A HISTORY MAKING CONVENTION. The National Gathering of the Democracy at St. Louis the Most Notable Political Convention in the History of the Country. All Factions Unite in Endorsing Superb Can- didates for President and Vice President after a Contest that was without Equal in Earnestness and Enthusiasm. The Party of the People Declares for Jeffersonian Simplicity and Individual Rights in Government. With the nomination of Judge Alton B. Parker for President at 5:50 o’clock Saturday morning, July 9th, at St. Louis, Mo. after a continuous session from 8 o'clock Friday evening, the climax of the most momentons, memorable and unique Democrati conclave ever held was reached. The first ballot, nomination, follows: Alton B. Parker...... William R. Hearst.. which decided the Richard Olney..... 38 E. C, Wall............... 54 Frances M. Cockrell ea iv 42 George Gray.......cceeseen near 8 John Sharp Williams.. 8 Arthur Pue Gorman... 2 Nelson A. Miles........cccoeeninrisnsninnnninnnseraccanenes 3 George B. McClellan.. 3 Robert E. Pattison.. 4 Charles A. Towne.... wins Bird S. Coler............ Besssieisesissteciniisussnnaniaansy 1 The destinies of a great party, if not those of the nation, were shaped in five days of the most remarkable forensic bat- tling on record. : Threatened with disruption by the con- flict of opinion on men and measures, the Democratic party emerged from its most history-making convention intact and strong for the great battle of ballots next November. The compromise was one to astound the world. Never before were there so many vital issues to be settled, with large fac- tions of the party aligned on opposite sides. The fighting injected into the proceed- ings a multitude of spectacular and pic- turesque features. The result was that the gathering attracted universal attention and interest. BRYAN THE GREAT FIGURE. Bryan was the greas, popular figure of the convention. His personal influence over the members of his party was but slightly impaired by his two losing races for the Presidency. An active leader of the radical minority the Nebraska states- man engineered the compromise arrange- ment, Bryan was outvoted by the convention, but he was also accorded the most remark- able ovation of the sessions. Senator Hill was the silent Napoleon of the convention, and as leader of the con- servative majority, he crossed swords in committees, on the floor of the convention, and in the silent machinations of polities. PLATFORM RESULT OF LONG FIGHT. The platform was adopted only ab the cost of the most persistent, arduous thought aad labor of the men of Democracy. The patriotic, consecrated toil of the Democracy finally resulted in mutual com- promises thas prevented the disruption of the party and accomplished a reuniting of forces on the best principles of each fac- tion. W. R. Hearst's candidacy served to make trusts the paramount issue, and the moneyed interests that sought to find comfort in the Democratic party were routed with a strong platform declaration for the the curbing of criminal combina- tions of capital. BRYAN WINS ON PLATFORM. Bryan’s followers and the radical element were able to defeat an attempt to repa- diate the principles of the last two cam- paigns and insert a plank declaring for the gold monetary standard. On the Fourth of July, two days before the convention, the Democratic hosts began arriving in force. Enormous numbers of politicians not delegates flocked to the convention city, so intense was the inter- est in the life or death struggle. At once Senator Hill and Senator Me- Carren, of New York, claimed a victory for Judge Parker, of New York. Bryan began five days of work, night and day, by working for the selection of another man than Judge Parker, and for the seating of the contesting Illinoie dele gation. . PHILIPPINES BARRED OUT, The National Committee created a prec- edent by denying the right of the Philip- pines to representation in a Democratic convention, and the convention supported this decision. All regular delegates were seated and contesting delegations decided against in a dozen States. The Tammany delegation, headed by Charles F. Murphy, arrived .on Tuesday, and declared war on Senator Hill’s plan to nominate Judge Parker. Broaching of a gold standard plank by Senator Hill brought the first sensation and the firss test of strength in the Resolutions Committee. Cleveland was boomed by Tammany on Taesday, and Senator Hill was worried over its effect on Parker’s candidacy. On the eve of the convention, all the contending forces were firm, with Parker lacking enough votes to be nominated. CLARK WIELDS GAVEL. Congressman John Sharp Williams of Mississippi, a conservative favorable to Judge Parker’s nomination, was chosen temporary chairman. Senator Joseph Bailey of Texas was selected by committee for permanent chairman. Congressman Champ Clark, of Missouri, became perma- nent chairman through the declination of Senator Bailey to serve. With intensely hos weather, which con- tinued throughout the week, the conven- tion opened on Wednesday morning. Chairman Williams’ address in accepting ‘the gavel was a disappointment. The ex- pected keynote was not sounded. His voice could not he heard and the hour and a balf address tired the convention. He scored the Roosevelt administration and attacked the ‘‘stand pat’’ slogan of Repub- licanism. HEARST GETS AN OVATION. The first ovation of the convention was tendered the name of Congressman Hearst, second candidate for the Presidency in point of votes. As the California delega- tion entered the hall at the opening session the shout of Hearst’s name began general cheering which conld not be quelle? for half an hour. On Wednesday evening began the memorable battle on party principles, be- fore the resolutions subcommittee, charged with presenting to the full committee the Bryan and Hill were pitted, and all night long the giants of the party argued and fought. Trusts were paramount, with the threas- ened gold plank second and the tariff and imperialism in suoccession. The disputed issues were finally sent to the whole reso- lutions committee still not settled. TRY TO ABROGATE RULE. Anti-Parker forces held a conference and formed an iron-clad compact to not vote for the New York Judge. This precipitat- ed an attempt of the Parker forces to aban- don the rmnle making a two-thirds vote jority, bus this was quickly defeated. Bryan's first fight was the championship of the cause of the contesting delegates from Illinois, headed by Mayor Carter Harrison of Chicago, who charged fraud. Bryan argued the case through the Nation- al Committee’ Subcommittee on Contests add the entire Credentials Committee, each body deciding against the contestants. With a minority report Bryan then car- ried the Illinois contest onto the floor of the convention on Thursday. CHEER NEARLY AN HOUR. Thursday was Bryan day in the conven- tion. When he appeared on the platform to plead the Illinois contests he was cheered for nearly an hour, Chairman Williams, the band and the army of sergeants at arms being wholly unable to check the enthusiasm. Twice later his presence brought him an ovation, and to the end of the convention he was the popular heroic figure. The ap- plause accorded him surpassed that at the time of his first nomination, when his elo- quence stampeded the Chicago gathering. Bryan denounced the methods of John P. Hopkins of Illinois as un-Democratic and fraudulent, but the convention voted against the contestants two to one. Temporary Chairman Williams fainted on the platform from the intense heat dur- ing Bryan’s speech. FLAY THE TRUSTS. Congressman Champ Clark, the pictur- esque Missourian, assumed the chairman- ship on Thursday with a characteristically strong and witty address. He flayed the Republican platform, the trusts and their backers with bitter words. The test vote of the Illinois contest en- couraged the anti-Parker forces to believe he could be kept from nomination and ultimately beaten. NOMINEE LONG IN DOUBT. The fierce out-convention campaigning on candidates, which bad begun as early as Sanday and increased in intensity hour- ly, reached its height Thursday night. Both sides claimed victory in sight, and a careful canvass conld not prove either claim incorrect on the eve of the nomina- tions. The platform delayed the convention hours Friday morning. A recess was taken in the morning, after names of the standing committees bad been announced. In a stuffy room in the Southern Hotel the giants of the party led by Bryan and Hill, almost worn by heat, toil and lack of sleep to the point of exhaustion, but still determined, were fighting out the prin- ciples of the party in the Resolutions Committee. NEITHER FACTION WOULD BOLT. result without impatience. Bolts from the party as a result of action on issues or men were ramored. They were quickly quiet- ed, however, by the firm declaration that all factions would abide by the will of the majority, in true Democratic fashion. First the proposed gold standard plank was defeated by Bryan, then the trust is- sue was grappled with. At 4 o'clock Friday afternoon the im- patient delegates were informed that the Resolutions Committee would be able to report a platform unanimously agreed to on convention floor. The convention there- fore decided to bold a night session and reassemble at 8 p. m. to adopt the plat- form and make nominations. PLATFORM IS ADOPTED. Dramatic in the extreme was the night session. The platform was adopted, and then came the battie of oratory that preceded the contest of ballots. Judge Parker was placed in nomination first, Alabama having given away first place on the roll call to New York. Mention of the New York jurist’s name by Littleton was the signal for a concerted, well-planned demonstration. Great piot- ures and banners and transparencies were brought forth by the New York delega- flo and a parade started around the all. WOMEN LEAD DEMONSTRATION. Other Parker States joined in. Two young women, Adele and Evelyn Hay- ‘wood, of Julien, - Mo., stood on the plat- form waving boquets to encourage the cheering. Pandemonium reigned in the hall for over half an hour. : GOES WILD OVER HEARST. W. R. Hearst, of New York, was the sec- ond candidate to be nominated. Greater than the demonstration for Judge Parker was that accorded the New York Congress- man. The eloquent D.M. Delmas, of California, named Hearst as the favorite and choice of the Democratic masses and of his native California. At the beginning and close of Delmas’ address. Hearst’s name was accorded an ovation. ‘When the California orator concluded there welled up such a mighty volume of sound as had not heen heard in the Coli- seum, though the delegates were almost worn out by their long ordeal. A dozen state delegations carried their banners to the side of the California em- blem. Then a parade was started, led by California and containing the following delegates: Kansas, South Dekota, Illi- nois, Towa, Rhode Island, Nevada, Wash- ington, Minnesota, Wyoming, Arizona, Hawaii, Idaho and New Mexico. ‘With a great pioture of Hearst and the California banner at the head, the parade went around the auditorium in a perfect framework of the platform. In this fightehander of cheering and applause. necessary to nominate for that of a ma- | ALTON BROOKS PARKER. OUR NEXT PRESIDENT HENRY GASSAWAY DAVIS. AND VICE PRESIDENT. The party representatives awaited the CHEERS LAST THIRTY-SIX MINUTES. The applanse was at its full height when the timers declared it had continued thirty- six minutes. The band played its loudest, and Chair- man Clark and Senator Bailey both tried in vain to check the demonstration. Miss Bowen, a school teacher of South Dakota, led the cheering for Hearst from the edge of the galleries, and the Hearst enthusiasts gallantly turned and cheered toward her. The Hearst standards finally were massed at the foot of the platform. suar- rounded by scores of stamping, cheering, coatless delegates. The convention proceedings were stopped completely by the inability to get order. This Presidential naming session, with its continued demonstrations of thunder, that kept up from fall to fall of the gavel until it seemed that human Jungs must he shattered by exhaustion, will godown as the longest night session of an Awerican political convention. The ballot was taken after William Jen- nings Bryan, making his way to the plat- form, seconded the nomination of Senator Cockrell in a speech that landed W. R. Hearst. As the Nebraskan began his address the full flood of daylight was sweeping upon the convention hall. It was 5:20 d%clock when the nomina- tions for the Presidency were declared closed. Seven great Democorats had heen formally placed before the convention for the nomivation. These nen whose uvames had been re- ceived with’ the most spectacular demon- strations ever witnessed at a national con- vention, were; Alton B. Parker, of New York. William Randolph Hearst, named by California. George Gray, of Delaware. Senator Cockrell, of Missouri. Richard Olney, of Massachusetts. E. C. Wall, of Wisconsin. John Sharp Williams, of Mississippi, the latter named by North Dakota. In all this night of storms, of cheering of 15,000 frantic men and women whose lungs seemed made of iron instead of flesh and blood, the demonstration for Hearst goes into bistory as the greatest of all the demonstrations of the history-making night. NOMINATING A VICE PRESIDENT. Henry Gassaway Davis, of West Vir- ginia, former United States senator from that state, was nominated short ly after midnight Sunday morning for vice president of the United States. On the first ballot ex-Senator Davis received 652 votes, or 15 less than the two-thirds necessary to elect. Before the ballot was announced a number of states announced that their votes were changed in his favor, and a motion to make the nomination unanimous was carried with enthusiasm. The nomination of ex-Senator Davis, who is 81 years old, was the closing act of the stormy convention. Immediately after the nomination had been made unanimous the great gathering ad- journed sine die, and the delegates rushed out of the hall, some to seek their beds and hundreds of others to try to catch trains for home. Those placed in nomination besides Mr. Davis were: Ex-Senator George Turner, of Washington; Robert Wil liams, of Illinois, and William A. Har- ris, of Kansas. . Delegate John Lamb, of Indiana, moved that the Democratic national committee be authorized to fill any vacancy that might occur on the na- tional ticket. The motion was made in the form of a resolution which was adopted with: out opposition. A resolution naming and thanking the officers of the convention was also’ adopted; also James K. Jones and the outgoing national committee. Chairman Champ Clark and Tem- porary Chairman John Sharp Williams were made respectively chairmen’ of the committees to notify Judge Parker and ex-Senator Davis of their nomina- tion. It was also announced that the new national committee would meet in New York on a date to be fixed by the chairman. JUDGE PARKER'S LIFE. Alton Brooks Parker. Born, May 14, 1851, in Cortlandt county, New York. Father was a farmer. Taught school and studied law and was admitted to the bar at the age of 21. Was a supreme court judge at the age of Served one term in the bouse of represen- tatives in Mas<achu~etts. Married Mary L. Schoonmaker while he was still a strugeling young attorney. He bas one daughter. Bertha, the wife of Rev. Charles Mercer Hall. PARKER'S PARENTS WEALTHY. It was only a short time ago when peo- ple were asking. **Who is Parke?" Alton B. Parker is a man who has had a most successful life. He never splis rails, bus his success in life has been largely due to his own efforts, despite the fact that he bad a good start. Judge Parker was the son of a wealthy farmer. He was born in Cortlandt county, New York, on May 14, 1851. He taught school for a number of yeais and at the close of his collegiate career he was | admitted to the bar as the age of 21. In brief, this is his history: He was surrog- ate of Ulster county for two terms. Ap- pointed to the Supreme cours bench by Governor D. B. Hill in 1886. Served by election and reelection according to New York judicial election system until 1887. ' Thence promoted by election to the chief justiceship of the court of appeals, the highest court of the State, still holding that office. He declined at various times to stand as a candidate for Lieutenant Governor, Governor and United States Senator. He declined the appointment of firs assistant postmaster general under President Cleveland. He attained prestige as a political manager during the guberna- torial campaign of D. B. Hill, his position beivg chairman of the state executive committee. WORK ON A FARM. Regarding the place of his birth, it may for the sake of definition be said that Cort- landt is midway between the populous cities of Syracuse and Binghamton. For twelve years Alton Brooks Parker passed # his child-hood days on his father’s farm the last three years attending the district school in the winter and working in the fields in the sammer time. There he de- veloped a rugged constitution, which serv- ed him in good stead in later years. From the age of 12 to that of 15 the embryo i judge was a student at the Cortlandt acad- emy and it is recorded of him that he-paid his own tuition from the proceeds of labor performed out side of school hours. Four years thereafter he spent as teacher in the village school at Vergil, Cortlandt county, at Binghamton and at Rochester. Parker pursued at his own expense an ex- tra course of study at the Cortlandt normal school, but his ambition did not rest there. He saved the necessary money took two years’ at the law school at Alabany, from which he wasa graduate when just 21 years of age. For five years thereafter he was clerk and assocsate in the law firm of Shoemaker and Hardenburg, at Kingston, Ulster county, N. Y., and all of that time he had taken an intelligent interest in local politics. For two successive terms he was elected surrogate of Ulster county on the Democratic ticket. PARKER’S ENTRY INTO POLITICS. His entrance into politics was due sim- ply to his love for his old employer, Judge Schoonmaker, who had been driven out of politics. He believed that the judge had been wronged and set ous to restore him to popular favor. So earnest was his cam- paign that he soon became a recognized political factor in Ulster county, being a favorite of Mr. Tilden and Mr. Manning, who trusted and consulted him. In 1885 [he was induced to become chairman of the ‘Democratic state executive committee, and in the campaign which he managed David B. Hill was elected Governor. Mr. Hill appointed him to a seat on the Supreme court bench when Justice Westbrook died. When Judge Parker was 33 years old he was unanimously nominated for the Su- | preme court bench by the Democrats. The ent. Not a vote was cast against him. He ‘served on the Supreme berch until his elec- ition as chief judge of the court of appeals in 1897. During his nineteen years on the bench he has ignored politics. In 1896 and 1900 he voted for Mr. Bryan, but it was well understood that he was a sound-money man and merely accepted the will of the majority in hie party. YOUNG LAWYER'S MARRIAGE. While Judge Parker was teaching school i in Rochester village, before he had gained | the right to practice law, he met Mary L. . Schoonmaker, the daughter of Moses L. ; Schoonmaker, of Accord. The acquaintance ripened and when the young lawyer could see his way clear to supporting a wife they were married. For many years they lived in the winter season in a handsome house in Kingston owned by the Judge. A great love for the country and for country life When suitable intervals occurred young. Republicans would not nominate an oppon- | ’ drew him each spring, however, to an old farmhouse near Accord, where hecould dip into agriculture or his law books, as the inclination or the pressure of husiness re- quired. Of his marriage there were two children, a son, who died when 7 years of age, and a daughter, Bertha. who is the wife of Rev. Charles Mercer Hall, rector of the church of the Holy Cross, Kingston. Mr. and Mrs. Hall bave two children. For many years Judge Parker had de- sired to secure a country home of his own directly on the banks of the Hudson, ample. retired, yet within convenient distance of Kingston, his daughter and his grandchil- dren. Not long ago he was able to realize his long-cherished wish. An opportunity was presented to him to purchase an estate of ninety acres on the river banks at Esopus. Upon this large tract, and at the top of a bluff sloping to the river, is a substantial and commodious mansion, shaded by generous porches, and hy fins old trees. The frontage on the Hudson river is liberal, and the view commanded by the house is extensive and charming. The property extends hack half a mile to the edge of Esopus village, Roosemount hall, as the house is called, isa stately mansion, built for comfort rather than for show, yet not with disregard of appear- ances. ¢ ADDITIONAL LOCALS, ——21,000 fares were lifted on Philips- burg trolley cars on July 4th. —— A emma. ——The Undines cleared about $500 at their Fourth of July picnic at Hecla Park. lee —— The Forepaugh and Sells shows are to exhibit in Williamsport on August 24th. S—r A rreer— ~ ——Danville borough is to have its own street lighting plant at a cost of $15,000. arrestee A rere. ——The Lutherans of Tyrone are to erect a new brown stone church at a cost of $18,- 240. : mre eee QQ eee. ——The Lutheran Sunday school of this place will picnic at Hecla park on August 12th. ——W. C. Heinle Esq, has been elected a trustee of the Central State Normal school at J.ock Haven. ll pele ——A fine new flag stone pavement is an improvement in front of the Orbison property on Spring street. ——Rev. John A. Bright, of Topeka, Kansas, will address the Luther league in Millheim, Sunday evening. rr Ql rr ——1If you care to see something very interesting as well as extremely ludicirous stop at Yeager & Davis’ show window. meen ff tte ——We bad quite a number of pleasing letters during the week ; the kind that keep the bank account good. They can’t come too fast. NEES OS ——The First National bank of this place has just declared a semi-annual dividend of three per cent and carried $10,- 000 to the surplus. ll ge SE ——Mr. Chas. W. Biddle and Miss Lydia A. Spotts, of Julian, were married at the home of the groom’s parents at Nortonville by Squire O. H. Nason. ——— ere— ——James Murray, of Bellefonte, bas what he claims is the best rabbit and fox it for sale. ——Memorial service in memory of comrades who have passed away during the past year will be held in Gregg post rooms Sunday July 17th, at 3:30 P. M. Services will be public and all ‘interested are cordially invited. : eee AAA et ——Miss Adaline Olewine, of north Spring street, entertained last Thursday evening in honor of the Misses Bottorf, of Lemont, and Miss Edna Clark and Mise Lillian Brown, of Williamsport. tee Gp fp fp ine ——Some matches and torpedoes in his trous ers pocket becoming ignited by a spark on the Fourth, Daniel, the little son of Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Irwin, of this place, was badly burned from the knee to the thigh. While his injury was quite pain- ful it is not serious. : hound in Centre county, and he is offering | ——The Evangelical ‘Suuday school of this place picunicked at Hecla park yes- terday. ——— Nelson Caldwell, who was born at Solona, January 14th, 1832, died at the home of his daughter, Mis. J. B. Antis, in Tyione, on Tuesday afternoon, July 5th. rr lp The Centre county Christian En- deavor Union is to meet at Centre Hall on August 31st and September 1st. The exec- utive committee met at Unionville on Saturday to make the preliminary arrange- ments. i nit ——The Baptist church at Martha is undergoing rather extensive remodelling. The corner stone is to be laid with ap- propriate services on Sunday morning, July 17th, as 10:45 o’clock. The public is cordially invited. i ——At the age of 26 years Katie, wile of Thomas Whitmyer, passed away at her home at Carrol, in Clinton county, on the 2nd. She was a daughter of Jacob Fiedler, of Fiedler, and her remains were buried as Aaronsburg on Saturday. ——Jobn Erb bas exchanged his Eagle hotel in. Philipsburg for the Railroad: restaurant conducted by Frank Test; D. W. Holt being the owner of the latter property. Mr, Test will move into the hotel and ran it in. the future. re fp ren —— While Rev. I. N. Bair, of Millheim, was attending a Sunday school convention at Rebershug recently, two boys from the east end of Brush valley stole his carriage lamps. They were later discovered using the lamps for their bicycles and under threat of arrest returned the stolen property. eG ——A man giving his name as William Brown, aud address, Syracuse, N. Y., was arrested near the lime kilns on Wednesday morning on suspicion of having been im- plicated in an attempt to rob the Milesburg post-office the evening before. He was given a hearing before justice Keichline and committed to jail for further examina- - | tion. rrr GQ ee ——For the band tournament to be held - in Philipsburg on September 5th, Labor day, 6th and 7th, the following prizes have been offered : First prize for best overture $100, second $40, third $25, and fourth $10, no band to exceed twenty-five pieces. For best waltz first prize $15, second $10. For best quick-step in parade first prize $13, second prize $10. pe ——The Philipsburg Cement Block Co. is the name of a new corporation which H. H. Hewitt, J. Swires and John Bauer have organized in Philipsburg for the manufacture of a hollow building stone from sand, crushed limestone and cement. They expect to erect a two story house in Philipsburg, using their product in its construction, in order to show the public what it is like. iil A imps NoricE.—In order to give our patrons the advantage of the low cash prices on retail coal, that prevail in the cities and larger towns of our section of the State, where coal is sold on a cash basis ; we have decided that, commencing July 20th, 1904, we will reduce our retail coal and sell for cash only. The new schedule of prices will be published on that date. BELLEFONTE FUEL & SuppPLY Co., R. B. TAYLOR, Epw. K. RHOADS, : ‘McCaLMoxNT & Co. pl ——A movement is on foot for the pur- chase of the Philipsburg Electric Light, Gas, Power and Heating Co's. plant by the owners of the Centre and Clearfield Street Railway Co., of that place. The property is valued at about $150,000. It was in- corporated in 1882 ; being largely owned by the Hou. J. N. Casanova. Should the deal go through the new corporation pro- poses consolidating it with the Osceola lighting company’s plant and operate all through the trolley company management
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