The chairman lifted his hand and the noise died away.

It lay in his power to ignore the resolution wholly or to rule it out of order; the chairman was apparently in no haste to do anything.
"Good old Uncle Ike," howled some one encouragingly, and there was laughter and applause.

With superb dignity Mr.Pettit appealed for silence with gestures that expressed self-depreciation, humility, and latent power in one who would, in due course, explain everything.

A group of delegates in the rear began chanting stridently, "Order! Order!" and it was flung back antiphonally from a dozen other delegations.
Mr.Harwood became active and climbed upon his chair.

Gentlemen in every part of the hall seemed at once anxious to speak, but the chairman was apparently oblivious of all but the delegate from Marion.