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Ryan Sits. White With Rage, as Nebraskan Attacks His Presence Commoner Wily Fox
ARTHUR BRISBANE WRITES OF BRYAN'S WAR ON THE MONEY KINGS
NELLIE BLY PULLS
FROM BEIYfIN HIS
FUTUREPUINS
It Takes a Woman to Find
Out What a Man Pro
poses to Do.
By NELLIE BLV
BALTIMORE, MD., June 29.—1 made
Bryan declare himself. He slipped into
the hall quietly early this morning. It
had been suggested that he would
come, and if he did the question was
whether he came to explode another
bomb, which would this time result in
turning a majority of the convention
over to him. All sorts of rumors were
afloat as to possible Bryan surprises.
The only Charles Murphy had explod
ed his bomb at midnight. At every roll
, all since 4:30 p. m. he had voted the
New York delegation solid for Har
mon.
He would rise in his cool, warm way
and, standing in the center of the aisle,
his smooth face as pink as a baby s
and as guileless, announced without
the faintest trace of emotion: "Ninety
votes for Harmon." It was unchange
able and so mechanical that it got on
the nerves of the audience until its
repetition was each time greeted with
a laugh.
It was like Mr. Root's "The ayes
have it," at Chicago, even though the
noes sounded, too.
It became a joke in the audience. So
when Mr Murphy exploded his bomb
by announcing New York's 90 votes for
Clark, and enthusiasm surpassing any
witnessed up to this time, failed to
make the next poll show any materia!
gain, the Bryan surprise rumors began
to circulate and spread.
Bryan Slips In.
Then when Bryan slipped into the
hall, quiet and meek as a boy who put
an upturned tack upon a chair and is
waiting sublimely happy to see the
Victim, sit down. Curiosity boiled in
the veins of reporters. They .claimed
Bryan had forty tricks up his sleeve,
any one of which he would spring at
any moment, with the thrilling possi
bility of stampeding the convention and
making himself the nominee.
•If you want to know definitely if
Mr. Bryan intends to try and secure
the nomination, I will find out for you.
I offered.
"He will not tell. He is too shrewd
for that." I was informed.
My vanity was piqued.
-I can know and prove in ten min
utes whether Mr. Bryan wants and ex
pects to steal the nomination." I de
clared.
The reporters laughed at me. In a
second 1 jumped up on the reporters’
table and stepped from one to the
other. It was the only possible way to
get through the crowd.
"Come with me.” I said to the others.
"1 will make Mr. Bryan declare his in
tentions.”
"1 reached the stand above Mr. Bryan.
The crowd was standing and yelling so
loud that one could not distinguish
what they yelled.
He Holds Her Hand.
I yelled for Bryan. He heard me.
He jumped to his feet and came over
to the gallery where I stood. He took
m? hand
"Don’t,” he said earnestly. “Don’t
start a stampede for me."
He held my hand and 1 looked into
his eyes.
“Yes.” I argued, “you want it." and
1 gave the loudest Bryan yell I could.
"I don’t,” he begged earnestly. "I
would not accept the nomination."
"You don’t mean it." I shouted, and
1 yelled again.
"I will leave the hall if you don't
stop," he called desperately to me.
He started rapidly for the door, push
ing bis way through the mass of peo-
I was satisfied. I laughed, too. Il
amused me to know 1 could make Mr.
Bryan run away. 1 went back to my
chair.
“He means.” 1 said to the newspaper
men, “that Mr. Bryan may have some
bombs to explode, but not one to make
iiimself the nominee."
There are more ways than one of get.
Sting a direct, truthful answer to an
‘interesting question.
A Shirtwaist Convention.
This is a shirtwaist convention.
Most of the men upon the platform
and in the audience have adopted the
shirtwaist rule, with a most pleasing
effect upon the appearance of the au
dience. The women are generally In
white and everybody is fanning.
I want to see Thomas F. Ryan. He
sits under the tall pole bearing the
sign "Va.” He sits in the aisle chair.
1 am sure he must be Interesting, he
has so many enemies.
I give it up. The crowds shut him
off from me and he Is very quiet He
is not one of the kind of delegate
that means to have the other delegates
know he is on the floor.
I see Mr. Murphy. I wonder if Rich
ard Croker would like to be here just
for this week? Mr. Murphy—there is
only one Mr. Murphy looks warm but
has a satisfied, "I have eaten the ca
nary" look. Sheehan is there and J.
Sergeant Cram, but 1 fall to see Her
man Metz, who came into the hall when
1 did. ,
Famous Writer Gives a
Graphic Description
of the Most Tense
Moment During Dem
ocratic Gathering.
BALTIMORE, June 29. —Following is
Arthur Brisbane’s story of the fight of
\V. J. Bryan for his resolution trying to
oust Thomas F. Ryan and August Bel
mont from the Democratic national
convention:
By ARTHUR BRISBANE.
Ollie with a voice
bigger than Parker’s. orders aisles
cleared) doors closed, only late dele
gates admitted.
Now Bryan is up, raising his hand in
the old way. It is just 8:21. and this
Democratic picnic or battle has begun.
Bryan has a resolution which he
thinks should be considered at once, be
fore starting to nominate. He wants
unanimous consent, and gets it, in spite
of one feeble "No."
Bryan’s resolution resolves to send
greetings to the people of the United
States in this crisis, and assures the
people that the Democratic party of
Jefferson and Jackson Is still the peo
ple's friend, and pledges itself against
any candidate representing J. Pierpont
Morgan. Thomas F. Ryan, August Bel
mont —here the cheers stop Bryan. He
goes- on, demanding the withdrawal
from this convention of any delegates
representing the above named inter
ests.
Invitation to Oust Money Kings.
Yells at this, for Bryan and Bel
mont sit on the floor as delegates, and
It is an invitation to the convention to
put them out.
It is Bryan's announcement that he
exercises—or proposes to exercise here
—the functions exercised by St. Peter
above objections and howls and ap
plause.
Will the convention vote to put out
the two men? Bryan asks for a deci
sion on his resolution.
Everybody expected Bryan t.o do
something to arouse Interest. His in
vitation to T. F. Ryan and August Bel
mont to get out Is unkind, as Ryan in
an interview only Just before said he
would cheerfully vote for Bryan if
nominated. t
Governor Gilchrist of Florida pro
tested in the name of home rule against
a man from Nebraska being allowed to
kick out a gentleman (T. 'F. Ryan)
from Virginia, the mother of states,
and another gentleman (August Bel
mont) from New York.
Bryan read his resolution over again.
This time some delegates hissed, per
haps said to themselves: "If those
that are here to represent money are
put out. what shall we do for a two
thirds majority?”
Ryan and Belmont Sit Calm.
T. F. Ryan and August Belmont sit
quite calm amid the disturbance of
which they are the center.
Bryan goes on to say that his resolu
tion to kick out money is extraordinary,
but that .times are extraordinary and
so unusual things are needed. He
wants Ryan and Belmont to get out in
order to help the candidate when he is
nominated. He adds:
"Every delegate here knows that an
effort is being made right now to buy
this convention and sell the candidate
to predatory wealth.”
"Shameful, impertinent.” Bryan calls
it.
Then he - names Morgan, Belmont
and Thomas F. Ryan as financial
pirates, merciless in their demands on
the people.
Bryan has evidently “sprung" upon
the convention right at the start the
idea upon which he expects’to get the
nomination. He says that Belmont and
Ryan's presence is an insult to six
and a half million Democrats. He says:
“I for one am not willing that Thomas
F, Ryan and August Belmont should
come here with their lawyers and their
secret attorneys.
“I'll not tolerate that insult to my
party. Give us a chance to vote agains
these men.”
Bryan Out For a Fight.
Bryan, is out for a fight, and he is
showing some of the crowd how little
they know about politics comparea
with him.
He dares New York to take a poll on
the question, and says:
“1 don't mean a vote by M. Murphy
but a vote of delegates."
He says if Virginia and New' York
will vote, each delegate by his name, to
keep in Ryan and Belmont, he (Bryan)
will withdraw that part of his resolu
tion asking that Ryan and Belmont be
put out. But he won’t withdraw' his
resolution that the convention pledge
itself to keep free from Morgan. Ryan
and Belmont influence.
Wild yells and disorder, Bryan mak
ing a big speech and showing the pow
er of an individual against organiza
tion.
Hall Flood, member of congress, has
his arms around Bryan and is whisper
ing in his ear In Intense excitement.
Flood is from Virginia.
Now Hall Flood has the floor, and
he begins: "In the name of the sover
eign state of Virginia, I accept the in
solent proposition made by the only
man In this convention.”
Wild yells drown his voice. He is
saying that Virginia will take his chal
lenge and call the roll for Ryan. Now
comes a demonstration in the New
York and Virginia delegation for Ryan,
who is standing in the middle of the
aisle.
A Chance For Ryan.
If he bad the voice and the skill to
say what is in him, we should prob
ably hear some adjectives that would
make Bryan's seem pale. The New
Yorkers stand yelling for Ryan and
some other delegates cheer They think
he is opposed by odds too great to be
fair. Ryan is holding up his hand but
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Thomas F. Ryan, who sal in the Virginia deleo-ation on
half a chair, had only half a vote. A whole chair represents a
whole vote. Mr. Ryan sat gloomy in the hope that the other
half a vote would go out for a sandwich, and then Mr. Ryan
would have the whole chair—he hates halves.
can not possibly make his voice heard
in the din.
John W. Price, of Virginia, is on the
platform waiting his chance to talk.
He gives way to Senator Vardaman,
who begins. “Fellow citizens.” He be
gins. but can not get attention for a
long time.
Then he says: '"A question so vital
to the Democracy of America must be
settled by reason, good common sense
and moderation.” He shakes ills fine
head of black hair and says Bryan's
resolution contains, "in part, some mer->
it." Then he says it’s all right except
the part about kicking out Individual
Democrats, but agrees that the fewer
Belmonts and Ryans in the party the
better for the party in November.
Bryan gets the floor. He knows how
to do that, and then yields to Price, of
Virginia. This gentleman objects to
the kicking-out suggestion from Bryan,
but admires the first part of his resolu
tion, which Is rather hard on T. F.
Ryan, denounced by name.
Bryan Speaki Again.
Now Bryan makes another state
ment: “I shall modify my proposition.
Virginia notifies me that she. desires
the last part of my resolution with
drawn."
He goes on to say that if an author
ized member of the New York delega
tion will rise and ask that the part
about Belmont be withdrawn he will
withdraw it. New York members yell'
"NO!”
Bryan says: “I prefer to give New
York the opportunity. Does New York
want it?”
No answer. Then Bryan says New
York can defend herself and he'll re
serve the rest of his time to talk
later.
Imagine howling, cheering, hissing,
pounding with two gavels, shouting
through megaphones by clerks, etc.,
and you Kill help your mental picture
of the scene.
Ex-Governor McCorkle, of Virginia,
is recognized and comes to the plat
form.
He gets some silence and a hearing
by a polite bow to Bryan and the state
ment that he has been working for
years under Bryan's leadership. He
opposes putting out the two Individu
als.
New York’s delegation sits quiet and
sullen while McCorkle surprises Bryan
by speaking of the latter’s senseless
and foolish resolution. The look that
Bryan gives him would curdle milk, al
most.
A great deal of yelling here. Mc-
Corkle says he knows he will now be
denounced as owned "by the interests,”
but he doesn’t care. He says Bryan has
"put success farther away than it was
half an hour ago.” He wants "to drive
the money changers from the temple" a
little later, not just now.
It’s a Good Fight.
It is a good fight—just the kind of
troubled waters which Bryan swims
best. He has fooled the bosses by
smooth ways into just the (course he
wanted them to take. Now he can go
ahead.
McCorkle, having called Bry an sense
less. is cheered by Murphy’s crowd.
Flood comes back to deny Bryan’s
statement that Virginia had asked him
to recall his resolution to kick out
Ryan. Flood denies Bryan’s truthful
ness and says. “Every man in Virginia
Is as honest as William J. Bryan ever
was." which are hard words to use to a
peerless one.
Flood made it worse by saying that
the Democrats that sent Ryan here "are
just as good Democrats as Mr. Bryan
ever dared to be.”
Saying this. Flood turned to Bryan,
shaking his head and both hands at
Bryan. He says Bryan’s resolution is
"an insolent proposition made by the
only man (Bryajjt who wishes to de
stroy the Democratic party.”
More hard words. We are to have a
real battlefield here., one that will make
the performance of the battling bull
moose or Armageddon seem very gen
tle. If T. R. could have had in the
Chicago convention hall such a fight
against Root as Bryan Is making here,
T. R. would have been named.
Then comes back Bryan, saying: "It
was not necessary for the gentleman
(Flood) to praise Virginia. That is the
state in which my father was born, and
three years ago that state senfc dele
gates Instructed for my third nomina
tion.”
That was praise Indeed for Virginia,
hut It did not placate Virginia, which
has now decided to get mad at Bryan
and help Murphy's men
Bryan says that his own “reputation
as a Democrat will not be worth de
fending when It falls, so law as to need
a defense against charges by a friend
of Thomas F. Ryan. I now withdraw.”
Here he can’t be heard amid the howl
ing.
He is finally heard and says he will
withdraw the last part of the resolu
tion. (Yells of "No! No!”) But Bryan
says he insists on withdrawing it; so
that no delegate may hide behind the
last part and vote against it.
He says, "I’ll quote the Bible doctrine:
‘lf the unjust hand offend thee, cut It
off.’ ”
Unfair Advantage of Murphy.
That was hardly fair, as Murphy would
not let his men hiss anything from the
Bible.
Bryan said if it was worth while to cut
off the right hand to save the body it was
right to cut off Morgan and Ryan and
Belmont to save the party.
Then Lewis Nixon got up to say that
New York did not ask Bryan to withdraw
any part of the resolution. The chair,
Ollie James, said Bryan had withdrawn
the last part of his resolution, taking out
Ryan and Belmont, and the chair ordered
the resolution read as amended by Bryan,
pledging the Democratic party against any
candidate tied up with Morgan, Ryan,
Belmont and such, but leaving off the
part about kicking Ryan and Belmont out
of the hall.
The roll-call starts. Yelling and shout
ing continues as the resolution is ex
plained as one to suspend the rules and
in adopting Mr. Bryan’s amended resolu
tion, telling the whole world that the
Democratic is a pure party and does not
belong to Morgan, Ryan and Belmont.
Mr. Bryan watches eagerly as the voting
goes on. His face is white and drawn
with anger and emotions of all kinds, it
is probably an interesting thing to feel a
fight so keenly and be the middle of it.
One man moves to adjourn till 12 o'clock
tomorrow The motion is seconded. No
one notices it. The face of Bryan has
become more placid. He gazes out to
ward Belmont and Ryan, much as Uncle
Tom in the play gazes at Legree when
he says to Legree. “You own mah body;
but mah soul belong to God."
The convention is the body of Uncle
Tom democracy, but Bryan Is the soul of
Uncle Tom. and Ryan may buy the dele
gates which are the body, but he can't
get Bryan, which is the soul.
A Lively 100 Minutes.
Such is the drama we are now playing.
Will It end with a beautiful transfigura
tion scene—Uncle Tom’s soul (Bryan) ris
ing on a pink November cloud to the
White House heaven? Who can say?
It Is ten minutes of ten by this time,
the roll-call proceeds, and we have had
really a very lively one hundred minutes
of Democratic convention
Those, interested in politics study Bry
an’s face as the roll drags slowly, amid
the talking and laughing of a crowd en
tirely out of control.
Mr. Bryan knows wonderfully well what
is going on in the mind of a big crowd.
He knows that just now he is losing the
effect that he produced at first. The
crowd is not with him as it wa • at the
start It begins to feel that perhaps it
is true that a worm trodden upon feels
a pang as great as when a giant dies
Ryan and Belmont, of course, are the
worm, and Bryan the giant. The crowd
feels that even Wall Street worms are
entitled to fair play, and that picking
them out for personal insult face to face,
knowing that they have not the oratorical
skill to talk back, is hardly a square deal.
If Bryan could have persuaded Virginia
and New York to ask him to withdraw
the motion to put out Ryan and Belmont,
he would have kept for himself the tre-
Bryan Tribute
Nipped in House
A tribute to William Jennings Bryan
and the national convention which
adopted his anti-Wall Street resolution
was nipped in the bud today in-the
house of representatives by the objec
tion of one member.
Hooper Alexander, of DeKalb, offered
the resolution when the house opened
its session and asked unanimous con
sent that it be adopted at once. Rep
resentative Garlington, of Richmond
county, promptly objected, and this
ended the matter for the day. Mr. Gar
lington remarked afterward that he ob
jected to anything Bryan did.
The Alexander resolution was as fol
lows:
Resolved by the house of representa
tives of the state of Georgia, That the
resolution of the national Democratic
convention directed against the influ
ence of Wall Street meets our entire
approval. Its wisdom consists in Its
righteousness and courage. If the con
vention will continue In that spirit and
nominate a candidate of uncompromis
ing righteousness and of a courage that
will not halt, the people of America will
approve its action.
Resolved, That this resolution be
wired at once to William Jennings
Bryan. atilt
mendous effect produced by his original
onslaught. The crowd has had time to
cool off and think It over. Mr. Bryan
will have to find some other match with
which to fire the convention. He is apt
to find it.
Meanwhile T. F. Ryan and August Bel
mont are leaning back much relieved like
tw’o gentlemen just back from Balaklava
with all the buttons shot off their clothes
and their hats riddled.
Meanwhile Idaho is reached in the roll
call and votes eight for Bryan. It does
not matter to the two heroes of Balaklava,
however The resolution is no longer to
put them out. It merely says that they
are unfit to be in the convention.
Have you ever dreamed that you were
out in a crowded street stark naked, try
ing to hide behind a doorstep with a mil
lion fingers pointed at you?
Dreadful Dream Is Over.
And have you waked up with a gentle
sigh to find yourself in bed, suitably clad?
If so, you know how- the two veterans of
the Bryan Balaklava, Ryan and Belmont,
feel now that the dreadful dream is over.
Ryan, of a deep religious turn, was re
minded of that scene In the book of Job,
when the Lord asks Job “Where wast
thou when I laid the foundation of the
earth?”
Ryan, who felt like Job, only smaller
and more miserable, hardly knew what
to answer when he was asked. “Where
was thou when I laid the foundation of
the Democracy, sixteen years ago?”
He might have answered: “I was at
tending to my own business in the Mor
ton Trust Company.”
But Bryan would not take any such
answer as that. However, the dream of
honor has seen its worst for the present.
The night has still far to go. It is only
half past ten. and the heroes of Wall
Street may have more doses of the Bryan
Armageddon In store for them. Massa
chusetts has just voted 33 for Bryan and
3 against him. So far there are 232 votes
with Bryan and 148 against him.
Minnesota gives her 24 votes to Bryan.
We have heard nothing at all from the
Wilson supporters, who thought that
Bryan was working for them. No more
Wilson booming. “Their lances unlisted,
their trumpets unblown,” is the line for
them. They were roused from a sweet
dream just as the awful nightmare of
the Balaklava heroes began..
When Tagllonl started out from the
wings on one big toe and began to do
fancy pirouetting in the old La Scala
days the dear, cunning little coryphees
were all forgotten. So it is in this politi
cal opera. When Tagllonl Bryan hops out
In Ids big speech all the little coryphee
candidates dwindle.
Bryan will win this vote by an over
whelming majority. He had to back wa
ter a little. Although It would have been
glorious for him to send those two Wall
Street heroes out stiff and cold, he de
cided not to risk a defeat on the motion
to put the two men out.
When Bryan saw that he was sure to
win by a very high vote his emasculated
resolution, he was evidently relieved and
went to the rear of the platform, where
he sits now with eyes closed, resting as
he listens to various samples of flattering
comment.
Bryan is wonderful In his ability to keep
his head in the middle of a fight, digging
up something from the Bible, just right,
or thinking of an insult to Wall Street,
apropos. He can press the fight or run
in a moment, as he did Just now when he
abandoned the effort to put Ryan and Bel
mont out—because he did not like them.
When Choynskl had knocked out Robert
Fitzsimmons, the latter gentleman, as he
told the story, thought after a while that
he heard voices. Then he-looked up and
saw chairs up in the gallery. Then he
heard a voice counting “Six, seven, eight."
Then he came to himself. “I believe I’m
fighting some one and I’m getting counted
out.” He rose to bls feet as the referee
counted "nine.” staggered over to t'hoyn
ski and knocked that gentleman so thor
oughly senseless that he did not come to
for two hours.
Fitzsimmons won that fight and many
others because he Is a genuine profession
al and never lost his presence of mind.
So it is with Bryan He is still rest
ing, eves closed, most asleep, saving up
for the next bard punch
Tennessee is just called The vote now
stands 708 in favor of Bryan and only 207
against him. That's why he Is dozing,
and why he no longer glares around with
the fierce eye of a hen that misses a
chicken,
A two-thirds vote is needed to pass the
motion made by Bryan just the per
centage. needed to nominate. Bryan will
get the two-thirds vote for his motion.
Weep, you little coryphee candidates,
that know not how these things are done.
And you also, please weep, battling Bull
Moose of Armageddon
Bryan the Man Who Knows How.
Bryan is tin man who knows how”
when it comes to political manipulation
He began his fight against Parker and
was beaten He made another tight and
carried more than half the convention.
He made the fight on the South Dakota
contests and won by almost, the needed
two-thirds
Now he makes this fight, holding two
octopuses up to scorn and naming them
and winning by 889 votes to 196, many
more than it would take to nominate him
This vote is announced and the yelling
crowd begins to realize which candidate
Is Miss Tagllonl with the wonderful ora
torical toe and which are the chorus can
didates Mr Bryan stops dozing and
smiles, when his vote, far above two
thirds. is announced
CLARK WINNER BY
DEMOCRACY’S OWN
RULE; WILSON OUT
By JAMES B. NEVIN.
BALTIMORE, June 29.—Another
long, fruitless, grilling night has pass
ed into history, and the big problem be
fore the Democratic convention for so
lution still is far from solved.
Last night'was strikingly unlike the
night before. Much of the fatigue of
the previous day had lapped over. The
excitement was repressed and more in
tensive, every one was looking every
minute for the break that never came,
for the bursting of the bomb that
would settle for this year of grace, the
question of Democratic ascendency or
downfall nationally.
Champ Clark Won.
By (he ancient rule of the game.
Champ Clark won the nomination last
night. On more than one ballot he re
ceived a clear majority of the votes
cast. It has been the unvarying and
unbroken custom of Democracy to give
the nomination to the candidate getting
a majority of the vote, even while it
has required for him a. formal anil
ratifying two-thirds.
Champ Clark, gradually gaining
ground all the way along, passed his
majority mark on the tenth ballot and
held it on the eleventh and twelfth. He
was away in the lead and many are
saying this morning that his gallant
fight yet will be awarded with the
crown of success, and that before the
Sabbath day Champ Clark will be made
the Democratic standard bearer for
1912.
Unquestionably, there Is a note of
depression and pessimism in the talk
of dozens of delegates this morning.
Many of them see In the present sit
uation inside the convention much that
forebodes evil to the party. One dele
gate coming out of the hall with me
this morning not far ahead of day
break, said more or less sadly: "We
are making it easier and easier every
minute for Roosevelt, who must be
laughing In his sleeve at our Impossible
plight.”
Wilson Out of It.
Apparently the convention has gone
into a hard and uncompromising dead
lock. Out of it two things may come:
Clark may win, but Wilson has reached
the zenith and the fullnes of his effort
and never will come within sight of
victory. He has been hopelessly out of
It ever since the first ballot was re
corded, even before that. His friends
are bluer than indigo; his banner has
been furled forever.
Clark still has the bright and hereto
fore compelling majority vote to his
credit, in a Republican convention
Clark would this morning be. the nomi
nee. His friends are marsh/ling them
selves for another assault at noon. The
plea that he already has won is the
tiling advanced with telling effect in
Bryan Reticent
On Candidacy
BALTIMORE, June 29.—When asked
today whether he would become a can
didate for a fourtlj nomination as the
Democratic standard bearer, William
Jennings Bryan said:
”1 have not reached the point where
that would be a pertinent question.”
The colonel also declined to comment
on the vote of the New York delegation,
which he had attacked earlier on the
floor of the convention. That he might
direct another fulmination against the
“predatory interests” on the floor of
the convention was indicated, however,
when in reference to the New York
vote he said:
"I have not thought It wise to issue
bulletins or announcements. When
ever the time comes, if it does come. I
will make an announcement regarcyng
the situation.”
The Nebraskan avoided discussion of
the platform largely written by himself
to be submitted by the resolutions com
mittee to the convention.
“Do you believe a candidate will be
selected today?” he was asked.
"I do not prophesy," was Mr. Bryan’s
answer. "I am a little like Senator Al
lison, who was noted for his cautious
ness. Senator Allison, when discuss
ing an appropriation for removal of
snow in Washington, said:
" There has been a heavy fall of
snow.’ .
"Another Senator said: ‘Anri there
will be another before long.’ Senator
Allison, raising his hands above his
head, said:
"‘I will not predict.'"
"Aside from a discussion of the plat
form, will you say what your personal
views are concerning a single term for
the president?” was<he next question.
"For eighteen years, ever since I tried
to secure an amendment to the consti
tution." he answered, "I have been op
posed to two terms. In my three cam
paigns I urged against a second term.”
"You have always been willing to ac
cept one term?" was suggested.
"There have been times when I have
been willing to accept a first term;
you must be precise in your questions,"
retorted the colonel.
TWO HUNDRED HOMELESS
AS QUEBEC TOWN BURNS
POINTE AUX TREMBLES, QUEBEC,
June 29. Two hundred persons are home
less today as the result of a tire whleh
broke out here late yesterday and burned
until early today. over 50 buildings were
destroyed. The loss is estimated at SIOO.-
000.
some quarters, while it is coldly re
ceived in others.
One of his strongest lieutenants is
happy and enthused this morning and
says Clark eventually will win without
doubt.
Underwood Men Hopeful.
The Underwood men—and this is the
position of the Georgia delegation—this
morning feel that they hold an excep
tionally good strategic position. They
are convinced that he is the man upon
whom all factions must unite. In the
event of Underwood’s strength going
to pieces or his nomination seemingly
utterly impossible, the Georgians will
switch to Clark, but not before.
The Georgia delegation is instructed
for Underwood, and it will stand man
fully by him. It never will go to Wil
son, whatever it does.
The story sent out from Baltimore
that the Georgia delegation had eight
een votes ready to go to Wilson is
absurd. There are no votes on the
Georgia delegation for Wilson—not as
second, third, fourth or any choice.
Georgia will never switch to Wilson,
unless it should come (which is impos
sible! to a choice between Bryan and
Wilson. Then it would go for Wilson,
maylje. if it didn’t go home without vot.
Ing.
Tftere is talk this morning of an at
tempted stampede to Bryan. Georgia
will hot be a party of that stamped®,
if it comes.
Kern As a Dark Horse,
There is more talk of Kern, of In
diana, as a dark horse. Georgia will
have nothing to do with this either.
Kern is recognized by thousands as
Bryan’s man Friday, and a more or
less inconsequential man Friday, too.
To nominate him would be, in the opin
ion of a number of leaders, to Invite
disaster this fall, and to read Roose
velt Into the white house. Georgia in
finitely prefers Clark to Kern or Bryan
or Wilson or anybody save Underwood.
The convention is weary and much
of It is sick at heart. Victory but yes
terday was written In the stars. To
day’ the black clouds of Democratic dis
content and internal wrangling obscure
the reading of the erstwhile happy
sight.
If Champ Clark Is named today the
clouds will roll away and victory once
more will appear unmistakably writ
ten in the stars. If Oscar Underwood
is named, the hosts will rally to his
flag and a Democratic president wilt
sit in the white house after March 4.
If the unseemly row continues indefi
nitely Inside the convention Roosevelt,
will loom larger and larger on the hori
zon and if a weakling or a figure-head
Is nominated in Baltimore Roosevelt
may sweep the nation —sweep it with
Georgia as a part of the Democratic
wreckage.
ENTRIES FOR PRIMARY IN
RICHMOND CLOSE TODAY
AUGUSTA, GA., June 29.—Today is
the last for candidates to qualify for
the white primary for Richmond coun
ty offices. The majority of the present
Incumbents are unopposed for re-elec
tion.
D’Antignac Walker, clerk of the su
perior court, has not announced for re
election. Daniel Kerr and Thomas B.
Pilcher are candidates for the office.
Sheriff John W. Clark, Ordinary A.
R. Walton, Tax Collector C. S. Bohler
and Judge W. F. Eve, of the city court,
are without opposition.
DOCTORS COMING
TO ATLANTA
THE UNITED DOCTORS ARE
ARRANGING TO OPEN
LARGE OFFICES
HERE.
The United Doctors have decided to
establish permanent offices in Atlanta.
A location has been secured at 2 1-2
Auburn avenue, corner Auburn avenue
and Peachtree street. Carpenters and
mechanics have been busy for the past
month converting the second floor into
up-to-date medical offices. Expense
has not been spared. The arrange
ment, as well as the location, is per
fect. The doctors want it especially
understood that this is not to be a
place for surgery. They are not advo
cates of the knife, except in minor op
erations. but use the famous German
methods of bloodless surgery—and
their success has bt>en the marvel of
the press and profession in the South
ern cities where their offices have been
established.
The doctors will occupy the entire
second floor, with the exception of some
rooms which they are unable to get at
this time on account of being held by
lease, which will be especially furnished
and equipped to meet their demand.
The office will be open and ready to re
ceive patients early next week. These
eminent gentlemen will give their serv
ices absolutely free, excepting medicine
required, to the first 100 invalids who
cal! upon them for treatment. These
services consist of not only consulta
tion. examinations and advice, but also
of all minor operations.
The object in pursuing this course is
to become rapidly and personally ac
quainted with the sick and afflicted.
The doctors treat all kinds of diseases
and deformities. and will guarantee re
sults in every case they undertake as w
curable, and under no circumstances’
will any charge whatever be made for
the entire course of treatment to the
first ion w ho call. #
Constitutional ailments of men and
women, catarrh and catarrhal deafness,
piles, rupture, all skin dieeases and all
diseases of the rectum are positively
cured by their next treatment.
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