The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-07-11
THE MAN FROM NEBRASKA
SILVER TONG UED ORATOR TO lead
THE SILYER HOSTS.

Convention Stampeded for Bryan-The
Scene a Memorable One-Most of the
Gold Men, Including Ten of Connecti-
outs Delegates, Refuse to Vote-Vice-
President to be Nominated To-day-The
Several Defeated Candidates Tender
Bryan Their Support-various Views
Expressed.
Chicago, July 10.-William j. Bryan
of Nebraska was selected to-day as
the standard bearer of the democratic
party in the campaign for the presi-
dency. Yesterday when the handsome
young Nebraskan mounted the rostrum
In the convention hall to close the de-
bate on the party platform he was
considered the merest possibility in the
race for the honor to be conferred.
Half an hour later when he concluded
his great rhetorical effort he had be-
come seeming probability. With the
hours of the night his chances grew
and when the convention resumed this
morning he had been established as
Richard P. Bland's most formidable
competitor. AS the balloting progress
ed his popularity among the delegates
became more and more apparent and
his strength in votes went by leaps and
bounds until the elimination came in
the capture of Illinois and Ohio and
the withdrawal Of Bland with the con-
sequent transfer of Missouri to the
Bryan column.
There were no glaring transparencies
no life-sized Autographs. no special
bands of music to attract to the elo-
quent young lawyer and newspaper
man. The modest banner of the Will
liam j. Bryan club, a Nebraska organ
iztaion, was the only conspicuous en-
blem Of the Bryan cause. During the
night a standard had been prepared
bearing the concluding words of Bry-
ans speech of yesterday:
.No Crown of Thorns-No Cross Of
Gold,''
This alone was the most suggestive
outward Indication that the Nebraskan
was in the race to stay. But it needed
no artificial means such as these to
keep the name of Bryan to the fore.
His striking presence, his earnest bear
ing, his wonderful melodiouness of
voice as exhibited in his speech had
not faded from the minds of delegates
and spectators and every mention Of
his name brought forth hearty cheers.
The battle of the ballots was fought
with doggedness that showed the
firm determination on the part of those
pledged to particular candidates to be
consistent in the desire of their hearts,
but little by little the standard of Bry
an was pressed nearer and nearer to
the point of vantage. At first he gain
ed slowly. then great leap would be
made as some delegation of formidable
numbers would throw in its lot with his
cohorts.
The fifth ballot was reached and the
result was still uncertain, but at It's end
Bryan was all but within the goal
Delegates and audience became excited
when it became apparent that the Ne
braskan had gathered many recruits
from the Bland forces, and cheer af-
ter cheer went up from the floor and
gallery A rumor went around the hall
that Illinois, consistant as Missouri in
adherence to the lifelong champion of
free coinage of silver, was wavering,
and when Governor Altgeldt and his
associates withdrew for consultation
the excitement grew to fever heat.
The story of how 1t all came about
and how Bryan at last was triumph
ant is told in detail elsewhere in these
dispatches.
Change after change followed in the
ballots cast by the various states and
all went to the man from the Platte
and when Illinois, Ohio and finally Mis-
souri, withdrew their strength to his
support the race had been won and
Bryan stood forth as the leader Of his
party. Exhausted by cheering the
name of the Nebraskan the vast con-
gregation in the Coliseum was slow to
avail itself of the opportunity of dis
playing the full extent of it's vigor, but
it gradually rose to the demands Of
the occasion and turned loose volume
of sound that made the iron roof trem-
BILE
Every man and woman in the hall
was standing as the Bryan supporters
on the floor grasped the guidons indi-
eating the positions of the states and
marched in triumph through the aisles
bounding the spaces reserved for dele
gates and as the guidons of other states
ioined in the procession the cheering
became madly intense.
Mr.. Rhea of Kentucky made the point
that the motion had not been seconded,
but the chair disregarding the point
ordered the secretary to call the roll.
The first open revolt against the dom
nation Of Governor Altgeldt manifested
itself when the governor as chairman
of the Illinois delegation announced
the 46 votes for adjournment. Harry
Donovan of Chicago, who has been
Boies man from the start, jumped up
TO challenge the accuracy of the count.
His note of defiance was received with
applause from the Chicago crowds in
the gallery who understood the situa-
fion and cheers followed each mega
tive vote. Metropolitan and country
delegates who had been lukeWarm IN
their obedience to the governors will
and restless on numerous occasions vot-
ed against adjournment. The vote
was "a ayes, IL noes, 13 absent.
Hinder the unit rule this vote was
made 46 ayes, but Mr.. Donovan and
others disputed its correctness, shout
inc that it took 25 votes to make a
majority. whats the matter with IL
linois now?" inquired the chairman
GOOD naturedly, and closed the incident
nv ruling in favor of the governor.