The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-08

with expectation as the Nebrasllar
arose and faced it.
r. IN opening his speech Mr. Bryan
announced that he had not come tc
the convention with the idea of bring
ing up any question that could OF
would create division. He was greet.
| ed by cheers, and when he declared
that he hoped and believed that the
convention would select ticket which
could be supported by a united De-
| mocracy, the cheers were redoubled
An outburst of approving yells
greeted his announcement that the
| convention in Illinois was conducted
by men who were on a level with
/ train robbers.
Becoming intensely interested In
his address, Mr.. Bryan, finding that
| his cuffs interfered with the free
| movement of his hands, pulled them
| off, and proceeded.
He declared that two years ago
john p. Hopkins had pursued a
course contrary to that followed in
| the Illinois convention and did no;
dare to follow precedent this time
because he would have been repudiat-
| ed if he had done so.
BRYAN VIRILE SPEECH.
Mr. Bryan said in part:
/ came to this convention in the
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on platform, or candidates, and have
nothing to stir the feelings or arouse
contention. (Applause.) l still hope
that we shall be able to agree upon a
platform that will represent the Sen-
timent of all of us so that we can
present it to the country as the plat
form of a united party. prolonged
applause.) / will go further than
that. L still hope that we shall be
al 10 10 70 frxv tinly rat
behind which can stand a united par
ty. Cloud cheers and applause.) And
/ regret that / am compelled to come
in at this time and present a subject
on which your votes will be asked.
But, if there is one Democratic prin-
ciple more fundamental than another
it is the right of majority to rule.
| (Applause.) If you destroy the bind
ing force of that principle there is
nothing that can hold a party to-
gether.
And my friends, it is because I want
the Democratic party to stand on that
Jeffersonian principle OF majority rule
| that l come here to present the mi
nority report in this case. Cloud APP
plause.) In the State of Illinois the
majority was not allowed to rule.
That convention was dominated by a
| clique of men who deliberately, pur-
/
| rights of the people of Illinois. My
| friends, the evidence shows that no
| band of train robbers ever planned a
robbery upon a train more deliber-
ately or with less conscience than
| they did. (Applause) These men
who planned it and who carried it out.
have the audacity, the impudence and
the insolence to say that because they
certify that what they did was regu-
lar, you cannot go behind their GER
tificate. If that is good in a Demo-
cratic convention, it ought to be good
doctrine in a court, and if it is good
doctrine in a court, then the only
thing that train robbers have to do in
the future is to make a report of their
| transactions over their own sigma
| lures. Great laughter and applause.)
You have not this condition in other
| States today but let this convention
endorse this conduct and the next Ma
| tional convention will see more than
| one State here as the result of gavel
rule. And it is because this question
| transcends the interests of any State
| or any candidate or any faction that
| I am here to present the minority re-
! port and to ask you TO do the Demo-
Gratis Of Illinois that justice that t<is
gang denied them, deliberately and
| insolently. CHEERS and continued
applause.)
AS Mr.. Bryan concluded he was
greeted by an outburst of cheers.
Mr. Bryan occupied twenty minutes
and asked to be given ten minutes to
conclude after the other side had been
| heard. The cheering that followed,
| his conclusion lasted several minutes
and the audience showed a Disposition
| to become unruly.
81 shall ask the police to attend to-
| persons perSiSting in the disturbance.
declared Chairman Williams TheI
| pointing his finger over to the left
he demanded:
"Officer, go over to that West Vir-
ginia banner and if that man Their,
does not desist from his disturbanc"
take him out
The chairman firmness had the de-
sired effect.
Hoots. Kisses. Applause.
Delegate Menzies, of Indiana,
member of the Credentials Commit
tee, was then recognized in opposi-
ton to the minority report. Mr..
MenZies was bitter at the outset.
When he criticised Mr.. Bryan for his
Interference in Illinois affairs, there
were boots, Kisses and applause inter-
mingled.
Mr. Menzies shouted out that he
would be heard, and the audience
in this sweat box if it persisted in
disorder.
Mr.. Menzies concluded amid ming
led applause and cries of protest. He
had spoken just a quarter of an hour.
Galleries Interrupt Quinn.
The chair then recognized Frank p.
Quinn. of Illinois, who was frequently
interrupted by the galleries and there
were loud calls from the delegates to
have the galleries cleared. He de-
cldred himself a Democrat who be-
lieved in the right of the majority to
rule and one who did not call another
Democrat thief unless he knew him
to be one. He was. he said, defeated
himself in 1896. but did not for that
reason arrogate to himself the right
to mix up in other peoples quarrel
all over the country.
He declared that Mr.. Bryan had
read to the convention as his minori-
ty report the brief Of one of the at
torneys for the contestants.
Mr.. Quinn was SO frequently inter
rupted by the galleries that Chairman
Williams was forced to appeal to the
convention for quiet.
Delegate Richardson, of Alabama.
rising and addressing the chair, de-
clared that it was evident that an or
ganized attempt was being made to
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