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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. ■ 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. f £ a# lip TA III 1 C ; ; ill i / mM m \ : m III » iff ’W'lfc. I . ■A V m H V ? p w m ll‘ i: l! % V \ f:' i s t 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 • 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-