The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-11
WONDERS OF DENVER
srow oUTsrpE CONVENTION HALL = FLOWERS WITHIN.
nowhox Hand Plays ADixtev and Dirges for Cleveiand---CoIoraao shows Its Appreciation of
 Tune.

Denver. July io.---Just outside of the Auditorium, where the Democratic Na- tIonaI Convention was held. there were about q hundred tons of snow, with a banner atop. saying, From summers had been brought down from the Rock les, ana was one of the first interest ing features of the convention show.
 Inside of the convention hall there was A great flock of eagles--dead eagles. too-suspended by wires from the roof of the Auditorium and, in the mouths. of those eagles there were strips of bunting and tiny hags There were hundreds of these eagles, and they were of all sizes. They swayed in the gentle breeze which was waited through the building by the very best of ventilating processes.
 The whole scene was one of peculiar beauty. It represented the efforts of q people that had never had national ,convention of either party and they had put their best foot forward in ev- cry possible way. You could not have got another Inch of bunting or of color adorumant on any part of the hall. Then there were great palms. trees and thousands of plants, a myriad of roses of all coioTs, and high above the audi ence was a real simon-pure cowboy band.
 This hand came from Alamosa, q It, tie town In Colorado. and there is not a band in the country or in any other country that could have outplayed it. The band was dressed in cowboy cos- tune, variegated handkerchiefs about the neck, all sorts of coIored flannel shirts and leather brooches, with the leather trimmings, and the only thing lacking was the ferocious pistols, which are aeen in every picture of q cowboy.
 That band was glory and delight to tho l2,ooo, who were able to get into the hall
 This band told of the beauties of Maryland. My Maryland" then switch- ed ofe from time to time to .'Dixs' and freQuntly gave the sweetest melodies from the South and the dttties of the Western plains. In all these charming songlets the audience would now and then take part. but 1t must be said that the two pet pieces of the band were Maryland. My Maryland" and Dixie"
 Then, in solemn cadence, the band would break into something like q dirge- The audience turned It's eyes to q huge canvas which portrayed the faa- lures of, Grover Cleveland. MT. cleve- lands portrait was adorned by the American colors. yelled In mourning.
 Upon the platform were masses of FoS0ss pJnkS, ana beAuEIul 1eruS. Be- hind the platform were the seats for the Democratic National Committee, and just above these seats were great portraits of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson.
 Every time the band played Dixie" you could hear the old rebel yell--the ycll that was heard at Fredericksburg, at SpottsyIvania Court House, in the wilderness. at Antietam, at shiloh. and upon the waving plains of Gettysburg. It was the same old rebel yell--hePce, . shriei<ing. strident, and penetrating. It had not the bloodthirsty strain of war days. It was the tumultuous cry of prospective victory. 1t was the home cry, the cry of the paean.
 It was a great scene, so different from the customary and conventional scene at a Democratic or a Republican National Convention---the beauty of the flowers. the fine Idea of the plants, the 1eniality of the band, the good feeling that seemed to prevail. the spontaneous outbursts for everything and every body--demonstrated what has already been said that the whole represented the efforts of a people that had never before had a national convention.