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Ryan Sits, White With Raqe, as Nebraskan Attacks His Presence Commoner Wily Fox'
ARTHUR BRISBANE WRITES OF BRYAN'S WAR ON THE MONEY KINGS
JAIMES SEES END
OFOEAOLOCK
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Majority Can Abrogate the
Two-Thirds Rule for Nomi
nation. Chairman Says.
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Work. Wilson showed a total strength
01 354 votes. This is of chief import
ance' of what followed early hours of
the day Jumping to the close of the
fight to make the connection plain,
when the twelfth ballot had been duly
recorded and the tired delegates had
gone to bed. Wilson had in his total
column the identical 354 votes with
which he started the night.
The remainder of this story Is the
tale of a rapidly running fight, lively
and bitter, that took place in the early
hours of today Every share of Its
multi-colored setting is touched with
the most brilliant light of the individ
ual color. Elags, music, men frantic
with enthusiasm, hope and fear, wo
men dizzy with the excitement of the
morning and expert leaders running at
full tilt from delegation to delegation to
make a scene that no person who saw
it will ever forget.
Up Again and
Ready for Struggle.
It was nineteen minutes after mid
night. The eleventh ballot had been
started. Hardly had the 24 votes of
Alabama been placed mechanically in
the Underwood column before it was
evident that a ferment was in progress
Roger Sullivan, of Illinois, was making
a personal round of the delegation He
stopped long at Pennsylvania. He even
sought William Jennings Bryan for a
talk and Bryan immediately got up
and went to the New York delegation
where he talked with Charles F Mur
phy. Connecticut had wavered in her
decision and had asked to be passed
Massachusetts had followed suit. Th.
atmosphere was full of uncertainty.
McGraw, of West Virginia. Joined in the
party calls that were being made on
the delegations. Openly before the
press stand he arranged with George
Fort Milton. the Tennessee editor, to
send 13 delegates over to the Clark
column. There came a rumor that
Bryan’s friends were preparing to send
his name into the contest and that a
demonstration was on tap. Nellie Bly.
the noted newspaper woman, went
forth to verify the report. With wo
man's wit she asked Bryan if he ex
pected to make a show, and then get
ting no satisfactory anew. r. suggested:
"Suppose I start a demonstration for
you
Either Bryan saw through the rusy
or he was astounded by the proposal
He quickly flushed and replied:
"If you do. I will leave the hall."
That was all the newspaper woman
wanted; merely to know where he
stood.
New York was reached In the ballot
ing while the floor work of the leaders
progressed The delegation from the
Empire State was on Its feet, eagerly
caucusing. All eyese went to the spot
In the center of the braves.
As the hands of the clock dropped to
nineteen minutes after midnight, the
clerk called:
“The state of New' York."
Charles Murphy advanced to the cen
ter of the aisle. The convention waved
Itself from a hum and buzz of excited
conversation to a moment of grave
like silence.
New York's Shift
Brings Clark Outburst.
"Mr. Chairman." began Murphy, "the
New York delegation has polled It
Hands HI for Clark—”
He didn t finish that sentence for
half an hour In the meantime there
was action of the moat thrilling de
scription. M.Gtaw's West Virginia
fighters pluck'd their standard and
started a parade North Carolina, Ne
vada, Colorad" Kentucky. Missouri.
Kansas. California lliim-A. New Mex
ico, Maryland. Washington, the Dis
trict of Columbia and Rhode Island
joined the proces-mr. In the order
named.
V mighty cheer m. • k-•<! the making
if th' Murphy ann ’ .”nt and the
stalling of the param I■ . entire con
vention. delegates, spe-mtms and po
lice guards, was on Its feet and on
chars. Men sailed the '■(’.- over the
assemblage as small boy - w mid throw
chips at play. The gallery became a
moving, waving mass of I: i nanity and
of flags.
Six men bore a hug, tv. ■ with
“Massachuaetts" on it arour •no hall.
A picture of Clark, larger ■ any
barn door in his native state. ar
rled by .i dozen men The b arl
ly able to mak a dent in the ' ■ broke
out
"Every time I come to town.
The boys keep a-kickin' my dawg
aroun'."
The bannei bearers who had Jum;ed
into the demonstrati 'll with Clark ban
ners that had ever been in evidence li
the convention began walking down
the center aisb to tin country dan
music. The dame smiting u yellln;;
contest. California's great blue, yvhlte
and gold batin' r was borne through the
rear of the hall. The entire shouting,
howling, clark-mad hand went around
and around the ha and then . limned
up the steps to >he chairman's desk,
planting their batin' rs and sta:< stand
ards about Ollie James
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on the stand seemed to favor the pro
ceedings and helped it along. The ser
geant-at-arms beat time for the cheer
ing and Ollie James smiled his largest,
fourteen-foot smile. For twenty-two
solid minutes the outbreak continued.
The Wilson host, stunned by the sun
den switch of Now York, sat. dazed for
a moment, and then every worker
among them flew to the other delega
tions ns men along the Mississippi
upon the time of a flood fly at midnight
carrying sacks of sand to protect a
threatened levee from a dangerous
break.
Flood Sweeping Down
On Wilson Forces.
The flood was at Its crest. It was
sweeping down on the Wilson ranks
with the avowed purpose of demolish
ing them. The question was, could the
Wilson forces so shore its levees that
they would stand, the strain.
The score stood, with the addition of
New York tn the list, Clark 407, Wil
son 138. Hannon 33, Underwood 84.
Marshall 31. Bryan 1, Kern 1. and the
call was not half way down the state
list.
The anxiety over the exact situation
aided the sergeant-at-arms to get a
semblance of order. He pleaded and
pounded, demanding attention Curios
ity to know what was coming got the
upper hand of enthusiasm for what had
already gone before, and the delegates
paused tn their wild riot.
The clerk, with the entire house un
der intense nervous pressure, said in
quiringly :
"New York, 81 votes for Clark'?"
Murphy was In the center of the aisle
again. He took up the incompleted
sentence of the half hour agone as
though he had never been Interrupt
ed :
"One for Underwood, eight for Wil
son."
Again he was stopped by a wild dem
onstration which was based upon a
New York delusion and a snare, for
hardly had it died when the cool Mur
phy continued, without breaking the
tone of his disconnected response:
"Under the unit rule of 90 tor Clark "
Had a fire engine hose turned an iei
water stream on the Wilson .host the
effect could not have been more start
ling. Had a man dropped a powder
magazine in the act of exploding into
tile (’lark camp the result could not
have been more suddenly violent. The
one groaned and hissed; the other
( licered until the building shook
Four minutes of boisterous cheering,
of agonized boos. Then the call was
pl, ked up and everybodj hung upon the
i all to see whether the Clark flood was
going to wipe away Wilson planta
tions Evidently the Wilson workers
had struck pay dirt on their hasty
rounds, for Oklahoma first blocked th ■
Hood When her name was called at
12:45 o'clock a delegate started a
speech.
Roar of Protest From
"Alfalfa Bill" Murray.
Wc have reached the conclusion."
he began, "that Clark is the party's
vhoiei- -
Thein was a imii from the floor. Men
climbed in theli ' halts again Hut "Al
tulf.i Hili' Muiii)' th' hngthx leader
es tin Wilson sld> w is instantly In tile
breai I). He ehmi" . high above hi-
AI LASTA UWJKUAAJN AIN D JN E.VV 8. BAT I KDAY, JUJNK 1912.
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fellows, draped Ills grotesque figure
about the standard of his state and
shouted:
"We came to this here convention in
two sections. We stand now just
where we were when we came here.
What we insist is that we don't join
Tammany ”
They stopped "Alfalfa Bill” with a wild
storm bf cheers that instantly progress
ed to a great Wilson demonstration. By
nearly ten minutes it eclipsed its pre
ceding rival in period of elapsed time
In noise either would have halted the
film) blast of the last reveille.
In the center of the hail, under the
Staunton banner of the Wilson fight
ers, Mrs. A. E. Thornton, of Staunton,
Va., supported a remarkably pretty lit
tle girl in white, who stood on ;1 chair
and cheered on the demonstration. Two
other women joined the throng and it
became the center of a group of abso
lutely frantic men. It was the first
sack of sand thrown upon the Wilson
levee to stop the oncoming rush of
the angry, mi’gftty Clark tide that
threatened to stampede the conven
tion nnd make the houn’ dawg song a
national air.
The sack of sand worked perfectly.
"Alfalfa RIH" Murray had cheeked tlje
stampede and the receding Clark wa
ters. impelled by the mighty current
of the New York vote, had not, at the
close of the vitally important, ballot,
taken one inch of earth from tbe bul
warks before the Princeton cause. On
the contrary it had added an accretion
of half a vote over the original Wilson
strength of the New York and had
taken but 21 se.ttterlng votes, In ad
dition to New York from the other
side's stream
Harmon Suffers
By Switch.
The i (insert ativ " ranks had suffered
chiefly from the switch to Clark. It
wiped but the Harmon vote, took a
crimp In the Underwood balance that
(lid not weaken the situation for the
Alabama man to .mt considerable ex
tent. and left the Wilson strength prac
tlcallt unlmpah'd. The ofllCal figures
of the clerk were grossly in error in the
table" On onij three out p.f vl.mu
ballots were thej aceuratelj stated in
every detail.
For Instance, on the important tenth
ballot New York was ie. m ded as Clark
81, W ilson 8 and Underwood 1. whereas
the whole 90 votes of New York wore
cast as a unit for Clark from the ve:r
stait as New York votes on all propo
sitions.
Obvious!;. if (lu official figures be
taken mote votes W'ere cast on the cru
cial ballot than there were del* gates
in the convention, because this eoirvc-i
tion would add to Clark 9 votes for
which no account is made in the Wil
son list. The actual figures for the
two , andi'lat. s on the three last bal
lot wer<
Tenth Ballot—Clark, 5'6. Wilson
354 1-2.
Eleventh Ballot -Clark 554. Wilson
354 1-2.
Twelfth Ballot -Clark 519 1-2. Wil
son 354
After tile tenth ballot the tide r,
(tried somewluit and it became evident
that no nomination could be made dur
ing the night and a liasta aga cement
was reached to adjourn As the .dele
gates went fioni the hall theta was
mu'l; discussion .of a compi"iiiis., .an
di'inte with Kern's name prominent!}
before tie delegates Mayot Gaynor,
nt N, w York. .. .is als.i mentioned, bit l
there was’no decided drift in his di
na tion.
CLARK WINNER BY
OEMOGIHCfS
OWN RULES
Man With the Majority Has
Heretofore Been Chosen.
Wilson Out of It.
By JAMES B. NEVIN.
BALTIMORE, June 29. -Another
long, fruitless, grilling night has pass
ed into history, and the big problem be
fore the Democratic convention for so
lution still is far from solved.
Last night was strikingly unlike the
night before. Alueh of the fatigue of
the previous day had lapped over. Th
excitement won repressed and more in
tensive. every one was looking every
minute for the break that never came,
for the bursting of the bomb that
would settle for this year of grace, the
question of Democratic ascendency or.
downfall nationally.
Champ Clark Won.
By the .ancient rule of the game.
Chfimp Clark won the nomination last
night. On more than'one ballot he re
ceived a clear majority of the votes
cast. It has been the unvarying and
unbroken custom of Democracy to give!
the nomination to the candidate getting
a majority of the vote, even while it
has required for him a formal ami
ratifying two-thifds.
Champ Clark, gradually gaining
ground all the way along, passed his
majority mark on the tenth ballot and
hold it on the'eleventh and twelfth. Ho
was away in the lend and many ate
saying till- morning that his gallant
tight yet will be awarded with the
crown of success, and that before the
Sabbath day Champ Clark will be marie
tbe Democratic standard bearer for
1912.
Unquestionably, there Is a note of
depression .and pessimism in the talk
of dozens of delegates this morning.
Many of them see in the present sit
uation inside the convention much that
f"l■eb.C.'s evil to the party, (one dele
gate coming out of the hail with me
this morning not fa: ahead of day
break, .-aid mor, or less Sadly: "Wc
are making it easier and easier every
minute for Roosevelt, who must bi
laughing In his sleeve at our imposibl,
plight "
Wilson Out of It.
Appa ently the convention has gone
into a Laid anil uncompromising deari
''•k out of it two things may come
Cork may win. but Wilson has reached
the zenith an,j the fullncs of his’eftort
and mvr will come within sight of
victory He has been hopelessly out of
(Vci -m e (.he fi st ballot wits !.•-
- v»ti befota that. His friend--
ar. bluer than itlrjlga, his banner has
been furled foreve r.
Famous Writer Gives a
Graphic Description
of the Most 'Lense
Moment During Dem
ocratic Gathering.
BALTIMORE, June 29.—Following is
Arthur Brisbane's story of the fight of
W. J. Bryan for his resolution trying to
oust Thomas F. Ryan and Angus: Bel
mont from the Democratic national
convention:
By ARTHUR BRISBANE.
Ollie James, presiding yvith a voice
bigger than Parker’s. orders aisles
cleared, doors closed, only late dele
gates admitted.
Now Bryan is up, raising his hand in
the old way. It is Just 8:21,.and this
Democratic picnic or battle has begun.
Bryan has a resolution which hp
thinks should: be considered a"t once, be
fore startmg to nominate, fie-..wants
unanimous consent, and gets it, iqispite
of one .feeble "No.”
Bryan's resolution resolves to send
greetings to the people of the United
States in this crisis, and assures the
people that the Democratic party of
Jefferson .and Jackson is still the peo
ple's friend, and pledges itself against
any candidate representing J. Pierpont
Morgan, Thomas F. Ryan. August Bel
mont —here the cheers stop Bryan. He
goes on, demanding the withdrawal
' from this convention of any delegates
representing the above named inter
ests.
invitation to Oust Money Kings.
; YeMs at this, for Bryan and , Bel
mont sit on the floor as delegates, and
it is an invitation to the convention to
put them out.
It is'Bryan's announcement that he
exercises—or proposes to exercise here
—the functions'exercised h.V St. Peter
above objections and howls and" ap
plause.
Will the convention vote to put out
the two men? Bryan asks for a deci
sion on his resolution.
Everybody expected Bryan to do
something tn arouse interest. His in
vitation to T. F. Ry an and August Bel
mont to get out is unkind, as Ryan in
an interview only just before said he
would cheerfully vote for Bryan if
nominated.
Govej’nor Gilchrist of Florida pro
tested in the name of home rule against
a man from Nebraska being allowed to
kick out a gentleman (T. F. Ryan)
from Virginia, the mother of states,
and another gentleman (August Bel
mont) from New York.
Bryan read his resolution over again.
This time some delegates hissed, per
haps said to themselves: “If those
that are here to represent money are
put out, what shall we do for a two
thirds majority?”
Ryan and Belmont Sit Calm.
T. F. Ryan and August Belmont sit
quite calm amid the disturbance of
yvhich they are the center
Bryan goes on to say that his resolu
tion t" kick out money is extraordinary,
but that times are extraordinary and
so unusual thing# are needed. He
wants Ryan and Belmont to get out in
order to help the candidate yvhen he is
nominated. He adds:
"Every delegate here knoyvs that an
effort is being made right now to buy
this convention and sell the candidate
to predatory wealth."
• Shameful, impertinent." Bryan calls
it.
Then he names Morgan. Belmont
and Thomas F. Ryan as financial
pirates, merciless in their demands on
the people.
Bryan has evidently “sprung" upon
the convention right at the start the
Idea upon yvhich he expects to get the
nomination. He says that Belmont and
Ryan's presence is an insult to six
and a half million Democrats. He says:
"1 for one am not willing that Thomas
F. Ryan and August Belmont should
come here with their lawyers and their
secret attorneys.
"I'll not tolerate that insult to my
party. Give us a chance to vote against
these arien.”
Bryan Out For a Fight.
Bryan is out for a fight, and he is
shoyving some ,»f the crowd how little
they know about politics compared
yvith him.
i He dares New York to take a poll on
the question, and says:
"I don't mean a vote by M. Murphy,
but a vote of delegates."
He says if Virginia and New York
yvill vote, each delegate by bls name, to
keep in Ryan and Belmont, lie (Bryan)
yvill yy ithdraw that part of his resolu
tion asking that Ryan and Belmont he
put out. But lie won't withdraw his
resolution that the convention pledge
itself to keep free from Morgan. Ryan
and Belmont influence.
Wild yells and disorder. Bryan mak
ing a big speech ami showing the poyv
er of an individual against organiza
tion.
Hall Flood, member of congress, has
his arms around Bryan and is whisper
ing in his ear In Intense excitement.
Flood is from Virginia.
Now Hall Flood has the floor, and
he begins: "In the name of the sover
eign state of Virginia. 1 accept the in
solent proposition made by the only
man in this convention."
W'l'.d yells droyvn his voice. He is
-aylng that Virginia yvill t ike his chal
lenge and < all th>; roll for Ryan. Nov.
comes a demonstration in the New
York and Virginia delegation for Ryan,
who is standing in the middle of the
aisle.
A Chance For Ryan.
If h<> had the voice and the skill to
say yyh.at Is in him. we should pr'ob
ibly heat some adjectives that yvould
make Bryan's seem pil< The Ne\y
Yorkers stand yelling for Ryan anil
some other delegate- cheer. They think
ie is opposed by odds too gnat to be
air. Ryan is holding up his hand but
can not possibly make his voice heard
in the din.
John VV. Price, of Virginia, is on the
platform yvaiting his chance to talk.
He gives way to Senator Vardaman,
who begins. "Fellow citizens.” He be
gins, but can not get attention for a
long time.
Then he says: “A question so vital
to the Democracy of America must be
settled by reason, good common sense
and moderation.” He shakes his fine
head of black hair and says Bryan’s
resolution contains, "in part, some mer
it.” Then he says it’s all right except
the part about kicking out individual
Democrats, but agrees that fewer
Belmonts and Ryans in the party the
better for the party in November.
Bryan gets the floor. He knows how
to do that, and then yields to Price, of
Virginia. This gentleman objects to
the kicking-out suggestion from Bryan,
but admires the. first,part of his resolu
tion, which is rather, hard on T. F.
Ryan, denounced by najiie.
Bryan Speaks Again.
Now Bryan makes another state
ment: "I shall modify my proposition.
Virginia notifies me that she desires
the last part of )ny resolution with
drawn.”
He goes on to say that if an author
ized member of the New York delega
tion will rise and ask that the part
about Belmont be withdrawn he will
yvithdtayv it. New York members veil
"NO!"
Bryan says: “I prefer to give New
York the opportunity. Does New York
want it?"
No answer. Then Bryan says New
oYrk can defend herself and he 11 re
serve the rest. of hjs time to talk
later. 7 t
Imagine howling, cheerijjg, hissing,
pounding with two gavels, shouting
through megaphones by clerks, etc,
and you will help your mental picture
of the scene.
Ex-Governor Mct'orkle, of Virginia,
is recognized and comes to the plat
form.
He gets some silence and a hearing
by a polite bow to Bryan and the state
ment that he has been working for
years under Bryan’s leadership. He
opposes putting out the two individu
als.
New York's delegation sits quiet and
sullen while McCorkle surprises Bryan
by speaking of the latter's senseless
and foolish resolution. The look that
Bryan gives him would curdle milk, al
most.
A great deal of yelling here. Mc-
Corkle says he knows he will now be
denounced as owned "by the interests,"
but he doesn’t care. He says Bryan has
"put success farther away than ft was
half an hour ago." He wants "to drive
the money changers from the temple” a
little later, not just now.
It’s a Good Fight.
It is a good fight—just the kind of
troubled waters in which Bryan swims
best. He has fooled the bosses by
smooth ways into just the -course he
wanted them to take. Now he can go
aJiead.
McCorkle, -having called Bryan sense
less. is cheered by Murphy's crowd.
Flood comes back to deny Bryan’s
statement that Virginia had asked him
to recall his resolution to kick out
Ryan. Flood denies Bryan’s truthful
ness and says, “Every man in Virginia
is as honest l as William J. Bryan ever
was." which are hard words to use to a
peerless one.
Flood made it worse by saying that
the Democrats that sent Ryan here "are
just as good Democrats as Mr. Bryan
ever dared to be.”
Saying this. Flood turned to Bryan,
shaking his head and both hands at
Bryan. He says Bryan's resolution is
"an insolent proposition made, by the
only man (Bryan I who wishes to de
stroy the Democratic party."
Plenty of Harsh Words.
More hard words. We are to have a
real battlefield here, one that will make
the performance of the battling bull
moose or Armageddon seem very gen
tle. If T. R. could have had in the
Chicago convention hall such a fight
against Root as Bryan is making here,
T. R. would have been named.
Then comes back Bryan, saying: “It
was not necessary for the gentleman
(Flood) to praise Virginia. That Is the
state in which my father was born, and
three years ago that state sent dele
gates instructed for my third nomina
tion."
That was praise indeed for Virginia,
but It did not placate Virginia, which
has now decided to get mad at Bryan
and help Murphy's men.
Brjan says that his own "reputation
as a Democrat will not be worth de
fending when it falls so low as to need
a defense against charges by a friend,
of Thomas F. Ryan. I now withdraw."
Here he can't be heard amid the howl
ing.
He is finally heard and says he will
withdraw the last part of the resolu
tion. (Yells of "No! No'") But Bryan
says he insists on withdrawing it: so
that no delegate may hide behind the
last purl and vote against it.
He says, “i’ll quote the Bible doctrine:
'lf the unjust hand offend thee, cut it
off.' "
Unfair Advantage of Murphy.
That was hardly fair, as Murphy would
not let his men hiss anything from the
Bible.
Bryan said if it was worth while to cut
off the right hand to save the body it was
right to cut off Morgan and Ryan ami
Belmont to save the party.
Then Lewis Nixon got tip to say that
New York did not ask Bryan tn withdraw
any part of the resolution. The chair,
ollie James, said Bryan had withdrawn
the last part of his resolution, taking out
liyan and Belmont, and the chair ordered
the resolution read as amended by Bryan,
pledging the Democratic party against any
eamiidate tied up with Morgan. Ryan,
Belmont ami such, but leaving off the
part about kicking Ityan and Belmont out
of the hall.
The roll-call starts. Yelling ami shout
ing continues as the resolution is ex
plained as one to suspend the rules and
tn adopting Mr Bryan's amemled resolu
tion, telling the whole world that the
Democratic is a 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 ail kinds. It
is, probably an interesting thing to feel a
fight so keenly and be the middle of it.
One man moves to adjourn till ,12 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 mah body;
but mah soul belong to God."
The convention is the body of Unclet
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.
Will it end with a beautiful transfigura
tion scene—Uncle Tom’s soul (Bryan) ris
ing on a pink November cloud to the
White House heaven? Who can say?
It is ten minutes of ten by this time,
the roll-call proceeds, and we have had
really a very lively one hundred minutes
of Democratic convention.
Those interested in politics study Bry
an’s face as the roll drags slowly, amid
the talking and laughing of a erowd en
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. It begins to feel that perhaps ft
is true that a worm ’trodden upon feels
a pang as great as when a giant dies.
Ryan and Belmont, of course, are the
worm, and Bryan the giant. The crowd
feels that even Wall Street worms are*
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 a square deal.
If Bryan could have persuaded Virginia
and New York to ask him to withdraw
the motion to put out Ryan and Belmont,
he would have kept for himself- the tre
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 Balaklava
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. It does
not matter to the two heroes of Balaklava,
however. The resolution is no longer to
put them out. It merely says that they
are unfit to be in the convention.
Have you ever dreamed that you were
out in a crowded street stark naked, try
ing to hide behind a doorstep with a mil
lion fingers pointed at you?
Dreadful Dream Is Over,
And have you waked up with a gentle
sigh to find yourself in bed, suitably clad?
If so, you know how the two veterans ot
the Bryan Balaklava. Ryan and Belmont?
feel now that the dreadful dream is over’
Ryan, of a deep religious turn, was re
minded of that scene in the book of Jah,/
when the Lord asks Job "Where wash
thou when I 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: "I was at
tending to my own business in the Mor
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. It is only
half past ten, and the heroes of Wall
Street may have more doses of the Bryan
Armageddon in store for them. Massa
chusetts has just voted 33 for Bryan and
3 against him. So far there are 232 votes
with Bryan and 148 against him.
Minnesota gives her 24 votes to Bryan.
We have heard nothing at all from the
Wilson supporters, who thought that
Bryan was working for them. No more
Wilson booming. "Their lances unlisted.
their trumpets unblown," is the line for
them. They were roused from a. sweety
dream Just as the awful nightmare of
the Balaklava heroes began.
When Taglloni 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
were 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
whelming majority. He had tn 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 a defeat on the motion
to put the two men out.
When Bryan saw that he was sure to
win by a very high vote his emasculated
resolution, he was evidently relieved and
went to the rear of the platform, where
he sits now with eyes closed, resting as
he listens to various samples of flattering
comment
Bryan Is wonderful in his ability to keep
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 rim
In a 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 Choynskl had knocked out Robert
Fitzsimmons, the latter gentleman, as hS|
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 a voice counting “Six. seven, eight."
Then lie came to himself. "I believe I'm’
fighting some one and I’m getting counted
out." He rose to his feet as the refere®
counted ((nine," staggered over to Choyn
skl 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 a genuine profession
al and never lost his presence of mind
So it is with Bryan. He Is still rest- ,
ing. eves closed, most asleep, saving up ■
tor the next hard punch
Tennessee'is just called The vote now
stands 708 in favor of Bryan and onlv 207
against him. That’s why he is dozing,
and why he n olonger glares around with /
the fierce eye of a hen that misses a
ehfeken.
A two-thirds vote is needed to pass the
motion made by Bryan—just the per
centage needed to nominate Bryan will
get the two-thirds vote for his motion
Weep, you little coryphee candidates,
that know not how these things Are dene.
And you also, please weep, balling Bull
Moose of Armageddon.
Bryan the Man Who Knows How.
Brvan is the man who knows how"
when it comes to political manipulation.
He began his fight against Parker and
was beaten eH made another fight and \
carried more than half the convention. ■
He marie the fight on the South Dakota 1
contests and won by almost the needed
two-thirds.
Now he makes this fight, holding two
octopuses up to scorn and naming them
and winning by 889 votes to 196. many
more than it would take to nominate him
This vote is announced and the yelling
crowd begins to realize which candidate
is Miss Taglioni with the wonderful ora
torical toe and which are the chortm can
didates. Mr. Bryan stops dozing and
smiles, when his vote, far above two
thirds, is announced