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Is National Ticket Named by Demo
crats at Convention in St. Louis.
Both Selected on First Ballot.
An Associated Press dispatch
St. Louis says: Chief Justice Alton
B. Parker, of New York, was nomi
nated about fifteen minutes to six
o'clock Saturday morning for presi
dent of the United States by the dem
ocratic national convention. But or,s
roll call was necessary, and so de
cisive was the result that contrary
states oegan to call for recognition
and the ballot finally resulted in an
unanimous vote for the New Yoik
statesman.
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The scene was dramatic in the ex
treme. Darkness had witnessed the
gathering of the democratic hosts
while broad daylight and the sun hail
ing the electric light witnessed i i 1(J
close. The convention was in session
from eight o'clock Friday night until
nearly -Jx Saturday morning. I-n that
rime eight names were presented to
the convention nominating and second
ing speeches innumerable were made
and as dawn appeared it became nec
essary o limit the seconding speeches
to four minutes each.
An extension was made in the case
of William Jennings Bryan, who, in
one of the most dramatfC situations
ever witnessed in a political gathering, j
addressed the convention and conclud- 1
ed by seconding the nomination of: i
Senator Francis M. Cockrell, the fa- 1
vorite son candidate from Missouri.
Mr. Bryan received the third great ova- ■
tion accorded during the convention. I
His speech was an impassioned ap-!
pea, to ..he delegates to give the paitv
a candidate who had voted the demo-!
ciaiic ticket in 1S9U and 1900. He j
spoke on behalf of the Nebraska dele-1
gation, which, he said, had no candi- j
date to present or favor to ask, but j
wanted a candidate whose nomination |
would not prove a triumph * for one fac
tion . another. .. T He suggested . , „ Mr.
over
Iiearst ft the convention thought best, , ’
men former Governor Pattison, „ r ot 1
Pennsylvania, finally i
and created cl
surprise in the convention by declaring ! I
for Senator Cockrell. J
1 lie delegates already weary by Tea -1
ft on of ha task of the tedious and try-!
ing session, exhausted in their labors j
and the guise of a nomination for the
presidency which the senator’s friends
knew to be beyond his reach, indulged
in a demonstration, continuing about
half an hour. Nearly every delegate
and spectator in the galleries or on
the floor had been provided with a flag
and the scene was far the most im
of all ovations during ,
pressive .In- session. given j
The thousands cheering their fa-:
,
vorite oons had apparently converted |
Mr. Bryan to the belief that Senatc-r’ ;
Cockrell's chances of nomination were !
greater than other favorite , son candi
dates. 1
The Nebraskan gained recognition
soon after the Cockrell demonstration ,
and in a speech directed undoubtedly!
in an effort to defeat Parker made his
electrifying plea for the anti-Parker
forces to rally. He was given the clos
est attention.
The great convention which the
lice and sergeant-ab-arms were
less to control listened as though ev
ery word were a personal message to
each person, as if a hypnotic spell had
been cast over the throng. But when
it was all over the Parker forces ha
not been shaken.
The ballot for president gave Parker
058 votes out of the 667 needed to
nominate and before the result could
be announced, Idaho, Nevada, Wash
ington and others made changes to the
Parker column. Governor Dockery, of
Missouri, moved to make the nomina
tion unanimous and it carried amidst
increasing cheers. The result of the
ballot was never announced officially,
and it is not likely that it ever will
be.
Alabama yielded to New York, and
Judge Parker’s name was the first pre
sented to the convention. After that
Hearst, Gray, Cockreli, Wall, Williams,
Olney and Miles w-ere named in
speeches which took nearly the entire
night, it die end all the claims of
de Parker forces were proved accu
rat-e. Parker had with a few votes
enough to nominate, and these were
forthcoming. The speeches which had
been cheered so long and loudly had
neither made nor lost a vote. The
Parker forces, under perfect organiza
ion temained serene. After the nomi
nation had been made the convention
adjourned t® 2^p. m., when a candidate
for vice president was in order
At 1:13 o’clock Sunday morning the
democratic convention named Hon.
Henry G. Davis, of West Virginia, for
vice president.. The selection was
made on the first ballot,
Other candidates presented were
James R. Williams, of Illinois; ex-Sen
ator George Turpie, of Washington
state; Senator E. W. Carmack, of Ten
, >esee> anc j f orrr ,er Senator W. A. Har
ris, of Kansas,
Alabama, Arkansas and California
went solidly for Davis Turner scored
seven on the Colorado vote, and Wil
liams received three at the same time.
The final result of the final ballet was
unofficially, Williams. 165; Turner,
100; Davis, 654; Harris, 58. Iowa
did not vote.
The nomination of Davis was made
unanimous.
After the nomination of Judge Par
ker the convention recessed until Sat
urday afternoon, when the selection of
a vice presidential candidate was ta
ken up. Before this was accomplish
ed, however, a bomb-shell was explod
ed before the convention in the shape
of a telegram from Judge Parker to
his representative, W. F. Shelian, who
stated hat. he was for the gold stand
ard.
The message was sufch a fran i- and
fearless declaration of principle that
its full significance was not at first
realized by even the boldest and brav
est of democrats in the convention.
The telegram was simply an offer
from the nominee to land back to the
democratic party the nomination if the
p ar (y f e ;f } iad tendered it under a
misapprehension of his views, The
telegram was as follows:
"Hon. W. F. Shehan, Hotel Jeffer
son, St. Louis: I regard the gold
standard as firmly and irifevocably es
tablished and shall act accordingly if
the . action .. of „ the convention ot today
shall . be ratified . , by the ,, people. „ .
-As . . .he , platform , ,, is . silent on tne
subject, , . . my views . should , .. . be made ..
known to the convention, and if it is
proved to be unsatisfactory to the
majority, I request you to decline the
nomination for me at once, so that a li
other may be nominated before ad
journment. A. B. PARKER.”
Considerable consternation was cre
ated, but after a lengthy discussion
over the matter, the following reply
to Judge Parker’s telegram, framed by
John Sharp Williams and adopted by
the convention, was sent:
The platform adopted by this con
vention is silent cn the question of
monetary atandard . be , ause it -i s not
regarded bv us as a possible issue in
this campaign and only campaign is
sneg were raen tioncd in the platform.
Therefore there is nothing in the
views expressed by you in the tele
gram just received which would pre .
elude a man entertaining them from
accepting a nomination on said plat
form.
After some debate a roll call was
ordered on the question of the adop
tion of the Williams reply to Judge
Parker's message to Mr. Sheehan.
As the roll call proceeded it was evi
dent. that the motion to send the mes
sage to Judge Parker would be carried
by an overwhelming majority, The
result was announced to be 774 ayes,
191 noes, and the message was ordered
sent by the convention.
It was resolved that a full report
of the proceedings of the convention
should be printed.
A resolution naming and thanking
the officers of the convention was also
adopted; also James K. Jones and
the outgoing national committee.
The people of St. Louis and the
Business Men's League of the city
were thanked for entertainment pro
vided.
Chairman Champ Clark and Tempo
rary Chairman John Sharp Williams
were made respectively chairman of
the committee to notify Judge Parker
and ex-Senator Davis of their nomi
nation. It was also announced that the
new national committee would meet
in New York on a date to be fixed by
the chairman.
Thanks to the management, presi
dent and officers of the Louisiana
Purchase Exposition Company were
expressed i-n a resolution which was
agreed to.
Resolutions to Senator James H.
Bailey, of Texas, for the admirable
manner in which he presided over the
convention was agreed to.
At 1:31 o'clock Senator McCreery
adjourned the convention sine die the
hand playing “Auld Lang Syne.
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JUDGE ALTON B. PARKER, DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE FOR PRESIDENT
j DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM.
Principal Features of Document as Adopted by the Na
tional Convention at St. Louis-Gold Plank Eliminated, •
The salient features of the platform
adopted by the democratic national
convention are as follows:
We, the delegates of the democratic
party of the United States, in nation
al convention assembled, declare our
devotion to the essential principles of
the democratic faith which brings us
together in party communion.
Under them local self-government
and national unity and prosperity
would be alike established.
Large reductions can readily be
made in the annual expenditures of
the government without impairing the
efficiency of any branch of the public
service, and we shall insist upon the
strictest economy and frugality com
patible with vigorous and efficient civ
il, military and naval administration
ns a right, of the people, too clear to
deny or withhold.
The Tariff.
The democratic party has been and
will continue to be the consistent op
ponent of that class of tariff legisla
tion by which certain interests have
been permitted, through congressional
favor, to draw a heavy tribute from
the American people.
We favor the reduction of tariff tax
ation reduction upon trust-produced
articles to the point where foreign
competition may enter the American
market whenever trusts and combines
seeking monopoly raise their prices to
the American consumer above a rea
sonable and just profit: by such reduc
tion depriving trusts and monopolies
of the power to extort from the Amer
ican people, under shelter of Ameri
can law, prices higher than those
charged foreigners for identical arti
cles.
The Isthmian Cana!.
Our party having long earnestly ad
vocoted the construction of an Inter
oceanic canal for the purpose of na
tional defense and commerce between
the states and with foreign nations,
we favor the early completion of the
isthmian canal.
But while making this declaration
and accepting the result as an
plished and irreversible fact, we can
not too forcibly express our disap
prova! of the methods by which, in
disregard of the usages and obliga
tions of international law and treaty
obligations, the canal route has been
acquired.
Trusts and Illegal Corporations.
We recognize that the gigantic
trusts and combinations designed to
enable capital to secure more than its
just shu-re of the joint product of capi
tal and labor, and which have been
fostered and promoted under republi
can ruie, are a menace to beneficial
competition and an obstacle to perma
nent business prosperity.
We demand the vigorous and im
partial enforcement of the laws
ready made to prevent and
such trusts and combinations, and we
* favor such ...... legislation in ... restraint
thereof , „ as experience . shows , ho . be nec
essary.
Wo demand that the restraint of
such illegal combinations be entrusted
. to the , .. democratic .. party, . which . , , . not
is
responsible tor their existence and
which has ever protested against their
continuance
We condemn the republican system
of legislation under which trust mono
polies are enabled to exact higher
prices for their manufactured pro
ducts from our own people than thej
sell them for abroad.
We favor the enactment and admin
istration of laws, giving labor and
capital impartially their just rights.
Capital and labor ought not to be ene
mies. Each is necessary to the other.
Each has its rights, but the rights of
labor are certainly no less "vested,”
no less "sacred” and no less “inalien
able” than the rights of capital.
School and Race Questions.
The race question has brought count
less woes to this country. The cairn
wisdom of the American people should
see to it that it brings no more. To
revive the dead and hateful race and
sectional animosities in our common
country means confusion, distraction
of business and the reopening of
vVounds now happily healed. North,
south, east and west have but recently
stood together in line of battle from
the walls of Pekin to the hills of
Santiago and as sharers of a common
glory ant" a common destiny, we share
fraternally the common burdens. We,
; therefore, deprecate and condemn the
! Bourbon-like selfish and narrow spir
it of the recent republican convention
at Chicago, which sought to kindle
anew the embers of racial and sec
tional strife, and we appeal from it to
the sober, common sense and patriotic
spirit of the American people.
The existing republican administra
tion has been spasmodic, erratic, sen
national, spectacular and arbitrary. It
has made itself a satire upon the con
gress, the courts and upon the set
tled practices and usages of national
and international Jaw.
j Imperialism.
We favor the preservation insofar
j as we can of an open door of the
j ! world’s commerce in the Orient with
out unnecessary entanglement in
! Oriental and European affairs, and
without arbitrary, unlimited, irrespon
| sible act of government anywhere >’n
our jurisdiction,
We insist that we ought to do for
j the Filipinos what we have already
done for the Cubans. And it is our
intent, as soon as it can be done
wisely and safely, for the Filipinos
tnemselves, and after amicable ar
rangements with them concerning na
val stations, coaling stations and trade
relations, and upon suitable guaran
tees of protection to all national and
international interests, to set the Fili
pino people upon their feet, free and
independent, to work out their own
destiny.
The ndeavor of the secretary of
war by pledging the government's in
dorsement. for “promoters” in the Phil
* s * an( ^ ma, ‘® the United
ner ‘ n speculative ex
? IC ?® as °’ whictl
, , n „ ,
opposition , Hn of f democratic ,° rai y e up the
senators in ‘n
the last, session, will if .. successful
i lead par1 to a . _______’ permanent entanglement - . , ’
from wh.ch it will be difficult to es
cape.
! * We favor statehood for Oklahoma
| and the Indian Territory, statehood for
Arizona, statehood for New Mexico
and a teritorml government for Porto
rioq
SEVENTEEN DIE
IN TRAIN CRASH
Fis! Passenger Runs Into Crowds
Excursion on Erie Road.
RESULT WAS FRIGHTFUL
Besides the Killed, More Th in Fit- t?
People Were More or Less Injured
Caused by Signal Man.
Seventeen persons were killed
abom fifty injured an]
in a collision > whicii
occurred at Midvale, N. J„ j ust be{ofs
noon Sunday, when a regular passea
ger train on the Greenwood uy
branch of the Erie railroad ! ’an into
excursion train that had au
take All topped to
water. of the dead and i
Jtired lived in Hoboken, u .
and New York. Jersey Ci uy
The accodent is believed to have
resulted from a tower operator having
lowered his signal too soon, an ,| thjs
was admitted by D. W. Cooke 8ener
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al agent of the Erie railroad, wh
>
gave a statement, in which * e said.
“The operator in the tower failed
to set the block signal against he
train following.”
The train which was run into was
a special carrying members of the
First Plattsdeutscher Association, ol
Hoboken, on their annual outing am]
had SOP pasengers. It consisted of
12 cars and 2 engines, The first en
gine had taken water and the train
had moved up and stopped with the
second ermine beside the tank, wnea
the regular train drew near.
The flagman of the special signaled
the engineer of the incoming train,
but owing to a curve in the road his
flag was not seen until it was too late.!
It is claimed that the engineer of the
regular train had slowed down w!
about ten miles an hour before he
crashed into the special, but. his en
I -- inc tore through the rear car the
greater part of its length and drove!
the forward end of that car into the
car ahead. The killed and injured]
were in these two cars.
The wreckage did not catch fire,
and the work of taking out the dead]
and maimed was accomplished
quickly.
The passengers from the uninjured
coaches joined in the work and th I
residents of Midvale, many of whom
had heard the crash, assisted them.
The fourteen dead were soon laid
beside the track and the injured were
carried to the nearby houses.
While physicians were being serf
for, women of Midvale brought band] U-J
ages and other articles that could
used in caring for the injured.
JAPS TAKE KAI-PING.
Russians Forced to Vacate Point oi
Strategetical Advantage by
Dauntless Enemy.
A special from Tokio under date nt
July 9th says: At't.er severe flghtiiu
General Oku ocupied Kai-Ping yester
day (Friday).
Kai-Ping is located on the Port
Arthur Railroad and is the southern
terminus of the branch to Niuchwand
During the campaign of tne past fe"
weeks is has been one of the main
objective points of the Japanese.
A special dispatch, received in So
Petersburg, from Niuchwang. dated
July 8 stated that General Kitrold is
advancing all along the line, and adds
that the Japanese officers are organiz
ing Chinese bandit bands throughout
the Liao valley for any attack on
Mukden.
It is also Liao-Yang reported in under a special the sanr disj
patch from
date that a persistent rumor is cur
rent there to the effect that, a na'J
engagement has occurred at. Port A'
thur, in which twenty-one Japa ne - ,e
warships participated, resulting >u a
Russian victory. Liao-Yang A similar July 5, report the lot a j
current at being
tion of the engagement then
given as northward of Gensan, K° rea
A St. Petersburg special says: Lietij
tenant General Saljrtvaroff, in a Jis
patch to the general staff, occupation confirms |
report of the Japanese
Kai-Ping. He says that the Russia 11
losses did not exceed .150 killed M
wounded. The general adds that tN
Japanese are on the Yin-Kow road.
Among the killed was Count Nyr odl1
captain of the general stuff, v/iio aba®’
doned the last position after briH- 38
ly carrying out his duties as chief 81
staff with the rear guard. 31
General Sakaharoff also report®
ambush of Japanese 25 miles north oi
Siu-Yen, when the Japanese had ° a
officer and eleven dragoons killed
wounded. ’-1 t
On July 7, General Sakaharoff s;
the Japanese began to advance,
not in considerable force toward S |3 1
osvou. occupying Slan-Chan-