The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-10

ed, although he had not yet mentioned the , name of the Nebraska candidate. When MT. Dunn declared that his eandt-
 date was the choice of the militant de- mocracy Of the country the convention l broke Ill with wild cheers. The every
 eady flags were tossed aloft, and a roar ] Cf applause swept through the hall. While the cheeting was at it's height a white i dove was let loose from the gallery and i flew across the hall. while the delegates hailed it with great enthusiasm and
 cheered as long as 1t was in sight Great Demonstration. Mir. Dunn brought out the name of William Jennings Bryan" with intense
 dramatic force and the response from the great throng was electrifying. The dele
 gates sprang up. the galleries followed
 suit, and the demonstration was under
 way in a manner that promised to rival | yesterdays exhibition of enthusiasm.
 A few moments after the cheering began an immense oil painting of Mr. Bryan l, was lowered from behind monster
 American shield which had resposed over the chairman's desk ever since the con i vention began. The appearance of the
 picture raised the pitch of the outburst to a Vertable pandemonium. It was not long then before the scenes of yesterdays prolonged demonstration was renewed. ] The delegates poured from the convention floor onto the already oyercrowded stage. James Dahlman of Omaha, a Bryan leader, jumped to the secretary's desk and urged the throng forward. The state standards were grouped about the plat form. Galleries and delegates were on their feet waving thousands of fiegs and cheering themselves hoarse Many of the New York delegates stood and cheered
 with the others, but the majority re- mained seated.
 Only six banners were missing from the. states in the parade through the aisles after the grouping at the stage had broken into a procession. There were Maryland, Minnesota. New York, Georgia New Jersey and Delaware.
 The standards of New York and qeor-
 gia were quickly made the object of at tack, and the crowd endeavored to drag
 them up and carry them in the parade around the hall. Strong hands, however, held the poles, and determined men werd gathered close about them. It was evi- dent that they could only be severed aft CT fight, and so the parading enthu- siasts quietly passed along, only to be soon succeeded by others. The men from Georgia and New York, however, held their ground throughout the demonstra' ton. and the standards never moved.
 Pandemonium Relgns.
 Other states that kept their markers in place, although they were not made the objects of attack as were New York and Georgia were Delaware, New Jersey, and Minnesota.
 At 9:3O, when the tumult had continued for 23 minutes, the parade halted in front of the speakers stand and there, with the state standards clustered in thicket. the marchers stood and yelled like men whose political enthusiasm had for the time be- ing bereft them of all sense.
 The crowd in the parade was not near ly so numerous as that of yesterday. and many delegates mindful of torn clothing as they tramped to and fro yesterday. remained on chairs, watching the demon stration. It was not that their loyalty was less than the day before, but they had been through the battle once and all of them were not anxious for repeti- tion of their nerve-raclking and lung-tear ing experience of the day before.
 Hal, hail, the gangs all here" from the busy gallery band set the crowd to singing, and a moment later, under the lead of crashing brass, the chorus was changed Into a deafening roar of Tam man-ee."
 Many delegates, in the midst of the struggling, crushing turmoil on the floor, lost their hats, their coats, and finally stripped themselves of collars and ties.
 The band in the balcony lent Its share to the celebration of the Bryan followers, and the blare of horns. the beat of drums and crash of cymbals could be heard above the din of the shouting hundreds on the floor and the thousands in the galleries.
 The cheering swept the vast audtori
 um in great waves which echoed back and forth in volume that increased and diminished alternately.
 Flash of Powder.
 As the delegates took breathing spells to renew their enth usiasm, the start of the demonstrations set a dozen ph photographers to work and the boom of their fiashlight explosions at times fairly shook the great building, such an immense amount of powder was used. The explosions also served to fill the upper portion of the hall With choking white smoke, adding vastly to the discomfort of those already forced to breathe the heavy atmosphere of the upper strata.
 The members of the Missouri dele
 gation bore up to the platform white banner bearing the words Missouri will give Bryan 50,000 majority" In few seconds the red white and blue standard of Nebraska, bearing the por- trait of MT. Bryan, was beside 1t and then came the various state standards, which were grouped on the rostrum in the same way as yfsterday. The crowd of shouters, apparently frenMed, were carried away by tn cir feelings and literally stormed the press seats along the aisle leading to the speakers stand. They broke down chairs and well nlgn overturned the strong writing tables by sheer physical weight. A number of newspaper men and telegraph opera tors were compelled to hastily leave their seats in order to avoid serious injury so fierce was the rush of frantic shouters.
 Doves Loosed.
 The dove loosed in the hall while MT. Dunn was speaking was but the first of flock that was now liberated. They flew about the hall wild with ter | TOT, seeking some escape from the mad | dening tumult and uproar that ragged l on the convention floor.
 After 30 minutes of the demonstra- | ton, the pounding of Chairman Clay | toms immense gavel could be heard above the roar of the crowd. At first | however, it seemed only to serve IS an incentive to greater outpouring 91 ! what scene to be an inexhaustible sup ply of Bryan cheers.
 1 At this time many women who had been brought to the floor by heir hus- l bands among the delegates were In danger of being crushed by the frantic shouters adn marchers, and sought refuge in the sections set apart for the newspaper men, and which had been kent reasonably clear of the invaders S1ot tcrhf