Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-10-17

Mingled cheers and Kisses, the latte-
fo1 silence, lasted a minute longer.
Three cheers for our next Presi-
dent" brought out a final cheer, but an
effort to repeat it was drowned in cries
OF "Put him out"
The enthusiasm nearly carried the
crowd away. The throng at the Madi-
son avenue end of the garden damned
down the aisles and the sixty odd po-
llcement at that point had to do sin
cere battle with the crowd to keep il
under control.
When Quiet Was Restored,
Mr.. Croker rose, took Mr.. Shepard by
the hand, and introduced him to the
audience as the chairman of the meet
ing.
Before Mr.. Shepard could get into
the subject of Imperialism to which
most of his address was devoted, the
crowd got SO impatient to hear Col.
Bryan that Mr.. Shepard could not pro-
coed. He suddenly stopped and intro
duced President Guggenheimer OF
the council, who offered the
formal resolutions of the evening.
These welcomed Col. Bryan and Mr..
Stevenson to New York, approved the
Kansas City platform, opposed imper-
ialism, protested against an enormous
standing army as a mer,ace to the re-
public; praised the volunteer army as
being sufficient in emergency; opposed
entangling foreign alliances; sympa-
thized with the Beers; denounced
trusts pledged the party to bring back
to the people constitutional govern
ment, and charged the Republicans
with having raised a gigantic corrup-
tion fund to debauch the suffrage.
The resolutions were cheered, though
they could not be heard for the shouts
for Bryan, and Mr.. Shepard at once
introduced the latter in a few short
sentences.
Col. Bryan stepped to the railing
about the stand, as the throng broke
afresh into cheers. He raised his hand
for silence, but the cheers did not sub
side. Col. Bryan was dressed simply
in a black suit, with a short sack coat.
Three cheers for our next Presi-
dent" came up from the audience,
Col. Bryan raising his hand in depre-
cation. The crowd was about to be-
come quiet when, with a boom and
flash of fire a fashlight bomb went off
In the Center of the Room
Women shrieked and the crowd yelled,
not knowing what it all was. There
was great excitement and disorder for
a moment, and calls for the police. A
dozen policemen rushed to the spot
where the man sat who had fired the
bomb, grabbed him and hustled him
and his camera out into the aisle and
out Of the garden.
Col. Bryan had stood quietly at the
rail on the platform. There was an
other attempt to renew the cheering,
but hises greeted it, and Col. Bryan
commenced speaking.
He began quietly, his voice scarcely
being audible a hundred feet away
from the stand, but he gradually spoke
ln1lHnr nn6 IN n ranpaOnf hic yyntnn
could be heard by the galleries.
The crowd listened in silence for a
time, but when the speaker declared
that the Democratic party recognized
the right OF ability of mind and muscle
to the fruits of its toll, the crowd
broke forth into cheering.
Colonel Bryan concluded his speech
at 9 o'clock precisely, having spoken
M hour and fifty-one minutes. The
crowd rose and cheered as he left the
platform, in company with Mr.. Croker,
shaking hands as he left.
The applause for Colonel Bryan as
he went away blended with that for
Adlai E. Stevenson as he rose to speak.
The cheers died out, and the noise of
the crowd getting out prevented Mr..
Stevenson from speaking. Three min
utes after Mr.. Bryan had left there
were vacant seats all over the building,
large patches showing everywhere on
galleries and main floor. Mr.. Stevenson
began speaking, but his voice could not
be heard fifty feet away. More than
half the people left. Frequent attempts
were made by Chairman Shepard and
Mr.. Stevenson to stop the exit and quiet
the audience, but they were ~unavaila-
BILE. A few crowded close to the stand
to hear him above the nose, and he was
cheered family.
Webster Davis was the next speaker.
At the conclusion of his speech Mayor
Jones, of Toledo, was introduced. He
was heartily received.
The four or five thousand who had
remained to hear Mr.. Jones and Mr..
Davis cheered Mr.. S~tanchfeld when he