The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-10

(CO1t1nueQ from rage One.)
made unanimous and by reclamation
The taking Of the vote had been
followed with breathless interest as
state after state swelled the Bryan
strength When New York was
reached in the call of states, the an
nouncement OF Chief Murphy "7S
votes for Bryan" brought out a wild
outburst of enthusiastic applause
which for a time compelled the sus-
pension Of the roll call. A further
delay was caused by a demand for a
this poll, many of the New York
delegates. including Judge Alton B.
Parker, the presidential nominee four
years ago, remained silent.
Pennsylvania was similarly called
after sharp disagreement within the
delegation and the vote OF Pennsyl-
vania as finally cast was divided.
Adjourned at $3.50 a m.
The convention adjourned at $3.50
O'Clock this morning until 1 p. m, af
ter having been in session con-
tinuously for more than eight hours.
As the delegates and spectators
left the hall the echoes of enthusiasm
continued to reverberate throughout
the building while crowds outside
took up the shout, and bore it along
the dark and silent streets, awaken
ing the city just as the first pale rays
of dawn were breaking in the east.
with the resounding chorus of
''Bryan, Bryan, Bryan"
It remains now only to nominate
the candidate for vice president and
the work OF the convention Is con-
cluded. This nomination will be this
afternoon. Absorbed with the in
tense interest of the night delegates
had little time to devote to the con-
sideration of the vice presidency and
the final canvass Of available candi-
dates Is being hurriedly made this
morning. Most of the delegates were
utterly wearied after the long vigil
and nerve racking agitations of the
night and It was late today before the
men of action began again to take
up the threads of discussion over the
still rather chaotic vice presidential
sun.
Prior to the elimination scene in
the convention hall when the nomi-
nation Of Bryan was made the as
Bemblage had listened for hours to
the oratory Of nominating speakers,
who moved them frequently to out
been expected that the platform
would be ready for adoption at z,
o'clock in the evening when the night
session began, but at that hour the
committee on resolutions were still
struggling with the planks relating
to the currency. the tariff, the Nor
mon question and other important
subjects.
Roll Call of States.
a committee appointed by the con-
vention to learn how soon the plat
form would be ready, reported that 1t
would be midnight before the docu-
ment was ready for the consideration
of the convention.
Hereupon on motion of Congressman
Ollie James of Kentucky, the regular
order OF procedure was suspended and
the convention proceeded to call the
roll OF states for nominations for presi-
dent, with the understanding that the
nominating and seconding speeches
would be made without q final vote
until the platform had been adopted.
At o'clock the nominating speeches
began and delegates and spectators
We're stirred with eager expectancy as
the supreme and long deferred work of
nominating the presidential candidate
was begun <.a
Alabama, the nrst state ON the roll
call, yielded to Nebraska, the home
state of Bryan. whose spokesman, the
youthful orator, Ignatius ]. Dunn, of
Omaha, advanced to the platform. He
spoke In good voice, with great earn
estness and to sympathetic audience
which greeted each utterance of tribute
to the Nebraska leader with demonstra-
tive evidence of approval His conclud-
ing passage was fervid tribute to the
commoner as the intrepid leader who
had borne aloft the battle-scarred flag
of Democracy through the campaigns
of 1896 and 1900 with the devotion and
faith of the crusaders of old-"Ameri-
cas- great commoner, Nebraska's gifted
son, William ]. Bryan"
Convention Goes wild.
This was the signal for a long con-
tinued uproar rivalling in intensity and
duration the demonstration OF Wed
nesday which lasted one hour and 26
minutes. Again the whole assemblage
was dashed into a fury of excitement.
The delegates seized the state stand
ards and gathered them on the pre-
siding officers platform, while the gall