BRYAN AGGEPIS
THE NOMINATION
.■FORMAL CEREMONY OF NOTIFI
CATION TAKES PLACE AT
LINCOLN, NEB.
ATTACKS REPUBLICAN PARTY.
Promises If Elected to Call a Special
Session of Congress to Pass
Laws Changing Method
of Electing Senators.
Lincoln, Nob.—Under the burn
ing rays of an almost tropical
sun and in the presence of a vast as
semblage which cheered him to the
■echo \V. J. Bryan on Wednesday re
ceived from Henry D. Clayton of Ala
bama, formal notification of his nom
ination for the presidency of the
United States.
Thrice honored by the Democratic
party as its standard bearer, Mr.
Bryan plainly exhibited the pleasure
it gave him once again to proclaim
tho principles for which he stands.
His nomination for a third time, he de
clared in his speech of acceptance,
could only be explained by a substan
tial and undisputed growth of the
principles and policies for which he,
with a multitude of others, had con
tended. "As these principles and poli
cies," lie said, "have given me what
ever political strength 1 possess, the
action of the convention not only re
news my faith in them, but strength
ens my attachment to them."
The ovation accorded Mr. Bryan as
he rode through the streets of Lin
coln on his way to the state house,
where the exercises were held, was
non-partisan. It was the homage of
the citizens of Lincoln to a dis
tinguished neighbor. Almost the en
tire Republican administration was
represented, Gov. George L. Sheldon
and many state officers lending their
presence both in the parade and on
the platform.
Hon. W. J. Bryan.'
Before coming to Lincoln from
Fairview, four miles distant, Mr.
Bryan received 1,500 visitors. To one
and all he extended a cordial greeting.
His arrival shortly after noon at the
Hotel Lincoln, where he and John W.
Kern, the vice presidential candidate,
were the guests of honor at a lunch
eon to the committee on notification,
was the signal for an outburst of
cheers and applause. He immediately
was surrounded by a great crowd and
was kept busy for some time shaking
hands.
Never before had Lincoln streets
and buildings presented such a gala
appearance. O street was a riot of
•color. Around the mutilated Taft ban
ner a crowd of curious visitors was
always clustered. With a national
notoriety, the banner w;is almost, the
first point visited. The route of the
parade carried Mr. Bryan directly un
der the banner, but no notice was
taken of the fact by liim or his
party.
The state house grounds were a
mass of humanity and Mr. Bryan's ap
pearance on the platform was greeted
with vociferous cheers a* 1 handclap
ping. The ceremony of notification
was conducted on the noith front of
the capitol. The balconies and win
dows wei* jammed to overflowing.
Not a single incident occurred to mar
the proceedings except the shining of
the sun on the speakers. The police
arrangements were excellent. Realiz
ing that the regular police force
was not sufficient to cope with the
great crowd, the adjutant general of
the state, at the request >f Mayor
Frank Brown, ordered out t'ie Second
Nebraska regiment and witl their as
sistance perfect order w. s main
tained.
Before the notification at d accept
ance speeches were delivered, Nor
man 13. Mack, chairman of the Demo-
Convicted of Fraud
Chicago, 111.—Mrs. Alice L Webb,
the divorced wife of Brodie L.
Duke, millionaire tobacco manu
facturer, was on Wednesday found
guilty of defrauding the Great
Northern hotel by passing a worthless
check.
Thaw Is Adjudged a Bankrupt.
Pittsburg, Pa. -- Harry Kendall
Thaw was on Wednesday adjudged a
bankrupt by Referee in Bankruptcy
W. R. Blair. No date has been fixed
tor the first creditors' meeting.
feratlc national committee, who ac*ed
as presiding officer, called upon John
W. Kern, the vice presidential nom
inee, to make a speech. Mr. Kern
responded in a few felicitious re
marks, in which he gave unstinted
praise for the non-partisan character
of the exercises.
Upon the conclusion of Kern's re
marks, which were greeted with great
applause. Chairman Clayton delivered
his speech of notification. It was sup
posed to occupy only seven minutes,
but the repeated applause which was
accorded it materially lengthened the
time of its delivery. The duty of
reading the letter of notification de
volved upon Humphrey O'Sullivan of
Lowell, Mass., secretary to the notifi
cation committee. Tho climax came
when Mr. Bryan arose to respond.
The crowd wildly cheered and It was
not until he raised his hand for quiet
that the demonstration ceased and he
was permitted to proceed.
Among other things Mr. Bryan
said:
"Recognizing that I am indebted for
my nomination to the rank and tile of
our party and that my election must
come, if it comes at all, from the un
purchased and unpurchasable suff
rages of tho American people I
promise, if entrusted with the respon
sibilities of this high oflice, to conse
crate whatever ability I have to the
one purpose of making this, in fact., a
government in which the people rule
—a government which will do justice
to all, and offer to every one the
highest possible stimulus to great
and persistent effort, by assuring to
each the enjoyment of his just share
of the proceeds of his toil, no matter
in what part of the vineyard he la
bors, or to what occupation, profes
sion or calling he devotes himself."
He declared the Republican party
was responsible for the ravages of
"predatory wealth" and had done
nothing to stop those ravages.
He declared it had ignored the de
mand of two-thirds of the states for
the election of senators by popular
vote.
He said the Republicans were
bound to corporate interests by ac
ceptance of campaign contributions,
which debauched elections.
He denounced the party for refusal
to tell the people where its funds
came from.
He promised if he were elected to
call immediately a special session of
congress to pass laws to choose sena
tors by direct vote and to remedy
other matters.
A burning sun beat down on Mr.
Bryan's head and he was compelled
to ask the indulgence of his audience
in putting ,on his hut. Chairman
Mack, however, quickly came to his
side and held an umbrella over Mr.
Bryan until the speech was com
pleted.
The delivery of Bryan's speech con
sumed exactly one hour.
Chairman Clayton brought further
cheering from the crowd when he read
a message from Chairman Mack, who
was compelled to leave before the
ceremonies were over in order to
catch a train for Chicago, saying that
at first he had entertained deep re
grets that the Western Passenger as
sociation had not accorded reduced
rates to Lincoln, but after seeing the
magnificent gathering he did not know
but what the railroads had accommo
dated him in not granting the reduc
tion.
The crowd then surged into the cap
itol building, where Messrs. Bryan and
Kern held a public reception. This
lasted for nearly an hour, and at its
conclusion the Democratic candidate
was driven to Fairview in an automo
bile, where the committee on notifica
tion were given a dinner on the lawn
by Mr. and Mrs. Bryan.
The morning was spent in jollifica
tion. Thousands of people arrived
early by regular and special trains to
participate in the ceremonies. All the
five railroads ran special trains
throughout the night and morning and
all the regular trains were run in
sections. One special train from Man
hattan, Kan., brought an unusually
large delegation, and Omaha, Fre
mont, Beatrice, Geneva, Nebraska
City and other towns in this state as
well as lowa were heavily repre
sented. Lincoln entertained the larg
est number of outside visitors in its
history.
Declared for State Prohibition.
Nashville, Tenn.—George N. Till
man of Davison county is tho
gubernatorial nominee of that part of
the Republican party in Tennessee
known as tho Evans faction. He was
nominated Wednesday at the close of
the second state Republican conven
tion held in Tennessee this week.
Great enthusiasm marked the adop
tion of a platform containing a plank
providing for state prohibition of thu
liquor traffic.
A Costly Blaze.
Parkersburg, W. Va.—Fire which
started Wednesday in the ma
chinery of the West Virginia Veneer
and Door Co. destroyed the factory
and the large plant of the Parkers
burg Ice Co., burned 12 residences
and damaged the Baltimore & Ohio
railroad bridge over the Ohio river.
Loss $175,000.
Nemmer Is Held for Murder.
Chicago, 111. —Hassin Nemmer was
held Wednesday by a coroner's
jury on the charge of murdering Tuffa
Shashem, a Syrian lad whose body
was recovered piecemeal a fortnight
ago.
Half a Million Fire Loss.
Chicago, 111. —More than 50 au
tomobiles and taxlcabs were destroyed
Wednesday in a fire which consumed
a building at 1710-1718 Indiana ave
nue, occupied by C. A. Coey & Co. as
a garage. The total loss Is $500,000.
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY AUGUST 20, 1908
Picked Up i n
Pennsylvania
OIL ClTY.— Eniile Kluck, aged 22
years, of this city was drowned in the
Allegheny river at Eagle Rock.
WASHINGTON.— S. A. Noble, 82
years old, of West Alexander, erected
two large hay stacks 011 his farm
without assistance in six hours.
ERIE. —William E. Nunn, stage man
ager at the Vaudeville theater, at
Pour-mile creek, was killed by an elec
tric shock as the result of touching a
defective current wire in a switch
board.
OIL ClTY.— William T. Cobb of Wil
low Grove, Me Re an county, aged 57
years, was killed near there when his
horses rati away. The rig was over
turned, falling 011 Cobb aud breaking
his neck.
GREENSBURG.— At a Slavish pic
nic at Trauger three persons were
shot. There was no light, but sev
eral intoxicated foreigners were firing
revolvers to celebrate the wind'up of
the picnic.
NEW CASTLE.— Amos Martin, aged
111 years, died here at the home of
his stepdaughter, Mrs. Daniel I.ooney,
where he had lived for many years.
Ho was a veteran of the Mexican and
Civil wars.
BRADFORD. —The body of an un
identified' Italian was found in a se
cluded spot out High street extension.
When an investigation was made it
was found that he had a bullet hole
in the left breast. ,
CONNELLSVILLE. William Duf
fey, aged 10 years, a deaf mute, son
of Michael Duffy of Loisenring No. 1,
was run down by a West Penn trolley
car near his home and died at the
Connellsville hospital.
POTTSVILLE. Two men were
killed and three probably fatally in
jured in an explosion at the Knicker
bocker colliery of the Philadelphia &
Reading Coal and Iron Co., one mile
east of Shenandoah.
BUTLER. —Engineer E. K. Riehey
of the Standard Steel Car Co. yard
crew, held to the throttle of a derailed
engine, which plunged down a 20-
foot embankment, turning completely
over, and' emerged unhurt.
GREENSBURG. Joe Rolless, a
Lithuanian, had a quarrel with Mike
Lesko of Harmer Park. Afterward a
haystack on Lesko's premises was
discovered on Are. Rolless was seen
running away and was arrested.
KITTANNING —Rev. Father L. C.
Carroll, rector of St. Mary's Roman
Catholic church, is trying to break up
the practice of young members of his
parish staying at public ps».ks late at
night unaccompanied b" parents.
GREENSBURP -Jacob Klipfel, a
wealthy farme*, was overcome by heat
and tempo' -rily crazed. He slashed
cabbages with a scythe and' broke
mirrors, windows and furniture. He
svas committed to the county jail.
PITTSBURG. —Martin Zlllman, aged
19, was killed and Samuel Schuler,
aged 18, was badly injured when both
were struck by a freight engine on
the Pittsburg, Virginia & Charleston
railroad at the head of South Eighth
street.
ENOLA. —While descending the cel
lar stairs at her home Mrs. Harvey
Meek caught the heel of her shoe on
a step and fell the full length, break
ing her left arm near the wrist so
badly that the bones protruded
through the flesh.
KITTANNING.— Joseph Clark of
Kittanning, who is camping at Winona
'ake, has been elected mayor of Boy
City, at the lake. Each year several
hundred boys fr<».n western Pennsylva
nia spend the summer at Winona lake
and organize a complete municipal
government.
H AR RISBU RG.—Prosecutions will
be started this week in several places
in Montgomery and Chester counties
by agents of the state department of
agriculture against firms which are
selling cattle feed's which contain sub
stances not intended togo into such
mixtures at all.
PITTSBURG. —As the result of an
atrocious crime in Swissvale, Carrie
Penrod, aged 10, may die, while her
playmate, Lorinne Longwell, aged 8,
Is seriously injured. The little girls
were playing near an old stable when
they were seized by a strange man,
who warned them not to make any
outcry, and dragged into the stable.
After threatening that he would cut
the little ones' throats with a knife he
exhibited if they did not remain, he
disappeared.
WESTCHESTER.— .Tosiah W. Leeds,
aged 75, who had a national reputa
tion for his work along reform lines,
died at his residence here. Twenty
five years ago, as a result of a cru
sade, he caused certain pieces of stat
uary in Philadelphia to be draped'.
HARRISBURG. —Isaac IJ. Lutz, the
oldest thirty-third degree Mason in the
state, is dead. He was 75 years of
age, and was for years pharmacist at
the State hospital. Dr. Lutz was a
charter member of Robert Burns
lodge.
GREENSBURG. —Edward Jersky, a
miner at Penn station, touched a live
wire while at work and was burned
about tiie hands, left arm and hip.
WASHINGTON. —The enormous clip
of wool in Greene county has con
tributed much toward easing financial
affairs in the Waynesburg region.
ALTOONA. —On the one hundred
and eleventh ballot Prof. Henry H.
Baish of this city was elected super
intendent of the Altoona public schools
by the board of education.
HARRISBURG.— SpeciaI Agent J.
O. Wilson of the state pharmacy
| board is bringing suits for sale of
j Impure drugs in Pittsburg after a
i crusade in eastern Pennsylvania.
ALTOONA. —The safe in the office
! in the Bellwood grist mill, near Bell
wood, was dynamited and checks and
cash to the amount of S4OO stolen. All
the furniture in the office was wrecked.
HARRISBURG. Auditor General
Young has enforced the penalty speci
fied by tile act of 1907 against about
jSO trust companies that failed to
make their reports by June 20, as re
quired.
BUTLER. —Struck by a Bessemer
& Lake Erie train at North Butler
Peter Spiker, aged 23, lay in sight of
his home until daylight at the side of
the track helpless and unable to sum
mon aid.
GREENSBURG. While opening
some buggy cushions at the command
of his wife Harry Hawley of Rade
baugh, a dealer in old buggies, came
across cash in bills and silver amount
ing to $971.
BUTLER. —Two big wells on the
Dodds farm, near Mcßrid'e, within
two days, the largest in the Butler
field since the Mcßride sensation of
1908, were the gift of Dame Fortune
to Harry N. Hoffman.
WASHINGTON.— WhiIe going to
his chicken house to catch thieves he
heard raiding the roosts John Hun
ter of Van Buren accidentally shot
himself with the revolver with which
he intended to attack the robbers.
LATROBE. —William. Thomas, as
sistant superintendent at Rigeview
park, was found' dead in the ice house
at the park by Superintendent Killian.
It is supposed that while lifting a cake
of ice Thomas was stricken with
apoplexy.
SCRANTON. —UnabIe to profitably
run its steamboats because of low
water in the Ohio river, the Pitts
burg and Cincinnati Packet Line, one
of the largest transportation lines
plying that river, has become insolv
ent and gone into the hands of a re
ceiver.
WASHINGTON .—•'Bob," a wise old
gray horse belonging to the Jones &
Laughlin Steel Co., which operates
mines in Coal Center, was almost
smothered to death in a pile of oats.
"Bob" with his teeth pulled out the
slide which held 300 bushels of grain
in the granary above.
MONESSEN. —Two men were seri
ously injured here in a baseball game
between the business men of Mones
sen and the business men of Charle
roi. In running for a fly ball Peck
Cornwall and Luther Bolig, both
Monessen players, came together with
such violence that Cornwall's jaw and
Bolig's collar bone were broken.
WILLIAMSTOWN.— Spreading rails
causer! the engine and baggage car of
a Philadelphia & Reading passenger
train togo over an embankment near
here. Charles Ausback of Tremont,
Pa., a fireman, was crushed beneath
the engine and Jacob Schraeder, the
engineer, also of Tremont, was fatally
scalded. The three coaches with CO
passengers did not leave the rails.
HARRISBURG. —Adjutant General
Stewart has received a circular an
nouncing that this state will receive
allotment of federal appropriation for
National guard purposes this month.
The total is $133,409.76, of which SIOO,-
000 is to be used for arms, equipment
and camp purposes to make the guard
uniform with the regular army, while
$33,367.41 remaining is to be ex
pended for rifle practice.
BUTLER. —What appears to be a
bottomless pit has been encountered
by the Bessemer & Lake Erie railway,
in building its line 011 what is knowij
as the ilartstown cut-off, 50 miles
nortli of here. For three years a
large force has been kept at work
filling the swamp. Fifteen thousand
carload's of dirt and rock have been
dumped into the sink-liole, and still
the tracks continue to sink.
KITTANNING.— The Ford City
plant of the Pittsburg Plate Glass Co.
lias broken all its records for ship
ments during the last three months.
Over 1,000,000 feet of glass was
shipped monthly.
OIL CITY. —The 7-year-old daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. (!. S. Burgwald of Ti
tusville is in a precarious condition as
the result of a singular accident. The
mother attempted to slap the child on
the head. The girl dodged and in do
ing so dislocated the last Vertebra of
her spine at the neck.
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