It's a .Cold.'. Day .....When We Get Left. ;V:
VOL. 8. , HOOD RIVER, OREGON, FRIDAY. JULY lY, 1896. N0"8l
THE EVENTS OF'THE DAY
Epitome , of the Telegraphic
News of the World.
OF INTEREST TO OUR READERS
Comprehensive Review of the Import
ant Happening of the Past Week
Galled From the Telegraph Column.
Another bond issue is being spoken
of as a result of ' the heavy gold with
drawals. -. , ,. .' . ' '
The rebel impi is gathered in battle
array near Bulnwayo, and a fight is
probable.
The barkentine Eliza MoManemy
was snnk near Memory Book,' Pa. No
lives were loBt.
.A terriflo wind and rain storm 'in
Ohio badly damaged crops. , Light
ning struck a number of buildings.
sad bavoo.with the Spanish army in
Cuba, and many of the soldiers are dy
ing, t ' '.- : . " - V - ' "; .-" . '
Two cabin-boys of Pomeroy, O. , shot
and killed Peter Whittaker. The kill
ing was the. result of rivalry over a
woman. -: ; . : '
More silver is to be coined. The
San Franoisoo mint will soon resume
operations and it is said that about
$600,000 will be coined during this
month.
: Intense heat prevails throughout the
southern portion of Great Britain and
in Franoe and Germany. In London
the meroury marked 80 degrees in the
shade and 185 in - the sun. In Paris
the heat is so great it has been found
necessary to close many workshops. -'
On July 4, the inmates of the city
infirmary in Cincinnati were treated to
green apples, lemonade and other lux
uries. The inmates drank and ate
too . much; sickness followed, and
eight have since died from the effects
of the festivities on that day.
Noah MoGill, sheriff of Tishomingo
county, L T., reports that three white
men were found hanging to the limb
of a tree near Reagan postoffice, a few
miles from Tishomingo county, Chioka
saw nation. - It is generally believed
that they were borsethieves? captured
by a party of Tesans, and swung up
on the spot.
' Several Chinese are believed to have
been burned to death in a fire which
occurred in Chinatown in San Fran
oisoo. The building was oooupied by
a large party of Chinese, many : of
whom were .dazed from the use of
opium and unable to save themselves.
Although no bodies have been found,
it is believed 'that six persons were
uuxuou w uoniu
It is understood that the seoretary of
state has instructed the United States
minister at Lima to demand a prompt
settlement of the claim of Victor (J.
Maooord, the Amerioan oitizen, for al
leged brutal and inhuman treatment by
the Peruvian authorities. . Mr. Mao
cord's claim is for $200,000. It grows
out of his imprisonment by the Per
uvian -authorities, In 1885, while he
was acting superintendent of the rail
road at Arequipa.
Felix Faure, president of the Frenoh
republic was fired at from a distance
of only a few feet by an unknown man,
but the .bullet fortunately went wide
of its mark, and the president escaped
unharmed. President Faure had gone
to the Champs to review the troops.
Be had no sooner entered the field when
a man in the crowd stepped forward
and fired at him. The shot did not
take effect. The would-be assassin was
arrested. He declared that he only fired
a blank cartridge.
Reports from Spokane say that orops
in many sections of Washington are
somewhat damaged, as a result of the
not weainer oi me past lew weexs, oais
especially having been badly burned. '
' News has been reoeived in Havana
that unknown parties have burned the
Santa Barbara estate near Baro, prov
inoa of Matanzas. The estate is owned
by Senor Maruel . Corenado, editor of
La Disoussion. The damage is esti
mated at $300,000. -
The Venezuelans, through the efforts
of President Crespo, intend to donate
to the city of New York an equestrian
statue of Simon , Bolivar, and have
commissioned the work to the Italian
soulDtor. Giovanni Tumi, of Staten
island. The cost of the statue will be
$200,000.
Warner Miller barely escaped being
shot 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 inob above Mr.
Miller's head, oovering him with
splintered glass and passing out of the
opposite window.
The trouble which ooourred 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 general is there
investigating the. matter. The repre
sentative says that it was an outrage as
the Greek had his banner completely
surrounded by Amerioan flags, woioh
is eminently proper under international
law,
THE GREAT TIDAL WAVE
Now Kstlraated That Fifty Thousand
Japaneie Lost Their Lives.
San Franoisoo, July 15 The steam
ship Dorio arrived from Yokohama to
night, bringing news up to June 25.
Estimates of the loss of life from the
great tidal wave reach as high as 50,
000, and this number is believed to be
far below the mark. ,. The tidal wave
was 80 feet in height, and swept inland
a distanoe of miles along 200 miles
of coast. - Thousands of acres of land
under cultivation were devastated, and
the inhabitants of , the flooded districts
are suffering from the famine. There
waB but little warning to the people
of the great disaster. ,
About sunset four or five shocks of
earthquake were felt a few minutes.
At 8 P. M. an appalling noise, as if
produced by the simultaneous firing of
a hundred oannon, was heard from the
direotion of the sea. Then the great
wave came in at a terriflo' speed and
overwhelmed everything in sight. At
Taro the sea, suddenly receded as muoh
as 600 yards from the shore. Then the
huge wave came rushing in before peo
ple on shore had time to esoape. . Fish
ermen who were plying their trade at
a distanoe of four miles from shore per
ceived nothing indicating the occur
rence of anything remarkable. Others
neaier the ooast enoountered heavy
breakers coming from the north.
A REIGN OF TERROR.
; - .-;
Three Desperadoes on the Street! of
Chicago,
Chioago, July 15. Three men in a
buggy drawn by a gray horse created a
reign of terror on the North Side of
the city tonight. They drove through
the streets emptying their revolvers in
the air, and now and then made
things lively by firing at people whom
they passed. During their ride they
shot three men, one fatally. . The vic
tims are Sergeant William Sauer, of
the East Chicago-avenue station, shot
twice in the breast and once in the
neok, will die; Andrew Martin 'and
John Keefe. After Martin and Keefe
had been shot, the polioe started after
the marauders, but oould not find them
until after midnight, .when Sergeant
Sauer saw three men in a buggy drawn
by a gray horse enter an alley. He
followed them, and as soon as he ap
peared at the entranoe to the alley the
men fired. Not a word was uttered by
the men or the officer. All of the bul
lets hit Sauer, and he cannot live. The
men made their escape, and there is no
clew to their identity.
THE WAR IN CUBA.
In .urgent Captain Caught Be 'ore He
Could Surrender. ' ,
Havana, July 15. George A. Guirre,
an insurgent oaptain, who is said to be
an Amerioan oitizen, is reported to
have, beep captured in a boat by the
gunboat Antonio Lopez, near Baourao.
Guirre is in solitary confinement at the
navy yard. He says he was on his
way to surrender with his boatman,
Guillermo, to Colonel Jose Delgado.
Guillermo, who has ' also been im
prisoned, says that before being cap
tured, Guirre threw overboard many
papers and a revolver. . .
Several arrests have been made by
the polioe of Havana of persons alleged
Lto have been compromised by code
oable messages supposed to relate to the
latest landing of filibustering expedi
tions on the island. . '
In patrolling the ooast between Boca
Guanabo and Booa Ceoiga, General
Ochao found 12,000 cartridges, a chest
of bombs, supposed, to be designed for
the destruction of Matanzas railway
trains, and a box of medioine.
The insurgent loss in an engagement
whioh Colonel Amor had on the Gomez
farm, on July 9, was 80 killed.
Advices from Santiago de Cuba re
port that an engagement has been
fought between the Spanish troops and
the insurgents under Jose Maceo, in
whioh Captain Monson and other Cu
ban leaders were killed. , - '
Lost In the Mountains. :
Pendleton, Or., July 15. C. J.
Carlson and W. W. Robbins returned
yesterday from a trip to the north fork
of John Day river, and reported that
the young1 daughter oi the postmaster
of Susanville has been missing from
horde sinoe July - 4. This date she
strayed from home and beoame lost or
was oarried away. Two hundred men
are soouring the oountry, trying to find
some clue of the girl's whereabouts.
Carlson and Robbins searohed two
days, and during their tramp over the
country met many others smilarly en
gaged. Fears are entertained that the
girl has been murdered.
A Mysterious Death.
Washington, July 15. Harry J. Po
cook, for many years registrar of St.
Louis, died suddenly last night on a
train in Ohio, between Athens and
Parkersburg. His body waB left at the
latter city. Mr. Pooook was apparently
in good health. . About 1 1 o'clock,
H. C. Bell, deputy United States com
missioner of pensions, was awakened
by an agonized shriek from Pooock's
berth. The latter tumbled from bis
berth into the aisle, and soon after be
ing itemoved to the smoking car died.
TwA women were discovered ransack
ing the dead man's clothes.
. Power from the Laohine rapids is to
be used for lighting Montreal, Canada.
MAD WITH EXCITEMENT
Wild Scenes Enacted in the
Chicago Coliseum.
BRYAN'S PASSIONATE ORATORY
Delegates and Spectators Alike Carried
Away by Bis Speech Stam
pede for the Nebraskan.
Chicago. On the third day's session
of the national Demooratio convention,
ten aores of people on the sloping sides
of the Coliseum saw the silver-helmet-ed
gladiators in the arena overpower the
gold phalanx and plant the banner of
silver upon the ramparts of Democracy.
They saw what may prove the disrup
tion or the success of a great politioal
party, amid scenes of enthusiasm suoh
as, perhaps, never before ooourred in a
national convention. . ,
They saw 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 voioea burst like a
volcano against the reverberating dome
overhead; they saw a man (Bryan of
Nebraska)' oarried upon the shoulders
of others intoxioated with enthusiasm.
Amidst the tumult and turbulence,
they listened to appeals, to threats, to
ories for meroy (from Hill of New
York), and finally, they watohed the
jubilant majority seat its delegates and
the vanquished stalk sullenly forth into
the daylight. The battle for supremaoy
of Demooratio principles was fought in
a session that lasted from 11 o'olook in
the morning until shortly before 5
o'olook 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 whioh mani
fested its unfriendlinesss by a storm of
hisses, opened the debate with a wildly
passionate speech, in which he affirmed
that the battle for the restoration of
silver was a war for the emancipation
of the white slaves, as the war of 1860
had been for the emancipation of the
blaok slaves. Disruption of the
Demooraoy had 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 seotional one, a declaration
whioh aroused the resentment of Sena
tor Jones, and he repudiated it in a
brief speeoh which aroused the first
demonstration of the day. Even the
gold delegates joined heartily in this
demonstration against sectionalism.
Senator Vilas bitterly denounoed
what he termed an attempt to launch
the party in a oareer so wild that the
world stood aghast. With a wave of
his arm, that was full of impressive
portent, he sounded his warning.
Ex-Governor Russell, the keen Mas
sachusetts statesman, who has thrice
carried the standard of Democracy to
victory in the Old Bay state, pleaded
for a word of concession, of concilia
tion, and conlouded 1 with a solemn
warning that the oountry, if not the
convention, would listen.
Demonstrations followed at frequent
intervals throughout the speeches, but
it was Senator Hill who aroused the
gold foroes to their wildest enthusiasm,
and . Bryan, the "boy orator of the
Platte," who set thesilevrmen aflame.
The demonstration for Hill, who
with olose logio and trenohant blade
sought the very heart of the conven
tion as he bitterly assailed as undemo
oratio the new breed whioh the ma
jority was to proolaim, lasted about
18 minutes. Although more pro
traoted than ' that whioh greeted
Bryan, it was of a different nature.
The latter was the spontaneous out
burst of an enthusiasm kindled by the
touoh of magnetio eloquence. The
star of the brilliant young orator from
the plains of 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 waB the first oppor
tunity ht had to show himself. The
audienoe had been warmed up, and
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 blaok suit of alpaca,
he stood with a smile . playing over his
handsome, mobile, clear-out faoe,
while with uplifted hand he invited
the waiting thousands. -
He has a faoe whose lines -might
have been chiseled from alabaster by
some master soulpter. - His mouth is
firm, his 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 pitoh until it pene
trated the furthermost limits of the
hall, he wove the spell upon his audi
enoe. . His speeoh 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 upon the brow of labor this crown
of thorns. You shall not crucify man
kind upon the cross of gold.' "
The convention took fire with enthu
siasm. It craokled as with the war of
flames. Hill was forgotten; all else
was forgotten for the moment. Cheers
swelled to yells, yells beoame soreams.
Every chair in the valley of the Coli
seum and every ohair in the vast wil
derness on the hillsides beoame a dook
on whioh frantio men and women were
wildly waving handkerchiefs, canes,
bats and umbrellas any thing 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 politioal 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
tioally to the place where rose the
standard of Nebraska. - In a twinkling
others followed the example.
When it was all over the votes were
taken first on the minority substitute
for the platform offered by Senator
Hill, whioh was defeated 626 to 850.
Then, on the resolution to indorse the
administration,' whioh was beaten, 857
to 564, and lastly on the adoption of
the" platform, whioh was oarried, 628
to 801. 7
Senator Tillman, after the rejeotion
of the resolution to indorse the admin
istration, withdrew his resolution to
censure the administration.
THE CHICAGO PLATFORM.
Declares for Free Coinage of Silver at
' the Present Ratio of 16 to 1.
We, the democrats of the United States,
in convention assembled, reaffirm 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 ea.ua.lity 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 selfish
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. Urder Its guid
ance and teachings, the great principle of
local self-government has found its best :
expression In the maintenance of the rights
of states, and its assertion of the necessity
of confining the general government to the
exercise of the powers granted by the con
stitution of the United States. Recogniz- i
ln Ik.f th. nnov n,uctlnn la lunmnnnl I
to all others at this time, we invite atten
tion to the fact that the federal con
stitution named silver and gold together
as the money metals of the United States,
and that the first coinage law passed by
congress under the constitution made the
silver dollar the monetary unit and ad
mitted gold to free coinage at a ratio based
upon the silver-dollar unit.
We declare that the act of 1873, demone
tizing silver without the knowledge or ap
proval of the American people, has result
ed in the appreciation of gold and a cor
responding fall In the price of commodities
produced by the. people, a heavy increase
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
ment of the people.
We are unalterably opposed to mono
metallsm, which has locked fast the pros
perity of an Industrial people in the
paralysis of hard times. Gold monometal
lsm is a British policy, and its adoption
has brought other nations Into financial
servitude to London. It is not only un
American, but anti-American, and can be
fastened on the United States only by the
sinking of that spirit and love of liberty
which proclaimed our political Indepen
dence In 1776, and won It in the war of the
Revolution. , .- - ..
We demand the free and unlimited coin
age of both gold and silver at the present
legal ratio of 16 to 1, without waiting for
the aid or consent of any dther nation. We
demand that the standard silver dollar
shall be full legal tender equally with
gold for all debts, public and private, and
we favor such legislation as will prevent
for the future the demonetization of any
kind of legal-tender money by private con
tract. '. v
We are opposed to the policy and practice
of surrendering to the holders of the ob
ligations of the. United States the option
reserved by law to the government of re
deeming such obligations in silver or In
gold coin. We are opposed to the Issuing of
Interest-bearing bonds of the United States
in time of peace, and condemn the traf
ficking with banking syndicates, which. In
exchange for bonds at an enormous profit
to themselves, supply the federal treasury
with gold to maintain the policy of gold
monometallsm. .
Congress alone has the power to coin
and issue mony, and President Jackson
declared that this power could not be dele
gated 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
levied for the purpose of revenue, such
duties to be so readjusted as to operate
equally throughout the country, and not
discriminate between class or section, and
that taxation should be limited by the
needs 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
of access to their natural markets. Until
the money question is settled, we are op
posed to any agitation for further changes
In our tariff laws, except such as are nec
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
would be no deficit in the revenue under
the law passed by the democratic congress,
In strict pursuanc of the uniform decisions
of that court for nearly 100 years, that
court having under that decision sus
tained . constitutional objections to Us
enactment which had been overruled by
the ablest judges who have ever sat on
that bench. r . ..
We declare that It is the duty of con
gress to use all the constitutional power
which remains after that decision, or which
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 the
expenses of government.
We hold that the most efficient way of
protecting American labor Is to prevent
the importation of foreign pauper labor to
compete with It in the home market, and
that the value of the home market to our
American farmers and artisans is greatly
reduced by a vicious monetary system,
which depresses the prices of their prod
ucts below the cost of production, and thus
deprives them of the means of purchas
ing the products Of our home manufac
tories. ' The absorption of wealth by the
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 the
labor that pays them Is unemployed, and
the products of the people's toll 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 citi
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. i
We approve of the refusal of the 63d
congress to pass the Pacific railroad fund
ing bill,, and denounce the effort of the
present congress to enact a similar meas
ure, s
Recognizing the Just claim of deserving
Union soldiers, we heartily Indorse the rule
of Commissioner Murphy that no names
shall be arbitrarily dropped from the pen
sion rolls, and that fact of enlistment and
service should be deemed conclusive evi
dence against disease and disability before
.enlistment.
We favor the admission of the territories
of New Mexico and Arizona Into the Union
as states, and we favor the early
admission of all the territories having the
necessary population and resources to en
title them to statehood, and while they re
main territories we hold that the officials
appointed to administer the government of
any territory, together with the District of
Columbia and Alaska, should be bona fide
residents of tha territory or district in
which their duties are to be performed.
The democratic party believes In home
rule, and that all public lands of the
United States should be appropriated to
the establishment of free homes for Amer
ican 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 bo extended to said
territory.
We extend our sympathy to the people of
Cuba in their heroic struggle for liberty
and Independence.
The federal government should care for
and Improve the MIsslsslpppl river and
other great waterways of the republlo, 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 be 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
of this republic, established by custom and
usage of 100 years and sanctioned by the
examples of the greatest and wisest of
those who founded and have maintained
our government, that no man shall be eli
gible for a third term of the presidential
office.
Confident In the Justice of our cause and
necessity of Its success at the polls, we
submit the foregoing declaration of prin
ciples to the considerate judgment of the
American people. We Invite the support of
all citizens who approve them, and desire
to have them made effective through legis
lation, for the relief of the people and the
restoration of the country's prosperity,
BRYAN OF NEBRASKA
Nominated lor President by
the Democrats.
DELEGATES STAMPEDED TO HIM
Be Was Elected on the Fifth Ballot
Arthur Bewell, of Maine, for
.Vice-President,
Chicago. W. J. Bryan, ''the boy
orator of the Platte," and ex-oongreas-man
from Nebraska, was nominated
by the Demooratio national convention
at Chicago, upon the fifth ballot.
Ever sinoe Bryan's brilliant oratori
cal effort on the third day of the con
vention, be has been steadily gaining
strength in the convention, and after
the first ballot former supporters of
other candidates rapidly transferred
their allegiance, singly, in pairs and in
droves, to the young statesman who
had so ably defended their free-silver
oause in and out of convention, and at
all times , .
. After Mr. Bryan was nominated the
convention . unanimously ratified the
ohoioe of the majority.
' The decks were cleared for balloting,
whioh was to begin as soon as the
Demooratio national convention reas
sembled, at 10 o'clock on the fourth
WJB
ryaruy
day. The real struggle opened with
the delegates wrought to an intense
pitoh over the sensational develop
ments of the previous day, when the
Bryan wave swept through the con
vention, and threatened for a time at
least to stampede it then and there.
It had disturbed all calculations and
thrown the ranks of the other candi
dates into confusion.
The Brayn forces were making the
most of the phenomenal rise of the
young orator of Nebraska. , The ad
journment at midnight had given the
leaders of other candidates . an opportu
nity to rally their foroes, and it served
also to give some hours in whioh some
cool counsel might prevail against the
wave of sentiment whioh was at high
tide the night before. ; ; '
'. Delegate Miller, of Oregon, added
to the list of nominations the name of
Sylvester Fennoyer, of Oregon. The
names of Bland, Bryan, Boies, Black
burn, Matthews, McLean, Fattison and
Pennoyer were before the convention.
- There were no other nominations,
and Chairman White announced that
the roll-call of states for the nomina
tion of president, would proceed. Great
exoitement swept over the hall. The
first ballot resulted as follows:
Blaokburn, 88; Bland, 238; Boies, 86;
Bryan, 106; Campbell, 2; Hill, 1;
Matthews, 87; McLean, 51; Fattison,
96; Pennoyer, 10; Russell, 2; Steven
son, 2; Teller, 18; Tillman, 17; not
voting 183.
On the second ballot Massachustetts
deserted Bland for Bryan, which
created a sensation and started the
other states, and in the two following
ballots Bryan kept gradually gaining
one state after another, until the result
of the fourth ballot showed Bryan in
the lead with 276, Bland having fallen
to 241. . This preoipitated another
demonstration whioh lasted for forty
minutes. , .Twenty thousand people
yelled themselves hoarse cheering for
the Nebraskan. Several of the states'
delegates then retired for consultation,
and when they filed back into the hall
the fifth ballot was taken, resulting in
Bryan receiving the neoessary two
thirds. On motion it was made unani
mous."' - ','
1 The Vice-Presidency. ,
A canons ot delegates was held until
2:80 in the morning, but no agreement,
could be reached on the vioe-presidency.
. When the convention opened in the
morning the following names were pre
sented: Bland, of Missouri; McLean,
of Ohio; Williams, of Massachusetts;
Sibley, of Pennsylvania; Fithian, 'of
Illinois; Daniel, of Virginia; Pennoyer,
of Oregon, and Sewell, of Maine. t
Five ballots were taken. Up to the
fourth ballot Bland and McLean led.
Their names were then withdrawn,'
and on the fifth ballot Arthur Sewell,
of Maine, was elected.
After the third ballot was taken
Bland sent a telegram to the conven
tion, asking that his name be with
drawn and that - the nomination be
given to some man east of the Missis
sippi rive.
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