The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-07-06
Nearly Half an Hour Spent by the Del
egntcs In Making Themselves Be-
Iieve They Were All Happy.
HILLS SPEECH FOR HARMONY
WELL RECEIVED By ALL EXCEPT
CROKER AND HIS BRAVES.
Little Applause for the sixteen-to-One
Plank, but wild Tumult Over the
Other paramount Issue.o

KANSAS CITY, July o.-WLldH -.
Bryan, OF Nebraska, was tonight unan-
imously placed in nomination as the Demo-
cratic candidate for President of the
United States on a platform opposing i'm
perialism, militarism and trusts and specifi-
caiiy declaring for the free coinage of sill
yer at the ratio of 16 to 1. The nomination
came as the elimination of frenzied DEM
onstration in honor Of the party leader.
lasting twenty-seven minutes and giving
utterance TO all the pent-up emotions of
the vast multitude. 1t followed also fierce
struggle throughout the last thirty-six
on silver and on the relative position which
the silver question is to maintain to the
other great issues of the day.
1t was late this afternoon when the con-
vention was at last face to face with the
presidential nomination. Earlier in the day
there had been tedious delays due to in
ability of the platform committee to recon-
cile their differences and present report.
Until this was ready the convention man
ayers beguiled the time by putting forward
speakers of more or less prominence to
keep the vast audience from becoming rest
less.
The first session, beginning at 10 o'clock
this morning. was entirely fruitless of re-
suits. and 1t was not until late in the after
noon when the second session had begun,
that theplatform committee was at last able
to report an agreement. Already its main
features. embodying the 16-to-1 principle,
had become known to the delegates, and
there was little delay In giving it unaa
nous approval. This removed the last
chance for an open rupture on questions of
principle, and left the way clear for the
supreme event of the day--the nomination
OF the presidential candidate
DEMONSTRATION OF THE DAY.
The vast auditorium was filled to its ut
most capacity. when the moment arrived
for the nomination to be made. Not only
were the usual facilities afforded by tick
cts taxed to their utmost, but the door
keepers We're given liberal instructions un-
der which the aises and areas and all
available spaces were packed to their full
est limit. When the call OF States began,
for the purpose of placing candidates in
nomination, Alabama yielded it's place at
the head of the list TO Nebraska, and Old
ham, OF that State, made his way to the
platform for the initial speech placing Mr..
Bryan in nomination for the presidency:
The orator was strongly voiced and enter
tanning, and yet 10 the waiting delegates
and spectators there was but one point to
his speech. and that was the stirring
peroration. which closed with the name OF
William j. Bryan. This was the signal for
the demonstration of the day and in a
common purpose the great concourse
joined In a tribute of enthusiastic devotion
10 the party leader. A huge oil portrait of
Bryan, measuring fifteen feet across, was
brought down the main aisle before the
delegates. At the same time the standards
OF the States delegates were torn from their
sockets and waved on high. while umbrellas
of red, white and blue. silk banners of the
several States and many handsome and
unique trasparencies were borne about the
building amid the deafening clamor OF
twenty thousand yelling gesticulating men
and women. AL of the intensity OF former
demonstrations, and much more. was added
TO this final tribute TO the leader.
When the demonstration had spent it
self the speeches seconding the nomination
of Mr.. Bryan were in order. Senator White
spoke for California, giving the tribute OF
the Pacific coast 10 the Nebraska candi-
date-
HILLS RECEPTION.
When Colorado was reached that State
yielded 10 Senator Hill. OF New York The
audience had anxiously awaited the ap-
peafance of theNdistinguished New Yorker.
and as ne took the platform he was ac-
corded splendid reception. the entire
audience rising and cheering wildly. with
the single exception OF the little group of
Tammany leaders. who sat silent through
out the cheers for their New York associ-
ate. Mr.. Hili was in fine voice, apd his
tribute 10 the Nebraskan touched SYM
pathetic chord in the hearts OF the audi
ence. He pictured Bryan as the champion
Of the plain people and OF the working