The Fourth Day's Session.

The people began gathering in the great Coliseum in anticipation of a renewal of the exciting incidents of the day before, but the legions who were to do the fighting came slowly.

It was after midnight when the fighting ceased, and many of the leaders had been in counsel all night. There were clans to be marshalled, broken lines to be reformed, strategy to be devised, booms to be fostered and booms to be checked. The leaders hardly got a wink of sleep, while the rank and file of the delegates slept like weary battlebattered soldiers on their arms.

They came back to the field, hardly refreshed, but still full of fight and resolution. The gold men took their places, such of them as came, sullenly and bitterly. The extent of the revolt in the East against the platform adopted, and the refusal of the Eastern gold delegations and that of Wisconsin, headed by that scarred political veteran, General Bragg, "who loved Cleveland_for_the enemies he had made," came home with a realizing sense to the silver leaders, and they planned with skill to prevent their followers from being carried away by their emotions.

The action of the gold men made it vital that the man to carry the banner of the new creed should be able to rally to his back all the silver elements.

Mr. Whitney

The leaders came in quietly. walked in with a group of the New York delegation, but it was announced that Senator Hill, like Achilles, sulked in his tent. New England delegations, generally, were thin. The battle had gone against them, and they appeared only to hesitate as to whether they should remain, silent and mute, when they were asked to participate in the nomination of a candidate on a platform to which they could not be reconciled, or to physically withdraw from the convention.

At 10.57, Chairman White, of California, who had recovered the use of his voice, stepped to the front of the stage. Running his eye for a couple of seconds over the acres of people, he glanced down to the battered delegations, and with every whack of the gavel called the convention to order. With shuffling feet the vast audience arose and listened to the Rev. Dr. Green, the chaplain, petition the Throne for righteousness and peace.

When the roll of delegates was called old convention pressmen marvelled to hear Allan W. Thurman, a son of the "Old Roman," cast his vote for McLean, who, during the life of his father, had been one of his bitter opponents. The call showed 40 of Ohio's vote for McLean, 2 for Bland, 1 for Bryan and 2 for Pattison. There was one absentee. Under the unit rule the 46 votes of

the State were counted for McLean. Oregon cast her 8 votes for Pennoyer.

Pennsylvania cast her 64 votes for Pattison amid the cheers of the galleries; South Carolina 17 of her votes for Tillman, while the crowds hissed. A big row occurred when Wisconsin was called. General Bragg announced he was instructed by the majority of the Wisconsin delegation to cast no vote.

One of the silver delegates challenged this, and insisted on a call of the roll of the State. The result was that 19 delegates refused to vote; 1 voted for Blackburn and 4 for Bland. Senatorelect Money, of Mississippi, made the point of order that instructions to a delegation to vote as a unit could not stifle the will of any who desired to vote. General Bragg climbed on one of the chairs of the Ohio delegation to protest, but the maddened Buckeyes ordered him down. New York and Vermont offered him a chair in their delegations.

General Bragg made his statement as to the return of the Wisconsin delegation, and was replied to from the platform by Delegate Dockerey, one of the silver Hotspurs from Wisconsin. He aroused great enthusiasm by declaring that if Wisconsin's will was stifled here, it would be heard for silver in November.

The silver-tongued Tammany orator, ex-Senator