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Newspaper Page Text.turn mm of f9 ii;.nni. V VOL. L. ASTOKIA, OREGON. TUUKSDAY. MAY 10, 1900, NO. 283 fiie Drain upon your purs will amount lo very tittle If you have ui do your it-palrlng and .plumbing of all kinds. We arc always reason able In our charges, prompt and obliging In service, and our work cannot bo excelled In plumbing, m or steam fitting. How la your old plumbing wearing let ui know. ECLIPSE HARDWARE CO. I ALL PACKING HOUSES.. Advanced Hams and Lard about i cent per pound yesterday. Vc Villi Sell Today At the Old Price.. Ross, Higgins & Co. mM (Ms Fishing Tackle, Rods, Reels, Lines,', Flies,. ' I looks, Leaders, Baskets, etc. Everything ' necessary to complete your outfit. 5pauldlng's Base Ball Goodi The best in the world. Croquet Sets and Bird Cage A large assortment to select from. GRIFFIN 8 REED ..The Empire and.. Mikado Separators , NONE BETTER CALL. ON... FOARD & STOKES CO. AGENTS, Astoria. Ore. ' and b convinced that when yon get . 1 tl' an Empire or a Mikado, that you will get the Best Separator manufactured. Investigate before you touy elsewhere. CUTSOP HULL CO; ASTORIA, ORE. Rr, Spruce end Cedar Lumber Boxes, SoBh and Doors. Shingles and Mouldings W. R SCHEIBE, A full Him of Pin., Tabacc. m4 5mokrt' Article. 174 Commsral.l sUt. PHONE NO. 1981, nuUcturer of Always Klabl ( "La Belle Astoria" Cigar Schelbe'a Opera Star Scheme's Special And Other Brand. C. J. TRENCH ARD, Ccssilsiicn. Brokerage, custo hom. Broker. . ; "' ASTORIA, .OREGOf- Insurance ana Snipping:. ; t ,Af.nlw. DONNELLY CALLS BRYAN A TRAITOR Middle ot the Road Populist Con vention in Cincinnati. PAPER MONEY IS FAVORED Bryei Populists si Slosi Falls Roundly 0 ounces' as Goals Fre Iks FlotkA Fall Ticket Will Be Nomlnaled-. Hewsre1 Will Be Ike Uidtr. CINCINNATI. May .-Today at 1:30 o'clock the middle-of-the-road populist nailonal convention- was culled to or der at Robinson's opera house. There were M)t persons In the dele gates' chairs and 700 In the galleries when National Chairman Deaver rap ped fur order. The committees were, appointed and retired to their halls. At the evening session, the creden tials "ommlttee reported and precipi tated the first struggle of the con vention. It aroae over the votes to be allowed the delegations which were not fully represented. It was finally voted to nltow the delegates to cut the full vote of their respective states. For Instance, two delegates present from Kansas will have (3 votes apiece, At 11:15 p. m. the convention ad journed until I o'clock tomorrow morn ing. Tonight, It appeared almost cer tain that former Congressman Howard of Alabama will head the ticket and the vice president lal norolnatloa will probably go to Donnelly. From the resolutions committee progrest was reported, and It was stilt In session at midnight. It appeared that the declaration of principles to be placed before the country will be "t such nature at to practically estab .llah anew the greenback question. That plank will probably call for the un limited Issue ot "government paper currency. Silver la likely to be drop Pd. The convention was called to order at 1 o'clitk. Nearly 700 delegates were present, representing every state ex cept Arltonn, New Mexk-o, North Car. ollna, South Carolina and Vermont. The hall waa elaborately decorated with banners bearing th mottoes of the !erty. Chairman t). Clem Denver, or Ne braska called the convention to order, ar4 after the reading of the call by Secretary J. M. Parker, tf the nation sj fommuiM, opened proceedings In a k-ngthy speech, lie was wildly cheer ed by the assembly Former Congtvmnnan M. W. Howard jf Alabama waa then Introduced as the temporary chairman. Howard. m ho had been most prominently spok en ot us the prellcntuU nominee with Deaver for eecond placo, eras received with great, enthwdaam, Howard spoke aa follows: "We have reached a enisle In the his tory of the people's party. By your action today you are to determine whether the party la ta Uve for a glor ious future, or to die an Ignomlnous death. Py your action today you are to light anew the beaoen fires of hope In the breasts of the people who have heretofore followed our flag or te sound the death knell of the aspira tions of those who have labored long In the cause of reform. '"W hen I look Into the earnest facea of those before me, I think I caa read what your answer win be. Ano If I make no mistake that answer will be that the people'a party ta born to live and not to die. The chaotic condi tions which now confront our party were brought about by the otTlce-hold-era and ofTlce-seektng politicians who were willing to fuse the life out of our party In order that they might obtain petty office with Its emolumente. "The folly of 1894, when we became th tall of the democratlo kite baa brought Us to the verge of disruption, and the only thing today that can avert the disaster Is s, straight-forward course of Independent action. Great problems and new conditions have arisen and confront the thinking men and women of the world, and these problems and conditions must be met and met in a calm, dignified and dispassionate way. "Too long has our party been cursed by office-seekers, cranks with wild thvirl"S and demagogues wlth'alluiing S'lphlstrles and if we would win the confidence and estem of thinking men we must adopt such a platform of principles as will appeal to the millions a ho are today seeking for a solution of these great questions which con front us. .At the f'refront of these stands the financial question. "Klght here I want to say that one of our great mistakes has been In ac centuating our demand for the free coinage of sliver to such an extent that the democratic party took It up as their battle-cry and thus produced confusion In our ranks, when In fact and In truth It Is one of the least of the reforms which we seek. Heyond this Is the broader and greater ques tion of government paper currency Is sued, not through the national banks, but directly by the government itself. "Ict us plant ourselves firmly upon this proposition and while not aban doning the cause of silver, tc-t us go forward to the more fdvancrd and more lonkal position. Another great question, and one which has been met by almost every civilised nation of the glolie except this one, Is the ques tion of government ownership of rail roads. ' Under oar present system of rail road ownership, trusts , are built up and maintained. It has been'cUTfiCn trated In other countries that freight and. passenger rates undr govern ment ownership can be reduced more than one-half and atlll allow the rail roads to earn profitable dividends. Un der government ownership the smallest shipper In the land rec?lv.s the benefit of the same freight rate as the great est trust. A great deal la being said In an academic sort of way about the best methods of controlling and sup pressing trusts. J ' "But the only remedy suggested so far by either of the great parties la unworthy of a schoolboy In a kinder garten. So long aa We maintain our present system of private ownership of railways, the truats will flourish. and when the railways pass Into the control of the government we will have delivered trusts one of the most effective blows possible. Along with the government ownership of rail ways should go the government owner ship of the telegraph. Every civilised country In the world today owns Its own telegraph system. Under govern' ment ow nershlp In other countrl'-a tele' graph . tolls have been reduced one' half. ' 'The city should own Its street car lines, its electric lights, gaa and water works Ir. fact, all public " utilities should belong to the people Instead of to thf favored few. It Is through the private ownership of these private In stltollons wMch I have mentioned that the millionaires have built up their colossal fortunes, until today about one hundred men own practically all the. wealth of this country. "Another great question whh-h have already suggested Is the trust question. The trust has come to stay It Is the outgrowth of our Industrial system. All talk of controlling the trusts is mere nonsense. When we at tempt to legislate against the trusts they Wtn take the next atep In the pro cees of evolution wnd become nionopO' Ilea "What Is to las done with the mo nopoly? When one man or few men control absolutely any given line of Industry, all comsvtltlon is crushed and no Individual can hope ta ever enter Into the same Una of bottlnesa. As I wUJ. the trust la the natural out growth af our political condition. Cap rtai naa realised what labor has not yi't found out that competition la not the life but the death of ' business. Therefore, capital has ceaaed to (com pete and la now doing the more wise and sensible thing of cooperating. believe that whenever any line of tn dastry becomes a monopoly there Is only one solution possible. and that Is tor the government central of the sso nopoly and. to use and operate It for the benefit at the peojls. There la one other issue which 1 win mention, which I eensidef greater than all the nest, because It underlies the other and without this principle engrafted upoa our fundamental laws. all reforms will be Impossible. I refer to the principle of direct legislation. We will never obtain a wise financial system, will never secure govern ment and municipal ownership until we first arrange a system nnder which the question will be referred to the people for their direct vote. "I know how completely our legls latlve bodies are dominated and con- BRYAN POPULISTS IN CONVENTION They Make a Plain Declaration and Ask Party Support. LADY DELEGATES PRESENT Vlce-PrriWescr Qotstlos Seems to Over, shadow All Other Mstttrs Tse of MisntMta How Carries Ike Bssser Hew the few. Wow OpeacsV (Continued on Fourth Page.) WE ARE SOLE AGENTS FOR WIUVS INLAID 'llOLElif, Thcro is nothing better in the market for floors. Colors run clear through to the back. . We also ' " handle an extensive line of plain and printed ' linoleum. We call special attention to our line of , , All Wool Ingrain Carpets ranging in price v ' ; from 50c to $1.00 V. CHARLES HEILB0RN; . ;& SON flIOCX FALLS, g. V., May .-The national convention of the people's party began business at !:20 o'clock today In the big tent wigwam. There have been few similar events which have been marked by more evi dent sincerity of purpose or more pro nounced decorum of behavior. The accommodations for delegates and for distinguished guests, for the press and vr ordinary visitors, proved excep tionally good, equal to those of most conventions held In buildings of a more permanent character. ' There were probably 500 delegates In their seats and surrounding them waa a fringe of alternates and visitors num bering (00 te 100. Beats had been provided for a much larger number but the attendance did not appear meager and It may be re marked that what was lost In attend ance was compensated for in enthus iasm. From the arrival of the Minnesota delegation, bearing Bryan and Towne banners, there were outbursts of ap plause at every convenient opening and upon the least provocation. Uanr sentlmeuts were cheered to the cho and this waa notably the case with Governor Lee's reference to the Boers and the Fillplnoa Fresumably nine-tenths of the dele gates, and a far larger per centare of visitors, were from the. northern Mississippi valley states. This circum stance served to give the convention a Western hue, but as the other sec lions of the country were also repre sented, the West was not allowed to monopolise appearances In the con vntion hall. . Few of the picturesque characters of the St Louis convention of 1S96 were present, but there were some broad brimmed nala here from Texas and the southwest. There was also occa slonal "whiskers," but ever these seemed to have thinned out in the party. All told. It waa a well-dressed, good mannered and thoroughly well behav ed assesnblage of people. Colorado led the list in the num- oer 01 lemaoea, iwansaa, Idaho and the District of Columbia also sent la dy delegates. The convention took, a recess until i:30 o'clock. The evening session was devoted entirely to singing and music. When temporary Chairman illnadaJ called the convention to order at 8:40 p. m. it waa announced that the com mlttee on credentials, resolutions and permanent organisation were not ready to report. The convention then adjourned until tomorrow. The am mlttee on credentials tonlcht decided, br a vote of It to i, that the delegates preeanl shall cast the entire number of votes which their states are entitled i . It was :M p. m. when Senator But ler, chairman of the national commit tea, called the , convention to order- The great tent, with a seatlna? cads eity of tVOOO, was comfortably filled. The interior of the tent vas beauti fully decorated with the national col ors. BlshOD O. Gormsn. f!fhnil rti.K. op of Sioux Falls, offered prayer. The cnairman then Introduced Governor Le. ot South Dakota, who delivered the address of welowne. . He said In part: senator . Marlon Butler, of North Carolina, chairman of the national committee, In calling the convention together, said: "I feel that It la my duty to state a few facta concerning the party's his tory since the last national conven tlno. It Is well known that mora nr less dissatisfaction resulted from the unpleasant but seemingly unavoidable episode of two vice-presidential con. dldates In the last campaign. A few men took advantage of this dissatis faction to appeal to an honest senti ment, or shall I say, prejudice, to ere- ate a seism in the party. "They charged that there waa a con. piracy on foot, headed by myself, aa your national chairman, to -deliver the party bag and bagage to the demo cratic organisation. In the spring of JSSS. they loudly demanded a meet ing of the national committee, "to save the party." They said that I. as your chairman.shouldcall them together and let the committeemen from each state outline a policy for the party until the next national convention. You all re member that I called a meeting of the national committee In the summer of 1898, at Omaha."' - - " . ., , .'"X, dlddtti give 'those Belf-oonatU tuted leaders a "chance to act after hearing their grievance. Tou all know the result. Those self-constituted pa triots demanded, at the committee meeting, that a resolution should be passed, declaring that the next nation al convention of the people's party should be held at least one month ahead of that of the old party conven tion. "In the Interest of harmony, and in order to m.wt those dissatisfied self coruitltuted patriots more than half way, the committee accepted their res olutlon and it passed unanimously. This resolution has since been known as the Omaha agreement You all know the result. These self-constituted pa triots, only a few In number, but very noisy, proceeded to bolt the action of the committee meeting within less than an hour after It had adjourned, and Issued a call for a rump conven tion that met at Clncinattl In Sep tember. , "Despite this . treachery and bad faith, the national committee, at Its meeting held In Lincoln, Neb., a few montha agi, stood by that Omaha agreement to the letter and called this convention to meet more than 30 days ahead of both the. old party conven tions. But what was the result? The fame self -constituted patriots again bolted the action of the committee at Lincoln, after getting everything that they had demanded in the Omaha reso lution. "They went to Omaha determined to bolt and try to split the party, and falling to And an excuse, they bolted anyway. They went again to the meeting of the committee at Lincoln determined beforehand to bolt, and try to find an excuse to bolt, and, falling to find an excuse, they bolted again anyway. But one member of the na tional committee voted, and only two or three who held proxies, and these two or three were men who nad al ready bolted in fact by supporting the Barker and Donnelly rump ticket These bolters, however, are few ' in number, but, like the Irishman's frog, they make - noise enough for a mil lion." After reciting some facta connected with the management of the Darty, Senator BuUer referred briefly to the platform to be adopted by this eon ventlon. saying in part: - ' . "I will not attempt to, or presume to outline the platform that this conven tion should adoot. but let me call your attention to the three fundament al planka In the last people's party national . convention, and point out their applica.il n to present cot.uitlons "Every political party w'ill go into this campaign denouncing ' trusts. The English language will he exhaust ed in . searching for adjectives with which to paint the evils of criminal and unlawful combinations: but mark how many pltaforms will have the courage or the honesty to point to the cauaes that produce trusts, and to offer a remedy tor them. That rem edy Is already In every platform ever adopted by a people's party con tlon- It was first put forward as the preventative. In short. If the present people's party platform adopted had been enacted Into law we would not today have these great induscrial torn binations called trusts. 'Then, In short, what are the causes that produce trusts and what Is the remedy for the evil. Any comblna tion of people controlling . the three great instruments of commerce will control all commerce and can nut any and every business In the nation Into a trust at will they can go farther. and will go -further, and have gone further, and control the government itself. What are these three lnatrn ments of commerce T First, money second, transportation; third, the transmission of intelligence. When they are controlled by private hands th9y are private monon olles, and they become the three great mother trusts a trust on money. trust on transportation and ' a trust on the transmission of intelligence and those who control these three mother trusts can put every Industry Into a trust - . ' s "Is there anything radical in the no sltton of the people's party demandlgg that these three great Instruments of commerce shall be taken out of pri vate hands and controlled by the gov ernment, as a government function. In the Interest of all the people, to th end that every Individual and every business enterprise may have an equal opportunity to use these instrument of commerce without discrimination or favoritism? "Let us see. Turn to the constltu. tlon framed by our forefathers. What do you find? Among the powers and duties of congress there is laid down at the head of the" list that it is the duty of congress to control the instru ments of commerce. Has congress done this? No. What Is the result? A government of the trusts, for the trusts, by the' trusts. What is the remedy ? Stand by the constitution. Let congress carry out Its sworn dutv and control these Instruments of com merce in, the Interest of all and not permit them to be controlled by Drl- vate Individuals for the benefit of the few." . ' ' Next Senator Butler called atfentlon briefly to the action of the' pwnle's party in the last campaign and to the situation that confronts the 'party now. He satd:- "s The British Advance Still "Rolls" Steadily Outward. PUSHING INTO THE TRANSVAAL THE ZAND RIVER CROSSED SklrmfiBcs Are el Daily Oasrreace, Bat Ns Bsttle Sttsd Will Be Mat by the Boerf-Celoscl Badea-Powell Re peiKd Woaatfed. "Hever in the history of the world. (Continued on Fourth Page.) LONDON, May 10. General Hutton'a mount3d . Infantry brigade. Including the Canadians with a part of General French's cavalry, crossed the Zand river Tuesday and began to work its way cautiously - along the railway northward in the track of the retir ing Boers. About ,000 British horse men were probably engaged In this advance. General Hutton, before he was Join ed by the part of General French's force, had a sharp fight This was on Sunday, when he reached the river and saw the' Boer convoys on the other side and pressed forward. Intend ing to cross and capture them. The Boers, however, opened fire with from eight to ten guns, forded the riv er . above and below, seemingly in thousands, and sought to envelop the British. General Hutton fell back sev eral miles, the Boers following until the other British cavalry winforced Hutton. During the night the Boers retreated, not further contesting the crossing-. The Boers attack, on General Hal-, ton does not Indicate any such panicky conditions as have been alleged to ex ist among them. Nevertheless, the British advance rolls on steadily. ' General Broadwood and General Bruce Hamilton have penetrated fit teen miles beyond Wlnburg. Accord ing to -Boer advices sharp skirmishes -are of dally occurrence and there' was a brisk rifle engagement . outside of Winburg Saturday. From Boer sources comes also a re port that In a skirmish outside Ma feking. May 5, Colonel Baden-Powell was slightly wounded. LONDON, May J. Although the British expected considerable opposi tion at the difficult drifts of the Zand, river, the latest advices from Smaldeel, Orange Free State, Indicates that the Federals are not yet ready to make a determined attack to stem Lord Roberta advance. The latter's front, indeed. Is so wide and overwhelming in numbers that it .is difficult to see how the Boers can help ielng cuatel out of Virginia Siding, as they were out of Smaldeel, ' even If they elected to give battle. The same considera tions would probably affect the situa tion at Kroonstad; hence the belief that little opposition will be encounter ed south of the Vaal. Repairs to the bridges over the Vet River , and the Vaal are expected to retard the general march from Smal deel and Fourteen Streams for three or four lays, when General BuUer will also be ready. The general idea is that General Roberta will direct hla efforts on Harrismlth, In order to get in touch with the Natal army coming through Van Reenan'a Pass. A dispatch from Maseru, dated Ma . says the Boers deserted both Lady- orana ana Flcksburg in a panciky con dition", owing to reports that th Brt. lsh had occupied Zeenlkal. thus threat ening their retreat to the Transvaal CAPE TOWN. May . It la that General Buller is advaseln Blggaxaberg and that the Boers are ' withdrawing. THABANCHtT. May The tn.r- have moved their headauartera it. tM district from Ladybrand to Clocolan. BRITISH SHIP WRECKED. MELBOURNE. May .-Th R,in.i. Iron ship Sierra Nevada, Captain 8cott, from Liverpool, January W. for thia port was totally wrecked outside the heads. Five of her crew were saved, but it is believed that 22 others, in cluding the captain, perished. The Sierra Nevada was owned by Thomp son, Anderson & Company, of Liverpool. JAPS AT SAN FRANCISCO. ' SAN FRANCISCO, May Jy-One hun dred and. fifty-seven Japanese Immi grants have Just been landed In this city. Of this number 75 Were admit. ted on certificates of landing, slirne.i by the United States lmmlerntlnn commissioner at Vancouver, and" on certificates from the commissioner Seattle. - ; , at GENERAL BRAGG INJURED. FOND DU I.AC. Wis., ilav a.-G.-,.- eral Edward S. Bragg, commander of the famous Iron brigade, was thrown, from his horse today and his right leg broken In two places. General Braee Is' 74 years-old and his advanced age renders his injuries very serious.