The Washington times., 1912-06-28
Huge Armory At Baltimore
Bears Evidence of
Bitter Struggle.
LONE ROOSTER CROWS
WHERE MEN FOUGHT
Bitter Fight To Be Renewed Today
With Outcome In
Doubt.

Il
June GA weary wilderness of chairs,
floor buried inches deep In a hetsr-
ogeneous rubbish of chewed cigars, bits
Of paper, remnants of lunch, beer and
pop bottles and frayed banners, an
air fetid with humidity and a few de-
jected employees Lstlessly striving to
clean up-this was todays view Of the
national Democratic convention hall
1t was not until nearly noon that any
attempt was made to clear away the
debris for the o'clock session. Through
most of the day a sickly sun strove in
vain to tighten the gloom. Outside, it
rained In fits and starts.
Ten minutes after Chairman James
gavel had declared a recess, there
wasn't a delegate. or alternate, or
visitor left in the vast building. Sleepy-
eyed the crowd had revived hurriedly
to scurry out of the structure. There
was no enthusiasm left.
Probably never before in a national
convention have such scenec been en-
acted as those of last night. The frenzy
of enthusiasm was unparalleled. 1t
left strong men weak from exhaustion
When the garish light Of dawn We'd
with electric lights it revealc da sweat
hegrimed crowd of men, flung listlessly
into their hard bottomed chairs, their
aching limbs stretched out to half :e-
cumbent attitudes. Scores slept peace
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comment flung at persistent speakers o.
Chairman James vigorous pounding
Much Debris.
Strewn in indescribable confusion
down the center aisle was a heap of
papers, smashed straw hats, broken
megaphones, half-eaten sandwiches
broken bottles and dirt-b -besmeared COL
lars. flung off in the sticky heat of the
night.
The standards which yesterday so
prlmly pointed out the delegates seat
locations were all awry. They appeared
10 nave broken beneath the storm of
enthusiasm and leaned drunkenly side
ways. Delegates had wrenched them
from their fastenings in the parades up
and down the aisles. and they were ut
teriy confused and mislaid. Here and
there were broken chairs, either
smashed by the too strenuous acrobatIc
efforts of cheer leaders or deliberately
rnt to pics to max sticks on which
might be fastened
William Jennings Bryan left the hall
shortly after midnight but Chairman
Ollie James settled his mastodonic bulk
throughout practically the entire ses-
sion, only relinquishing the gavel for a
rev moments rest about o'clock.
Delegates Remain.
Expecting q ballot on the nomination,
very few OF the delegates deserted the
hnn. And while they were there they
he'd their fun. Batting of speakers was
the main outlet OF amusement. The
tire-honored plan OF orators to with
hold mention the parsonage whose
nomination they were making until the
last sentence II their speech. gave the
delegates most Of Their opportunities
Spread-eagl' fights of oratory were apt
to be interrupted by irreverent COM
ment. None of the boomers missed an
opportunity to shout the rames OF their
candidates when the perspirinG orators
wound up with such a question as
"Nhn Is the one nominee who can lead
united Democracy" etc. Usually the
candidate the orator named, was lost IN
Il habble Of shouts.
At noon the only sign Of life in the
big Convt nt:or hall was in one of the
ante-ronms, whore the resolutions COM
mittee wrestied with the platform. and
in groups on the floor, where workmen
struggled - clear away the debris.
The only two things that die not ap'
pear detected in the hall were a rooster
who wandered around stridentlv emit
ting the crow that the lnen who
thought him into the hall had thorough.
cut the night vainly endeayored tc
extract from the bird, and the whit;
dove released during the Underwood
G"munsfr7tion Both were given free,
dom outside tho hall,
See Defeat of Wilson.
The bitterness aroused by Bryan las
night a rancor almost unexampled II
the history of national conventions, will
1t is declared by many, stand persist
ntly and continuously in the way O
the nomination of Wilson.
Not a few of the Wilson delegate!
feel that Bryan dealt Wilson a blow
last night by the savage and amusing
nature of his attack on two men whC
are duly accredited delegates to th'
convention.
But If Bryan has hurt Wilson. tn,
Clark people, too, suffered. Slapped anC
weakened by the pouring in of tele
q ans of protest against the treatmen
of Bryan from the country, they wer
hurt still further when, last night, tn
New Work delegation caucused and de
Cided to go for Harmon on the first bal
lot. They left Clark in the lurch, ant
while the Clark leaders are trying L
get Murphy back, it is uncertain.
The Clark leaders had what the
thought was an understanding tina
Boss Murphy would come to them, bu
there was a loophole in it Murph
crawlCd out through the louphole.
Clark leaders this morning declared
1--WE will win without New York.
makes no difference what Murphy does
He will have to come across"
The Underwood plan as far as re
Vealed is to stick. In a long series o
ballots the Underwood leaders expect I
develop strength. Harmon got a goo
vote owing to the New York vote, bU
II is looked on as largely pa assing an
complimentary.
BRYAN is considered out Of the race
After the storm ot last night II doe
not Eeem possible & u 70 rvm'Hate hir