Oregon City Courier.
A, W. CHKNKY, Publisher.
OREGON CITY OREGON
EVENTS OF THE DAY
An Interesting Collection of Items From
lb Two Hemispheres Presented
In Condensed Form,
Another bond issue ia being spoken
of ai a remit of the heavy gold with
drawals. The rebel impi is gathered in battle
array near Buluwayo, and a fight is
probable.
The barkentine Eliza MoManemy
was sunk near Memory Rook, Pa. No
lives were lost
A terriflo wind and rain storm in
Ohio badly damaged orops Light
ning struck a number of buildings. ,,
The deadly yellow jack is playing
sad havoo with the Spanish army in
AUV uoautl JVitvn jwve mm Mr w O
Cuba, and many of the soldiers are dy
ing. Two cabin-boys of Pomeroy, 0., shot
and killed Peter Whittaker. The kill
ing was the result of rivalry over a
woman.
More silver is to be
Ban Francisco mint will
coined. The
soon resume
operations and it is said that abont
1600,000 will be coined during this
month.
Intense heat prevails throughout the
southern portion of Great Britain and
in France and Germany. In London
the mercury marked 80 degrees in the
hade and 18S in the sun. In Paris
the heat is so great it has been found
necessary to olose many workshops.
On July 4, the inmates of the oity
infirmary in Cincinnati were treated to
green apples, lemonade and other lux
uries. The inmates drank and ate
too much: siokness followed, and
eight have since died from the effeots
of the festivities on that day.
Noah MoGill, sheriff of Tishomingo
oounty, I. T., reports that three white
men were found banging to the limb
of a tree near Reagan postofflce, a few
miles from Tishomingo oounty, Chioka
saw nation. It is generally believed
that they were borsetbieves, captured
by a party of Texana, and swung np
on the spot
Several Chinese are believed to have
been burned to death in a fire wbioh
occurred in Chinatown in San Fran
cisco. The building was occupied by
a large party of Chinese, many of
whom were dazed from the use of
opium and unable to save themselves.
Although no bodies have been found,
it is believed that six persons were
burned to death.
It ia understood that the secretary of
state has instructed the United States
minister at Lima to demand a prompt
aettlement of the claim of Viotor O.
Maooord, the American citizen, for al
leged brutal and inhuman treatment by
the Peruvian authorities. Mr. Mao
cord's claim is for $200,000. It grows
out of bin imprisonment by the Per
uvian authorities in 1885, while he
was acting superintendent of the rail
road at Arequipa.
Felix Faure, president of the French
republic was fired at from a distance
of only a few feet by an unknown man,
but the bullet fortunately went wide
of its mark, and the president esoaped
unharmed. President Faure had gone
to the Champs to review the troops.
He had no sooner entered the field when
man in the orowd stepped forward
and fired at him. The shot did not
take effeot. The would-be assassin was
arrested. He deolared that he only fired
a blank cartridge
Roports from Spokane say that orops
in many sections of Washington are
aomewhat damaged, as a result of the
hot weather of the past few weeks, oats
especially having been badly burned.
News has been received in Havana
that unknown parties have burued the
Santa Barbara estate near Baro, prov
ince of Matauzaa. The estate is owned
by Senor Maruul Corunado, editor of
La Discussion. The damage is esti
mated at (300,000.
The Venezuelans, through the efforts
of President Crospo, intend to donate
to the oity of New York an equestrian
tatue of Simon Bolivar, and have
commissioned the work to the Italian j
sculptor, Giovanni Tumi, of Staten j
island. The oost of the statue will be 1
$200,000.
Warner Miller barely escaped being ;
hot while riding on a New York Cen- j
tral train from Albany to Herkimer. ;
The train was passing through the out-1
skirts of Albany, when a bullet crashed
through the window an inch above Mr. i
Miller's head, covering him with
splintered glass and passing out of the 1
opposite window.
The trouble which occurred in An- '
rora, 111., on the Fourth, when two!
misguided patriots pulled down a Greek
flag, surrounded by American emblems I
te growing rather serious. A repre
sentative of the consul general is there
investigating the matter. The repre
sentative says that it was an outrage as
the Greek had his banner completely
surrounded by American Sags, wbioh
is eminently proper under international
law.
The Prinoe and Prinoess of Wales in
behalf of the queen gave a garden
party at Buckingham palace, in hon
or of Prinoess Maud of Wales, who is
to be married to Prinoe Charles of
Denmark. The staterooms of the palaoe
war thrown open to the guest of
whim there were about 6,000. Am
bassador Bayard and Chauncey M. De
pew were present
The London Post announces that
Mrs. John W. Mackay has been sum
moned to Roma on aooount of the dan
gerous illness of bar father.
Wanted Ho Railroad.
In Niles, Mich., workmen lately
have been engaged in repairing the St.
Joseph valley railroadjand putting it in
running order, much against the wish
of property-owners through which it
runs. The latter, heavily armed, drove
the workmen away and begun tearing
up the rails and leveling the roadbed,
determined to destroy tho railroad.
The farmers retained possession and the
I railroad company's workmen feared to
! approach them. Several miles of the
road were destroyed. The railroad
loompany is powerless, but will en
deavor to regain possession and com
plete the road.
Killed by at Poms.
Ed Murphy, alias George Mooney,
alias Bnrdette Wolf, who killed
Andrew Artman, at a sheep camp
in Grant oounty recently, was run
down and killed by a posse on the
John Day river, near Dayville. It 1b
generally believed that Murphy or
Mooney, is none other than Burdette
Wolf, who killed Birdie Morton, bis
betrothed sweetheart, near Mount
Tabor. Or.. Ootober 12, 1892. It is
said he admitted big identity to the
- a j
sheepberders, and then aiterwara iear-
ing his seoret would be told, went baok
and tried to kill them. He murdered
Artman, but the other escaped.
vault Blown Open
An unsuccessful attempt was made in
PoMkIJ Pal., to blow oDsn the
i vault of the oounty treasury. Ihree
notes were oruiea in we ami uuiu-
bination of the outer door, but none
reaohed the vital part of the look.
Had the outer door been opened there
would still have been an inner door to
the vault, and a heavy steel safe inside
to open before the money was reaohed
Laborers Crushed.
Four laborers were buried by the
caving-in of a trenoh in Kansas City, j
Kan. Two of the men, f rank scan
tifele and Donnie Holton, bad their
lives ornshed out. Charles Jaoobson
was fatally injured. J. W. Callahan
escaped praotioally unhurt The
trenoh was being built to lay a gas
i main.
Killed In a guarrel.
Isaao Sweringen was shot and killed
by Harry Campbell at the house of the
former, near Prineville, Or. The I
two men quarreled over the fact that
Campbell persisted in visiting Swerin- j
gen's daughter after having been for-1
bidden the house, and during the fight j
wbioh ensued the old man was killed. !
Bobbed the Hall.
Advioes from Barranquilla, United
States of Colombia, tell of the theft of
$250,000 by two young men of high so-1
cial standing. One is a nephew of a
high offloial. The money was . in ;
oourse of transmission through the j
mail. The robbery was accomplished i
by breaking into the postoffloe at night j
The next day, the deed being disoov
ered, inquiry was set on foot and a
large part of the stolen money was
found in the possession of the two
young men. The balance was unre
covered, but will probably be reim
bursed by relatives of the young men,
to save them from the consequences of ;
their orime.
Killed In the Aet.
W. Lemrisce, postmaster of the sub
urb of Forest Park, near Chicago, was
sitting in bis parlor in oompany with
his son, his two daughters and two
women visitors, when the front door
opened and a negro carrying a big re
volver walked in. He ordered young
Lemorisoe to stand, and when he did
so, told one of the girls to search the
boy's pockets and hand over the money
she found. While this was going on
Mr. Lemerisoe quietly slipped into the,
next room, and, getting his revolver, i
blew out the negroes brains. It is
thought the man intended to rob the
postollioe.
Mont Pay 1'oatnge.
Railroad companies no longer may
carry their business letters over their
own roads without paying postage to
the government. An order has been
reoeived from Postmaster-General Wil
son by Major StewHrt and Postmaster
Hesing, insisting upon the enforcement
of the postal laws agaiiiBt railways car
rying their own letters. An exception
is made in favor of letters that have
to do with the business of the train oar
ryiug them. But all letters to station
ageutf and officials are forbidden to be
carried without postage, and the in
spectors are directed to enforce the law.
A Tent Collapsed.
A serious mishap that will disar
range the Christian Endeavor meeting,
whioh is now in session in Washing
ton, occurred Thursday evening. The
tout "Williston," one of the largest
stretches of canvas on the white lot,
blew down and appears to be wrecked.
It is feared it will be impossible to
raise it again, as it is watersoaked and
torn. This tent was calculated to hold
about 10,000 people.
Repudiated by the Run.
The New York Sun in an editorial
formally repudiates the national Demo
cratio platform, and supports Mchin-
ley for the presidency.
Three Building Kerned.
The Central hotel and two buildings
belonging to the C. P. K. Paint Co. at
San Luis Obispo, Cal., were destroyed
by fire.
Maehonae KepulMd.
Forty whites and 100 Zulus repulsed
a strong force of Mashonas at Brisooe'i
farm, in Matabeleland, killing twenty
five. There have been further mas
sacres, and in some instances Mashona
native police killed their officer.
Rneelaa Town Destroyed.
The town of Kobrin, in the provinoe
of Grodnoviik, Russia, has been
burned. Three hundred houses were
destroyed and 2,000 people ara home
i MAD WITH EXC1TEM ENT
Wild Scenes Enacted in the
Chicago Coliseum.
BRYAN'S PASSIONATE ORATORY
Delegate! and Spectator! Alike Carried
Away by His Speech Stam
pede for the Nebraikan.
Chloago. On the third day's session
of the national Demooratio convention,
ten acres of poopie on the sloping sides
of the Coliseum saw the silver-helmet-ed
gladiators in the arena overpower the
gold phalanx and plant the banner of
silver upon the ramparts of Democracy.
They saw what may prove the disrup
tion or the success of a great politioal
party, amid scenes of enthusiasm suob
as, perhaps, never before ocoorred in a
I national convention
They MW 20,000
rjeorjle. with im-
' aBinations inflamed by the burning
j woro8 0f passionate oratory, swayed
: like wind-swept fields; they heard the
awful roar of 20,000 voices burst like a
! volcano against the reverberating dome
' UTOTUO"u ' "w " " v "
Nebraska) oarried upon the shoulders
of others intoxioated with enthusiasm.
Amidst the tumult and turbulenoe,
they listened to appeals, to threats, to
ories for mercy (from Hill of New
York), and finally, they watched the
Dw,cJ 5 Hill
jubilant majority seat its delegates and
the vanquished Btalk sullenly forth into
the daylight The battle for supremacy
of Demooratio principles was fought in
a gegBjon tnat iR8ted from 11 o'clock in
the morning ntil shortly before 5
0'0look m the afternoon,
Eaon Bi(Je wnt itg 0hampions to the
fornin. Senator Tillman, of South
Carolina; Senator Jones, of Arkansas;
ex-Congressman Bryan, of Nebraska,
orossed swords with Senator Hill, of
New York; Senator Vilas, of Wiscon
sin, and ex-Governor Russell, of Mas
sachusetts. The sinister-looking senator from
tne state of Calhoun (Tillman), with
his eye blazing defiance whioh mani
fested its unfriendlinesss by a storm of
hisses, opened the debate with a wildly
passionate speech, in which he affirmed
that the battle for the restoration of
silver was a war for the emancipation
of the white slaves, as the war of 1860
had been for the emancipation of the
black slaves. Disruption of the
Democraoy bad brought one, and he in
vited another disruption if it would re
sult in this other emancipation.
He went to the extreme of glorying
in the suggestion presented, that the
igBu(J wga ft geotionai on6t a declaration
wMoh aron8ed fte re8entment o( Sena.
tQr Jone8i gnd he repudiated it in a
hrief h which ft first
demonstration of the day. Even the
gold delegates joined heartily in this
demonstration against sectionalism.
Senator Vilas bitterly denounced
i what be termed an attempt to launch
I the party in a career so wild that the
; world stood aghast. With a wave of
his arm, that was full of impressive
portent, he sounded bis warning.
Ex-Governor Russell, the keen Mas
: sachusetts statesman, who has thrice
carried the standard of Democracy to
1 victory in the Old Bay Btate, pleaded
for a word of concession, of concilia
tion, and conlcuded with a solemn
warning that the country, if not the
convention, would listen.
Demonstrations followed at frequent
intervals throughout the speeches, but
it was Senator Hill who aroused the
gold foroes to their wildest enthusiasm,
and Bryan, the "boy orator of the
Platte," who set thesilevrmen aflame.
The demonstration for Hill, who
with close logio and trenchant blade
sought the very heart of the conven
tion as he bitterly assailed as undemo
cratic the new creed whioh the ma
jority was to proclaim, lasted about
18 minutes. Although more pro
tracted than that which greeted
Bryan, it was of a different nature.
The latter was the spontaneous out
burst of an enthusiasm kindled by the
touch of magnetic eloquence. The
star of the brilliant young orator from
the plains of Nebraska has burned
brightly on the horizon of the conven
tion for two days. There were several
demonstrations in bis behalf the day
before, but this was the first oppor
tunity be bad to show himself. The
audience had been warmed up, and
was full of pent-up enthusiasm. The
powder magasine needed but the spark,
and Bryan applied it with the skill of
genius. His very appearance captured
the audience. Dressed like a plain
Westerner, in a black suit of alpaca,
he stood with a smile playing over bis
handsome, mobile, clear-cut face,
while with uplifted hand be invited
the waiting thousands.
He has a faoe whose lines might
have been chiseled from alabaster by
soma matter acolpter. Hit mouth ia
firm, his eyes bright, his nose Roman,
bis raven hair is brushed baok from his
forehead and falls to his collar.
With well-modulated voice, wbioh
gradually rose in pitch until it pene
trated the furthermost limits of the
ball, he wove the spell upon his audi
ence. His speech was a masterpieoe of
fervent oratory. With consummate
eloquence be stated the case of silver
and parried the arguments of the gold
men. Maro Antony never applied the
match more effectively.
His closing reniarkB were:
"Having behind us the commercial
interests, the laboring interests, and all
the toiling masses, we shall answer their
demands for the gold standard by say
ing to them: 'You shall not press
down npon the brow of labor this crown
of thorns. You shall not crnoify man
kind upon the oroBs of gold.' "
The convention tcx V fire with enthu
siasm. It orackled as with the war of
flames. Hill was forgotten; all else
was forgotten for the moment. Cheers
swelled to yells, yells became screams.
Every chair in the valley of the Coli
seum and every ohair in the vast wil
derness on the hillsides became a dook
on whioh frantio men and women were
wildly waving handkerchiefs, canes,
bats and umbrellas anything movable.
Some, like men demented, divested
themselves of their coats and flung
them high in the air.
A Texas delegate nprooted the purple
standard of his state and bore it fran
tioally to the plaoe where rose the
standard of Nebraska. In a twinkling
others followed the example. Two
thirds of the state staffs were torn from
their sockets and oarried as trophies to
Nebraska, where they danced in mid
air. A dozen delegates rushed upon
the stage and shouldered the half-dazed
orator and bore him in triumph down
the aisle. Louder and louder shrieked
the thousands, until the volume of
sound broke like a gigantic wave, and
fell only to rise and break again.
For almost ten minutes this madden
ed tumult oontinued, while the dele
gates with the state standards paraded
the inolosure. Old political generals
were stupined. If the ballot lor tne
nomination had been taken, it would
have been a stampede.
When it was all over the votes were
taken Ant on the minority substitute
for the platform offered by Senator
Hill, whioh was defeated 628 to 850.
Then, on the resolution to indorse the
administration, which was beaten, 357
to 564, and lastly on the adoption of
the platform, which was oarried, 628
to 801.
Senator Tillman, after the rejection
of the resolution to indorse the admin
istration, withdrew his resolution to
oensure the administration. j
The Night (Session.
At the night session, in the presence
of fully 25,000 people, the nominating
speeches were made, and there was a
repetition of the exciting soense of the
afternoon. The Bryan enthusiasm
oontinued. The galleries went frantio
at every mention of his name, and the
wild demonstrations of the afternoon
were duplicated when be was plaoed
in nomination by Hon. H. T. Lewis,
of Georgia, and seconded by W. C. K.
Lntz, of North Carolina; George F.
Williams, of Massachusetts, and
Thomas J. Kernan, of Louisiana.
Senator Vest placed Bland in nomin
ation, and Governor Overmeyer, of
Kansas, seconded the nomination.
The name of Claude Matthews, of In
diana, was presented by Turpie, of In
diana, and seconded by Delegate Trip
pett, of California.
Fred White, of Iowa, plaoed Boies
in nomination, and the Waterloo
statesman owed a magnificent ovation
to the enthusiasm of Miss Minnie
Murray, a young woman from Nashua,
Ia., who led the Boies demonstration,
as Mi?s Carson Lake did the Blaine
demonstration at Minneapolis four
years ago.
THE CHICAGO PLATFORM.
Declare! for Free Coinage of Silver at
the Present Katlo or 10 to 1.
We. the democrats of the United States,
In convention assembled, reatllrm our al
legiance to those great essential principles
of Justice and liberty upon which our in
stitutions are founded, and which the
democratic party has advocated from Jef
ferson's time to our own freedom of
speech, freedom of the press, freedom of
conscience, the preservation of personal
rights, the equality of all citizens before
the law, and the faithful observance of
constitutional limitations.
During all these years the democratic
party has resisted the tendency of sellish
Interests to the centralization of govern
mental power, and steadfastly maintained
the Integrity of the dual scheme of govern
ment, as established by the founders of
this republic of republics. Under its guid
ance and teachings, the great principle of
local self-government has found its best
expression In the maintenance of the rights
of states, and Its assertion of the necessity
of confining the general government to the
exercise of the powers granted by the con
stitution of the United States. Itecngnlz
Ing that the money question is paramount
to all others at this time, we Invite atten
tion to the fact that the federal con
stitution named silver and gold together
as the money metals of the United States,
and that the first coinage law passed by
congress under the constitution made the
silver dollar the monetary unit and ad
mitted gold to free coinage at a ratio based
upon the silver-dollar unit.
We declare that the act of 1873. demone
tizing silver without the knowledge or ap
proval of the American people, has result
ed In the appreciation of gold and a cor
responding fall In the price of commodities
produced by tho people, a heavy increase
In the burden of taxation, and of all debts,
public and private, the enrichment of the
money-lending classes at home and abroad,
prostration of Industry and Impoverish
ment of the people.
We are unalterably opposed to mono
metallsm, which has locked fast the pros
perity of an Industrial people In the
paralysis of hard times. Gold monometal
lism Is a British policy, and Its adoption
haa brought other nations Into financial
servitude to London. It Is not only un
American, but anti-American, and can be
fastened on the United States only by the
sinking- of that spirit and love of liberty
which proclaimed our political Indepen
dence In 177$, and won It In the war of the
Revolution.
We demand the free and unlimited coin
age of both gold and silver at the present
legal ratio of IS to 1, without waiting for
the aid or consent of any other nation. We
demand that U standard silver dollar
shall be full legal tender equally with
gold for all debts, public and private, and
we favor such legislation a will prevent
for the future the demonetization of any
kind of legal-tender money by private con
tract. We are opposed to the policy and practice
of surrendering to the holders of the ob
ligations of the United States the option
reserved by law to the government of re
deeming such obligations In silver or In
gold coin. We are opposed to the Issuing of
Interest-bearing bonds of the United States
In time of peace, and condemn the traf
ficking with banking syndicates, which, In
exchange for bonds at an enormous profit
to themselves, supply the federal treasury
with gold to maintain the policy of gold
monometallsm.
Congress alone has the power to coin
and Issue money, and President Jackson
declared that this power could not be dele
gated to Incorporations or individuals. We
therefore demand that the power to Issue
notes to circulate as money be taken from
the national banks, and that all paper
money shall be Issued directly by the treas
ury department, be redeemable In coin,
and receivable for all debts, public and
private.
We hold that the tariff duties should be
levied for the purpose of revenue, such
duties to be so readjusted as to operate
equally throughout the country, and not
discriminate between clasa or section, and
that taxation should be limited by the
needs of government, honestky and eco
nomically administered.
We denounce as disturbing to business
the republican threat to restore the Mc
Klnley law. which has been twice con
demned by the people In national elections,
and which, enacted under the false plea of
protection to home Industries, proved a
proline breeder of trusts and monopolies,
enriched the few at the expense of the
many, restricted trade and deprived the
producers of the great American staples
of access to their natural markets. Until
the money question Is settled, we are op
posed to any agitation for further changes
In our tariff laws, except such as are nec
essary to make up the deficit In revenues
caused by the adverse decision of the su
preme court on the Income tax. But for
this decision of the supreme court, there
would be no deficit In the revenue under
the law passed by the democratic congress,
In strict pursuanc of the uniform decisions
of that court for nearly 100 years, that
court having under that decision sus
tained constitutional objections to Its
enactment which had been overruled by
the ablest Judges who have ever sat on
that bench.
We declare that It Is.the duty of con
gress to use all the constitutional power
which remains after that decision, or which
may come from Its reversal by the court
as it may he.-eafter be constituted, so that
the burdens of taxation may be equally
and Impartially divided, to the end that
we may all bear the due proportion of the
expenses of government.
We hold that the mast efficient way of
protecting American labor is to prevent
the importation of foreign pauper labor to
compete with It In the home market, and
that the value of the home market to our
American farmers and artisans Is greatly
reduced by a vicious monetary system,
which depresses the prices of their prod
ucts below the cost of production, and thus
deprives them of the means of purchas
ing the products of our home manufac
tories. The absorption of wealth by the
few, the consolidation of our leading rail
way systems, and the formation of trusts
and pools require a stricter control by
the federal government of those arteries of
commerce. ,
We demand the enlargement of the now- I
ers of the Interstate commerce commis
sion, and such restrictions and guarantees
In the control of the railroads as wiU pro
tect the people from robbery and oppres
sion. We denounce the profligate waste of
money wrung from the people by oppres
sive taxation, and the lavish appropria
tions of recent republican congresses,
which have kept the taxes high while the
labor that pays them Is unemployed, and
the products of the people" toll are de
pressed In price until they no longer qepay
the cost of production. We demand a re
turn to that simplicity and economy which
befit a democratic government, and a re
duction In the number of useless offices,
the salaries of which drain the substance
of the people.
Wc denounce arbitrary Interference by
federal authorities In local affairs as a
violation of the constitution of the United
States and a crime against free Institu
tions, and we especially object to govern
ment Interference by Injunction, as a new
and highly dangerous form of oppression,
by which federal judges, in contempt of
the laws of the states and rights of citi
zens, become at once legislators, Judges
and executors, and we approve the bill
passed at the last session of the United
States senate, and now pending In the
house of representatives, relative to con
tempts In federal courts, and providing for
trials by Jury In certain cases of con
tempt. by the government of the United states in
No discrimination should be Indulged in
favor of any of Its debtors.
We approve of the refusal of the 53d
congress to pass the Pacific rallro.-.d fund
ing bill, and denounce the effort of the
present congress to enact a similar meas
ure. Recognizing the Just claim of deserving
Union soldiers, we heartily Indorse the rule
of Commissioner Murphy that no names
shall be arbitrarily dropped from the pen
sion rolls, and that fact of enlistment and
service should be deemed conclusive evi
dence against disease and disability before
enlistment.
We favor the admission of the territories
of New Mexico and Arizona Into the Union
as states, and we favor the early
admission of all the territories haying the
necessary population and resources to en
title them to statehood, and while they re
main territories we hold that the officials
appointed to administer the government of
any territory, together with the District of
Columbia and Alaska, should be bona fide
residents of the territory or district In
which their duties are to be performed.
The democratic party believes in home
rule, and that all public lands of the
United States should be appropriated to
the establishment of free homes for Amer
ican citizens.
We recommend that the territory of
Alaska be granted a delegate In congress,
and that the general land and timber laws
of the United States be extended to said
territory.
We extend our sympathy to the people of
Cuba In their heroic -struggle for liberty
and Independence.
The federal government should care for
and Improve the Misslsslpppl river and
other great waterways of the republic, so
as to secure for the interior states easy
and cheap transportation to tidewater.
When any waterway of the republic Is of
sufficient Importance to demand aid of the
government, such aid should be extended
upon a definite plan of continuous work.
until nermanent lmnrovement is secured.
We are opposed to life tenure In pub- ! Bland sent a telegram to the conven
11c service. We favor appointments based tion, asking that bis name be with-
upon merit, fixed terms of office, and such
an administration of the civil service laws
as will afford equal opportunity to all citi-
aens of a certain fitness. j
We declare It to be the unwritten law !
of this republic, established by custom and j
usage of 100 years and sanctioned by the ;
examples of the greatest and wisest of
those who founded and have maintained
our government, that no man shall be eli- j
gible far a third term of the presidential ,
office.
Confident In the Justice of our cause and ,
necessity of Us success at the polls, we
submit the foregoing declaration of prin
ciples to the considerate judgment of the
American people. We invite the support of
all citixens who approve them, and desire
to have them made effective through legis
lation, for the relief of the people and the
restoration of the country's prosperity.
BRYAN OF NEBRASKA
Nominated lor President by?
the Democrats.
DELEGATES STAMPEDED TO HI
He Was Elected on the Fifth Ballot
Arthur Bewell, of Maine, for
Vice-President,
Chicago. W. J. Bryan, "the boy
orator of the Platte," and ex-congressman
from Nebraska, was nominated
by the Demooratio national convention.
at Chicago, upon the fifth ballot.
Ever ainoe Bryan's brilliant oratori
cal effort on the third day of the con
vention, he has been steadily gaining
strength in the convention, and after
the first ballot former supporters of
other candidates rapidly transferred
their allegiance, singly, in pairs and in
droves, to the young statesman who
bad so ably defended their free-silver
oause in and out of convention, and at
all times.
After Mr. Bryan was nominated the
convention unanimously ratified the
choice of the majority.
The decks were cleared for balloting,
whioh was to begir. as soon as the
Demooratio national convention reas
sembled, at 10 o'clock on the fourth
ryaru
day. The real struggle opened with
the delegates wrought to an intense
pitch over the sensational develop
ments of the previous day, when the
Bryan wave swept through the con
vention, and threatened for a time at
least to stampede it then and there.
It had disturbed all calculations and
thrown the ranks of the other candi
dates into oonfusion.
The Brayn foroeB were making the
most of the phenomenal rise of the
young orator of Nebraska. The ad
journment at midnight had given the
leaders of other candidates an opportu
nity to rally their foroes, and it served
also to give some hours in which gome
cool counsel might prevail against the
wave of sentiment whioh was at bigb
tide the night before.
Delegate Miller, of Oregon, added
to the list of nominations the name of
Sylvester Pennoyer, of Oregon. The
names of Bland, Bryan, Boies, Black
burn, Matthews, McLean, Pattison and
Pennoyer were before the convention.
There were no other nominations,
and Chairman White announced that
the roll-call of states for the nomina
tion of president, would proceed. Great
exoitement swept over the hall. The'
first ballot resulted as follows:
Blackburn, 83; Bland, 233; Boies, 86;
Bryan, 105; Campbell, 2; Hill, 1;
Matthews, 87; McLean, 54; Pattison,
95; Pennoyer, 10; Russell, 2; Steven
son, 2; Teller, 18; Tinman, w; not
voting 188.
On the second ballot Maasachustetts
deserted Bland for Bryan, whioh
created a sensation and started the.
other states, and in the two following
ballots Bryan kept gradually gaining
one state after another, until the result
of the fourth ballot showed Bryan in
the lead with 276, Bland having fallen
to 241. This precipitated anothei
demonstration which lasted for forty
minutes. Twenty thousand people
yelled themselves hoarse cheering fo
the Nebraskan. Several of the states'
delegates then retired for consultation,
and when they filed back into the hall
the fifth ballot was taken, resulting in
Bryan receiving the necessary two
thirds. On motion it was made unani
mous. The Vice-Presidency.
A caucus of delegates was held until
2:30 in the morning, but no agreement
could be reached on the vice-presidency.
When the convention opened in the
morning the following names were pre
sented: Bland, of Missouri; McLean,
of Ohio; Williams, of Massachusetts;
Sibley, of Pennsylvania; Fithian, ol
Illinois; Daniel, of Virginia; Pennoyer,
of Oregon, and Sewell, of Maine.
Five ballots were taken. Up to the
fourth ballot Bland and McLean led.
Their names were then withdrawn,
and on the fifth ballot Arthur Sewell,
of Maine, was elected.
After the third ballot was taken
drawn and that the nomination be
given to some man east of the Missis
sippi river.
W. J. Bryan's Career.
William Jennings Bryan, who ia
popularly known as "the boy orator of
the Platte," is the youngest man ever
nominated for the presidency by a po
litical party in the United State, ex
ceeding, as he does, the age limitation
fixed by the constitution by onlv six
teen months. He is the editor of the
Omaha Daily and Weekly World-Herald,
one of the leading silver organs of
the country, and has for many yeara,
advocated the free coinage of silver.