Show SESSION OF after keynote address of chairman bell P adjournment is talen as tribute to cleveland denver the democratic national convention began its del be rations on tuesday july 7 the session lasting a little over two hours being notable more tor for its impressive magnitude and spectacular effects than for the business accomplished it gave how ever the opportunity for awakening echoes of convention enthusiasm the keynote speech of the temporary pre ding officer theodore A bell of cal Ifor rila a heated skirmish incidental to the contest in the pennsylvania del degation and finally an unanimous tribute of homage and respect to the memory of the late grover cleveland the doors of the hall were unbarred at 11 10 0 clock nearly one hour be tore fore the gavel of national chairman laggart was scheduled to tall fall as the signal for the beginning of the the initial session the apparent conveniences faaili ties and architectural fitness of the rew auditorium for convention pur poses was remarked by practically every delegate who filed in at 12 clock promptly chairman thomas taggart of the national corn com I 1 1 W THOMAS TAGGART chairman democratic national com cittee n attee brought down his gavel with 1 resounding whack and called the convention to oder order o der it was a stirring scene which spread before chairman taggart when with uplifted gavel he sought to bring or oer out of the confused babel ol 01 sound and motion the splendid amphitheatre bedecked w th flags and buting was pocked to its uttermost limits with a dense and seething mass of humanity below in the central arena sat the delegates just two more than an even thotis thousand and and bad of them the one thousand alternates here and there amid the bewilder ing throng stood out the notable groups of leaders immediately in fi fiant ont and under the ng officers e ee e were ranged the nebraska delaga tion bronzed sons of the west headed b the cowboy mayor dahlman the personal spokesman of bryan well lu in front were the new york cohorts w th chef ch et murphy cold and arable and judge parker rather se rious faced further back colonel guffey was the sm ling center of his pennsylvania adherents and near him jmes kerr who is struggling to dis place guffey and take up the leader ship illinois was to the left center with the rotund roger sullivan to the tho fore further bad tom johnson the fighting mayor of cleveland JUDGE GEORGE GRAY of delaware gavel sent him to his place among the distinguished guests upon the plat form near him there sat a notable group the venerable Ser senator lator daniel of virginia a type of the old time southerner with towne the vice pres id identical ident ial candidate and orator and the I 1 11 blonde congressman sul zei of new york with the virgin ians child ild be seen governor swanson N with ith nevada governor D cherson and senator Ne newlands with kentucky senator mccreary with missouri senator stone and occasionally ex Co governor vernor dockery and the redoubt able champ clarl with idaho former senators dubois and heitfeld Helt feld minne seta with the johnson lieutenants was poorly placed in the rear while delaware with the gray forces was better off in the right foreground off the left the president presidents s daughter mrs JUDSON HARMON of oh 0 alice longworth in fetching gown and lady gay spanker bat hat with flow ing plume sm led from one of the boxes and from another box looked out the daughter of the nebraska I 1 ader mrs ruth bryan leavitt the initial outburst of enthusiasm c me just as the sess on was opening when a silken banner bearing the por trait of bryan was displayed immediately there was a storm of wild ap which died away after halt half a minute of explosive demonstration x ahe he appearance of the temporary pie pi e eld ng officer bell dell of california waa was another signal for enthusiastic out burst in strong far carrying voice and easy gesture he delivered the 01 ening address a full hour long with le ic sounding passages on the righting of public wrongs punctuated with yells as some phrase tickled the fancy ol 01 the throng it was noticeable that great ap came from the delegates at bell s impassioned that the writ of injunction shall not be turned into an instrument of opples s on again there was uproarious uproar ous ap 1 clause lause as he arraigned republican campaign contributions with a cash f 17 vl V SENATOR J W DANIEL of viro vira nia teg reg ster after referring to taft as a v bi bisected candidate and demand lg fag l g but one man in the white house cit at a time he adroitly turned his speech into a panegyric for mr bryan the reference to the nebraska leader bringing uri nging forth a tumultuous demon the presentad presen tat on of resolutions of i aspect ta J the memory of ex president Clevel cleveland nd brought to the fiant two i notable figures judge parker of new york the democratic candidate ot of lour four years ago and governor francis of missouri one of the surviving mem memi i bers of the cleveland cabinet the rc resolutions solutions as adopted emantel from mr bryan s friends and were present ed by I 1 N dunn of nebraska who wilia make the nomi speech for bry an they wee no sooner read than shouts of parker parker showed tle tl e generous temper of the convention toward the former leader judge par I 1 er was prevailed upon to mount the platform where with resonant voice le 1 e read his own resolutions ong of trib ute to mr cleveland closing with a tactful concesa on to the bryan force forces tv seconding the resolutions present 3 ed by them governor francis tribute to his former chief breathed the spirit of personal association and deep admiration with the adopt on of the resolutions the convention ad journee until noon wednesday |