Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-26
NEEDS NO BOOSTER
William J. Bryan'S Personality
Powerful Asset.
HIS MAGNETIC INFLUENCE
Cheers for the Peerless Leader
Sound Like a Landslide.
ENTHUSIASM IN BALTIMORE
Convention Delegates Revel in Noise.
Incidents of the Big Demo
cratic Gathering.

Special From a STAFF Correspondent.
BALTIMORE. June :6-You cannot
help noticing at democratic national
convention that William Jennings Bryan
is one man who does not have to spent
large sums Of money To boost himself
and boom his name. While everybody
else is spending all the way from $500
to $1,000 a day in meeting hotel b Ia
and paying salaries to press agents and
managers, all the peerless one has 10 do
to get almost nominated for something
or other is to get of a line like You cam
not scare the country with your Ryans
or buy it with your Belmonts."
It sounded much like a presidential
boom for a moment yesterday afternoon.
Even the most astute OF the observers
said that il had In IL the sounds that had
preceded previous landsl;des. Bryan can
boom himself without spending a penny.
The democrats certainly unloaded iina
cargo of noise under the roof of the arms
DRY yesterday and today. The boys who
had been in Chicago say that in some re-
spects the republican convention was su-
perior to this one. They referred princ.-
pally to the sergeants-at-arms Here in
Baltimore most of the sergeants-at-arms
became sergeants-at-a-losS yesterday
when the galleries began to take hand
In the proceedings. John Martin. tho
main CONSERVATION of peace for the whels
works, threatened and shook his fist AMI
raped his gavel and beloved like the
roaring bull of Bashan, but no one paid
the slightest attention TO him.
Picture of a Delegate.
Some of the noisiest people ever born
are in Baltimore this week. Couple the
ability to yell Sharply and with ear-pierc-
ing ability with an india rubber style OF
leaping suddenly up into the air. landing
on a chair with hands appraised. and YOU
have the picture of a delegate. Once on
the chair he yells with voice which cam
be heard all the way back home.
Mister Chairman" he vociferates, Il
move you to throw the gentleman who
has just spoken out of the hall. or some
thing of equally harmonious intent.
They don't wear coats, these delegates
not in convention hall, at least They do
wear suSpenders and are covered with
badges. Some of them could sell their ac-
emulation Of badges al junk prices and
make a fine profit. Some of them
very enthusiastic when other people are
making speeches and yell with unremit-
ting fervor. Judge Alton Il. Parker viii
doubtless remember that attribute a
part of the opening day. Some of the
news dispatches said they would not let
him finish his speech for noise. That Is
incorrect They didn't let him start it.
Norman L. Mack made about as much
noise as any one. He hammered every
word into the table with his gavel He
has a peppery-looking mouth. close set
and determined looking, and he seems to
be eternally angry at his table, for he
spanks it with his gavel as a peeyish
parent brings an erring child to order.
.., Band Does, the Rest. >.
When Mack didn't pound hard enough
"a ha
tore foose with the kind of music that
just won't let you keep still Mix that
combination up with several thousand
loud voiced folks In the galleries aud
you'll have dim idea of how hard 10
would be for nervous person to go to
sleep in a democratic convention.
Representative Fitzgerald got shock
when he got up to tell what Tammany
Hall and the remaining small part of
New York state outside Of 1ith street,
Manhattan, thinks of Judge Parker. The
band begun to compliment him by playing
'Tammany and people were actually
anxious to hear what he said He has a
way of wearing his eyeglasses and NOV
Ing his mustache. mouth. teeth and head
around so that every now and then you
get flash of visage that Is reminder
of Col. Roosevelt Well, he was all pre-
pared to make a speech about Parker,
when one of these wild-eyed. rampaginS
delegates. with the bellows voice. made in
a boiler factory and loaded with steaF
jumped up on chair and yelled:
Are you the distinguished gentleman
from New York who voted for Cannon"
You could have heard him. even If a
battery of cannon had been fired at the
moment.
OF course, every one knows that Mr..
Fitzgerald was the distinguished person.
from the Empire state who sided with
Cannon in his rules fight, some time ago
and there you are. Even Mr.. Bryan HIM
self couldn't quell the noise. When he
appeared on the platform behind the rail-
ing Arrangement that sticks up above the
convention like the bridge of a ship the.
convention whooped. It's marvellous how
much yelling men can do at the sight OF
another man.