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
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Corner Fourrh
and
Yamhill
Y. M. C A.
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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
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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.
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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.