Bismarck daily tribune., 1908-07-09
Is Broken at Denver in De,
InOnIstratiOn for Bryan
Lasting Sc Minutes
Crowd Goes Wild Over Trib-
ute Paid by the BLIND
Senator
Time Of Convention Taken
Up With Talk While
Waiting Reports

Denver, Col, July S.-The Demo-
cratic national convention is mark
ing time, SO far as the nomination
of candidates and adoption Of plat
form is concerned, and is passing
through the stages of organization
and a sefies of frenzied demonstra-
tions. D Today has been marked chief
W by turbulent enthusiasm and bit
ter strife Of, party leaders, the es-
sential development of the day being
these: g.
Two sessions of the convention
were held, the first at noon, produc-
ing Bryan demonstration breaking
all records in duration, the second at
8 O'clock tonight, bringing the culm-
ination of the struggle over the Gre
dentials Of the Pennsylvania dele
cation and the suppression Of the
Pennsylvania leader, Mr.. Guffey, who
has been denounced by Mr.. Bryan
Outside Of the convention the COM
mittees have proceeded with the SER
ious work of preparing the way for
convention action. The credential
committee unseated eight of Col.
Guffey's anti-Bryan Pennsylvania
| delegates. thus reversing the COM
plexion of the Pennsylvania delega-
tion from Anti-Bryan to Bryan, and
precipating an intense controversy
which is being fought out the night
session of the convention.
The platform is still in an incom-
plete condition and will not be pre-
sented until tomorrow, but its es-
sential features are agreed upon and
| littleliremains but details of phrase
| ologys s' Vs.. --"
The early meeting Of the conven-
tion today was productive Of little
| practical progress as the principal
committees were not ready to report.
But it had the effect of an explos-
ion Of long-pent-up Bryan enthusiasm
which, TOOK a signal from Senator
Cores tribute to the Nebraska
leader, and burst into a whirl-wind
of enthusiastic tribute, lasting one
hour and nineteen minutes with sew
en- minutes more of expiring echoes of
the clamor, establishing a conven-
tion record of an hour and twenty
six minutes, or full thirty-nine min,
utes in excess of the Roosevelt dem
onstration at Chicago, which held
the record until today. 1t was a
| decisive exhibition of the overmast-
ering strength of the Bryan column
and one of the most. dramatic con-
vention pictures ever presented asthe
| standards of the states were torn
/ from their moorings and borne
through the hall until they stood
together on the platform, like an
4 army of banners proclaiming their
united allegiance to Bryan.
Amid this storm of Bryan demon
| |stration, six standards: New York.
4NSW ECS1Stys ,bSiSWdlS, ECOl Id, M III
nesota and Connecticut stood rooted
on their places, the rallying points
/ of little groups unmoved by the fren,
zied scenes about them.
/ throughout an hour and nineteer
minutes the deafening uproar con
i tiuued, ehbing and flowing in inten
sity, women Joining with the mer
| in bearing the Bryan standards aloft
/ while the whole assemb1age of 12,00t
i people Joined in the tumultuous dem
onstration.
i The early session lasted three
i hours and then, worn out with th,
exertion and lacking material to pro
4 ceed with business, the convention
recessed until tonight.
At the night session Of the con
yention, after an hour of speech
making, the committee on credentialt
5. reported on the Pennsylvania ant
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