed Eath Other Off - A Blaine High Protective Tariff Convention vs. Tax Reduction. The republican national convention met Tuesday, June 10, in the city of Chicago. "We give our readers to-day the important proceedings of each day's session. The convention was opened by quite a lively Stump-speech in the form of a prayer by the Rev. Mr. Gunsaulus, a minister of Chicago. Mr. Jones of Pittsburg, a wealthy manufacturer and chairman of the national committee, made a characteristic address. Mr. Jones added: "Gentlemen, at the request of the national republican committee, I propose to you as temporary chairman of this convention the Hon. John M. Thurston.' [Applause.] Mr. Thurston then took the chair and was greeted with applause. . Mr. Thurston then ppoke, payinjr: Gentlemen of the Convention: I am deeply sensible of the tlistinsuished honor you have conferred upon me as the presiding officer of your temporary organization. I am also min'dful of the grave responsibilities of the position and if they are successfully met it will be due to the continuance of your jreneroc.s favor and the botnv.al of your loyal Assistance. I have no words in w hich to tittintrly express my heartfelt appreciation of your confidence. 1 thank you, gentlemen, not for myself alone but for that grand, growing west which never disappoints the expectations of the republican party. I ccme from a state whose vast domain has been lately appropriated by the surviving veterans of the army of the republic, under the teneficent provisions of the homestead and pre-emption laws enacted by a republican congress. And true to the heroic recollection of the past, the homesteader of the West still march on under the banner of republicanism, la victory and defeat, in sunshine and in storm, in prosperity and adversity, this mighty West retains the courace of its convictions and holds that devotion to principle though it brings defeat, is better than success achieved by broken vows and political dishonor. We are met in national convention for deliberation and conference. The republican arty of the United states relies upon the wisdom of its assembled delegates for such action as will insure success. If we are prepared to honestly and fairly meet the supreme issues of the hour, with a clear, fearless and riccing declaration of principles and to nominate a ticket which will commend itself to the loyalty and intelligence of the country, we can grandly win. We enter upon the proceedings of this convention prepared to sacrifice individual i judgment to the wisdom of the majority and to ay down personal preferences on the altar 1 party success. When our candidates are chosen we will all join with heart and soul in the grand chorus of rejoicing, and the rainbow of our harmony shall pive certain promise of the cloryof a victorious morninjr in November. When" the democratic party, at the close of the last presidential election, robbed us of a victory honestly and fairly won, we patiently waited for the certain coming of the justice of years. We hoped and believed that 1S8 w ould right the great national wron?; of 1$M. Right it'not only for the republican party, but also for the grand and glorious candidates whose names were the inspiration of that wonderful campaign. The infinite wisdom of an all-wise Providence has otherwise decreed. ne of them, the citizen-soldier, the warrior, statesman, the Black Eagle of Illinois, has been summoned by the silent messenger to report to his old commander beyond the river. 15ut although John A. Logan is dead in the body, yet, he lives again in the illuminated pages of his country s most splendid history; lives in the rrateful love of a free people whose Union he to gallantly fought to preserve, lives in the blessings of a down-trodden race, whose freedom he so manfully struggled to achieve, lives and in the future song and story of a heroworshipping world; and along the highway of the nation's glory, side by side with old John Brown, Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant, his soul coes marohin;r on. The other, that gallant leader, the chevaiicr of American politics, the glory of republicanism and the night-mare of democracy; our Henry of Navarre is seeking in foreign travel the long needed relaiation and rest from the wearisome burdens of public life and service. With the sublime mairnaminity of his incomparable greatness he has denied us the infinite pleasure f supporting him in this convention, desiring above all things, party harmony and success, he has stepped from the certain ladder of his own laudable ambition that some other man may climb to power. As his true Iriends we cannot, dare not, commit the political crime of disobedience to his expressed will. We cannot place him at the head of the ticket, but we will make him commander-in-chief a: the head of the forces in the field, where he will "be invincible, and though James (i. Blaine may jiot be our president, yet he remains our uncrowned king, w ielding the baton of acknowledged leadership, supreme in the allegiance of his devoted followers; honored and respected by ail honest and loyal men, the greatest living American, and the worthy object of our undying love. But the republican party is not left without great men to place upon its ticket. We have that honest, able and experienced financier, statesman and senator from Ohio, and his no less distinguished colleague from Iowa. Indiana, Michigan and Wisconsin present to us gallant soldiers, while New York, New Jersey, Kansas,! Connecticut, and other states, offer worthy and favorite sons. From this splendid palaxy of political stars we cannot choose umiss. The republican party points with pride to the great achievements of its past, and oners as an earnest of its future faithfulness an unbroken record of services performed for freedom, union and national prosperity. It is preeminently the party of protection. It was born of the irrepressible desire to protect the tdave from the lash of the master, ami to save our civilizatio'n from the blighting curse of its crime against humanity. It performed the sacred mission of protecting the republic from secession and disunion, and in later times it succeeded in protecting the credit and currency of the nation from repudiation and inflation. Its platform epitomized stands for the protection of opular government on the American continent; stands for the protection of all governmental and international rights from restriction or invasion; stands for the protection of the life, liberty and property of the individual; stands for the protection of all the immunities and privileges of American citizenship; stands for the protection of the ballotbox from the crimes of intimidation, robbery and substitution; stands for the protection of American commerce, American manufacture and American agriculture from destructive foreign competition ; stands for the protection of home invention, home skill and home labor against the free trade heresies which would pauperize and degrade them all; stands for the protection of the" people from the unjust and oppressive exaction and combination of aggregate capital and corporate power; stands also for the protection of both capital and corporation from confiscation and mob violence, and above all utands for the protection of the sanctity and happiness of the American home. It welcomes to our shores the down-trodden and oppressed of every land, but it insists that the inestimable blessing of American citizenship, purchased with the priceless blood of our heroes and martyrs, shall re extended to those onlr who are in full sympathy and accord with the fundamental principles of our government and who will loyally support the sacred provisions of the constitution of the United States. And it holds that congress has the power to save American civilization and morality from the leprosy of the Asiatic paganism, degradation and contagion. It maintains that the nation siuld extend the benefits of free gorernmert !o all true lovers of liberty, hut it demands that the law of the laud shall be a shield to these only who obey it, and that for the anarchist, the communist and the criminal, American justice has nothing to offer but the word. The reconstructed Jiocraey has now been in power Dearly four yAISW Its administration has been most satisfactory Xo thoe who hold office nnder it. Its loyalty has received the approval of every enemy of the government. The courage of it foreign policy has amused the great powers and pleaded every coward. Its civil ervice ha beu eo thoroughly reformed as to delight Mr. Iliggins. Its justice to the disabled soldiers has won golden opinions from those who gaye them their wounds. Its financial management ha been safe because of its inability to destroy the resulting prosperity of republican legislation; and its unparalleled traddle of the tariff question has been a source ci wonderment to "godt and mca." It ia

strong in the imbecility of "innocuous desuetude' and deserves to live as a reminiscence of promises frgotton and pledges unredeemed. There are those in this land who seem to believe that the mission of the republican party is at an end; that the emancipation proclamation, Appomattox and the constitutional amendments are at once the monuments of its glory and the grave-stones of its demise, but the work of the republican party will never be done until every American citizeu enters into his unquestioned inheritance of liberty, equal rights and justice, until representation in congress is based upon votes freely cast and fairly counted; until there is adequate protection for the helplessness and old age of the disabled veterans and the widows and orphans of their deceased comrades; until those policies of government which ensure nations' and individual prosperity are firmly established, aud until patriotism and loyalty are the only qualification", except fitness, for official position in the service of the republic. There are those in the land who insist that the republican party keeps alive the old-time sectional feeling, and that it refuses to let "the dead pr.st bury its dead." The republican party longs and prays for the coming of the millenhim of its hopes when in spirit and in truth a Mason and Dixon's Hue will be blotted out forever; when fraternal ties and common interests unite us all; when the whole people are found rejoicing together that the inherited institution of human slavery was destroyed by the justice of God ; glad together

that the holy bonds of union could not be severed; hopeful together for a magnificent national destiny; loyal together to a common country and its unconquered flag". l;it, when that .glad tiaie couies, black and whiic must march tide by side in the broad sunshine of safety, and lie down to peaceful slumbers in the untroubled shadows of protected homes. The republican party turns to the new south with wide open arms. It ollers loyal assistance in the development of its agriculture, the opening of its mines, the building up of its manufactories. It proposes to break down the barriers of unpleasant memories with the hope of a new prosperity. The great distinctive issue of the present campaign is the issue of the tarilT. To the support of a protective tariff there will rise up an overwhelming ariny of intelligent, thoughtful and practical men, and the Last and West, the North cud Niuth will join hands together to forever exterminate in this republic the pernicious doctrine of free trade. As we gather here we remember that other great convention had in this city in lsX). We remember how it was inspired with the wisdom and courage to select that great man of the people that Moses who led us through the parte d waters of the sea, past the wilderness of battle, over the Jordan of sally into the promised land. In Iiss4 we were driven back to the w ilderness again. Ciod give us the wisdom to find another Moses who can limit our wandering to four years instead of forty. The mighty past is with us here to-day. It fills us w ith the same spirit of freedom, patriotism and devotion which breathed into the common dust of ordinary humanity the sublime inspiration of heroic deeds. Let us read its lessons rightly and hold its precepts dear. When Robert Bruce, king of Scotland, lay upon his dying bed he requested that his heart J r re ; E C. K Es It A M. should be taken from his inanimate body and borne by knkhtly hands t the Saviour's sepu!( hre. After his death, James, earl of Douglas, undertook the sacred mission and with tlie heart encased in a casket started out upon his pilgrimage to the Holy Land. On their way thither, himself and comrades were set upon by a host of Moorish warriors. Though they fought with all the valor of mortal men, they were borne backward by sheer force of numbers and their overthrow seemed certain, when Douglas, drawing from his bosom the priceless casket, cast it far out into the midst of the oncoming host and criedjout "Lead on, heart of IJnice, w e follow thee.'' And the knights of Scotland, never defeated while following a Bruce, pushed on and won the day. Let this convention find a Douglas for our Bruce. He will take the soul of our great leader into the golden casket of Iiis love and w ith it lead us on to certain and splendid victory. Fred Douglass w as here recognized as he came up the stage hack of the ppeaker and was loudly called for. On advancing to the speaker's desk he was introduced by the chairman as follows: "Gentlemen of the convention I have the honor to present to you a man who needs no introduction, our old friend, Fred Douglass." Cheer!. Mr. Douglass said: Mn. President I had the misfortune last night to speak to a vast audience in the armory a little below here, or above here, and broke my voice so that I feel wholly unable to address you any more than to express ni' thanks to you for the cordial welcome, the earnest call you have given me to this platform. I have only one word to say and it is this, that I hope this convention w ill make such a record iu its proceedings as to put it entirely out of the power of the leaders of the democratic party and the leaders of the mugwump party laughter to say that they see uo difference between the republican party in respect to the class I represent and the democratic party. Applause. I have great respect for a certain finality that I have seen distinguished in the democratic party. It is its fidelity to its friends laughter ; its faithfulness to those whom it has acknowledged as its masters for the last forty years. laughter and applause. They were faithful I mean the democrats were faithful to the slave-holding class during the existence of slavery. They were faithful before the war. They were faithful during the war. Thoy g.ve them all the encouragement they po.vsihly could without drawGENERAL A EG ER. ing their own necks into the halter. Laughter and applause. They were faithful during the period of reconstruction; they have been faithful ever since. They are faithful to-day to the solid South. I believe the republican party will prove itself equally faithful to its friends, cries of "good, good" and those friends during ths war who were men with black faces. (Cries ofthat'" right." They were eyes to your blind, they were shelter to your shelterless sons when they escaped from the line of the rebel; they are faithful to-day and when this great republic was at its extremest need, when its fate seemed to tremble in the balance and the crowned heads and the enemies of republican institutions were Raying in Kurope. "Aha, aha, this great republican bubble is about to burst." when your armies were melting away before the fire aud pestilence of rebellion, you called upon your friends, your Hack friends, when

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CONVENTION your star splangled banner now glorious, was trailing in the dust, heavy with patriot blood, you called upon the negro yes, Abraham Lincoln called on the negro great applause to reach forth his iron arm and clutch with his steel fingers your faltering banner, and they came they caine 200,0t. strong. Loud cheers. Let us remember those black men in the platform you arc about to promulgate, and let us remember that these black men are stripped of their constitutional right to vote. Cheers. In the grand standard-bearer w hich you w ill present to the country, leave these men no longer to wade toward the ballot-box through blood, but extend over them the arm of this republic and make their pathway to the ballotbox as straight and as smooth and sis safe as any other citizen's. Cheers. Let that shirt be waved so long as bloodshed be found upon it. Cheers. A government that can give liberty in its constitution ought to have power to rrotect liberty in its administration. Cheer?. will not take up your time. 1 have got my thought before you. I speak in behalf of the millions who are disfranchised to-day. Cheers and cries of "good, Douglass." Mr. Duffield of Michigan "Mr. Chairman, I move that when this convention adjourn it do adjourn until 12 o'clock noon to-morrow." The Chairman-"Gentlemen, it is moved and seconded that when this convention adjourns, it adjourn until 12 o'clock to-morrow. The chair recognizes the gentleman from Ohio." Gov. Foraker "I move as an amendment to the motion just made that this convention now adjourn until 12 o'clock to-morriw morning. The amendment was accepted by Mr. Dufiicld and at 3:.) p. m. the convention voted to adjourn until noon to-morrow. While the delegates and the audience were making their way out of the hall the Land entertained them with a number of patriotic airs, beginning with "Marching Through Georgia" and ending with the "Battle Cry of Freedom." THE SECOND DAY. The Proceedings of the Convention After Ileinff Called to Order. Chicago, June 20. An eagerness for the real business of the convention the nomination of a presidential winner was the main idea to-day. So earnest was this w ish that a suggestion to limit nominating speeches for the various candidates to fifteen minutes apiece won instant favor, though not actually adopted. Too much fuss and feathers by a few delegates during the day, and too great good natured forbearance by Kstee, the big California who was made permanent chairman, rendered necessary a night session, but did not by any means rob the earlier proceedings of interest. The by-plays were constant, starting in the middle of the openJAMES t. BI.AIXS. ing prayer. A fervent petition from tho Iloosier clergyman officiating that the throne of grace would permit the choice of a leader w ho would be "a man for the people" was the cause. His words were quickly interpreted by over alert politicians a3 a boom for Gresham and the friends of other candidates looked for a moment too gloomily pious for anything. Estee, the new- anti-monopoly chairman, was given a reception on taking the gave I that for unanimity and heartiness has not been exceeded since the convention first opened. Mr. Depew was not on the floor at the time, losing thereby a great opportunity to note the extent of the greeting of the anti-monopolists. One of the most interesting minor occurences of the day was the presentation of a gavel of silver and gold to the chairman, emphasizing the position of the republican party in favor of u bi-mctallic money standard". It was generally regarded as a particularly neat set-oil" to the silver gavel episoele in the democratic convention at M. Louis. A great hit was made by the addition of another gavel, notable as coming from Galena, the home of (ion. Grant, and to bo used, as stated by the donor, w hen the life had been pounded out of the tlemocratic party, to tan that party's hide. The reference to the "Old Commander's" early struggles with poverty in the little Galena tannery brought clown the great audience at once. Just when evcrylody was expecting tho decks to be cleared for genuine busincKS a weary flummery of useless points of order over the rights of alternates began, and the only relief w as a night session. Chairman Thurston "Gentlemen of the convention: In presenting to you your permanent chairman, the chair desires to return to you its sintere thanks for your great assistance in assisting it to pertorm tho diilicult dutioä of the position of temporary chairmanship. I have the honor to present to you as your permanent chairman, the Hon. Morris M. Estee of California." Applause. Chairman Estcc said: Gentlemen of the Convention- I thank you in the caine of iht etatea and territories

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BUILDING. of the Pacific coast, as well as from my own heart, for the distinguished honor that you have seen fit to confer upon me. I appreciate to the fullest exlint the grave responsibilities which devolve upon me, and it being a republican convention, I shall ask in all things its charitable judgment and its candid and earnest Eupport. Gentlemen of the convention, following so illustrious a gentleman as your temporary chairman, I shall not attempt to detain you by any lengthy speech. I only want to say that we live so far from the center of the republic over on the Pacific shore that I cannot even guess who your nominee is going to be. I s;sy further to my friends and gentlemen of the convention, that 1 am not able to say exactly what your platform will h, but the people of the country have echoed their sentiments, and the rattle of the skirmish line was heard only two weeks ago from Oregon great applause, and Uod willing, nest November you will hear from Cleveland's Appomattox all over this great republic. Cheers. My friends and gentlemen of the convention, again thanking you for the very high honor c? ..!iSi SENATOK SHERMAN, you have conferred upon me, and impressing you, I hone and pray, with the belief that our duties are the gravest and most solemn in character, and trusting from the bottom of my soul that every act may be done to promote the best interests of our common country and to advance the great republican party, I will call for the next order of business. Applause. Senator Stewart, of Nevada "I move that we take a recess until 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. I think we will get along faster by doing that, as the committees will then Lave finished their work." A large number of delegates here arose and considerable confusion followed. The Chairman "The delegates will bo seated. The convention is not yet adjourned. Now, the chair is prepared to hear a motion for adjournment. Mr. llorr, of Michigan "My motion withdrawn temporarily was to take a recess until S o'clock this evening. I now renew it." Tho motion to adjourn until S o'clock p. m. was then put by the chair and unanimously carried, the day session ending at 2:1". EVENING SESSION. Tho Keport of the Credentials' Coimnittee Keceived Other Husines Transacted. CmcAGo, June 20. The first night session of tho republican national convention, ending shortly before midnight tonight, brought at the last moment the first approximate test of the strength of any presidential candidate on a roll-call. It showed that John .Sherman could muster at least 2(i'.) votes. The roll-call was on the Virginia contest and a vote for the Mahor.e men was taken to mean a ve.te for Senator Sher man. Ohio tried to disguise the fact that a. test vote was being taken, and split her vote even. Counting Ohio solid for Sherman, however his aggregate on the roll call would be as stateel, LWjvotcs. The other sensation of the night session was a speech by Gov. Foraker, in response to noisy calls by his admirers. He undertook to give President SENATOR ALLISON. Cleveland a number of savage raps, anel in describing the next president of the United States he neatly avoided committing himself by Rimply asserting that the new chief magistrate would undoubtedly le a gentleman. The uppermost thought in tho mind of the convention as it began ' to reassemble this evening was tho supreme importance of the action taken tiiis afternoon in adopting the report of the committee, on rules, which includes a rule that no diange of votes can he made after the vote of a state has been firoperly cast until after the ballot has een announced. This virtually stops any stampede and adds very decidedly to the deliberative character of the convention's proceedings. It is regarded as a very de

cided victory for the influences which are opposed to the programme of those managers who claim to be friends of Mr. Blaine, and are yet seeking to nominate him in the face of his two letters of declination. At S:20 o'clock the convention was called to order. The Auditorium was uncomfortably crowded and the atmosphere in the "hall was stifling. The fluttering of thousands of fans did not have the effect of causing a breath of air to stir. The secretary then read a telegram received from the republican state central committee of California, sending greeting to the convention and returning grateful thanks for the honor bestowed on the Pacific coast by the selection of M. M. LVtee as permanent chairman. Chairman Kstee announced that as the limit of time for speaking was five minutes, that all speakers would be called to order on time, except in the presentation of candidates for the presidential candidates, and so would the convention hereafter ho called to order on time. Mr. Wc-liing of Maryland offered a resolution tendering on behalf of the republican party of the I'nited States to the (ierman nation its sympathy in this hour of her bereavement and deep sorrow, caused ly the death or her ruler, Emperor Frederick of Germany. Mr. Welling said in support of bis resolution that the German nation is a great nation. The Germans have advanced to the first rank in civilization and culture.and during the late war were the steadfast friends of the union. They have furnisheel America with some of her best citizens and statesmen.

AN OLD FASHIONED ROW. The Vircinian Get After Ench Other in riiiB-l'jrly Styl in Committee. Chicago, Juno 20. The Tribune this morning publishes a highly sensational account of the proceedings before the committee on credentials, late last night, in the Wise-Mahone contest. It says: erpcant-at-arms mith opened the door and looked anxiously around the hall. Half a dozen men were shouting at the top of their voices. "You're a liar;" "Give it to him," was distinguished above the storm of invectives. The commotion swelled into an uproar. The door swung hack and a negro rushed into the hall with terror written in every feature. "Mv (iod, they are going to shoot!" he exclaimed. "Muhone and Wise is lighting. Some one will be killed; shuah." The door suddenly opened and Serjeant-at-arms Smith grabbed an officer and pulled him inside. As they passed in the Tribune reporter caucht a momentary view of the exciting scene which was being enacted. A heavy chair was descending ou the head of some unfortunate, and another was poised in the air, presumably for the same purpose. Almost upon the threshold of the door two men were upon the floor engaired in a desperate struggle. A man was reaching over to separate them when he was struck in the face by a man who evidently wasnot unschooled in the manly art of sclt'-de'fense. "Kill him!" "Hit him !'' "Look out for him, Jim !" The presence of the policeman had a wonderfully quieting efiect and the tempest subsided as ejuickly as it had started. In about a minute Serjeant-at-arms Smith appeared at the door like a rainbow after a thunderstorm. His hair was disarranged, but he was smiling and warm. "Any one killed?'' asked the reporter. "Killed"? IIa, ha; that's funny," commenced Mr. Smith. "It is awful hot in there, anil a man fainted away. Never saw such a hot room in my life. Had to throw a pitcher of ice water on him. He's all right now; come to all right. Ha, ha; well, well. Hot, isn't it? Yes, sir; he just fell right down, while making a speech. Officer, keep these men back from the door. We opened the door a moment, to give him a little air." Later, it was learned that the Virginia row started between Wise and Mahone. A Mahone delegate, Col. Allen, was talking and Wise frequently interrupted. Mahone and Wise were sitting about five feet apart, on the same side of the table. Wise said something in an undertone to Mahone which no one caught, but the litile brigadier at once lumped up and reached for Wise. The latter let out for Mahone, but the members sitting between them prevented any ihunage. Ioth were talking excitedly; but attention was in a moment diverted from them hy Congessman Libhey, one of the antiMahone men, who struck Allen. Accounts difl'er, but most of the members seemed to think Allen was hit. lie was still on his feet and Libhey shouted at him: "D n you, d n you." The assaulted man launched back and in a moment the wildest confusion prevailed. Several of the j .Mahone people went for Libhey and bore him down to the tloor. All the colored men in the room took part and the mass of arms and legs in motion was such that the peace-making members hardly dared approach. It was in fact the beginning of an old-fashioned Virginia light. "Don't you touch me," roared one of the men in the midst of the melee. Ex-Congressman Urady. who is himself pugnacious, was one of the Wise following for Vhom the Mahone GENERAL IIAWLEY. henchmen seemed to feel the greatest animosity. "Hon't let IJrady get away," yelled a voice that sounded like Mahone's, and a msh was at onr-c made for him. A pair of Western men at once closed in and saved Brady from much harm. The peace-makers finally succeeded in pulling most of the lighters apart, but it was not until the policeman at the door who rushed in. had cracked several colored heads with his club. One man said to be named Mott was especially ugly, and could not be ejuieted till Ser-gci'.nt-at-nrms Smith seized l im by the throat, exclaiming, "stop, stop," and threw half across the room. When the semblance of order Mas restored two or three members were staudinsr on the table, the policemen and sergcant-at-arius had squads of bcilh'crants under their care while Chairman Hepburn was keeping a close eye on Mahone and Wise. Mr. Wi.-e expressed his regret at the occurrence, explaining that aspersions had been cast at him that were unbearable. Mahone said nothing. Mr. Libbey also spoke half apologetically, saying in the heat of the moment he thought Allen was striking at Wise, hut he did not think he himself had really hit Allen. The committee felt that something of this kind was necessary. Several members proposed to expel Libbey, and if he had not made this explanation he would undoubtedly have been expelled. The desire to avoid publicity, however, was strong. It was agreed that the row should be kept a secret. THE THIRD DAY. The Various Candidates Presented Loaded Vitl Speeehe No liallnt Jtenehcd. Chicago, June 21. Special. The convention got tiown to business in a hurry this morning, and within an hour after it had assembled the platform had been read and adopted, and the sluice gates of oratory were opened upon the congregated patriots. . Maj. McKinley of Ohio, chairman of the committee on resolutions, read the platform. He has a fine voice and good presence and an excellent delivery, and he read the long string of polished platitudes w hich are supposed to define the principles of tho g. o. p. with skill and good effect. The resolutions were rather freely applauded, the tariff plank coming in for the heartiest cheers. The civil service clause only provoked a slight murmur of approval, which w as in marked contrast with the spontaneous outburst which greeted Foraker's intimation an hour or two later that if Sherraau

became president he wrmld fill the offices with republicans. It needed no Flannigan to ask: "What are we here for?" to fix the status of this convention as an assemblage of epoils mongers. The omission from the platform of any reference to the liquor question provoked some surprise and a good deal of comment. Those ridiculous people, the anti-saloon republicans, have made a special effort to get their fad into the platform. Their leader, Griffin of Kansas, w as a member of the f ub-committee which drafted it, and it is known that he made a hard

GENERAL HARRISON, fight for the adoption of a resolution declaring against the saloons. But the committee would none of it, and deemed it prudent rather than to incur the displeasure of the temperance republicans, not to "monkey" with a subject upon which the German voters ure supposed to be peculiarly sensitive. .So the convention dodged the temperance question entirely and the prohibitionists have a better reason than ever betöre for making a red-hot fight against the so-called party of moral ideas. There was no debate on this platform, the anti-saloonists swallowing the dose without a murmur. A Maryland delegate managed to work in a buncombe point-with-pride speech which the galleries good-humoredly applauded, and then the previous question was orelered and the platform adopted by a rising vote with quite a show of enthusiasm. Then the orators were turned loose upon the convention and thev have roared and bellowed and jumped the livelong day. Except for a recess of an hour and a half at noon, the stream of gab CHArXCEY M. DEPEW. flowed uninterruptedly until 7:3(0 this evening, when the convention, utterly exhausted by the flood of dreary drivel and tiresome twaddle with which it has been deluged, adjourned until 11 o'clock to-morrow morning. The quality of eloquence dispensed today averaged very low. Not more than three or four speeches were made which could fairly be pronounced good, and the best never rose for a moment to the level of Garfield's and Conkling's speeches in the convention of 1SS0, or of ex-Gov. Lonc's speech four years ago, or of Dougherty's splendid effort in St. Louis the other day. Leonard Swett of Chicago started the ball rolling with a prosy and prolix presentation of Gresham's name. His speech, like all tnat followed, was tw ice as long as it should have been, and was sadly deficient in lire and force. Davis of Minnesota, who seconded Gresham's nomination, soarcd into empyrean realms and astounded his auditors with the assurance that the mountains and the seas, the great lakes and the majestic rivers, the winds and the clouds, the skies and the forests were demanding Walter Q. Ciresham as the repulv lican standard bearer, and would be satisfied with nobody else. Davis is eomething of an orator, but he rather overdid the thing to-dav and in several of his lofty flights narrowly missed an anticlimax. After him came John R. Lynch, the negro statesman from Mississippi who endorsed Gresham with so many qualifications and resolutions that his speech rather hurt than helped his candidaie. Greshain's name was warm.lv received bv the galleries, but provoked little enthusiasm on the floor. Kx-Gov. l'orter presented Harrison's name. A good deal was expected of him and he proved a grievous disappointment. His speech was long and commonplace, and although he praised Harrison without stint, it was plain to everybody that his heart was not in his task. The impression he produced was anything "but, favorable, and whatever his speech may have done for Harrison, it settled, I think, any chance that I'orter himself may have had of coming in as the dark horse. Gallinger of New Hampshire seconded w. w. niEi-ps. Harrison's nomination in a clever speech, which seemed to please the convention mightily. He is a very good talker, ha an effective delivery and really made one of the hits of the day. Congressman Hepburn of Iowa presented Allison's name iu very good style. Frank Hiscock's speech " for Hcpew was something of a disappointment and was coldly received. Alger's case was almost talked out of court bv four or live long-winded fellows, who didn't seem to understand that they were making the candidacy of the Detroit millionaire ridiculous with their fulsome laudations and the prominence they gave Continued ou Third l'ngo.

HEALTH IS WEALTH

Health of Bodv is Wealth of Mini DR. RADWAYS: SARSAPARILLIAN RESOLVENT, Great Elood Turiiier. CHANCES AS SEEN ANI FELT AS THEY DAILY OCCUR AFTER USING A FEW PO;r. 1. Good ?piriu, disappearance of wcakne?, lati pior, nirlanchulj-, increa.se and hardness of flesh, muscles, cto. . Strrncth inirrav, appotit iruprorr. relixli for fnnJ. no n:oro Mytir eructntirin er water-hrah, vwi dictation, calm ami undisturted fcleep, awaken lrrh and vigorous. K. lisap.oaranci of pot', MoU-hes, pimple. tb skin lo-ik clenr ani hralihy ; the urine chances froia its torpid and cloudy appearance to a clear i herry or amlx r color; atr pa-os i liar from tho bladder through the urethra without pain or scalding; littla or no sniinirnt; no pain or weakness. 4. Marked diminution of quantity and frequency of involuntary weakening discharge Of t'.lu ted in that wav. with ccrtaintr of ieriiianent cure, ini creased strength exhibited in the tct reting gland J anl functional haruuuv restored to the fcveril organ1. Vellow tincre on the white of Ihe eyes an'J th warthv appearance ,i the ttiu changed to a clear, lively a:id heaiihv color. i. Those miMc rini from weak or unhealthy lunzl or tul-eirle will realize src;it lonc'.t in extectorating freely the touch phlegm and iiiueus from lh Inns, air celN, Lmnclii tr indfipe, throat or hr-A-i; dimhii-hini: the frequency of the cough; general imrcu-e in Mronutli throughout the iru-m: stoppage of niUt weat and i-air., and feeling of weakness around the ankles, K-, shoulder?, etc.; c .-ssat!;!i 'of ctdds and hills, s. n cd utfocation, hard breathing and paroxysm of cold on lying down or arising iri the morning. All these distressing svmjitoius craduallv and sure'v dis-tppeat. 7. As day alter 'day the A KS A I'A IULLIAN il taken new si:ns of returning h -.'dth will appear; as the blood improves in purity and .trength diseas will diminish, and all ion in deposits, nodes, tumors, cancers, hard I'.uup.s, etc., will 1 resolved away, and unsound made sound and healthy; ulcers, feer sores, chronic skin diseases gradually disappear. s. In eases where th? system has been wlirated, anil Mercury, euieksilver. e'orro-ive Sublimate have accumulated and become dejHisitei in the bones, joints, etc., causing caries of the bones, ricket fpin.il curvatures, contortions, white swelling, varicose veins, etc. the sAKSA PA IU LLI AN will resolra away these deposits aud exterminate the virus of the disease from the system. I. If those who are'taking these medicines for th cure of Chronic Scrofulous I'isease, however slow may lie the cure, "feel Iwtter," and find their general health improving, their f oh and weight increasing, or even keeping its own, it is a sur fi'cu that the cure is progressiv;. In these diseases th patient c ither gets better or worse the virus of th disease is not inactive; if not arrested and driven, from the blood, it will spread aud continue to undermine the constitution. As soon as the SARS A PAlilLLIAN makes the patient "feel bette," every hour you will prow better, and increase in health, strength and flesh. The creat power of this remedy is in diseases that threaten death, as in CONSUMPTION I of the Lünes and Tur.errulotis Ththisis, Scrofula, Syphiloid diseases, wasting degeneration and ulceration of tho kidneys, IMabetes, Moppape of Water linstantaneons relief atlordod where catheters hav been used, thus doing; away with the painful operation of using these instruments), dissolving stone in the bladder, and in all eases of Inflammation of the Bladder and Kidneys, In chronic cases of Leueorrhea and Uterine PiseasA. One bottle contains more of the active principle of Medicine than any other preparation. Taken in teaspoouful doses, while other require five or six tinit s as much. ONE DOLLAR PER BOTTLE. RAD WAY ' S Ready Relief The Cheapest and Best Medicine for Family Use in the World. Sore Throat, Colds, Coughs, rneumonia, Brot chitis, Inflammations, Congestions, Inüuenza, Ditfi cult Breathing, cured and prevented by RADWAY'S READY RELIEF. Inflammation of the kidneys, inflammation of th bladder, inflammation of the bowels, congestion of the hint's, palpitation of the heart, hysterics, croup, diphtheria, catarrh, influenza, cold child, a true chills, chilblains, frost bites, nervousness, sleeplessness. The application of the READY BELIEF to th part or parts where the difficulty or pain exists will aflord ease and comfort. KADWAY'S i:EAIY RELIEF is the only remedial acent in vogue that will instantly stop pain. It iustautly relieves and soon cures. RHEUMATISM, NEURALGIA. Peiatica. Headache, Toothache, Inflammation, Asthma. Influenza, iHUicult Drcathin?, Lumbago, Swelling of the Joints, Tains in Dack, Chest or Limbs, Eadway's Kenidy Kelief is a Cure for Every Tain, Sprains, I?ruiscs. It was the First and is the Only P A I X REMEDY That instantly stops the excruciating pains, allays inflammation and cures Congestions, whether of the Lunirs. Stomach, Bowels or other glands or orpans. INTLUN ALLY, a half to a b aspoonful in half a tumbler of water will, in a few minutes, cure Tramps, Spasms, Sour Stomach. Nausea, Vomitinc, Heartburn, Nervousness, Sleeplessness, Sick Headache, Uiarrhaa, Colic, Flatulency and all internal pains. Malaria in its various forms Cured and Prevented. There is not a remedial airent iu the world that will cure Fever and Ague and ail other Malarious, Bilious and other Fevers, ai 1 bv UAIWA Y S FILLS, sofpiickiy as BAPWAY'S UEA1Y KKLIKF. K. K. B not oniy cures the patient seized with Malaria, but if p"ople exiiosed to Malarial poison will every luornin? take 'Ju to 3t drops of Beady Belief in water and eat. say a cracker, belore going out, they will prevent attacks. Travelers should alwavs carrv a bottle of RA"tVAY'S BHAI'Y KKLIKF with them. A few drops in water will prevent sickness or pains from change of water. It is better tlian French Brandy or bitters iw a stimulant. Fifty Cents per I'ottle. Sold by Druggists. DR. RADWAY'S Regulating Pills, The Great Liver and Stomach Remedy. rerfect Turativcs, Soothing Aperients, Acts Without Tain, Always Reliable, ami Natural in their Operation. Terfectly tasteless, elecautly coated with sweet puni, purjie, regulate, purify, cleanse and strenpthen. Kadway's Bills lor the cure of all disorders of th stomach, liver, towcls, Kidneys, bladder, nervous diseases, headache, constipation, costiveness, indigestion, dvspepsia, biliousness, fever, in Üammatioa of the bowels, piles aud all dor.imreiuents of the internal viscera. Purely vep tahle, containing no niercurv, minerals or deleterious drus. OWrve the following symptoms resulting from diseases of the dicestivö orcans: Constipation, inward piles, fullness of blood iu the head, acidity ol the stomach, nausea, heartburn. distrust fo food, fullness or weight .ti the stomach, sour eructations, ninkinr or fluttering in the pu of the stomach, rwmiinnig ot tiie iicart. hurried or difficult breathing, tlutterinsnt the heart, clicking or suffocating sersatioiis when in lyin? tost ure, dots or wehs befor the steht, fever and dull pain inthe head, deficiency of perspiration, yellowness of the kin and eye, pain in the side, iti .i i. liiuhs, andsudden flushes ot heat, btirnins-in the flesh A few dose of KADWAY'S FILLS will fre th system of all tho above-named disorders. Price, & Icuu n-r Bo. Pend stamp for poslacre to Kadway & Co., New York, for our book of adi-ico. TO THK rtBLlC. I jure and nsk for Rad way's, and se thai tt nam RAD WAV" Is oa i ii.it yea lay.

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