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THE CORRESPONDENT
VOLUME IX.
ADLAI EWING STEVENSON
Th© Dem ocratic Nomine© for Vice
President of United States.
NEW YORK MAN DECLINED
Dramatic Close of the National
Democratic Convention at
Kansas City.
NOMINEE EX=V1CE
During the Last Cleveland Ad
ministration—His Nomination
Was Made Unanimously.
Closing Scenes of the
Convention.
Hon. Adlai E. Stevenson, of Bloom¬
ington, Iil„ who was vice president
during the last Cleveland administra
tion, was Friday afternoon nominated
for vice president by the Democratic
national convention in session at Kan¬
sas City.
David B. Hill was placed in nomi¬
nation by the New York delegation,
aud his name called forth a great
demonstration, but he quickly mount¬
ed the platiorm and declared that he
could not accept the nomination under
any consideration. His statement pre¬
vented a threatened stampede in his
favor and the delegates began to rally j
around the Illinois standard.
It developed from the beginning
of the sessions that only the extreme
silver states showed much strength for
the Populist candidate, aud Stevenson,
as a compromise, gained in strength
from the very minute the gavel fell.
Several states held hasty consulta¬
tions and it was decided in the interest
of harmony in the party to support the
Illinois candidate.
Hill, on Thursday, was an impossi¬
bility and lri3 boom was only begun
again by a conciliatory speech that
he made in the convention Thursday
night. It electrified the great audi¬
ence and immediately the Hill boom
was again in the ascendency.
He declared then, however, that nn
der no consideration would he allow his
name Vo go before the convention. It
was placed before the convention with¬
out his consent and he quickly around seDt
word to the delegations rallying
him that he would be forced to decline
if nominated, and begged that his
wishes be respected. When it devel¬
oped before the roll call was half over
that the nomination of Stevenson was
a certainty, the states that had voted
for other candidates quickly changed
io the winner, and his nomination was
made unanimous.
THE CLOSING PROCEEDINGS.
An hour before the convention hall
was opened Friday morning dense
crowds were packed around the vari¬
ous entrances aud hundreds more were
coming on every thoroughfare that
afforded access to the hall.
About *30 minutes after the doors
were opened the galleries were all oc
cupied aud still the crowds around the
entrance and in the streets had sutler
ed no diminution.
Immediately following the prayer
the call of states began for the pur
pose of m&kiug nominations for the
vice presidency. *
Great confusion prevailed and very
few of the delegates were aware of
what was going on tfntil Alabama aud
Arkansas had been passed and Cali
fornia was oalled.
TH* STAMPEDE TO STEVENSON.
When at last the nominating speeches
were ended the call of the roll began.
The early votes of significance were for
Alabama’s 19 for Hill, against 3
Stevenson; those of A ' as
Arkansas, California, Colorado,
oecticut and Delaware, most of whose
strength went to Stevenson. called
Four for Hill from Florida
forth another veil of applause.
KNOXVILLE. OA.. FRIDAY. JULY 13. 1900.
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“Illinois!” shouted the clerk, and
came the cry, “Forty-eight for
And then the Stevenson
was unbounded and it rose
still when Iowa and Kansas
their full votes for him. Louisiana
the next to go for Hill, her dele
giving, him the entire vote of
Michigan, which had all along strong
Iy approved of Towne, gave him but
five votes, the remainder going to Ste
venson.
The shout from Missouri, “One for
Hogg, of Texas,” called forth loud
laughter and applause, ’
< ( New Jersey’s twenty votes for
Hill,” called forth another ripple of
cheers, and then came “New York.”
The reply, “New York casts her eu
tire 72 votes for Hon. D. B. Hill,”
increased the ripple to a wave of ap
plause. 64 votes for Ste¬
t t Pennsylvania’s of the
venson” caused the adherents
Illinois man to shout until the rafters
rung. The Hill men cheered wildly
when Tennessee went solid for the
New York man, and the Stevenson
people answered their cheers when
Texas came to their man.
Tennessee was up as the vote for
Hawaii had been announced aud de
dared that it changed its vote to Stev
enson. The convention recognized
the significance of the action and cheer
after cheer went up.
Stevenson was nominated now with
out question, and all over the
ebairmen of delegations were on their
feet shouting and waving their arms
in an effort io secure recognition from
the chair in order to change their
votes.
Washington was first to secure the
privilege, and the tellers’ cry, “Wash
ington changes its entire vote to
Stevenson,” provoked great enthusi
asm. Tbe cheering became so loud
that it was almost impossible to catch
the changes as the teller called them
out. North T (
After Washington came aro
lina, and then John L. Shea, of New
York, managed to make his voice
heard, as he called out:
“New York changes her entire _ vote
from Hill to stevedson.”
This announcement created pande
moQ i um au j the roar that went up was
deafening. The Stevenson men danced
around j n delight. succession the states
Then in rapid io Stevenson.
cbanged their votes
^t 2:44 he bad received a large ma
j. of the voteg> f ar more than two
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thirds *
MADE ' UVAMM0US ,
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Then Senator Ti man,
Towne,moved ,. toj“^ w.
supporter of Mr.
JJ® Motion was carried with
^irlwind of applause. given the
Stevenson was
TQteg ' of tbe COD ventio and de
nominee of " '
ciared tbe president of the United
p Tice
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The lhe convention con>« then adjourned sine
die.
BIG STRIKE RESUMED
St. Louis Street Car Men Say the
Transit Company Has Broken
Their Agreement.
The strike against the St. Lonis
Transit Company by its former em¬
ployees, which was declared off July
2 of f’.J' the a 8 street . or 4 ? c,!< railway 1 .r nwe4, men !‘““ s union e ‘ i ° at g .
the West End coliseum Monday.
Tuesday morning at 8 o’clock was
the time fixed for the renewal of the
boycott on all the company’s lines.
When the strike was settled on July
2d there were some mutterings of dis
content among the men over the terms
of settlement, and since that time dia
satisfaction has grown daily. Charges
were made that the company had fail
ed to keep the agreement of July 2d,
and one or more instances were cited
tending to prove that there had been
a breach of faith.
Meetings were held at several places
in the course of the week, and com
mittees were appointed to procure
proof of infidelity on the part of the
company.
At a mooting of the executive com
mittee of the railway men’s union
held on Saturday, a batch of affidavits
were produced to the effect that new
men have been employed by the com
pany since July 2d in violation of the
terms of agreement. After a session
lasting several hours, the executive
committee determined to call a mass
meeting of the street railway men for
Monday morning, and to recommend
that the strike be declared on again,
The Central Trades and Labor Union
met later and indorsed the action of
the executive committee.
The representatives of the company,
through President Whitaker,addressed
a letter to the men denying that the
company had intentionally violated the
agreement of July, 2d, and declaring
its intention to live up to every condi
tion of the agreement, both in letter
and in spirit.
Fred W. Lehmann, attorney for the
company, appeared at the meeting and
offered to submit tlie question as to
-whether the company had broken
faith, to Joseph W. Folk, counsel for
the men, and bound the company to
abide by Mr. Folk’s judgment in the
premises. The proposition was ignor
e d, and by a unanimous vote the strike
was renewed.
A number of the exeecutive comit
tee said that this was tbe second time
the company had broken faith.
CONSUL HO YOW TALKS.
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Prominent Chinaman at San Francisco
Chinese Consul General Ho Yow, at
San Francisco, recognized as authority
on Chinese matters, says:
<q be or jgjn of the whole trouble is
j a t er f er en C e with onr religion in China,
i don ’t question the worthy intentions
^ tll0 m j ss i ona ries who have gone
tbere, but they have made the mis
take ^ trying to convert a people who
are nQt educa t ed as a race even to the
- nt q{ re jigi olls toleration,
“Hood missionaries merely waste
their energies and incense the people.
g t(1( ] v i 0 g the history of the world, we
find tb at at j eag j; eve ry great war has
k een brought on by differences in re
j. n xhere is another cause for the
” uprising aside from the purely
sent
re jj g { ou8 work of missionaries in
prose ] y Hng China to their faith,
“It has so happened in China that
wbenever a missionary has been in
or killed in the country, the
uat j on which he represented has made
the tragedy the occasion for asking for
tractg q{ i andg f rom tb e Chinese gov
eminent, would
>ij n my opinion, the powers
need flU army G f about 250,000 men to
gubdue this one northern province by
force. Should there be a general up
r jsing throughout China, before they,
cou j d do any Bor t G f policing for that
g rea t territory with its 400,000,000
peopJe> or bring them under subjee
tion, they would require not less than
1,000,000 soldiers, and many millions
0 f dollars would be wasted and millions
0 f lives be lost before the entire coun¬
try coa ld be brought under sabjuga
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Towers Arraigned First.
The case against Caleb Powers was
the first called at Georgetown, Ky.,
Monday. The prosecution asked for
and was granted an order on the jailer
of Franklin county to bring in as wit¬
nesses suspects Cuiton and Noakes,
who are in jail at Fr&nkfort.
LEGATION SAFE
ON JDLV THIRD
A Ray of Hope fs Kindled By
later News Prom China.
JAPAN IS AUTHORIZED TO ACT
Powers Agree to Give Her a Free
Hand, Full Co-Operation and
Pay to Whip the Chinese.
The London foreign office has issued
the text of a telegram from Acting
Consul General Warren, at Shanghai,
confirming from thoroughly trust¬
worthy sources the news from Pekin
by courier July 3d, by way of Shang¬
hai, to the London office of the in¬
spectorate of Chinese maritime cus¬
toms, saying two legations were, the
day the courier left, holding out
against the Chinese and boxers and
that the troops bad lost 2,000 men
and the boxers many leaders.
CONSUL GOODNOW COFIRMS REPORTS.
A cablegram was received . at Sat- the
state department at Washington
urday morning from Consul General
Goodnow at Shanghai dated July 7th,
saying that the legations were stand
ing on the 3d instant and that tbe re
cent attack of the boxers had been
comparatively slight. They seemed
disposed to adopt starvation methods.
One certain eflect of Consul General
Goodnow’s dispatch will be to cause
the officials here, and without doubt,
the European governments, to
their exertions to push forward a
to Pekin. The main hope for speedy
action is still in JHpnu.
According to the Japanese legation
in Washington, wlypfe has
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on Com -
then the "
complishecfi ^ ni: /s
pected and tnc Vl durin
reason why the ad^«4he
soould said that not Japan begin is immel*r~jf~'
make this campaign single* ^ded.
The international forces at Taka
Tien Tsin will co-operute to the
most with the Japanese army What corps
the movement on Pekin.
that co-operation shall take is
kuowu yet; such details are left to
commanders in the field. It is
Japan is to be compensated for
work she is about to undertake in
common cause. Her militai y
tions are very extensive and the
paigu is certain to involve heavy cost,
It would be unjust to expect Japan
meet this herself. She has no
sionaries in China, and
is perhaps less interested
than any of the powers in the
happenings in Shau r J un; aud Pekin.
CORBIN READY TO SEND TROOPS.
As a result of the thorough consid
eraticn of the subject by tbe
of war, Lieutenant General Miles and
adjutant General Corbin, orders
issued by the war department
day afternoon for the dispatch of
regular troops to the Philippines
a view to their utilization in China.
The force is made up of two
each of the Fifteenth, Second,
and Eighth infantry, two
each of First and Ninth cavalry,
squadron of the Third calvary and
company of engineers. These
will be forwarded as rapidly as
ble anil as soon as transportation
rangements can be perfected orders
The issue of the formal
tbe dispatch to the east of more
6 0001 troops.from the army pos s
tbe United States is a manifestation
the energy with whmh the
is now about to act m the
inally'destined ‘fo? the Philippines
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other convenient Chinese port. W
these troops are landed m Chima,
getherwith the Niuth infantry
posed to be now at Taka, and the
rine aud naval contingent the
States will have a force in action
'mensurate with our interests and
proportion to the European forces.
NUMBER
S. A. L. APPOINTMENTS
Announced From Head quarter* of tlie
Company at Norfolk Effective July 1.
A special from Norfolk, Ya., says:
Important appointments of Seaboard
Air Line officials, effective July 1,
have been announced as follows: - *
A. O. McDonell, assistant general
passenger agent, with headquarters at
Jacksonville; J. H. Burroughs, audi¬
tor freight receipts; Thomas H. Wright,
auditor passenger receipts; J. A. Wal¬
ton, statistician; T. W. Koby, control¬
ler; J. H. Sharp.treasurer; J. M. Sher¬
wood, secretary and assistant treas¬
urer; B. L. Nutt, cashier;W. T. Rock¬
er, paymaster; V. E. McBee, general
superintendent; W, E. Reed, mechan¬
ical superintendent; G. P. Johnston,
superintendent of transportation; H.
W. B. Glover, freight traffic manager;
C. R. Capps, general freight agent; O.
B. Bidwell, Jr., freight claim agent;
L. S. Allen, general passenger agent;
O. D. Ball, Jr., general purchasing
agent. except Mr. Mac
All of these officers,
Douell, will have headquarters at
Portsmouth, Va
It. I. Cheatham will be assistant
general freight agent, at Atlanta; W.
H. rieasants, assistant general freight
agent, at Jacksonville, Fla., and A.
Pope, assistant general freight agent,
at Savannah; Messrs. Cheatham, Pleas¬
ants and Pope will report to the gen¬
eral freight agent. of the Seaboard
The five divisions
system and their officers are as fol
Jq WB j, .
Fi gt Division—T. W. Whisnant,
Bnperintende nt; L. A.Boyd,assist
ftnt Buper i n tendent: Between
mou(J an(J Ealeigb> Portsmouth aud
Kidgeway j uuc tion, Boykins aud Lew
istoD Henderson and Durham,
Hn anJ LoiliBbnrg .
Second Division—J. M. Turner, su
periute ndeut; William Moucnre, as
* tendent: Betweeu Ral
igtant auperin Wilmington
. * h and Co i nm bia,
M n Moncure and Pittsboro, Ham
^ J and Qjb son
Tfaird Division—E. Berkeley, en¬
^ periutendeut; P. H. Sellers,
af)ter . Between Monroe and
Atlant Bawreneeville and
ganville, Ellen boro, Henrietta
c '4">n. a ^4aLnjb*ien Monroe and Kntherfordton.
-Cecil Anderson, Gabbett,
iraiu
mtj | 8 - Ben
JkAXJi / of order. See • -ilftsters:
**7 01 lvannah, Savannah
and JttftAlSb’iAifie, Savannah and
„ omery Columbus and Albany,
' Qcilla.
a d
j Fjfttl Division—D. E. Maxwell,
| pgriptendent; C. O. Howell, M. V.
j eyj trainmasters; W. B. Tucker,
geuera l agent: Between Feruaudins
and Tampa and between Jacksonvilh
a nd Chattahoochee river, including al
j ine8 i n Florida except between Jack
; 8onv jn e aud St. Mary’s river,
j SILVER REPUBLICANS
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j At a Meet I hr In Kama* City Issue »
Address to the Party.
The Silver Republican party, by it
executive committee, has issued an ac
dreSB to the silver Republicans of th
United States, saying, among otb(
things:
“The Democratic candidate f<n pre
; deQ t is ours, our convention name
Upon the fundamental propos
Hons above stated, we are one with tl
Democrata an(1 Peop i e ’ 8 party. Ot
common cand i da te for president
grated, heart and soul, in this gre
caa §e We know he has the hif
courage 0 f bis convictions. His ti
j nmpb j B necessary if we are to hai
dowQ to our children and oar cb
i dren > 8 children a government found
wisdom of the fathers, maintai
ed - u blood and treasure of
c j t j zens aud perpetuated as a prieelt
heritage,
“Impelled by these considerate
7 national" committee has det
^ d in thig bonr 19
Hon g teveason a9 c
candidftte for vice p re8 ident, in or:
, ^» opposition l to the gold stai
aud monopolie9> iinper ,
^ the dam
mpb
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% distinguished ieac
. T owin
“D et u8 express the hope that
J meu . d ul lay y aside wbft t e ver dis
pointment they may feel and join
united effort to secure the triump 1
our principles at the coming elec*