Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-07-17

secured out Of this tempestuous chaos
Of demonstration, state after state
which had at hrst recorded its vote
for Johnson or Gray, fell into limo
with the overmastering column, and
the nomination was made unanimous
by acolamation.
The convention adjourned at $3.50
O'clock Friday morning until i p. M,
after having been in session continu.
ously for more than eight hours. AS
the delegates and spectators left the
hall, the echoes of, enthusiasm con.
tinued to reverberate. throughout the
building, while crowds outside took
up the shout and bore it along the
dark and silent streets, awakening
the city just as the first pale rays
of dawn were breaking In the East,
with the resounding chorus Of Bryan,
Bryan, Bryan"
Hours Of oratory.
Prior to the elimination scene in
tie convention hall when the nomina-
ton of Bryan was made, the assem-
blage had listened for hours to the
oratory of nominating speakers, who
moved them frequently to outbursts
of feverish excitement. It had been
expected that the platform would be
ready for adoption at o'clock IN tho
evening, when the night session be-
gan. But at that hour the committee
on resolutions was still struggling
with the planks relating to the cur
rency, the tariff, the Mormon ques.
ton and other important subjects. A
committee appointed by the conven.
tion to learn how soon the platform
would be ready reported that it would
be midnight before the document was
ready for the consideration of the
convention. Thereupon a motion of
Congressman Ollie James of Kentucky
the regular order Of procedure was
suspended, and the convention pro.
ceeded to call the roll of states for
nominations for the presidency, with
the understanding that the nominating
and seconding speeches would be
made without final vote until the
platform had been adopted.
Bryan Is Named.
At 8 o'clock the nominating speech
es began, and delegates and specta1-
ors were stirred with eager expectancy
as the supreme and long deferred
work of nominating the presidential
candidate was begun.
Alabama, the first state on the roll
call, yielded to Nebraska. the home
state of Bryan, whose spokesman, the
youthful orator, Ignatius j.. Dunn, of
Omaha, advanced to the platform. He
spoke in good voice, with great earn
estness, and to sympathetic audi
ence which greeted each utterance of
tribute to the Nebraska leader with
demonstrative evidence Of approval.
His concluding passage was a fervid
tribute to the commoner as the in.
trepid leader who had borne aloft the
battle.scared flag of Democracy
through the campaigns of 1895 and
1900. with the devotion and faith Of
the crusaders Of old-"America's
great commoner, Nebraska's gifted
son, William ]. Bryan"
Cheering Lasted IS Minutes.
This was the signal for long con.
tinued uproar, rivalling in intensity
and duration the demonstration Of
Wednesday. which lasted one hour and
twenty-six minutes. Again, the whole
assemblage was dashed into fury Of
excitement. The demonstration last
ed upward Of forty-five minutes.
johnson Is Wildly cheersd.
The nomination Of Gov. johnson of
Minnesota precipitated another whirl-
wind of excitement, II not so long sus-
tanned, hardly less enthusiastic than
for Bryan. The delegation from Min
nesota, standing on their chairs and
waving flags, handkerchiefs, hats, and
anything that could be waved, were
the storm center Of the demonstration,
while groups of scattered delegates
here and there lent their energies to
those of Minnesota. The galleries, too,
seemed to contain an ample supply of
johnson enthusiasm and on every
hand the waves Of Johnson demonstra-
ton swept back and forth from end to
end through the great building.
When it had lasted considerable
time, the convention officers sought
to restore order. The sergeant-at.arms
was ordered to seat the yelling dele.
gates and every effort was made to
bring the convention back to q state
Of subsection, but in vain. The demon
stratfon went on with undated fury
until it had spent itself after more
than a quarter Of an hour Of vocifer.
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