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BRYAN'S GREAT ADDRESS SURPRISE OF THE NIGHT Eloquent Nebraskan Attacks Policy of President and Concludes by Second ing Cockrell's Nomination. St Louis, July $. When the state ef Nebraska was called upon 'this morning to second the nomination for candidate for president, Mr. Bryan, chairman of the state delegation, as lie arose was received with vociferous cheering. When finally the applause of the nation presents for the office of president of the great republic a man who Is granite and Iron and who rep resents not the doctrine of peace, but the doctrine that the destinies of na tions are still settled by their wars. (Loud applause.) Will you of New cheering. When nnauy me pp ; lniilctment had subsided sufficiently to allow his t .hnn lhftt. being heard, he said: ,, , ;.''':" Gentlemen of the Convention: Two nights without sleep and a cold make it difficult for me; to make myself beard. I trust that it will be easier in a moment but as I desire to speak to the delegates rather than to the vis itors, I hope that they at least can hear. Eight years ago a democratic con vention placed in my hands the stand ard of the party and gave me the com mission as its candidate. Four years later that commission was renewed. I ewe tonight to this democratic conven tion to return the commission and to say to you that you may dispute whether I fought a good fight; you may dispute whether I finished my course but you cannot deny that I bave kept the faith. (Great cheers.) As your candidate I did all I could to bring success to the party. As a private cittien today I am more In terested In democratic success than I ever was when I was a candidate. (Cheers.) The reasons that made the election of a democrat desirable were stronger In 1900 than In 189 and the reasons that make the election of the AamtvTatie. candidate desirable are against President Roosevelt than that? Will you of the south present a graver indictment against President Roose velt than that? I do not ask what is the character of the man. He may have every virtue. He may be ex emplary In every way. But If the president shares the Idea of the man who nominated him; if the president believes with his sponsor at Cnicago that wars must settle the destinies of nations; that peace Is but a dream; that women may pray for it; that men may prophesy about it; that all these talks of orderly tribunals and all this are but empty sounds; if he believes these things he is a dangerous man for our country and the world. (Pro longed applause, cheering and ap plause.) I believe he ought to be de feated. I believe he can be defeated and If the democratic party does what it ought to do I believe he will be defeated. How can you defeat him? I tried to defeat the republican party as your candidate. I failed, you say. Tea, I did; but I received a million more votes than any democrat bad ever re ceived before and yet I tailed. Why did I fail? Because there were some who had affiliated with the democratic UWIWiauv v I stronger In 1904 than they were to 'party who thought my election dan 1900. The gentleman who presented New York's candidate dwelt upon the dan ger of militarism and he did not over state the dangers. Let me quote the most remarkable passage that ever oc curred or that was ever found in the speech of nomination of any candidate for president Governor Black of New Tork in presenting the name of Theo dore Roosevelt to the republican con vention used these words: "The fate of nations is still de elded by their wars. You may talk of orderly tribunals and learned referees. You may sing the gentle praise of the quiet life. You may strike from your books the last note of every martial anthem, and yet out in the smoke and thunder will be also the tramp of nor sea and the silent, rigid, upturned faces. Men may prophesy and women pray, but peace will come here to abide forever on this earth only when the dreams of childhood are the accept ed charts to guide the destinies of men. Events are numberless and mighty, and no man can tell which wire runs around the world. The na tion is living today in the quiet of con tentment and repose but may still be on a deadly circuit and tomorrow wr-lthlnir in the toils of war. This is the time when great figures must be kept to the front. If the pressure is great, the material to resist it must be of granite and iron." This la an euloerv of war. This is a declaration that the time hoped for. prayed for, of perpetual peace, will never come. This is eulogizing the doctrine of brute force and giving de niai tn the hoDes of the race. And this president, a candidate for re-elec tion, is presented as the embodiment of that Ideal, the granite and iron, to represent the new idea of militar ism. Do you say you want to defeat the military idea. Friends of the south, are you trying to defeat the military idea. Let me tell you that not one of you, north, east or south, more fears the triumph of that idea than I do. If this is the doctrine that our nation is to stand to, it is retro gressing, not progressing; it is the lowering of the ideals of the nation; it is turning backward to the age of force. More than that, it is a chal lenge to the Christian civilization of the world and nothing less. Twenty-seven hundred years ago a prophet foretold the coming of One who was to be called the "Prince of Peace." Two thousand years ago He came upon earth and the song that was sung at His birth was "Peace on earth, good will toward men. (Loud cheering and great applause.) For 2,000 years this doctrine of peace has been growing. It has been taking hold upon the hearts of men. For this doctrine of peace millions have given their lives among savage tribes and among foreign nations. This doctrine of peace, the foundation of Christian civilization has been the growing hope of the world and now the es-governor of the greatest state geroua to the country and they left and helped to elect my opponent That is why I failed. I have no words of criticism for them. (Applause.) But, my friends, if I failed with Bix million and a half to defeat the republican party, can those who defeated me suc ceed In defeating the republican par ty? If under the leadership of those who were loyal in 1896 (applause) we failed, shall we succeed under the leadership of those who were not loyal in 1896? (Applause.) If we are going to have some other god besides this war god that is pre sented us by Governor Black, what kind of a god is it to be? Must we choose between a god of war and a god of gold? Is there no choice be tween them? Nebraska is not here asking for the nomination of any man. We now have a platform on which we can all stand. (Loud applause and cheering.) Now give us a ticket behind which all of us can stand. Mr. Bryan here declared the willing ness of Nebraska to support Mr. Hearst, Mr. Wall of Wisconsin or ex- Governor Pattlson of Pennsylvania, and then he paid a glowing tribute to Senator Cockrell. He resumed his argument as follows: My friends, I believe that the great Issue in this country today is plu toe racy versus democracy. You have said that I had Just one idea, the sll ver idea. Well, a while back they said I had only one, but then It was the tariff Idea. There is an issue greater than the silver issue, the tariff issue, the trust issue. It In the issue between plutocracy and democracy Whether this is to be a government of the people, by the people, administered In behalf of the people. It is either this or it is to be a rule of the mon eyed element of the country for their own interest alone. The Issue has been growing. I want you as demo crats here assembled to help us meet this question. The people must un derstand that we are to have equal rights to all and special privileges to none. (Applause.) I came to get as good a platform as I could. I have helped to 'get a good platform. (Applause.) I came to get as good a candidate as I can get, and I hope that he will be one who can draw the factions together; who can give to us, who believe in aggressive positive, democratic reforms something to hope for and those who have dif fered from us on the main question, that he can give them something to hope for, and I close with an appeal that I make from my heart to the hearts of those who hear me. Give us a pilot who will guide the demo cratic ship away from the scylla.of militarism without wrecking her upon the charybldls of commercialism." (Demonstration.) The speaker almost reeled with ex haustlon as he neared the close of his address, and at times stopped and panted for breath. Coming down to the Issues of the convention, he ap proved the nomination of Hearst;, de clared that Olney and Wall would be acceptable, and then threw a thun derbolt into the convention by.- the words: "I come to second the nomination of Senator Cockrell of Missouri." For an Instant the convention held its breath In electrified surprise. Then a frantic cry of Joy came from the dosens of Mlssourlans on the floor and from the hundreds of doiens in the balcony, and cheer after cheer swept across the convention hall. The applause soon subsided, how ever, and Mr. Bryan went on to praise the Missouri senator In the highest terms to the ever recurring chorus of Missouri's approval. "I knew before I came here," he said, "that the majority was against me on the financial plank. I did not come because I was delighted to be In a minority, but because I owed a duty to the six million men who voted for me in two campaigns and con sldered it my duty to secure as much for them as I could." His address occupied 47 minutes and at its finish even his well-tested phy sical strength was far gone. He left the stand amid a group of enthusiastic delegates who ' pressed his hands, clapped him on the back and cheered him at every Btep. Even after he reached his seat the crowd Jammed the aisle around him, cheered repeatedly and refused to move, even for the ser- geant-at-arms. After the demonstration had re mained at its height for several min utes, Delegate James Kerr of Penn sylvania demanded the regular order. The chair was rapping for order and the clerks were shouting to the dele gates to be seated. The galleries seized the opportunity to stand up and the small flags were again brought Into use, the drumming of the fiagataffs which had concluded the Cockrell demonstration being re sumed. In the midst of the applause the clerk seised the megaphone and repeatedly called the state of Wyom ing. The confusion was so great, however, that no response could be heard and the presiding officer's gavel was aealn brought vigorously into use. Amid hisses to restore order, the nomination of Hearst was seconded by Wyoming. Alaska yielded her place to Utah and ex-Senator F. J. Cannon of that state took the platform to second the nomination of Judge Parker. Arizona seconded the Hearst nomination, the District of Columbia and Indian Ter ritory of Parker and Hawaii the Hearst nomination. Porto Rico wound up the roll call, passing its privilege to second. The roll call took up exactly eight hours and when it was concluded there were loud cries of "vote." It was had at once. Alabama 23 votes," cried the clerk and Parker scored the first blood with 22 votes for Parker." Arkansas went for Parker and Cat lfornla split in three parts by giving some to Parker, some to Hearst and to McClellan. Delaware cast six votes for Gray and Florida gave a like num ber to Parker and four to Hearst Georgia came into the Parker col umn with 26 votes. Illinois gave 64 votes to Hearst and threw his backers Into delight by the accession to his strength. Iowa gave its total vote to Hearst and a request for a poll of the delegation was smoothed over and the vote went for the California candidate. Kansas scattered along with votes for Parker, Hearst, Cockrell and Miles, Massachusetts cast 33 for Olney and Minnesota went Into five pieces among Hearst, Parker, Olney, Cockrell and Charles A. Towne. Nebraska voted for nearly everybody that had been put In nomination and a roar of laughter went through the convention as the result in that delegation was announced. By the time New York voted Parker had 367 to 147 for Hearst. Ohio went solidly for Parker and a poll of the delegation was asked for. The result showed Parker 14, Hearst . McClellan I, Cockrell 1, Olney 1; Tom L. Johnson voting for Cockrell. Delegate Edward Clark of Ohio asked for information as to whether the vote should be cast as a unit, creating many technical points in that delegation. The chairman ruled that the vote must be cast as a unit and Ohio went Into the Parker column for the full number of votes. Rhode Island, which was supposed to be solidly for Hearst, gave two to Parker. ; When Virginia wus cnlled it went solidly for Parker, leaving him Just 40 votes yet to be secured for a nom ination. He failed to get them on the call, receiving 658 against 200 for Hearst' Idaho swung Into the Parker column with two votes, giving him 660, seven short of the number neces sary to nominate. Nevada then enme over with two votes, giving htm 662. Delaware announced a change tn the vote, but the confusion was so great that It could not be heard. West Vir ginia changed all Its votes to Parker with the exception of one, which was given to Hearst. Then the changes came so rapidly that it was Impossible to keep track of them. " " -:: ; r ' :" ' ;s -: . Governor Dookery of Missouri was recognised and made a motion to de clare the nomination of Parker unan imous. An enormous flag hung in the center. of the celling, arranged to be swung loose when the nomination was made, was dropped according to pro gram but stuck after falling about IS feet Again the march of the states was started, but when the procession reached the New York delegation the marchers broken lines, curglng around D. B. Hill. They shook his hand, they slapped him on the back and a vain attempt waj made to force him t stand in his chair but he refused and overcome by his feelings at the nomin atlfwi. the tears streamed ' down his face Governor Dockery's motion could not be put by the chair on account of the wild confusion His words creat ed much enthusiasm. Small flags had been distributed among the del egates and these, together with every thing available, were In the air. As soon as he could be heard, Chairman Bailey recognized Mayor Collins of Boston, who had proceeded to the plat form to second the motion of Gov ernor Dockery to make the nomina tion unanimous. The demand for the previous ques tion was made In a universal shout and when it was put by Chairman Bai ley it was affirmed instantly with an other shout pelegate Sheehan of New York moved that the convention take a re cess until 2 p. m. .This motion was put and carried in the same confusion but with the same unanimity. It was then 8:10 a. m. 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