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PARKER AND DAVIS
Nominated for President and Yice-Presi-
dent By National Conveation.
JUDGE PARKER DECLARES FOR GOLD.
Sends a Message Noiifying the St. Louis Cone
vention of His Views on That Subject
Causes Tremendous Political Sensation
Convention Adopts a Sympathetic Reply By
Aa Overwhelming Vote.
St. {Special).—One of the
greatest
litical history
Louis,
sensations in American po-
late
Saturday afternoon by the reception
Alton Brooks Parker,
Democratic National Cone
ated for the Presidency
of
was created here
from Judge
whom the
vention nomn
lock Saturday morning,
llowing telegram:
“l regard the gold standard as firm-
ly and irrevocably established and
shall act accordingly if the action of
the convention today shall be ratified
by the people. As the platform
silent on the subject my views should
be made wh to the convention,
and if they are proved to be unsatis-
is
ben
Kin
for
be
me
nom-
to decline the nomination
once, that another may
inated before adjournment.”
When the telegram came hurried
conferences were held
The following Judge
Parker, was framed
“The platform
0
of leaders
the
'
message, to
ed by
vention 1s silent he quest:
the monetary standard, because it
not regarded by us a a possible issue
in this campaign, nly campaign
issues were mentioned
form. Therefore, there 1s nothi
the views
telegram just
preclude a man
from accepting a
platform.”
When the c«
Judge Park
from the plat
daman, \
was handed for
Sharp Willa
W. F. Sheehan, former
Governor of New York,
er's personal r
Louis. The
by Senator
Debate began
Bryan, who had
what was
pneumonia i
his sickbed
tion hall
delega
was
fully
thought th
he said, 1s
and he
sition,
it
The
Daniel,
ing
John SI
reply te
spite
was
+
on
is
th
and
expressed by you
received i
enterta
nomination
mivention met at
er's telegram was read
form by Gov. J. K. Var
of Mississipp!, to whom it
the
It was :
nu Ce
pun} €
1
COnrPLen
cpl £ i
0
¥
cg
i
ington State, and
of Kansas, and R
R Wil
nomination
About this time hin
telegram began to circ
created
CER8 was
give an
In considering
Vice-Presidency
Hill at first were inclined tow
selection of Judge Judson
but the factional fight in :
tween the friends of Harmon a
those of John R. McLean
sidered too great an obstacle
ator Daniel was asked to take
nomination, but was reluctant
so unless it could be
that no candidate would
available.
On the first ballot for the
dency, early Saturday morning,
Parker received 638 votes and }
200. Scattering votes were
Olney, McClellan, ( !
ams, of lin
fOr sec
epresentative
1t
€re
such a
taken unt
ooriun
pportuni
sensation
mater:al
Messrs Sheehan
M r heeha
was 1
Sere
:
demonstrated
be
Pattison,
rr .1
ckrell
Gray, Gorman, Wall, T
Coler and John Sharp Wil
and West Virginia quic
enough votes to give Parker the
needed two-thirds majority, and then
the nomination was made unanimous,
Hon, Henry G. Davis, of West
Virginia, was nominated lor Vice-
President by acclamation.
Following the passage of John
Sharp Williams" resolution the vote
for Vice-Presidential candidate was
begun. The first ballot resulted in
Davis receiving 652, being 15 less than
the necessary two-thirds, Turner,
Williams, of Illinois, and others be-
ing voted for,
hen the States began changing
their votes, and in a burst of en-
thusiasm the nomination was made
unanimous,
Chairman Clark at 1.15 o'clock Syn-
day morning declared the convention
adjourned without date.
First Day.
St. Louis, Mo, (Special). —Exactly
at noon Wednesday Chairman J. K.
Jones of the national committee called
wne,
llams
+1
kiy changed
St. Loius, (Special), — After cut-
ting the throat of Mrs. Marcella Kerr,
with whom he had been living for a
year, Edgar 1. Evans, 23 years old,
slashed his wrist with the same razor,
and then cut his own throat. The
tragedy was enacted in tront of the
house where they were stopping.
Jealousy is ascribed by Evans as the
cause for his act, The woman died
almost immediately, Evans is at the
City Hospital. His condition is
serious,
ALTON
PARKER.
rman
Penns
{ 1:4
the chat
se}
the com
to climb
mmitiee
ver, and the
into cheers
attired
waist
was
3
and white
Yient
ami
veral
a i £4 «
i8 ACOFCa8
gestures Sq CrieR
ler. 14 interrupted
his
oud
Williams began,
ce at
of the hail
tihhams
increased
jistened
im volume
attentively
Mr. Williams’
under great
those
part of
delivered
great
Was
1
sities for the speaker and
in his re
be most directly interested
marks, times the
stopped and asked that the
cease in order that he might
himself better understood.
Passing from the discussios of
Root's speech the speaker took
the republican platform
Mr. Williams drew a picture of th
country’s condition at the time
President Cleveland's first inaugura-
tion, declaring that much of the ds.
tress that came in the early rineties
were due to republican misrule that
had gone befor Under Harrison,
he said, for three years all hope had
well nigh vanished from the business
world, He scored the attitude of the
republican party on the financial ques.
tion, declaring that it had been full
of inconsistencies and absurdities. He
mentioned the name of Mr. Bryan in
ciscussing the price of wheat durine
the first Bryan-McKinley campaign.
The utterance of the name called forth
a little applause and some cheers, A
second later he mentioned the name
again and the applause was not re-
peated.
Several
talking
a1
sr
se
pectat
hed
of applause
As the roll was
iil begar fo
ail was
ot answered
vad nos
mmenced
nmerou
SIgNS Pro
P sted all
After announcing
places for the various commit meet
Ings, a motion was made by
Cockran that the convention adjourn
il 10 o'clock tomorrow morning
he motion was adopted and the con-
ention adjourned at 2.50 o'clock.
Second Day.
St. Louis, (Special).~The Demo-
cratic National Convention held two
sessions in St. Lous Thursday
Late at night the full text of the
platform, as agreed upon by the sub
committee of the i By po committee,
was made public. Its adoption by the
full committee without change is ex-
pected. The financial plank declares
that the greatly increased production
of gold has “contributed to the main-
tenance of a money standard of value,
no longer open to question, removing
that issue from the field of political
contention,” The plank is exceed
ingly brief.
She early session of the convention,
which began shortly after 10 o'clock,
was brief. Its only important in-
cident was the adoption of the repost
of the committee on rules and order
of business, which accorded the deie-
gates from Porto Rico six scats and
votes in the convention but denied
seats and votes to the delegates from
Philippines und that
the Supreme Court
Rico to be
the United Su
not a part
The fail the credentials
mittee to
at 11.04 ©
When th
a stormy, exciting S1ON began
Mr. bBrya
was started
The Parker men
burst had been prearrang
Hearst men and Tammany,
started a counter-demons
main den
for Mr. Bryan,
above ever
After
the
comimitiee
the
gro
rte
i gniered 1ne an ov
lasted |
QeCiart
and
mnstration was intended
and his
vihing
the
NCES
platform te
report in favor
agic
rifest
unted the
seating the Ha on and Hearst
res
16
ursday
de speech ’
1g the committee by the sheer
force of his magnetic personality and
Senator Daniel, the chair
ex-Senator David B. Hill, and
sn FP. Poe, of Maryland,
{i sworde with him, and Mr
slainly declared that he questioned
the propriety of a man who had t
led fefeat attempting
force leadership on it again
But in the excitement of the
On
wwatory .
i
i
Daniel
twice
the pi £0 te
his
long
if
Sr
and won «
wn edge,
in power
Bryan proved
smmand
It
as framed
would
that
the
began
by
the platform
subcommittee
material points, the gold-standard
plank being stricken out and no refer-
ence being made to the money ques.
tion in the revised draft, The vote
on striking out the gold plank was
35 to 15.
of accepting a bribe while a member
of the House of Delegates of St
Louis, was sentenced to two years in
the penitentiary.
Three boxes containing jewels
valued at $50,000, belonging to the
wife of Bishop Potter, were stolen at
Cooperstown, N.Y.
SR a
The dedication of the Virginia
Building at the World's Fair has
again been postponed.
FINANCIAL.
The city of Portland, Me, has bor.
rowed $4,100,000 for three months,
paying 2.7 per cent. interest for it.
American Car & Foundry directors
were re-elected. The net earnings for
the year were $4,080,000, compared
with $7.402,000 the previous year and
£4,686,000 in 1902.
If it had not been for the efforts of
E. B. Smith, Lehigh Valley directors
oli not have declared any divid-
eu 4
4
Slaughter of the Achisese,
Amsterdam, (Special). —A dispatch
from Batavia, capital of tht Dutch
East Indies, says that the commander
of the expedition to North Achin,
Northern Sumartra, attacked Likat, on
June 20. The Achinese losses were
432 killed, including 281 women and
88 children, and 54 wounded. Seven-
teen prisoners were taken. The Duteh
casualties Included the commander, a
lieutenant, two sergeants and
soldiers wounded,
§
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER
Frank E. Randall, president of the
Miami Valley Gas and Fuel Com.
pany: was adjudged in contempt by
ustice Blanchard.
Mrs. Nancy May, who was convicted
of murder, was pardoned just as she
was about to enter the Kentucky state
prison,
Two negro boys were killed by
lightning at Raleigh, N. C, and a man
near Camden, S. C.
Margaret O'Connor was found
strangled to death in a furnished room
in New York
17 KILLED; 50 INJURED
A Passcoger Train Crashes Ino An
Excursion.
| Accident on the
of the Erie Railroad at Midvale, N. J.-
Locomotive of the Passenger Crashed
Into the Rear Coech of Excur len and
Plowed Its Way Entirely Through.
York, (Speci Sey
id
Were kill
ken on
Kos ©» ory
00 passengers
ana
WESTERN FLOODS RECEDING.
War Department Seads Tents and Food for
Suffers.
Harlem
from the
at At
all was slow and con
oA \e
bad Vid
st of
flooded Railroad and
men say the damage locally
1 insignificant, when compared with
last year's losses
The relief committee of
City, Kan., which are caring
meless in the suburbs
decided to accept ‘the au
ranted by the War Department
jeut. RS. Loughborough, of Fort
cavenworth, Kan, who was sent by
the War Department to investigate
¥
will resuit
of th
h the
{
i
verflow stream.
wkyards the
fitions were still
were
3
{he
Hens
:
business
Kansas
for the
| 6.000 ho of th
ity, has
|
|
rations be given the city and addi-
| tional food supplies be sent each day as
{ needed. A refuge camp has been
ferers are being well taken care of
Washington
from General Bell,
gated the conditions at
| Kan, growing
ing Secretary of War Oliver tele
graphed General Bell to issue 1,000
| tents and five days’ rations for the
fiood sufferers,
Cholers in Manchuria.
Washington, D. C. (Special).—A
cable report from Minister Allen at
Seoul points to the existence of great
danger to both belligerent armies in
Manchuria. He says that he has
learned from a missionary surgeon
that cholera has crossed Manchuria
and appeared at Antung.
A —
who investi-
Kansas City
si
Owingsville, Ky,, (Special). Nim.
rod Byrd, 30 years old, came from
Lexington to his home, near Stoops
intoxicated, and set fire to his bed
and attempted to burn the house
Failing in this, he tried to murder
his parents, wife and child He was
finally disarmed and locked in a
room. Byrd then broke open the
door, seized a butcher knife and was
rushing at his father, Almaza Byrd,
70 years old, when the father shot him
dead. The father then gave himself
a
L.VE WASKINGTON AFFAIRS,
W ekly Crop Report.
The Weather Bureau's weekly sum-
mary of crop conditions is as follows:
“in Lake region
valleys the week just ended
the and central
seasonably cool
tempera
States
districts
Ke
Ww hid
Mr. Moody Will Decide.
pENCT AS Me dy
the benefhcial pr
f Apnl 23, 1004
dechned to i
ile Secretary of
capacity as Attorney-General.
Observatory in Samos.
being mac
f the
cCaiita
Ons are ec by
tor
John C. Hamme
and
servations of a
stars adopted fc
tical almanacs
Great Britain,
This list was
ference in 1806 for
termination of time
} 1% degrees
168 degrees west, and ig ©
an ideal location for an
orv hy astronomers f this ¢© untry
and Europe. A magnetic chservatory
is also to be a part of the proposed
Government establishment on the Tu
tuila station.
To Ald at White House.
First Lieutenant “Dan” T. Moore,
of the Eighteenth Battery, Field Ar.
ISON, will used
Tutuiia
and lon
wad
ade ait}
tae south
{ sh er
who has been granted leave of
absence from August 16 until October
16, has been ordered on the expiration
of his Jeave to report to Col Charles
S. Bromwell, Superintendent of Pub
lic Buildings and Grounds, for duty
at the White House as one of the
military aids of President Roosevelt,
Lieutenant Moore # a native ©
Alabama, but was appointed to the
army from New’ York. During the
Spanish War he served as second
lieutenant of the Third Connecticut
Volunteer Infantry, and in April, 1
he was appointed second lieutenant ©
the Fifteenth Regular Infantry. In
April, 1001, he was transferred to
the Artillery Corps and became a first
lieutenant in that arm in May, 1901.
¥
3 Girls Burned to Death. }
Raleigh, N. C, (Special).~~Threa
girls, with ages ranging from 4 to 12
years, were burned to death at Cars
leigh Cotton Mills, near this city
They were the daughters of John T
Cole, a boss spinner. The father,
mother and two children escaped, one
of the latter, a boy, being terribly
burned. The father made frantic bu
ineffectual attempts to rescue his chi’
dren. The place is isolated and ha
no fire protection,