The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-06-18
INSTRUCT FOR BRYAN.
The Democratic State Convention
Largely Attended AM Had a Warm
Old Tine.
TO LEGlLlzE THE PRIMARY.

ton, which was held in ROa. oke
hast Thursday, by an Over-whelm-
ingly majority, lfter a hard iigh;
voted to send Il delegation to
Denver instructed to vote for Will
liam J. Bryan as long as his name
is before the convention.
The convention was not alto
gether harmonious. The feeling
displayed over the question If IN
structiOns and of amending the
primary plan was very great. 50
intense was it at times that the
chair was unable to hear motion
and the makers thereof to hear
themselves.
Disorder extended even to the
stage. Members of the State
Committee and others prominent
IN party councils gathered in
groups, making no effort to keep
quiet or preserve the outward
semblanCe of order. 1t was evil
dent soon alter TIE resolutions
committee convened that there
was sharp difference of opinion
over the question of instructions
and of amending the State pri-
mary plan, but it was thought
that the committees action III re-
ferring these subjects to subcom-
mittees for discussion and action
20 be reported to the full commit
tee, would result in harmony.
But the advocates Of primary law
changes and of sending an unin-
struCted delegs tiou TO Denver
proved more stubborn than any
body expected, They kept the
committee in session for hours,
while the convention waited.
Alter an hour Of confusion the
chair succeeded in putting to the
house a motion submitted by
Judge II. I. w. Duke. of Abe
marie, providing that all that por-
ton Of the platform save those
paragraphs referring to the State
primary be adopted. This was
declared adopted, but an instant
later the convention realized that
it had adopted the resolution IT.
structing for Bryan, as tbs w. S
not expected by Judge Duke.
Instantly there was uproar and
1t took nearly an hour to get order
and put the question TO the house,
but finally there was a roll call
and the convention, by a vote of
6OS to 1876, voted TO instruct for
Bryan.
The convention had lots of ora
tory, delay in the reports of COM
mittecs affording opportunity to
the orators. Senators Daniel and
Martin, Governor Swanson and
Representative Flood stirred the
convention with eloquent address
ses.
The candidates for the nomlna-
ton TO the gOvernorship had their
innings. All of them excited their
supporters to a high pitch of en-
thusiasm, Carter Glass, a pros
peCtive candidate. had a chance
when he placed Senator Daniel
in nomination for the place Of
delegate at large, and he did it in
fine style. The most striking fea-
ture OF the convention, perhaps,
was the ovation Senator Daniel
received at its hands. There was
but one ether name which will so
early bring the delegates to their
feet and set them into a bedlam
OF applause-the name of William
Jennings Bryan. Yet Senator
Daniel made such L fight against
Bryan as no Democrat of promi-
hence has dared make unless will
ling to resign all hope of future
political preferment.
The delegation to Denver con-
sists of Governor Swanson, Sena-
tors Daniel and Martin and ex-
Governor ]. Hoge Tyler.
GIVES INSTRUCTIONS FOR BRYAN.
The committee on resolutions
was III session four hours consid-
erlng the platform. The planks
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