The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-07-11
AT GH0STIY DAWN
CITY AST|R WITH
MANY THOUSANDS
Weird and Wonderful Scene.
III Denver at Close Of All.
Night Session-.--The
Ballot.
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DENVER. col, July 1o.--Denver
I'm connection with the convention. but
It has probably never witnessed a
more remarkable spectacle than was
presented just as dawn was breaking
this morning when a crowd, the like
of which has never before gathered
here, poured out of the big auditorium
and gave the streets the appearance
they have at midday. 1t was weary.
worn out, crowd; also hungry and
thirsty crowd
# waiting Until the End
"a few restaurants had kept open: so
bad a good many booze shops. These
places were stormed. The crowd had
sat in the hall for over ten hours.
and that hall, despite its proximity to
snowy peaks, was hot enough to be
uncomfortable. AS the hours wore on
and orator after orator went ito the
bat for home run, or strike out.
few Of those who had journeyed here
from all over the country thought for
n moment of quitting. Wearied of ora
tory, a good many. clamored for the
vote to be taken and the curtain to go
down.
IT was plain to see that they had
had enough, had. in fact, become sur
feited with oratory and political eS-
citement, but nevertheless they were
there to see the finish. The assembly
included all the wealth and fashion or
Denver and good many other places
besides.
1t was about 3:45 A. NJ. when the vote
was announced, and the building re-
yerberated with a roar as Of battery
4 OF machine guns. 1t was the people
leaving their seats, bound for bed at
last Outside, to the east, where Den
yer disappears in the plains, there was
the CLINT of dawn. 1t gave the streets
ghostly appearance, accentuated by
the arches of varicolored electric lights
with which Denver had decorated her.
self. AS the sunrise began to toucn
up the peaks Of the Rockies, the sight
of Denver's streets crowded with men
and women and with a procession of
automobiles. carriages and vehicles
from the plains, was weird one Cow
boys on bronchos galloped through the
streets. bound like the rest, for a bed
somewhere 1t looked for short time
like city walked up too early.
Weird Scene.
Most of the restaurants had closed.
weary with the long wait for trade
Cniv the cheaper had kept open, but
SO hungry was niae-tenths of the crowd
that il mattered not the looks of
place, and women in evening clothes.
With their escorts, made an assault on
my counter likely to have a ham sand
Nfch Some of the saloons near the
bail held mob that fought in the
lawn for the favor OF the bartenders..
Two all-nisnt drugstores Were sudden
" struck by the tornado and almost
wrecked. Automobiles and carriages
went by almost bursting with people.
who had no thought now but bed. The.
red white and blue lights spanning
the streets made 1t look like melo-
drama. There was no sound save that
of the thousands vending their way 10
bed, TOO tired to cheer too tired al
most to talk. and intent only upon get
ting where they could lay their heads.
Had 1t been midnight or any hour
but that ghostly one Of dawn. there
would have been cheers for the Peer
less, no doubt, from those faithful, al
most fanatical, followers. who had
been Keeping up racket from the
day they hit town; but they, too, had
had enough.
The big hotels, which are in a cus-
ter here, stafld which had been dark
iust besoresrirc dawn, lighted UP as IL
by ma gle. Unless than an hour after
the chairnan's gayel had descended
for the last time IN the convention hall
1t was all over.
From the appearance of oitY
busting with life at that queer hour
of the day, the city just as suddenly
became deserted. The crowd had gone
to bed like one person. and not the
magic words of the man who had been
nominated could have aroused the city
now asleep.
Nomination of Bryan.
The events of the night in the con-
Vention hall folloMin e the adnptinn OF