The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-07-08
TREMENDOUS OVATION GIVEN TO
 BRYAN WAS FEATURE OF THE DAY
JUDGE PARKER PASSES
 ANOTHER UNEVENTFUL DAH

 Alton B. Parker today. If one might judge from his conversation. It Is fact how ever that he watched the bulletins tele- 1 phoned to his house from Kingston today with an interest which even his extra ordinary calm demeanor. could not quite conceal. His drive this afternoon with Mrs Parker and their little grandson was of brief duration. and some of those fa- miliar with the judges movements ad- mitted that he remained rather closer at home than usual. Division Superin- tendent Christisies of the West Shore railroad stopped as Esopus this afternoon and definitely announced that Esopus would have fine new station within two weeks. He admitted that the probabil- | ity of Judge Parker's nomination had a good deal to do with hurrying work on the station.
 Judge Parker tonight discussed the new
 v~e>s-~<-%-@~-~-<-~>s Parker, the movement was significant. Other delegations followed suit and soon the standards of Arkansas, Pennsylvania, Indiana, New Jersey, Alabama and oth- CTS which could be removed from the
 floor were uplfted over the platform. Some of the standards which were march, ed to the Parker rally few minutes be- fore had been a part of the Bryan dem pnstration. Kissing was started in the gal 1eries when the Parker movement broke out, but it was soon effaced by the shout ing masses.
 Head Could Not Be Found.
 When at 2:30 the temporary chairman was able to make himself heard he de- i 1 IIa1 4t,. of the committee on credentials. There was long delay. Chairman Head of Tennessee. could not be found. MT. Bryan the custodian of the minority report. thinking that MT. Head was on his way to the platform to make his report made his own way to the front and appeared on the stage. That provoked an outburst which could not be quelled for two min utes or more. The chairman of the com mittee on credentials was called for sev- eral times and then some wag created amusement by yelling 'the convention has lost it's head"
 Word was received by Chairman Will Hams that MT. Head would be delayed a few minutes in getting his report ready for presentation. A motion to invite Governor Beckham of Kentucky to ad- dress the convention was adopted. but he begged to be excused Bourke Cochran was called for but was not In the hall. At about o'clock Mr. Head reached the platform. As he began to read an uproar started. and MT Williams threat ened to have the sergeant at arms and the police clear the galleries One man who persisted in his interruptions was re- moved from the hall
 Mir Head was listened to attentive1y as he read his report and moved its adop- tion. He explained that some of the con- tests had been brought to the conven- tion in the form of minority reports and suggested that these be acted upon separately The contest In relation to the District of Columbia delegation was first considered One of the contestants moved that both delegations be seated, and each given half a vote, but this motion was lost. That left the Illinois case the only one before the convention.
 Fifteen Minutes for Each Side.
 By agreement fifteen minutes were all lotted to each side and Mr. Bryan opend with a statement that he was appearing on behalf of the minority report He launched into a review of the Illinois democratic convention and referred to Messrs Hopkins and Quinn, who were in control, as highwaymen. He compared them also as train robbers.
 The convention, he declared, had been controlled by the minority with "gavel' rule Throughout he was cheered and given close attention. Major Menzies of Indiana followed speaking for the ere dentials committee. He charged MT. Bry- an with ignorance of the facts concern ing the hearing before the committee for the reason that the Nebraskan had been in the room not more than tnree-quarterS of an hour. MT. Quinn, who was the chairman of the Illinois convention, scored Mir Bryan for his reference to the methods employed by the Hopkins forces. MT Bryan again spoke briefly and the arguments were closed by MT. Head MT. Bryan received greater applause than all the other speakers combined, but when the vote was counted he had less than a third of the voting delegates.
 The roll call on MT. Bryans motion to substitute the minority for the majority report proceeded without incident until Illinois was called. The chairman of the Illinois delegation announced that the state would pass
 On account of its interest in the result it did not participate until when Pennsyl- vania was called, the acting chairman of the delegation cast the full vote in opposi- ton to the minority report. and sustain- ing the action of the credentials commit tee. The delegation Is controlled by the unit rule Radical delegates started a turmoil which forced the chair to recog- nize demand for poll of the delegation Then was had roll call within roll call, which showed that the chairman had been warranted in casting the solid vote for the credentials report. The re- mainder of the call showed the conven- tion to be overwhelmingly in favor of adopting the report of the credentials committee.
 Clark Becomes Chairman. The report of the committee on perma- nent organization was made MT. Will Hams named Senator J. w. Bailey of Texas and Representative Cochran as a committee to escort Representative | cbamp Clark to the platform to assume inc chairmanship MT. Williams said, in yielding the gavel that he was not re- inctant to part with it, and his sigh Of relief when his labors were over showed he was in earnest
 The delegates and spectators alike were tired out when the permanent chairmah stepped forward to address them. MT Clark realized the situation ana w'sfiy made only a few remarks, and recc.1lzeh motion to adjourn until ID o CLOCK. iiie motion was carried with cheers The platform was presented to the fuii committe at o'clock tonight and the contest over the gold plank which hao occurred in the subcommittee was re- newed and with cumulative force The day was given up by the sub-com- mittee to the consideration of the details connected with the consideration of the various blanks, action on the most inn portant of them being postponed until the closing hours of the sitting.
 The taking up of the financial plank precipitated a sharp debate in which most