The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-03
BRYANPS EFFORT
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(Continued from Page One.) himself to the, query about McAdoo and Doheny. The tumult Iraged on. The gallery took up the cry for Smith. Bryan shouted through the most bitter roar of remonstrance that the convention has experienced:
 = Fries To Answer - ,'Ill answer the question: he prom ised.
 Give him time, Give him 20 years, " scme one yelled back.
 "McAdoo's retainers had to do with oil in Mexico" Bryan explained. But I'll go further than that. If any oil has ever touched William G. McAdoo, the intense and fervent opposition of Wall street washed all the oil away. I want to present an issue larger than any man."
 As the pandemonium regathered its momentum, another heckler leaped to his chair: '
 "Is Youngstown, Ohio, where McAdoo got $200,000 for getting taxes back, in MexicoY
 It was Dennis Dunlevy of Ashtabula. Ohio, speaking.
 You are lodging to something else. You are not willing to hang the case on oil," Bryan shot back.
 How about the coal contract in Italy? Do you excuse that, tool"
 The mob spirit was after Bryan Smith men cried deafeningly for his blood. Chairman Walsh clamored for
 Ed Moore of Ohio, almost apoplectic, moved for return to regular business. interrupted. s a
 There was sufficient order, finally, for Bryan to resume. But his retort was found wanting. He maneuvered to get the crowd back on his side by an exposition of democracy and an attack npon; wealth. It had worked before, but now the crowd wanted him to talk specifically about McAdOo and DOheny.
 Russia Is Cited
 Hiss and scoff at my principles if you dare," Bryan shouted at the hostile mob. "The democratic party is facing the greatest campaign in it's history. The world looks to us. In Russia they have a class government. In Great Britain they have laboring man for a premier. In France, socialism IS in control and it threatens Germany and Italy. That condition has been brought about largely by the concentration of wealth. }
 'sThe republican party has been gF6nting favOrs and favors. It gave one hundred millions to Doheny, about a billion to Sinclair. It gave $450, ,OO0,- GOO in relief to profiteers. They go on distributing their favors, piling up riches in the hands of the few and spreading destruction among the many.
 T want the democratic party to ap- peal to the illionaires of New York. These men of wealth ought to know that it is better to leave good govern ment to their children than to leave big fortunes. We ought to make this government so good that to be a pri- vate citizen in the United States would be better than to be king abroad"
 Confusion Browns Words
 Bryan h a,d finished. Confusion smOthered his last words. He had trailed off into generalities, anyway, and it was McAdoO-Smith feud that the crOwd-or the noisy section of it. wanted settled. Delegates were on their chairs, watches in hand, eyes fixed to the platform after the fashion of a fight fan waiting for the bell. They were about to call time on Bryan, something in itself which suggests the passing of hero, when the commoner cut short his speech and retired with all the grace possible. In another barage of mingled cheers and cat calls, the commOner I ade his exit. Perhaps his last, from the tickle arena of poli- tics.
 There was something sad about that exit, for it left the impression that Bryan, the old war-horse of democracy, had been beaten.
 Drama At Every Turn
 There had been drama at every turn. There was the moment early in Bryan's speech, when Mrs. Genevieve Clark Thompson, daughter of the late Champ Clark. rushed from the center aisle to the speakers stand, her eyes ablaze as she gazed intently upon the man who had dOwned her father at Baltimore back in 1912, when he was within a handful of votes of the nom inatiOn. Here Bryan was again, this time fighting for McAdoo, another fig ure blamed with the defeat of Champ Clark. Mrs. Thompson watched and waited, expectantly. Would Bryan win again, or would he lose?
 If the flame of political passion had not snuffed out everything but the row over McAdoo, Bryans speech you'd be remembered for other signifi- cant features. He implored the dele gates to remember that the democrat ic party had reached the crossroads and argued that it was about to throw aside heaven-sent opportunity to de- feat the republicans. He pledged for progressivism: He urged that the south be given n chance with a presidential candidate and spoke brilliantly of the south's contribution to the nation as a whole. Z
 Taking the platform in the middle [ bf the thirty-eighth ballot, Bryan began W