St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 22, Number 2, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 1 August 1896 — Page 2

BBYANANB WATSON These Are the Candidates of the People’s Party. WILD SCENE ENACTED

Nebraskan Carries the Convention with a Whoop. *Boy Orator of the Platte” Is Named for President by More than TwoThirds Majority at the Populist National Con vcntion-His Refusal to Bun Without Sewall for a Mate I. Ignored—Great Confusion Attends the Calling of the Koll. W. J. Bryan was nominated at St. Louis Saturday afternoon by the Populists ns their candidate for President of t'te United States. Only two other candidates were noml■ated to contest the field against Bryan. One was Seymour F. Norton, a lawyer from Chicago, and the other was Gen. Ooxey. The general’s name was withr T Ww j/ PERMANENT CHAIRMAN ALT.KN. drawn before the balloting was begun. Eugene V. Debs would have been a candidate had be not sent a message to the convention declining to accept the nomination. The voting was all one way, and when the n - ilt was anmcmced be Harn broke loose an 1 pandemonium reigned for ifteen or twenty minutes. The Texas. Arkinss. .1 Maine mi tdlo-of-the-rond

ArKansas nru .Maine m:<m.e-oi-iue-r >a■: men, with their guidons together, took no yart in the lemonstrution. The mid dle-of-the-road men finally massed about their standard on the left •f the hall, about 300 in number, and made a counter demonstration. They eheered and yelled and pushed and fought for ten minutes. The sergeants at arms were powerless to restore order, and. after rapping for five minutes, ('.i.iirm.m Allen declared Mr. Itcyan the m mtuee of | the conven on. At the first session Friday the nnti- I Bewail people moved to change the rules ' and make the nomination • f candidate f< r i Vice-President the first order of business. r receding the nomination for President, t was generally understood this was a test vote on the Sewall proposition, and en it the anu-Scwall people were victori•u* by 1W majority. Gen. J. B. Weaver, chairman of the committee on res dutions, read the platform as agreed to by the majority of the committee. Marked applause was given to the prosoancemvut for free coinage of silver, against interest-bearing bonds, the denunciation of the position of the present administration on the bond question; the income tax provision, and the Cuban plank. The platform was adopted as a whole after the minority reports of Delegates Kirby of Texas and Coxey of Ohio had been rejected. The convention met for its evening sesalon at 6:30 o’clock ami speeches nomiaatlng candidates for Vice-President were declared to be m order. Half a dozen candidates were put up. Thomas E. Watson of Georgia had the greatest number of friends. No fewer than two dozen speeches were made in his behalf. Tl.e ■other candidates named were Sewall, Skinner of North Carolina, Burkitt of Mississippi, Minims of Tenness e and Even Page of Virginia. All the can li- .. I | y HERMAN E. TAUBENECK. dates save Sewall were from the South,, there being a tacit understanding that a ctralght-out Populist from that section should be placed upon the ticket. When the roll was called Arkansas started off with twenty-five votes for Watcon. Mr. Patterson of Colorado cast the forty-five votes of his State for Sewall amid a round of applause from the Bryan men. Indiana gave her thirty votes to Watson. Kansas gave Sewall eighty-two of her ninety-five votes. Louisiana gave the bulk of her vote to Watson, Maryland divided her vote between Sewall and Watson. North Carolina cast her ninetyfive votes for Skinner, Tennessee voted for Mimms and Texas for Burkitt. This ■apllt up the large delegations. Before the Toll call was completed, however, Texas ehanged her vote to Watson and there were other changes in favor of the Georgian. Col. Burkitt of Mississippi went to the stand and withdrew his name. Then Mimms withdrew in Watson’s fa-

THOMAS E. WATSON.

vor. The Georgian already had ™ tea enough to nominate, but the vote of Tennessee was finally transferred to his column. Some one made the motion to make the nomination unanimous and it was carried with a whoop. Senator Allen called the convention to order at 9:35 o’clock Saturday morning. After the invocation the chairman announced that the first thing in order was the selection of members of the national committee and the committees to notify the candidates for President and A icePresident. Several resolutions were presented and referred without reading or debate. Wca -r Name® Bryan. The chairman then called for the nominations of President nnd Vice-President, and Judge Green of Nebraska took the stage to place Mr. Bryan in nomination. A Texas delegate interrupted with a point of order that the States must be called in alphabetical order for nominations. Judge Groen was driven off the stage by the Texan’s point of order. When Alabama was called Gov, Kolb yielded to Gen. Weaver of lowa, but Col. Gaither of Alabama got to the platform first nnd interjected a speech a!>otit joining the cotton fields of the South with the wheat fields of the West. At the conclusion of his remarks Gen. VI eaver came forward and formally placed Mr. Bryan in nomination. Gon. Weaver in his opening remarks asked the convention not to applaud, and I the delegates listened to him without much demonstration. But when he concluded by naming “that splendid young statesman, William J. Bryan,” the con vention broke loose. Cheer followed cheer. The delegates jumped to their ■ chairs, and flags, handkerchiefs, coats, i hats anti State guidons were waved in wild confusion. The enthusiasm that fol | lowed Gen. Weaver’s sjwch v. is some thing terrific. Miss Minerva IbduTts lei ; the cheering in the Colorado delegation, i While the demonstration was nt its . height thousands of copies of the “Brynn I

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Silvvr March” were tin - .g ! ,ch in air and ’ fell in clouds ■ n the frantic delegates. Wh i a restored G Virginia, who was Gen. W iver's run ning mate in IS»2, hobbh 1 forward >u his crutch, and, after a brief speech, moved to s -.spend the rules and make Bryan •< nomination unanimous. The convention i >se almost en ma-*e and cheered, but above the chorus f cheers came the sharp cries of the Texas men. "N "no," they yelled. Chairman Alien declared the motion carried, but. yielding to the protest, decided to allow a call of States on the motion. The Texas men wildly protested. The Nebraskan having e->crt-ed that he positively weald not accept he nomination if Sewall was rejected. Robert Schilling of Wts - mstn .attempted t a secure a recess until Bryan could is* heard from, but he was howled down. The greatest confusion prevailed, and Bryan's nomination was seconded by orators from nearly every State, and at last, after six hours of spec’ h-making. the roll call on the ballot was reached. When Ala 1 amn. the first State, was call- : . 1 livi-b 1 V -a between Bryan | . N >rt >n \ . sas g live v.-.-s f 'V I'.vy ■ . t , .b>. ' cut and Delaware v .-I > qi.liy for B'.yam Georgia gave five of her sixty-one votes for Norton of I'lit: >is. As the roll call proc.. I'd it Wmix apparent that Bryan would be nominated before it was completed. At its conclusion the’tally clerks had figured the totals, and without further delay Chairman Allen announced the official vote as: Bryan, U’42: Norton, 21; Donnelly. 1. It was then 4 :22. Someone A made a m >:ion to adjourn. The chairman put the motion and declared the cont vention adjourned sine die. The Vote by States. ’ Following is the vote by States, the . totals being those announced to the con- । vention: . Bryan. Norton. Alabama 28 1-4 14 3-4 J Arkansas 25 j California 24 12 ■> Colorado 45 Connecticut : 0 Delaware 3 1 Florida 8 - Georgia 56 5 I Idaho 7 1 Illinois 39 15 s Indiana 20 10 e lowa 27 1 s Kansas 92 Kentucky 15 1-2 10 1-2 Louisiana 30 e Maine 3 5 ( > Maryland 9 , Massachusetts 21 Michigan 19 11 C Minnesota 49 4

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Mississippi 12 Missouri 0 83 Montana 11 Nebraska 57 ,”111 Nevada 7 ..1... New Hampshire 4 Now Jersey 10 2i New York 34 3-4 9*l-4 North Carolina 70 33! North Dakota.. 12 -i1... Ohio 21 ITO Oregon 9 4-0 Tfj.g Pennsylvania 55 ••»... Rhode Island -A... South Carolina. 8 South Dakota 17 • R Tennessee 67 K, Texas . r . f MRS. I. C. FALKS, ivelegato from New York City, t’tah 5 * Vermont 3 ' Virginia 50 ,8 Washington 10 -0 Wisconsin 8 4-5 JO 1-3 I I West Virginia 8 7-6 ,2 1-5 ; Wyoming ....... ....... fl % i . Arfkona 8 ...... ; Indian Territory fl New Mex! o « * , i District of**’olumbln fl j I Oklahoma 9 ......

i Alaska 6 ...... Total* 1.047 831 XV EDMISD A Y. The national convent: a f the Feo , plc's pa:ty was called to .-’••r tn S' L< •. s shortly after noon \\ 1: • - lay b: i | Chairman Taubeneck of the national com । The hall In which the I’ < met was the same in which the nati >nal Republi can convention was held last month. | There were the same arrangements as *■> neats. Ihe State delegations * it ed in the pit. each marked by a guidon. The galleries reared themselves above ' the pit on all <l. s. The platform in front was flanked by the press benches. Th-> decora:. tis were not elaborate and were practically the same as those *f the Re.publican convent.>>n. The delegates began to come in before 1«> o'clock, but the spectators were slow in arriving. It was just 12:37 when Chairman Tanbeneek called the delegates to order. Rev. R. Hill Smith invoked the divine blessing, after which Gov. Stone was introduced. * I / i.y^l M 3 I M f W W. 11. HARVEY. ■ who, as the chief executive of Missouri, I ■ and not as a member of the Democratic i national committee, made an address wel- : coming the People's party to St. Louis. ' Gov. Stone only hinted at the past differ- > I ences of opinion between the Democrats and Populists, and hoped that in the I future they would unite for the welfare > - ;of the country. This allusion to a Bryan ! ’ j indorsement set the Nebraskan’s friends : [ on the fioor to cheering. I

Ignatius Donnelly replied to the Governor s address in behalf of the conven!l on * Donnen y made a “middle-of-the-road speech, to which he mentioned the names of Lincoln. Jackson, Washino ton and Jefferson, thereby arousing em thuslaam lie paid an earnest tribute to the Peoples party, and, in brief, detailed its doctrines, which, he claimed, seek to array <he people against those who would «® ek t i% dep . rlVe tb em of their rights camG into the had as Mr. Donnelly finished his address and was greeted with cheers. She was in vited to a seat on the platform Taubcn ®‘* announced that the national committee had named Senator Manon Butler of North Carolina by fiSt 1 f ° r ,emporar y chairman. The tight which was expected on Butler’s sethe nl«t d f ld “ Ot Somebody on the platform proposed throe cheers for the STwilt aD ’ “ nd they Siven with Senator Butler’s speech w ns long and his voice was not capable of penetrating the vastness of the auditorium. The delegates wanted to hear what he said however. and regardless of the protests of the.sergeant-at-arms and his assistants ran into the aisles and crowded around I the platform. The Senator closed with an ardent appeal to the convention to s and together, no matter what might be the result of its deliberations. The only routine business transacted by the contention Was the formation of the notial committee, after which an adjournment was taken until S o’clock. A sort ot free-for-all meeting was field after the convention proper had adjourned, nt which many men prominent in the party voiced their views. The meeting lusted for nearly three hours. No Night Pension. The attempt of the convention to hold a night session was a failure. Through somebo ly’s omission no provision was made for lighting the hall, and when the delegates and spectators assembled there the Interior of the big auditorium was dark. The telegraph companies sent for a supply of tallow candles, with which they lighted the tables of their operators. , They also furnished candles to the newsi paper correspondents, and the flickering • lights burning in the two press sections were the only illuminations in the hall. They serve-1 to throw fantastic shadows > across the floor where the delegates were assembled, but were not strong enough to enable the convention to proceed with business. Chairman Butler arrived long after S o’clock. and announced that as no arrangement could at that late hour l>o made for light, the convention would adjourn until ID o’clock Thursday morning. THVRSDA Y. At 10:12 the convention was called to j order and nt 12:12 to kare ss till 3 I o’clock. Shortly 1 ■ 'ore 10 dd■ k Senators Stewart T Nevada and Kyle of North Dak'a j d ed Sen at r Alien nnd I Gen. Field of Virginia on the platform. I The tall f -rm of “Cyclone” D.ivis of I Texas could be seen oa the floor, towering al- vc th.- deiega' “S: imp" Ash-

by "f •. - S • . S' ;• ■. L< . 1 fen fr m a r strum com; - I f a chair. At lO:<‘s S- ■ it >r Bu’i.T, tiie ha::ds'*me t>m.p.irary li'a'.- > v • .>• I'.--! -'r: k -.p "D-xis," ' and the 1. i gat.-4 unc-rk. d >-.mc of their i pent-up enthusiasm. Five minutes later ■ hairman Butler call. 1 the convention 'o order a: 1 the Rev. Mr. Smith offered The report of the committee on credentials was call-3 f but no one rosponde 1. and the States were called for members ■ f tiie ■■ enmh< on permanent orgaaThere w. re at tlm. s lona delays and the midd!e-uf-t: e-r !• rs were extremely suspicious. Thev intimated that it was part of the plot to’ defeat them. A Dramatic Outburst, After t’ e announcement of the comrr.itbers reared. While ■ timr announcements were being m .de a m. idle-of-the-road man attempted a dem •: s'rati n. It was dramatienlly arranged. 4 squad of mid- । lle-of-the-rvaders suddenly plunged into । the hall through the mam entrance and ! came whooping down the center aisle. Delegate Branch bore aloft a big white banner with the inscription: “Middle-of- . the road—a straight ticket.” The Texas, Georgia. Maine. Missouri and Mississippi ; delegations nuemted tm-ir chairs and y. :;. i ed. At the same time a middle-of-the- ‘ road delegate stationed in the gallery over i the platform hurled out through the air । about a peck of small oreen tickets, which I broke and fell like a cloud of stage snow : over the pit. The green tickets contained ! the following financial plank: "We demand a national treasury note I issued by the general government receiv- [ able for all public dues and a full legal • tender in payment of all debts, public and j private, and loaned direct to the people i through postal and other governmental ' banks at cost, for the N nefit of the poo- । pie, and the purchase and coinage of such ; amount of gold and silver bullion, at the i ratio of 1G to 1. as may be necessary to I pay the debts of the Government which ! are made payable in coin. We demand that the volume of money shall speedily increase to an amount necessary to transact the business of the country on a cash basis.” Afternoon Session. It was half an hour after the chairman ■ had called the convention ro order for the I afternoon session when the committee on I credentials reported. XX hen the matter I of contests had been settled New York

S„ fOr | the report of the committee on permanent organization. Some of th® delegates wanted to adjourn until S bu '-“-b™ nnm^’7 V A " en of wa. I named for permanent chairman by the thc committe « o» permanent and out a ßr”' lhis Was n Btrai ^t outBrvnn 11 ’ recommendation, and the Bryan delegates stood on chairs and wavel huts and handkerchiefs. Then the mlnonty report was made. It recommended James E. Campion of Maine as the pern^nent chairman. With a whoop and a y<ll lexas 103 de.egntes jumped up and r fo,,ovve *l- an d soon the “middle-of-the-road’ nnd anti-Bryan demonstration was ln full blast. On motion the pre' ‘Ms question on the adoption of the h' lIUH ' MISS. LILLIE n. PIEKCE.

majority report was ordered. The call of States began in the midst of great confusion. Before it was finished darkness set in nnd after losing a quarter of nn hour the electric lights were turned on nnd the roll cal! proceeded. Many of the States had their votes challenged, and each side watched the other closely. Th- v -e as announecl was 753 for Allen and 5G4 for Campion, indicating a majority for Bryan. Instantly the conv< :;:.o;i In’eanie a mob of howling, shrieking. yelling, cheering men. The spopta-r.-'-cis ' Bryan enthusiasm put •lie previous anti-Bryan demonstration in the shade. Ihe “mhbtle 'f-the-road” men were game, however, for one of them carried n banner to th.- front, and Texas, Arkansas, T< nucssee and Ohio s nt their standards to re-enforce it. The excitement

readied its height at this point, and ®evcra! personal en- '-unters D' >k place. At is - . af’- r a quarter of nn hour of almost r.- : ■ :s enthusiiism, the delegates calmed d ovn nnd Senator Allen was brought to the ;d.id rm. When Senator Allen app. ir> d the Bryan men gave him three l"<r’y che rs. He wns introduced by “i/yd":."'’ Davis and address-d the convi :i;. in n spec hos considerable length. I- was n-ar'y I<> .>'d.>.-k when the Scant >r concluded, ami shortly after the convent n adjourned until the following morning.

THE SILVER PARTY. XVhitc Metal Men Hol l a Convention of Their Own in St. Louis. The tlelega-.-s to the national silver I c ;ve- • ,n m S' Louis were slow in as- ' g at : ■ Ura . 1 XI Hall Weds; s lav, and there were not enough visit- , - t : the gnller -, when J. .1. Mott. ■ hairman of tl.e na'l -nal committee, call- . 1 the c nver.t. n t . order. He, too, was tardy, .a l v :s . :g after 12 o’clock when he stepp - l to the platform and rap-p.-d f.«r order. It was not surprising that t del, gat. s. the . -s. and the chair:n sh->aid have l»een si.-w in coming together. The weather was intensely hot. it was of that variety of heat that one । tin Is in the steam room at a Turkish bath. When the call for tne convention liad >• :i r al. <’"ngressmaa Francis G. NewSanis, »f Nevada, wa- ’ntrudneed by <’hairmaa Mott ns temporary chairman of the uvention, and the delegates gave I b::n a vigorous reception. la his speech i he :: go 1 the silverites to s'lpjwrt the nom- ■ of tiie Demoeratic party. Wm. I*. S’. of New York, was chosen for permanent chairman, and when escorted to the platform addressed the convention. What he said was quite in a >rd with the sentiments of the as-.--mblage and he got several salvos of apThe platform declares in favor of a distinctly American financial system, op- ' e Re a PERMANENT CHAIRMAN XV. P. ST. JOHN, poses the single gold standard and demands the immediate return to the constitutional standard of gold and silver by the restoration by this Government, independently of a.ny foreign power, of the j^rrsrriete’i coinage of both g^’U nnj saver into standard money, at tne ratio of 1G tol, nnd upon terms of exact equality, as they existed prior to ISi3; the silver coin to be a full legal tender equally with gold for all debts and dues, public and private, and we favor such legislation as will prevent for the future the demonetization of any kind of legal tender money by private contract. It holds that the power to control and regulate a paper currency is inseparable from the power to coin money, and hence that all currency intended to circulate as money should be issued and its volume controlled by the general government only, and should be a legal tender. The declaration unalterably opposes the issue by the United Srates of interest-bearing bondsun time of peace, and appeals to the people of the United States to leave in abeyance for the moment all other questions, and unite in one supreme effort to free themselves and their children from the domination of the money power.

DEATH TO SEVENTEEN. Awful Havoc Wrought by the Storm iu Pennsylvania. One of the most terrible results of th® Pennsylvania storm Monday night was the drowning of a number of coal miners in the Painter's Run district, just over the \\ ashington County line. The boarding house which they occupied was blown down and swept away, and of the sixteen ’ miners sleeping in it fifteen are believed to have been drowned. They were all foreigners, mostly Italians, and were employed in the mines of Col. W. P. Rend and the Ridgeway-Bishop Coal Company. 1 he boarding house was a little mining settlement called Cecil, on the line of the eight-mile branch of the Panhandle road, which leaves the Chartiers division at Bridgeville. The branch runs over to । McDonald and Cecil is located midway between the two points. The fatality occurred at 4 o’clock in the morning, when the small stream. Painter’s Run, which empties into Chartiers creek, was suddenly swollen into a raging torrent by a cloudburst. The stream had been very high on account of the rain, but little damage had been done h-fore the rush of water which carried away the tenement house. A groat deal of mining and oil property was damaged in the district along the run. The water rose some places to a

depth of eighteen n-et. The loss in the district will amount to thousands of dollars. Many narrow escajies are reported from the valley through which Painter’s Run courses, ami it is not unlikely that some others have la-rishe-I. Several houses in the valley were swept away. The full extent of the damage wrought by the hurricane in Pittsburg and vicinity Monday night was not known until daylight, when wreck and ruin were apparent on all sides. Steeples were blown from churches nnd adjoining buildings crushed, houses were unroofed, trees broken off and in some eases torn up by the roots, while the havoc caused by the heavy rainfall of last wook wns repeated. Summed up, with many outlying districts to hear from, th-' result in Pittsburg was two lives L <t. thirty-six persons injured, many, it is fo.ired, fatally, and property damaged to the amount of ?In*UHJ9. MAUD IS MARRIED. Daughter of the House of Wales XX e<ldc<l to Charles of Denmark. Princess Maud, third daughter of the Prince and Princess of Wales, was married at 12:30 o'clock 'Wednesday to Prince Charles, second son of Crown Prince Frederick of Denmark. The ceremony took place in the private chapel of Buckingham Palaeo, London. So far as the general public of London is concerned the wedding did not attract as much at- ■ 11 / PRINCE CHRISTIAN AND PRINCESS MAUDE tention as hid l-'-en bestowed upon other royal marriages of recent years. aA.s Princess Matid's procession entered the chapel the choir sang the hymn "Paradise.'' The archbishop of Canterbuf^ met the brale mid bridegroom at the altar and there performed the marriage service, at the conclusion of which he delivered a short address. COLORADO FLOOD VICTIMS. Twenty-nine Persona Known to Have Been Drowned. The cloud'eirsts in the foothills west of Denver Friday night, resulting in floods in which twenty-nine people are known to have perished, was followed Saturday afternoon by another terrible storm, the like of which has seldom been seen. At Morris n. seventeen miles from Denver, in the foothills, where twenty-two persons were drowned in the flood Friday night, people were terror-stricken when they saw the second storm approaching. Hail began to fall soon after 1 o clock. The storm kept on with steadily increasing force till n* arly 4 o'eli ek. when a black cloud of unusual density began to gather in the vicinity of Mount Vernon, a few miles from Morrison. Thea the clou-l burst, and in an instant a wall of water came down the gulch fully six feet deep. I Everything in its path was carried away. The raging torrent carried along with it houses, birns -ind debris of all kinds. Morrison i.s indeed a stricken city. The dead number twenty-uine. Numerous parties from Denver, camping out at Evergreen, Idlewild, ItHedalg and other places in the mountains near Morrison are safe. Many hairbreadth escapes and thrilling rescues are reported. Damaging floods have also swept down the valleys in some of rhe Eastern States, i The genera! conditions throughout the Monongahela valley is critical. In many places the rains were the heaviest known in twentv-five years. The Ohio valley will experience a fl»d its entire length. Reports from West Virginia, Kentucky and Oh: > show all the tributaries of the Ohio river werfl’owing their banks. The damage to railroads and other property is general and very great. The wheat and crops that were in shock are generally ruim-4. The loss on highway bridges and tiie railroads is the heaviest ever known in the Ohio valley. Two young people who move in the best t-ociery ; f Buffalo and Chicago gave first named town a topic by running off on their bicycles to a minister’s house and getting married. The bride is Miss Katherine Hamlin, the second daughter of William Hamlin, who is n partner with his father. Cicero J. Hamlin, in rhe manufacture of ghiciise and in breeding trotting horses. Garret A. Hobart, the Republican nominee for Vice-President, will spend four weeks at Hotel Champlain, Plattsburg, N. Y., where he now i?