Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1896-07-16


CmcAGO, July 1l.-William Jen'
sings Bryan of Nebraska, the young,
classic featured orator from the
plains of the Platte, swept the con-
BentiOn off its feet yesterday and was
nominated for president on the fifth
hallot
Political history furnishes no prece-
dent for the days proceedings in the
Coliseum, either as a great spectacu
Rnr show, or az the result of the de-
alterations of the convention of a
great political party, Bryan is but SO
years old, younger by ten years than
any man ever nominated for the chief
magistrate of the American republic.
He came like a young Lochinvar out
Of the West, which has never before
ROminnted presidential candidate,
10 WOO the bride for whose hand, the
eOHntrys greatest chieftaius have
been suitors
Els name was barely mentioned in
she preliminary skirmishing. Four
days ago when the convention met he
vas not entered in the lists. But
Thursday he made an impassoned
speech and stirred the convention to
frenzy by his eloquence. That speech
'Jyerthrew the diligently organized
work of weeks and months for other
ESpirants for the honor.
The cause Of silver was uppermost
IN, the minds of the delegates when
Ehey assembled here. For the cause
GheY deliberately placed the eastern
wing Of Pennsylvania on the altar.
Now, when the convention is coldly
snalyzed it is seen that the support
Il Bland and Boies as candidates was
sever soidly grounded. 1t was only
rs the representatives Of the issue that
they rallied delegates to their stand
ards, and even after many of them
had attached themselves to the for
tunes of one or the other candidates
shey appeared restless and in an in
sainctive way to be casting about for
q new Moses The far-Seeing, staid
and seasoned leaders of the silver
men, realizing that their new creed
would ALLEVIATE the Eastern Democ-
Eacy, believed in an alliance with the
Ailyer Republicans beyond the Mis-
souri, through Teller's nomination, but
che rank aud file would have none of it.
.Bryan's Great Speech.
When Bryan made his speech, the
delegates suddenly saw in him the
great advocate of their cause and they
earned to him with an impetuosity
IhAt nothing could balk. They wanted
\ tribune of the people. They felt
Ihat they had him in the eloquent
young Nebraskan who set their imag-
ilations on IRE If he had been
placed in nomination then, the con-
EenGion would have been stampeded.
Come of the gray-haired leaders saw
and feared it.
When he was placed in nomination,
ahOse who thought they had found
Aheir candidate were confirmed
N their opinion. The idea
which George Fred Williams of
Massachusetts conveyed in his
ascending speech, that it needed the
strength of youth to endure the hard
ahips of a new cause, that a young
arm should WELD the scimitar of an
Indignant people, sank home. Here,
rs Williams said, was the new Cicero
70 meet the new Catalines of to-day.
The leaders who doubted the wis
dom Of nominating so young and so
inexperienced man tried to check
bhe stampede by adjourning. They
hOped nights reflection would suf-
6ee. At the suggestion of adjourn
Rent, there was rebellion. The mo-
zion was declared carried against a
Storm of opposition from the Bryan
enthusiasts, who wanted to nominate
3heir candidate at once.
The Garfield Parallel
A nights reflection only made then
more determined. When the conven
sion met to ballot, Bryan showed sec
0ad on the first roll call. He haC
already overhauled Boies. Only Blanc
vas ahead and it was a struggle foi
the Missouri farmer to get the 90
votes which he received The STAN
Pede began on the next ballot.
On the fourth ballot, Bryan tool
1be lead and Bland fell back, hope
Aessly beaten. The nomination wa
made unanimous on the next ballot
Some have sought to find in tn
nomination, in 1880, of Garfield, VIII
vas not candidate, a parallel witt
BEyan's nomination yesterday. Blu
there Is no parallel Garfield wa
OAly nominated after one of the hard
est and most protrscted convention
contests ofthe century. Grant. Blain
Bdmunds. Sherman and Washburn
were then contesting for mastery
and. after thirty-fYe ballots, the riVa