The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1908-07-16

an-Leavitt. beaming as she awaited
the naming of her father for the
presidency. On the platform too were
many representatives of foreign coun-
tries, young Viscount de Chambrun Of
France, M. Krupensky of Russia Hon.
II. F. Charteres of England and the
ministers of Argentina, Greece, Bel
GUM and Chile.
Second Days Proceedings.
The convention is marking time,
30 far as TIE nomination of candidates
aa5 the adoption of platform is con-
cerned,. and is passing through the
stages of organization and the throes
of frenzied demonstration. Two ses-
sions were held Wednesday, the
first, at noon, producing a Bryan dem.
onstration breaking all records in
duration, the second at 8 p. m.
bringing the elimination of the strug.
gle over the credentials of the Penn
sylvania delegation and the supremacy
Of the Pennsylvania leader, Colonel
Guffey, who has been denounced by
Mr.. Bryan.
At the night session of the conven-
ton, after an hour of speech-mal1ing,
the committee on credentials reported
on the Pennsylvania and other con-
tested delegations. A minority re-
port on the Pennsylvania case result
ed in an hours acrimonious debate,
after which the convention rejected
the minority report, favorable to the
Guffey faction by a decisive vote of
615 to 387.
Bryan Demonstration.
The early meeting of the conven-
ton was productive of little practical
progress, as the principal committees
were not ready to report, but it gave
the opportunity for the explosion of
long pent up Bryan enthusiasm, which
took the signal from Senator Cores
eloquent reference to the Nebraska
leader, and burst into a whirlwind of
enthusiastic tribute, lasting one hour
and nineteen minutes, with seven min
utes more of the expiring echoes of
clamor, establishing the convention
record of one hour and twenty-six
minutes, or full thirty-nine minutes in
excess of the Roosevelt demonstration
at Chicago, which held the record pre-
viously. 1t was a decisive exhibition
of the over-mastering strength of the
Bryan column and one of the most
dramatic convention pictures ever
presented as the standards of the
states were torn from their moorings
and borne through, the hall, until they
stood together on the platform, like
an army of banners, proclaiming their
united allegiance to Bryan. A mighty
storm of Bryan demonstration when
the six standards of New York, New
Jersey, Delaware, Georgia, Minnesota
and Connecticut stood rooted in their
places, the rallying points of little
groups unmoved by the frenZied
scenes about them. Throughout the
hour and nineteen minutes the deafen-
ing roar continued, ebbing and flow
ing in intensity women joining with
the men in bearing the Bryan stand
ards aloft, while the whole assem-
blage of $4,000 people joined in the
tumultuous demonstration.
Outside of the convention the COM
mittees have proceeded with the seri-
Gus work of preparing the way for
convention action. The credentials
committee unseated eight of Colonel
Guffey's anti-Bryan Pennsylvania
delegates, thus reversing the COM
plexion of the Pennsylvania delega-
ton from anti-Bryan to Bryan and
precipitating the intense controversy
which was fought before the night
session of the convention.
Third Days Proceedings.
The opening session Thursday last
ed three hours and brought about the
completion of the permanent organi-
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