Show INCIDENTS OF THE OMAHA convention THOUGH there wax wao a good deal of earnestness and common sense manifested at the convention of the peoples peopled party in omaha on the ath lust et there transpired also some incidents of a ludicrous character for instance mrs lease cleage who is a very tall lady angular and blessed with strident tones stepped to the front holding a teleR telegram ram the delegate anxious to hear bear what this cassandra of bucolic philosophy had to say any became silent she simply announced that she was authorized to say that benjamin harrisom Harr Harri isoL soi would accept the nomination if given him the intelligence created the wildest kind of boisterous mirth and mrs lease sub sided aided conscious of having achieved a victory second only to the conquest of the famous ingalls loucks loucka the permanent chairman chalem tn of the convention showed how ill III fitted he was for the position inthe in the course of the proceedings a wild eyed man made his way to the platform and asked permission to address the convention ven veD tion no one knew him but he was evidently a lunatic on greenbacks green backs sub treasury schemes and so forth loucks became bewildered and left the chair then powderly took the gave navel rapped for order introduced the madman wh was permitted to utter a few incoherent sentences and retire powderly cand conducted can acted ducted him quietly out of the hall and possibly made him believe that teat his oration excelled that burke Coo Cock krano ranya at chicago this little incident trivial though it I 1 well illustrates the character of powderly who to is a man of consume ite tact |