The Washington herald., 1908-07-08
nr sAMUEL q. nLYTHE.

Denver. July They brought down
a couple Of tons Of slightly soiled, but
perfectly good. snow from the noun
tains and dumped It on the street near
the convention hail. as a tender tribute
TO the Gray boom and the Johnson boom
Any person who passed was at lib
erty 70 make a SNOWFALL and keep it
as a souvenir Of an occasion when two
sterling patriots, leading jurist Of Del
aware and leading proletarian OF Min
nesota were refrigerated by the cele-
brated Bryan cooling process until there
was brine on them foot thick. Frost
Is too torrid a term 70 At In any de
scripuon Of what has happened 20 these
great popular uprisings for Gray and
Johnson. Take all the snow on all the
mountains within sight OF Denver and
pile in a heap and that would be a
seemly monument
There were vague whispers that three
States instructed for Bryan would bolt
and go for one or the other Of these for
lorn hopers; that If three did not bolt.
one surely would. and other rumors even
more rainbowy. The ordinary visitor can
see for sixty or eighty miles in this rari-
fed atmosphere. but the anti-Bryan peo-
pie have greater powers Of vision. They
can discern a fly spot as far away as
Pixies Peak. and il looks like a load Of
hay 10 them And. when they chase up
to it and find It is a fly spot they are not
cast down. for in these stirring times il
does not take much TO cheer up a Gray
or a Johnson boomer, inasmuch as the
expenses go on so long as the headQuar-
ters are open.
Platform Makers Busy.
The platform makers fused and fiddled
all day and all night They conferred and
consulted and condoled-especially con-
doled-and the astute Mr. Bryan. sitting
up at Lincoln. had a salving machine in
active operation AIr Bryan put a few
things across on the esteemed resolutions
committee. He sent no Dick Metcalf TO
come charging in with the ringing cry:
Gimme this or you won't get me?''
Instead he had scattered about the room
able assistants, who carried in their pock-
cts small bits of platform. carefully in
dlted by the Peerless Leader. Any time
things were dull. one OF these planted cit
liens would get up and submit his con-
tribution. To the general discussion of
the uplift IL w6S a most preconceivedly
spontaneous affair. Full and free discus
sion. YOU know. but no goods to be taken
seriously. but those with the justly cele-
hrated Bryan coat-of-arms on them, con-
sisting Of two bands Of mourning. marked
1895 and 1900" and a large and inn
pressive question mark, on which was en-
bossed '190S"
The day started pleasantly with an
early meeting OF the Ohio delegation.
wherein the delegates. while declaring in
triple tremolo their answering loyalty 10
Bryan and their undying friendship TO all
his policies and most Of his politics. gayly
took large hickory clubs and beat that
bosom friend of Bryan's. Tom johnson.
into a pulp.
Poor Figure rs "A Martyr.
1t was not that they loved Bryan less,
but that they ardently desired a chance to
macerate Mr.. Johnson. which was done
amid loud cheers. punctured now and
again by a few piercing shrieks from
Johnson. who, after the festivities were
over, was snapshotted several times while
posing as a martyr, a not altogether sue
cessful performance for no martyr ever
weighed more than 2OO pounds.
After Mr.. Johnson's case had been at
tended to, the city was all agog over the
arrival or nonarrival Of Temporary
Chairman Bell. Finally. the local papers
issued extras, that Mr.. Bell had come
in, on a hand car, or on foot. OF some
how, and there was general sigh of re-
lief, for 1t was realized that now-now-
the convention could proceed. Mr.. Bell
was imperative. He was the only man
who had submitted a keynote speech to
the acid test at Lincoln. and. OF course,
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