The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1908-07-17
S-EBRASKAN THE CHOICE OF
DEMOCRATS FOR THE
THIRD TINE.
NOMINATIONS ARE UNANIMOUS.
Commoner Wins on the First Ballot
Amid a Frenzy of Wild
Enthusiasm.

The Presidency of the United States
amid scenes of frenzied enthusiasm.
The result came after an all-night
session, which was kept in a con-
slant turmoil up to the eliminating
moment when the Nebraska leader
was proclaimed the choice of the
convention as the Democratic stand
ard-bearer.
The nomination was made on the
first and only ballot, the vote stand
ing:
William J. Bryan, S92h; Govern
or John A. Johnson, 46; Judge Geo.
Gray, 591a. Absent or not voting,
8. Total, 1000.
The announcement of the vote was
the signal for a wild demonstration.
The scene within the amphitheater
at the moment the nomination was
made was one Of stirring animation.
From pit to dome the vast building
was packed with 10000 people,
thinned out in the galleries, after
hours of waiting and the discomforts
of the night. 1t was a spectacle of
the greatest proportions-tie on tier
and gallery on gallery of agitated
forms ever ready to spring into few
erish outbreaks of enthusiasm and
everywhere the blaze of flags, bunt-
ing and patriotic devices and the en-
veloping folds of Old Glory. Twice
before the throng had been moved
into a mad ecstacy, first by the
speech placing the name of Bryan in
nomination, and when that of Gov
ernor Johnson, of Minnesota, was
proposed, but these manifestations
paled before the eliminating out
burst of emotion.
AS the announcement of the Ne
braskan's actual nomination was
made the whole assemblage arose en-
masse, waving flags, handkerchiefs,
newspapers, hats and coats, any
thing and everything which hands
could lay upon to wave aloft or hurl
into the air, while a bedlam of
sound poured out from these 10,0 600
throats in exultant yells, with the
added din of tin horns, the roar
of magaphones and the strains of the
band playing.
When for a moment order was Sc
cured, out of the tempestuous chaos
of demonstration, state after state,
which had at first recorded its vote
for Johnson or Gray fell into line
with the overmastering Bryan col
umn and the nomination was made
unanimous and by reclamation.
Alabama, the first state on the
roll-call, yielded to Nebraska, the
home state of Bryan, whose spokes-
man, the youthful orator, Ignatius j.
Dunn, of Omaha, advanced to the
platform. He spoke with great earn
estness and to a sympathetic audi
ence, which greeted each utterance
of tribute to the Nebraska leader
with demonstrative evidence of ap-
prevail His concluding passage was
a fervid tribute to the Commoner as
the intrepid leader who had borne
the battle-scarred flag of Democracy
through the campaigns of 1896 and
1900 with the devotion and faith of
the crusaders OF old, Americas great
commoner, Nebraska's gifted son,
William ]. Bryan This was the sig
nal for a long continued uproar, last
ing upward OF o minutes.
The Democratic National Conven-
ton concluded its labors by the NOM
fnation of John Worth Kern, of In
diana, for Vice-President, complet-
ing the ticket
The nomination of Mr.. Kern was
made by reclamation amid the re-
sounding cheers of delegates and
spectators. No ballot was necessary,
as the trend of sentiment had set ir-
resistibly toward the Indiana candi-
date, state after state registering It's
delegations in his favor and all other
candidates Withdrawing before the
universal demand for his nomina-
ton.
The convention, after adjourning
at daylight with the nomination OF
Mr. Bryan, resumed its session at !
u. m. with a powerful undercurrent
already In motion toward the nomi-
nation of Mr.. Kern for second place.
The names of Judge George Gray, OF
Delaware, and John Mitchell, OF I'LL
nois. were not presented owing to
the positive requests of these men
not TO have their names go before
the convention.
Colorado, through Ex-Governor
Thomas. placed in nomination Chas.
A Towne. of New York; Connecticut
nresented Archibald Mcneil, and
Georgia, Clark Howell.
For a time it looked as though
ballot would be required. but the
steady line of states which Joined IN
seconding Mr.. Kern's nomination
soon made It apparent that the
chances OF all other candidates had
been extinguished.
one of the banners that aroused
much enthusiasm was labeled Mis-
Nominate Bryan and We VIII
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