Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-07-25

OF Texas, managed to obtain a hear
ing.
Mr.. Howard, OF Alabama, asked by
what authority the chairman bad
recognized the gentleman from West
Virginia, before his state had been
called, to move suspension of the
rules on the cali VI states on the nom-
nation Of Bryan, thus shutting off oil
other nominations The chairman
said that the gentleman from West
Virginia was accorded the floor 10 the
time OF the delegation from Arkansas.
The utmost confusion prevailing all
the time, the roll call was interrupted
to allow the reading OF telegram ad-
dressed to one of tho delegates:
s.Please do not permit the use Of my
name for the nomination as president
i EUGENE v. Drss,'
The motion to suspend the rules was
understood to have been withdrawn,
and the call OF states for presidential
nominations was resumed.
i When California was called, 7. V.
Gator, of that state, came to the stand
and spoke of the necessity OF acting
calmly, cooly, and justly, in the great
crisis that had come unexpectedly on
the peoples party. His long, flowery
oration wound up by the nomination OF
VIM. J. Bryan, to which nomination
another California delegate objected.
The call of states was then continued,
Mr.. Kolb, of Alabama. in the chair.
When Georgia was called, Hunt, Of
that state, seconded the nomination of
Bryan, and Col. Clagett responded to
the call OF Idaho, and also seconded
the nomination OF Bryan. When the
state of Illinois was called, the nomina-
tion of Bryan was seconded by H. E.
Taubeneck, and Indian Territory, also,
seconded it. Iowa yielded its time to
Kolb, of Alabama, who, vacating the
chair, addressed the convention In a
speech seconding the nomination of
Bryan. When Kansas was called,
Jerry Simpson made short speech,
secondIng the nomination OF Bryan,
eulogizing him highly.
The delegates from Louisiana put
forward as their orator, the handsome,
brown haired young woman, Mrs. Rob-
erts, OF Colorado, who informed the
convention that she came from state
where the men had the courage and
chivalry to give women the rig hts, which
they demanded for themselves. ssWe,
ef Colorado" she exclaimed--vI
mean, we of Louisiana, daughter
second the nomination OF Bryan.''
Mrs. Roberts withdrew amid applause.
Henry W. Call, of New York, was
deputed to speak for Maine. He |
spoke of the proposed "marriage"
between populists and democracy. |
He declared he knew the Just and law
full impeachment and exclaimed that, in
the name of the commonwealth, he !
forbade the bans. [Laughter1.
The speaker was proceeding to op-
pose the nomination Of Bryan, when
the chairman, Senator Allen. called the
attention Of the Maine delegation to
the fact that it was understood that the
speech was intended to second Bryan's
Enomination. The chairman. proved to |
be. right. Mr.. Field, Of Virginia, de-
clared, angr,ly, that Cali was abusing |
the confidence of the convention. He
was not populist at all. The chair.
man asked the New York delegation
whether Mr.. Call was delegate, and |
the answer came that he had been a |
member of the peoples party only two
weeks and had attended only one meet
ing. Call was finally allowed to pro-
ceed, ard concluded his harangue by
nominating Hon. G. F. Norton, Of Chi
cago.
f. Gerry Brown, of Massachusetts,
spoke for bis state, and said be was no
longer here for his party, but was here
for his country. On both sides. the two
forces were fighting and. there was no
middle -of-the-road. They must either
fight for Bryan, or fight for hell and
damnation in this country! GCheers
and laughter.1 In behalf OF the twenty
votes OF Massachusetts,, he seconded
the nomination of Bryan. [Cheers.]
Ignatius Donnelly, Of Minnesota,
amid applause, spoke tor the nomina-
tion of Bryan, under existing cirGum-
stances, though he had heretofore op-
posed it. Edward s. Greene, Of
Detroit, from the Michigan delegation,
seconded the nomination OF Bryan.
Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Lease was
next introduced and was warmly
cheered. She delivered, in ringing
tones, an eloquent appeal for unity.
Missouri being called, the chairman of
the delegation, Mr.. Livingston, nomi.
mated Ignatlus Donnelly, of Minnesota.
Donnolly, from his seat, remarked: IL
decline!" Livingston substituted the
name Of j. S. CoxeY. daughter, and
applause. Mr. Smith, OF Montana,
and judge Green, of Nebraska, second
ed B-yan.
THE FIRST BOLFER.
J. j. Haddox, delegate from West
Virginia, raised storm of opposition
sga.nst. the nomination off Bryan and
stated that, in as much as he was in
struoted to do all he could to defeat
Bryan, he was compelled to cease any
further participation in the work OF the
convention. Thus did the first bolter
retire from the hall.
Every state, when called, sent at
lsaet one spokesman to the stand to
shout out The same old platitudes.
BRYAN E0spN4TEp.
Livingston, of Missouri. withdrew
the nomination of Jacob s. Coxey, and
ut 3 80, the call OF states for the noni-
nation was finished. The vote was
then called for, aud w. j. Bryan was
nominated on the first ballot, Norton,
of Illinois, also being voted for. Bry-
ans otAcial vote, l,042; Norton's, 32l.
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