The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1908-07-17
secured out of this tempestuous chaos

for Johnson or Gray, fell into line
the nomination was made unanimous
by reclamation.
The convention adjourned at $50
o'clock Friday morning until 1 p. M,
after having been in session cOntinu.
ously for more than eight hours. AS
the delegates and spectators LEFT the
hall, the echoes of enthusiasm on
tinued to r~everberate throughout the
building, while crowds outside took
up the shout and bore it along the
dark and silent streets, awakening
the city just as the first pale rays
of dawn were breaking in the East,
with the ~resounding chorus of Bryan.
Bryan, Bryan"
Hours Of Oratory.
Prior to the elimination scene in
the convention. hall when the nomina-
ton of Bryan was made, the assem-
blage had listened for hours to the
oratory of nominating speakers, who
moved them frequently to o%utbursts
of feverish excitement. 1t had been
expected that the platform would be
ready for adoption at 7 o'clock IN the
evening, when the night session be-
gan. But at that hour the committee
on resolutions was still struggling
with h planks relating to the cur
rency, the tariff, the Mormon ques-
ton and other important subjects. A
committee appointed by the Onven
ti0n to learn how sOo the platform
would be ready reported that it would
be midnight before the document was
ready for the consideration of the
convention. T~hereUpon a motion Of
Congressman Ollie James of Kentucky
the regular order of procedure was
suspended, and the convention pro
ceeded to call the roll of states for
nominations for the presidency, with
the understanding that the nominating
and seconding speeches would be
made without a final vote until the
platform had been adopted,
Bryan Is Named.
At 9 O'Clock the nominating speech
es began, and delegates and specta1-
ors were stirred with eager expectancy
as the supreme and long deferred
work of nominating the presidential
candidate was begun.
Alabama, the first state on the roll
call, yielded to Nebraska, the home
state of Bryan, whose spokesman, the
youthful orator, 1gnatius J.. Dunn, OF
Omaha, advanced to the platform. He
spoke in good voice, with great earn
estness, and to n sympathetic audi
ence which greeted each ]utterance Of
tribute to the Nebraska leader with
dcmonstrative evidence of approval.
His concluding passage was a feryil
tribute to the commoner as the in
trepid leader who had borne aloft tn
b~attle-scared flag of Democracy
through the campaigns of 1895 and
1900, with the devotion and faith of
the crusaders OF o!d-"America's
great commoner, Nebraska's gifted
son, William J.. Bryan"
Cheering Lasted as Minutes.
n was the signal for a long con
tlnued uproar, rivaliing in intensity
n duration the demonstration of
Wednesday, which lasted one hour and
assemblage was dashed into a fury of
excitement. The demonstration last
ed upward Of forty-fve minutes.
johnson Is Wildly Cheered.
The nomination of Gov. Johnson of
Minnesota precipitated another whirl-
wind 0f eYCifG- ont if mt CO low. .,,,
tanned, hardly less enthusiastic than
for Bryan. The delegation from Min
nesota, standing On their chairs and
waving flags, handkcrchiefs, hats. and
anything that could be waved, were
the storm center of the demonstration,
while groups of scattered delegates
here and there len their energies to
those CT Minnesota. The galleries, too,
seemed to contain an ample supply of
JOHNSON enthusiasm and on every
hand the waves of Johnson demonstra-
ton swept b-ck end forth from end to
end through the great building.
When it had lasted a considerable
tirre, the convention officers sought
to restore order. The sergeant-at-arrns
was ordered to seat the yelling dele
gates and eTerg effort was made to
bring the convention back to a state
of sybjection, but in vain. The demon
stration went on with undated fury
until it had spent itself after more
than a quarter OF an hour of yocifer-
Gus tumult.
Speeches Are Suspended.
T'1A, IN,.- -
it's full share of enthusiastic approval.
1t was after midnight when the
nominating speeches were temporari-y
suspended to receive the report of the
conmittee on credentials. Gov. Has
keil OF Oklahoma. chairman of the
committee, made the report,
ing at the outset that it was presented
as the unanimous view of the commit
tee.
The nlatfrrm WAS adonted INV a ro,,c