Plymouth Tribune, Volume 3, Number 40, Plymouth, Marshall County, 7 July 1904 — Page 1

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Four of Them Are Not Yet Identified and There Are Some Missing. EEVISED LIST OF TEE KILLED Come Miscreant Timed the Switch, Says President Ramsey. Fire Score More of Those on the Fated Norge Brought to Port Alive Captain Telia the 6tory of the Wreck. CL St. Louis, July 5. A special to the Post-Dispatch from Litcheld, 111., says: Nineteen are dead and a number Is missing as a result of the wreck on the Wabash railroad here Sunday night, when train No. 11, from Chicago, left the track at a misplaced witch and crashed into a line of freight cars standing on a sidetrack. SeTen hundred persons were on the illfated train at the time it dashed Into the sidetrack. Two more bodies hare been taken from beneath the wreckage. The remains of Hon. I. R. Mills, internal revenue collector of the eentral Illinois district, have been sent to his home in Decatur. Revised List of the Dead. The list of dead now contains the following names: Mrs. Florence Smith, Mrs. Perkins, Charles Galaise and Harry M. Dietrich, all or Chicago; Miss C. F. Luther, Milwaukee; Isaac It Mills, Decatur; Ubald St. Pierre, Montreal, Can.; Jacob Barder, Park River, N. D.; L A. Eichstadt, Chicago; James Sanford, engineer, De catur; Rev. U.M. Mills, Bridgeton, N.Y.; Charles Ward, Chicago; H. L. Graves, train dispatcher, and W. F. Smith, fireman, Decatur; Richie Joack, boy about 8 years, Chicago; Wm. Camdalis, Chicago; three unidentified men. List of the Wont Injured. Those injured severely enough to put them in bed are: James Fixzell, of Taylorville, 111., leg broken in two places, arm broken, hip dislocated and an umbrella driven into hip; William J. Shrader, Chicago, hip and back; Henry M. Gassaway, St. Louis j Jeft arm broken, internally; Train Collector Livingston, thought to be injured Internally; Wilcot Kunocht Chicago, legs crushed, and .hips isjured; James Cr&shaw, conductor, Chicago, injured about head and back; William Balis; Chlccgt, badly crushed; William Arch lbald, Honeoye Falls, N. Y., broken hip; George Archibald, Honeoye Falls, N. Y., broken leg; Hulda Noack, Chicago, badly burned; Miss Fannie Tip ton, Chicago, internal; W. B. Thorp, Chicago, leg broken; Henry Rink, Cin cinnati, fatally; Mr. and Mrs. Aloise Gehrig, Chicago, both injured about the head; G. A. Ellis, Mansfield, Wis wrist broken and badly cut about the face and shoulders; Mrs. Gertrude Kitt, Chicago, burned and bruised, and her daughter Mary, 12 years eld. and son Joseph, 10 years old, burned about the face; Mrs. Eliza, Chicago, internally; Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Tenney, Ada, Minn., sprained leg; Jas. B. Rob erts, Catlin, internal; Mrs. Caniyou, Milwaukee, Internal; S. A. Asqulrth, Waterloo, la., internal; Mrs. Anna Kenyon, Kingston, N. Y., right leg badly maihed and face injured; Mrs. 8. L. Smith, Chicago, bruised and in ternal injuries; four others injured. unknown. OME MISCREANT PID TOE DEED President Ramsey Says the Disaster Was a Premeditated Crime. St. Louis, July 5. "Some one turned that switch, at Litchfield said President J. Ramsey, Jr, of the Wabash, speaking of the derailment of the Wa bash train at Litchfield, 111. "Whether It was one who had a epite against the railroad or one who was merely crazy, I do not know. "We are awaiting the rrsult of the -coroner's action. We will offer a re ward, of course. Yet It seems like hunting a needle in a hay stack. The one who was responsible for the disaster had plenty of time to get away and hide his tracks. SURVIVORS OF THE ILL-FATED SHIP On Hundred and Two More Ilavc Been ' Saved Including the Captain. Stornoway, Scotland, July 5. TL ty-two surviTors of the Danish steamer Norge were landed here yesterday ty the British steamer Cerrona. Sev enty survivors were also taken off the German steamer Energie. They were all in a pitiful condition. Many were taken to the hospital and most of them had to be carried ashore. , Among those on board the Energie was Captain Gundel, of the Norge He said: "All went well until about 7:43 o'clock last Tuesday. When about eighteen miles south of Rockall I felt the steamer strike heavily for ward on a sunken rock. There was a gentle breeze blowing; from the south with a cloudy sky. I was on the bridge with Chief OGcer Carpenter. Soundings were taken, and it was re ported there were five feet of water In the forward hold. "Orders were given to commence pumping, and also to the passengers to put on life belts und be ready to get into the boats, which were ordered to be put out The crew worked nobly nnder the leadarship of the chief ol cer. Ceven boats sot away safely, tht

life rafts were cut adrift, and the steamer went down by the bow. The

chief officer told me she was sinking and I told him to jump overboard, which he did. I did not see him again. "I went down with the steamer. My right leg got jammed between two stanchions and was very much injured. When I rose to the surface I noticed a number of bodies floating. I swam for about twenty minutes and came across Second Engineer rrunn, who is a good swimmer. . We kept company for about an hour and a half, when we noticed a boat some distance off and we both made for it. Both of us were taken on board quite exhausted. We found that it was lifeboat No. 1. "It was crowded and under the charge of Able Seaman Peter Olsen. After recovering a little I took charge of the boat and the provisions, which consisted only of a bor with bread and two casks of water. The boat was steered for St Kilda, 150 miles distant" The captain said that at noon, Sunday, St Kilda was sighted, but the Energie picked them up before they reached the island. A pathetic little sequel to this tale of rescue is contained ia the statement that on Saturday morning one of the children in the life boat died, and "with the consent of the parents who were in the boat the body was buried at sea." The total number of souls on board the Norge was 774; of these 128 are known to be alive, making the probable death roll 043. Vessels are searching the sea for any other survivors. JEALOUSY THE CAUSE Younsr Zimmerman Beaten to Death Because He Was with a Woman, 'WIFE OF ONE OF HIS SLAYEE3 Modern Kip Van Winkle Ileturns to His Home Socialist State Ticket Notes. Muncie, Ind., July 5. John Ed' ward Zimmerman, L- years old, a glassworker who was murdered in the southern part of the city, met his fate white in company with Mrs. Samuel Sharp, a pretty young married woman of 24. On the story of Mrs. Sharp, who was the sole witness to the crime, her husband, with James Ely and Hele Ely, brothers, were arrested, charged with murder in the first de gree. Sharp works at night, and. ac cording to his wife, she, accompanied by Zimmerman, was on her way with her husband's midnight luncheon when she met him .coming home after it Case of a Jealous Uasbaad. Sharp was accompanied by the Ely brothers. When Sharp and his friends saw Zimmerman in company with Mrs. Sharp, according to the tatter's story, Sharp struck Zimmerman, and, after getting him upon the ground, beat and kicked his life out. She avers that the Ely brothers also jumped up and down on Zimmerman's prostrate form, and that the young man breathed his last before the men desisted. "Then the Ely boys wanted to turn on me," the wife said, "but Sam, my husband, wouldn't let them." No Cause for HI Jealousy. Mrs. Sharp called the police and assisted in the capture of her husband and the Elys. The three men submit ted to arrest "without resistance. They refused to discuss the crime, but the Elys deny being Implicated in it Mrs. Sharp is a pretty woman. She says that Sharp has always been insanely Jealous of her without cause. Mrs. Sharp Also In Jail. Mrs. Sharp was arrested as a wit ness, and in default of $1,000 bond, was committed to jail. Her two chll dren were transferred to care of relatives. A post-morten disclosed that Zimmerman received a blow under the chin which severed an artery, and that he was also struck or kicked on the back of the head, causing con cussion of the brain. HOME AFTER TWENTY TEARS Rip .Van Winkl tu Beat Life -Lear es Borne but Keeps Bis Word About Coming Back. Kokomo, Ind., July 5. Wilkin Younklns, now an old man, returned to the Russiaville neighborhood after an absence of twenty years to a day, having left July, 1884, with the state ment that he would return in twenty years. His son, Timothy Younklns, now a merchant, was 6 years old when the father left, and was the first person the wanderer recognized upon bis return. It was from his son's lips that the father received his first information of the death of his wife, which occurred a year ago. During the years of his absence Younklns never wrote a line home, and he was tb right to be dead. He gives no explanation of why be pbsented himself, but says be feels like Rip Van Winkle. Nominated by tbe Socialists. Indianapolis, Ind., July 5. The Socialist state convention has nominated tue following ticket: uovernor. Mat thew H. Iloltenberger, Evansville; lieutenant governor, Harry H. Hart, Indianapolis; secretary of state, Elliott Anderson, South Bend; auditor. Win field S. Silver, Bluffton; treasurer, War ren Evans, Elkhart; attorney general. Peter Labelle, Anderson; superintend ent of public instruction, J.W.Neaburn, Richmond. The executive board was authorized to make nominations for the supreme and appellate court

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SEEK OtIETO LEAD Rallying Point Is Wanted for the Opposition Delegates at St. Louis. PATTIS0N AND MILES PROPOSED Pennsylvania, HoweverWill Not Back a Favorite Son. Decides to Cast Her Vote for the New York Man -Fight on Platform and Delegates Populists at Springfield. St Louis, July 5 rarker on the sec ond ballot, perhaps on the first. That Is the claim of the men who are in charge of the political affairs of the New York candidate. The Farker opponents have tried to perfect a programme which would prolong the bal loting and afford an opportunity to name another candidate, but apparentCOLISEUM ITT 6T. LOUIS. rWhere the Democratic national convention will be heM ly they have not succeeded. Many combinations have been suggested, but so far they seem to have proven incapable of being assembled into a shape sufficiently substantial to show the Independent and unlnstructed delegates how another candidate can be named. Two New Candidates Suggested. The opposition to Judge Parker, in its effort to tighten the lines and make sure of holding the delegations now counted as opposed to him have brought out two new candidates in the persons of ex-Governor P.ttison, of Pennsylvania, and General Miles. Tho wisdom of casting the votes known to be for Gorman for other candidates has been canvassed, and this course practically decided upon. It is not yet absolutely determined just what aspirant will be thus complimented,' but the choice lies between Pattison and Cockrell. Situation-la Not so Lively. The fact that another day has passed without bringing to the fore any figure around which the antiParker element seems able to rally has taken a great deal of life out of the situation. While the contest over the platform and the second place on the'tlcket afford a great deal of interest when fought cut in the convetnlon itself, the majority of delegates is almost wholly interested in the head of the ticket The result Is that an air of apathy pervades the lobbiee and other places where the rank and file assemble. PROBLEM AS TO TBE PLATFOEM Bryan Comes In Here and on tbe Report of tbe Credentials Coiamlltee. A real contest on the platform is assured. No one yet knows what the platform will be, but it is known that the majority draft will prove unsatisfactory to Bryan and his followers, and there are enough of them to make an interesting fight on the floor of the convention. Tbe developments be fore the national committee also indicate that Bryan will be in evidence when the committee on credentials report Bryan was engaged during the day with callers, many of them representing aspirants for the presidential nomination. He discussed the situation with all of them, but committed himself to none. Among his visitors were some members of the North Carolina delegation, who insisted that Bryan should state in definite terms whether it was his purpose -to bolt the ticket in case it should nov be to his liking. He only replied that he would answer that question when the ticket was named. " The selection by the national committee of John Sharp Williams for temporary chairman seems to give general satisfaction. No determination has been reached as to who will be the permanent chairman. Around the Jefferson hotel, where the Democratic national committee was in all day session considering the manner in which contests were to be heard, there was little diminution In the crowd. The lobbies were filled with persons who awaited with great Interest the result of the deliberations. Subcommittees were named to bear tbe contests and the waiting crowds gained no substantial Information to reward their patience. PENNSYLVANIA MAKES A CHOICE Cer Delegation for Parker Indiana and Other Delegations. What Is considered the beginning of a stxmpede to Parker took place in the action of the Pennsylvania delegation in adopt'ng by a vote of 57 tö 5 a resolution instructing the chairman of the delegation to cast Pennsylvania's sixty -eight votes in the convention for Judge Alton B. Parker. This vote was the result of the first

ballot in the caucus of the delegation. The Indiaua delegation, vi hich is initructed for Parker and is working to have National Committeeman Thomas Taggart made chairman of the national committee.met and organized. J. E. Lamb was elected chairman and the following committee recommendations made: National committeeman, Thomas Taggart; resolutions, B. F. Shively; credentials, G. V.: Menzies; permanent organization, S. M. Ralston; rules and order of business, M. T. Kruger. John W. Kern was selected to second the nomination 'of Judge Parker for Indiana. J The Wisconsin delegation; has made the following committee assignments: National committee, T. E. Byan; resolutions, T. J. Fleming; credentials, E. F. McCausland; rules, W. O. Fordyce; premanent organization, T.tA. Hanr.a; chairman, Neal Frown. Dr. Wendell A. Anderson, manager for Edward C. Wall, Wisconsin's candidate for president declared that the ration of the delegation in voting that two-thirds should control the vote oft the whole assures the solid vote of Wisconsin for Wall until a nomination is made. Headquarters have been established at the St Nicholas hotel in the Interests of Judge George Gray, of Delaware. J. M. Head, national committeeman from Tennessee, will be asked by the Tennesseeans to place Senator Carmack in nomination for the vice presidency. ' An informal meeting of the Missouri delegates has been held and it was decided that Senator Cockrell should be placed in nomination before the convention, the nominating speech to be made by Hon. Champ Clark. The Iowa delegation organized by electing E. M. Carr chairman and A. R. McCook secretary. General J. B. Weaver was appointed a member of the committee on resolutions, and J. II. Parson a member of the committee on credentials. The delegation is Instructed for Hearst, but favors Mo Clellan as second choice.

JOIIN P. UOrKINS TO WIN No Hope Apparent for tbe Darrison Illinois Faction. After an almost continuous session of nine hours the subcommittee of the national committee to which was submitted the evidence in the fourteen contests in. the state, of Illinois, adjourned at 12:30 o'clock, to meet again this morning. The hearing of evidence lasted until midnight, and tho committee held a short executive session, after all the testimony was In. When they left the committee room it was announced that no vote had been taken on any of the contests, and that-the executive session consisted of nothing more than an informal discussion of the matter. Adair Wilson, of Colon. do, a member of thj commit tee, declared that they wer all practically of one mind as to the virtue of the cases submitted,' and it is generally believed that the question will be a victory for John P. Hopkins and his faction. William J. Bryan made a strong fight for the anti-Uopkins faction. POPULISTS OPEN TUEIK MFET Twenty-Three States Represented by Lest Than 200 Delegates. Springfield, 111., July 5. The K)0 or C00 delegates that were expected to attend the Populist national conven tion in this city did not put in appearance, and when the convention was called to order there were fewer than 200 delegates in the -hall. The citizens of Springfield took no Interest in the convention, and there were not more thai- seventy-five persons present besides the delegates. Only twentythree state were represented in the convention. The convention was called to order at 1:43 p. m., by Vice Chairman J. H. Edmiston, of Nebraska, and tie call for the convention was read by Jo A. Parker, of Kentucky, national chairman. Ex-Representative L. H. Weiler, of Iowa, was made temporary chairman and Charles Q. Defrance, of Nebraska, temporary secretary. After the temporary organization had been perfected the convention listened to addresses by ex-Senator William V. Allen, of Nebraska, and Rev. A. E. Nelson f SL.LguiSiL It was 3 o'clock before the feechmaklng was over, and after mort ielay in the appointment of the Tarsus committees, the convention took .t recess. Three names only are mentioned now in connection m Ith the nomination for president William V. Allen, of Nebraska; Samuel W. Williams, of Indiana, and Thomas E. Watson, of Georgia. Ex-Senator Allen refuses to enter into a scramble for the nomination, and practically said that he would not accept the Iionor if there was going to be any contest over it He wants the' nomination to come to him unanimously. Watson is in a similar state of mind, while Williams is leaving nothing undone to capture the nomination. The committee on platform and resolutions includes the following: Illinois, James Ferris; Indiana, Samuel W.. Williams; Iowa, J. P. Norman; Michigan, Mrs. Marian Todd; Wisconsin, Robert Schilling. Tale Man Beats the Record. Somervillc, Mass., July 5.-1 At the Fourth of July athletic games here Wesley W. Coe, of this city, a Yale student, put the sixtecn-poand shot 48 feet 6 inches, according to the official announcement This is many inches more than the World's record. British Delegation to iht Fair. London, July 5. Eighty members of the house of commons have announced ihelr intention of joining the parJiamentary party which will -visit the St. Louis exposition in the autumn. It is expected that many others will also go. ,

DEICH THEIR NATIONAL CQNVEHTiON

Chairman Jones Calls the Assemblage to Order on the Stroke of Twelve. GREAT HALL IS FULL OF PEOPLE John Sharp Williams Is Declared the Temporary Presiding Omcer COMBINE AGAINST PARKER IS NOT Move So Far a Failure Bryan Apparently Loses His Grip What the Temporary Chair man Said. St Louis, July C. Tne national Democratic convention opened at noon today. For hours before the chairman of the national committee took the stand to call the convention to order the great hall , had been rapidly filling with those privileged to seats either as delegates or spectators. No convention in years will be more largely attended than that which opened today. Seats were in great demand right up to the hour of opening, and were unprocurable. The supply had JTOHK 8HASP WILLIAMS. been exhausted, and almost any premium could have been exacted by such persons as always find some of the much-sought cards for purposes of speculation. Several of the state delegations appointed committees to visit the national committee in order to get increased supplies of admissions. Most of the applications availed nothing. llall a Blaxe of Color. The auditorium was a blaze of color. From all points in the roof streamers of red, white and blue fell, to be raught up and looped to the pillars that sustain the, roof. Festooned in front of the balconies were the same colors, while in all places that room could be found were palms and other plants, that waved in the breeze and made people think it was cool, whether or no. From the stand a sea of faces arose in front to the right and to the left, while the flutter or fans .and delegation banners, the movement of people on the floor, including ladies in radiant costumes, made a scene to be remembered for a life time. Leaders Are Cheered as They Arrive. As the leaders came in the cheers began and drowned the strains of the band which was filling up the time with patriotic and popular airs. Hill, Sheehan, Bryan, Bourke Cockran, Hoke Smith, Guffey, Eliot Danforth, Davis of West Virginia, John Sharp Williams, Governor Vardaman (of Mississippi), General Weaver, Campau, John P. Hopkins, Tom Taggart, John W. Kern, Governor Dockery and a host of others were applauded as they made their appearance. In fact there was a succession of cheers from different points in the hall that was almost continuous until the time arrived for the gavel to fall. CONTENTION CALLED TO ORDER i ' Temporary Chairman Williams Roasts Political Antagonists. At noon a hush fell upon the 10,000 persons gathered in the building as ex-Senator Jones, of Arkansas, chairman of the national committee, advanced to the desk in front of the platform! Then a wave of applause swept up from the throng and was repeated again and aagin. Bowing to the compliment Jones brought his gavel down upon the desk and quiet was obtained. The reading of the call for the convention, ihe roll of delegates, and other matters preliminary was soon accomplished, and then Jones announced that the national committee had decided to recommend John Sharp Williams, of Mississippi, for temporary chairman, and asked if the convention would confirm the choice. It did; emphatically. :Lcud cheers greeted Williams as he was .presented to the convention, and then he proceeded with his opening speech, which was a general arraignment of the Republican party and its leaders, largely on the tariff and island policies. The epeech in full makes at

least eight columns. Williams began ! tby saying: "This is an appropriate place and time for a Democratic convention. The place is St. Louis, the chief city of the most iwpulous state carved out of the Louisiana territory acquired by the fiither of Democracy. The time is the centennial aniiversary celebration of the acquisition of that territory, a vast area of contiguous territory whose possession was necessary for self-defense and which was fitted in climate and soil for home-making by the sons and daughters of the republic; the anniversary of real and not pesudo expansionan expansion of our population, our industrial life, and our free Institutions, over uninhabited lands, or lands sparsely settled by savages, whose tribal independence we recognized by treating with them, or settled in spots by white men easily and willingly assimilated; not a so-called expansion by mere superimposed force of our flag and our military authority. The Democratic party afterwards guided the country to further expansion of this real, free character in the acquisition of Florida, the admission of Texas as a state, and tbe acquisition

from Mexico of a magnificent far west fit to be made states in the Union and governed under the constitution." Referring to the quadrennial national conventions he satirized that held at Chicago last month as one in which everything was "cut and dried;" said he: 'There are some conveniences about a convention of that sort One of them is that the temporary chairman knows six or nine months beforehand that he is going to be temporary chairman. He also knows what he is wanted to say, compared with what he wants to say." Dwelling on the point he reviewed the address of Temporary Chairman Root, which he said was "a labored argument to prove that the party of Roosevelt must, by something like evolutionary process, act as the party or Lincoln and McKinley. This was necessary in order to disguise the palpable fact that it is not so acting. 'It was to draw away attention from Rooseveltlsm and Its volvanic, eruptive and reckless character, by dwelling upon the fact that at some period of its history the Republican party has been 'a party which did things,' and did them safely. The orator hoped to have the country lose sight of the fact that it is now in both of its legislative branches a party of passivity, of non action, of obstructiOii to reform and progress in a word, a party whose only sacred precept is the 'shibboleth which maketh them known, one of them to the other, a shibboleth drawn from the gambler's table; 'stand pat, a precept born of cowardice and fear to move." Then he' quoted Walter Wellman, the newspaper correspondent, who, writing up an interview with Presi dent Roosevelt, represents him as say ing that be has a '"great secretary of state," a "great attorney general," etc., but that Elihu Root 'Is the greatest man that has appeared in public life, of any country, in any position, on either side of tho ocean, in my time. Wherefore said Williams the praise for Roosevelt in Root's speech. Then he came to the tariff, and quoting both Root and Roosevelt as saying that if a tariff law worked well it is better to endure any slight inequalities, etc for a time than Incur the uncertainties consequent upon a change. "Verily," said Willims, "two souls with but a single thought Two speeches that read like one. And that single thought so harmoniously expressed is not to force a single special interest to take its lips from the public breast for fear tbe public finding them unnecessary might shake them all off." Referring to Root's statement that through the Republican party the moral sentiment of the United States finds expression, Williams said: "God save us. Where? Going back to an cient history in the credit mobilier? In the public lands bureau? In the pitiable telegrams Inquiring just when the "patriotic and an assisted revolution' of fifty or 100 men was stated to come off unexpectedly in Panama?" Coming to the finances he quoted Root's statement of the increase of cir culation per capita and "consequent prosperity," and said: "What a curious boast this is for those lately denying so strenuously that the quantity of money had anything to do with the 'value of money, of the price of other things as measured in money, or with an ascending scale of prices." He elaborated on this point to some ex tent and then generally criticised Root's exposition of the finances. . He closed, his review of Root's speech with the declaration as to the ex-secretary "Verily he is the 'Root of all evil' whea it comes to making the worst appear the better side of reason," and controverted the state ment that Roosevelt continued Mclvin ley's policy. Then he went at the national Republican platform and declared that it "like the temporary chairman's speech, deals chiefly in. the boast that the Republican party is responsible for everything good which ha happened. It also deals much in ancient history. It did well to go back fifty years ago." Referring to the charge that Cleveland's second administration left the country ."in evii plight" Williams compared it with the situation when Cleveland came in in 1893, and used the same words to describe the conditions as the Cihcago platform does for those after Cleveland's second term. He described the period of 1S33 and later and said: "In the midst of the panic all the wise men, and chief among them the Republican leaders, told us that 'it was lack of confidence in the money of the country that had brought on the panic. The Democratic administration, with a suQcient number of votes of both parties in the two houses behind It took that view of the situation and demanded and secured the passage of

the act repealing the purchasing cl-juse of the Sherman act, thereby fur the first time practically establKihng the gold standard in the United States." He spoke of the increase later In the price of wheat and how It enabled tbe farmer to pay his debts and put the money In circulation, and Faid: "But wheat going up had another effect When wheat went up during the campaign, while silver bullion went down, there was thereby furnished a seemlcg' object lession of the inaccuracy of the contention of Mr. Bryan and his followers, of whom I was one, that there was necessarily a connection In price between the two." This he said caused a stampede to the Republican party and elected McKinley, because the advance in wheat had put up the prices of everything. Including labor. He claimed that it was the Democrats who led in the war against Spain and in setting Cuba free; he denied that as to the trusts the Democrats had failed to enforce the laws on the statute books, although they had only had a four years' opportunity, and declared that the Republicans In any proper sense did not deserve credit for what they had done. He took up the tariff plank of the Republican platform next and declared there was only one way to make "public interests" known, and that was "to vote down the men who say that all Is 4well enough' and that the gospel of humanity as far as the tariff is concerned is all included In the phrase 'stand pat." Then he made an argument against the tariff as It exists, especially making a point of the fact that United States manufacturers sell goods in foreign countries cheaper than they sell them at home: acd during his discussion of this plank he said: "Of course this platform had to contain the usual historical untruth, to-wit: that 'a Democratic tariff has always been followed by business adversity a Republican tariff by business prosperity." After a vigorous presentation of the objections to the Republican tariff Idea the speaker took up the other planks in succession to the end of the Republican platform. F a NOTHING BUT PARKER IX SIGHT

Opposition Is Unable to Unite on a Man to Beat niin. St Louis, July C Parker's strong position remains unshaken. The opposition has made many assaults, but has apparently made no impression. The solid and substantial phalanx of the New York jurist has withstood all efforts of the friends of the otter candidates, and is apparently stronger than ever. Assurances of accessions from instructeddelegatlonsafterthe first ballot have been received from men who are now tied to other candidates, which the Parker adherents say insures a nomination by the second ballot The anti-Parker men have persistently tried to offer a candidate wno would unite a third of the delegates so as to have a rallying point, when complimentary ballots have been cast for favorite sons. The impossibility of uniting has been made manifest, and the most zealous opponents of Parker concede his probable nomination not later than the second ballot A story was current that David B. Hill, flushed with the fruits of victory, would undertake to force upon the opposition a platform so radical that some of the southern delegations would break away from New York's candidate. But the illusion was disielWd. It is learned that Hill will not be chairman of the resolutions committee, but that John A. McMahon, of Ohio, or Senator Bailey, of Texas, will be, and that Bailey had been selected to cross swords with William J. Brjan in the debate over the platform on the floor of the convention. BRYAN'S STAR IS SET, IT SEEMS Cannot Control the National Committee Appointed Four Years Ago. An interesting feature of the proceedings here is the development of tl e waning influence of Bryan. The national committee, selected four years ago by a convention following his unqestloned leadership, turned away from him in settling the Illinois contest Bryan had made the fight against Hopkins his own, and the unanimous action of the committee Indicated clearly that he no longer wields his one-time marvelous control. Many times during the past few days the suggestion has been made that Bryan would swing his strength to this or to that candidate, and the Democrats who were anxious to organize a winning coalition investigated and found that outside of the Nebraska delegation the former candidate had no following save a few scattering delegates who were bound by the unit rule and instructions. It is expected that there will be a clash with Bryan over the platform, but that document is expected to be a conservative utterance. Bryan is to be accorded a respectful hearing, but tbe dominant element in the convention. It is freely asserted, will not temporize or attempt io placate and conciliate hiin. The forces which will adopt the platform and name the candidate for president will also name the vice president, and this element has allowed it to become known that no concession to the minority, no vote-catching expedient. Is to be adopted in choosing the nominee for second place. As to this point the friends of exSenator Turner, of Washington, believe that he may be nominated, but what is wanted Is a man who will add strength to the ticket in Illinois and Indiada. David S. Rose, of Wisconsin, is mentioned, but the Wisconsin delegation will not hear of him, for fear of being considered disloyal to Wall for president.' Benjamin F. ShivoIy and John W. Kern, of Indiana, nn3 David R. Francis, of Missouri, have been mentioned in connection with lbs second place.

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