The herald., 1896-07-24
AN ENDORSEMENT OF BRYAN
Does Not Include the Support of SewaIl's S
Candidacy
Affairs Still Complicated by the Common
Electors Question
The Middle Of the Road Men Show Much
Bitterness, and There Is Still Prom.
ise Of . Lengthened
Struggle

Special to the Herald.
ST. LOUIS, July 23.-"The golden bowl
Is broken at the fountain and the silver
cord is loosened'
The end of one of the queerest. strang-
est, most complicated and most intensely
exciting quarrels known in political his
tory seems to be almost at hand. The
election of Senator Allen as permanent
chairman has been as oil on troubled
waters. Almost everybody here thinks
that a good, sensible platform will be
adopted; that both Bryan and Sewall
will be nominated and asked to stand
upon 1t; that they will accept; that the
ticket will be elected by huge majority,
and that the result will be the most
prosperous epoch ever known In this
country.
No one who was not present could i'm
agine the terrible nervous tension of
most of the delegates. They are, in the
main. brave people, who have severed
a thousand party ties and are simply
doing their best to solve the problem of
human government. Most of the Bit
terest opponents of Senator Allen
yielded as soon as he was nominated
ana said they were ready for Bryan on
a good Populist platform. Senator AL
lens long, eloquent and judicious speech
gave the delegates time to recover their
breath after the half-hour's demonstra-
tion had subsided. One enthusiastic
delegate seized a broad board and
started down the aisle with it, the un-
dersigned chalked upon the board:
"Allen in 1900"
Nearly oil the state delegations fol-
lowed the board with their guidons and
good feeling prevailed all over the great
hall. The sweltering heat of st. Louis
did not seem to bear~with much force
upon the delegates. During Senator
Aliens speech he said few things
which the Associated Press will not get
or will get but incorrectly. Senator AL
len stated that Mark Hanna would be
the saddest man in America tonight;
that the dispensers of his coin had been
detected in their nefarous attempts to
bribe the delegates to this convention,
to disrupt and to scatter the elements to
the four winds; that no monopolst had
yet been discovered who was not for
Mckinley; that Hanna had directed the
expenditure of more than 81 200, 600 for
the simple nomination of a candidate:
that Wall street and Lombard street and
all their cohorts would gnash their teeth
with rage when they saw the grand
union of the liberal forces of America
now to be completed
During a part of Senator Aliens
speech the reporters in the Associated
Press section were writing away very
busily, but when he got warmed I'D
thoroughly to his great work and his
tongue became loosened, the Associated
Press reporters dropped their pencils
ana wrote never word of it. I am sit
ting directly in front of them as I write,
while they do not write, and while Sem
ator Allen is still speaking. Therefore,
know whereof I speak.
The speeches of Senator Allen and
senator Butler were beyond all question
Two OF the most diplomatic and really
wise speeches of the kind that could have
been devised. Each healed a thousand
wounds in few moments, and they must
De credited with great moral courage
for their brave stand in a convention
that was sadly divided, but which now
seems to be about unit in great cam
paign.
committee of forty-fve silver men
and like committee ofPopulists are now
on plan of united action
Every single delegate to the silver con-
vention is unqualifiedly for Bryan.
Old politicians claim that the silver
party's convention is composed of men
who are more nearly unprejudiced and
more generally "brainy'' than those of
any other convention they ever saw
They are great workers, at any rate
So general is the feeling that Bryan will
be nominated within the next TWENTY
four hours that the hotel corridors and
the street corners that have been throng-
ed with agitated crowds for week are
now deserted, except by few jealous
men who are no longer arguing, but are
breaking the monotony by shouting for
Bryan.
The California delegation has been
about evenly divided on the question of !
Bryan, really the only Ques- |
l6en before the convention.