The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-06-16
DELEGATES COMPLETE TASK AFTER STIRRING
 ADDRESS BY BRYAN
Nominations Are Made After Midnight With Con- vention Anxious to Get to Real Business
 Nominating Speeches Are Cut Short As
 Cheers Greet Names of Candidates.


 St. Louis, June 16-In setting Intensely dramatic and Spectacular, the Democratic national convention at midnight nominated Woodrow Will son and Thomas Riley Marshall for President and Vice President of the United States
 At the mention of Wilson's name by John W. Westcott, of New Jersey, who nominated him, the delegates went wild with enthusiasm The cheering and general demonstration lasted more than half an hour.
 While the convention was being thrilled by the e1oquence of William Jennings Bryan much as he has nov ed the emotions of Democratic con ventions for 20 yearss the committee on resolutions was putting the finish ing touches on the party platform.
 Before beginnfng it's work of off, cially declaring MT. Wilson and Mr. Marshall the party candidates for the offices they now hold, the crowded convention hall echoed and rocked with the tumu1t of a. greeting to MT. Bryan
 Crowd C1amors for Speech by Bryan.
 A thunderous demand for him came immediately after Chairman James had. called for order MT. Bryan, accompanied by Mrs. Bryan, sat In the press Secuon.
 The clamor for a speech from him arose as soon as he and Mrs Bryan made their apeparance. After the formal organization of MT. James recognized Senator Thompson of Kansas, who presented a resolution, which was carried with a whoop, in viting the three-times candidate for President to address the convention There was not protesting voice. The Journey of the old Democratic leader from the press section to the stage was continuous ovation that brought an expansive smile to his face and g. look of qualification to that Of Mrs Bryan
 The great CoInmoner. was in fine form and his 20 minute speech aroused the monster audience to a high pitch of genuine enthusiasm.
 The applause that broke his ad- dress was in fact the most turbulent heard during the session of the con vention. Standing at the reading desk with a palm leaf fan gripped in his right hand, MT. Bryan spoke ex- with Bryan? ?'' broke through the hall as he started ito speak. The apswer was cyclonic. It was in effect that there was nothing the matter with him.
 MT. Bryan made a Init by his very first sentence. It was a statement that every Democrat had been wait ing for him to make for months. It settled all question as to his attitude during the coming campaign. He will be 'taI right"
 Every Democratic convention to me- he said, 'is a Democratic love
 That woke the house up and there was a storm of cheering for two min utes.
 Reviewing the 16-year struggles of the party and it's ultimate success, MT. Bryan proclaimed his regularity by laundering:
 Whatever differences of opinion may exist, or may have existed, as to particular measures or particular acts we are here to begin the fight of 1916 a united party in every State in the Unfon,s ready for battle.
 To-day those who stand for the Democratic party are able to go be- fore this nation and not only give a reason for the faith that is in them, tion's claims to the confidence of the people.
 You make take all the administra- tions from the beginning of our his tory as a republic to the beginning of the present one, and you will not find as many laws written upon the statute books of great importance to the peo- pie as you will find written in the last three years by Woodrow Wilson, a Democratic President"
 Briefly, MT. Bryan then referred to the tariff revision, the Federal Re- serve Law, and the stren gthening of the antitrust laws.
 Comments New Laws.
 He declared the Underworld Sim mons Tariff law to be the best of it's kind passed by Congress in 50 years. Referring to the Currency law he said that thanks to the courage of Q Pres ident who is not afraid, we now know what it means to have the White House on the side of the people, The secretary of the treasury now goes to the White House instead of to the kings of Wall Street.
 MT. Bryan declared that not since Jackson, had a President been con- fronted with so powerful a combina- ton of finance as MT. Wilson. And he asserted that even Jackson had not handled the problems that confronted him with as much skill as the Prest- dent of today.
 He provoked another demonsration hy his resoundingj declaration that the IAepub1icansy had not dared in their platform to attack the tariff, cur rency and antitrust laws written in- e@ tho statute books by the Demo E