Show the delegates with enthusiasm ARE unequaled scenes of excitement cit ement hill allas and discuss the platform says burn down your and leave our farms and we build them up again destroy farms and the grass will grow every city in the aulon platform adopted nominations balloting at 10 today chicago july 9 this has been a ol 01 days in the history ol 01 national political conventions from early morn until late at night with the exception of a three hours intermission the gigantic coliseum the burgest ball in the world was crowded to the doors with interested and enthusiastic spectators but great in numbers had been the masses who attended the morning and afternoon fitting they were as nothing comparison to the record breaking audience that thronged the areat audience at the evening assembling such a catherinc gath erinc had never been been at a convention where the narrow ribbons ol 01 aisles hae marked the various divisions of the huge interior there was gathered hundreds perhaps thousands ot those who could not find other ac every chair was filled and bome idea ot the meaning of this maybe gained by the knowledge that the coliseum has a capacity of and in audition to the myriads who choked and crowded every available apace many more estimated at in number were gathered about the entrances during the greater part of the evening fruitlessly clamoring for admission the pinnacle of emotional expression was reached in a scene wonderful in its presentation remarkable in its city and unprecedented probably in any similar gathering of a political party there has been an outburst of enthusiasm stirring to behold when david B hill finished a areat rhetorical effort in antagonism to the platform presented by the committee on eions the vast assemblage haj listened to the speech by sir tillman replete in emphasized expression and lion of president cleveland and had showed approval and disapproval by cheers and hisses but when william J bryan of nebraska handsome vigorous and magnetic and not unlike mckinley in voice inflection and facial expression concluded the effort of hie eife in the free coinage plat there occurred one of those euenee which sends the blood fast coursing through the veins of even the most pae eive spectator and remain fixed ia memory for a lifetime like the terrible premonitory rumbling that gives warning of the approach of ten thousand cattle stampeded delegates and spectators began the ovation to the young nebraskan Kebr askan and the volume of sound grew and grew until it could grow no more and men went mad as bryan in his passage down the aisle toward the nebraska beate was in the whirlwind of frenzied enthusiasm and lifted high on the shoulders of delegates from floor to gallery the waves of applause swept and back again from gallery to floor and when and shouting yelling cheering mafere fell back exhausted william J bryan had been cast into the arena of presidential hope as a full fledged candidate for bis party an attempt on the part of senator tillman to have the convention condemn president cleveland and hie policy had been by many protests from senator jones and bryan who though admittedly administration anti in their kiewe declined any abuse of the man who had been twice the choice of their arty senator tillman admonished the cheering which gave commenda com menda ion to the remarks cf jones and bryan withdrew his resolution at night the candidates for the nomination were named by noted orators and abo usual demonstrations held bland was cheered to the echo and a scene of the wildest enthusiasm ensued when senator vest mentioned hie name at the edd of the nominating bryan suddenly injected into the list of probable candidates by bis speech of the morning was put before the convention in his maiden effort of delegate H T lewis of georgia who established a reputation for natural oratory in few brief moments he took for the purpose and equal to the demonstration for bland was that which greeted his nominee A young woman leaped to a choir in the callery and waved a boies banner and nearly every man in the vast hall whether from gallantry or not greeted her with cheers she marched through the hall with the boies standard borno above her head the audience catching the full spirit of the enthusiasm and shouted approval might and main until late in the night these stirring scenes continued and the thousands gathered arder the vast expanse of iron canopy never seemed to tire of using their lungs convention hall july 9 As the doors of the mammoth coliseum were thrown open this morning streams of people welled up through the entrance and the band struck up marsaa Mas in the cold cold ground many thought today would bethe last day of the convention champion gladiators were to meet then a declaration of principles plea would bu made and candidates selected the ultra balver cohorts are jubilant and confident and are in control the heroic minority doomed to defeat came with loins girded for A death struggle the rebellion hung like pall above the convention and people ranged as doping hilta that overlooked the arena to watch the battle of tho wrestling giants the faces of the gold men were grim and grave some defiant the managers of the several candidates were marshaling their forces bland got the first demonstration bhea the band at the head 0 several st his boomers circled the galleries the band played succession of stirring airs as the clans and crowds gathered there wore several rows at the entrances several spectators who were making themselves obnoxious were ejected hill offered to the convention a minority report of the financial plank also a resolution indo the tian the sixteen delegates the minority of the committee on resola lions find nine declarations in the report of the majority to which they cannot give their assent some of those are wholly some of are ill considered and ambiguously phrased while others are extreme and revola and against the well recognized principles of the party the minority content with this general expressions their dissent without going into a specie statement of pheob contents of the report of the majority but upon the financial ques tion which engages at this time the chief share of public attention the views of the majority differ fundamentally from what the minority regard as the vital democratic doctrine as j to demand a distinct state ineal of what they bold to as the only juet and true expression of faith upon this paramount ideue as allowe ol lowe which ie offered as a substitute for the financial planks in the majority report we declare our belief in the experiment on the part of the united states alone of the free coinage of silver and a change of the existing standard of value independently of the action of other great nations would not only imperil our chanced but would retard or entirely prevent the establishment of international bimetallism to which the ef ort the government should be directed it would place our country upon a silver batie impairing its contracts disturb buei geee diminish the purchasing power of the wages of labor and inflict irreparable evil upon our nations commerce and industry until international among the leading nations for the free coinage of can be ee cured we favor the rigid maintenance of the existing gold eland ard ae essential to the of our national credit the redemption 0 our public nd keeping inviolate our honor we insist that all our paper and silver currency shall be kept at a parity with fasold the democratic party ia for bard money and opposed to legal tender payment at a parti of our permanent financial system and weare therefore to a grad ual retirement and cancellation ol 01 all united states and treasury notes asder each legislative provisions as will prevent undue contraction we bold that the national credit shall be resolutely maintained at all throes and under all circumstances the minority also holds that the report of the majority defective is in ailing to make any recognition ol 01 the honest and economic louree and acl ity of the present democratic adminis they therefore offer the following declaration as an amendment to the majority report we commend the honesty economic course an fidelity of the present national administration senator hill offered thia report also following amendments amend mente tu the platform and moved their adoption but it should be carefully provided by law at the same time that any change in monetary standard should not apply to existing contract our advocacy of alie independent free coinage of silver beira based on a belief that euch coinage will effect and maintain a parity between and silver at a ratio of 16 to 1 we declare as a pledge of our sincerity aba if such free coinage shall fail to effect such a parity within one year from its enactment by law such coinage shall thereupon be suspended A plank wag added to the platform reiterating pronouncements to previous platforms guaranteeing inc civil and ous liberty congressman bryan offered the following plank and it was adopted as a part of the pitt form we are in favor of arbitration of the differences between employers engaged in interstate converce conw erce and their em aloyes and such legislation as is necessary to irav out this principle senator white permanent chairman appeared on wae stage at 1040 he yore a pink shirt and a gay blue string tie lie wai so baaree that he could hardly above whisper an effort te pro chice a boies demonstration when the lowans entered with a huge banner was at 1052 chairman white dropped the gavel the baix of voices subsided and the delegates took their beats ew england delegations with the exception of a few stragglers had not arrived the kew york delegation however headed by hill and whitney were in their places balky bissel of buffalo absent at five minutes benere ali alev green of cedar jowa pal clergyman who made the opening prayer yesterday acain ariae for the came office he prayed that the choice of the convention en foht man whose work would redound to the glora of hie aoun try and god when prayer was concluded senator white handed the gawl to congress mm richardson of tennessee a slender man with a black mustache stoop of the who announced that the commit leo on revolutions was ready to report and caged to tho platform senator tones of arkansas to make tha committee report jones adjusted hie spectacles and began to read the financial plank 0 the platform which colonel charles II 11 jones a st louis journalist had written the effect of the reading would have been better bad the southern senator controlled a stronger voice the silver ranks raised a cheer when some of them the words we demand the free ami unlimited coi naffe gold and silver one enthusiast demanded that the passage be reread re read which waa done jones said he was hoarse and indeed hia voice two or three times nearly failed him aa the delegates could not bear much of the most of its points tell but the denunciation of the government interferences by injunction which is taken as an indirect approval of governor course during the chicado strike met with recognition when the plank ex preening pree eing sympathy with cuba bad been read a flae ef the new republic with blue and white stripes and a eicele etar on a red field was carried along the aisles it did not arouse the which the par tiang of cuba hoped it would richardson Richard sou rapped on the desk and cried put down that flag eo it disappeared from sight the platform was concluded without marked applause then the report of the mio erity was read J H wade of ahk former clerk 0 the ol 01 representatives senta tives the gold people roee and cheered but after their outbreaks ot yesterday their efforts were basat the endorsement indorsement indor ol 01 the adminis which hail anade a losing ficht for in committee on brought out a yell from the galleries several new york delegates food and wired their bats but Hill Whitney anda were not o 0 tor ben tillman of boubli carolina mounted the stage to open the great cle bate fn behalf of free coinage A striking fiacre be wae as he faced the audience with no pretensions to dreece shabbily coated he instantly drew the eyes ef people they turned toward hini ae if be was an antagonist hie thick ait commanding form of was full of defiance ilia bead thrown back was round end compact his features strong and powerful were cast in classic mould 18 noeo was lips thin and compressed jaw equale and pugna a sunken cavity which barked his left ej eave bia faze a sinister expression it was a face never to be or golton on one lapel of his coat he wore cuban and on the other a pitchfork one moment people held their breath as they gazed then they broke forth in cheers mingled with hisses the aid of an assistant at arme quickly sup pressed the demonstrations tillmans Till mane first sentence showed he had a good well modulated voice but be pitched the key 0 o edrill it grated lie was characteristic from ake beginning ho realized as far as aho galleries were concerned that he faced an audience entirely hostile he introduced himself to them by saying he was before them as he was not AS lying newspaper had represented ibia to be sounds of approval from the pit greeted this announcement it was drowned in a storm of hisses from the sg allery which waa increased to a perfect whirlwind of sound 1 I come from a state which was the borne of jefferson said tillman and turned defiantly and fiercely surveyed a vast congregation which was hissing then with a contemptuous toss of hia head ho looked at the silver delegates before him his eye blazing and said are only three that hiss a goose a serpent and a man cisine hia head and addressing the cali eries be shouted that men who hissed south carolina history of the revolutionary when that state kept alive the fire of liberty this provoked a wild demonstration from the silver men south carolina in he said led the fight in the democratic larty which disrupted it disruption ie continued while the galleries hissed brought about the war and the war the black slaves no ie added ewi nging his arm through the air about his bead we are landing a to emancipate the white slaves thag time the silver men had their innings but did not applaud very lustily when he declared that with conditions reversed he waa willing to again see the democratic party disrupted repeated ly as he proceeded the pil ceries hissed Several times the sergeant at arms threatened to clear the galleries the dilver men shouted their approval when he declared they were adopting a i new declaration of independence afi bo 1 or bust A storm ot hiskea earner I 1 again alien te repudiated the denial that this was a sectional contest 1 I ear it Is a sectional issue he said and will prevail after these ajr technical expressions characteristic of the man he drifted into statistics to show the bondage of the south and to the east these dry figures gave the hostile gall ariee another opportunity to cry him down time time they shouted this aroused the senator to anger he paced the platform like an 1 enraged lion 1 I know I 1 know he cried with arms aloft you are against us thero ie not a paper in this city that is not in the power of money influences they will not eive us fair show they characterize acte us a bowline deranged ailder lunatics many delegates came up the aisle and stood at the flour of studying intently the feature of the remarkable man before them continuing thiman declared that the only way to avert a revolution would be to select a man whose record would fit the lat form soon the hissing began again at ON SW W S Y 4 convention 8 lagee radical utterances and the in pome carolina mid four years ago the decator was hissed as 1 am new york abere ia new york now he ked where is the new york S came ader 7 in the P cb brought the cry hill P with see alood waiting for the noise to giside gb side then using his 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