The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-08-03

themselves in the coverings.
But enough Of Oklahoma. 1t was in
reality only one of the sideshows, apart
from the big tent.
HOLD MANY SESSIONS.
The convention held six separate SEES
sions before the platform was adopted,
and the candidates for President and
Vice President were nominated. Two
of these were evening sessions. One
of these night sessions was Wednesday.
The business was the report of the ere
dentlals committee. 1t was full of
ginger, for be it remembered that prac-
tically all of the important business of
the convention, apart from the nomi-
nation of the Vice President, was trans
acted deep in the night, long after the
mighty mountains were sWathed in
darkness.
The night sessions were extremely
pretty and spectacular. Then. as always
when the convention was in session,
the hall was thronged to its capacity.
Generally a goodly proportion of the
onlookers in the galleries were ladies,
and most of the ladies included white
shirtwaists in their becoming attire.
| So the great expanse of pretty faces
looked out from what seemed to be a
setting of white, unbroken with the
gayer eolors which one associates with
feminine raiment on public occasions.
The electric lights in great circular
clusters in the lofty ceiling Were of a
power that made the hall as bright as
day. The music of the Alamoosa cow
boy band was generously interspersed
in the proceedings.
The first night session, which, as stat
ed, was to consider and adopt the ere
dentiais of the convention, put all in the
great hall on the qul vive A great,
old-fashioned Democratic fight was ex-
pected. On the whole, it did not mate
rialize. Whatever difference of opin-
ion there may be about the political
principles and plans, associated with the
convention, the Democrats in their Den
yer convention persistently refused to
live up to the old tradition of making
fools of themselves.
There were several ugly contests
over the rights of delegates to seats in
the convention. 1t was these that the
credentials committee had to deal with.
They had a steam roller of their own,
just as the Republicans had a steam
roller in Chicago. They ran over the
Honorable Patrick McCarren, of Brook
lyn, refused to seat his contesting dele
gates, and seated the delegates who are
under the domination Of Boss Charlie
Murphy of Tammany Hall. But they
also ran over and fattened out the
gray-haired Jim. Guffey, of Pennsyl-
vania, by refusing to seat the dele
gates he had secured in the city of
Philadelphia.
THE GUFFEYITES.
1t was claimed that these delegates
of Guffey' were elected by fraud, par
ticularly by collusion and arrangement
with the Republican leaders in the city
of brotherIy love and mysterious NUM-
cipal ponucs. But Colonel Guffey has
served many years on the National
Committee, has many friends on the
old committee, which was dominated
by Parker men. 1t voted unanimously
to seat the Gufeyites.
But the credentials committee was
composed of large majority of Bryan
men. It was claimed that this com
mittee set out to undo the Honorable
Guffey, whether or no. Mr.. Bryan was
known to be DESTROYS of drumming him
out of the National committee and
from the Democratic leadership in the
Keystone State. The Colonel has
many large business affiliations and.
justly or uniustly, is frequently re,
ferred to as Standard Oil man. He
ana Mr.. Bryan had, just previous to
the meeting of the convention, some
very hot correspondence about dona-
ton of stained glass windows for the
new Bryan residence at Fairview. 1t
is claimed that Mr.. Bryan first accept
ed the windows as objects of friend
ship and personal regard but, as soon
as the matter reached the public and
became subject of comment. wrote
to Guffey asking that a bill for the
windows be sent him. This made Col.
Gufey hot indeed and he wrote back
some very tart words Mr. Bryan also
made a biting speech at Fairview to
a Pennsylvania delegation, saying that
Guffey should be excluded from leader
ship. This was made the subject of
a ringing statement by Col Guffev
during the convention. in which he said
Mr.. Bryan was willing to associate
with him in previous campaigns and
to approve of him as one of two or three
prominent financial angels for the 1896
and 1000 presidential connexions