The Mulhall Enterprise. (Mulhall, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 3, No. 29, Ed. 1 Saturday, July 18, 1896 Page: 2 of 4
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MULHALL ENTERPRISE. ! IT IS BRYAN ANDSEWALL.
Eitcrfrla* PNtllihi"! Co*pa«y»
Ml'LHALL,
OKLAHOMA.
Campaign buttons are iow on.
True nobility shows itself, in doing
Kood.
Mr. Pace is a Kansas horse buyer
lie's hard to brat.
The government should serve not the
politicians but the people.
Spain wants a bigger navy and 'ho
Deeds It if she expects to hold Havana.
Rome folks make a specialty of pick-
ing out crosses for other people to
carry.
It would be too bad to have a mu.*t
with Spain. Just when the bass nre Ml
ing at their best.
DEMOCRATIC NOMINEES FOR PRESI-
DENT AND VICE PRESIDENT.
FREE SILVER PLATFORM
realised that the gold men won id
probably place another ticket in the
field, or, if they did not actively op-
pose the lOniBI < '
in the campaign which was to follow,
that they would passively. at least,
give aid and comfort to toe political
enemy. 1'
gold states continued to participate in
the proceed inl's BhAOMl I
four votes for (Jovernor l'attison to
the end. Most of the other goid men
who voted cast their ballots also for
l'attison. but there were scattering
votes fyr Steven*on, Hill, llu-*sell and
Camp Ik* 11
On the
n..ih Nomlnffl Were Park Horses—
Mry*n Stampfilixl the t onventIon toJ
III* Klo'inenr* anil Hnwall on
Areoant of Ills l.oc»llon-~~
II* It From the BUU«
of Malu*.
d ba
the
A lab;
t hat
her i
his eloquence and his name was on
every lip when the balloting began,
but Sewall's narne in connection with
the vice presidency had hardly been
mentioned.
The names of Sewall, of ex-Con-
gressman Shively of Indiana, who has
recently been named for <»ovcrnor of
the lloosier State; McLean, Sibley of
Pennsylvania, island and others were
canvassed, and Senator Jones and
some of his associates of the silver
leaders came to the conclusion that for
geographical and other reasons the
Bammarj of Ibt Ballot I of.
Candida") r.n.
bland ,
Here Is a decision that should sland llu
/. Washington fudge has decided thai ; Brja'n
twisting a cow's tall is cruelty to anU
dais.
Emperor William has taken
books on the financial question away
with him on a cruise. After he has
read them all "Old Subscriber" wfi!
expraln to him what the facts really
Sarah Ann Anpel of Houses Point.
N v t lain s that she » '•
the late Jay Gould away bac k in April,
1853, and therefore is entitle.i to a few
of the millions that Jay left. Sarah
Ann has certainly taken her own time
In revealing the secret.
A man In New Jersey has sued a wo-
man for breach of promise of marriage.
The woman had promised to marry,
i/Ut finall? said: "Can't marry you. A
young man who used to wait on me
has returned, and he has lots of
money." For the sake of the eternal
fitness of things the man suing and tlie
sordid woman should have had the
happiness of going through life to-
gether.
Famine Is desolating portions of
China. Ton q ill n has always been re-
garded as the most prosperous province
of the Flowery kingdom, but last year
drouth cut short the harvests. Moth-
ers are offering their children for sale
for something to eat. At Hanoi a
mother offered her three infanta to a
missionary for eight cents, preferring
to hand them over to a European
rather than see them perish from hun-
ger in her arms.
blackburn ..
I nnip'xill ...
Mclean
MAltlv-wi. .
l'atli«on ...
I'ennover
Kuasell
Tillman . —
1 oiler .
Mill
Sot voting
\L*
1*1! M2i 1«
I sought to
already begun by
I from Boles to Bland, but wa
J overtaking him with giant strides.
Hland gained ♦ while Hryan ad-
vanced ti-. lloies was the principal
loser. His vote dwindled to .'17
on tlie third ballot. Colorado |aw
up hope of Teller, 'be mention of
whose name ba 1 been cheered and
hissed bv the galleries, and Oregon
gave up Pennoyer In the Ohio dele-
j gntion, tlie Hryan forces lacked but
i seven votes oI :• majority, iii I there
! was open rebellion in Illinois and
' other states wiiieh wanted to swing
J into line.
On the fourth ballot, Alabama, the
i first state to vote, beaded the stam-
pede to Bryan. Idaho. < alifornia and
! other states followed. The revolt in
the other delegations spread, even
among those bound by resolution* of
instruction. Kansas. Illinois, Ohio
and even Iowa were tottering.
Maine man
man for the |
Mr Bryan.
The st roi)g<
most available
the ticket with
nomination, and the Waterloo states-
man owed a magnificent ovation to
the enthusiasm of Miss Minnie Mur-
ray, a young woman from Nashua,
Iowa, who led the Boies demonstra-
tion, as Mrs. ( arson Lake did the
Blaine demonstration at Minneapolis
four years ago.
Senator Blackburn ot Kentucky,
was placed In nomination by John S.
Rhea, a brilliant Kentucky orator,
and seconded bv General St. Clair of
West Virginia; W. W. Foote of Cali-
fornia, and McLean of Ohio, by Dele-
morning until shortly before ft o'clock
int he afternoon Each side sent its
champions to the forum. Senator
Tillman of South Carolina, Senator
Jones of Arkansas, ex-Congressman
William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska,
crossed swords with Senator Hill of
New Vork, Senator Vilas of Wisconsin
ami ex-Governor Russell of Massa-
chusetts.
The sinister looking Senator from'
the state of Calhoun, with eyes blaz-
ing defiance at an audience which
manifested Its unfriendliness by a
storm of hisses, opened the debate gate Patrick of the Buckeye state
with a wildiv passionate speech,
in which be aftirmed that the battle ,
of the restoration of silver was a
war for the emancipation of the
white slaves, as the war of 1800 had
been one for the emancipation of the
black slaves. Disruption of Democ-
racy had broug.it one. and he invited
another disruption if it would result
in this other emancipation. He went
to the extreme of glorying in the sug-
gestion presented, that the issue was
a sectional one, a declaration which
aroused the resentment of Senator
t Jones, and he repudiated it in a brief
the convention bad speech which aroused the tirst demon-
rruwcu u«»».» io a race between stration of the day. Even the gold
wall and McLean the latter,through delegates joined heartily in this dera-
a personal telegram, which was read onstration against sectionalism.
from the stage, withdrew his name, Demonstration After Demonstration.
,1.1,1 there was a .tamredr for Sewall. ' SeMtor vn who ,v„s postmaster
The latter «•„» nominated, as lirvan j peneral umlcr Cleveland's first admin-
vould at <
t argument in h'.s favor
thai his nomination
silence the cry that the
silver cause was sectional—an impu-
tation the Arkansas Senator was quick
to rebuke when Senator Hen Tillman
avowed that such was the case in the
convention on Thursday. Mr. Mc-
Lean decided not to be a candidate,
and gave directions to his friends in
the Ohiodelegation not to present his
name, but the McLean sentiment was
so strong that it could not be sup
pressed. Just a>
narrowed d
THE PLATFORM.
Adopted by to 301 — For Free Coin-
age of Stiver at 10 to 1.
Following is the vote in detail on
the adoption of the platform:
Aye Nay
Maiupedtt
l ift li llullnt.
*, on the fifth ballot. W. (». Burke
of California nominated Sewall
On the first ballot fifteen candidates
were voted for. Sibley of Pennsyl-
vania receiving lC:t. the' highest num-
ber of votes. The other votes were
divided as follows: McLean, 110; Se-
On the fifth and last baliot, Kansas wall, 100; Harrity, 21: Judge Walter
went over. Illinois and other States j ( lark of North Carolina, ftu; Senator
•Unofficial figures Result not announced.
CHICAGO, July 11.—William Jen-
nings Bryan of Nebraska, the yonng.
classic-featured orator from the
plains of the Platte, swept the con-
vention off its feet yesterday and was
nominated for president on the fifth |
ballot.
Political history furnishes no prece-
dent for the day's proceedings in the
Coliseum, either as a great spectacu-
lar show, or an the result of the de-
liberations of the convention of a
great political party. Bryan is but 30
years old, younger by ten years than
any man ever nominated for the chief
magistrate of tne American republic.
He came like a young Locbinvar out
of the West, which has never before
nominated a presidential candidate,
to woo the bride for whose hand the
country's greatest chieftains have j
been suitors
His name was barely mentioned ill
the preliminary skirmishing. Four j
days ago when the convention met he
was not entered in the lists. But
Thursday he made an Impassioned
speech and stirred the convention to
frenzy by his eloquence. I it speech
overthrew the diligently organized
work of weeks and months for other
aspirants for the honor.
The cause of silver was uppermost
In the minds of the delegates when
they assembled here. For the cause
they deliberately placed the eastern
wing of Pennsylvania on the nltar
Now, when the convention is coldly
analyzed, it if* seen that the support
of Bland and Boies as candidates was
| never solidly grounded. It was only
as the representat ives of the issue that
I they sallied delegates to their stand-
ards, and even after many of them
At laRt "Dynamite Dick" has been
captured and the people of Oklahoma
are breathing easier. For three long
and exciting years officer.; have been
on "Dynamite's" trail, not only for
"Dynamite" himself, hut for the $3,000
reward as well, and his capture Is only
arfither instance in favor of persever-
ance, which, we are taught, accom-
plishes much. Very early In lif"
"Dynamite" chose the carecr.of a ban- _
dlt,* and now, scarcely out of his teena, 1 had attached themselves to the for-
he faces a frowning gallows Verily i tunes of one or the other candidates
the way of the transgressor Is hard. they appeared restless and in an in-
' atinctivo way to be casting about for
t, ..i- « i a new Moses. The far-seeing, staid
James F. Mnt.h»>vs and ll-nry U • ^mafA lead„, o( the" .liver
Sherburne, of Topek.i, J\an., have In- j ment realizing that their new creed
I
Alabama .
Arkansas IS
California 13
Cnnne.'ticut
Colorado 8
Jlelawara 1
Florila '»
Geo gia 26
Idaho ti
Illinois 4s
Indiana !U
Iowa
Khu-II* W
Kentucky
Ay« Nay:
... Ji .. New \ork
.. North ( arolina..
. j North Dakota....
lJ|(>hio
.. Oregon
. IViinftylvunii....
Rtio ie Isln:
iSouth Carolina..
South l)nkota...
Tenno'tee
Toxin
t* tali
mill
r
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN.
nU-e
vented an apparatus for drenching
train robbers with scalding water. The
Invention consists of a number of metal
nozzles for throwing jets of scalding
water. From the boiler of tho locomo-
tive the Inventors Intend to run pipes
passing around the engine, ending in
nozzles at the
came tumbling along in her v
When Ohio was reached, Bryan had
446 votes of theo04 required to make a
two-thirds majority of those voting.
Chairman Whito hail ruled that two-
thirds of those voting constituted the
two-thirds majority under the rule.
Ohio hesitated. The Bryan men in
the delegation demanded a poll vote.
The friends of McLean saw that the ,
end was in sight, and McLean himself ! to 'Band
He withdrew his ;
ast the for- I
Daniel of Virginia. 11; Bland
Blackburn* 20; ex-Congressman Will-
iams of Illinois, j'.'; C.eorge I red Will
iams of Massachusetts, 1 •»; Boies. :o;
l'attison, >enator White of Cali-
fornia, I; Fithian of Illinois and Sen-
ator Teller of Colorado, 1 each.
mounted a chair.
elongs
t lien
would alienate the Eastern Democ-
racy, believed in an alliance with the
silver Republicans beyond the Mis-
souri through Teller's nomination, but j naine aH a candidate and
| the rank and file would have none of it. tv-six votes of Ohio for Bryan. This
Bryan'* dreat speech. gave him 4*.»», twelve less than enough
When Bryan made his speech, the i to nominate. Montana changed her
ml of the cab. These delegates suddenly saw in him the six votes to Bryan, and oklahoma
nozzles are so arranged that when high- | great advocate of their cause and they ! followed with her six. To the tern
waymcn try to hold up an engineer all turned to him with an impetuosity ! tory of Oklahoma
he will have to do is to turn on the hot that nothing could balk They wanted
water Then. In the twinkling of an i a tribune of the people. They felt
eye streams of boiling liquid will be j that they had him in the eloquent
thrown out in every direction from : young Nebraskan who set their imag-
the cab. while a steel shield guard, be- inations on lire. if lie had beeu
fore Invisible will ,'Ue uiilckl, ri,nl placed in uomlnalion then. th. con-
niraiico of rc.bberx r bill. 1 *entlon would have been ato.ni.eded.
all or tender. Thin !>">- S(in,u of tl,e (faybaireii leader, ...
' and feared it.
When he was placed in nomination,
those who thought they had found
their candidate were confirmed
in their opinion. The idea
The pretensions of lKnatlun Knjollek, | which (leorpo Kred William, of
< Chicago ,o „n ,,,„,sivcrT "rr'.V'neX. H.'e"
lion of his satauie majesty and tin « *i- ren^fth of youth to endure the hard-
sequent elation of his neighbors must i fti,ips of a new cause, that a young
be shattered by flic report# from New i ann should wield the scimitar of an
York where a hysterical school girl i indignant people, sank home. Here, ;
saw the individual in person. Ther? as Williams said, was the new Cicero
. . | . . . _ ah i iekerl to meet tho new (atal ines of to-day. I
he la." she I* said lo h:ne Khn-kcrt. Th(i who <lollbtcd „ie wi„ ■
and In the subsequent panic among her | dom o( nominatin(r
so young and so I
fellow pupils nothing could have been inexperienced a man tried io check
more fitting than the forethought of an t|lB stampede by adjourning. They
equally hysterical bystander, who sen! hoped a night s reflection would suf-
in a fire call. The fire department ar- bee. At the suggestion of adjourn-
rived quickly, but found "^ing to ^V^^^a'Va'rried agains^'a
put out, the director-genei.il ot tne Rlorm of opposition from the Bryan
greatest conflagration on or undei ihe ( entjjjisiasts, who wanted to nominate
earth having presumably removed hip 1 their candidato at once.
Attempt to Stampede to lllautl.
On the second ballot there was an |
attempt to stampede the convention :
ho on this ballot received |
:.",n votes, McLean moved up to 1 rtS, j
Sibley fell back to 113, and Sewall j
dropped to i1 it looked as if '
latter was disastrously beaten, |
istration, bitterly denounced what he
termed an attempt to launch the party
on a career so wild that the world
stood aghast. With a wave of his
arm that was full of impressive por-
tent, he sounded his warning:
"Somewhere in this country," said
lie," "there may be some Marat, some
Danton, 6orae Robespierre, but the
people will not follow them into a
French revolution." 4
Ex-Governor Russell, the keen Mas-
sachusetts statesman, who has thrice
carried the standard of Democracy to
victory in the old Bay State, pleaded
for a word of concession, of concilia-
tion, anil concluded with a solemn
warning that the country, if not the
convention, would listen.
Demonstration followed demonstra-
tion at frequent intervals throughout
the speeches, but it was Senator Hill
who aroused the gold forces to their
wildest enthusiasm, and Bryan, "the
boy orator of the Platte," who set the
silver men aflame. The demonstra-
tion for Hill who, with close logic and
trenchant blade, sought the very
heart of the contention as he bitterly
assailed as tin-Democratic the new
ereed which the majority was to pro-
claim, lasted about eighteen minutes.
Although more protracted than that
which greeted Bryan, it was of a dif-
ferent nature. The latter was the
spontaneous outburst of an enthusiasm
I kindled by the touch of magnetic
eloquence. The star of the brilliant
young orator from the plains of Ne-
braska has burned brightly on the
horizon of tho convention for two
days. There were several demonstra-
tions in Ins behalf Wednesday, but
this was the tirst opportunity he had
had t<» show himself. His audience
had been warmed up and was full of
pent-up enthusiasm.
Itryan's Great Hit.
The powder magazine needed but
the spark, and Bryan applied it with
| the skill of genius. His very appear-
ance captured the audience. Dressed
like a plain Westerner, in a black suit
of alpaca, lie stood with a smile play-
ing over his handsome, mobile, clear-
cut face, while, with uplifted hand he
quieted the waiting thousands. He
has « face whose lines might have
been chiseled from alabaster by some
master sculptor. His mouth is firm,
his eyes bright, his nose Roman, his
raven hair is brushed back from his
I forehead, and falls to his collar. With
well modulated voice, which grad-
' ually rose in pitch until it penetrated
the furthermost, limits of the hall, he
wove the spell upon his audienee.
His speech was a masterpieoe of
i tervid oratory; with consummate elo-
quence be stated the case of silver
and parried the arguments of the gold
Anthony never applied the
Maryland
M n-sachu-otti.
Michigan
M innrt* >ta
ippi ....
Miuoai i
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada .... —
V Hampshire..
Now Jersey —
14 . W idiincton —
1 10 West Virginia
i i Wisconsin
8 27 Wyoming
2s .. AliiKka
rt 11 Arizonn
13 .. I >. of Colombia
31 . New Mexico...
Total
PERSONAL AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY.
"We, the Democrats of th« I'nite 1 Stntr*. in |
National convention assembled, do reaffirm
our ullegiance to tho«* great e.sential princi- |
plm of justice and liberty upon which our in-
stitutions are founded, an.l which tho Demo-
cratic party has ndvocatert from Jefferson**
timo to our own freedom of speech, freedom
of tho press, freedom of con«ci-»nco, tho preser-
vation of personal rights, tho equality of nil
citiznus before the Inw, and ih*» faithful ob-
servance of constitutonal limitations Tho
constitution of tho United States guarantees
to ev >ry citizen tho right' of civil an t religious
liberty. Tho Democratic party has always
been the exponent of political liberty and re-
ligious freolom. and it renews its obligations
and reaffirms its devotion toth i»efundamental
principles of the constitution.
"During all these years tin Democratic party
has ro-dsted tho tendency of selfish interests to
the centralization of governmental power, and
has stiadfastly inaiitainod that the int«*rity
of the dual scheme of government established
by the founders of this republic of republi s.
Coder its guidance and teachings t he great
principle of local self-govern men' has found
its best expression in th" maintenance of tho
rights of the Stat"s and i'« asser ion that it is
neco»sary to confine the general government to
the exercise of tho powe s granted by t.bo con
stitution.
TIIE MONET QUESTION.
"Recognizing that the money question i»
paramount to all others at tM»• time we invito
attention to the fact that the leral constitu-
tion n:»raos silver and gold tojether as the
money metals of thn United Sta«9 and that,
tho first coinage law pas-sod by Congress nnder
the constitution mado the silver dollar tho
monotary unit, and admitte I gold to free coin-
ago at a ratio based upon the silver unit
' Wedeclare that the act of 1<M, demonetis-
ing silver without the knowl-dro or approval
of tho American people, ha* resulted in tho
appreciation of gold anil a corre»pondi \ g fall
In the pricos of cnmmolitio* produced bv tho
people; a heavy in^roiso in the burden «>f tax-
ation, and of all debts pub i • and privat v t ho
enrichment of the money lending class at homo
and abroad: piralvsisof industry and impover-
ishment of tho peoplo
NO GOLD MONOMETALLISM.
"We aro unalterably oppo-ed ti th« ra^no-
■letslbsm which ha« locked fast tho
prosperity of an industrious peo do iu tin par-
alysis of hard tim?s Gold monometallism is
a British policy, an I its adoption has
brought other nations into financial servi-
tude to London. It. is not only un-Am-ric tu.
but anti-American, and it can bo fastened upon
torn to that simplicity and economy which he<
flt« a democratic government and a reluctioA
in the nnmber of useless offices, the salaries of
which drain the substanao of tho people.
NO FEDERAL INTERFERENCE.
• We denounce arbitrary interference bv Fed«
eral autherit iee in local affairs as a violation
of tho constitution of the United i^tate* an i a
crime agam-t free institutions and we
especially object to government by injunction
as a n<'W and highly dangerous form of oppre «
• ion by whirh Federal Judges, In contempt of
the lawa of the Stat « and the rights of citiz^nj,
become at on *e legislators judgn and ex« en*
tioners. and we approve tho bill passed at the
last session of the Uuit-d States Senate and
now pending in the H »nse relative to con-
tempts ia I'e b-rnl courts and providing for
tiia.sbyju ies in c r aiac.i • of route npt.
pacific roads ash 1'knmm'ns.
No discrimination shoul I be indn : d by
thegovernmen of th> United St it in favor
of any of it» d'btors W«* approve «•. tho ie-
final of th- Fiftv-thirl Congres* t i past tha
Pacific railroid funding bill, an I denounce tho
effort of tbo present Rcpublicai Congress to
enact a similar inea-<iiro.
Ifecognizing tin j i-t elaims of do ervini*
Union soldiers, we hoar:ilv indorx tin rule of
the present commie i'»n» <«f p «ndo-n that no
names sha'l be arbitrarily dropi I fn> n tho
l>ension roll, hnd the fa -t of enlist-nont and
service should bo d" med c»>nclu-.v? ev donee
against disease an«l disiiii i.y beforj onlist-
TKRIUTORIAL ADMISSION FAV<UP P.
favor tbs sdmiss in of tbo territories of
New Mexico and Arizona into the Cmon as
states, and we favor the early Jid nisdon of all
the territories having tin n cc- • u y popnl ition
and resources to entitle th »ni to stat • 11 »o I. and
whilo they remain territo ies we h I I that the
officials appointed to admin ster t'jo govern-
ment of any territory, tos'tlnr with tho Dis-
trict of Columbia and Al iska, should l»" bona
flile residents of tho territory or district in
which their diltios are to bo perform -d
Tin Democratic p irty b» ieves in iionn rulo
end that all pnblij lands < f the 1'nito 1 Stales
should be approp-iated lo the est ibliahment of
free homes for Ame i-an citizens.
We re-ommend that th » IVrr tory of Alaska
be grant '<1 n doleg it«» in • >ngr -s+ an I that t no
g n"ral land and timber law of tho I nitei
States bN exten led to said Terr it nr.'.
SYMPATHY FOR (THA—CIVIL SERVICE.
We mi tend our sympathy »<> the peaple "f
Cuba in thei,- heroic stiu.-glo for liberty and
independen e.
We are opposed to life tenure in tin publ'O
servce. Wo favor apoointm->nt« ba-el upon
merits, fix^d terms of Hi-*». and su h an ad-
ministrition of the olvit service law will
afford equal opportuni ies to all ritizaniot
afcertain"d litmss.
NO THIRD PRK-SlPEM I V I. TF.1IM.
Wo declare it lo b • the unwritten law of this
republic, established by ruit in and u-ag" of
one hun red years and sanctioned by thoex-
a m pi ■ of the greatest and wisest of tin > who
founded it and have maintained our govern-
ment that no man shall b- eligiblo f -r a third
term of tho Presidential office
' Tho Federal governin -nt should care for
and improve tin Mis-ns-ip"! river ani other
creat waterways o' tho republic so as I 1 sow
for ti e inter.or Stato< ea-v and cheap trans-
portation lo tide w it t. W lien anv w.it<*rw iy
«>f th" republic is of sufficiont imp -rtancj to
dernan I aid of th1* government, su<Mi aid should
be o*t°nde 1 upon a d*finlti plan of contin-
it im- rovement is so-
■uous work until p
cured.
'Confiding
the
nt the pol'S
•nbmit th i f >regoi decla sti • i of pi d dpi si
and purpo'R* t » tho c »n1 ierato Jndgmei
the American peoplo Wo
of all citizens who pit >vo th •
siro to h i vo t In in eiad » e fleet i\
slation for the rel lef of tho
restoration of the e luntr/ H pn
tho suppo t
in I who da«
t!irough leg.
opl i and th«
shut off all '
lets to the
tected the engineer may throw hla
throttle wide open and leave the scald-
ed and chagrined robbers fur behind.
flaming material presence to a less wat
erv locality. This U not the first Ne*
York school to have received this .she
olic visitation, and until Muster Kojo
Uek shall add more corroborative e\i
Tlie (inrneld I'nrallel.
A night's reflection only made them
more determined. When the conven-
tion met to ballot, Bryan showed sec-
ond on the tirst roll call. lie had
dence to his limited manifestations the already overhauled Holes. Only Hland
parti ilai istin h® think! h® hii ®n wm ihud and it was a itmnli for
tertalned mimt be set down as an Inter* ^j10 Missouri farmer to get the SS-'id
loper, to put It mildly. votes which ho received. Tho stam-
pede began on the next ballot.
It has been discovered that John Me- I qq ^j,0 fourth ballot, lirvan took
ponald, who lias spent six years In th* ]Pa(| ftlui Hland fell back, hope-
Marquette penitentiary for a murder lessly beaten. The nomination was
st Ontonagon, Is the wrong
made unanimous on the next ballot.
Some have sought to find in the
nomination, in lS"rt, of Garfield, who
was not a candidate, a parallel with
Hryan's nomination yesterday. Hut
there is no parallel. Garfield was
only nominated after one of the hard-
est and most protracted convention
contests of the century. Grant. HInine
Kdinuuds, Sherman and W'ashburne
were then contesting for mastery,
and, after thirty-five ballots, the rival
leader and the convention turned to
Garfield, who had electrified tho del-
egatcs bv his matchless oratory and
Weather lo suit the most fastblioua colninand|ng presence.
Yesterday the support of the other
candidates simply molted away, and
Hryan won without a struggle.
The nallotlng.
Every little while we hear of similar
cases, nil of which shows that circum-
stantial evidence frequently convicts
when It ought not. The slate should
pay McDonald for tho time It com-
pelled him to lose. But It will not.
It turns out that Helen Gould gavn
$1,000 instead ot *i"". to the St.
Louis sufferers, which is a horse uf
another color.
tlieref
the honor »>f uoininatiiiLr
cratic candidate for prosit
us to that of Arizona be
houor four years ago,
of course, the other
scrambled over each other. '■ 'veriu-r
Stone of Missouri withdrew Hland s
name, and Newitor i ui pie of Indiana
withdrew that of the lloosier gov-
ernor, and on his motion the nomina-
tion was made uiianinums.
Mrs. llryan nu Interested kpec tutor,
There were frequent Hryan demon-
strations throughout the day. The
most dramatic occurred at tin- conclu-
sion of the fourth ballot, when it was
apparent that Hryan would be iioml
noted on the next ballot. The colors
of the states were again uprooted, i
the Coliseum for fourteen miuii
shook with the storm of cheers, fren-
zied men marched and sang and hys-
terical women became frantic. I ntil
after the nominal ion, a sweet - faced,
modest-looking woman ->11 almost un-
noticed io one of the chairs to the
right cf the stage, surrounded by a
few friends she retained her com*
posnre amidst all the evcilemcnt. but
her face glowed with pleasure as she
followed the proceed in - which made
her husband famous. It was Mrs.
Bryan.
Immediately after the nomination,
when it became noised that she was
there, ami there w as a i ush to see and
congratulate her. she modestly with-
drew unit sought her husband
The night session of the convention
adjourned almost immediately after
convening, the leaders deciding that
it was not advisable to go ahead with
the nomination for vice president last
night.
Hryan delivered a stirr
from the balcony of his b<
ing his views on the financial and
labor questions. He was be.-ic oil by
such a crowd that a large detail of po-
but Senator .lopes with his 10 j match more effectively. The conven-
Arkansas votes stood firm. lie | tion took lire with enthusiasm. It
rallied the followers of the Maine t.ra«-Uled as by the war of Humes. Hill
man and on the next ballot Sewall > was forgotten; all else was forgotten
secured 97 voles. Meantime.there ap- j for the moment. Cheers swelled to
peared to be a general movement in yells, yells became screams. Every
f McLean. Some of the tilaud ehair in the valley of the Coliseum,
TWENTY-EIGHT KILLED.
Awful Railroad Wreck Near l.ogjan, iona
— E*cor»lon and Freight Collide.
Omaha, Neb.. July it. —Saturday
morning the Union Pacific pioneers
were taken over the Chicago & North-
western railroad to picnic for the day
at Logan. At 7 .'0 o'clock Saturday
night, as the excursion train, loaded
with 1,?0> persons, all uf whom lived
in and about this city, was moving
out of Logan, it was struck by a
freight train of the Northwestern
going east. Tne two engines crashed
together, and in an instant, freight
and passenger coaches were piled, oue
en deserted him and went to Me-
can, who led on this ballot with -10.
and every chair in the vast wilderness
on the hillsides, became a rock on
which frantic men and women were
wildly waving handkerchiefs, canes,
hats and umbrellas—anything mova-
ble. Some, like men demented, di-
vested themselves of their coats and
flung tliein high in the air.
A Texas delegate uprooted tho pur-
ple standard of his state and bore it
frantically to the place where rose
the standard of Nebraska. In a
twinkling others followed the ex-
ample. Two-thirds of the state staffs
were torn from their sockets aud car-
ried as trophies to Nebraska, where
langled in mid-air. . A dozen
the annouueemeut of this vote
Hland was withdrawn by Governor
Stone of Missouri, who read a message
from the Missourlan positively declin-
ing to allow his name for the Vice
l'resui en tin I nomination
The Hland votes on the fourth bal-
lot went to Sewall in large blocks,
but McLean captured enough to give
him seemingly a safe lead of -1)1
I'lie I ngainst ri'»l for Sewall. During this
l„. I roll call there had been trouble in the
v ls Ohio delegation, which was polled
land showed fourteen anti-McLean
1111 votes locked up by tho unit rule. i .....
" v i There was also a big revolt against j delegates rushed upon the stage and
1,1,1 ' Governor Altgeld's domination in the j shouldered the half-dazed orator and
i!,'s I Illinois delegation. Kx-( ongressman • bore him in triumph down the aisle.
•Mi i l itbian made a fiery protest against ( Louder and louder shrieked the thous-
i v s • the nomination of the ' )hlo editor. 1 a ads, unt il the volume of sound broke
ntil | It was at tins critical juncture that | like a gigantic wave, and fell, only to
ed. | McLean's telegram was received oy I rise and break again. For almost tif-
one of the Ohio delegates. The tele- j teen minutes this maddened tumult
gram stated it was Mr. McLean's wish ! continued, while the delegates with
that he should not be balloted for. i the state standards paraded the en-
Delegate Sloan, however, after read- closure. Old political generals were
ing the telegram, distinctly stated j stupefied.
that, while the telegram expressed' I f the ballot for the nomination had
Mr. McLeans wish, it did not express > been taken then, it would have been
the sentiment of Ohio, which on the a stampede.
fifth ballot, concluded to cast forty- When it was all over, the votes
six votes for McLean. The tele- j were taken, first on the minority sub-
grura, however, shattered the Mc- | st
Lean forces, and Indiana, Iowa
and other states flocked ioto the
camp of the Maine man. Sewall's
nomination was unanimous before the
conclusion of the roll call, amid scenes
of jubilation and rejoicing, in th
course of which the state
were paraded about the Coliseum in
the wake of the colors of Nebraska
ami Maine.
the United States onlv by the rifling of that upon the top of another
uplrit and lovn of liberty which proclaimed
our political indopend«noe in 177«J and won it
in the war of the r -volution
"We demand the free and unlimited roln-
aue of Rold and ailrer at the present.
loaral ratio of Id to 1. without
waiting for the n;d or eon-ent of any other
nation. We demand tha standard silvr dollar
shall b>a full legal ten lor. equally with gold,
for all debts, public and private, and w> favor
zsuch legislation as will pr vent d 'ra^neii-
ation of nny kind of le^il tender money by
privat. • coutrnct
"We nro oppose 1 to tin policy and practice
of surrendering to the holder:* of the obliga-
tions of the United States the option reserve!
by law to the government of redeem in < each
obligations in either silver coin or gold coin.
AGAINST INTEREST BEARING BONDS.
1 Wo aro opposed to tho Lining of intorest-
bearlng bonds of )fce United Statoi in tiinos of
peace, and condemn the trafficking with bunk-
ing syndicates which, in exchange for bonds
an I at nn enormous profit to thom^elvoe,
supply tho federal troa-ury with gold to main-
tain the p »l I - y of gold mo loin^tallism.
"('ongres* nlono has the p iwor to coin nn l
i«eue monor. and Prod tent Jackson declared
that thil poWer could not bo delegated ti co
poratlona or individuals. Wo ther-fore de-
nounce the fusilinee of notes as money for na-
tional banks as in der >gition ol the const.tu-
tlon. and we d«m ind that all paper which is
made legal tender for public aud private debts
or which Is rereivrbb* for dues to tho United
States, shall be issued by th> government, of
the United States aud shall be rodoemible in
speech
liee wero requir
check.
.•d to hold them
THE VICE PRESIDENT.
PLATFORM DEBATE.
Hryan's Fer
ClIlCAOO,
people
vtd
of the Col
silver hoi
Arthur Sewall of Maine >
the Fifth Ha 11«
Chicago, July 13.—The
National convention c«
work Saturday nftern-
Sewall of Maine,
nud an ardent fr«
llatli
I leinocratio
nipleted its
ion. Arthur
shipbuilder,
ge man, was
was furnished Alton, III., dining an
hour of Saturday. At the surface of
the earth It rained, twenty feet up, on a
level with the second stories of the
houses, the downfall was snow, and a
little higher up It was hail. Alton
loeBn't need any sea serpents.
Charles Jordan, of Hammond, Ind ,
gave up $1,800 to be ln\ested In a gold
On the first ballot, Hland got
Hryan, 106; Holes, P0; Matthews, 58;
McLean, B4; PattUon. 05; Hlackburn,
83; Pennoyer, 10: Tillman, 17; Steven-
son, £; Teller, 8; Campbell, 2; Russell,
2; lllll, 1, There were 180 gold men
mine In New Mexico, and soon after-j who refuted to vote. They declined
ward learned that there was no su h to participate in the nomination on
mine. Men frequently pay much for » tha platform adopted. The latter
j ery imall amount of Knowledge, j
named for vice president on a tieUe
headed by William J. Hrvan, the elc
quent yonng orator from the prairie
beyond the Missouri.
Over 950gold delegate declined I
participate in the nomination f<
president. Man \ of the delegat
left the city. Whether these
will place a third ticket n the Held
as the minority did at Haltimore ir
IUf.0, Is a matter for future develop
ment.
The nomination of Sewall for vici
president was mere of a surprise thar
that of Hryan for president. Bryan
Oralorv I
lllll nud Till
July 10.—'I
tho sloping Hi
terday saw i
ted gladiators in the arena over-
power the gold phalanx and plant the
1 banner of silver upon the ramparts of
' Democracy. They saw what may
' prove the disruption of a great polit-
ical party, amid scenes of enthusiasm
such as perhaps never before occurred
in a national convention They saw
.'O.OuO people, with imagination in-
flamed by the burning words of pas-
i sinuate oratory, swayed like wind-
swept fields; they heard the awful
roar of '.'O.OiJO voices burst like a vol-
cano against tho reverberating dome
vice overhead; they raw u man carried
had upon the shoulders of others intoxi-
lers rated with enthusiasm Amid the tu-
mult and turbulence, they listened to
appeals, to threats, to cries for mercy,
and finally they witnessed the victory
of the jubilant majority by a vote that
was overwhelming.
The battle for supremacy of Demo-
a tic principles was fought in a Res
iiute for the platform, offered by
Senator Ifill. which was defeated —
li'.'ti to Then on the resolution to
indorse the administration, which
was beaten—357 lo 504; and, lastly, on
the adoption of the platform, which
was carried—628 to 301. Senator Till-
taudards j man, after the rejection of the resolu-
tion to indorse the administration,
withdrew his resolution to censure
the administration.
•'The administration stands con-
demned by t hat vote," was his com-
ment. "A brave man never strikes a
fallen foe."
Tho Nominating Speeches.
At the night session, in the presence
of fully ooo people, tho nominating
speeches were made, and there was a
repetition of the exciting scenes of
the (
Clash.
had set the convention atlaine with *ion that lasted from !l o'clock iu the
oi mr-iKi
the afternoon. The Hryan enthusiasm I the home market,
continued. The galleries went fran- j home market to
tic with every mention of his name,
and the wild demonstration of the
afternoon was duplicated when he
was placed in nomination by II. T.
Lewis of (icorgia. and seconded by
W. C. Klutz of North Carolina, Oeorge
F. Williams of Massachusetts, and
Thomas .1. Kernan of Louisiana.
Although the demonstration was
confined largely to the galleries it
looked as if tho favorite, Hland, had
fallen back Into the ruck, hopelessly
beaten.
Senator Vest placed the Missourian
iu nomination and David Overmyer
of Kansas, seconded I he nomination
The name of Governor Claude
Matthews of Indiana, was presented
by Senator Turpie of Indiana aud
seconded by Delegate Tnppett.
fc'rcd Whito of Iowa, placed Hoies iu
THE M KINI.KY LAW DENOUNCED.
We hold that tariff dntles shou'O be levied
for purposes of revenue such duties to be no
adjusted «s t<» operate equally thronihoufc
tho country and not discriminate b«tween
claFS or encion and that taxation
should he limited by the need* of tha
government, honestly and econom'cnlly admin-
istered. We denouh'e as di turbinir to bu«l-
n"ss the Republican threat to lestore the
McKinley law. whhh has ho>n twice con.
denied by the people in national elections, and
which, enacted und-r th> fal»o plea of prote*.
t.nn to hom> industry, provid a prolific breeder
of trusts and monopolies, enriche I the few at
the ozpense of thi many rsstrlotol tndeaai
deprived the producers of the grev American
staple> of access lo their natural markets.
No 1 * RIFF WORK I N< OMI PAXKS.
"Until the money question is settled wo are
oppose i town agitation for fur. her changes
in our tariff laws except snch as are n<H*e«-
sary to meet th» deficit in revenue caused
by the adverse decision of thi Suprome court
on the income tax
But for this decision bv the snprems court
there would be no deficit. In the revenue under
the law passe 1 by a Pomo-ratll Congries in
ftrict pur-uance of the uniform dec >;oni of
that court forne ir jr I "0 years that court hav-
ing in that decision sustained constitutional
objections to its enactment whio'i had
bi?en overruled by the nhle.t judges who
havo ever fat on that binch. Wo declare that
it is the dntjrof ('oncre<s to use a 1 the consti-
tutional p 'wor which remains after that decis-
ion. or which may conn from its i«vcr*al by
the court ok it may heresft >r be constituted.
mi tint the burdens ->f taxation may h • equ dly
an I imp irti illv lail to t^-end that wealth
may b >nr its duo j>roportion of the oxpens a of
tho government.
TO PROTECT AMERICAN l.AROR.
"We ho d that the efficient way of protecting
American labor i* to prevent Ilie importation
f foreign paupor labor t > ceinp-te with it in
nd that tho value of tbo
American farmers nn I ar-
tisans is greatly reduced by a viciou* monetary
system, which depreate* the prices of their pro-
duct below th* co t of production and thus
deprive! them of tlie me ins of purchasing the
prixlu-ts of our home manufactories.
llOl.IMNO DOWN TIIE RAlf.ROAPS.
'Th • ab»'»rption of wealth by thi few. the
consolidation <>f our leading railway sr-t-ms
and the formation of truds an I pools require
a stricter contro. by tin Federal uovernrnent
ofth'Si art-ries of commerce. We demind
the enlarge rent, of the powers of the intir-
Sta'e i oinnierce commission and such ro«trio*
tion* and gu rantees the control of rail-
road* as will prot -ct the peopln from robb ry j
and oppre«»b>n
'We denounce tho pr iflrato was'o of tho |
inon »v wrung t o.n Hi * people by oppre -«iv»
laxallen. and th> lavish appropriations of re-
cent ll'-pnbl c iu congresses wiilch liavn kept
ti.xes high w'.iibi tho libor r that pi.-s ihem
is unemploy'l i id t lie produotsof tho people's
tod ore depressed i" price till I hey no long:
The baggage ear of the excursion
train was telescoped into the coachf
forcing its way among the men,
women and children, killing aud
mangling them frightfully.
Twenty-eight peoplo were killed
and tifty-one injured, many of whom
will die. Twenty-four dead are iden-
tified, and the remains of the others
are so badly mutilated that idcntilica-
! lion is hardly possible, all semblaneo
of humanity being' crushed out of the
corpses.
Hut one aentiment was everywhere
voiced. It was burning indignation
at the aetion of the railroad company
in refusing satisfaction to the thous-
ands of men and women who had
waited all through the long night to
hear some news of their loved ones.
Only those who had seen the pathetic
scenes that marked the night could
fully realize the brutality that ha I
dictated such a policy. The spectacle
of fainting women and strong men in
tears, while the railway ollicials only
hardened their hearts and grimly
stated that they were not giving out
information, inspired a degree of in-
dignation that will not entirely dio
out for years to come.
The list of the injured is a lengthy
one. It contains twenty-eight or more
names of persons who were seriously
hurt, dangerously so, or to a greater
or less degree. In addition there
were at least fifty, if not a greater
number, who received injuries of a
minor nature. The?e consisted of
bruises and cuts, or slight, disfigure-
ments, which will practically amount
to nothing.
The roll of the dead belonging to
Omaha numbers eighteen, and is us
follows John McDermott, John Kin-
Bey, Robert Clair, John II .lack, John
Larson, Fred Nielson, John H. Kilker,
Owen Cavanaugh, Hugh Dodson, Mrs.
Kate llradly and baby, Mrs. I'. J.
Carroll and son, Patrick Scully, Miss
Mary Tracy, John Cosgrove, Miss
Margaret Cosgrove.
Following non residents were killed:
Charles Ileiman, Walter Jennings,
Missouri Valley; (ieorgo \\ ininger,
Morrison, 111., brakeinan on excursion
train; Lawrence Petero, Miss Oil io
Wilson, Mrs. Taylor and baby, Coun-
cil HlutTs.
Of the more seriously injured some
will die, some will hold their beds for
weeks and months, some aro in com-
parison but slightly injured. The
wounds range from surface cuts to in-
ternal injuries, which must result in
death.
The responsibility for the accident
rests on F.npineer Montgomery of tho
ill-fated excursion train His orders
were to wait at Logan for tho fast
mail and fast freight, lie started bis
train out immediately after tho mail
passed, forgetting about the freight.
The head end collision occurred
twenty minutes Inter on a curve. Tho
heavy freight passed partially over
the passenger. All the people killed
were in the front coacb of the excur-
sion train.
FOUR PERSONS DROWNED.
' Over I ho Putt)
T» C. Study and i s
Lawrence, Kan., July l.v L C.
Study and his family went, over the
dam in the river in a boat last even-
ing and wero drowued. They wero
towing, when by some means the boat
became unmanageable mid went over
t lie dam. Mr study, Ills WI ft) and
child aud the infant child of Mrs,
Hook, Ills sister, whi was visiting
there, were drowned Mis. Hook mid
repay ths cost of produjtiua W# doinaqd # re- j ouoof tho Study tlj .'dreu w re savior
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