2 CAMERON COUNTY YMI H. H. MULLIN, Editor. Published livery Thursday. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Per yenr.. 18 •») It paid in advance 1 ADV KRTISI N< i I! ATES: Advertisements are published at the rate of one dol ar per square forone insertion and ttfiy i t | t»r square for each subsequent insertion Kates bv the year, or for six or tKree months, ure low and uniform, and will be furnished on lipnlicatiofe. I.e«nl and Official Advertising per square, three times or less. .8: each subsequent inser tion it) cents per square. Local notices 10 cents per line for one inser ts) rtion: r> cents per line lor each subsequent consecutive insertion. Obituary notices over live lines. 10 cents per line. Simple announcements of births, irar riatres and deaths will lie inserted free. Hu.'iness cards, live lii.es or less, 45 per year; over live lines, at the regular rates of adver tising. No local inserted for less than T.i cents per issue. JOB PRINTING. The Job department of the PUESS is complete and affords facilities for doin« the best class of VI rk PA H'l It'i'l.Ali ATI KN I ION PA II) TO I.AW PMINTINIi. No paper will ha discontinued until arrear av s are paid, except at the option of the pub lisher. Papers sent out of the county must be paid lor in advance. Even in Spain waterfalls are now be ing used as a source ot electric power. In one case 23 small villages arc sup plied from the power station-. In Italy Ihe employment of innumerable water falls liasj enormously increased the out put of manufactured silk. "Here," says an English writer, "is a form < 112 power that will last longer than Great Britain's coal fields. In Germany, where indictments are not made by grand juries, and where there is no habeas corpus act, it lias f-.ometimes happened that innocent peo ple have been confined in jail for many months. The Imperial Bundesrath is now considering a bill providing for the awarding of damages to any inno cent person who may be forced to serve a time in jail. The cultivation of rubber in Siarn lias recently been started, some thou sands of plants having been set out as on experiment. These plants, of the Para variety (Hevea brasiliensis), aro said to be doing exceedingly well, al though they have had no especial care, but have been planted indiscriminately in various places and under varying conditions of moisture, sun, etc. Mrs. Daniel Sully, who has been much in the public eye as the wife of the ex-cotton king, is said to be one of the most expert needle women in Am erica. Her embroidery is equal to the much-vaunted convent work, and her favorite gift for a bride, in her inti mate circle of friends, is a trousseau of lingerie, worked entirely by her own hands, frefm seams to monogram. A daily newspaper gives the follow ing estimate of the number of idle men in the various industries: Kail road employes, 120,000; New England mill operatives, 80,000; packing house employes, 75,000; iron and steel work ers, 140,000; coal miners, C 0,000; work ers, 140,000; coal miners, tiO.OOO; workers in other trades and industries (estimated), 180,000; total, 065,000. A chain of electric power station, stretching from Lima to a point in t ie Andes foothills, in Peru, South Ameri ca, is to be the work of a new firm of enigneers and architects. Much diffi culty will be experienced in transport ing the construction material and the heavy machinpry from the seaeoast to about 50 miles inland. Roads are an unknown quantity a short distance from Lima An Englishman visiting the World's fair recently wore in his buttonhole ad orchid that had been plucked nearly two months and was still fresh and preen. He called his floral ornament Hn "everlasting buttonhole," and stated that it was the latest fad in London. The flower is a new variety of the orchid which has the useful merit of remaining fresh for 60 days after be ing plucked . One seldom hears of what is prob ably the largest and oldest —and to Western eyes the oddest —university in the world, El-Azhar, "the splendid," at Cairo, Egypt. While the dates of the founding of the universities of Ox ford, Paris, and Bologna, for which great antiquity is claimed, are lost in the midst of the middle ages, El- A/.har can read its title clear from the year 075 A. I). Colonization projects are proving very popular in the agricultural dis tricts of Colorado. Negotiations are pending for the purchase of 5,000 acres of land, in a twelve-mile trip, along the Arkansas river, in Southern Colorado, for the establishment of a colony of ranchmen. A large party of people from Illinois is making arrangements 1o settle in the famous San Luis val ley, on a tract of several thousand acres. Colorado is looking well after the interests of those who desire fine fish ing. Last spring nearly 600,(100 east ern brook-trout fry alone were dis tributed by the fish and game commis sioner in the various streams of the state, and there are ntore to follow. The rainbow trout, for which the wa ters of the Rocky mountains, in Colo rado. are noted, will be distributed !a ttr in the season in equally large quantities. The corn crop, which is so import ant a matter to the Southern farmer, although not usually considered u cash crop, is making as good progress as cotton, and a large yield is indi cated. A good corn crop has a most .important bearing upon the sale of the cotton crop. If corn is abundant" farmers have to buy much less feed for their stock and food for their hands, hence cotton has to bear tt fmailer per c<=nt. of the of main-1 laining the farm. DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION HALL, ST I NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION AT WORK JOHN SHARP WILLIAMS. AS TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN, SOUNDED THE KEYNOTE OF THE CAMPAIGN FOR HIS PARTY—MEN TION OF CLEVELAND'S NAME IS LUSTILY CHEERED. Convention Held Four Sessions and Adopted Three Committee Reports —Mr. Bryan Received an Ovation When He Spoke—Congress man Champ Clark, of Missouri, Made Permanent Chair man—The Platform Is Adopted. . » BULLETIN. ST. LOUIS. June 9.—Judge Alton Brooks Parker nominated at 5:30 this (Saturday) morning. St. Louis, July 7. —The democratic national convention met yesterday, listened to an extended speech irom Representative John Sharp Williams, its temporary chairman, appointed the committees necessary to perfect a permanent organization and ad journed. In a session lasting two hours and fifty minutes one striking incident , overshadowed all other proceedings. That was the enthusiastic and pro longed cheering which greeted the name of Grover Cleveland. While tli< outburst which greeted the name of the former democratic president was noteworthy in itself, it was magnified by contrast with the greetings ac corded men who stood for all that has been opposed to .Mr. Cleveland within the party during the last eight years. James K. Jones, of Arkansas, chairman of the national committee, went onto the platform and took his seat unnoticed. Practically no greet ing was giver, him when he faced the convention with gavel in hand. There were other staiwart lieuten tenants ot the Nebraskan who entered the hall ttnacclaimed and lastly .Mr. liryan himself, whom for the first time during two national campaigns was greeted with silence. Eight minutes after the gavel fell the twice named candidate ot his party passed in the tnaiv entrance and sough - his seat tin heralded and unheeded. A few mo ments later he arose and pushed his way to a seat nearer the aisle, where, standing a moment to give greetings to friends, he was caught sight of and applauded. The great Coliseum where the con vention is held is admirably adapted to accommodate the crowds which pressed for admission as soon as the doors were opened. Before 11 o'clock the spectators' seats began to fill, al though the space on the floor alloted to delegates and their alternates re mained barren until noon, when the session was called to order. That the duty ot decorating the im mense hall was entrusted to skilled hands was apparent from the first glimpse of the interior. The general effect is a mammoth arched canopy of buff, ribbed and fringed with white, with walls formed of alternate strips of red, white and blue. The balconies were dressed in white bunting, gracefully caught tip every few yards. Medallions bearing the coats of arms of the states are placed about the balconies at regular intervals The committee on resolutions met immediately alter the adjournment, and, effecting an organization and transacting considerable preliminary work, adjourned to meet at 7 o'clock. The meeting was called to order by ex Senator Hill, of New York, and on his motion Senator Daniel, of Vir ginia, was elected chairman of the committee and given authority to ap point a secretary and a sub-committee of 11 to consider the various drafts of platforms and report. The committee on resolutions re convened at 7 o'clock and Senator Daniel announced the appointment of a sub-committee, as follows: Messrs. Daniel, Virginia; Hill, New York; Bryan, Nebraska; Williams, Missis sippi; Pattison, Pennsylvania; Dubois, Idaho; Hamlin, Massachusetts; Cable, Illinois; Poe, Maryland; Shively, In diana, and Davis, West Virginia. Senator Newlands made a plea for a fuller representation of the irrigation interests, and his name was added to the sub-committee list. The credentials committee met at the Southern hotel. James M. Head, of Tennessee . was nominated by Arrested on a Treason Charge. Messina, Sicily, July 7. —The au thorities here have arrested ('apt. Ercolesse. of the Italian army, and his wife on the charge of high treason in selling to agents of a foreign power plans for the mobilization of the Ital ian forces in Sicily. The arrest of Ercolesse has created a great sensa tion, as he is the first officer since the Ilalian union to be charged with high fr&as.on. It is jiunored that France is the foreign co! n "V implicated. At the moment of h iK arrest Ercolesse tried to shoot hitm a. id his wile at tempted to stab h» CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JULY 14, 1904. James M. Ridgway, of New York, for permanent chairmn. John J. Fitz gerald, oj Rhode Island, a Hearst sup porter, nominated J. R. Corrigan, of Minnesota. The question of Hearst or Parker men controlling the eom mitttee depended upon the selection of the chairman, for Head and the Tennessee delegation are avowed sup porters of Parker. On the vote the Parker men won a decisive victory, Mr. Head being elected by a vote of 32 to 12. The credentials committee decided to award six seats and six votes each 'o the delegation from the Philip pines and the Porto Rican delegation. Judge Alton Brooks Parker. The rules committee of the conven tion by a vote of 20 to 0 decided not to abrogate lh< two-thirds vote for can didates in the convention and re jected a proposition for a majority. St. Louis, July 8. —The democratic national convention yesterday adopt ed the report of the committees on rules, credentials and permanent or ganization. The session opened at 10 o'clock, an hour later took a recess until 2 p. m.and adjourned at 0:20 until lo o'clock to-day. During the day several speeches were made, chief of which was William Jennings Bryan's effort to overthrow the report of the credentials committee and seat contesting delegates from Illinois. The controversy was ended by the re jection of the minority report of the committee by a vote of 017 nays to 299 nays. Though Mr. Bryan's speech and his appearance on the floor of the con vention was cheered far beyond any previous demonstration, it made few votes. The alignment of delegates proved the correctness of previous estimates of the division between those who favor the radicals and those who are supporting the conserv ative element which is now in control. When the result ot the contest was announced the report of the com mittee on permanent organization was made. Representative Champ Clark, who was chosen permanent chairman, addressed the convention. He had prepared and furnished to the press a speech ol length. The hour was so late when he gained the platform, however, that he spoke about 300 words and left his audience to read ihe remainder. THE PLATFORM BUILDERS. The sub-committee of the commit tee on resolutions spent the entire clay in perfecting the details of the democratic platform, concluding at 5 o'clock with the adoption of a gold standard plank. The plank was vot ed in during the absence of Mr. Bryan and Congressman Williams and the ballot stood 7 to 3, the affirm ative voles being cast by Messrs. Daniel. Hill. Pattison, Hamlin, Cable, , Cranks Write to Judge Parker. Esopus, N. Y., July B.—Letters j from cranks of various kinds are be ginning to make their appearance in | Judge Parker's mail. One of them, I received a day or two ago. purports to I give- him warning of ' a "dastardly , plot" against his person and told him lio remain close al home. Another j writer, trom Virginia, signing himself i "A lunatic," but evidently a person of intelligence, is sending a series of . numbered postal cards, one a day, de | voted to dtnuneiatii n of the expo | nents of "salt and tano democracy." Poe ami Davis, and the negative I votes by Messrs. Dubois, Shlvely and > Newlands. The platform was presented to the ! full committee at 8 o'clock. Some ! of the planks: The Isthmian Canal. Our party having long advocated ! the construction ot an inter-oceanic , canal for the purpose of national do- ! fense and commerce between the j states and with foreign nations, we : favor the early completion of the Isth- ! mian canal. liut while making this declaration I and accepting the results as an ac- j complished fact, we cannot too fore- I ibly express our disapproval of the | methods by which, in disregard of the | usages and obligations of internatlon- ] al law and treaty obligations, the I canal route has been acquired, or too j solemnly record our hope that this ! precedent of defiant diplomacy may ; never be used against us to our j humiliation and injury. Monroe Doctrine. We favor the maintenance of the < Monroe doctrine in its full integrity, i We favor a liberal trade treaty with Canada. Imperialism. We favor the preservation insofar ; as we can of an open door for the ! world's commerce in the Orient with- ! out unnecessary entanglement in Ori- | ental and European affairs, and with- ! out arbitrary, unlimited, lrresponsi» j ble and absolute government any- | where within our jurisdiction. We oppose, as fervently as did George Washington himself an indefinite, ir- j responsible, discretionary and vague ! absolutism and a policy of colonial j exploitation, no matter where or by whom invoked or exercised; we be- ; lieve with Thomas Jefferson and John Adams that no government has a right to make one set of laws for those "at home" and another and a 112 different set of laws, absolute in their character, for those "in the colo nies." We insist that we ought to do for I the Filipinos what we have already : done for the Cubans. And it is our in- \ tent, as soon as it can be done wisely , and safely for the Filipinos them- I selves, and alter amicable arrange- i men ts with them concerning naval sta- , lions, coaling stations and trails re lations and upon suitable guarantees of protection to all national and in ternational interests to set the Fili pino people upon their feet, free and independent, to work out their own destiny. The endeavor of the secretary of war. by pledging the government's indorsement of "promoters" in the Philippine Islands to make the United States a partner in speculative ex ploitation ot the archipelago which j was only temporarily held up by the j opposition of democratic senators in the last session will, if successful, j lead to a permanent entanglement | from which it will be difficult to es i cape. Statehood for Territories. We favor statehood for Oklahoma i and the Indian Teritory, statehood for | Arizona, statehood for New .Mexico • and a territorial government for Porto 1 Rico. We favor the election of United | States senators by direct vote of the I people. St. Louis, July 0. —The committee 'on resolutions spent all of Thursday ; night on the platform and at 8:30 con sidered the last resolution of the draft I submitted by the sub-committee. But ! this did not mean that the platform j was finished and ready for the con | vent ion. During the long night in the com ! inittee room there were many dra i matic scenes, not the least striking |of which was the verbal encounter between Senator Hill and Mr. Bryan. At 4:40 in the morning the commit tee on resolutions voted the gold standard plank out of the platform jby a vote of 155 to 15. This was the 1 third victory for William J. Bryan j during the all-night session of the committee. He had made two suc cessful efforts early in the evening and secured modifications of the | tariff plank on two separate votes. The Carmack suggestion for a I financial plank was voted down and | the platform was adopted without a financial plank. Mr. Hill presented a substitute for ! the trust plank, which was unani i mously accepted. The compromise ! anti-trust plank offered by Mr. Hill and adopted provides that whenever a trust or combination effects a monop ! oly in the production or distribution of any articles of trade outside ! the state of its origin, it may jbe restricted by appropriate legisla- I tion from continuing to 6u business in such states. The trust matter disposed of, the race question was taken up and a ! plank deploring injection of this issue j into the campaign by the Chicago convention was adopted. The national convention spent the morning hours Friday in waiting for the report of the committee on reso lutions. A committee was appointed by Chairman Champ Clark to call on the resolutions committee and learn when the platform would be submit ted to the convention. Just before the noon hour the convention's emis saries announced that the resolutions commjttee would require until S p. m. to prepare its report, but that the action ot the committee would be unanimous. ('apt. Richmond Pearson Hohson | Beavers Is Rearrested. New York, July 8. —George W. I Beavers, former superintendent of the salaries and allowances bureau ot the j postofflce department, was rearrested ! jln Brooklyn yesterday under an in dictment found in Washington, on j October 5, 11(03. It charges Beavers I with having accepted bribes in eon- i I nection with the introduction of the ! ! Doremus cancelling machine into the postofiice department. Beavers was brought at once before Judge Thomas, who set the hearing of the case for next Wodr.esflnv, yarding Beavers unti' then. was then called upon and he was en thnsiasticaliy cheered. He spoke principally in relation to the disfran chisement plank of the republican platform and made an appeal to the north and the west to support the south in the position the democratic party of that section has assumed be tween whites and blacks. The con vention then took a recess until 8 o'clock. The crush of visitors around the doors and inside the convention hall at 8 o'clock, the time set for the opening of the convention, was great er than at any previous session. It was something rarely paralleled at any national convention. A series of energetic thumps on Ihe presiding officer's table were given by Chairman Clark at 8:03 o'clock in an endeavor to call the convention to order. The reading clerk ordered the floor officers to clear the aisles. As Mr. Clark stood at the desk Senator Daniel, of Virginia, chairman of the resolutions committee, made his way to his side with a copy of the plat form in his hand. Without delay it was announced that the report of the committee would be received. Becoming impatient at the delay Senator Daniel began reading in the midst of the uproar. Senator Daniel's exhaustion from his long session with the resolutions committee was apparent. To the vast audience which faced him he was but a silent figure with moving lips. When he had finished reading he said: "I am unanimously instructed by your committee on platform to move the previous question on its adoption and I now make that motion." It was adopted by a viva voce vote. Chairman Clark then put the motion to adopt the report and another viva voce vot« carried it. "The clerk will now call the roll of states for the nomination of a candi date for president," shouted the chair man. "Alabama," shrieked the clerk. "Alabama yields to the Empire State of New York," called Delegate Russell, of Alabama. Martin W. Littleton, of New York, took the stand amid applause to place Judge Parker in nomination. Mr. Littleton's voice is resonant and could be heard further than that of any speaker who had preceded him with the possible exception of Richmond P. Hobson. All that happened in the conven tion up to the time Mr. Littleton con cluded his address, multiplied many times, was almost as nothing com pared to the hurricane that broke out when he mentioned the name "Alton B. Parker." On the part of the Parker delegates it was a revelation in the passion cif politics. Like one man they sprang tip iu their chairs with everything that could be waved tossed high in the air. The roll call of states was con tinued. When Arkansas was reached that state yielded to Tennessee. Sen ator Carmack appeared to second the nomination of Parker. Senator Carmack concluded his speech at 10:15. The galleries seized the opportunity for a shout and dis turbance reigned for some minutes. "California," called the clerk. "Mr. Chairman," responded Dele ! gate Tarpey, "California recognizes as | her spokesman E. M. Delmas." Mr. ' Delmas then took the platform and spoke for William R. Hearst. Mr. Delmas closed with the name "William Randolph Hearst," whic' ! was the signal tor cheers which, wh ! " enthusiastic, were much less in \ '' e l time than those that followed t.°'- raention of Parker's name. -he When quiet was restored I O'Donnell, of Colorado, was intrc '• J ed. Mr. O'Donnell seconded the n<;> < l u c nation of Parker. 'jmi- After the applause which fol J / O'Donnell's conclusion C'onne 'owed was called. Walter S. Cum /cticut took the platform and second -mings nomination of Parker. et l 'he Irving Handy, of Delawr lowed Mr. Cummings and n< »re, fol- Judge George Gray. jminated j The chairman of the Flo> gation seconded the nom' 'da dele- , Parker. Beard, of Florida, mat ion | Hearst on behalf of four o< seconded i ida delegates. Moses V { the Fl«r- ; Georgia, seconded Parker *right, of j "Illinois," shouted the Clarence Darrow, of tha clerk and gan a speech seconding .t state, be tion of Hearst. the nomina- Indiana was called nf Kern responded to sec *xt and J. W. nation of Judge Parker oud the nomi- j Kansas produced as ! Orr, who in a« ~ wor. peaker in J. W • nomination of Parker. Is seconded the Thomas H. Ball, ol next recognized to seco, * Texas, was tion of Parker. id the nomina l.ouisiana seconded thi of Parker by a simple am. 1 nomination Maine gave way to Mi 'ouncement. Champ Clark, of that state, ssouri and platform to place in nominatU took the tor Francis M. Cockrell, of Ai "l Sena tor the presidency. 'issouri, At 2:10 a. m. Mayor Patrick A lins, of Boston, rose to nomina.Col- Olney. The mention of Olney's nann ,e heartily cheered. When Nebraska was called there were loud calls for Bryan. After many • calls Bryan mounted a chair and ret ceived an ovation. Bryan announced that Nebraska I vicliipil to Wisconsin. YIELDED 10 IMSCUIIMU. David S. Rose nominated Wall, of Wisconsin. Uncle Sam Wins a Lawsuit. Washington. July 8. —The district supreme court yesterday decided in l'avor of the government the case of Anna Bowes and others against tlio secretary of tlie interior. The effect ol the decision is to stop cattle com panies from the misuse of the sol dier's homestead right belonging to widows so as . > secure large bodies of land without compliance with the law by the entry women. Gen. T. B. Howard Dead. Washington, July 8. —CJen. Thomas B. Howard, of the Confederate army, dip cleansingprop kJHbOl b28.-' t.es. The contcnta of every box make* use* in the family anif < doenmoregoodthanany antiseptic preparation you can buy. Tne formula of a noted Boston physician, nd used with «{reat success as a Vagina! 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