The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-06-30

an orator of great ability While he,
was speaking the convention showed.
some signs of being stampeded by his
eloquence, and the hopes of Cor
don leaders were raised high by the op-
portunity that came to them immedi-
ately after Mr.. Ryan's speech. The
vote on the adoption Of the silver plank
was taken at this time, and the Cor
don leaders passed the word around to
support the motion. Nearly all of that
element voted AYE" and the Guffey-
ties, who are also regarded as the
Bryanites of the party, were put in
the strange position of voting against
their idol.
They stuck boldly to their position,
however and prevented the reaffirma-
tion of the principles of the Chicago
convention. This they were bound to
do to carry out their determination to
fight the campaign solely on state is
sues. Aside from the brief paragraph
supporting the government in its po-
sition in the war with Spain. the plat
form relates entirely to alleged Re-
publican misrule In the state and Che
steps that should be taken to produce
q change.
The convention lasted from noon un-
til 12:45 this morning, and was de-
cidedly lively gathering. At several
stages of the proceedings 1t required
the combined effort of a squad of po-
lice and the sergeant alarms to main
tain order. There was lots Of noise
and confusion, but no blows were
struck and nobody was hurt. The
morning session was as tame as the
afternoon, ,,was exciting Chairman
Garman called the convention to order.
after which the call was read and the
roll of delegates called. P. A. O'Boyle.
of Luzerne, was chosen temporary
chairman and Matt Savage, of Clear
field, secretary. After short speech
from the chairman and the appoint
ment of committees a recess was taken
for an hour.
At the afternoon session Levi Nc
Quiston, of Butler, was elected tenn
porary chairman, the organization
committee being equally divided be-
tween McQuiston and Joseph Hawley.
of Allegheny. While awaiting the re-
port of the resolutions committee NOM
mating speeches were begun. Before
the speeches were finished Chairman
Sowden brought in the report, which
was adopted after an unsuccessful at
tempt to pass the silver resolution,
which was defeated by vote of 1874
yeas to 23S nays. The defeated minor
ity resolution was as follows:
"The Democratic party of the state
of Pennsylvania, in convention as
sembled, declares its fidelity to the
time honored traditions of the Democ-
racy and reafffrms its loyalty to the
principles Of the party as enunciated
in the Chicago platform of 1896, and
now defended by that tribune of the
people, William J. Bryan"
After the defeat Of this resolution
nominating speeches were resumed. ].
J. Miller of Allegheny, D. F. Fortney Of
Centre and ]. A. Wakefield of Alle-
gheny spoke for jerks and ex-Judge
Krebs of Clearfield and Michael j.
Ryan of Philadelphia urged the claims
of Judge Gordon. The ballot resulted.
jerks, 3O5; Gordon, 116; A. H. Colfroth,
2: J. Henry Cochran, l. Five Chester
county delegates, under instructions.
voted for Robert L. Pattison, but
changed to jerks Just before the vote
was announced.
After al 1.-The nominations had been
made Mr.. jerks. who had previously
been called to the platform, made
short speech. returning thanks for the
nomination. He will outline the policy
of his canvass in a speech at re-
ception to be arranged bv the state
committee to finally notify the condi-
dates of their nomination. Mr.. Sowden
was next escorted to the platform and
made few remarks accepting the
honor conferred upon him.