Lincoln County leader., July 16, 1896, Image 2

Itioeoln County Leader
P. STKWAIIT. FullUhr.
TOLEDO OREGON
THE Ml Of lit Dfl
Uomprehennlve Kevlew of the Import
ant Happening! of the Pant Week
Called From the Telegraph Column!.
Governor Lord, of Oregon, has issued
his annual proclamation, as required
by law, warning all persona against
the irecklesB starting of tires in the
mountains and among heavy timber.
, .
Reports from Spokane say that crops
in many sections of Washington are
somewhat damaged, as a result of the
hot weather of the past few weeks, oats
espeoially having been badly burned.
News has been received i Havana
that unknown parties have burned the
Hants Barbara estate near Baro, prov
ince of Matanzas. The estate is owned
by Honor Maruel Corenado, editor of
La Disoussion. The damage is esti
mated at ) dUU.uuu.
The Venezuelans, through the efforts
of President Crespo, intend to donate
to the city of New York an equestrian
tatue of Simon Bolivar, and bav
commissioned the work to the Italian
oulptor, Giovanni Tumi, of Staten
island. The oost of the statue will be
taoo.ooo.
The report of Dr. D. A. Paine, of the
Oregon state insane asylum, for the
month of June, showB that 1,068 pa
tients were confined in the institution
at the close of that month. The ex
pense per capita for June was the low
eat, with one exception, in the history
of the asylum.
A rebel group of 1 50 men attacked
the town of Avalos, in Matauzas prov
ince, Cuba. The garriBon repulsed the
attack without loss. The rebels also
attacked the town of Cidra, in Mataa
aas province, and poured sixty volleys
into the place. They retreated as soon
as the garrison returned the fire.
The two big sailing ships, the Santa
Clara and the City of Philadelphia,
ailed from New York last February,
bound for San Francisco. The last
heard ot the Santa Clara was Maroh
to, when she was spoken off the coast
of Brazil. The City of Philadelphia
was reported in the same locality
Maroh 8. Since then nothing has been
beard of either vessel.
J. P. Minto. the retiring treasurer of
Marion county, (Jr., showed his re
luotanoe to turning over the oflice to
bis successor by removing all the ooun
ty money from the vault and deposit
ing it in one of the city bankB, thus
leaving the new treasurer with no
money with which to pay oounty war
rants. His action has occasioned much
unfavorable comment.
Warner Miller barely escaped being
thot 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's head, oovering him with
splintered glass and passing out of tlis
opposite window.
The trouble which occurred in Au
rora, 111., on the Fourth, when two
misguided patriots pulled down a Greek
flag, surrounded by American emblems
is growing rather serious. A repre
sentative of the consul geuoral is there
investigating the matter. The repre
sentative says that it was an outrage as
the Greek had his bauner completely
surrounded by American flags, winch
is oinineutly proper under international
law.
A dispatch to the San Francisco Mer
chants' Kxohuuge says the bark Mo
have from Vancouver for Santa Rosalia
is ashore at Sooke inlet, and will prob
ably be a total loss. The crew was
saved.
In Walla Walla tire destroyed two
ono-Htory buildings and the upper floor
of a two-story building on Main street
betweeu Fourth and Fifth. The lire
was caused by a lamp exploding in the
rear of a millinery establishment.
Yale was defeated, but not disgraced
in tho third heat of the Grand Chal
lenge cup, which was lowed at Henley
ou-Thames. Leander wou by one and
three-fourths lengths in 7 minutes and
14 seconds. The record is 6 minutes
and 61 seconds.
The rush of tourists to Alaska thiB
season is remarkable. Tl:e (jueen
which has just sailed, carried as pas
sengers ISO first-class aud almost as
many more in the steerage. All the
glaciers aud points of interest are visit
ed during these summer trips.
From advices received by the Austra
lian steamer Miowern, which has just
arrived in Vancouver, 1). C, it now
seems probable that the Queensland
government will join New South
Wales and Canada in granting a sub
sidy to the Cauadian-Australian steam
ship liue. Captain Bird, on behalf of
James Huddart, managing owner ot
the line, recently interviewed the
Queensland government, aud it is
aid the government will recommend
that parliament grant a subsidy ot
0.000 per year for three years. The
company is at present negotiating in
England for the construction of larger
Uamers for the line.
MAD WITH EXCITEMENT
Wild Scenes Enacted ia the
Chicago Coliseum.
BRYAN'S PASSIONATE OEATOEY
Delegate! and Spectator! Alike Carried
Away by Hli Speech Stam
pede fur the Nebrankan.
Chicago. On the third day's session
of the national Democratio convention,
ten acres ot people on the sloping sides
of the ColiBeum 8aw the BiiVer-helmet-
ed gladiator in the arena overpower the
gld phalanx and plant the banner of
silver upon the ramparts of Democracy,
They saw what may prove the disrup-
tion or the 8ucoeM 0f great political
,,,..- amid scenes of enthusiasm such
as, perhaps, never before occurred in a
national convention.
They Baw 20,000 people, with im
aginations inflamed by the burning
words of passionate oratory, swayed
like wind-swept fields; they heard the
awful roar of 20,000 voices burst like a
volcano against the reverberating dome
overhead; they saw a man (Bryan of
Nebraska) carried upon the shoulders
of others intoxicated with enthusiasm.
Amidst the tumult and turbulence,
they listened to appealB, to threats, to
ories for mercy (from Hill of New
York), and finally, they watched the
jubilant majority seat its delegates and
the vanauished stalk snllenlv forth into
tne daylight. The battle for supremacy
of Demooratio principles was fought in
a session that lasted from 11 o'clock in
the morning until shortly before 6
o'olock in the afternoon.
Eaoh side sent its champions to the
forum. Senator Tillman, of South
Carolina; Senator Jones, of Arkansas;
ex-Congressman Bryan, of Nebraska,
crossed swords with Senator Hill, of
New York; Senator Vilas, of Wiscon
sin, and ex-Governor Russell, of Mas
sachusetts. The sinister-looking senator from
the state of Calhoun (Tillman), with
his eye blazing defiance which mani
fested its unfriendlinesBs by a storm ot
hisses, opened the debate with a wildly
passionate speech, in which he affirmed
that the battle for the restoration of
silve was a war for the emancipation
of the white Blavea, as the war of 1860
had been for the emancipation of the
black slaves. Disruption of the
Democracy 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
issue was a sectional one, a declaration
which aroused the resentment ot Sena
tor Jones, aud he repudiated it in a
brief speooh which aroused the
first
demonstration of the day. Even the
gold delegates joined heartily in this
demonstration against sectionalism.
Senator Vilas bitterly denounced
what he termed u attempt to launch
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 his warning.
Ex-Uovernor Russell, the keen Mas
sachusetts statesman, who has thrice
carried the standard of Democracy to
victory in the Old Buy state, pleaded
for a word of concession, of concilia
tion, and coulcuded with a solemn
warning that the country, if not the
convention, would listen.
Demonstrations followed at frequent
intervals throughout the speeches, but
it was Seuator Hill who aroused the
gold forces to their wildest enthusiasm,
aud 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 tndemo
cratio the new creed which 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 niagnetio eloquence. The
star of the brilliant young orator from
the plains ot Nebraska has burned
brightly on the horizon of the conven
tion for two days. There were several
demonstrations in his behalf the day
before, but this was the first oppor
tuuity h had to show himself. The
audience had been warmed up, nd
was full of pent-up enthusiasm. The
powder magazine 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 he invited
the waiting thousands.
He has a face whose lines might
have been chiseled from alabaster by
some master sculpter. His mouth is
firm, hia eyes bright, his nose Roman,
his raven hair is brushed back from his
forehead and falls to his oollar.
With well-modulated voice, which
gradually rose in pitch until it pene
trated the furthermost limits of the
hall, he wove the spell upon his audi
ence. His speech was a masterpiece of
fervent oratory. With consummate
eloquence he stated the case of silver
and parried the arguments of the gold
men. Maro Antony never applied the
match more effectively.
His closing remarks 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 nrtoTi t brow of lnhnr thi crown
of thorns. Yon shall not crucify man
kind upon the cross of gold.' "
The convention took fire with enthu
siasm. It crackled as with the war of
flames. Hill was forgotten; all else
was forgotten for the moment. Cheers
swelled to yells, yell: became screams.
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
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.
For almost ten minutes this madden
ed tumult continued, while the dele
gates with the state standards paraded
the inolosure. Old political generals
were stupified. If the ballot for the
nomination had been taken, it would
have been a stampede.
A Texas delegate uprooted the purple
standard of his state and bore it fran
tically to the place where rose the
standard of Nebraska. In a twinkling
others followed the example.
When it was all over the votes wero
taken first on the minority substitute
for the platform offered by Senator
Hill, which was defeated 626 to 350.
Then, on the resolution to indorse the
administration, which was beaten, 857
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 the admin
istration, withdrew his resolution to
oensure the administration.
THE CHICAGO PLATFORM.
Declare for Free Coinage of Bllver at
the Present Kutlo or 10 to 1.
We, the democrats of the United States,
In convention assembled, realllrm 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 seltish
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. U-nler its guid
ance and teachings, the great principle of
local self-government has found Its best
expression In the maintenance of the rights
ui aunt's, ana ns assert on or the neceu tv
of confining the general government in the
exercise of the powers granted by the con-
stitution of the United States. liwngulz-
lng that the money question is paramount
! 10 "'1 others at this time, we invite alten-
tion to the fact that the federal v,n.
stitution named silver and cold tnaeiher
as the money metals of the United Slut
and that the first coinage law passed by
congress under the constitution made the ;
silver dollar ihe monetary unit and ad- I
mitted gold to free coinage at a ratio based !
upon the silver-dollar unit. ;
We declare tt at the act of 1S73, domone- i
tlzing sliver without the knowledge or ap- '
proval of the American people, has result- !
ed In the appreciation of gold and a cor- i
responding fall In the price of commodities
produced by the people, a heavv Increase i
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
nient of the people. '
We are unalterably opposed to mono- !
meuilsm, which has locked fast the pros
perity of an industrial people in the i
Paralysis of hard times, riold nionometal- ;
Ism Is a ltritish policy, and its adoption
has brcuiiht other nations Into financial 1
servitude to London, it Is not onlv un- 1
- w.tu. imii ami-American, and can be
fastened on the United States only by the
",,A'" ul spirit and love of llhei-tv
wh
proclaimed our political Indepen
ln li.S, and won It In the wr .-.f ,h-
den
lievolution
We deman
the free an.l iinHmitp.i flu
i.i.ui goui ami silver at the present
.'gal ratio of if, to 1. without waiting for
tne aid or consent of any other nation. We
ttlT'i he ,tan'lir' Hver dollar
sna l be full legal tender equally with
gold for all debt, public and private, and
we favor such legislation as will prevent
for the future the demonetization of am
kindof legal-tender money by private con-
We are opposed to the policy and practice
of surrendering to the holders of the ob
ligations of the United Smtes the option
reserved by law to the government ot re
deeming such obligations In silver or in
Bed co;n We are opposed to the issuing of
interest-bearing bonds of the United States
JiVi1""1 '-we- '' condemn the traf
ticking with banking syndicates, which. In
exchange for bonds at an enormous profit
to Ucuuelves, supply the fejeral treasury
with Fold to maintain the policy of gold
monometalism.
Congress alone has the rower to coin
and Issue money, and President Jackson
declared that this power could not be dele
Rated 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
duties to he so readjusted as to operate
equally throughout the country, and not
discriminate between class or section, and
that taxation should be limited by the
neds of government, honestly 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
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
fL,.'" '2!!r "'Y" ,LT we . .:!
posed to any agitation for further changes
in our lanu laws, except mjum no ic iic-
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 I
would be no deficit In the revenue under I
the law passed by the democratic congress, .
In strict pursuanc of the uniform decisions
of that court for nearly 1110 years, that i
court having under that decision sus
tained constitutional objections to Its
enactment which had been overruled by
the ablest Judses 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 i
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 of ths '
expenses of government.
We hold that the most efficient way of
protecting American labor Is to prevent
the Importation of foreign pauper labor to i
compete with it In the home market, and ;
that the value of the home market to our j
American farmers and artisans Is greatly I
reduced by a vicious monetary system, j
which depresses the prices of their prod- i
ucts below the cost of production, and thus ;
deprives them of the means of purchas- j
ing the products of our home manufac-
tories. The absorption of wealth by the I
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 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 oppres
sive taxation, and the lavish appropria
tions of recent republican congresses,
which have kept the taxes high while ths
labor that pays them Is. unemployed, and
the products of the people's toil 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 cltl-
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. No discrimination should be Indulged In
by the government of the United States in
favor of any of its debtors.
e approve of the refusal of the RM
congress to pass the Pacific railroad fund
nig i.iii, ana uenounce the effort of tho!
wnSicaj in ciian similar meaa- i
ure. i
Recognizing the just claim of deserving
t'nion soldiers, we heartily indorse the rule
snail hT r rZXLntha
slon rolls, and that fact of enlistment and
service should he deemed conclusive evi
dence against disease and disability before
I enlistment
! We favor the admission of the territories
of Xrw .Mexico and Arizona Into the Union
a states, ami we favor the oHv
' admission of all the territories having the
necessary population an.l
' '"1" them In statehood, and while ih.u
main territories
we hold that the officials
appointed to administer the government nf
any territory, together with the District of
Columbia and Alaska, should be hona fide
residents of tho territory or district In
which their duties are to he performed
The democratic party believes In home
rule, and that all public lands of the
! nlted States should he appropriated to
the establishment of free homes for Amer.
lean 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
I uha In their heroic struggle for liberty
an t Independence.
The federal government should care for
an.l improve the Mississippi rVer 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 he 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
K-i'iii.iu-, estaiuisned bv
by custom and
usage ot urn years and
necessity
and
Its success
iibmi, ,), , , - . r' ""- '. w
coles t h. '"ration or pnn-
A;elmt," r:: rv, e' ,?,,,0,h
all citizen, who mmv. ?"VTt .ot
declaration of
,., i .. ami aesirs
t , t l J eotive through legis
;1t00rat'lorntoh;thelicL0nftr h
examples of the greatest , i ,,":, . Oregon, ana tjewell, OI Aiaine. suv
those who founded and have maintain Fve ballots were taken. Up MM
our government that no man shall be ell- forth ballot Bland and McLeat tt
office. " 'erm ot the P"s'tial Their names were then witbdjf
"i me justice or our a.A
ot
BRIAN OF BEBRASS
Nominated tor President i
the Democrats.
, DELEGATES STAMPEDED TO Pi
tVI
II e Was Elected on the Fifth Hal
Arthur Sewell, or Maine, foi
Vice-President,
Chioago. W. J. Bryan, "the
orator of the Platte," and ex-conpj
man from Nebraska, was nomine
by the Demooratio national convent
at Chicago, npon the fifth ballot
Ever since Bryan's brilliant orate
; n the hi y of the J
1 yention, he has been Steadily gait;
strength in the convention, and
the first ballot former supporteti
other candidates rapidly transfer)!
their allegiance, Bingly, in pair! anil
droves, to tne young statesman
had so ably defended their free-til
Gatiou m aim out ui uuiiveutiuii, and
all times.
After Mr. Bryan was nominated J
convention unanimously ratified 3
choice of the majority.
The deoks were cleared for ballotirJ
wnicn was to begin as soon u i
Democratio national convention ra
sembled, at 10 o'clock on the lot:
WJB
ryan.
day. The real struggle opened?:
the delegates wrought to an intta
pitch over the sensational derell
ments of the previous day, when 4
Bryan wave swept through the cd
vention, and threatened for a timsf
least to stampede it then and the
It had distorted all calculation! u
thrown the ranks of the other mi:
dates into confusion.
The Brayn forces were making i
most of the phenomenal rise of 9
young orator of Nebraska. The if
jonriiment at midnight had given it
leaders of other candidates an oppont
nity to rally their forces, and it tsnf
alao to give some hours in wbicb to:
cool counsel might prevail against if
wave of sentiment whioh was at U
tide the night before.
Delegate Miller, of Oregon, tie
to the list ot nominations the namtf
KvlvAatar PannnvM tt Craarn
names of Bland, Bryan, Boies, BU
- i burn, Matthews, McLean, PattlSonH
Pennoyer were before tbeconventi
There were do other nominal!1
and Chairman 'White announced 4 2,
the roll-call of states for the noma
: PMent. would proceed, G1 A;
excitement swept over the ball
nrst ballot resulted as follows:
Blackburn, 88; Bland, 233; Boiei,
Bryan, 105; Campbell, 2; Hill,
Matthews, 87; McLean, 64; Patti1
95; Pennoyer, 10; Russell, 2; bte
son, 2; Teller, 18; Tillman, 17;
voting 183.
On the second ballot Massachnitf
deserted Bland for Bryan, W
created a sensation and started
other stateB, and in the two follo
ballots Bryan kept gradually gai
one state after another, until the KM
ot the fourth ballot showed Bryw
the lead with 276, Bland having W
to 241. This precipitated anoi:
demonstration which lasted for f':
minutes. Twenty thousand
yelled themselves hoarse cheering:
the Nebraskan. Several of the t"
delegates then retired for consults
and when they filed back into the 14
the tilth ballot was taken, resultw
Hryan receiving the necessary
thirds. On motion it was made on
moos,
The Vice-Presidency.
A canons ot delegate was held v
2:80 in the morning, but no agreeo'
conid be reached on the vioe-presidf1
When the convention opened in
morning the following names wereF:
sen ted: lAl.md nr Mi,-!- McUf
' V A WlDHUUlil I vl
of Ohio; Williams, of Massacnwtfj J
bibley, of Pennsylvania: Fithtan.
Illinois; Daniel, of Virginia; Penno:'
of Maine, was elected,
-auer tne tnird ballot was wj
B1at telegram to the conv4
tion. askintr that hi. name be ;t
After the third ballot was t
, : .s
- arawn and that the nomination
& J5 M
fe til
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