The Washington herald., 1908-07-11
Nv WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE.
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Denver. Colo. July 1O-When the hand
made enthusiasm for Bryan died down
at midnight. the convention listened with
more or less patience TO the speeches
nominating johnson. and when the John
son demonstration came. showing how.
with only hand full Of delegates. a
noise almost as large as the Bryan noise
might be continued indefinitely. the or
ganization Of the convention grew res
tive.
After Minnesota had cheered for ten
minutes. and seemed TO be good for a
hundred more. the chairman sent for
John l. Martin, sergeant-at-arms. Make
Mlnnecota sit down." said Clayton. Max
ing Minnesota sit down at that minute
was like tickling buzz saw with straw
10 make il jump. The pudgy little ser-
geant went TO Minnesota and asked It TO |
sit down, as one who posts trespass !
notice against cyclone. Then he came !
back and sighed and the chair said: /
We'll" and the sergeant reported prog |
ress. but that was all. Minnesota was
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music had stimulated the Bryan show. |
Finally this got into the heads Of the
Bryan people, and the band. which had
remained mute and more or less inglori-
Gus, started up. and then. after proving
20 the convention how easy a thing it
was to do. Minnesota sat down. and the
nomination Of Judge George Gray began.
Everybody Tired
The convention and the galleries were
tired The orator was appealing 70 the
conservatives, and the crowd was radical
Three hours OF cheering for Bryan had
put maggot In the brains of even the
politicians who were there TO vote for
Bryan. II not 10 go wild over him.
so, when the orators told them how 10
win with a conservative. they thought Of
the glorious victory with Parker. and
were dsrespectful to the point OF IN
decorous language.
The platform committee marched IN
worn and tagged and glum-looking, after
forty-eight hours work, and the orator
for Judge Gray was again interrupted. He
saw the temper OF the men before him
and gracefully gave up a bad job. and. as
platform. the Democracy Of Bayard. and
Cleveland. and Seymour, and Tilden. and
Thurman. and Old Bill Allen, bade good
by to this vain world forever. Then the
platform was read in a rather pompous
and punctilious manner by Gov. Haskell,
who typifes the new Democracy as Judge
Gray typifies the other. IL was plat
form radical enough for Danton, II not
for Murat and II discussed everything
under the shining sun, and recommended
Federal control for banks, railroads. pol
iticians, swamps. waterways. forest wat
erfalls. POst-roads and the public belly
ache.
None other Like 1t.
No such programme OF Federal inter
ference was ever formulated in a nation
platform Of any great party before. The
platform was adopted cheerfully and ther
the convention passed at 1 o'clock 10 the
real business for which II had assembled
1t seems that dozen statesmen anC
their admiring friends had Travelled fol
300 10 1000 miles. seething with speeche
in their insides seconding the nomination
Of the peerless candidate. These speeches
were more important to them than Tn,
object which they advocated. and for
perhaps. an hour. the crowd good na
turedly stood the Niagara Of oratory. Blu
time came when the patience OF III
great crowd strained and snapped, an,
then for two hours half dozen me
made the greatest sport that this woTl
knows-an angry man trying to talk [
a laughing crowd. The crowd hooted an
beloved and bawled and still the water
OF oratory flowed over the cataract
Straus. Of Maryland. who opposed a reso
luton recommending the celebration G
Lincoln's birthday. tried 10 explain IN hi
speech and he was really objecting be
cause the convention did not celebrat
Gen. Lees birthday also But the crow
ran over him and the silver-tongued ora
tors from the South. from Mississippi
Louisiana and Alabama, and one of n
Carolinas stood proud and glorious whi
the unfeeling crowd roared on. Jim Rec,
a Southern spelbinder from Kansas Cit
also was sOused In the cooling shower
popular risibles and his fervid orator
was drenched and he quit vanquished.
sect the Hook"
Get the hook" yelled the crow
speech. speech" II howled as the orato
wriggled and gyrated passionately befo
st. Louder" II bawled. as the victim
squlrmed.
See the talking pictures" cried Z
mob. Nominate him-he's the man
teered the bedlam, and speaker aft
speaker was ducked in the common me
riment.
1t was fine sport. A human bein
battling against a laugh, makes fin
sport than a fish struggling with a hoo
II is cruel but we have not civilized tn
put Of our blood, and so that remains t
last vestige of real sport men have, sin
they quit burning each other at the stal
and pillorying them, and putting them
stocks.
But all good things must have an er
and when the end came and the vote W
taken. just at dawn; there was no che,
ing left I'm the lungs OF the 1900 peol
who heard the result. and they walked
into the coming morning satisfied a
happy.
Hall Fills I'D Again.
And so in the afternoon the great h
hlled up again with the militant DEM
tacy.
And in less than an hour and a half
was over. and John w. Kern was nan
Tor Vice President In the Alphonse q
CASTOR game between Bryan and n
York, a ruction occurred. New York
hsed to name a man for Vice Presid
bnless Bryan suggested him, and Bry
refused 10 dictate to New York, prou
lnd with great dignity, and decided 20
he tail go with the bid.
The nomination of Kern means that
Democrats viii make the battle groJ
ne West and the Mississippi Valley
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