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q. Davis Of West virginia, and Senator
Francis q. Newiands Of Nevada, with 6sna-
tor Daniel as the presiding officer. The sub.
committee did little work at It's first session
beyond receiving planks from hundreds Of
pestiferous persons with all sorts OF isms
and adjourned until the morning Of July 4
|. All day July the subcommittee on
platform pegged away In It's efforts to pre-
pare document which would be ready
Tor the full committee OF fifty, which was
TO assemble at o'clock In the evening.
II completed It's labors just after dusk.
Bryan and Williams could not attend this
all day session OF the subcommittee. Will
liams was still swinging the gavel a. tempo
rary chairman Of the convention, and Bryan
was doing battle In the convention In de-
fence Of q minority report OF the oom-
mittee on CREDENTIALS. The majority re-
] port Of that committee sustained the action
OF the national committee in pitching out
tho Bryan-Hearst delegates, especially
those for Illinois Bryan's reception In tho
convention, when he mounted the plat
form to protest against the majority re-
port Of the committee, was tumultuous.
Yet Bryan lost the fight. He was beaten
by vote Of 047 to 200, the flfty-four dele
gates for Illinois not voting. The 200
votes. represented exactly the strength Of
Bryan and Hearst combined in tbs oon-
vention, and tho claim that they had 400
delegates pledged to vote on all ballots, or
In fact on any ballot was thus demon.
| strated to be without foundation. Yet
II was also demonstrated that with these
200 votes the Bryan-Hearst combination
could have easily accomplished Judge
Parker's defeat for the nomination had
the conservative Democrats who were not
tied to Judge ParkeT's fortunes thrown
their strength to the Bryan-Hearst crowd.
In addition to these 200 votes there were
tho 1Ss votes instructed to German, Olney,
Wall. Gray, Harmon. Klbourne, Cockrell
and Folk, besides the uninstruoted States
liks Virginia, North Carolina. Kentucky. and
other delegations which only the day be-
fore had switched over to Parker rather
than have any alliance with the Bryan
Hearst outfit.
The ant-Bryan vote Of A7 to sustain tho
majority report Of the committee on ore-
dentials was not sufficient to nominate
Judge Parker. New jersey On that day
swm.g into line for Parker, although ex-
United States Senator James Smith. Jr,
chairman Of the delegation, was empowered
to cast the vote OF the State for Cleveland
provided Cleveland was put in nomination
by delegate from another State.
At O'Clock that night Bryan and VIII
liams joined their oonfreres on the sub
committee on resolutions, and learned that,
by vote Of to 3, the sub-oommittee had
adopted the following plank on tho money
question:
Tho discoveries OF gold within the past
few years and the great increase In the pro-
duction thereof, adding q. .ooo. .ooo. 900 to the
world q Supply OF which 500. .0o0. 900 falls to
to the maintenance Of a money standard OF
value no longer open to question. removing
that issue from the field OF political con-
tention.
The vote on the foregoing plank was a.
follows: Ayes-Daniel Of Virginia. Hill Of
New York, Hamlin OF Massachusetts,. Cable
OF Illinois, Poe Of Maryland. Pattison OF
Pennsylvania and Davis Of West Virginia.
Noes-Shively OF Indiana, Du Bois Of Idaho
and Newlands OF Nevada.
Bryan at once began to storm. He
pranced around the committee room In his
anger, and he was at the height Of It when
the full committee Of fifty assembled for
the purpose OF discussing the platform
submitted by the subcommittee. Tho full
committee was in session from O'Clock
that evening until ll30 the following day,
which was July 8. No recesses were taken,
not oven for food or drink.
During that more than all night session
Bryan was intolerant and arrogant In his
demeanor He even expressed sentiments
which were considered to be insults by
some OF his fellows on the committee. He
was violently opposed to the final adoption
OF the money plank as submitted by the
majority Of the committee, and to all
who differed with him he had but one phrase
to utter. "You are piutocrats; you are for
the god Of gold,' Bryan said.
He said he wouldn't have such a plank
in the platform. As an Offset he intro
duoed the Kansas City platform OF 1900,
and fred at the committee an income tax
plank and a dozen other planks, all calcu-
lated to worry the committee and make II
all the more difficult for it to adopt the SUBJ
committees g plank on the money question.
In the course OF the discussion Bryan
called Charles s. Hamlin OF Massachusetts.
ex-Secretary Of the Treasury, a plutocrat
-You will not be permitted to speak to
me In that manner, Mr.. Bryan" declared
fact, all during the night Bryan shot deri-
sive and positive statements at his fellows
only to be called to order by Chairman
Daniel. He harped on the Kansas City
platform until Senator Tillman glared at
him and in voice that was like springless
wagon hustling over a corduroy road,
rasped:
.Boy Boyl you say you love the Kansas
City platform. Well, you loved your grand
mother, didn't you?. Well, she died four
years ago, and has it been necessary to drag
her corpse into the parlor to sit for COM
pany ever since?'
Senator Bailey, who had declined to be
permanent chairman of the convention and
in whose place Representative Champ Clark
OF Missouri had been selected; Chairman
Daniel and number Of others advised Mr.
Hill that In Difference to Mr.. Bryan's wishes
the so-called money plank ought to be elimi-
mated. Mr.. Hill. however, would not agree
to this until Mr.. Bryan withdrew his income
tax plank and all the other planks which. as
Mr.. Hill said afterward, would have greatly
ieoparded Judge Parkers nomination