Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1908-07-15
Bryan and Kern Named at Den.
yer as Standard Bearers

yer as Standard Bearers
81 William Jennings Bryan of N
: braska. was nominated fer I'll
z third time for the Office of Pres
dent of the United States by I'll
Democratic National Conventio
at $40 O'Clock last Friday morl
ing (o:40 Lexington time) ami
scenes of frensied enthusiasm
The result came after an all-niet
session, which was kept in a cor
slant state of turmoil up to th
eliminating moment when the Ne
braska leader was proclaimed tn
choice of the convention as th
| Democratic standard bearer. TIL
nomination was made on the frs
and only ballot, the vote standing
William Jennings Bryan, 1924
lGovernor John A. johnson, 46
Judge George Gray, 59t; absen
and not voting, s.
| The announcement of the vote
was the signal for a wild demon.
stration, eQualing in turbulence, il
not in duration. the record break.
ing display which on Wednesday
afternoon greeted the first mention
of Mr.. Bryan's name in the con-
vention. The scene within the
amphltheatTe ct the moment the
nomination was made was one CT
stirring animation. From pit to
dome the vast building was packed
with 10000 people. thinned out in
the remoter galleries after hours
of waiting and the intense dis
comforts of the hot night. 1t was
spectacle of grandiose proper
tions-tier on tier and gallery on
gallery of agitated forms, the wo-
men in white, the delegates nassed
below, many of them coatless,
myriad of fans futtering TO COM
bat the sitting heat and close at
mosphere of this long pent-up
exuberant multitude, ever ready to
spring into feverlsh outbreaks of
enthuslasw, and everywhere the
blaze of flags and bunting and
patriotic device and enveloplng
folds ofuOld Glory. Twice before
The throng had been moved into
mad ecstacy, first by the speech
the name of Bryan in nom
nation and again when that of |
Governor johnson of Minnesota,
vas proposed, but these mani
estations paled before the cul-
ninating outburst of emotion.
AS the announcement of the Ne.
actual nomination was
,ade, the whole assent lage rose
u masse, waving flags, handker-
hiefs. newspapers, hats and coats,
nytbing and everything which
ands could lay upon to wave aloft
hurl into the air, while a bed
I'M Of sound poured out from
,ese 10000 threats in exultant I
ellis, cat calls, Camanche war c
hoops, with the added din uf
lrieking horns, the roar of mega P
homes and strains of the band e
aging an exultant anthem. p
When for moment order could S
secured cut of this temp estucus il
Iaos Of demonstration State after W
ate which had at first recorded g
vote for johnson or Gray fell P
to line with the over mastering is
lumn, and the nomination was o.
ade unanimous and by acclama- al
m. pr
At nine o'clock the nominating
eeches began and delegates and HI
ectators were stirred with eager CT
pectancy as the supreme and 81
lg-deferred work of nominating lu
3 presidential candidate was tn
gun. til
the first State on the al
| call, yielded to Nebraska, the ha
me State of Bryan, whose tn
'kesman. the youthful orator, ne
lati1s j. Dunn of Omaha, ad- nc
lced to the platform. He spoke gu
good voics, with great earnest So
Is, and to a sympathetic audi. wi
e which greeted each utterance fie
tribute to the Nebraska leader ref
b demonstrative evidence of be,
'roval. His concluding passage be
, fervid tribute to the com no
ner as the intrepid leader, who gle
borne alcft the battle Scared Tb
Of Democracy through the rul
paigns of 1895 and 1900, with ful
devotion and faith of tie Cru &.
ere of old days-"America's bee
~ commoher, NehrasBa's gifted maj
William j. Bryan" VIII
his was the signal for a long ma
:inued uproar rivalling In in stir
ity and duration the demon. wbi
ton Of Wednesday, which last and
ne hour and twenty-six min coso
; again the whole assent lage tbio
dashed into fury of excite the
t. The delegates seized the mon
es' standards and gathered v,rI
on the presiding officers half
form, while the galleries broke linn
tumultuous clamor. The
onstration lasted upwards of A.
live minutes. lion'
he Democratic National Con- can can
ion concluded its labors late Tbir
ay afternoon by the nominal -Fc
t John Worth Kern of Indi- certi
for Vice-President, compIet.