The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1912-07-11

hundred or more delegates were on
the floor clamoring for recognition.
will you support the nominee OF
this convention" yelled one delegate
4 do not expect to bolt" parted
Mr. Bryan.
Another succeeded in asking a long
hypothetical question. which he re-
fused to answer unless it was made
more explicit
Another asked whether he consid-
cred a refusal to support a candidate
receiving MurDhy's support the same
as a refusal TO support for President
man nominated with Murphy's sup
port.
Does not the law make a differ
ence," replied Mr.. Bryan, between
the lawyer who defends a criminal
after the crime has been committed,
and the man who assists in the com
mission of a crime"
Mr. Bryan then announced his vote
for Woodrow Wilson and retired 10
his seat in the Nebraska delegation,
and continued TO cast his vote for
Wilson throughout the night.
Every strategy known in political
generalship was tried to stampede
the convention for the different can
didates. No convention in the history
of this coutry has seen such wild de
monstrations as have been witnessed
in this one at Baltimore.
While Tuesdays dramatic incident
arising over the selection of a TEN
porary chairman was the cause of Al
most unprecedented turmoil. there
was nothing even bordering on d de-
monstration 1t was just plain fight
not enthusiasm.
Even the speech of Temporary.
Chairman Parker did not arouse the
response so characteristic OF Demo
cratic conventions of the past, and
the convention showed nothing but Il
fighting mood until after the incident
OF the Bryan resolution of Thursday
/ evening and the beginning OF the nomi-
mating speeches.
On Thursday night, when the nomi@
mating speeches were being made,
at the close of that OF Senator Reed
naming Clark, the Speakers beautiful
daughter stepped onto a chair in the
I gallery, and with big American fag
wrapped around her, and another in
each hand, led the cheering for her
/ father She was the only woman who
/ figured conspicuously in the demon
/ STATIONS.
Great as was the Clark demonstra-
ton, however, it did not compare in
noise with that led by the Princeton
boys when Judge Westcott named the
1 New Jersey executive. For more.
than one and a half hours the din con-
/ tinued, the lusty youngsters seeming
to glory in their ability to keep it up.
! OF all of the demonstrations of
/ Thursday night the most amusing
was that started by a man in tho
/ press stand for Gov. Baldwin, when
/ the name of the Connecticut executivei
| was entered in the race for the nomina-
| ton. Realizing that the fourteen dele.l
| gates from Connecticut could not sue
| cessfully compete with the stronger
| following of the other candidates the
men in the press stand volunteered a.
noisy assistance which they continued
| for more than twenty minutes and
which subsidized only when the chair
1 threatened to clear the press, stand if
the reporters did not stop. The many
star writer's of the press stand, men
/ whose regulations for genius are,
worldwide led the Baldwin demon
! stration, and introduced into it all the
/ elements of a first class vaudeville
show or a gridiron club dinner It.
was the one really spontaneous and
amusing demonstrations of the long
week.