The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1920-07-03
Bed am Breaks Loose When
Dry Speech Closes.
PEERLESS ONE IN TEARS
Nebraskan Makes Eloquent Plea For
Complete Exclusion of Alcohol
Mild Irish Declaration.

4OICS ol HIS OIdlOIS, anu started one
of the greatest and noisiest demon
strations the assembly has yet seen
When Bryan concluded his reply to
the advocates of Il wet plank, the
demonstration cut loose on the floor,
and wholly unaided by the band or
the organ or any of the other instru-
mentalities which had been effectively
used to keep other demonstrations
going, it proceeded spontaneously and
resisted all efforts to get the conven-
ton back to order
Bryan, standing smiling in the lime
light at the edge of the speakers
platform. and with tears of emotion
courSing down his cheeks, reviewed a
procession of prohibition enthusiasts
who tore up state standards and start
ed moving column of delegates
about the hall.
There was more than one fight over
whether a state standard should go
in the demonstration. A particularly
spectacular battle ragged around pos
session of the California standard
where, when Mrs. Georgia c. Orms-
by, of Oakland, attempted to carry
the standard into the demonstration
a number of men attempted to pre-
vent it.
Among them was an assistant ser
= Hnt-at-arms, Francis J.-Heney pounc-
ed on the man and threw him into the
crowd All that remained of the
standard when the. wreckage was
cleared away was 'tattered part of
the pasteboard top which once had
borne the letters of the state name.
4labama's standard suffered similar
fate and the bits were trIumphantly
borns about the hall by the prohibit
ton forces.
During the demonstration some one
bore the standard of Bryan's home
state 10 the platform and reaching
out, Bryan lifted it high above the
rest, while the crowd reared. Finally
after the crowd had been quoted
Chairman Robinson recognized Sena-
tor Glass, who began reading the
platform
When the direct declaration for
| ratification of the treaty was reached
| in the reading there was another de-
| monstration, about half the delegates
again getting TO their feet and cheer
ing the words of the platform When
| he finished the league plank, Senator
Glass departed from his manuscript
| to say:
$50 much for the league of nations,
| and my voice, l regret to say, is inn
paired from fighting for that declara-
| ton
| The remarks were answered by ap-
| plause from some of the delegates and
| spectators.
| Nearly every plank got little rise
of applause when read, but the decla-
| rations of the platform were not new
| to many of the delegates, and for the
| most part they became restless before
| the reading was half completed The
| menotony of the proceeding, appar-
| and they showed in many ways that
| they were anxious for the floor fight
| to begin.
Senator Glass worked hard at the
reading, and paused many times to
| wipe the perspiration from his face
| Its hot job" he remarked, lust
| after he had read the agriculture
| plank.
| ITS a hot platform" shouted q
| delegate, and there was a ripple OF
laughter and cheering So far the
| convention was going smoothly
| enough
! One of the biggest demonstrations
was given the suffrage plank, calling
/ on the legislatures of three southern
| Democratic states to ratify the suf-
| frage amendment Led by the women
| delegates, virtually every one on the
| convention floor got to their feet and
| cheered, while the standards Of Ten
| nessee, Florida and North Carolina
the three states specially named in
the appeal for ratification, were car
ried to the speakers stand and hello
high up before the delegates.
Soon nearly every other standard
was brought up and put into the cus
ter. while the band played, "Oh, You
Beautiful DOLL" There was a disa
greement over both the New Jersey
and Louisiana standards, but after {
little showing and tussling, both OF
them were carried out of place ant
put with the others up in the front
A parade, in which practically al
of the standards joined, was organic
ed when the demonstration had beer
going for five minutes. The march
ers tramped around the hall TO the
tune of "Therell Be a Hot Time il
the Old Town Tonight" and then the
organ dropped into ''Smiles" and mos
of those on the floor took up The
) words of the song.
1t was a thirteen-minute demonstra
) ton when it had concluded, but thu
suffrage leaders declined to regard i
) as a bad omen.
When order had been restored Sen
qtor Glass again took up the reading
Tnere was some more nurranlng
few minutes later when Senator Glas
at the end of long list of things tn
party proposed to do for women, sal
in another aside to thGse near tn
platform:
IF we have omitted anything, W
| mean that, too"
Chairman Glass read the Mexican
plank to some applause and when h
came to the Irish plank there was
preliminary demonstration by tn
Irish sympathlZers among the dele
gates and in the galleries.
Then, when Chairman Glass struc
| MIA no
them over like a congressional reaG
ing clerk dispOsing of a president
message, three lines at a time Th
audience caught the humOr. of tn
burst of speed and returned wit
shouts of Go to it" and "Mor
| Sneal,' the oh ~ i1.rlnnr tmr.,LloI