Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-06-29

Ond base. Comparative quiet reigned
while Bryan accepted.
Former Chairman Bell spoke next,
for Parker. He was we'll received for
a few minutes. At his first mention
of Parker, the Parker men yelled,
then the Bryan men howled: and he
delivered the rest of his speech for
the sole benefit of the official stenog-
rapher,. he being the only mar near
enough to hear.
AS he finished a portly gentleman
passed before me, wearing magnifi-
cent crimson necktie with white dots
in it. The splendor of such sight
momentarily overcame me. On re-
covering, l saw that new batter was
up The disorder continued, and the
regular whack of Chairman Mack S
gavel punctuated it at regular inter-
walls, like the first measured beats of
the steam roller getting up steam.
This speaker also delivered his epoch
al thoughts for the partial edification
Of the aforesaid stenographer. The
uproar rose to a thunder of cheers as
Bryan made his way up again on the
platform, and the speaker quit in
disgust. Mack tried to chop things off
and order a vote, but Bryan bucked
The crowd quieted instantly to listen
to him-the same men who only yell
ed at all other efforts for quiet. The
next speaker said that it was Bryan
ON one side and Wall street on the
other" and the mantle of noise closed
again over the hall. A man out in
the hall who couldn't see stood up on
his chair, a man behind him, whose
view of the scenery was now cut off,
heaved a crumpled NEWSPAPER at the
lack of his bald head, and knocked
him completely off his chair. 1t was
the. first foul strike" of the day A
woman stood up to see better, and a
dozen men yelled. est down, sister"
She sat down, suddenly, and the
crowd laughed at her and her bushes.
Everyone was good natured all day.
Mack got a megaphone and announc-
ed that votes would be taken on Par
ker and Bryan The call to each
state and the vote of the state were
announced by ,megaphone, each mans
followers cheering favorable votes.
All this time the delegates sat sill
emily waiting. They Joined no dem
onstrations, they said nothing-the
team roller was getting up steam
ready for action. Now their time had
arrived, and they rolled that steam
roller over Brya2 with a precision
and dispatch that showed the pres
ence of master mind in control.
When Parker's election was announc.
ed, the Parker men tore loose, but
against the silent thousands of Bryan
men the demons tratiOn was about as
effective as young ladies' seminary
at a matinee When Parker tried to
speak, a derisive roar went up, and
amid deafening silence he gesticu.
lared his thanks for the honor which
the American democrats fThos. F,
Ryan and Charley Murphy had thrust
upon him.
Whereupon realized that it was
many hours since breakfast and that
l was hungry. So | rolled down Park
avenue to the business district. There
pdlu tnree prNeS LOT an alleSeC
steak and a discouraged potato, and
was gently waited homeward on the
Baltimore and Washington electric.
SO this is the tale of how a North
Dakotan went to Baltimore a good
democrat and returned a radical So
cialist. For Parker's election as the
chairman means the conservatives in
control, and Bryan will die on third
base.