Show AT THE convention another bright pungent and in te resting letter latter from our spec lal correspondent AND WORK OF 0 F ST louis mo june jane 79 aw last night bight we had a display of fire an works which cost and we had bad another kind of display in the tire fire business also A flour floor mill and packing house sald said to be worth mide made a beautiful illumination it was io in active progress even at 9 a m this forenoon notwithstanding all vas this noble endeavor to amuse and entertain oil OB the part of st louis yet her visitors are departing by the hundred thoy they wait to finish anish the business busin eai of the convention WILTED HUMANITY the day is dreadfully hot the beat is so dri enfeebling and oppressive that persons imm from the north sad and bast ast look more like dead men trying to identify former haunts than like likely urt men attending a pofi political convention conyea tion the most resolute face to be met is that of the man who is walking to the union depot with his grip grio jack flack his overcoat and his thick felt hat bat he feels that he has been the victim of t a weather joke ABOUT A PEOPLE about 1039 a m chairman collini colling called the convention to order prayer was offered by a rev R Q G brank of st louis this gentleman has a good vocal apparatus and good articulation and succeeded in making himself heard as far as the centre of the delegates corral the utah delegates did not hear bear mm him they were situated on the rear row of the corral the reverend gentleman prayed god toll tomake make us a united people a ti giuly aly patriotic p people so a people worthy of 01 our ear magnificent estate and of our grand opportunities tuni ties 11 yes there is no more marked attribute of gods care and aad attention than that shown by a united people ethl e and above all when united for ar the welfare and for the wl ir wee tare fare an ana salvation of the tinman human race in general some of cf these statesmen who charge it is a crime against U utah taht that she has a great united people would dowell do well to read mr branks prayer in full AST AN oratorical SPREAD S henry watterson atterson VV next appear appeared edg bo bearing the resolutions unanimously adopted by the platform committee henry is a heavy stocky built man his brow is not heavy though it looks so ao it is rather the result ol of a scowl perhaps intended to be byronic when tie he laughs the scowl is not very perceptible cep tible then A very little man with a very big voice read the resolutions helas a plucky little man though he had a very commonplace common place face and a tip tilted nose such as gath would ascribe to a new york ward politician this little man was not from new york but from kentucky he read the platform as if it were a speech of his own in tact fact he be threw in into to it bits of pathos and he be actually dually indulged in oratorical gesticulations it looked more like his bis own speech than did those of some who read from manuscripts THE PLATFORM RM is a good one ne republicans will in te r t it to mean tree free trade absolutely b because e c use it was fathered by watter aon no n the utah democracy if there leally illy is any such voted for watterson through williams for chairman of the platform committee utah democrats tan must be absolute free traders one little plank in this platform should not pass unnoticed it says in every branch and department of the government under democratic control the rights and the welfare of all the ove 09 ve been guarded and defended very every interest has been protected and the equity 0 of t all our citizens before the law without t r regard to race or color has been steadfastly maintained we cant very well 11 object to this plank because it is sw rIlL willtrue really true in every particular it li ir is read race or color or religion then the people of utah could say aay that it was doubtful very little regard is paid to law in utah and I 1 believe there mere is less paid to equity THE HATCHET BURIED when the platform was finished mr watterson delivered a very appropriate little speech contriving in the middle middie of it to introduce senator ogorman of maryland both then shaking hands and giving the convention to understand that the hatchet was buried ogorman has a very agreeable face soft smooth and silky he is clean shaven as a monk his nose is 14 prominent which gives his bis chin an appearance 01 lot ol weakness ogorman made a short speech but his lungs were not equal to the affair and only those around the stand could hear bear him THE territories scott of pennsylvania presented presentad a resolution asking for the passage of the mills bill now before congress mr lamon or lehman of iowa presented a resolution relative to the territories ri tories Be resolved solved that a just and liberal policy should be pursued in reference to the territories ri that the right of self government Is inherent in the people and guaranteed under the constitution that the territories of washington dakota montana and new mexico are by virtue of population and development entitled to admission into the union as states and we unqualifiedly condemn the course of the republican publican Be p parly lu in refusing State statehood hoed and sell self governa government en to their people why did he not include utah she is better fitted for self government than any of the provinces mentioned her pe people ale are peaceable prosperous rouss united stable and what is a better recommendation en dation than all agricultural the red reckless Ideas minert miner whose home to is only where the vaguest chance of catching gold exists does dees not predominate mr lamon shot on the stand as if laced aced there by theatrical appliances we B els Is a short square built little fellow in fact he looks like a parallelogram with a large mush melen on top of it however he Is a busi business nesa fellow and did Rs his work satisfactorily even though he be ignored utah governor Goyer nor abbott of new jersey p resented presented a resolution expressive of SYMPATHY FOR IRELAND and endorsing gladstone and parnell this resolution was unanimously Id adopted opted though in the territorial delegates bench it was noticed that only montana responded to the aye it was to in this district also that a few delegates remained seated when a standing vote was asked tor for the sheridan resolutions of et sympathy wid and condolence the utah delegation were charged by several onlookers on lookers with being 0 d mormons cormons and having no sympathy for fer ireland for general She sheridan or lor for Gladst gladstone oue or parnell the fact is there was not a mormon in ia the utah delegation A MARKED PERSONAL description mr tarpey of california commenced the talking in dead earnest he has a commanding appearance bu bat he be does not represent the inte intellectual ual irishman by any aay means in fact he is built more on en the dutch model his chest cheat is too near the suspender buttons of ef his bis pantaloons and that is a serious drawback in oratory besides he read from manuscript A man who would read a speech from manuscript before an audience in ireland would be openly charged with having that speech w written ritten for him by somebody else a however however mr tarpey did good work H he e nominated thurman and that in itself was a great work patterson Patter soa of colorado and piggott t of missouri made good speeches but a little too long for an occasion on 0 of f this kind FOR GRAY when indiana was called up stepped daniel a nan mu now BOW talked about all over this thi s land the first question one asks himself on scein seeing voorhees is why was voorhees bees called ballel the tall sycamore ot of the wabash the fact is there is nothing in him to suggest e at sycamore pine or he hemlock vilock there there is nothing ain n him to suggest anything in the horticultural kingdom he is a large powerful well built man not by any means presenting the physical development usually ascribed to him he seems to be built on the old english gate stone pillar plan strong stout cylindrical and capable of sustaining immense weight he placed in nomination for the vice presidency gov C jov gray of indiana he made a good speech dwelling entirely on availability and and on the necessity of carrying indiana he was well received and for the time the bandana indana bE seemed to be swallowed up in the grey plug hat bat but it wits was only for a time the bandana again waived in a thousand forms and thurman was evidently the man georgia seconded indiana for gray kentucky was called and brought forth a longwinded long winded orator who seconded the nomination of gray he went into such a rigmarole that the delegates had to call him to time he could not be suppressed then and it was not until the sergeant at arms was threatened at him that he be subsided rhetorical incongruities dryden of maine and green of new jersey in ia short abort speeches seconded thurman J W dorsey of nevada was the next speaker he turned out to be a veritable well of metaphor hyperbole per bole pathos in IL fact a rhetorical mississippi it and lust just as mi muddy mid and as miraculous the convention was in no mood for orators of this stripe and there bad been nothing worth hearing said since collins and dougherty spoke two days ago it was proving roving a long time between drinks and when dorsey got to rat aling mountains and ever verdant pastures and where the orange blossoms shine this was the climax the chairman had bad to rao for order dorsey still held his bis ground but ahe he asked for leave to say something it was granted he seconded the nomination of thurman Tb urman raines of new york made a long speech dwelling principally tor or his illustrations of heroism purity and patriotism on the old testament and its theocracy it is strange but true those men and speakers who who inveigh most loudly against a theocracy in modern affairs are the very persons who in trouble or in corrupt times go back to the theocracy vt st old times for arg argument ament and models 1 powell of mo spoke but pad had to be muzzled before he would stop dawson of S C thompson of tenn throckmorton of texas made short speeches seconding thurman when the roll of states was called for balloting ballo tingo it was found that beyond all the favorite indiana and colorado then withdrew black and gray and thurman was unanimously chosen nominee tor for the vice presidency of the united states by the st louis national democratic convention of 1888 0 during the confusion that followed the final announcement of thurmand Thur mans mants selection a st louis friend of mine d myself moved from where we were in the press district to te the rear of the delegates delegat eal district where the utah banner was visible daring the session by the time we got there the hall was comparatively empty and the delegations were all crowded around the platform Slat form the krear portion 94 e the delegates ele gates district was all empty I 1 looked for the utah banner but could not see it my friend noticed a banner lying in the dust and in the tobacco juice right at the foot of the washington banner he took it up rr IT WAS but it made me feel sore to think that the I 1 banner of utah should fall into hands who would got watch everit ever it my friend concluded to take possession of it and if no owner came forward we would benditto sen send ditto it to utah we waited for fully 20 minutes then a tall man wearing a full beard came along and claimed the banner this young man was a gentlemanly tle tie manly person quiet appearing and indeed modest looking my mead who is a large muscular person with the proportions of a pugilist was in strutted ted by me to interview the etonian on democratic grounds AS alt W my friend introduced himself as a democrat and presented a badge of the hendricks hendricka association of St stlouis Louls he asked the gent lemans name A card was handed banded in reply it read E A MCDANIEL OGDEN UTAH representing salt lake tribune my friend held a few minutes conversation convers vers atlon regarding utah the an sut bl stance of which I 1 here subjoin utah butak democrats are opposed uncompromisingly to mormons cormons Mor mons utah republicans ditto mormons cormons wont elect any man to office but one of themselves the church buildings and property must be confiscated the franchise franchise must be taken away from mormons cormons Mor mons the mormons cormons are not democrats they are not republicans they would not net vote when we put up a democrat for con congress gress and elected one of their own they put two gentiles in the counce I 1 tor for policy this Is IB the substance of what mr mcdaniel said but mr mac did not cot have awall 11 his own way he was asked how he could represent god and the devil the democratic party and the salt lake tribune he made no reply re ly he wax was asked why he thought it policy policy on the part of the mormons cormons to give two gentiles office and if policy did this much why it would not go further farther and give two senators and a dozen representatives to the democratic sarty early or to the republican no reply he was asked did he consider sider the parnell resolutions of gov abbott policy to catch the irish vote he colored crimson and did not say a word the utah delegation was silent on this resolution when it was they remained seated when general eri dans name was mentioned mr mae mac had bad not A a word to say to all this he is one of these mn men who if he had bad not a mormon to despoil would hunt up the irishman as the know bothin nothing did here arcemen coming here to misrepresent AND MALIGN UTAH many of these men art are patronized and dealt with in utah by mormons cormons Mor mons this is the return the mormon who would put one cent in mr maes macs way or any mr mr mac of his stripe is a mormon that ought to kick himself around a ten acre lot it if he be understands the circumstances cum cam stances thoroughly JUNIUS |