The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-07-08

lirious purposes, and deny you the ri9bt to 20 behind the returns. Uaugh- ter and applause.)
 How quinn Got There. .They tell you that the law of the party in Illinois permits the State Com mittee to present the chairman and they deny the right of the convention to override the wishes of the commit fee. Such a doctrine would be un- Democratic If true, for such a doctrine would permit a past committee to fasten itself upon a new convention and dominate new set of delegates (Applause.) The minority presented a minority report, or wanted to. but the chairman of the committed, Mir. Hopkins. brought MT. Quinn up to the convention platform and handing him the Ravel, said that he was the chair man of the convention and Mir Quinn. seizing the gavel. began his rule of tyranny, despotism and unfairness. (Great applause)
 'Then they had their committee of the State Committee put on the roll the delegates whom they wanted but when the Credentials Committee brought in a minority report they re- fused to consider 1t and refused to allow a report on 1t.
 "In the hearing before the commit tee. 1t was asked why did not they present a minority report in the com mittee appointed to select delegates at large? We'll. my friends. there was a contest in that committee; Why should they expect 1t when they had already held that a minority report was only advisory and could be put into the waste basket? We admit in the report that if they had openly in- tended to substitute other men for the men selected by the districts they might have done so, but to do so 1t would have to be the act of the con- vention. The convention never at- tempted 1t. The convention was not asked to do 1t. and the evidence shows that the resolution is a part of the record and upon which they relied. was never introduced. was never passed. but Is a fraud pure and simple. Loud applause.p
 Illinois and the South.
 Now, my friends. what is the duty of this Democratic convention? The Democrats of Illinois are not the Democrats of the South. Down South the Democrats have all the local offices and they can reward their men for their loyalty to the party. Up in Illinois there is strong Republican majority. and the Democrats in Illi- nois are. in, many parts of the State. struggling against overwhelming odds, but they are actuated by love of prin- cfples, not by hope of office. But what will you tell those men? Will you declare that the action of that con- vention is right? Will you support the methods employed? Give the nF fn hope for. Do not tell them that when they go to a Democratic convention they must go armed. as to war; pre- pared to fight their way up to the chairman of the convention. Let the Republican party stand as represen- tative of physical force, if 1t will"
 Our party stands for Government by the consent of the governed. They do not ask you to seat any one man. They do not ask you to seat any set of men. They don't ask you to seat Hearst men. Parker men. or anybody's 8 men. They ask you to seat the choice of the Democrats, no matter for whom they are. If MT. Hopkins and MT. Ca- ble had any respect for the rights of a majority to rule, they would be ashamed to be here as the represent atives of a minority. Applause. ) But. my friends. If they have not learned to be ashamed to misrepresent a great State, you ought to teach them that they cannot do it with the approv- al of the Democratic Party of the Unit ed States. (Applause.)
 Bryan Gets Mad.
 Now that sin rests upon these men. You do not bear 1t. But when you, if you do. decide to seat these3 men as delegates from the districts. against the evidence presented in regard to the contestants from the districts. and those two national delegates. in spite of the protests of 871 members. If you do that, then take from the shoulders of Hopkins and Quinn and Cable the odium that they do bear and put 1t upon the Democratic Party of the na- tion and endorse that emblem (Ap- plause. And 1t is because this ques- tion transcends the interests of any State or any candidate or any action that am here to present the minority report, and to ask you to do the Dem- ocrats of Illinois that justice that this gang denied them. deliberately and in- solently. Cheers and applause.) Cheers for Bryan.
 MT. Bryan occupied twenty minutes and asked to be given ten minutes to conclude after the other side. The cheering which greeted his conclusion
 
 ence showed disposition to become unruly.
 Delegate Menzies of Indiana, a mem- Der of the Credentials Committee, was then recognized in opposition to the minority report. Mir Menzies was bit ter at the outset. When he criticised MT. Bryan for his interference In Illi- nois affairs, there were hoots, misses and applause intermingled.
 Mir Menzies was apparently some- what nettled by the Interruptions and disorder, which were rather marked in contrast to the close attention that had been given Mir Bryan.
 He shouted out that he would be heard and the audience would have to remain all the longer in this sweat box" If 1t persisted in disorder. He said:
 MT. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Convention:
 part, to attempt to cope with the ora tory of the gentleman from Nebraska, but in the facts in the case I think have a peculiar advantage over him. l heard the facts last night as a member of the committee on creden- tials. He was conspicuous by his absence" (Applause.) The delegates now seated from the state of Illinois came into this convention with creden- tials duly authorized by the constitut- ed authority of the party in the state of Illinois.
 The speaker was here interrupted ht ,.,I, rlnI I