eleven o'clock
`` California , she 's all right ! '' cry as many more . Delegates from the above-named states appear at two entrances . By eleven o'clock the convention is assembled . The chairman rises and pounds on the table with his gavel to quiet the audience . `` We will open this convention with prayer . It is the desire of our party to lift itself out of the mire of partisan politics , and nothing is more fitting than that an invocation to the Almighty should constitute our initial performance . ''