Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-06-29

democratic is pure party and does not
belong to Morgan, Ryan and Belmont
Mr.. Bryan watches eagerly as the voting
goes on. His face is white and drawn
with anger and emotions of all kinds. 1t
is probably an interesting thing to feel
fight so keenly and be the middle of it,
! One man moves to adjourn till ~ o clock
tomorrow. The motion is seconded No
one notices it, The face of Bryan has
become more placid. He gazes out to-
ward Belmont and Ryan, much as Uncle
Tom in the play gazes at Legree when
he says to Legree, You own nah body;
but nah soul belong to Cod"
The convention is the body of UncIei
Tom democracy, but Bryan is the soul of
Uncle Tom, and Ryan may buy the dele
gates which are the body, but he can't
get Bryan which is the soul
A Lively 100 Minutes
Such is the drama we are now PLAYING.
VIII it end with a beautiful transfgura-
ton scene-Uncle Toms soul BRYAN ris-
ing on pink November cloud to the
White House heaven? Who can say?
1t is ten minutes of ten by this time,
the roll-call proceeds. and we have had
really very lively one hundred minutes
of Democratic convention.
Those interested in politics study Bry-
ans face as the roll drags slowly. amid
tirely out of control.
Mr.. Bryan knows wonderfully well what
is going on in the mind of a big crowd.
| he knows that just now he is losing the
effect that he produced at first The
crowd is not with him as it wa at the
start. 1t begins to feel that perhaps 1t
is true that worm 'trodden upon feels
a pang as great as when giant dies.
Ryan and Belmont, of course. are the
worm, and Bryan the giant The crowd
feels that even Wall Street worms arc
entitled to fair play, and that picking
them out for personal insult face to face
knowing that they have not the oratorical
skill to talk back, is hardly square deal
If Bryan could have persuaded Virginia
and New York to ask him to withdraw
| the motion to put out Ryan and Belmont
/ ne would have kept for himself the ire
mendous effect produced by his original
onslaught The crowd has had time to
cool off and think it over. Mr. Bryan
will have to find some other match with
which to fire the convention. He is apt
to find it,
Meanwhile T. f Ryan and August Bel
mont are leaning back much relieved like
two gentlemen Just back from BaIaklava
with all the buttons shot off their clothes
and their hats riddled
Meanwhile Idaho is reached in the roll
call and votes eight for Bryan 1t does
not matter to the two heroes of Balaklava
however The resolution is no longer to
put them out 1t merely says that they
are unfit to be in the convention.
Have you ever dreamed that you were
out in crowded street stark naked try
ing to hide behind doorstep with mil
| lion fingers pointed at you?
Dreadful Dream is over.
And have Won UaIxad IN uritl
sigh to find yourself in bed, suitably clad?
If So you know how the two veterans of
| the Bryan Balaklava Ryan and Belmont
feel now that the dreadful dream is over
Ryan, of deep religious turn. was re-
minded of that scene in the book Of lob 1
when the Lord asks Job Where vast
thou when laid the foundation of the
earth?"
Ryan, who felt like Job. only smaller
and more miserable, hardly knew what
to answer when he was asked where
was thou when I laid the foundation of
the Democracy sixteen years ago?"
He might have answered: Il was at
tending to my own business in the Nor
ton Trust Company"
But Bryan would not take any such
answer as that. However, the dream of
honor has seen its worts for the present
The night has still far to go. 1t is only
ho'iI past tGll anu I0e heroes OF wall
! street may have more doses OF the BRYAN
| Armageddon in store for them. Massa
chusetts has just voted SO for Bryan and
3 against him. So far there are 232 votes
with Bryan and 14S against him,
Minnesota gives her "a votes to Bryan
We have heard nothing al all from the
Wilson supporters, who thought that
Bryan was wording for them. No more
wilson booming. Their lances unified.
! their trumpets unblown," is the line for
them. They were reused from a sweet
dream Just as the awful nightmare of
! the Balaklava heroes began
When Taglion started out from the
wings on one big toe and began to do
/ fancy pirouetting in the old La Scala
days the dear cunning little coryphees
| we're all forgotten. So it is in this politi-
cal opera. When Taglioni Bryan hops out
| in his big speech all the little coryphee
candidates dwindle.
Bryan will win this vote by an over
whelmtng majority He had TO back wa
ter a little Although it would have been
glorious for him to send those two Wall
Street heroes out stiff and cold he de-
cided not to risk defeat on the motion
to put the two men out
When Bryan saw that he was sure to
win by very high vote his emascuIated
resolution, he was evidently relieved and
went to the rear Of the platform where
| he sits now with eyes closed resting as
ne listens to various samples Of f1attering
| comment
Bryan Ia wonderful in his ability to keen
| his head in the middle of a fight, digging
up something from the Bible, Just right,
! or thinking Of an insult to Wall Street
| apropos. He can press the fight or run
in moment, as he did Just now when he
abandoned the effort to put Ryan and Bel
mont out-because he did not like them
When Choynski had knocked out Robert
| FitZSimmODS. the latter gentleman
! told the story, thought after a while that
he heard voices Then he looked up and
saw chairs up in the gallery. Then he
| heard voice counting six, seven, eight"
! Then he came to himself. II believe LIN =
! fighting some one and I'm getting counted
out" He rose to his feet as the referee
| counted ((nine, staggered over to Choyn-
| ski and knocked that gentleman so thor
oughly senseless that he did not come to
for two hours
Fitzsimmons won that fight and many
| others because he is genuine profession
al and never lost his presence Of mind.
So 1t is with Bryan. He IL still rest
n pl aalA