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-f If- ,:?i-rf Tiejnji J"" "" -r & ' ;" ' OBi'' ' order at 12:07 o'clock by Chair man OIHe James, who ordered the 43rd roll call immediately. The delegates were tired, and obviously sick of it. They drop ped into the hall one by one, lag ging In all of their memories stuck the disgraceful scene of yesterday afternoon, when members of the Missouri delegation Openly in sulted Bryan. The scene occurred just after the 33rd ballot. Missouri dele gates hoisted a great 30 foot bann ner. It read : "I have known Champ Clark for 18 years. He is incorruptible and his life is above reproach. Never have I known him to be upon but one side of the question, arid that the side of the people. W. Jr Bryan." Someone yelled: "Take it over to Nebraska!" Bryan was sitting in the front of the Ne braska delegation. The Mis sourians .surged over there and held the banner before him. Bryan men and Wilson men jumped to their feet, and tore at the banner. The Missouri men fought back. Bryan, white with rage, pushed over to the Missouri delegation, and demanded of Sen. Gumshoe Bill' Stone i he had giyen the or der for the banner to be taken over. Stone never answered. A dozen Missouri men jumped to their feet and surged around Bryan, shaking their fists, howling curses. New Jersey men just across the aisle charge'd into the crowd.. .rise ngnts DroKe out Detween a. dozen couples. Bryan was the center of the surging, fighting crowd. The police tried to take a hand, ' but were useless. They could dp nothing with the fight-mad dele- gates. ' ' Bryan-was fighting mad him--self by this time. He was pushed from side to side of the aisle.' Missourians were yelling insults in his face. The Commoner pushed his way' to the platform, and spoke ta Ollie, James. The Missouri banner had been t flung to the ground. It was; grabbed up again, and the Mfs-r isouri men tried to hoist it to thet press stand. i The newspaper men objected seriously to this, however, and threw Missourians, banner andt all, to the floor of the hall, and-f started everything all over again. Bryan rose to a question of per sonal privilege. He said he want ed to know if the carrying over of j the banner was an official act of, the Missouri delegation. James ruled that this was nol . a question of personal privijege and refused Bryan a hearing Bryan returned to his seat. Shortly after, Dave Francis, j former governor of Missouri, crossed over and sat beside" Bryan. "I want you to understand I had nothing to do with that ban ner," he said. "Had I been in the hall -it would not have happened." Bryan and Francis. , shook, ;i&!f& jy HiaHliHiHlBl-