en.

The first heading would be unintelligible did I not state that
"dukes" mean fists. Sensational enough in all conscience!

"NOW, PUT UP YOUR DUKES."

STORMY AND DISGRACEFUL SCENES IN THE DEMOCRATIC
STATE CONVENTION.

BOSS MCGILVRAY AND B. F. MONTGOMERY HAVE IT OUT ON
THE FLOOR--JUDGE W. F. STONE NOMINATED.

The proceedings of the State Democratic
Convention, held at Turner Hall, yesterday, were
disgraceful enough to bring a blush even to the
cheek of a Democrat. "Liar," "snide," "put up
your dukes, if you want to fight," cat-calls,
hooting, and yelling filled up a greater part of
the deliberations of the august body. Boss
McGilvray, of the Seventh Ward, and B. F.
Montgomery, statesman-at-large, vented their
personal animosities towards each other. McGilvray
said that Montgomery had prostituted every trust,
both public and private, ever given into his
hands, and Montgomery retaliated by saying that it
could not be charged against him, that he was an
apostate in the ranks of the party, a Republican
who had been brought up in the slums of Chicago.
This was a dig at McGilvray, and he responded by
calling Montgomery a liar, and offering to fight
him on the floor of the Convention.

The breeze grew out of McGilvray's opposition to
Montgomery for Chairman of the Convention. The
Committee on Permanent Organization reported in
favor of Montgomery for Chairman, and McGilvray
moved to strike out his name, and substitute that
of G. Q. Richmond, of Pueblo. It was a bitter
fight, and the result was a McGilvray victory.
Montgomery was thrown overboard by an overwhelming
majority.

Martin Currigan, the irrepressible, was on hand,
and was made Sergeant-at-Arms; but he failed to be
of any avail in keeping the peace.

Judge Wilbur F. Stone was nominated for the
Supreme Bench without opposition.

The resolutions endorse the administration of
President Cleveland, favor the free and unlimited
coinage of silver on the present basis, denounce
the fencing of large bodies of public land, and
insist upon the strict enforcement of the Chinese
restriction act.

Interviewing is a science in America. Who has read "Martin
Chuzzlewit" and not laughed over Dickens' description of it? Woe to
the man or woman who