Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-11
WEARS JOSEPH'S
COAT OF COLORS
COLD, GRAY DAWN IN DENVER
FULL OF FUN
BARRooM ORATOR VICTIM OF
POLITICAL TESTERS
Interesting Side Light of Great Demo-
cratic Observation-Disclosures
Crowds Make Colorado
Metropolis Noisy
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for his oratory, though he had little
chance to crate.
Ever and anon, delighted by the
cheers that followed him, he would
turn and make a speech. The CROWD
went back to the hotel sore from
laughing, and looked for another
victim.
Down the street came an auto filled
with Tammanyites beating tom-toms
or the nearest thing they could ma TO
them, and sufficiently noisy to NIL the
bill With a whoop and yell they
were gone.
Came a quartet singing We're Here
Because We're Here" and another
whose melody was descriptive of the
party of the female persuasion VINO
decorated her aesophagus with a Dit
of orange-colored ribbon because
somebody was Fur, Fur Away"
1t was hard to choose between two
such favorites, so the crowd split.
Hundreds thousands, paraded the
streets and yelled for Bryan, though
they had already yelled themselves
hoarse at that wonderful all-night ses-
sion of the Democratic national con-
vention which nominated the famous
Nebraskan, and although 1t was day
light and If they would attend THO
closing session they should be in bed.
But such is human nature, human
endurance, the magic OF name, the
power of forgetfulness of self-What-
ever YOU want to call it-that those
crowds were on hand at the convention
this afternoon, showing no sign OF
wear and tear and with enough energy
left to whoop it up again for the run
ming mate of the head of the ticket.
Still Whooping 1t Up
4 I. i14k r.Va5 ~ a
gone and more of the delegates have
struck camp and the bands are not
so frequent and demonstrative, the
scenes of the week are being repeated
in the streets tonight, and not until
tomorrow night and Sunday will come
the twenty-four hours of the big sleep.
1t all augurs well, as they say In
parliamentary language, for the history
that is to be made later in the year.
Chicago knew nothing like this en-
thusiasm, this pandemonium over one
man, and certainly Chicago did not
bother its head about the second place
on the ticket; Denver and her guests
are making the demonstration for
Kern of Indiana something to be re-
membered next to that for Bryan; and
the delegates are more optimistic than
they were when 1t seemed some other
vice presidential candidate would be
selected.
Belief in Democratic victory this
year has been such from the very start
of this convention, that, although 1t
helped, the inspiration furnished by
Bell, Clayton, Gore, James, Haskell
Dunn and Folk and a score of other
orators and commoners would not have
been missed.
Will Live Forever
The a1l-night session will live for
ever and the scenes Of the closing of
the convention will not soon be erased;
nor is it likely that one man will ever
again succeed in doing what Bryan
has done this time-stand stronger in
his third race than he stood in his
first.
Steffens, and Whitlock, and Folk, and
Tom L. Johnson, at a public meeting
while the convention was on, made or
the statement that the ex-
posures of the corrupt and the vicious
and monopolistic in politics does not
indicate moral degeneration, but moral
and If ever anything
proved their assertions 1t was the
convention just ended.
With the closing of the big conven-
ton the California delegations head
quarters went out of business, Of
course, and at o'clock tonight there
were only empty, bare tables where
the fruit and wine exhibit had been,
and nothing but a few passe lemons
and some forlorn claret punch in a
zinc tub to tell the story of a week of
merriment and good advertising.
No track. was kept of visitors, but
conservative paper estimates that
25, 900 persons were entertained at the
"hang out" of the real thing crowd
as California came to be known, and
IL nothing had happened except the
drawing of the Denver newspaper men
to the place it would have been enough;
however, no state in the Union failed
to call and partake and be entertained.
"They always do that" said a New
York newspaper man to me, referring
to the unusual feature presented by
California, and thus the reputation of
the state for enterprise is so great that
it Is advertised even when 1t takes a
rest, for this newspaper man was at
Chicago when the Republicans met
there, and California gets credit from
him for the display that was lacking
there; they all count on California all
the time.
Take 1t from a near Californian, It's
worth while; and take it from a tenn
porary Denverite, that if it had showed
while the Californians were holding
the fort here only few of the Dem
yer people would have been left to tell
the tale.
They would have died of grief,
though like the good rivals they are
they did their best to help make the
California show a success.