Our American contemporaries received by the mail on Tuesday are "good reading. Who exciting scenes attending the Chicago Convention, which resulted in the unexpected nomination of Mr. W. J. Bryan, as the Democratic candidate, are described at ith such an astonishing and partisan blame or praise, that the "outsider" at last can hardly resist " suspicion that the thing is being a trifle overdone.. Here is an extract from a four-column letter telegraphed from Chicago to the San Francisco Chronicle—needless to say a Republican organ Bad blood, sneers, innuendoes and undertonings have at last touched the depth of defiance, open and pronounced. The fight between the East and the West is precipitated by the men of the South. In spite of a thin pretence of courtesy, which deceived a few until to-day, Tillman, in his uncouth, ill mannered, underbred way has flung out his opinion'of the better-placed Democrats of the Nogth in general and the East in particular, while Bryan, in a white choker, long luo basin more decorous phrase, distinctly informed the Democrats of other sections that the wise ones from his part of the United States have no further use for them that they are sick of their leadership and henceforth propose to carry the banner, with its silver legend, in their own untrained The morning session was a corker. Ben Tillman, with his one eye, made an absolute correct, diagnosis when he said some time ago: "We'll have a—of a time in Chicago." Well, we are having it. A red-hot platform and a radical candidate are none too highly spiced for this multitudinous gathering of men, the vast majority of whom insist upon an income tax, no income being in sight. Our Eastern friends, who really take themselves seriously, who'sit with bowed heads, with solemn visage, with tearful eyes, regarding, as they believe the destruction of the whole Democratic party, have about as much influence on this Convention as an over-patient hen might have upon a porcelain egg.
They have not been insulted on the street, ror have they had their multitudinous and Fosoms, but they have been sneered at, laugh wrgeous badges yanked from their manly
ed at, taunted, crowed over, and outvoted in the Convention, the irritating fi igglewaggled under their nose of discontent, and they have been given very thoroughly' to understand that in those places where, on horseback, in other days, they led, to: they are are as disregarded as the chaff with which the winds might sport.
When you remember who and what these men are, what, in other Conventions, they have done, the contrast cannot fail'to be appreciated. When you recall their manipulations of delegations from the South when you remember the knockings at the door, Waiting in suspense when, in their omnipotentiality, having decided, they issued their ultimatum, and now behold them, just as brainy, just as sensible, just as potential in their own districts, literally laughed at, as though they were romany monkeys ona pole, you can perhaps approach the vestibule of th mansion of derision as it exist sin the National Democratic Convention of to-day.
Writing on the next day the same correspondent gives the following description of the scene have seen every candidate nominated since the time of Buchanan and Frement, and never one without physical disturbance, popular outburst and idiotic environment worthy of the tower of Babel in conjunction 'a well-develop lunatic asylum. With a id recollection of these scenes of confusion in mind, Tunhesitatingly insist. that the Bryan pope; cock was as far superior in point of sensal noise of blatant yell, of long continued shout and scream and cheer as it is possible to conceive, Bryan is something like five feet ten inches high, with long black good: a tolerable profile, cravat, an ordi a tie, is suitable for a statesman of real tensions at all times and under all con ions. He has barrels of oratory on tap and tons of rhetoric, into pipes laid in all directions, available at a second' notice. He is honest, comradic, bjectstoa cross of gold for sacrificial purposes, married, a papa, goes occasionally to church,
and presumably paid for the banners freely circulated through the hall today on which were inscribed the words: "No cross, no crown."
The successful candidate seems to have attained his present position through the spell he cast over the great gathering by a wonderful speech. His speech was full of epigrams and striking metaphors, that will be quoted during the campaign. One of his strongest sentences was this menace to the gold men: "But I warn them they shall not crucify the Democratic party on a cross of gold." During its delivery, we are told by a friendly writer, his manner was exceedingly simple and natural. There was no straining, either vocally or rhetorically his voice carried to the remotest corner of the great auditorium, and a death-like stillness prevailed, except when the air was fent with thunders of applause. He expressed so perfectly the emotions and the Thoughts of the silver element that between him and them seemed to be the greatest sympathy and harmony. As he touched chord after chord they responded with magnificent outbursts of approval. "Bryan is the voice of silver men. In s moment he had won the affection and the gratitude of the silver element, which, up to the time he took the rostrum, had not found a man who adequately expressed their mind. At the conclusion of Bryan's speech he received a demonstration the like of which, perhaps, was never witnessed before in so vast a multitude. He had the imagination and the mind of the silver forces so awakened that the most unusual and extraordinary expression of admiration seemed fitting and natural. Ordinary cheering, waving of banners and flags and popular yells seemed too weak to express the great gratitude which the silver forces felt. In a moment the silver States seized their State standards and marched with shouts of joy over to where Nebraska was located, and there all the States but thirteen rallied round the State banner of Nebraska. There was tremendous cheering when the banner of Illinois was carried over to Nebrask:
The effect of this flood of oratory is shown by a statement attributed to 'a certain James V. Coleman, who said: "T believe Bryan is an epoch-making man. He is a genius, he isa political Christ, and Tsay that reverentially. His speech was the one of a century. As to the issue, I think free coinage of silver, while at first it may disturb business, will ultimately improve trade in this country very much."
The political situation in the States just now is a complicated one, bearing some resemblance to the state of affairs after the split in the Liberal ranks following the introduction of the Home Rule Bill. Mr. Bryan is a strong free-trader, but has alienated some of his supporters because of his adoption of the silver platform, whilst Republicans in the West, who approve of his silver views, are drawn into the McKinley camp by the offer of protection. The Swit Francisco Chronicle says editorially The Democratic party has surprised itself as well as the nation by nominating William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska for President of the United States. 'Three months ago such a result could not have glimmered in the dreams of any Democratic leader, least of all one closest in a political and personal way' to Bryan himself. "The young Nebraskan—he is but 38—was not widely known in the party except in. the Middle West, and waa garded by his friends as a growing politician tive prudence, Like Ga induced by an artful and si of the nomines. The delegates w away from the sobrieties of debate by bri phrasemaking and they stampeded toward the man who could flash an epigram. It was a dangerous thing to do, for in the calm court, of public opinion wherein the issues of elec: tions are decided, phrases have little weight. The jury of electors does not care so much for what a man says as for what he does or proposes to do and what the bearing of his candidacy is likely to be upon the material interests of the country. The to He is an extremist in all his sober second thought. is going to he' adverse political views, but in no sense more so than in his devotion to the principle of free trade. It will not do. The best friends of silver in both parties do not want bimetallism with free trade, for by that the benefits of the one policy would be more than neutralised by the harm done by the other. What the silver Democracy offers to give with the right hand it threatens to take with the left. 'There is n0 profit in that for any unless it be for a small number of silver producers who have no in. terest in the tariff, and would be willing, if they could sell their product at a profit, to have all American factories empty. and' all Custom houses closed.
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