EIGHT HOURS YELLING BY 10,000 DEMOCRATS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 434, 10 September 1908, Page 4

EIGHT HOURS YELLING BY 10,000 DEMOCRATS.

At the close of insane and hysterical din, lasting from 7 o’clock in the evening of July nth till 3.30 the following morning, Mr Bryan was nominated at Denver as Democratic candidate for the Presidentship of America. The actual vote was : Mr Bryan 892 y 2 , Governor Johnson 46, Judge Gray When the result was announced, the leaders of the opposition, in accordance with tradition, moved that then nomiation be made unanimous.

The scenes at the Democratic Convention were unparalleled even in American political history. For more than eight hours 10,000 people yelled themselves hoarse, executing Comanche warwhoops and performing on tin horns and megaphones, while bands vainly tried to drown them by playing patriotic airs. Only at brief intervals was there the slightest lull, during which a few sentences of one or other of the speakers who roared into the ears of the stenographers could be heard. Tier upon tier of the gallery was filled with agitated women in white, and coatless and hatless men waving flags and banners, while below the thousand delegates capered, marched to and fro and sang and shouted, No one pretended even to listen to the “platform,” the party’s confession of faith, the recital of which occupied over an hour. At the end scores of visitors clambered on the tables in the body of the hall. In the frightful crush several women were carried away fainting. Mr Byran listened all night by telephone to the orgy of noise. When the result was announced he issued a declaration, a la Mr Roosevelt, that if selected he would never again be a candidate. A sleepy and hollow-eyed convention reassembled in the afternoon and completed its duties by nominating Mr Kern, Indiana, for the Vice-Presidentship. He is regarded as a tower of strength in his own State, of which he was the last Democratic Governor before it went Republican. The Tammany leader made no nomination from New York.