The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-07-15
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REVIEW OF THE CONVENTION
WHICH ASSEMBLED LAST
WEEK In CHICAGO.
rMPAssIoNED EFFORT OF BRYAN.
The Remarkable Speech which
Made the Nebraskan n Candi-
date for President.
Special to the Globe.

Cd1CAGO, July 14.-What in many
respects was the most remarkable pa
Htical convention this courtry has ever
witnessed, closed it's labors in Chicago
on Saturday. The contrast between 1t
and the Republican assemblage at st.
Louis was noteworthy The st. Louis
convention was a one-man affair, and
the participants were merely puppets
IN Hanna's hands, to do his bidding
Inc able men of the party, who have
an individuality of their own, seeing
the situation, refrained from attending
with the result that the convention was
composed Of mediocre men, with onIv
mere and there an able man inter
spersed TO relieve the dull monotonv
ihere pelng practically no contest, the
OUTSIDE politician who goes to ma
uonal convention for personal eniov
ileht ana to join in making enthusi-
asn, was absent and the affair was
tame throughout. Whatever animation
was displayed was forced and did not
come from that spontanefty which is
absolutely essential to give raal Iifo -
a convention.
The Chicago convention was o,,ar
Whelmlngly superior in the numbers IN
present, in interest and excitement IN
orator and in fact in everything which
SIS ~ make up such a body. The
SPECTATORS who came felt repaid
wHethef they agreed with the action of
the convention or not, and still any,
one VINO has followed the trend of No
iltlcai events could not fail to have
hhoWn the position that the convention
would take and the only eleman+ of
doupt IN the affair was the selection 30
me ticket. The men within the Dar,o-
cratic party who favor silver delibor
ately set about months ago to cant,,re
this convention and the advocates of
gold and silver rested s,lninejv un+iI
IL was too late. 1 do not saw that #
was possible to have produced different
results, but it certainly would have
oeen better politics to have endeayored
70 prevent the sending of an over
"nelmlng majority of silver delegates
TO the convention, rather than waitino
uiitH tney mad been selected and then
Ihahihg the vain effort of stemmine the
lioe- Inc gold men were defeated long
eelore the convention met and the onIv
work OF the convention was to officially
register the formula by which the de-
feat should be recorded
THE ORATORS OF THE OCCASION
In oratorical ability this convention
was very notable. Ex-Gov. Russell Of
massachusetts,; Senator Villas of Wis
cons1n, Senator Hill and john r. Eel
lows, of New York; Senator GRAY Of
Delaware, Senator Vest. of Missouri.
Senator Turpie, of Indiana; Senator
Tillman, of South Carolina; Gov. stone
of Missouri; Gov. Altgeld. of Illinois.
Senator Jones, of Arkansas. and w +
Bryan, of Nebraska, made I'D coterie
of speakers which are rarely to he
found in single body of men. Out Of
al TINS oratory, two efforts stand espe-
cially conspicuous, and one ecIipses all
else- The two to which I have referred
were the speeches of John r. Fellows
at the gold meeting at the Auditorium
the Saturday evening July ~ before
the convention, and the speech of Mr..
Bryan in debating the platform The
two speeches were so entirely different.
both in delivery and lines of thought.
that they cannot be directly compared.
The most forciful and striking passage
In Mr.. Fellows argument to my mind
was the following:
I know that just about 100 years ago a like
ciamor hiied land across the sea- Frenzied
with the wrongs. either fancied or real. of a
Thousand years, the people came to believe
that the detroying of al systems and the
by law, the trampiing under foot Of every
precedent and the reign of blood were the
remedy for existing wrongs.
To the guiuotinei To the guillotine.'
was the cry Of the populace. They tore down
all that existed of substantial government
They profaned the affairs in their temples
I'hlnyr yrrfn nxror 10
There is no God They caused the cutters
OF their streets to run red with blood They
produced a change They were the heralds OF
revolution.
II ask some Of those, carried away by the
mad enthusiasm Of this hour. losing all recol-
lection Of what is behind them in the history
OF their party-I call upon them to remember
that the guillotine, which was erected to do
Its bloody work upon all that had been short
ened the necks of score or more of the prin-
cipai ones who assisted in It's construction and
erection.
This utterance was an object lesson
from history which 1t would be well
for the leaders who controlled the
Democratic convention to thoughtfuIIy
study AS matter OF word painting
and poetical imagery, Fellows con-
clusion was especially fine He is an
old man and lacks the physical
strength and fire which BRYAN threw
into his effort, but his delivery is still
excellent and for such a passage as
his closing words, his voice, pathetic
and appealing, was especially adapted
This was his closing appeal:
70. that on this glorious anniversary day
which gave us a. republic, the best traditions
and influences Of which our party has up to
this hour preserved, o, that on this day and
In the presence of this crisis that is impen6-
ing. some voice may speak out OF the past
IRON lips that are mute. from forms that are
cold and silent, the fathers of the ren,,bIic
the founders OF the party, that there may come
from their sepulchers some voice that will re-
pei the damon. aliay the madness, and bring
back returning reason, and that once more
as united band OF brothers with a common
love and common hope q common aim to
accomplish, and with common history that
all Of us love, may march to the achieve
ment of other victories q brothers hand. and
then-and then the safety of the republic will
be assured, and all minor evils can be cor
rected; and with the hateful skeleton Of Sec
uonaism removed from our sight. peace for
ever peace with all 1t means in all our hearts
and all our homes. will rest like very bene-
dicti0n from heaven
l am not sure but those not present
who read Gov. RusselTs speech on the
same occasion and contrast 1t with Mr..
Fellows will regard it as the ADLER
effort, but I am treating Of the subject
from purely oratorical standpoint and
thus compared Mr.. Fellows was easily
in the lead
THE GREAT SPEECH OF MODERN
TIMES.
The oratorica1 gem Of the entire con-
vention was, of course, Mr. Bryan's
wonderful speech. 1t is difficult to des-
cribe that effort In way to make
those not present realize its beauty and
force A splendid specimen of physical
manhood, strong in being in the very
prime Of life. possessing the impetuos-
9ty of the yOlyng man which cooI1 In