The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-07-11

glad to see him elected President of the
United States, yet as he served in the Con-
federate army they don't seem to want
HIM. Faint hisses.l Therefore Kentucky
takes pleasure in casting her twentv-six
votes for the worlds greatest orator, w. J.
Bryan" [Cheers.l
Illinois, which had asked to be passed.
cast her As votes for Bryan. This left him
with 446 votes, IS short of the necessary
number. Oklahoma changed her votes
from Bland to Bryan, making asa. Then
Ohio withdrew the name of Mclean and
cast 46 votes for Bryan, making his total
500. Before the result was announced,
but when it was known that Mr.. Bryan
had received within o few of the neces-
sary number of votes. Governor Stone of
Missouri assembled the platform and as
soon as order could be Obtained he ad-
dressed the convention in these words:
Gentlemen of the convention: Two or
three days since I received this note,
which will read in your hearing from
Richard Parks Bland: L wish it to be
understood that do not desire the nomi-
nation unless it is the judgment of the
free silver delegates that l would be the
strongest candidate. If it shall at any
time appear that my candidacy is the least
obstruction to the nomination of any can
didate who is accepta bic to the free coinage
delegates of the convention, or one more
acceptable to majority of those delegates
than myself, wish my name, at once, I'M
conditionally withdrawn from further con-
sideration. am willing to waive State
instructions for me, if need be, and to let
the free silver delegates decide the whole
matter. The cause must be put above the
man (Appiause]
II came to this great city," continued
Governor Stone, "as one of the delegates
from Missouri, voicing the sentiment of
the Democracy of that State TO present for
your deliberate consideration the name of
that illustrious commoner for whom many
Of you have expressed a preference by your
votes in this convention. To those who
have been our friends in this struggle de-
sire now to return my grateful thanks,
but, following the direction of Mr.. Bland
himself. that whenever a majority of sill
yer delegates expressed their preference
for another, he desired his name with
drawn. now, in the name of Missouri,
lower the standard under which we have
fought throughout this convention, and
in its place I lif. that of the gifted and
glorious son of Nebraska. loud and long
continued cheering
1--WE have chosen a splendid leader,
beautiful as Apollo, intellectual beyond
comparison, great orator, great scholar,
but, above all, there is beating in his
breast heart that throps in constant SYM
patty with the great masses OF the people
and instinct with the highest sentiments
Of patriotism. We will not only nominate
him, but / believe with as much con-
fidence as / can believe anything in the
future. we will elect him by very large
majority in November. And, gentlemen
of the convention, we will inaugurate not
only a Democratic administration at
Washington, but one that win be set down
as among the purest and ablest and the
most illustrious of American history.
$50 now, gentlemen, Withdraw the
name Of Richard Parks Bland and cast the
thirty-four votes of the State of Missouri
for William ]. Bryan
Governor Stone was listened to with a
silence such as no other orator had been
honored with. except Mr.. Bryan himself,
and at the close of his effective little speech
he was loudly cheered.
Judge Van Wagenen of Iowa was next
recognized. He said the Iowa delegation
bore to Chicago with them from Governor
Boies message saying that he had only