The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-06-25

. ; It was 12:17 when Chairman. Mack rapped the convention to order. and directed the sergeant -at~arnns 10 clear the aisleA This was a, somewhat diff f1cult task and while; the officials were at work JuaHe Alton B. Parker sAuntered leisursly to his seat, ap- parently unnoticed.
 Tom Teegart. the sIndiana boss. strolled sup ento tne nlatfor7p- and snG14 A TA1gpere4 ~ 7tl, Chairman Mack while f6s coht@ llkls '
 At ia:so, sdack rapped for order for the second time and this time he was aided byaColoneI Martin who had armed himself with g. small gavel. The galleries were only half filled but this was, due to the miserable, ar raneements for handling the crowds as there were more than 5000 people standing in line tryingt to get in. < Delegate Davies, of Indiana, report ed to Mack that some 300 delegates were standing outside unable to get into the hall and asked for delay so that they might get in in time to vote on the temporary chairmanship- Mack said that he would wait.
 While waiting, the band struck up saTammany'' but it did not create the furore of former years, only the New York delegates applaudipg the Tiger tune. \
 The New Jersey delegation brought "a bunch of bananas with Nthem for lunch and during the wait they munched fruit contentedly, to the envy of less provided ones.
 At. 12:30 Mack and Martin again attempted to get order and clear the crush out of the aislee. An assistant sergeant-at-arms shouted to Martin saving that he could not make the crowd move. s
 .oh. well. do your best" said Mar tin.
 Most of the crowd in the aisles were wearing assistant sergeants badges.
 At 12:ss Assistant Secretary Tom Smith, of New York, began reading the call of the convention. When he concluded, Mack introduced Cardinal Gibbons who delivered the opening invocation.
 As soon as the Cardinal concluded his invocation the audience broke in to applause-an cheerA Mack again ordered the aisles cleared but his di- ICCVlOuS were rJccKSQ- Uy -lAlc CTOW0S who simply refused to move,
 Taggart was standing at Mack's right and kept up a running fire of conversation with him throughout.
 Mack then announced the tempor- ary officers as suggested by the na- tional committee They-were headed of his name started applause from <l>~ v s.sT 4se 1kh eastern delegations.
 The band started up att a signal flashed from the platform but the chering was short lived.
 Urey Woodson was named as tenn porary secretary and Colonel Martin as temporary sergeant-at,arms.
 William J. Bryan scame to the front of the platform as the secretary stop ped reading and there was a wild yell from the floor which was join ed in only in part by the galleries.
 Bryan was very pale and his face was set and rigid. He shook his head in deprecating manner and raised his hand in an attempt to still the audience. But they were not to be denied. The cheers swelled across from delegation to delegation and :at last the galleries took it up. fgs
 The delegations from Ohio, Wiscon- sin, Minnesota, Texas New Jersey, Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma, were on their feet but the big NeW York and Indiana delegations sat stolidly in their seats.
 Bryan appealed to Mack to restore quiet and finally he was able to be- gin.
 "Gentlemen of the convention, he said. TT rise to place in nomination for the office pf temporary chairman the name of Honorable John w. Kern, of Indiana.@
 The mention of Kern's name start ed the applause again., the same dele. gations leading, Indiana remaining silent
 "In thus differing from the judg-'