Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-07-16

chicago. July II. William Jennings
Bryan OF Nebraska, the Young classic
featured orator from the plains cf the
Platte, swept the convention OF its feet
today and was nominated for president on
the NTH ballot.
Political history furnishes no precedent
Tor to-day's proceedings in the Coliseum,
neither as a great spectacular show or as
the result of deliberations Of the conyen-
ZION or a great political party. Bryan 10
but thlrty-six years old, younger by ten
years than any man ever nominated for the
9hief magistracy of the American republic.
ne came like a young Lochinvar out OF the
west, which has never before nominated a
presidential candidate to WOO the bride for
whose hand the country's greatest chief
tains have been sultors. His name was
barely mentioned In the preliminary skir-
mishing. Four days ago, when the ccnven-
lloh met, he was not entered In the lists.
But yesterday he made an impassioned
speech and stirred the convention 10 frenzy
oy his eloquence. That speech overthrow
the diligently organized work Of weeks and
months for other aspirants for the honor.
Now that the convention Is coldiy aralyZed,
It Is seen that the support of Bland and
Boies as candidates was never solidly
grounded. II was only as the representa-
tives OF the silver issue that they rallied
delegates to their standards, and even
after many of them had nttached them
selves 10 the fortunes of one or the other
OF the candidates, they appeared restless
and In an instructive way to be casting
about for a new Moses. The far-seeing.
staid and seasoned leaders OF the silver
men, realizinz that their new creed world
Alternate the Eastern Democracy,
believed in an alliance with the silver Re-
pubIlcaus beyond the Missouri, through
Teiler's nomination, but the rank and file
would have none OF It. Yesterday when
Bryan made his speech the delegates sud
denly saw in him the great advocate or
their cause. and they turned to him with
an impetuosity that nothing could balk.
They wanted "A tribune Of the people. They
felt that they had him in the eloquent
young Nebraskan, who set their imagina-
lions on fire. If he had been placed in
nomination then the convention would have
been stampedsd as 1t YVES to-day. Some or
the gray-haired leaders saw and feared II.
Last night when he was placed in nomi-
nation those who thought they had found
their candidate were confirmed in their
opinion. The idea which George Fred Will
liams Of Massachusetts conveyed in his sec
onding speech that 1t needed the strength
of youth TO endure the hardships OF a new
cause, that a young arm should WELD the
scimltar Of an indignant people, sank home.
Here, as Williams said, was the new Cicero
10 meet the new Catalines of to-day. The
lenders who doubted the wisdom of nomi-
mating so young and so inexperienced a
man tried TO check the stampede by adj
journing until to-day. They hoped a nights
reflection would suffice. At the suggestion
of adjournment there was rebellion. The
motion was declared carried against a
storm of opposition from the Bryan en-
thusiaSts. who wanted to nominate their
candidate at once.
A nights reelection only made them more
determined. This morning when the con-
vention met TO ballot, Bryan showed sec
ond on the first roll call. He had already
overhauled Boies. Only Bland was ahead
and It was a struggle for the Missouri far
mer to get the Dps votes which he cast.
The Stampede began
On the next ballot. On the fourth ballot
Bryan took the lead. gad R2sd fell back,
hopelessly beaten. Iue nomination Was
made unanimous on the next ballot. Some
have sought to find In the nomination in
1880 OF Garfield, who was not a candidate, q
parallel with Bryan's nomination to-day.
But there Is no parallel. Garfield was
only nominated after one of the hardest
and most protracted contests Of the cen.
fury. Grant. Blaine. Edmunds, Sherman
and Washburne were then contesting for
mastery, and after thirty-five ballots, the
rival leaders and the convention turned to
Garfield, who had electrified the delegates
by his matchless oratory and commanding
presence. To-day the support of the other
candidates simply melted away, and Bryan
won without a struggle.
On the first ballot Bland got 23S, Bryan
lo3. Boies SO, Matthews So, Mclean "a,
Pattison %, Blackburn 50, Pennoyer 10,
Tlllman II, Stevenson =, Teller 8, Camp
bell 2, Russell 2 and Hill l. There were
1856 gold men who refused to vote. They
declined to participate in the nomination
A. t,Sf1, xxhinh he'd hAnn ndOntpH
The latter realized that the gold men would
nrohably place another ticket In the field, or
n they aid not actively oppose the nomi-
nees Of this convention In the campaign,
which was to follow, that they would
passiyely. at least, give aid and comfort
TO the political enemy.
PENNSYLVANIA alone of the gold states
continued to participate in the proceedings.
She east her sixty-four votes for Pattison
10 tho erd, Most of the other gold men
uho voted cast their ballots also for Patti
con hut there were scattering voles Ior
stevenson, Hill, Russell and Campbell. n
tho second ballot. Alabama sought TO checK
tho rout that had already begun by cnang-
,na nor vote from Boies to Bland, but
Rrvan was ~overtaking him with giant
s,r,des Bland gained forty-eight, while
prvon advanced ninety-two. Boies was the
nr,ncIn,l loser. On the third ballot Col
orado gave up hope OF Teier' the mention
% r,hose name had been cheered and Kissed
~ ~ az galleries. and Oregon gave up Pen
rar In the Ohio delegation, the Bryan
sorces lacked but seven votes OF q majority,
Ia there was open rebellion In illinois
an - ether states which wanted to swing
Snta limo ON the fourth ballot, Alabama,
he arst state to vote. headed the stampede
60 nryau. Idaho, California ana othet
go followed. The revolt In the other
deIe0otiops spread. even among those pouno
-. rssoIntions of instruction. Kansas, I'LL
no,s ohio. Indiana and even lows were
totteriEg. -
On the fifth and last ballot Kansas went
ovar Illinois and other states came
Y,mh,jpe along In her wake. When Ohio
.as reached Bryan had 446 votes OF the
so4 required to make a two-thirds majority
=, nose voting. Chairman White had ruled
.hot two-th,rds of those voting constituted
= two thirds majority under the rule. Ohio
hesi,ated. The Bryan men In the deiega-
,iou demanded a poll of the vote. The
sricnds of Mclean saw that the end was In
s,ght and Mclean himself mounted q
hair He withdrew his name as a candi-
49, anj cast the 80 votes of Ohio for
prvan This gave him 492. IL less than
',nongh 70 nomirate. Montana changed her
= 70 Rryan and Oklahoma Territory fol-
Iayed with her @. To the Territory OF Ok
,shora therefore,. belongs the honor OF