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BRYAN BY ACCLAMATION Democrats Nominate Nebraskan for Head of National Ticket. PARTY CHOICE RATIFIED Committee On Resolutions Re port Platform Which Was Adopted Unanimously. Hon. W. J. Bryam, of Nebraska, was named by acclamation for presi dent of the United States at Thurs day’s session of the Democratic nation al convention at Kansas City. The report of tbe platform commit tee was read and adopted. The presentation of Bryan’s name and the announcement of his nomina tion were greeted'by outburts of the same character as that of the night be fore when Chairman Richardson first mentioned his name to the convention. MJ – ft ait, ■W'"' #•/! w/A /A/, m \ m / j VL ■ - s ft Sr* / ■ \ \ I v I v ■ \\ 'l H / HON. WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN. Unanimously Nominated as the Democratic Candidate for President of the United States. Chairman Richardson called con vention to order at 11:03 Thursday morning, and pending a wait on report of committee on resolutions, speech making was the order. At 12:4.7 the convention adjourned until 8:30. It was not until 4 o’clock, however, that Chairman Richardson, turning from a conference with Governor Mc Millan and Senator White, rapped the convention to order. The platform committee, headed by Senator Jones, D. J. Campeau, Senator Tillman aud Judge Van Wyck, had just pushed th-eir way through the dense throngs nnd proceeding to the platform had taken seats flanking the chairman. Mr. Biehardson appealed long and vainly for order. The portly form of Senator Jones, silver hatred aDd serious, ad vanced to the front of the stage and in a dear voice he announced that Senator Tollman would read the docu ment. A dramatic incident of the day was presented when Webster Davis, of Mis souri, until recently Republican as sistant secretary of the interior, made announcement of his purpose to vote for and support the Democratic nomi nee for the presidency. The Davis speech was the great surprise of the day. Nobody knew it was .coming. In announcing bis intention of sup porting the Democratic party and its ticket, Mr. Davis said with great em phasis: “I stand upon this platform and shall support William J. Bryan.” As Mr. Davis concluded the band struck up “Hail to the Chief,” aad while it was rendering the air he held an platform. impromptu reception upon the When a few degrees of the noise bad been silenced, he said: “The next business of the conven tiou is the nomination of a candidate for president of the United State*. The secretary will call tbe roll of states,” CAIililNO FOR NOMINATIONS. ' 'Alabama!” tbe secretary then shout ed, commencing the call of the roll. “The state of Alabama,” said the chairman of the delegation of that state, “yields to Nebraska the privilege of naming the next president of the United States.” W. D. Oldham, of Nebraska, then, in an eloquent speech, presented the name of Mr. Bryan to the convention. Mr. Oldham closed as follows: “With the issues now clearly drawn, no doubt remains as to the name of our candidate. On that question we are a reunited Democracy. “Already worthy allies differing from us rather in name than faith have shouted for onr gallant leader again, and every state and territory has instructed its delegates to this convention to vote for him here. So it only remains for Nebraska to pro nounce the name that has been thun dered forth from the foot of Bunker Hill, and echoed back from Sierra’s sunset slope, and that reverberates iamong the pine-clad snow-capped hills of the north, and rises up from the slumbering flower-scented savannahs of the south; and that name is the name of William Jennings Bryau, her best loved sou.” The nomination was seco nded by David B. Hill, of New York, E. B. Perkins, of Dal ! as, Texas, Tennant Lomax, of Alabama, W. B. Moore, of North 'Carolina, Senator Daniel, of Virginia, David Overmeyer.of Kansas, W. C. Baker, of Ohio, Ex-Governor Pattison, of Pennsylvania, Governor Benton McMillin, of Tennessee, and others. A ringing cheer followed the call of “Hawaii,” and when John H. Wise, of that delegation, rose the convention demanded that he take the platform, which he did amid great applause. “Gentlemen of the convention,’’ he said, “the delegates of Hawaii have come 4,000 miles to attend this con vention, and last night she cast the winning vote for 1(5 to 1 in the com mittee meeting.” Mrs. Cohen, of Utah, came next and was received with terrific applause. She seconded the nomination of Mr. Bryan in behalf of Utah, her speech concluding the nominating speeches. As the roll call proceeded the shouts of approval of the unanimity of the vote seemed to increase. The list of states and territories was completed with the calling of the ter ritory of Hawaii. The announcement of Chairman Richardson that Mr. Bryan had been nominated for president of the United States was received with great ap plause. already leaving As the people were the hall, Chairman Richardson an nounced at 8:53 that the convention was adjourned until 10:30 o’clock Fri day morning. DR.TAL.M AGE’S SERMON The Eminent Divine’s Sunday Discourse. Subject: The Miracle at Cana-leuon ol Changing the Water Into Wine—Christ Teaches That We Should Not Shadow Joys of Others With Our Own Griefs [Copyright IW1 Washington, D. C. — A r:markable illustration of the ubiquity of Lnglish speaking people is furnished by the re quests that have reached Dr. Talmage m Northern Europe for a sermon in out-of the-way places, where he did not expect to find a single person who could understand hurf. There, as here, he presents religion os a festivity and invites all the world to come as guests and join in its holy merri ment; text, John ii, 10, “Thou hast kept the good wine until now." This chapter invites us to a marriage celebration. It is a wedding pledged in common each life, two plain people having friends other, hand and heart, ana their having come in for congratulation. The joy is not the less because there is no pre tension. In each other they find all the future thev want. The daisy in the cup on tlie table may mean as much as a score of artistic garlands fresh from the hot house. When a daughter goes off from home with nothing but a plain father's blessing and a plain mother’s love, she is missed as much as though she were a prin cess. It seems hard, after the parents have sheltered her for eighteen years affections that in a few short months her should have been carried off by another, but her mother remembers how it was in her own ease when she was young, and so she braces up until the wedding has passed and the banqueters are gone, and she has a cry all alone. Well, we are to-day at the wedding in Cana of Galilee. Jesus and His mother have been invited. It is evident that there are more people there than were expected. Either some people have come who were not invited or more invitations have been sent out than it was supposed would sufficient be ac cepted. Of course there is not a supply of wine. You know that there is nothing more embarrassing to a house keeper than a scant supply. Jesus sees the embarrassment, nnd He comes up im mediately to relieve it. He sees standing six water pots. He orders the servants to fill them with water; then He waves His hand over the water, and immediately it is wine—real wine. Taste of it and see for yourselves; but no logwood in it, no strychnine in it, first rate wine. I will not now be diverted to the question so often dis cussed in my own country whether it is right to drink it wine. I am God describing the scene as was. When makes wine He makes the very best wine, and 130 gal lons of it standing around in these water pots—wine so good that the ruler of the least really tastes better it than and anything savs: “Why, this had! is we have Thou hast kept the good wine until now." Beautiful miracle! A prize was offered to the person who should write the best es say about the miracle in Cana. Long man uscripts but were presented in the competition, a poet won the prize by just this one line descriptive of the mirade: “The con scious water saw its God and blushed." We learn from the miracle, in the first place, that Christ has sympathy with housekeepers. You might have thought that Jesus would have said: “I cannot be bothered with this household deficiency of wine. It is not for Me, Lord of heaven and of earth, to become caterer to this feast. 1 have^ vaster things than this to attend to.” Not so said Jesus. The wine gave out, and Jesus, by miraculous power, came to the rescue. Does there ever come a scant supply in your household? Have you to make a very close calculation? Is it hard work for you to carry If on things de cently and respectably? so, don't sit down and cry. Don't go out and fret, but go to Him who stood in the house in Cana of Galilee. Pray in the parlor! Pray in the kitchen! Let there be no room in all your house unconsecrated by the voice of prayer. If you have a microscope, put under it one drop of water and see the in sects that God floating about, and when you see makes them and cares for them and feeds them come t© the conclusion that He will take care of you and feed you. A boy asked if be might sweep the lady snow from household the steps of a house. The of the said, “Yes; you seem very poor.’’ “Don’t He says, “I am very poor." She mys, you sometimes get discouraged and feel that God is going to let you starve?” The lad looked up in the wom an’s face and said, “Do you think God will let me starve when I trust Him and then do the best I can ?” Enough theo logy do the for best older people! Trust in God and you can. Amid all the worri ments of housekeeping go to Him. He will help you control your temper and 811 - pervise your domestics and entertain your guests and manage your home economies. There are hundreds of women weak and nervous and exhausted with the care of housekeeping. Jesus Christ I commend you to the Lord as the best adviser and the most efficient aid—the Lord Jesus who housekeeper. performed His first mirade to relieve a - I learn also from this miracle that Christ does things in abundance. I think a Small supply of wine would have made up for the deficiency.. I think certainly they must have had enough for hail the guests, One gallon of wine will .do; certainly five gallons will he enough; nnd He certainly gives ten. But Jesus goes on, them thirty and gallons and forty gallons gallons and and fifty gallons seventy 100 gallons and just 130 gallons like of the very best wine. It is Him—doing everything on the Christ. largest and most generous scale. Does leaves? our He Creator, go forth to make makes them by the whole for est full—notched like the fern or silvered like the aspen or broad like the palm Does thickets He in the tropics, Oregon forests’ go forth to make flowers’' He makes plenty of them. They Ifame from the hedge, they hang from the top of the grapevine in blossoms, they roll in the blue wave of the violets they toss their white surf in the spiraea—enough for every child’s hand a flower, enough to make for every brow a chaplet, enough with beauty to cover up the ghastliness of all the grave. Does He go forth to create water? He pours it out not by the cure fu), but by a river full, a lake full « n ocean full, pouring it out until ’ earth has enough all the to drink and enough with which to wash. Does Jesus provide redemption? It is not a little salvation for this one, a little for that and a little for the other but ------u i ----ii ‘•Whosoever will let him Each man an ocean full for him promises Id. for the young, wYv promises for Promises for the promises for the the blind, for the halt, for the outcast for abandoned; pardon for all com fort for all, mercy for all, heaven for all— not merely a cupful of gospel supply 3 but I 130 gallons, X the tears of godly re pen ta nee are day, gathered up into God’s bottle, and some standing before the throne, ask we will be lift filled our with cup of delight and that it the wine of heaven, will and begin Jesus, from in that the bottle and of tears, to pour do cup, we will cry: ‘ iStop, Jesus; we not want to drink our own tears!" And Jesus will say, “Know ye not that the tears of earth are the wine of heaven?" Sorrow may endure for a night, but joy comcth in the morning. I remark, further, others Jesus does His not shadow the joys of with own griefs. He might said: have “I sat have down in much that wedding and so trouble, so much poverty, so much persecu tion, and the cross is coming. 1 snail not rejoice, and the gloom of My face and of My sorrows shall be east over all this group.” So said not Jesus. He said to Himself: “Here are two persons joyful starting out in married life. T^et it be a oc casion. I will hide There My own griefs. I will kindle their joy.” I know household are many not where so wise as that. a there are many little children, where for two years the musical instrument has been kept shut because there has been trouble in the house. Alas for the folly! Parents saying: “We will have no Christmas tree this coming holiday because there has been trouble in tlie bouse! Hush that laughing up stairs! How can there be any joy when there has been so much trou ble?” And so they make everything con sistently doleful and send their sons and daughters to rum them. with the gloom they throw around Oh, my dear friends, do you not know those children will have trouble enough of their own after awhile? Be glad they the cannot appreciate all yours. Keep daughter’s back cup of bitterness from your lips. When your head is down in tlie grass of the tomb poverty may come to her, betrayal to her, bereavement to her. Keep Do back the sorrows as long as you.can. you not know that that son may. after awhile, have his heart broken? Stand between him and all harm. You may not fight his battles long. Fight them while you mav. Throw not the chill of your own despondency over his soul. Rather be like Jesus, who came to the wedding hiding His own grief and kindling the joys of others. So I have seen the sun on a darli day struggling amid clouds, black, ragged and portentous, but after awhile the sun, with golden pry, heaved back the black ness. and the sun laughed to the lake, and the lake laughed to the sun, and from hori zon to horizon, under the saffron sky, the water was all turned into wine. I learn from this miracle that Christ is not impatient with the luxuries of life. It was not necessary that they should have that wine. Hundreds of people We do have been read married without any wine. not that any of the other provisions fell short. When Christ made the wine it was not a necessity, but a positive luxury. I do not believe that He wants us to eat hard bread and sleep on hard mattresses unless we like them the best. I think, if circum stances will allow, we have a right to the luxuries of dress, the luxuries of diet and the luxuries of residence. There is no more religion in an old coat than in a new one. We can serve Goa drawn by golden harness as certainly as when we go afoot. Jesus Christ will dwell with us under a fine ceiling as well as under a thatched roof. What is the difference between a Chi nese mud hovel and an American liQine? rough Wliat is the difference between the bearskins of the Russian boor and the outfit of an American gentleman? No difference except that which the gospel of Christ, directly or indirectly, has caused. When Christ shall have vanquished all the world, I suppose every house will be a mansion, and every garment a robe, and every horse an arch necked courser, and every carriage a glittering vehicle, and every man a king, and every woman a queen, and the whole earth a paradise, the glories of the natural world harmonizing with the glories of tile material world un til the very bells of the horses shall jingle the praises of the Lord. I learn, further, from this miracle that Christ has no impatience with festal joy; otherwise He would not have accepted the invitation to that wedding. He certainlv would not have done that which increased the hilarity. There may have been many in that room who were happy, but there was not one of them that did so much for the joy of the wedding party as Christ Himself. He was the chief of the ban queters. When the wine gave out, He sup plied it. and so, I take it. He will mt deny us the joys that are positively festal. Who was it that sent the raven that tapping on the window? The same God sent the raven to feed Elijah by the brook Cherith. Christ in the hour extremity! could You mourned over your sins. You not find the way out. You sat down and said: “God will not be merciful, lie has cast me off.” But in that the darkest hour of your history light broke from the throne and Jesus said: “Oh. wanderer, come In home! I have seen all thy sorrows. I offer thee this the hour of thy extremity life!” pardon and everlasting You almost lorn Trouble came. were braced to pieces by that trouble. You yourself up against it. You said. *‘I will be a stoic and will not care.” But before you had got through making the resolution it broke down under you. You felt that all your resources were gone, and tnen Jesus came. “In the fourth watch of the night,” :he the Bible savs, “Jesus came walking on sea.” liv did He not come in the first watch or in tlie second watch or in the third watch? I do not know. ITe came in t,ie fourth and gave deliverance to His disciple*. Jesus in the last extremity! 1 wonder if it will be so in our very last extremity. We shall fall suddenly sick, and the doctors will come, but in vain, We wil1 trv t,ie anodynes and the stiniu lants and tke bathimrs, but all in vain, Something will say “You must go,” No one to hold us back, but the hands of eter nit - v stretched out to pull us on. and What t1ien? * Tesus will come to us. as we "Tord Jesus, T am afraid of that wa I cannot wade through to the other 8,d ?‘ Hewull say. Take hold of My arm, will take hold of His arm. and then He Wl11 I )ut H,s foot m t ' ,c surf of the Y ave ’ tak ing 118 on down, deeper, deeper, deeper ’ aad r 80U 1 wil1 cry, “All Thv £ fbe avcs v ? 0V< T f w * come Konc to f be oyer knPP me. and - pass the pirdlc „ and rome to the head , - and our 801,1 out “ Lord ,Teeus Christ, 1 - cftnnot hold Tlline around arm any longer.’ both Then ,Tesus wll) turn - throw Hi* ? rin8 a bont us and set us on the bcnrb lar beyond , the tossing of the billows. Jesus * n the last extremity! [bat weddin K 8C ’ enp 18 pone now. The 5 edd, n * r, PP has been lost, the tankards bnve , been broken, , the house down, but is Unites us to a grander wedding X°" k " ow '! 1C B,b1e 8aV8 t,,at the church 18 the Lamb V 8 wife, and the Lord will af ^awhile come to fetch her home. There w ,U be Plaining of torches in the sky. nnd tbe t ™ m P ets of Uod will ravish the air ^ lth , thei r music and Jesus will stretch out His T , hand; 3 and the church, robed m white, will put aside her veil and look up into the face of her Lord the King, and the bride groom will say to the bride: “Thou hast been faithful through all these years. The mansion is ready. Come home. Thou are fair, my love!" and then He shall put upon her brow the crown of dominion, and the table will be spread, and it will reach across the skies, and garlanded the mighty with ones of heaven will come their in cympnls. and the.Bride- beauty and striking will stand the head groom and oride at of the table, and the banqueters, and looking “That up, will wonder and admire say: is Jesus, the Bridegroom. But the scar on His brow is covered with the coronet, and the stab in His side is covered with a robe," and “That is the bride! The weari ness of her earthly woe lost in the flush of this wedding triumph!” enough that There will be wine at wed ding, not coming up from the poisoned vats of earth, but the vineyards of God will prese their ripest clusters, and the cups and the tankards will blush to the brim with the heavenly vintage, and then all tlie banqueters will drink standing. Esther, having come up from the bac chanalian revelry of Ahasuerus, where a thousand lords feasted, will be there. And the Queen of Sheba, from And the the banquet of Solomon, will be there. mother of Jesus, from the wedding in Cana, will be there. And they all will agree that the earthly feasting lifting was their poor chalices compared with that. Then, in that light, they shall cry to the Lord of the feast. “Thou hast kept the good wine until now.” NEWSY GLEANINCS. Lumber fires in Northern Minnesota have caused great loss. There is no Sunday in China. Americans overrun tlie London ho tels. Boston has opened its free public baths, and will keep them open until after Labor Day. The German Gas pipe syndicate lias reduced prices under the influence of American competition. German coal companies report in creased earnings and the iroumakers have unusually large orders. Arangements are being made for establishing wireless telegraphy be tween Helgoland and Bremen. The Peruvian Government has rec ognized George W. Chase as consul of tlie United States at Salaverry. St. Louis was the only city in the United States that did not celebrate the Fourth of July with fireworks. The opening of the first American electric tramway line in Geneva, Switzerland, took place a few days ago. The wives and children of the Boers are surprised that the British troops do uot loot, hut pay for what they get. Ten naval cadets have been assigned to duty at the torpedo station at New port, It. I., for instruction in methods of wireless telegraphy. The Netherlands Railroad Company has received notice at Amsterdam, Holland, of the expulsion from tlie Transvaal of 1400 of its employes. A movement has been started in In diana to start a training school foi teachers of domestic science near the grave of Nancy Hanks Lincoln, mother of Abraham Lincoln. Livingstone enthusiasts arc prepar ing to send into the heart of Africa a British monument to mark the spot where the explorer died. It is an obe lisk of concrete blocks, twenty feet high, with metal panels on the four sides. LABOR WORLD. Canadian telegraph liners have struck for a nine-hour day. Twenty-five of the hucksters of Cam den, N. J., have formed an organiza tion for mutual protection. Three departments of the Illinois Steel Company, at South Chicago, em ploying 1200 men, have resumed work The Chicago building contractors have rejected a proposition for peace made by the unions to settle the labor war in that city. The International Seamen’s Union has issued a circular denouncing Con gress for not passing the labor meas ures put before it. Cuban and Spanish laborers on the Havana electric railroad have struck because they receive forty cents a day less than Americans. After several weeks of Idleness, tbe plants of the Glucose Sugar Refining Company at Rockford, Ill., have re sumed work, taking on 250 men. The journeymen plumbers’ strike at St. Paul, Minn., lias been declared off after six weeks of unsuccessful ef fort to obtaiu shorter hours of laiior The National Building Trades Coun cil has issued an edict forbidding union in workmen from seeking employment several large cities where there arc strikes. Henry Finehout, aged eighty-one, believed to have lieen tlie oldest rail road conductor Jir the world, died at St. Paul, Minn. His railroad service extended over a period of sixty years. The demand for harvest hands in Kansas is so great that the section hands on the Missouri Pacific Railroad are giving up their positions at i?L2 r > per day to go into the fields and work for $2.00 a day. The Birmingham (Ala.) Trades Coun cil, the general assembly of the 20,000 white union men in the Birmingham district, have withdrawn the color Hue and will hereafter receive negro dele gates from the local unions to the Federal Council. Dividend Declared. The comptroller of the currency has declared a 10 per cent dividend iu fa vor of the creditors of the insolvent Mutual National batik of New Orleans. Price of Sugar Advanced. The American Sugar Refining com pany of New York Monday advance^ all refined sugar 10 points.
