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Convention Opens as Hill Cheer Echoes Through Hall
Kansas City July 4. Delegates arrive in waves to the convention hall as Chairman Jones calls the meeting to order at noon. Welcome by Mayor Read followed by a blazing demonstration for Hill. Temporary Chairman Thomas presides. Bryan works by telegraph and telegrams from Lincoln while Sulzer’s New York boom revives. National committee list includes Mack, Guffey, Tillman, and Head.
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Kansas City
North Dakota
Third Regiment
Dixie
David B. Hill
Jones
S. M. Neel
Mayor Read
Hill
Read
New York
Thomas
Charles S. Thomas
Colorado
Bryan
Lincoln
Alabama
D. D. Clayton
Arkansas
James P. Clarke
California
M. E. Tarpey
Connecticut
Homer
Cummings
Florida
George P. Raney
Georgia
Clark Howe
Illinois
Thomas Gahan
Iowa
Charles A. Walsh
Indiana
Thomas F. Taggart
Kansas
J. G. Johnson
Kentucky
Urey Woodson
Louisiana
N. ©. Blanchard
Maine
Arthur
A. P. Gorman
Massachusetts
George F. Williams
Michigan
D. J. Campau
Mississippi
A. J. Russell
Nebraska
James G. Dahlman
New Hampshire
True Norris
New Jersey
William B. Gorlay
Norman H. Mack
North Carolina
Josephus Daniels
Ohio
John R. McLean
Pennsylvania
J. M. Guffey
Rhode Island
George W. Green
South Carolina
Benjamin
Benjamin 8. Tillman
South Dakota
Morris Taylor
Tennessee
J. M. Head
Texas
R. M. Johnson
Utah
D. C. Dunbar
Vermont
J. H. Seuter
Washington
William Dunphy
West Virginia
John T. McGraw
Wisconsin
Timothy E. Ryan
Alaska
Louis L. William
Arizona
John B. Breathitt