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1U ME JnlILLSBR6 f VOL, 3. IIILLSBOltO, OREGON. THURSDAY, JULY 16. 1896. NO. 17. EVENTS OF THE DAY Epitome ot the Telegraphic Newt of the World. TERSE TICKS FROM THE WIRES An Interesting Collection of Item From III Two H.iuU)li.r. lr...ut.d In a VundsuMd Form. Another bond lirae U being ipoken of m remit of the heavy gold with drawals. The rebel lmpl ii gathered In battle array nour Buluwayo, and fight it probable. The barkentina Eliza MoManemy waa sunk near Memory Book, Pa. Mo Uvea were lout A terriHo wind and rain itorm In Ohio badly damaged oropt Light niujstruok a number of buildings. lV deadly yellow jack it playing ad luvoo with the Spanish army in Cuba, and many of the soldiers are dy ing. Two oabin-boys of Pomeroy, O., shot and killed Peter VVhittaker. The kill ing wat the resnlt of rivalry over a woman. More tilver it to be oolned. The Ban Franolsoo mint will toon resume operationt and it it said that about 1800,000 will be oolned daring this month. Intense heat prevail throughout the southern portion of Great Britain and in Franoe and Germany. In London the mercury marked 80 degrees in the shade and 186 in the inn. In Paris the heat it to great it hat been found necessary to close many workshops. On July 4, the Inmates of the city infirmary in Cincinnati were treated to green applet, lemonade and other lux uries. The inmates drank and ate too much; siokness followed, and eight have since died from the effects ot the festivities on that day. Noah MoGill, sheriff of Tishomingo oonnty, I. T., reports that three white men were fonnd hanging to the limb of a tree near Keagan poatoffloe, a few miles from Tishomingo oonnty, Chioka taw nation. It la generally believed that they were boraethievea, oaptnred by a party of Texant, and twung up on the spot Beveral Chinese are believed to have been bnrned to death in a fire whiob ooourred in Chinatown in Ban Fran olsoo. The bntlding wat ooonpted by a large party of Chineae, many of whom were dazed from the use of opium and enable to aave themaelrea. Although no bodiea have been fonnd, il it believed that six peraona were Uurued to death. . It it understood that the secretary of state hat instructed the United Btatet minister at Lima to demand a prompt settlement ot the claim of Victor U. Maooord, the Amerioan citizen, for al leged brutal and inhuman treatment by the Pernvian authoritiea. Mr. Mao oord't olaim is for 200,000. It growa out of bin imprisonment by the Per uvian authoritiea in 1886, while he wat acting tuperintondent ot the rail road at Arequipa. , , Felix Fanre, president of the Frenoh republlo, waa tired at from a distance of only a few feet by an unknown man, but the bullet fortunately went wide ot itt mark, and the president escaped unharmed. President Fanre had gone to the Champs to review the troops. He had no sooner entered the field when a man in the orowd stepped forward and fired at him. The shot did not take effect. The would-be assassin wat arrested, He deolared that he only fired blank cartridge. Reports from Bpokane say that oropa In many sections of Washington are somewhat damaged, at a result of the hot weather of the past few weeks, oats especially having been badly bnrned. News has been reoeived in Havana that unknown parties have burned the Banta Barbara estate near Baro, prov lnoa of Matanzas. The estate it owned by Benor Maruel Corenado, editor of La Diaoussion. The damage it esti mated at $300,000. The Venezuelans, through the efforts of President Crespo, intend to donate to the city of New York an equestrian statue of Simon Bolivar, and have commissioned the work to the Italian sculptor, Giovanni Tumi, of Staten island. The cost of the ttatue will be 1300,000. Warner Miller barely escaped being shot while riding on a New York Cen tral train from - Albany to Herkimer. The train was passing through the out skirts of Albany, when a bullet crashed through the window an inch above Mr. Miller't head, covering bim with splintered glass and pasting out of the opposite window. 1 The trouble which ooourred in Au rora, 111., on the Fourth, when two misguided patriots pulled down a Greek flag, surrounded by Amerioan emblems it growing rather serious. A repre sentative ot the oonsul general it there Investigating the matter. The repre sentative says that it was an outrage at the Greek had hit banner completely surrounded by Amerioan flags, wnioh it eminently proper under international law. The Prinoe and Prinoess of Walet in behalf ot the queen gave a garden party at Buckingham palaoe, in hon or of Prinoess Maud of Wales, who it to be married to Prinoe Cbarlet of Denmark. The staterooms of the palaoe were thrown open to the guests of whom there were about 6,000. Am bassador Bayard and Channoey M. De pew were present The London Post announoet that lira. John W. Maoksy hat been sum stoned to Rome on account of the dan ' gar out tllaaii ot her father. . THE GREAT TIDAL WAVE. Now Kstlmatsd That Fin Thousand Japan! I.u.l Th.lr Llvss. Ban Fraooiaoo, July 15 The tteam hip Dorio arrived from Yokohama to night, bringing news opto Jane 36. Estimates ot the loss of life from the great tidal wave rcaoh as high at 60, 000, aud tbii number ii believed to be far below the mark. The tidal wave wai 80 feet in height, and iwept inland a dintunoe of 2)' miles along 300 milei of ooast Thousanda of aoiea of land ' under cultivation were devastated, and the lnhabitanta of the flooded distriota are suffering from the famine. There waa but little warning to the people ot the great disaster. About sunset four or five shocks of earthquake were felt a few minutes. At 8 P. M. an appalling noise, at it produced by the simultaneous firing of a hundred cannon, wat heard from the direction ot the tea. Then the great wave came in at a terrific apeed and overwhelmed everything fo aight At Taro the sea suddenly receded at muoh as 600 yards from the shore. Then the huge wave came rushing in before peo ple on shore bad time to escape. Fish ermen who were plying their trade at a distanoe of four miles from shore per ceived nothing Indicating the occur rence of anything remarkable. Others neaier the coaBt enoountered heavy breakers coming from the north. A REIQN OF TERROR. i Three Desperadoes en the Street of ' Chicago. Chicago, July IS. Three men in a buggy drawn by a gray horse oreated a , reign of terror on the North Bide of , the city tonight They drove throngh : the streets emptying their revolvers in the air, and now and then made things lively by firing at people whom ' they passed. During their ride they shot three men, one fatally. The vie-, tims are Sergeant William Bauer, of the East Chicago-avenue station, shot : twioe in the breast and once in the neck, will die; Andrew Martin and. John Keefe. After Martin and Keefe had been shot, the polioe started after the marauders, but oould not And them j until after midnight, when Sergeant j Bauer saw three men In a buggy drawn ; by a gray horse enter an alley. He followed them, and as soon aa be ap- i peared at the entranoe to the alley the '; men fired. Not a word wat uttered by the men or the officer. All of the bul- let hit Bauer, and be oaunot live. The men made their escape, and there is no clew to their identity. j THE WAR IN CUBA. In. argent Captain Caught Could Surrender. Before Be Havana, July 15. George A. Ouirre, an insurgent oaptain, who ia said to be an American citizen, it reported to have been' oaptnred in a boat by the gunboat Antonio Lopez, near Baourao. (Juirre ia in solitary confinement at the navy yard. He aayt he wat on hit way to surrender with bit boatman. Guillermo, to Colonel Jose Delgado. Ouillermo, who hat alto been im prisoned, says that before being cap tured, Ouirre threw overboard many papers and a revolver. - Several arrests have been made by the police of Havana of persons alleged : to have been compromised by oode cable messages supposed to relate to the latest landing of filibustering expedi tions on the island. In patrolling the ooast between Booa Guanabo and Boea-Ceoiga, General Ochao found 12,000 cartridges, a ohest of bombs, supposed to be designed tor the destruction of Matanzat railway traint, and a box of medicine. The insurgent lost in an engagement whioh Colonel Amor had on the Gomez farm, on July 9, wat 80 killed. Advices from Santiago de Cuba re port that an engagement hat been fought between the Spanish troopt and the insurgents under Jose Maoeo, in whioh Captain Monaon and other Cu ban leaders were killed. Lost In the Mountains. Pendleton, Or., July 16. O. J. Carlton and W. W. Bobbins returned yetterday from a trip to the north fork of John Day river, and reported that the young daughter of the postmaster of Suaanville has been miasing from home tinoe July 4. Thia date she strayed from home and beoame lost or wat oarried away. Two hundred men are scouring the country, trying to find tome due of the girl't whereabouts. Carlson and Robbins tearohed two days, and during their tramp over the country met many others amilarly en gaged. Fears are entertained that the girl hat been murdered. A Mysterious Death. Washington, July 15. Harry J. Po oock, tor many yean registrar of St Louia, died suddenly last night on a train in Ohio, between Athens and Parkeraburg. His body waa left at the latter olty. Mr. Pooook wat apparently in good health. About 11 o'olock, H. C. Bell, deputy United Btatet com missioner of pensions, jwat awakened by an agonized shriek from Pooook's berth. The latter tumbled from hit berth into tbe aisle, and soon after be ing removed to the smoking oar died. Two women were discovered ransack ing the dead man't clothes. Power from the Laohine rapida Is to be used for lighting Montreal, Canada. - Big Blase In Ian Rafael. San Rafael, Cal., July 15. One ot the most disastrous firei that San Rafael hat ever seen, ooourred thia morning about 8 o'olock, taking most of the busi ness blook between Fourth, Fifth and A and B streets. At far aa known, the fire ia supposed to have started in a restaurant occupied by M. Ramos. On aooouut of tbe high wind and the start tbe lire had, the firemen oould not gel oontrol of the Are nntil about 185,000 damage had been done. . A HEAD-END COLLISION. Twenty-Bight People Killed la an Iowa Train Wrack. Omaha, July 14. A head-end col lision that reunited in an appalling lout of life ooonrred on the Chicago & Northwestern road, between Logan and Missouri valley, at 6:80 tonight. The beit information indicate! that twenty-eight are dead and fifty-one in jured, many of whom will die. The wreck occurred aa reault of Engineer Montgomery, of the exoursion train, mistaking orders. He wat or- ' dered to wait at Logan nntil the fast mail and the east-bound passenger had : passed. He waited for the passenger and then started out, having forgotten about the mail. The trains were going ! at the rate of fifty miles an hour, when they met three milea west of Logan, j Engineer Montgomery jumped and es ; caped with a broken arm. j The offloials of the road positively j refused to give any information oon ! oerning the matter, stating it is some thing that oonoerns them, and not the public They even refuse to handle the Western Union bnsiness, and all the information secured oomes by the Omaha Bee's oourier service and by telephone. This morning the Union Paoifio Pioneers' pionio wat taken out over the Northwestern to spend the day at Logan, and tonight, as the exoursion train loaded with 1,200 persons, all residing in and about this city, was moving out of Logan, it was struck by a fast train going east. The two en- j glnes orashed into each other, and in an instant freight and passenger coaches were piled one upon the other. ; Word waa at once tent to thia olty, and in a ahort time a special with doc tors and officer of the road on board was sent out from Council Bluffs. Reporters were detailed to aooompany the train, but, instead ot allowing them to board the train, they were ejected with the remark that "We don't want any d d reporters." The two engines 'were completely demolished and the first two cart ot ; each train telesooped. Both crews es- j oaped by jumping. The dead were mostly in the first coach ot the exour sion train. The liat of the injured is a lengthy one. It contains at least twenty-eight or more names of persons who were seriously hurt, dangerously to to a greater or less degree. In addition, there were at least fifty, if not a great er number, who reoeived injuries of a minor nature. These ' consisted of bruises and outs or slight disfigure ments, whioh will praotioally amount : to nothing. A considerable number ' were also shaken up but not injured, j This waa especially the case among the passengers who oooupied the cart immediately behind the one whioh was demolished. All the dead and injured were brought to Omaha today. The train whioh oarried the dead ar rived at the Union depot at 8:80 o'olook. It had been given out that it would not arrive until noon, and this waa responsible for tbe faot that only a few of the relatives of the lost were there to receive their bodies. But even -then, there was enough of heart breaking woe to touch the sympathies of those who taw the pitiful spectacle. The polioe had stretched ropes aoross the platform to keep back the orowd, and the trainmen, assisted by a posse ot polioe, ' tenderly lifted the bodiea from tha train and deposited them in a long, ghastly row on the floor in the baggage-room. Eaoh was oovered by a sheet, and when the line . was com plete, a passage waa cleared and those who had friendt among the dead were allowed to pass through the improvised morgue. One by one they passed down the line, lifting the ooverings from eaoh bruised and blaokened faoe aa they went along. Some of them failed to find the face they oarried in their hearts. Others found it but too toon, and their sufferings, as they beheld the terrible certainty that killed all hope, wat pitiful to tee. One father bent over the sheeted form that lay near the middle ot the row. The light that filtered through the breathless orowd fell on the still smiling features of his little boy. The body wat terrribly crushed, but the faoe wat untouohed. Involuntarily, he lifted tbe shroud a little further until the mangled body waa disclosed, and then uttered a cry of agony that brought tears to the eyes ot many an onlooker who had looked on death be fore. The faot that several of the dead were children added not a little to the pathos of the scene. At the end of the row lay the body of Mrs. Maggie Bradley, while her babe slept between two strong men at the other. Finally the body of the ohild wat laid beside that of Its mother, and they weie taken away together. The train brought over twenty bodiea altogether. Only a part of them were identified during the INf hour they lay at the depot, and they were taken away to various undertaking et ablishmenta to be prepared for burial Wife Murder and Suicide. Aurora, Neb., July 14. Hayden Roberts, a farmer, shot his wife to death and oommitted tuioide today. No cause la known for the crime. Roberts wat a wealthy and eooentrjh individual Tbe murderer rttemptL to escape, and, find.Mg" himself sur rounded, blew out his brains. A Young Incendiary. Jaokson, Cal., July 14. George Sa vioh, an Austrian boy, 18 years old, ia under arrest here on a charge of having oaused several incendiary fires that have ooourred during the last few days. The boy admits that he oaused the fires, and said he was aotuated by mal toe. In one instanoe the owner bad set hit dog on him a few months ago. He fired another barn because the owner had aoouaed him of stealing a mall amount of money. MAD WITH EXCITEMENT Wild Scenes Enacted in the Chicago Coliseum. BRYAN'S PASSIONATE ORATORY Delegate and Bpeotatora Alike Carried Away by Bli Bpeeoh Stam ped, for tha Nebraska. Chicago. On the third day't session of the national Demooratio convention, ten acres of people on the sloping sides of the Coliseum saw the silver-helmet-ed gladiator 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 political party, amid scenes of enthusiasm such as, perhaps, never before ooourred in a national convention. They taw 30,000 people, with im aginations inflamed by the burning-. words of passionate oratory, swayed like wind-swept fields; they heard .the awful roar of 30,000 voicea burat like a voloano againat the reverberating dome! oyernMJ: they " ma (Bryanof Nebraska) oarried upon the shoulders of others intoxicated with enthusiasm,. Amidst the tumult and turbulenoe they listened to appeals, to threats, J oriet for mercy (from Hill of New York), and finally, they watched the David 5 Hilt jubilant majority seat its delegates and the vanquished stalk sullenly forth into the daylight The battle for supremacy of Democratic principles was fought in a session that lasted from 1 1 o'olock in tbe morning until shortly before 5 o'olook in the afternoon. Eaoh side sent its ohampions to the forum. Senator Tillman, ot South Carolina; Senator Jonea, of Arkansas; ex-Congressman Bryan, of Nebraska, orossed swords with Senator Hill, of New York; Senator Vilaa, of Wisoon tin, and ex-Governor Russell, ot Mas sachusetts. The sinister-looking senator from the state of Calhoun (Tillman), with his eye blazing defiance which muni tested its unfriendlinesss by a storm of hisses, opened the debate with a wildly passionate speech, in which he affirmed that the battle for tbe restoration of tilver was a war for the emancipation ot the white slaves, at the war of 1860 had been for the emancipation of tbe blaok slaves. Disruption of the Demooraoy had 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 issue was a sectional one, a declaration whioh aroused the resentment of Sena tor Jones, and he repudiated it in a brief speeoh whioh aroused the first demonstration ot the day. Even the gold delegatei joined heartily in thia demonstration against sectionalism. Senator Vilas bitterly denounced what he termed on attempt to launoh the party in a oareer so wild that the world stood aghast With a wave ot hit arm, that waa full ot impressive portent, he sounded hit warning. Ex-Governor Russell, the keen Mat aaohusettt statesman, who has thrice carried the standard of Demooraoy to viotory in the Old Bay state, pleaded for a word of concession, ot oonoilia tlon, and conlouded with a solemn warning that the oountry, if not the convention, would listen. Demonstrations followed at frequent intervals throughout the speeches, but it waa Senator Hill who aroused the gold foroet to their wildest enthusiasm, and Bryan, the "boy orator ot the Platte," who set thesilevrmen aflame. The demonstration for Hill, who with oloae logio and trenohant blade sought the very heart of the conven tion at he bitterly asaailed as undemo oratio the new oreed whioh the ma jorlty was to proclaim, lasted about 18 minutes. Although more pro traoted than that whioh greeted Bryan, it was of a different nature. The latter was the spontaneous out burst ot an enthusiasm kindled by the touoh of magnetio eloquence. The star of the brilliant young orator from the plaint ot Nebraska has burned brifehtly on the horizon of the oonven f-ia for -two days. There were several &nonstrationt in hit behalf the day before, but this wat the first oppor tunlty he bad to show himself. The audience had been warmed up, and wat full of pent-up enthusiasm. The powder magazine needed but the spark, and Bryan applied it with the skill of genius. His very appearance oaptnred the audience. Dressed like a plain Westerner, in a blaok tuit of alpaca, he stood with a smile playing over his handsome, mobile, clear-out faoe, while with uplifted hand he invited the waiting thousands. He has a faoe whose lines might have been chiseled from alabaster by tome matter soulpter. Bit mouth ia firm, bit eyes bright, hit nose Roman, hit raven hair is brushed back from hit forehead and falls to hit collar. With well-modulated voice, whioh gradually rose in pitch until it pene trated the furthermost limits of the ball, he wove the spell upon bis audi ence. Hit tpeeoh was a masterpieoe ot fervent oratory. With consummate eloquence he stated the oase of tilver and parried the arguments of the gold men. Maro Antony never applied tha matoh more effectively. His dosing remarks were: "Having behind ut the commercial interest!, the laboring interest!, and all the toiling masses, we shall answer their demands for the gold standard by lay ing to them i 'You ahall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns. You shall not oruoify man kind upon the cross of gold.' " The convention took fire with enthu siasm. It oraokled as with the war of flames. Hill wat forgotten; all else wat forgotten for the moment Cheers swelled to yells, yells became scream a Every chair in the valley of the Coli seum and every chair in the vast wil derness on the hillsides became a dock on which frantic men and women were twildly waving handkerchiefs, canes, - TnU and umbrellas anything movable, Some, like men demented, divested themselves of their ooata and flung them high in the air. A Texaa delegate uprooted the purple standard, of his state and bore it f ran tioally to the plaoe where rose the standard ot Nebraska. In a twinkling others followed the example. Two- thirds of the state staff a were torn from their sockets and carried aa trophies to Nebraska, where they danced in mid air." A dozen delegates "rushed upon the atage and shouldered the half -dased orator and bore him in triumph down the aisle. Louder and louder shrieked the thousands, until the volume ot sound broke like a gigantio wave, and fell only to rise and break again. For almost ten minutes this madden ed tumult continued, while the dele gates with the state standards paraded the inolosure. Old politioal generals were stupifled. If the ballot for the nomination had been taken, it would have been a stampede. When it was all over the votes were taken first on the minority substitute for the platform offered by Senator Hill, which was defeated 636 to 850. Then, on the resolution to indorse the administration, which was beaten, 357 to 664, and lastly on the adoption of the platform, which was carried, 628 to 801. Senator' Tillman, after the rejection of the resolution to indorse tbe admin istration, withdrew bis resolution to oensure the administration. The Night Session. At the night session, in the presence of fully 25,000 people, tbe nominating speeches were made, and there was a repetition of the exoiting scense of the afternoon. The Bryan enthusiasm continued. The galleries went frantio at every mention ot his name, and the wild demonstrations of the afternoon were duplicated when he was plaoed in nomination by Hon. H. T. Lewis, of Georgia, and seconded by W. C. K. Lutz, of North Carolina; George Williams, of Massachusetts, and Thomas J. Eernan, of Louisiana. Senator Vest plaoed Bland in nomin ation. and Governor Overmeyer, of Kansas, seconded the nomination. Tbe 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 Miss Carson Lake aw me maine demonstration at Minneapolis four years ago. THE CHICAGO PLATFORM. Declare for Free Coinage of Silver at the Present Ratio of 10 to 1. We. the democrats of the United State, In convention assembled, reaffirm our al leglance to those great essential principles of Justice and liberty upon wnicn our in stitutions are founded, and which the democratic party has advocated from Jet ferson's time to our own freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of conscience, the preservation of personal rights, the equality oi an citizens avion the law. and the faithful observance of constitutional limitations. During all these years the democratic party has resisted the tendency of selfish Interest to the centralisation oi govern mental power, and steadfastly maintained the Integrity of the dual scheme of govern. ment. as established by tne lounuers oi this republic of republics. Under its gutd- 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 ot tne necessity of confining the general government to the exercise of the powers granted Dy me con stltutlon of the United States. Heoognla ing that the money question is paramount to all others at this lime, we invite alien tlon to the fact that the federal con stltutlon 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 thi silver dollar the monetary unit and ad mltted gold to free coinage at a ratio based upon the sliver-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 the people, a heavy increase In the burden of taxation, and of all debts, publlo and p.'ivate. 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 metalism, which has locked fast, the pros perity of an Industrial people In the paralysis of hard times. Gold monometal Ism Is a British policy, and Its adoption has 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 1776, and won It In the war of the Revolution. .-' We demand the free and unlimited ooln age of both gold and silver at the present legal ratio of 16 to l, without waiting tor the aid or consent of any other nation. Ws that tae standard silver dollar hall b full legal tender equally with ; gold for all debts, public and private, and j we favor such legislation ai will prevent ; for tha future the demonetization of any i kind of legal-tender money by private con tract We are opposed to the policy and practice of aurrenderlng to the holders of the ob ligation, of the United State the option reserved by law to the government of re deeming such obligation In silver or In gold ooln. We are opposed to the Issuing of Interest-bearing bond, 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 fold to maintain the policy of gold monometalism. Congress alone ha 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 debt, public and private. We hold that the tariff duties should be levied for the purpose of revenue, such duties to be so readjusted a to operate equally throughout the country, and not discriminate between class or section, and that taxation should be limited' by the needs of government, honestly and eco nomically administered. We denounce a disturbing to business the republican threat to restore the Mc- df.mned hv the Deonie in national elections, and which, enacted under the false plea of ' protection to home Industries, proved a prolific 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 furtber'enanges In our tariff laws, except such aa 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 tbe law passed by the democratic congress. In strict pursuanc of the uniform decisions of that court for nearly 10 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 hereafter 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 ot the expenses of government We hold that the most 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 ot those arteries of commerce. We demand the enlargement of the pow ers of the interstate commerce commis sion, and such restrictions and guarantees In the control of the railroads as will pro tect the people from robbery and oppres sion. We denounce the profligate waste of money wrung from the people by opprea slve 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's toll are de pressed in price until they no longer repay 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. We 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, judge and executors, and we approve the bill passed at tbe last session ot the United States senate, and now pending In the house of representatives, relative to eon- tempts In federal courts, and providing for trials by Jury In certain cases of con tempt. No discrimination should be Indulged In by the government of the United States In favor of any of Its debtors. We approve of the refusal of the 534 congress to pass the Pacific railroad 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 name shall be arbitrarily dropped from the pen sion rolls, and that fact of enlistment and service should be deemed conoluslve 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 having 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 borne rule, and that all public lands ot the United States should be appropriated to the establishment of fre 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 tews 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 car for and Improve the Mlsslsslpppl rtver and other great waterways of the republic, so as to secure for the Interior staiAeasy and cheap transportation to tidewater. When anvjfraterway of the republlo Is of sufficient Importance to demand aid of the government, such aid. should be extended upon a definite plan of continuous- work, until permanent Improvement Is secured. We are opposed to life tenure In pub lic service. We favor appointments based upon merit, fixed terms of office, and such an administration of the civil service laws as will afford equal opportunity to all citi zens of a certain fitness. , We declare It to be the unwritten law of this repuhllo, established by custom and 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 gible for a third tirm of the presidential office. Confident In the Justice of our cause and necessity of its success at the polls, wr submit the foregoing declaration of prln ciple to the considerate Judgment of tha American people. ,We Invite' the support of all citizens who approve them, and deslrt to have them made effective through legis lation, tor the relief of the people and tits restoration of th country's prosperity. BRYAN' OF NEBRASKA Nominated for President by the Democrats. DELEGATES STAMPEDED TO HIM He Was Sleeted on tha Fifth Ballot Arth&r Bewell, of Maine, fa Vlea-Preildtnt, Chloaga W. J. Bryan, "the boy orator of the Platte," and ex-congressman from Nebraska, waa nominated by the Democratic national convention at Chicago, upon the fifth ballot Ever since Bryan's brilliant oratori cal effort on the third day of the con vention, he haa been steadily gaining strength in the convention, and after tbe first ballot former supporters of other candidate! rapidly transferred their allegiance, singly, in pain and in droves, to the young statesman who bad to ably aeienaea tneir rree-aiivei oaute in and- Out of convention, and al all timet. After Mr. Bryan was nominated the convention unanimously ratified tbe choice of the majority. The decks were cleared for balloting, whioh was to begin at toon at tht Democratic national convention reas sembled, at 10 o'clock on the fourth W J Bryan1 day. The real struggle opened with the delegates wrought to an intenet pitch over the sensational develop ment of the previous day, when tht Bryan wave awept through tne con vention, and threatened for a time at least to stampede it then and there. It bad disturbed all calculations and thrown the ranks ot the other candi dates into confusion. . The Brayn forces were making tht moat of the phenomenal rite of tht young orator of Nebraska. The ad' journment at midnight had given tht leaders of other candidates an opportu nity to rally their force, and it served also to give some hours in whioh tornt cool oounsel might prevail against tht wave ot sentiment which waa at high tide the night before. Delegate Miller, of Oregon, added to the list ot nominations the name ot Sylvester Pennoyer, of Oregon. Tht names ot Bland, Bryan, Boies, Blaok burn, Matthews, MoLean, Pattison and Pennoyer were before the convention. There were no other nominatione, and Chairman White announced thai the roll -call of states for the nomina tion of president, would proceed. Great exoitement swept over the halL Tht first ballot resulted as follows: Blackburn, 88; Bland, 383; Boies, 8$ Bryan, 106; Campbell, 8; Hill, 1 Matthews, 87; MoLean, 64; Pattison, 96; Pennoyer, 10; RuBsell, 8; Steven? son, 3; Teller, 18; Tillman, 17; not voting 183. On the second ballot Maaaaohuitetti deserted Bland for Bryan, whiol oreated a sensation and started tlx other states, and in the two followinf ballots Bryan kept gradually gainlni one state after another, until the reanlt ot the fourth ballot showed Bryan ii the lead with 876, Bland having taller to 841. Thia preoipitated anothn demonstration which lasted for fort minutes. Twenty thousand peopli yelled themselves hoarse cheering fo) the Nebraskan. Several of , the states delegates then retired for consultation and when they filed back into the ball the fifth ballot wat taken, resulting U Bryan receiving the necessary two thirds. On motion it waa made nnani moua. , The Ties-Presidency, A oauoua of delegates waa held until 8:80 in the morning, but no agreement oould be reached on the vioe-presidenoy, When the convention opened in thi morning the following names were pre sen ted: Bland, of Missouri; MoLean, of Ohio; Williams, of Massachusetts) Sibley, of Pennsylvania; Fithian, oi Illinois; Daniel, of Virginia; Pennoyer, of Oregon, and Sewell, of Maine. Five ballots were taken. Up to thi fourth ballot Bland and MoLean led. Their namea were then withdrawn, and on the fifth ballot Arthur Bewell, of Maine, waa elected. - v After the third ballot wai .takes Bland sent a telegram to the conven tion, asking that Ma name be with drawn and that the nomination bt given to tome man east of the Missis sippi river. . W. J. Bryan's Coraeiv ,' William Jennings Bryan, . Who ia popularly known at "the boy orator oi i the Platte," la the youngeat man ever nominated for the preaidenoy by a po litical party in the United States, ex ceeding, aa be does, the age limitation' fixed by the constitution by only etxV teen months. , Be is the editor of the Omaha Daily and Weekly World-Herald, one of the leading silver organa of the oountry, and haa for many yeara, advocated tbe fret oolaaf f rUver. f 4-