Lincoln Coanty Ltsadsr
J. F. SIKH'AKT. FuI.M.Ikt.
TOLEDO
OKK'iON
I NEW8 OF I WEEK
Comprehensive Kevlew of tbe Import
ant Happenings of the Fftit Week
Colled From the Telegraph Column.
Cleveland, O., is celebrating it cen
tennial with due ceremony.
News comes from the Washington
state Republican headquarters that the
state convention will probably be held
t Tacoma, tome time between August
15 and September 15.
Hon. Samuel Layman, a prominent
and well-known Oregonian, died at his
home near Woodburn from the effects
of injuries which he sustained tome
weeks ago by falling from a cherry
tree. Mr. Layman was 63 years of age.
A meeting of representatives from
the large foreign banking-bouses was
held in New York, to consider plans
for the protection of the troasnry pnld
reserve. It is understood a plan was
arranged to ease the exchange market
until the crop movement starts the
balance in our favor.
A San Francisco dispatch says: Ed
win B. Webster, the young paymaster
who was recently court-martialed at
Mare Island and found guilty of a
charge of embezzlement, does not in
tend to abide by the judgment of the
court. He will appeal to President
Cleveland for clemency before the
navy department shall have an oppor
tunity to pass upon the recently found
verdict
Percival Lowell, Boston's famous
astronomer, who is now on his way to
Flagstaff, Ariz., is at the head of the
most important scientific expedition
planned for more than half a century.
The object of the expedition is to make
observations on Mars, and to procure,
if possible, evidence to support the
theory held by Mr. Lowell- and other
astronomers that the "red star of war"
is inhabited by human beings.
Three members of the revolutionary
committee have just arrived in Athens
from Crete on a special mission. In
the course of an interview they made
the following statement on an author
ity of their committee: "We wish to
say it has been decided that we must
have granted to us the demands we
have sent to the sultan or else we shall
fight. The powers must either give us
autonomy or see us crushed. Should
our demands be neglected, then within
fifteen days of July 15, the date at
which they were made, we shall break
the armistice."
Advices from Hong Kong Bay that
imperial Chinese troops were recently
sent to Lanchou to suppress the Mo
hammedan rebels, who bad risen
against the authorities. The rebels
urrounded the imperial troops and
seem to have totally annihilated them,
although the imperial troops were bet
ter provisioned and equipped. There
were 6,000 troops sent to subdue the
rebels and all are either killed or miss
lug. The rebels are now mad for
blood, massacreiug all in authority,
killing and pillaging on their triumph
ant march through the country.
Chinatown in Han Francisco is in a
fever of excitement and another high
binder wur has been declared.
Cloclin's sawmill, situated on Deep
creek, near Medical lake, Wash., was
burned to the ground. The loss is
12,600.
Cholera is abating in Egypt. Bat
tles in Crete are almost of hourly occur
rence, and the Turks have Buffered
heavy losses,
The rpmainn nf Ed Mnr,.n fn,i
floating in h Pnv.iinn riv, t.-
is supposed to have drowned himself
on June 80 last
The storthing, the representative
body of Norway, has defeated the bill
for the temporary increase of duties
ou petroleum and sugar, and for the
Imposition of a duty ou meat.
Mrs. T. H. Tofree, who was (trover
Cleveland's1 secretary while he was
mayor of Buffalo, committed suicide in
Mojave, Cal. , by drinking carbolic acid.
It 1h supposed she was temporarily in
sane. Ad jutant-General Tuttle has received
from the secretary of the state of Ore
gon a warrant for 15,1117, with which
to pay the militia boys fur their serv
ices at Astoria during the recent fishing
troubles.
Near Dryden, Mich., George Kwayne,
a farmer, about 45 years uld, killed his
three small children and set fire to bis
house, then blew his brains out His
wife died a short time ago. It is
thought that this deranged his mind.
Tho barkeutiue Herbert Fuller, Cap
tain Nash, from Boston for liosario,
has put into Halifax, Novia Scotia.
There had been a mutiny on board.
The captain, his wife ami the second
mate worn killed in their berths iu tho
night. The first officer, who was ou
watch, know uothiug about the affair.
The murderer or murderers crawled
aft to the cabin, descended, and with
axes chopped the victims to death.
I" pen the arrival of the barkeutiue all
the crew were locked up in the polio
uition to await trial.
THE SILVER CONVENTION.
ISryna Nominated for President and
Bewail :or Vlce-Prr.i.iei.t.
St Louis, Mo. At the trx day's
session of the silver convention lid
much headway was made. Tae pro
gramme of the conference was ail ar
ranged in advance. It include'! simply
the adoption of a 16-to-l platform and
the nomination of Bryan and Sewail.
but those in charge of it deemed it
good policy to go slow in the belief that
they might, by remaining in sessoi, be
able to exercise an influence in shaping
things in the Populist convention. To
this end, they appointed a committ 'f
seven, headed by Judge Scott, of Cali
fornia, to meet a Eimilar committee of
the Populists for the purpose of reach
ing a common plan of acticn. The
convention was called to order by Na
tional Chairman Mott, who introduced
Francis B. Newlands, of Nevada, as
temporary chairman. Mr. Newlands
addressed the convention at some
length, and was followed by other
speakers setting forth the claims of the
eilverites.
The Second Day.
The second day's session of the silver
convention was given over to speeches
and song3. No business of aDy im
portance was transacted. The ladies
weie in evidence, anu tne assembly
was addressed by Mrs. Helen Conger,
of Indiana, who denounced the gold
bug monopolists as "Wall street plu
tocrats" and "English bond sharks"
and said the only salvation of the peo
ple from serfdom was to declare for the
free coinage of silver.
The Third IJay.
It was ten minutes to 11 o'clock
when Chairman St. John called the
silver convention to order. G. W.
Baker, of California, said that the
People's Party convention had appoint
a conference committee and moved
that the convention defer Action
on the platform and postpone the nom
ination until 3:30 P. M. The motion
prevailed.
No business was transacted during
the day, the time being taken up in
the rendering of silver speeches,
poems and songs.
Friday night, after the committee of
seven appointed to confer with the
Populists, had reported that no agree
ment could be reached, the convention
proceeded to close its business. The
platform was read and adopted with
out change. A motion was then made
to nominate Biyan and Sewall by ac
clamation. Amid much excitement
the motion carried. The convention
then adjourned sine die.
The riHtrorm.
The demonetization of silver in 1ST3
enormously increased the demand for
gold, enhancing the purchasing power
and lowering all prices measured by
that standard, and since that unjust
and indispensable act, the prices of
American products have fallen upon an
average nearly 50 per cent, carrying
down with them proportionately the
money value of all other forms of prop
erty. Such fall of prices has destroyed
the profits of legitimate industry, in
juring the producer for the benefit of
the non-producer, increasing the bur
den of the debtor, swelling the gains of
the creditor, paralyzing the productive
energies of the American people, rele
gating to idleness vast numbers of
willing workers, sending the shadows
of despair into the home of the honest
toiler, filling the land with tramps and
paupers, and building up colossal for
tunes at the money centers.
In the effort to maintain the gold
standard, the oouutry has. within the
last four years, in a time of profound
peace and plenty, been loaded down
with a 1262,000,000 of additional in
terest-bearing dobt, under such cir
cumtsances as to allow a syndicate of
native and foreign bankers to realize a
net profit of millions on a single deal.
It stands confessed that the gold-
"andard can only be upheld by so de
pleting our paper currency as to force
l?8 priceg of our Pr0(1nct8 .low the
buruironu aui luiow me Asiatic level,
and enable ns to sell in foreign mar
kets, thus aggravating the very misery
of which our people so bitterly com
plain, degrading Amerioan labor and
striking at the foundations of our civ
ilization itself.
The advocates of the gold standard
persistently claim that the cause of our
distress is overproduction; that we
have produced so much that it has
made us poor; which implies that the
true remedy is to close the factory,
abandon the farm and throw a multi
tude of people out of employment, a
doctrine that leaves us disheartened
and without hope for the future.
We affirm it to beunqestinnable that
there can be no such ecomunio paradox
overproduction and at the same time
ens ' thousands of our fellow-citizens
remain half-clothed and half fed, and
who are piteously clamoring for the
common necessities of life.
Inasmuch as the patriotic majority
of the Chicago convention embodied iii
the financial plauk of its platform the
principles enunciated by the American
bimetallio party, promulgated at Wash
ington, D. C, January 22. ISiKi, and
herein reiterated, which is not only
paramount, but the only real issue iii
the pending campaign; therefore, rec
ognizing that their mmiiuees embody
these patriotio principles, wo reeoui
meud that this convention uouiinato
W. J. Bryan, of Nebraka. for
"vul; "u" Ar"ur sewall, of Maine
lor "ce-pwH.ieut
The "Boy Orator of the Platte"
IyThrice Chosen
ON A FREE SILVER PLATFORM
Sewall, HoweTer. Was Not Acceptable,
and Thomas F. Watson, of Georgia,
Is GiTen Second Place on the Ticket.
William Jennings Bryan, of Ne
braska, who was nominated bv the
Democratic national convention at Chi
sago, a fortnight ago, was, Saturday,
at St Louis, made the standard-bearer
of the People's party by a vote of 1,012
to 321.
The Democratic candidate was nomi
nated in the face of bis own protest, in
the shape of a telegram, directing the
withdrawal of his name, sent to Sena
tor Jones, after Sewall, his running
mate, had been ditched for the vice
presidential nomination Friday nighr,
and Thomas F. Watson, of Georgia,
had been named for the second place
on the ticket, it was also made in the
face of an opposition so bitter that,
after the convention adjourned, some
cf the radicals held a "rump" conven
tion. The last session of the convention,
which lasted from 9:30 o'clock in the
morning until 5 o'clock in the evening,
was marked by 6cenes of turbulence
V J Bryan.
and noisy excitement, which several
times bordered on actual riot, and
which almost precipitated personal col
lisions. The Texas delegates headed
the opposition and clung to th6 middle
of the road to the last.
The Populist Bryan managers decid
ed early Saturday to disregard Mr
Bryan's telegram of Fridiy and tc
nominate him and straighten out the
tangle afterwards. They started out
to rush his nomination through before
any other candidate could be put in
the field.
General Weaver, of Iowa, the Popu
list candidate in 1892, in a masterly
address, placed Bryan in nomination,
and General Field, of Virginia, who
was formerly Weaver's running mate,
after a brief speech, moved to make
the nomination nuanimous.
About fifty seconding speeches were
then made, and some of them were
both eloquent and brilliant.
The middle-of-the-road contingent
insisted upon knowing at every oppor
tunity whether, in view of his tele
gram, Bryan won'd stand on the plat
form and accept the nomination. But
all these pointed questions were neatly
parried. Judge Green, of Nebraska,
and others, vouched for Bryan's sym
pathy with Populistic principles, "but
that was all the satisfaction the radi
cals could get.
A roll-call by states was taken, and
when it was completed, it was found
that Bryan had 1,012 out of the 1 ,341
votes in the convention. Frank S.
Norton, of Chicago, was the only othei
candidate. Ignatius Donnelly, of Min
nesota, and General Coxey, of Ohio,
were nominated, but their names werf
withdrawn. Norton received 821 votes,
Debs 10, and Donnelly 1. Norton go!
the majority of the solid vote of Texas,
Michigan, Missouri, Rhode Island anc
Wisconsin, and a respectable portion
of the votes of Alabama, California,
Kentucky, Illinois and Ohio.
The demonstration when Bryan wa
declared to be the choice of the conven
tion lasted fifteen minutes, and vas
fully as enthusiastic as that tendered
the Nebraska man at the Chicago con
vention. Saturday morning a motion was1 in
troduced and carried that the national
committee lie given plenary power it
all things couuuected with the party.
The Vlce-I'renlrientlal Nominee,
Thomas F. Watson, of Georgia, whe
was a member of the Fiftv-first con
gress. and who, in the Fifty-second
and Fifty-third congresses, unsuccess
fully contested Colonel Black's seat,
was nominated for vice-president In
the convention on the first ballot, short
ly after midnight Friday night. Thf
nomination was made unanimous be
fore the result of the roll-cull was an
nounced. The nominating speeches
exactly six hours.
occupied
The convention adjourned after
Bryan had been declared the nominee.
ff7
POPULIST PLATfORM.
Adopted br the National Convention
Held at St. Louis, i
Following is the Populist platform, ;
as agreed upon by the committee on
resolutions and adopted by the St Louis
convention:
The People's Party, assembled in na- j
tional convention, reaffirms its allegi
ance to the principles declared by the !
founders of the republic, and also to 1
the fundamental principles of just gov- !
ernment as enunciated in the platform j
of the party in 192. We recognize
that, through the connivance of the ,
present and preceding administrations, ;
the country has reached a crisis in its
national life, as predicted in our dec- :
laration four years ago, and that
prompt and patriotic action is the su-
preme duty of the hour. We realize j
that, while we have political independ- ;
ence, our financial and industrial in- ;
dependence is yet to be obtained by re- j
storing to our country the constitution- i
al control and exercise of the functions 1
necessary to a people's government,
which functions have been basely sur-
rendered by our public servants to cor- 1
porate monopolies. The influence of
European money changers has been
more potent in shaping legislation than
the voice C tlto American peopiej
Executive power and patronage have
been used to corrupt our legislatures
and defeat the will of the people, and ;
plutocracy has thereby been enthroned '
upon the ruins of democracy. To re-
store the government intended by the
fathers of the country, for the welfare j
and prosperity of this and future gen- j
erations, we demand the establishment !
of an economic and financial system !
which shall make ns masters of our
own affairs and independent of Eu
ropean control by the adoption of the
following declaration of principles:
Finance.
First We demand a national money,
cafe and sound, issued by the general
government only, without the interven
tion of banks of issue, to be a full legal
tender for all debts, public and private;
a just, equitable and efficient means of
distribution direct to the people and
through the lawful disbursements of
the government.
Second We demand the free and
nnrestricted coinage of silver and gold
at the present legal ratio of 16 to 1,
and without waiting for the consent of
foreign nations.
Third We demand that the vol
ume of circulating medium be speedily
increased to an amount sufficient to
meet the demands of the business and
the population of this country, and to
restore the just level of prices and la
bor production.
Fourth We denounce the sale of
bonds and the increase of the publio
interest-bearing debt, made by the
present administration, as unnecessary
and without authority of law, and we
demand that no more bonds be issued
except by specific action of congress.
Fifth We demand such legislation
as will prevent the demonetizing of the
lawful money of the United States by
private contract.
Sixth We demand that the govern
ment, in payment of its obligations,
shall use its option as to the kind of
lawful money in which they are to be
paid, and we denounce the present and
preceeding administrations for surren
dering this option to the holders of
government obligation securities.
Seventh We demand a graduated
income tax, to the end that aggregate
wealth shall bear its just proportion of
taxation, and we regard the recent de
cision of the supreme court, relative to
the income-tax law, as a misinterpreta
tion of the constitution, an invasion of
the rightful powers of congress on the
subject of taxation.
Eighth We demand that postal sav
ings banks be established by the gov
ernment for the safe deposit of the sav
ings of the people and to facilitate ex
change. Transportation.
First Transportation being a means
of exchange and a publio necessity, the
government should own and operate the
railroads in the interest of the people
on a nonpartisan basis, to the end that
all may be accorded the same treatment
in transportation, and that the tyranny
of political power, now exercised by
the great railroad corporations, which
result in the impairment, if not the
destruction of the political rights and
personal liberty of the citizen may be
destroyed. Such ownership is to be
accomplished gradually in a manner
consistent with sound publio policy.
Second The interest of the T7nirrl
States in the publio highways built
with public moneys and the proceeds
of extensive gTants of land to the Pa
cifio railroads should never have been
alienated, mortgaged or sold, but
guarded and protected for the general
welfare as provided by the laws organ
izing such railroads. The foreclosure
of existing liens of the United States
on these roads should at once follow
default in the payment thereof by the
debtor companies, and at the fore
closure sales of said roads the govern
ment should purchase the sams, if it
becomes necessry. to protect its inter
ests, or if they can be purchased at a
reasonable price, and the government
shall operate said railroads as publio
highways for the benefit of the whole
people, and not in the interest of the
few, under suitable provisions for pro
tection of life and property, giving to
all the transpoitation interests equal
privileges and equal rates for fares tt.
freights.
Third We denounce the present j
famous schemes for refunding the a-
HoVira onrl H.manrl trio a 1 '
- laws 115,
appucaoie mereio oe executed aadjc
ministered according to their true j.
tent and spirit.
Fourth The telegraph, like the n-
office system, being a necessity for
transaction of news, should be own
ana operatea oy tne government in 4
interest of the people.
1-anU.
First The true policy demands ri-.
the national and state legislation V
be such as will ultimately eaj1
every prudent and industrious cita
to secure a home, and therefore tt,
land should not be monopolized
speculative purposes. All lands n0
held by railways and other corporation;
in excess 01 tneir actual needs should
oy lawiui means, De reclaimed by tki
government and held for actual settlers
only, and private land monopoly, u
well as alien ownership, should be pro.
niDitea.
Second We condemn the frauds bi
which the land grants to Pacific rail
road companies have, through the con
nivance of the interior department,
robbed multitudes of bona-fide wn,.
of their homes and miners of their
claims, and we demand legislation bv
congress which will enforce the exemp
tion of mineral land from such grants
alter, as weii as Deiore, patentinz.
Third AVe demand that bona fide
settlers on all publio lands be granted
free homes, as provided in the national
homestead law, and that no exception
be made in the case of Indian reservi.
tions when opened for settlement, and
that all lands not now patented conn
under this demand.
Direct Legislation.
We favor a system of direct legisU
iton through the initiative and referen.
dum, under proper constitutional safe-
guaras.
General Propositions.
First We demand the election of
president, vice-president and United
States senators by direct vote of the
people.
Second We tender to the patriotic
people of Cuba our deepest sympathy
in their struggle for political freedom
and independence, and we believe the
time has come when the United State!,
the great repnblio of the world, should
recognize that Cuba is, and of right
ought to be, a free and independent
state.
Third We favor borne rule in the
territories and the District of Colnn.
bia, and the early admission of the ter
ritories as states.
Fourth All tlnhlin snlaripn shnnlfl
be made to correspond to the price of
laDor ana its products.
Fifth In times of crest industrial
denression. idle labor should be em
ployed on publio works as far as prac-
ilea dir.
Sixth The arbitrarv course of the
court in assuming to imprison citizen!
zor inairect contempt ana ruling tnen
by injunction should be rrevented bj
proper legislation.
Seventh We favor just pensions for
every disabled Union soldier.
Eighth Believing that the election
franchise and untrammeied ballot are
essential to a government of, for and
bv the nflonle. thft Ponnla'a nnrrv con
demns the wholesale system of disfran
chisement adopted in some of the states
as unrepublican and undemocratic, and
we declare it to be the duty of the sev
eral state legislatures to take such ac
tion as will secure a full and free and
fair ballot and an honest count.
NinfhWVtila tVia fro-arrnincr nrnnOSi-
. . . 1 r
tions constitute the platform which our
party stands upon and for the vindica
tion ft to A.in 1 n t.a main.
tained. we recosnizn that the creat and
pressing issue of the pending campaign
upon wnicn tne presidential election
will turn, is the financial question,
and unnn this oroat anil anif1n isaoe
between the parties we cordially invite
the aid and co-operation of all organi
zations and citizens agreeing with n
upon tnis vital question.
rinil on .n A.. ailn.
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The schooner Governor J. Y. Smith.
CAntAin Pfltrinlr 1evn liiUraya Pnhl.
r .u. ......
to Wilmington, N. C, has arrived at
quarantine, at Southnort N. C. The
schooner left Gibrara Jnlv 14. Two
days later, while off the Cuban coast
in the neighborhood of Neuvitas har
bor, she passed a Spanish gunboat
about a mile and a half awav. The
gunboat onened fire on the schooner,
fipnriinc a anlfl ek.l a A. V,am AecV.
The shell fell in the sea a quarter of a,
mile to starboard, doing no damage
Captain Patrick immediately ran np
me American ensiun and lelt u"
neishborhood ns nnioVlv an nossiblfr
He was not able to learn the name 0!
the gunboat, which remained station- .
ary, firing no more sbotB. It is .' I
pected that Captain Patrick will m.
an Official rpnnrr na rha anhnnner ll
entered atihe custom-house.
According to recent experiments o?
Weber the normal temperature of the
incandescent electric lamp is between
1,565 degrees and 1.5&5 degrees.
In India there is a species of butter
fly in which the male has the left wing
yellow and the right wing red. TH?
colors on the female are vice versa.
The first modern bridge of which hi
tory makes mention was the famon'
Sublician bridiza of Rome. It
erected in the seventh century.