The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-17

few evening dress suits in the crowd in
to a tureen that had been only half
emptied. From the band in the gall
lery came an occasional note to show
that the musicians were working, but
the bowling, ecstatic crowd on the floor,
the tables and the chairs overwhelmed
it with the vocal hurricane.
THE DINNER WAS FORGOTTEN.
Toward the end of the dinner all be-
came cam impatient; There was vas a rushing in
tiers of the hall and especially from the
sections beyond the pillars that divide the
lars the diners could hear nothing and see
First they began going toward him in a
single line, then they swelled to over
There were no final courses to the dinner,
Seeing the inevitable. Mr.: Bryan gave
James R Brown he went to his place.
Then, up rose every man in the nall II, and Iii
anything to bring out all the noise that
was in him. Mr.. Brown tried to be chair
had had been dumb until those on the floor and
in the galleries became. weary shouting
Bryan by the score, and in the melee of
excitement, the caterer lost hundreds of
Bryan was hailed as the, next Presi-
an aga +b me ine t a3d as f6e
enemy of capital" The crowd went into
a frenzy, and in frenzy it remained for
the rest of the evening.
EVERYTHING A SIGNAL FOR APP
PLAUSE.
Mr.. Bryan started to make an 1ntrOduc-
tory. speech and mentioned the Chicago
platform. He was not heard again until
Williams Jams of Massachusetts There was an
other tumult and another st1h Tor every
During Mr.. williams speech the crowd
massed itself in the central part OF the
ment, except when everybody swelled and
ssWayeeSdl with applause was Impossible;
minutes, but the audience was noisily
- a,,7 Co.. 49,, .,,oo1,or 20 ,,,o1-o 1,iS
voice reach to the outskirts of the crowd,
and after one or two had been heard a
of constant appeals for Bryan. sit down"
cried dozen voices when John S. Crosby
shout 50 that he could be heard and
eventually, won his audience. Then, when
ands of voices cried good" Men set
when Judge Tarvin had his turn, while
others damned in behind the reporters
near the stage or climbed upon the stage.
IT CAUGHT THE CROWD
There was mild applause for national
issues. but at last there was a roar
There is no difference between a Croker
Cheer after cheer resounded and feet
were stamped SO rapidly on the floor that
the noised reSembled that of battery OF
Calling guns in action, and it was not di-
minished when Judge Tarvin next paid aid
banquet which he contrasted with the
modesty and democracy of the dollar
'EThey," he said ARE masquerading
Democrats. [
Champagne and disorder and drunkenness;
here there is true DEMOCRACY and order order ~,
TeT "a W Remfn d de- that #
the Democratic party in 1860 stood upon
ard ara in the hands Of william Jennings
Bryan he would give to the platform and
to Mr.. Bryan his full support, and that he
would work for Mr. Bryans election.
AGAINST TRUSTS AND PLUTOCRATS-
The issue in 1900, Mr.. Belmont asserted.
remained in control. The Republicans had
ranged themselves on the side of monopo-
said and an international plutocracy. was
threatening to drive the nation into abject
He was no hater of money or wealth, he
said; he doubted the honesty OF anyone
who was. but he hated the man who did
not understand the words Live and let
Mr. Belmont appealed for party unity,
deprecating the idea of a third party.
dinner the silver question was almost lost
sight of in denunciations of trusts and ex-
It thus: IF the thunder clouds on monop-
oily shall eclipse the silver moon, we know
man Of the Twenty-first district, was
9nos Was emhngiasfe for Bryan
and said if they would only eliminate the
16 to ! plank they would win hands
When Mr.. Ridpath said that Jefferson
ever lived a hundred voices shouted; No!
No! Bryan Mr.. Bryan whispered some
ing. II accept the suggestion" bowed to
Colonel Bryan, during tremendous APP
plause.
Bryans time to speak arrived at twenty
minutes before IL O'Clock At the men
ton of his name by James r. Brown: the
great assenblagel rose and climbed. Some
some reached the eminence of tables
Hats went up into the air. were caught
and sent hurting to another part OF the
hall. Handkerchiefs were waved in the
boxes. napkins, tablecloths, anything that
was available. was seized and turned into
a means of tribute to the silver king.
Calm, smiling, with outstretched right