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1003. IIow a Boom Just the Sizo of the Bryan Family Expand ed in a Minute to National Proportions Cross of Gold in Iteminiscenco. . By FRKDKIMO .?. IfASKIX. (Copyright by Krp.loi i' J. ll.isklrr) ' Washington. Julv 7 Tvv.lv fQ today the liMnnittr nation i run . ventlen met In riiU-a. A t.i iill.mt younn orator from NelinihUii wh.h ; at the head of a contenting l.-l.-:iti'ii frpm, his Rjate. Before tlmt mnvrntM-i bad adjourned he hnd bcrnmp Ita liem and Its candidate for pn-sldcnt. An other iJemocratlc national convention Is Inetlng (n Denver to.1ny.. mni U Hllnm Jennings Brvan probably "111 he Its nominee. Jn the convention "f lim, eight years ago, he was nominated hy acclamation. In the cnv. ntlon of 1901. four years hro, he was th- grea:- est man In the assembly, allieit he as defeated' again anil again Twelve years In a long time, uini It Is Inter esting; to refresh one's memory by re counting the Incidents of that stormy reek which thrust Mr. Hrynn Into the forefront of national io'ltleal affairs. The silver coinage question had been a, live and dangerous one for many years, and both Democrats and Repub licans had carefully "fit raddled" it in very national convention. The west and south leaned -toward the silver cause; the east wag in opposition. Mr. Cleveland reentered the Whlt House In March, 1893, with a rend y-made panic to deal with. He called an ex tra session of congress for tho Hpcclflc purpose of repealing the stiver pur silver plank and nothing else. In ec oudtiitf Hie nomliusnon of Mr. McLean, Koburt K. Mattinglv. a delegate from the IHsirici of Co.uiiililn, proclaimed hint "The IVoiImk Tianiilon of Kree Silver." Very tioo.i llierrafter the tile of "Peerless" a tinnifeired to Mr. Itryan Air. M l,.in Is no longer a Democrat.' Tbs Tint Silver Battle. Willi Hi newMPHoers and the gossips sill! guchMng belneen Hluiul, Hoi.s. and I Jti'Li-nii, t lie convention was organlieil ami the platform was prepared and re ported. Its cliiel mien-si us the ont-an.l-out free silver plank. The minority reporl, mgut it li lii mem hers, headed by Hill, (ir.iy and VIIms. protested against (lie silver plank and against the failure to Imloise the present Demo cratic nilmliilst ration. '1 hen came the tighl hi. li g.ive Air. llriun his chance. I oe llibf sin-iiker In defense of trie platform was li-njamin K. Tillman. 1 hat flory youth Carolinian was in the prime of his pltchfoik days, he had not jet been sobered by the senatorial contact, in,,! the people, did not under stand him us they do nuw. He was hissed from the beginning, but be held hi ground, declaring: "There are only t hne things In the world that can hiss , n gon.se, a serpent and a man He made K savage assault upon the in.il and .lecluicil tlmt the silver issue I was a nect tonal Issue. James K. Junes of Arkansas, chair man or the platform committee, was vears j .jiili k to enter a denial of Mr. Tillman's con- 'sectional vlcns, and ho cited the sup- i port ul Arthur Sewn 11 or Maine anil (ieoriri- Ki -d Williams of Massachusetts I as pronf that silver had eastern friends. j I hen came .Senator Hill, beginning with hU ot I -repeated "I am n Democrat." find delivering- a masterly speech in I protest and warning against the pro ' i;ram of the sliver men My the by. tha Denver convention Is the first in many year In which Mr Hill has not been I prominent. Four years ago he was at the head of the victorious 1'arker forces at St. I.ouls, eight years ago he was ostensibly on the Hryan band wagon at Kansas City. In 1SH2 he was supported by New York for the nomination as against Grover Cleveland. This year he Is in Kurope, nursing his political grouch. Governor Hussell of Massa chusetts was the next speaker, and he supported Hill's arguments. And Then tha Cross of Gold. GREAT FIRE AT PORT AM PBIHCE Four Hundred Buildings . Co 1 1 s u med Frigfh tful Panic Occurs. chasing; clause of the Sherman act. His actfiui precipitated a war within his nartv which was waged without ceasing and which resulted In ati over whelming" Republican victory In 1894. Smallest Boom on Record. Then came Bryan. That silver plat form was the heart's desire of the great majority of the delegates and spectators in the convention hall. Tillman's de fense of It had enraged them because of Its futility. Hill, and Russell had poured hot shot into it. Then came this young man. A few delegates re membered that he had made a famous tariff speech In congress. The western era whispered about that It was "the boy orator of the riatte." He began his speech. When he reached the first period he was Inter rupted by a perfect gale of applause. At last the silver men had found a speaker who could reflect their senti ments and -defend their position. Re fore he was well Into bis speech ,the illc-irit Xfw by LonfMt lilted Wire.) J'ort Au Prince, Haiti, July 0. The courthouse and prison were consumed in a fire which burned 400 buildings. I'or a time the panic was frightful, especially when the arsenal and the ammunition began to explode. It was thought the fire waa under control whon the arsenal exploded. The embers thus scattered set the confla gration raging again. t OF THE Chicken' Pie; Ptomaine. (Flfirnt N.-va hy Longest !ed Wire.) Camden, N. J , July T. -One person la dead and 70 are HI from rolsonlng, aa an outcome of a picnic held by tne Methodist churches at Atcoen Saturday. Chicken pot-pie Is b'lamed for the pois oning. July Excursions rn Tnlv ft Y 22 and 2S the Canadian Pacific will have on sale special round trip excursion tickets to eastern points at verv low rates. l-'or rates and full particulars regarding variable routes ap ply at local office. 142 Third street. JnlT 3d. Will TOO? The Republican national convention at St. Louis adopted a near gold stand- imA' nl.nl, . i ! InlAi-nullinal hlmalul. i.m i,ia,Vhrt Tho .K.iirn ullvpr Tfp- ' convention w,is hanging on every word publicans boited. Mr. Bryan reported ' u,'lt, fel from his lips. With those that convention for an Omaha paper ! words there was the earnest of passion and a few weeks afterward went to Chicago, nursing a presidential boom In which only he and Mrs. Bryan had any aith. Few others even Knew that MBUch a boom existed. Tha fight for delegates had been the most exciting; in the party history of tn country. The Cleveland gold men tarne'- to Chicago knowing they were In the minority, but resolved to save something from the wreck if possible. They controlled the national commit tee, and .that body recommended David lUi Hill .of New -York for temporary . chairman by a vote of 27 to 23. The silver men on the committee brought In', a minority report recommending Pdnator John W. Daniel of Virginia for temporary chairman. The silver re port was presented by Henry D. Clay ton of Alabama who will be permanent chairman, at penver. There waa or great Show of fight,' but Daniel was elected over Hill-by a vote of 656' to1 349 Still ihei gold rnen continued" to fight. When the" patlbnalcorrimttfee, on tlie Ja"y before, the convention assembled, tools up the formation of the temporary mil. It found two , delegations from Nebraska., One was-beaded by Tobias Castor and had been elected by the J. Sterling' Morton administration Demo crats, while the other was headed by William Jennings Bryan and came from live silver wing of the party. The na tional committee, as usual In such cases, voted for Its own fellows, and thja Castor delegation was stilted. N. S.i Harweod was named as tho Ne- 7 braska member of the committee on resolutions. As soon as the credentials - committee .met,' the Castor crowd was thrown out, the Bryan men seated, and -Mr. Bryan went on the committee on-' resolutions. It was there that ho gained his first triumph, for he had somewhat to do with writing the plat- form. ( How That Iilttle Boom Grew. Sut as yet nobody thought of Brvan defeJa' an,a disaster. No other losing ' for president; that is, nobody except ; candidate in American politics has been Mr. and Mrs. Bryan, w ho were both j so honored, save Henry Clay. And Clay confident from the first. When tlie ' was always In office, while Mr. Bryan convention': hosts began to gather in : has been only a private citizen. Chicago everybody thought the race : in the Dark Horse's Stall. -was oetween uver hick- tiiana oi -,ir-i,;iQ i .,,. tj - Missouri and Governor Horace Boies i JV n'e 'L,1'!, tr"e hat M,r' Bryan' ot Iowa. The senatorial contingent great oratorical effort won the nomina-, a, feature of national politics -which i on "r nim- ' ' r1 all accident, has well nigh disappeared from both I Mr- Bryan went to Chicago believing i parties under the combined influence ne would be nominated. He was thor-1 of Roosevelt and Bryan was trying , oughly familiar w ith the situation; he to' get the convention to nominate Sen- saw the weakness of the Bland and aUr Teller, who had led the sliver bolt ; Boise candidacies; he believed a dark - from tjie McKlnley convention. The I horse would win the prize, and he in wise ones among the newspaper men 1 tended to be that dark horsa. His Ne- were tipping John R. McLean of the j braska fellows were hard at work for 1 Cincinnati ErvQUirer and the District . him lrr an underground fashion, and of Columbia as the winning dark horse, there were leaders of national promi- After 12 years and the changes they I nence who believed Brvan would be the have brought, the McLean candidacy I nominee, before a single newspaper had Is" one of the most interesting of the lever mentioned him as a prebabllitv hajf forgotten things about the Chi- I These nlans wr Inlrl Ti eao convention. The Ohio editrw- went I made them effective. Todav Mr. Brvan is in nis noma at airview. I he con- arjd conviction. At last came the fa mous peroration "You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns. You shall not crucify man kind upon a ros of gold." The c-onveniiOn went wild. Men seized the state standards which marked the delegations and rushed, yelling and shouting, to group them about the Ne braska standard. The silver delegates were wild with Joy and the names of old leaders like Bland were forgotten. The gold men sat in a silence which partook: of the quality of awe. Everyr body Beemed to realize that the day of the rower of oratory haTJ not yet passed; everybody at once began to look upon Bryan as the probable nomi nee of the convention. Stampede on Fifth Ballot, That night his name was placed In nomination by a delegate from Georgia. The balloting began the next day, and on the lift.ii ballot Bland ud Boise and all the rest went down before the stampede to Bryan. Illinois intended to lead that stampede, but its delega tion was out of the hall for consulta tion when Ollle James-, head of the Kentucky delegation, announced the withdrawal of Joe Blackburn's name and the casting of 24 votes for Bryan. That started the ball, and Bryan re ceived practically all the votes, except those of 90 easterners, who voted for Governor rattlson of Pennsylvania, and the 1G2 gold delegates, who declined to vote. National conventions frequently de velop dramatic situations, but It is to be doubted. If there has ever been any-! iimig iu t'iuai me scene wnicn iotiowea Mr. Bryan's speech in tho Chicago con vention. It brought him into national prominence at a bound, and gave him a position of party pre-eminence which he has maintained for 12 years, despite to- Chicago declaring his belief that the platform should consist of the free li. inmiiiiinn iiiji'j .iw.jwi.isii .in nil s "li ,, rV, ' 1 ventlon meets in Denver. He believes he will be able'-to control It in every particular. We shall see what we shall see. DPOWXED MAN'S BODY IS XOT JiECOYEKEI) Vacation time with . many young men is .really the "dress up" " s time of the whole year. Here are specially de- "" -""' :j O r sienca oummer suits , . " that will not only stand " "exacting criticism, but will also find favor in ; her eyes., D1.. C7 ?..:. . - uiuc tcigc ouus mat . . T are .always correct, and ;for variety the fancy plaids,, at greatly re duced prices. (Special Plaptch to The Journal.) Chehalia, Wash., July 7. The body I of Harry Stlnes, an employe of the Doty ! I Lumber company, who was drowned in cnenaiis river near Dryaa. Saturday, ! lias not been recovered. He had gone ; berry picking and. 'not returning, his 1 friends Instituted search. Sunday his hat was found by the river bank and a search revealed the fact that Stlnes had slipped off the old dam of Luedlng- naus Brothers wnlle trying to cross. He was 30 years old and married. vti niiu ?ng,nTFi ui irasa r uruiera. (Special DlnpatcU to Tse Journal) I College Station. Texas. July 7. The i annunl meeting of the TeKas Farmers' congress and toe sessions at the various I affiliate bodies began today at the Htate Agricultural and Mechanical col lege wlih a large and representative attendance. President H. H. Harring ton of the college delivered a speech nf weIcon,e and E. TV. Klrtfpatrlck rf M Kinney, president of the association, I 'eente l his annoal address The re port of Secretary T. W. Larkln of Denl mri was also pre-sented at the Initltl cession. This afternoon the regular l r.-trrum of D&Der. addresses and dla. (Lsgions waa taken nn Among the organnations that are holding their sess.ons in connection with the meettra- nt the congress are the stxte association of r.ut-growera, nurserymen, i inf-brwdri, cotton growers. beekeepers, Lruck-arom r, corn-growers ri-Kr"'ri an,j dairy men and tri Womns' Educational and Indusirtal a-lattr4i. -be a bit particular About the clothes you wear. Clothes, it is true, have not a thing to do with a man's character, but they go a long way toward making a man suc cessful in business, so- ciety and every under taking. - The well dressed man wins more battles than the shabby man. Be a Columbia - Tailored man and your entree to every function of society and perfect tri umph in business will be fully assured. You may have a tailored suit, 25 per cent below the prices that you would have paid a few weeks ago. Our ex tremity ought to be your opportunity. Grant Phegley, Mgr. Seventh and Stark Sts. ip Pennsylvania Educator Meet. ,!P-1 rnajaf-b ta Ta JrmLt F.eUfocte. la. July J If the cause' O'durtiofi ts to be sdranced by rn te.llgot discussloo. then It is certain to receive an irr. px . from the aa-i nul meeting of the Fennsylranla Ed-f uestlonal aasociattoQ. which ina today at the stat coue The pregran cov ers thn-a days prhm management ao4 metknds will t thm-mirhlr dl-' '-4 aad pprn and ariflraa wu , be predated oa many phase of edoc- ' tfmal era, iBclwdlng the rrogrees f. the kinder art en. manual tralciea- Ktr ehooj sn4 Ba lure study departments. I V ti ZC73TT sTirST A BIT. $10.00 SET OF CC TEETH FOR $0 Wrlttea Onaraatee for 10 Tears. CaVOWVI Any tooth In the mouth we crown with solid it old. Ilk., arusr- anteed to b the beat, for (JO Ar Prcelsln Crown made no mat ter what they ars caii4 or bow ther are -rnsda. Our price 4 gr Is only s7-. BKXSOCB Wid Oold Top. ftnlld Gold Barks. Porcelain K O f Fronts, per tooth e-aw olid Gold Teeth, 2tk 4 ff brMg-e, per tooth V1,uu AU other wot same price, proportional 1 r. vaunt! iiTmACnos rra Was ristsa ea BMaVvse an CllaiH sMomm trmsrmateea. LILT DEMAL PARLORS Tatrms An oevcm utim V1 fream I k M I . a 88 Third Street N Opposite Chamber of Commerce eaasj gajjsafBaUaBaaw, 1WastBBaaataaak. aaw. mm ra 1 BgygSj Corner Fourrh and Yamhill Y. M. C A. N 0 f A REDUC Our regular Shoe Stocks sold at cost and below, to make room for our large Fall stock on the road now $7.00 High Cut Outing Boots $6.00 High Cut Outing Boots $5.00 Shoes cut to $4.00 Shoes cut to ....... . $ 4.95 . . . $3.9 . . .. $3.85 . ., $3.1. $3.50 Shoes cut (fj) $3.00 Shoes cut www 1 c INCORPORATED Best Soles Sewed 60c on Any Kind Rubber Heels Put on 35c EVERYONE KNOWS BURNS' COFFEES! D. C. BUR.1S CO. C)cu, Tui 5 Splcti ww-lta TkW it. Bums' Coffees are Cof fees with a reputation of 20 years. No matter how strong, the competi tion, the sales constant ly increase because once a drinker of Burns' Cof fees always a drinker. IlldlldlhlUlllP n ri n 1 iifiii trrr li S3 A .WOMAN. SPECIALIST MRS. S. IC CHAN tbe anl Chinese woman doctor la taJa c,.7i many tfl1et4 aufferera. Cursd Plirata and feaaaJ dis eases, also throat and lane; tree bias: atmnaeh. bladder and kldneya sad dlseasea of all kinds that tho feuman flesh la sir ,ilVera and roeu Jiein- lls kamlnt, nvr. a aiMina. Honet triimrt. Esamlna- ' tlAns fW lORRI50N 8T b- first and 1 t4 V 5-1 70 Third Street Ms? e4oar af tet mr to tvs In-1 laM A-lai 0a laaaars u cia Je4 atfkotg it speakers.
