The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-07-22
CHAMP CLARK 5 LETTER
Democratic Party Firmly
Reunited.
KANSAS CITY CONVENTION.
Splendid Assembly Of American
Freemen.
KANSAS CITY CONVENTION.
THE PLATFORM AN INSPIRATION

Every Loyer of Human Liberty Can
Stand Upon Tt-Wcbster Davis De-
votion to PrincipIe--Wiii stump the
Country For Dernccracy-patriot
Leave the Party OF Imperialism.
Colorcd Voters Also Quit-TrOuble
Over HGnna's Platform.
Especial Washington letter.
A reunited Democracy is what came
out of the Kansas City convention. The
lines will be closed up everywhere
from Marthas Vineyard to the Golden
Gate and from tie great lakes to the
gulf of Mexico. Enthusiasm is more
contagious than the measles, the small
pox or the black plague. Enthusiasm
was OH tap from the moment that the
Hon. james *. Jones raped the con-
yention to order until the gavel Of the
Hon. James ID. Richardson, permanent
chairman, fell for the last time, when
he declared the great convention adj
journed sine die. Everything that hap
pened was heartily cheered, including
the chaplain's prayer. The first men
ton of Bryan's name set the conven-
ton in a turmoil CT enthusiasm that
lasted over half an hour. The reading
of the Declaration was Interrupted
time and time again with roars of ap-
plause.~
Greatest Convention Ever Held.
The reading of the platform need not
have consumed more than 20 minutes
save for the applause, which made the
reading consume an hour. The great
fractional fight SO widely advertised by
Republican papers and which originat-
ed in their Imagination never came off.
1t was the greatest convention ever
not composed Of lot Of official pap
suckers and tax eaters, but by
splendid array of American freemen,
who think with their own brains and
follow the dictates of their own con-
sciences, and the result of their DELHI
erations was the best possible. for the
Democratic party, which is the same
as saying that it is the best possible for
the country. The platform is one upon
which every Democrat-indeed, every
lover of human freedOm-can stand,
and the ticket nominated is the strOn
gest presented for the SURFACES of the
American people within generation.
1t would be work of supererogation
to speak in detail of either William ].
Bryan or Adlai Il. Stevenson. The lat
ter served with distinction in the high
position in which he will serve four
years more, and there is not one man
in America with two ideas above Il
Hottentot who doubts the qualifica
tons of william. j. Bryan for the high
office of president.
Webster Davis Grafton.
One of the most remarkable oratorical
performances ever witnessed was the
speech of Hon. Webster Davis of Mis-
souri, and South Africa before the con-
yention at Kansas City. 1t was just aft
er the reading of the platform, the Boer
plank of which reminded some of the
great fight Davis had been making for
the Afrikarders, that delegates and
spectators began to cry fer Davis. Chair
man Richardson tuned to where Davis
sat just back CT the speakers stand,
urging him to come to the platform. Al
most bodily he was lifted on to the dais
and stood for several moments before
he could make his voice heard above
the myriad voices of approval and en-
thusiasm greeting him. Each clear
sentence of his wonderful voice, reach
ipcr tho ,,ttorp,oct .or,,aue, of 4bo voct
hall, called forth cheer upon cheer, and
when he reached a particularly thrill
ing line the tumult became uncontrolla-
BILE. For five minutes the shouting rose
and swelled. Finally he resumed and
concluded, only to be borne to seat
among the Missouri delegates, clasped
in the arms of Il dozen party leaders
and escorted by q banner waving
throng. 1t was a scene to be remem-
bered. Davis, magnificent, honest,
splendid in his manhood and his devo-
ton to the principles of liberty, had
been the one clean thing left in the Re-
publican party in Missouri. Now he is
gone from the corrupt organization for
ever and has turned his great talents,
backed by the energy Of youth and the
fire of conviction, to the work of bring
ing the country back to the principles
of the Declaration of Independence.
FOrlorn indeed are the Missouri Re-
publicans in his loss, which is not
merely the loss of one vote and one
voice, for there are thousands of young
men in the rank and file of the old par
ty who will follow where Davis leads.
Davis to Stump For Bryan.
1t is already known that Davis will
stump the republic this fall from ocean
to ocean, as he did in 1898 at McKin-
ley's behest. for the purpose, as stated
to him by the president, of electing a
Republican congress. The election over,
Mckinley congratulated him on the
fact that every congressional district in
Which lie had spoken had returned a
Republican member to the lower house.
Truly wonderful and unmatched per-
Torrance! by that deed he balanced
the account with the party of fraud
and corruption and then, like a patriot,
closed it forever When he told the
president that he was going to resign