“Let ’em alone. It’ll come out all right. We’ve got the votes.”
Bailey meanwhile had ceased to tap, and now stood leaning on the gavel. He began to speak again:
“The chair—appoints,” he said, his eye leaving his program and seeking the men he designated as members of the committee, “Messrs. James of Polk, White of Logan, Kemper of Mason, Brown of Tazewell, Harrington of DeWitt, Parker of Moultrie, and Johnson of Piatt.”
All save Harrington, Parker and Johnson were Garwood men. The program was then followed, in choosing by the same process, the committees on resolutions and on permanent organization. There too the Garwood men were given the majority, though Bailey ignored Rankin’s program in one instance, and that was in naming Randolph for the committee on resolutions, but he did it in some half humorous notion of his own that Randolph could there gratify his love for words, and do little harm. The Garwood men were not particular about the resolutions, though Rankin gave to Ben Fuller, Polk County’s representative on the committee, a copy of the platform Garwood had written out.
Noon had come, and was pouring its heat into the court room. The committees having been chosen, the convention could do nothing more until they reported. Bailey therefore said:
“What is—the further—pleasure—of the convention?”
And Rankin arose.
“Mr. Chairman,” he said, “I move that we take a recess until two o’clock.”
Bailey put the motion and of course it carried. And then he said:
“And the convention—stands adjourned—until two o’clock this afternoon—at which hour—the riot—will be—resumed.”