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THE DALLES, WASCO COUNTY, OREGON, WEDNES DAY, JULY '15, 1896.
VOL. VI.
; . NUMBER 30. A
IT FALLS TO SEWELL
The Maine Man for
President.
Vice-
ELECTED ON THE FIFTH BALLOT
The Choice Woild Bare Been
Hat Be Withdrew Hla -Name.
Bland
Chicago, July ,11. A caucus of the
. delegates adjourned at 2 :30 o'clock this
morning without naming a candidate for
vice-president.' The convention was
; called to order at 11 a. m. Harrity of
- Pennsylvania announces that a meeting
of the National Committee would be
held at 3 p. m. Very few gold delegates
are present today. McLean of Ohio,
judge Walter Clarke of North Carolina
Geo. W. Fithian cf Illinois, Pennoyer of
Oregon, Arthur Sewell of Maine, Joseph
G. Sibley of Pennsylvania and Daniels
of Virginia wree nominated as candi
dates for vice-president, lhe nomina
tion of Daniels was productive of. the
greatest cheering. .. Daniels, McLean
and Fithian withdrew their names.
The result of the first ballot was
Williams, of Massachusetts, 76; Mc
Lean, 111; Lewis, 11: Clarke, 50
Fithian, 1; Sewell, 108; Sibley, 161
Daniels, 11; Boies, 16; Williams, of
Illinois, 22; Harrity, 11; Bland, 62
Blackburn, 20; Teller, 1; Pattison, 2
White, 1 ; not voting, 230. ' ':
12 :30 A second ballot was ordered
Alabama casts her 22 . votes for Bland
(Chpers.) The result of the second bal
lot was as follows : Williams, of Massa-
chnsetts, 16; McLean, 164; Clark, 22
Sewell, 37; Sibley, 116; Williams, of
Illinois, 111; Bland, 286; Pattison, 1
not voting, 227. :
The third ballot was then taken
Previously ' Amos . Cumming read
telegram from Sibley which with
drew bis name from the contest. How
ever he got 50 votes. The result . was
Williams of Massachusetts, 15; Mc
Lean, 210; Clarke, 22; Sewell, 97
Sibley of Pennsylvania, 50 ; Daniels, 6
Harrity, 19; Bland, 255; Pattison, 1;
not voting 257 ; necessary to choice 449.
A Telegram was received from Bland
saying it would be unwise to nominate
two candidates from the West, and he
therefore withdrew his name. ' This
gave Sewell almost a sufficient number
of votes tor a nomination, the fifth bal
lot resulting Sewall 430, being short
only twenty-five votes. , A motion then
carried that Sewell receive the nnani-
. mous nomination. ' Cheering occurred
all over the hall, the time being 1 :35,
when the convention adjourned sine die
REPUDIATED BY THE SDN.
The Greatest Democratic Daily. Is Oat
, for McKialey.
New Yokk, July 10. The Sun in the
following editorial formally repudiates
the national Democratic platform, and
supports McKmley for the presidency :
"Southern poverty, engendered by the
war, and the common discontent stirred
up to recklessness by the agitation of
the last twelve years, have at last blazed
. into a demand for a debased coinage and
a tax on wealth, and have carried the
, national Democratic convention. The
Chicago platform cannot be accepted.
. The United States was made Democratic
and it must remain so. Free-silver
coinage would be national dishonor and
. a monumental anachronism. Silver has
-had its day as the money.standaid. The
silver campaign is based on delusions
which have no justification and on state
ments which are not true. It cannot
prevail,- and every sincere believer in
fair dealing in business as the founda
tion of commercial prosperity must put
aside all other purposes and unite for
its defeat. '
"From now-until the night of election
Aa-o in Knvamhap trta nraailAnt.ialf anili.
date of every Democrat who favors hon
est money, and who still hopes to crush
the enemies of the fundamental . prin
ciples he was bred in, should be, with
out hesitation, evasion or prejudice,
William McKinley." , . . . -
How It Looks la Sag-land. . .
London, July 10. The Chronicle says :
. "The Chicago convention has justified
the expectations of its ' worst .enemies.
Nnhodv could have foreseen such a
speedy and open voicing of the enmity
of the West and the South against the
East. The financial condition ot Argen
tina and of Greece is a paradise com
pared with what would be the condition
of the United States ' should the
free-silver party come into " office,
If so colossal a catastrophe as the elec
tion of a silver president should occur,
Ameiica would be broucht face to face
with financial panic and commercial
ruin and with a second civil war."
".. ' Cubans Defeated., , ' :
Havana, July lO.Kebels hovering in
the districts Jjiist beyond Guanabacoa,
are more active. Recently they fired
nnon various government posts in the
outskirts of the city, the Spanish garri
sons in Santa Maria and other forts re
sponding with desultory firing. ' For
half an hour there was great excitement.
The insurgents finally retreated, carry
ing their wounded with them. The at
tacking parties displayed such' ' poor
marksmanship that they neither killed
nor wounded any member of the garri
son in the outposts defending the city.
From Pinar del Rio, General Bernal
officially reports having sustained, near
Main and De Benaies, for two and a half
hours, a combat with various Insurgents
bands entrenched in strong positions in
the vicinity. In view of their tenacious
resistance . against repeated Spanish
charges, Bernal personally led the last
and and successful attack, the artillery
co-operating with good effect. The rebel
camps at Basni and Blanco were taken
by storm and a great quantity of muni
tions captured.
Bernal bad only 600 men and the in
surgents had over 1600 men, commanded
by Ramon Lazox. It is . reported that
the latter was seriously wounded in the
fight. The Spanish loss is given at 11
killed and wounded. ',
The rebels in their flight left 31 dead
on the field. The peasant families in
the vicinity, said they also had many
wonnded.
Maeeo Reported Dead.
Hanana, July 10. Merchants of Pinar
del Bio, who arrived . here -last night,
state that Antonio Maceo, the insurgent
leader, died of wounds received in his
last engagement with ' the Spanish
troops. '.
Henry Watterson Speaks.
Louisville, Ky., July. 11. The Cour-.
ier-Journal says
The leagues of the free silver men
have accomplished their purpose. They
have put forth' in the Democratic name
a platform which., violates almost every
cardinal Democratic tenet and have
nominated as a Democratic leader a
young hot head who but recently aban
doned the Democratic for the. Populist
party.
Such foolhardy and bastard leadership
and such a. radical revolution of every
life principle of Democracy ' will be
downed by thoee Democrats whose sub
serviency- to party form is not dictated
by a desire to share in the official spoils
of the party success. .
FATAL RAILROAD ACCIDENT.
Excursion Collide With a Fast Freight
on the Northwestern.
Logan, la., July 11. A terrible head
end collision occnred here this evening
on the Chicago and Northwestern rail
road. The Union Pacific pioneer' ex
cursion train had just pulled out to re
turn to Omaha, when No. 38, a fast
freight, came around a sharp curve, and
before either train . could- stop crashed
together. Twenty-seven people were
killed outright and forty or more seri
ously injured. The following are , dead
and have been identified
Wm. Wilson and daughter, Council
Bluffs, la. '.
Engineer Peterson, Council Bluffs,
Patrick Scully, Omaha.
J. C. Cosgrove, Omaha.' ,
J. Clarke, Omaha.
Charles Herman, Missouri Valley.
Walter Jennings, Missouri Valley.
P. J. Carroll, Omaha. .-
Mrs. P. J. Carroll and three1 children.
The injured as far as known are : Jack
Taylor, Council Bluffs:' Mrs. Scully,
Omaha; John McKenna, Omaha; Leon
ard Mack, Omaha; Michael. Shannon,
Omaha ; . Henry . Conrad, Dayton, O. ;
James Fitzgibbone, Missouri Valley ;
William Summit Neilson, Omaha ; J. H
Perkins. . '
Three unknown dead are still 'in 'the
wreck.. , ' - ;', . -.' .: .'
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ARE STILL FOR TELLER
St. Louis Populists Opposed
? to Indorsing Bryan.
SAY THERE MAY BE A HARD FIGHT
Henry Watterson Repudiates the Dtm
., oeratlo Platform and Calls Its
. , Candidate a Hothead..
St. Louis, July 12. The impression
seems to be strong among local Populists
that if the Democratic ticket named - at
Chicago is indorsed by the Populist na
tional convention on the 22nd inst.,
will only be after a hard fight.
It
"Teller is still our man," said a well
known Populist, and a' silver party man
"and watch what I tell you;, we will
nominate him. We figure it is best for
the silver cause to nominate' Teller,
He can can carry the silver Republican
states and can secure more electoral votes
than Bryan. Bryan will carry the silver
Democratic states, and between Teller
and Bryan -we count on securing enough
electoral votes ti prevent McKinlev's
election. If this can be done, the elec
toral votes for silver will hoid together,
and will select Teller or Bryan for presi
dent. This is the latest plan of the Pop
ulists." ' " '
BLAND DOES NOT WANT IT. .
Declines to
Be a Candidate
ernor.
tor Gov
Lebanon, Mo., July 12. In their dis
appointment over the deteat of Bland
for the presidential nomination, many
Missouri Democrats have' turned to
Bland to lead the party in Missouri this
fall as the candidate for governor. He
has received many telegrams and letters
the past few days urging him to. be a
candidate.
These earnest requests and solicita
tions have not moved him, and will not
change bis course. He made up his
mind several years ago, that he did not
want to be governor, preferring to con
tinoe his fight in congress for the people
of the entire country. He said tonight
that he would not be a candidate for
governor; that he did not. want the
nomination, and under no circumstances
would he enter the gnbernatorial race.
He made this -statement in the most
positive and emphatic manner, leaving
no doubt that he nteant it, and fur
ther efforts on the part of his friends to
induce him to become a candidate for
governor would be useless, ,
In this connection, Bland said he was
a candidate for congress In this, his old
district; ' He desires to go back to con
gress to make the fight for tree: silver ip
the house. : '
ISAAC SWEARINGEN KILLED.'
Shot Dawn in the Presence of Wife and
; Children by John H. Campbell.
. The Prineville Review tells the follow
ing story of the murder .of Isaac Swear
ingen by John Campbell, which occurred
Saturday, July 4th :
- Isaac C. Swearingen and family have
lived on Newsom creek for the past 10
yeers. The family consisted of the
father, mother and three daughters, the
eldest between 16 and 17 years' of age.
Domestic trouble had occurred in this
family, which eaused the separation of
the father from his wife and children,
be going to a small cabin on the ranch
and residing there while he permitted
the family to continue in their home.
He was in - Prineville the day before
his death and arrived home Friday even
ing about 11 o'clock and. went' up to bis
cabin. When he arrived in" the cabin
be found John Gibson-and family who
remained until morning. In the morn
ing the Gibsons and Swearingen went to
the barn of Swearingen, which is about
ninety yards from 'the house in which
Mrs. Swearingen and family live, and
got some provision, John Gibson remain
ing with swearingen, helping him to
fix np for his harvest. They were" en
gaged in fixing up a .mower when
Swearingen went np to his cabin and
got a Winchester rifle', returning to the
barn, he put the gun down and went on
with his work. ' Previous to this he had
gone to the house and got a pan in order
to divide some provisions with Mr. Gib
son..- After he bad -worked awhile he
wanted a drink and wanted , Gibson to
go with him and get it. Gibson refused
to go. ' He then picked up his gun , started
to the front .door and said to his wife,
who met him here: ' "If he's nere I am
going to kill him?? " She replied, "He's
here.", Campbell stayed all night at
Mrs; Swearingen' and his horse was
still tied at the fence that morning when
Swearingen and Gibson were working at
the barn,- ' ' ' '.
Swearingen on receiving the above re
ply entered the bouse and his wife at
tempted to take the gun away from him
and they scuffled through the bouse,
which consists of several rooms, on to
the back porch, both retaining atold on
the 'gun. Then Campbell, who had
been in the bed .room near the front
door appeared in the door opening on to
the porch, while the youngest daughter.
Myrtle, H years old, was begging him
"not to go to the door " "Don't shoot
and like expressions, and at the same
time tried to keep him back.' When be
appeared at thedoor Campbell said, "Ike;
ifyou have anything against me, we will
settle it now." At the same time, ac
cording' to Mrs. S testimony, Swear
ingen jerked the "gun from her hand
and cocked and leveled it on Campbel
who stood in the door. She stated fur
ther, that Campbell drew his pistol
after he was covered with the Win
Chester , and shot Swearingen, the ball
entering the breast near the right
ehoulder, between the first and second
ribs, and coming out 4 inches lower
and to the left of the spine, and at the
inquest, Dr. Belknap cut the bullet out
from under the lower of the Ehoulder
blade. The gun was a 45-calibre Colts
John Gibson immediately ran to the
house and at the gate met Campbell and
the family, Campbell remarking "John
it was a mighty bard thing to do, by
G d, I had to do it 'to save inyBelf.'
Swearingen was found standing on the
edge of the porch holding to a poet for
support. He said to Gibson: "John
he's killed me. I'm dying, John, I'm
dying. He was behind the door." And
to another party he said: "He shot me
down like a dog." The Winchester was
hot to be seen when Gibson appeared on
the scene. The gun had been removed
by Campbell, so Mrs. Swearingen testi
tied. Why after shooting a man he
should take the gun and give it to the
wife was not fully explained, and this is
one of the mysteries of the case. She
testified that she ' had taken the gun
from him on- other occasions, but she
could not do it this time. " -
The shooting occurred between 8 and
o'clock ia the -morning and he died
about 1 o'clock p. in. The coroner held
the inquest on Sunday and last Tuesday
John Campbell was arraigned before
Judge Trink as a committing magistrate
on the charge of murder. He was
bound over without bonds. '
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Where Bryan Will Be Notified.
Chicago, July 11. In Madison Square
Garden, New York, early in August,
Bryan will be formally apprised of the
action of the convention. There, at the
same time and place, Sewell will be no
tified of his nomination for vice presi
dent. This matter was decided by the
notification, committee .this evening,
ThiB action was taken at the request of
Bryan, who thought it would be nice to
open the fight in the heart of the ene
my's country. - - ' ' '.
The committee organized by electing
Senator White, of California, chairman.
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Illinois Gold-Standard Dem
ocrats Issue an Address.
WANT A . SECOND CONVENTION
Three- Reasons for Their Appeal to the
Bonnd-Money Democracy of ,; '
' the Country.
.Chicago, July. 13. The executive
committee of the gold-standard Demo
crats of Illinois met in a protracted ses
sion today and prepared an address to
the Democracy of other states in the
union. It was the unanimous opinion
of the committee that a second national
convention . should be called to nomin
ate candidates for president and vice
presidents, The address is as follows :
"To our Fellow-Democrats of Other
States:- A 'national- convention, con
vened under the constituted authority
of our party has just closed its session
in the city of Chicago. . ' .-
It entered upon its.. work by violat
ing all party precedents in tbo rejection
of a distinguished Democrat as its tem
porary presiding officer.
"It deprived a sovereign state of a
voice in its deliberations by unseating,
without cause or legal justification, dele
gates elected with all the regularity
known to party organization.
"It refused to indorse the honesty and
fidelity of the present Democratic na
tional administration.
It adopted a platform which favors
the free and unlimited coinage of silver
by this country alone at the ratio of 16
to 1, and thereby it repudiated a time
honored Democratic principle which
demands the strictest maintenance of ,a
sound and stable national currency.
"Finally, to make it still plainer that,
although in name, it was not in fact a
Democratic convention, it nominated
for president one who is not in his po
litical convictions, and has not always
been even in his professions, a demo
crat. '
"This made such a crisis, .both for the
nation and for the Democrats party that
sound-money Democrats most at once
decide what political, action they will
take for the protection of the honor of
the nation, the prosperity of the people,
and the life and usefulness of the party
-'The sound-money men of Illinois
have fully made up their minds that a
new Denitoratic national convention
should be nailed for the earliest feasible
day to nominate Democratic candidates
for president and vice-president, and
adopt a platform of Democratic princi
ples,: and they desire to state-to their
fellow Democrats of the other states
their reasons as follows : " -
"First Sound-money Democrats owe
it to the country, to make it certain at
once that their revolt against free silver
is determined, and will be organized.
It is nnfair to jeopardize" the credit of
the nation and the business and indus
trial interests of the people by asking
them to merely guess what the, sound
money Democrats- will do in November,
and to wait until November to find out.
"Second the nomination of a new
ticket Is the logical course. Without it
and a sound-money Democratio cam
paign, the whole educational force of
sonnd-monev Democratic sentiment
would be paralyzed from the beginhing.
Republicans cannot argue the sound
money' question to Democratic voters.
Republican sincerity on that question is
doubted by the mass of "Democrats.
The tariff question will be put to the
front, and insisted npon by Republican
peakers and the Republican press, as it
haB been persistently by Mr. McKinley
i pi self. Democrats will not listen to
lessons on finance when accompanied oy
abuse of the Democratic party. The
most effective force at this time for a
campaign is the force residing in the
sound-money Democrats. . For they are
profoundly In earnest, and can get a
hearing from Democrats that the Re
publicans cannot possibly get. -.
Third A new convention would also
preserve for the future the opportuni
ties of the Democratic party. -' Unless a
clear-cut separation is made , between
the genuine Democrats and , Democrats
who are drifting into Populism, or are
already in Populism ; and unless . that
clear-cut separation is supported by or
ganization and a - reorganized Demo
cratic party is the result, the party has
no chance of regaining public confidence
for years to come. The sound-money
Democrats in the different states 'mast
either make it clear that they have, no
association with the . Bryan ' .party, - or
they must accept association and : en-1
taDglement .with it; and all state organ
if
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Izations will, in the public mind, be for ,
it that do not make it absolutely clear
that they are against it. The .sound
money Democrats are all sufficiently or
ganized in this state to' be able ' to -meet
their fellow-Democrats in a new conven
tion, and are anxious to confer with rep
resentatives of other states, whenever a
meeting can be brought about. 'Com- "
munications should be addressed to- '
Charles A. Wing,- chairman, Palmer,
bouse, Chicago.' '. '
. (Signed) "James T. 8oblitt; Adolplr,
Kraut, James M. Sherhan, Charles H.
Williamson, I.indon Evans, R. E. Span
gler, John M. Palmer, Charles A. Ew
ing, Jimes H, Eckels. Franklin Mc
Veagh, Ben T. Cable, MVlliam S. Foie
man, Thomas A. Moran, John ' P. Hop
kins, Henry 5. Robbine, A. A. Goodrich,,
executive committee of the honest- ,
money Democracy of Illinois."
-The County Poor.
' Some of the inmates of 'the county
poof house have very readily adopted
the belief that the world owes them a ,
living and are unwilling to do the least .
thing requiring physical exertion, how
ever trivial. As a consequence they are
becoming lazy and their ambition has
reached such a low ebb that they are "
needlessly useless and are fastening
upon themselves a habit which will .
grow npon' them that of ' laziness.
Their inaction is not conducive, either,
to their physical well being, and ntten- .
tion having been brought to. the county,
court, the court has issued a decree, in-
vested with proper safeguards for ''the
protection of the inmate in all cases. It'
is as follows: -f-
"It is hereby ordered that the inmates
of the county poor house shall perform
such work ns they are. directed to do by
the superintendent, M. M. Cushing,'
when certified to by the physician that '
they are able to perform ' manual . labor, i
and that npon- their refusal to do and -perform
euch work as directed by the '
said M. M. Cashing, he is hereby an- ,
thorized to discharge tbem from the
Said poor house, and his judgment shall
be final in respect thereto." . ' -
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