Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, July 7, 1908, Page 2

THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER PUBLISHED NVERY AFTMRNOON. BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. By CLYDE J..PRYOR. Watered in the postofice at Bemidjl. Minc., a8 second class matter. S SUBSCRIPTION---$5.00 PER ANNUM i - Editor Drawz, of the Staples World. one of the best felloss among newspaper men who has a large field all to himselt, is taking proper meas- ures to presereve it. His latest move 1n the line of improvement is the organizatiin of a stock company and the enlargement of his plant, He will install a new typesetting machine and make other substantial The Twentieth National Convention of the Party of Jefferson andJacksononJuly 7. s» Two-thirds Vote Needed to Se- cure Nomination. By ROBERTUS LOVE. [Copyright, 1%8, by Robertus Love.] ‘N the new Audito- rium at Denver, capital of Colora- do,on the Tth of July the twentieth na- tional convention of the Democratic par- ty will begin its work of nominating candidates for pres- ident and vice pres- ident of the United States. A two-thirds vote of the 1,008 delegates, or 672 votes, will be re- quired to nominate. In Republican na- tional conventions a mere majority Is sufficient. The Dem- ocrats adopted the two-thirds rule at thelr first natlonal convention, seventy- six years ago. Of the candidates for the presidential nomination at Denver may be men- tioned William J. Bryan of Nebraska, John A. Johnson of Minnesota, David R. Francis of Missouri, George Gray of Delaware and Lewis S. Chanler of New York. The convention will be called to order by Thomas Taggart, chairman of the Democratic national committee. The first Democratic national con- vention opened in Baltimore May 21, 1832. Its chief duty was the nomina- tion of a vice presidential candidate. improvements to his plant. Pioneer wishes him success. Congressman Charles Lindberg, of the Sixth Congressional district, is a candidate for re-election and from present appearances he will have no opposition whatever in the primaries. Mr. Lindberg has made a good congressman for the Sixth district and for the State of Minne- sota and the republican counties throughout his district are showing him their appreciation by giving hearty support. e ANDREW JACESON That Hon. B. F. Wright of Park| ¥ S{LHOUSTIE: Rapids, candidate for the republi- can nomination for judge of the Fifteenth Judicial district, is well liked at home is shown in the hearty endorsement given him at all the republican meetings and gatherings in his home county. At home he is known as an able trial lawyer, a safe and conservative counsellor, and being a man in the prime of life, Democrats IN Dexver JEFFERSON is considered to have good judg-|President Andrew Jackson, then near S ment in business affairs and a fair | the close of his first term, was so uni- minded man in his dealings with men. N In the death of ex-President Cleveland the nation loses one of its most notable characters. Mr. Cleveland had the distinction of being the only democratic president in half a century. During his ad- ministration he made many warm friends among those who were his political enemies by his careful, fear- less and intelligent way of handling the public affairs. After retiring from the presidency, he sought the quiet life of his home at Princeton and lived long enough to soften all bitterness which existed against him through politics or other sources and died having the respect of the nation back of him. OBSERVATIONS. [A. G. Rutledge.] A man never knows what a rival he has in a woman’s kin until be marries her. There are very few people who live to be sixty who do not look as though they were tired of living and afraid to die. It does not pay to be too truthful. A reporter was once discharged at this office for writing in his account ot a wedding, “The groom wore the same suit that he wore at both of his other marriages, and the bride looked haggard in her white silk.” When a girl gets married, she is very often guilty of the offiense of taking her baby over to her mother, to watch while she goes gadding, and then telling other people that her unmarried sisters are “not as thoughtful of poor mother as she used to be when she was at home to help.” When a boy of about fourteen or fifteen takes a girl to an entertain- ment for the first time, he looks as though he were trying awfully hard to make himself believe he is having a good time. Everyone can tellit is his first time by the way he acts. But you can not detect any awkward- ness in the girl, Many Prelates in Attendance. London, July 7.—The fifth decennial conference of the archbishops and bishops of the Anglican church throughout the world, known as the Lambeth conference, opened at Lam- beth palace here. The meetings of the conference will continue until Aug. 6. There are 247 prelates in attend- ance this year, compared to seventy- six at the first Lambeth conference held forty years ago. French Automobile Race. Dieppe, Framce, July 7.—Guyot, " driving a two-cylinder eighteen-horse- power machine, won the Grand Prix des Vouturettes. His time was 5:45:30, an average speed of §0.5 kilo- meters an hour. Naudin, driving a mono-cylinder, was second, finishing im 5:52:06, and Goux, driving a mono- cylinder machine, was third, his time being 5:86:01. Guyot let from start to finish. versally popular with his party that no other name was considered for the presidency. A resolution indorsing Jackson in about a hundred words was the only platform adopted. Martin Van Buren of New York, Jackson’s own selection, was named for the vice presidency. Prior to 1832 presidential candidates were nominated by mass meetings, caucuses, legislative resolutions and in other ways not national in character. In the Baltimore convention all the states except Missouri were represent- ed by delegates. Since 1832 the Dem- ocrats have held quadrennial conven- tons, and eight of them, including the first, have met at Baltimore. At President Jackson’s instance the convention which named candidates for the election of 1836 met May 20, 1835, nearly eighteen months prior to election day, thus giving Martin Van Buren and Richard M. Johnson, the nominees, the longest campaign in the history of America. This convention adopted no platform. Andrew Jack- son was the Democratic platform. The whole power of Jackson’s administra- tion was exerted toward the election of Van Buren in order to overthrow John C. Calhoun, with whom “Old Hickory” had quarreled. President Van Buren was renominat- ed in 1840, the convention meeting May 5, as the unanimous choice of the party. The convention refused to re- nominate Vice President Johnson, mak- ing, In fact, no nomination for that office. Nevertheless Van Buren was badly defeated in the election by Wil- llam Henry Harrison, while Johnson ‘was elected vice president by the Unit- ed States senate. The convention of 1840 adopted a platform, the first ever adopted by any national convention. It declared that the federal govern- ment is one of limited powers, which should be strictly construed by all the departments. The convention of 1844 met May 27 and nominated James K. Polk of Ten- nessee for president and Silas Wright of New York for vice president, but ‘Wright refused to accept the nomina- tion. George M. Dallas of Pennsylva- nia was placed on the ticket in his stead. Wright's refusal was because of pique at the defeat of Van Buren, who tried to break down the two- thirds rule and secure a renomination for himself. Polk was the first “dark horse” nominee in our history. He had not been mentioned for the presidential nomination prior to the convention. Lewis Cass of Michigan was nomi- nated for president at the 1848 conven- tion, with William O. Butler of Ken- tucky as the vice presidential candi- date.. The convention met May 2. [ 2 Bryan and Jolmmi% the Leading Candi- dates. A Conven- tions of the Past. “0ld Hickory” and “the Little Giant.” Tilden vs. Hayes. “The convention of 1852, which open- ed June 1, was a battle royal, and in the end another dark horse, Franklin Pierce of New Hampshire, was named for president. The fight was between Cass, nominated and defeated four years .before, and James Buchanan of Pennsylvania. Finally Pierce was voted for on the thirty-fifth ballot by the Virginia delegation, which persist- ed in voting for the New Englander until on the forty-ninth ballot nearly all the other delegates swung over and nominated him. Willlam R. King of Alabama was named on the.second ballot for vice president. In 1856 the Democracy finally broke away from Baltimore and met in Cin- cinnati on June 2. During all of Presi- dent Plerce’s administration James Buchanan had been absent from the country as minister to England and thus had escaped the fierce conflict on the slavery problem and the incidental anarchy in Kansas. Buchanan, Doug- las and Cass were candidates before the convention. Plerce sought a re- nomination and received a substantial vote, but his attitude in having favored the repeal of the Missouri compromise rendered him a weaker candidate than Buchanan, whose absence had been his political salvation. Buchanan re- ceived the nomination, with John C. Breckinridge of Kentucky as the vice presidential candidate. The platform adopted at this convention approved the course of the Pierce administration in repealing the Missourl compromise and thus giving slavery a chance to intrench itself In the new territories north of the southern line of Missouri. The convention of 1860 met at Charleston, 8. C., April 23. This was feated overwhelmingly in Noyember. * 8t. Louis was the Democratic conven- tlon city in 1876, June 18 being the opening date. Samuel J. Tilden of New York and .Thomas A. Hendricks of Indiana were named for president and vice president. Tilden, who was gov- ernor of New York, was a master poli- tician and had planned his campaign with marvelous ability. Governor Hen- dricks of Indiana was his chief oppo- nent. Hendricks accepted the second place on the ticket with some reluc- tance. Tilden was elected in. Novem- ber, according to the best knowledge and belief of all Democrats and many Republicans, but a special commission created to' decide ‘electoral contests voted his opponent, Rutherford B. Hayes of Ohio, into the presidential chair. The electoral commission was made up of eight Republicans and seven Democrats. The final vote on the matters in contest was eight Re- publicans for Hayes and seven Demo- crats for Tilden. In 1880 the Democrats met June 22 in Cincinnati. Tilden declined a re- nomination. General Winfield S. Han- eock of Pennsylvania was named for president and Willlam H. English of Indiana for vice president. Grover Cleveland of New York, the first Democrat elected president since 1856 and thus far the only one, was the presidential nominee of the three conventions of 1884 in Chicago, 1888 in St. Louis and 1892 in Chicago. His running mate in 1884 was Thomas A. Hendricks, in 1888 Allen G. Thurman of Obio and in 1892 Adlai E. Steven- son of Illinois. ‘When the convention of 1896 met in Chicago the leading candidate was Richard P. Bland of Missourl, but Wil- liam J. Bryan of Nebraska, then only thirty-six years old, delivered in the convention his famous “cross of gold” speech, and in the ensuing whirlwind of enthusiasm he was nominated for president. Arthur Sewall of Maine was named for vice president. Bryan was renominated by acclamation at Kansas City in 1900, ‘with former Vice President Stevenson in second place. At the convention in St. Louis in' 1904, of which Congressman Champ Clark of Missourl was permanent chairman, Judge Alton B. Parker of New York was nominated for presi- dent, with former Senator Henry G. Davis of West 'Virginia as running mate. . At the nineteen Democratic national DENVER AUDITORIUM AND CHAIRMAN THOMAS TAGGART. he flercest Demoeratic conventlon ever held, slavery extension being the bone of contention. Stephen A. Douglas was by far the strongest presidential prob- ability. The convention voted fifty- seven ballots without casting the nec- essary two-thirds vote for one man. Finally the convention adjourned to meet in Baltimore June 18. Before adjournment several southern states withdrew, being opposed to the Doug- las platform. The seceding delegates held a convention in Charleston, adopt- ed a platform for which they had con- tended in the regular convention, then adjourned to meet in Richmond the first Monday in June. On this date the seceding delegates met and again adjourned to the 21st of June. Mean- while on the 18th the “regulars” met in Baltimore and nominated Douglas for president and Benjamin Fitzpat- rick of Alabama for vice president. Fitzpatrick declined, and the national committee named Herschel V. Johnson in his place. Some of the “regulars” bolted the Baltimore convention and nominated for president John C. Breck- inridge of Kentucky and for vice pres- ident Joseph Lane of Oregon. The “seceders” sitting in Richmond accept- ed this ticket. At Chicago in 1864 the Democratie convention, which met Aug. 29, was aational only as it related to the north- orn states. The eleven southern states then in the Confederacy, of course, were not represented. General George B. McClellan was named for the pres- ldency on the first ballot and George H. Pendleton of Ohio for the vice presidency on the second ballot. The platform pronounced the war a failure. The only time the city of New York ever entertained the national conven- tion was in 1868, when the body met there on the Fourth of July and nom- Inated for president Horatio Seyrhour, governor of New York, and for vice president Frank P. Blair of Missouri. In 1872 the Democracy as then con- stituted returned to the first love of the party, Baltimore, meeting in con- vention July 9, and nominated for the first and second offices in the land two Republicans, Horace Greeley of New York and B. Gratz Brown of Missouri. This anomalous situation Was brought about by a prior convention of “Lib- eral Republicans” at Cincinnati, led by Carl Schurz, which nominated Greeley and Brown. The only hope of defeat- ing President Grant for re-election was In a combination of the Democrats and the Liberal Republicans, who had de- clared violently against the Grant ad- ministration. The Baltimore conven- tion simply swallowed the Cincinnati convention product—ticket, platform and all, Greeley and Bro 0 all, Gl and Brow Tere e conventions. alreadr held fifteen indi- vIduals have Geen named for the presl- dency. Of these six have been elect- ed. The successful candidates were Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, James K. Polk, Franklin Plerce, James Buchanan and Grover Cleveland. Van Buren was elected once and defeated once. Cleveland was elected twice and defeated once. Andrew Jackson was president two terms, but was the nom- inee of a national convention only once. Tilden was elected at the elec- tion and defeated by the electoral com- mission. Bryan has been defeated twice and is now again the leading candidate for the nomination. In 1904 he was not an aspirant for the honor. MARKET QUOTATIONS. Minneapolis Wheat. Minneapolis, July 6.—Wheat—July, $1,10%; Sept,, 927%c. On track—No. 1 hard, $1.15; No. 1 Northern, $1.13; No. 2 Northern, $1.11; No. 3 Northern, $1.06% @1.08%. ‘ Duluth Wheat and Flax. Duluth, July 6—Wheat—To arrive and on track—No. 1 hard, $1.13%; No. 1 Northern, $1.12%; No. 2 Northern, $1.09%; July, $1.09%; Sept, 99%c. Flax—To arrive, on track and July, $1.22%; Sept, $1.20%; Oct., $1.10%; Nov., $1.19%; Dec,, $1.18%. 8t. Paul Union Stock Yards. St. Paul, July 6.—Cattle—Good to choice steers, $6.00@8.75; fair to good, $5.00@5.75; good te choice cows and heifers, $4.50@5.50; veals, $3.75@4.75. Hogs—$6.25@6.40. Sheep—Wethers, $3.50@4.00; good to choice lambs, $4.25@4.50; springs, $5.25@6.85. Chicago Grain and Provisiens. Chicago, July 6. — Wheat—July, 88%ec; Sept., 89% @89%c; Dec., 90%c. Corn—July, 74c; Bept., T3%@73%c; Dec., 63%c. Oats—July, old, 48%@ 49c; July, 48%c; Sept., 42%ec; Dec., 427 @43¢. Pork—July, $15.65; Sept., $15.821%; Oct., $15.90. Butter—Cream- eries, 19@21%e; dairies, 17@19c. Eggs—16¢c. . Poultry—Turkeys, 14c; chickens, 9%c; springs, 16@17c. Chieago Union Stock Yards. Chicago, July 6.—Cattle—Beeves, $4.76@8.36; Texans, $2.40@6.30; West- ern cattle, $4.50@6.40; stockers and feeders, $2.60@5.00; cows and heifers, $2.40@6.30; calves, $4.50@8.25. Hogs —Light, $6.05@6:67%; mixed, $6.16@ 6.75; heavy, $6.15@6.75; rough, $6.16 @6.40: good to choice heavy, $6.40@ 6.75; pigs, $4.85@5.90. Sheep, $2.T6 @4.75; yearlings, $4.50@5.50; lambs, $4.40@86.70. GUFFEY STILL ON TOP! Re-Elected National Committee- BIYAN MEN BOLT MEETING Their Request That Action Be Post- poned Until Contests for Seats In Convention Are Decided Is Turned Down and They: Walk Out. Denver, July 7.—Colonel James M. Guffey of Pennsylvania was re-elected member of the Democratic national committee from that state, although several delegates left the caucus be- fore it was done, declaring the pro- ceedings irregular, The delegation met at the Adams hotel and immediately after being called to order a motion was made by John P. Fow of Philadelphia that an adjournment be taken. The motion was seconded by L. McQuiston of But- ler. It was urged in support of the motion that ‘the contests for various seats in the conventicn had not yet been settled and that the meeting was not regular. The motion was declared by the anti-Guffey men to be carried, although not more than a dozen dele- gates voted. Those favoring the ad- Journment, all of whom were opposed to Guitey, then left {he meeting amid cries of “cowards” from the Guffey men. Colonel Guffey then entered the room and the meeting was again called to order, forty-seven delezates being present, although four or five alter- nates wore included in this total. Will- 1am J. Banner of Pittsburg acted as chairman. P. J. O’Boyle of Wilkes- barre nominated Guffey for national committeeman, the nomination being seconded by John M. Garman of ‘Wilkesbarre. Mr. Guffey was then elected without oppcsition, TOM JOHNSON FEELS HURT Bryan Refused to Apnrove His Gov- ernment Ownership Plank. Denver, July 7.—Mayor Tom L. Johnson of Cleveland has a grouch and a flattened boom for the chair- manship of the Democratic national committee. Mr. Johnson sat on the boom him- self, stating that he would not accept the chairmanship were it offered him, but another rezsom, Ohio delegates who are here declare, is the fact that Johnson will not be elected national committeeman from Ohio and that his defeat will redound to the success of Harvey C. Garger of Columbus. Mayor Johnson’s grouch is believed tp have been instigated by a difference of opinion which arose between him- self and Mr. Bryan at Lincoln. The Cleveland mayor carried to Mr. Bry- an a plank on government ownership of railroads, a matter on which the Nebraskan uttered scme radical ideas about, but which Le has since been keeping in his trunk. Mayor Johnson asked Mr. Bryan to government ownership plank {n the platform and Mr. Bryan deelared he Wwould not do so. ENDORSES NO CANDIDATE New York Delegation Helds Its First Caucus. Denver, July 7.—At the New York state caucus here the previous ar- ranged programme of the state lead- ers was carried out in every detail. No action was taken as to the presi- dency, vice presidency or the selec- tion of national committeemen. Lewis Nixon was appointed the head of a sub-committee of ten to draft a tenta- tive platform to be presented at a subsequent caucus and to be urged be- fore the convention committee on res- olutions. A strong anti-injunction plank was offered in the caucus and referred to the sub-commiitee without debate. Charles F. Murphy was made chair- man of the state delegation and Alton B. Parker member of the committee on resolutions, Thomas F. Grady mem- ber of the committee on rules, Daniel F. Cohalan member of the committee on credentials and Charles P. Will- {ams member of the committee on per- manent organization. McCarren’s Contest Dismissed. Denver, July 7.—The sub-committee which considered the New York eon- tests decided that inasmuch as Mr. McCarren presented no evidence tend- ing to show the invalidity of the cre- dentials against which he had filed his contest he had no standing whatever and his case was dismissed. Anti-Bryan Men to Confer. Denver, July 7—A conference be- tween all of the ant{-Bryan people has been arranged. The participants will Include representatives of the Gray end Johnson people and many unin- structed delegates. Bryan Has Nothing to Say. Fairview, Neb., July 7.—With tele- phone wires out of commission and Fairview cut off from Lincoln by a washout on the trolley lines W. J. Bryan had ample opportunity to peruse the strictures upon himself deliverad by J. M. Guffey, national committee- man from Pennsylvania, in response to Mr. Bryan’s attack upon Guffey in a speech on July 4. “I have nothing to say,” was Mr. Bryan’s response to an inquiry anent the Guffey statement. Ohio Contest Decided. Denver, July 7.—The national com- mittee decided the contest in the Nineteenth Ohio district in favor of the Rockwell faction, seating' E. E. France and A. C, Holloway. The dal- egates favorod by Tom Johnson in this contest were defeated. Georgia Unanimous for Johnson. Denver, July 7.—The Georgia dele- gation, in caucus, declared unani- mously for Joanson and will cast | twenty-six votes for the Minnesota candidate. Cubois Faction Seated. Denver, July 7.—The sub-committee »of the national committee which heard the evidence in the Idaho contests de- cided in favor of the Dubois-Heitfeldt faction, insist upon the incornoration of the FOR LEGALS Attorneys and others having the handling of the publication of legal notices should remember that the Daily and Weekly Pioneer ccver the entire week, with regard to the legal imblica,tion of notices. Should your notice not be ready for publication before Wed nesday evening (when the Weekly Pioneer is pub- lished) you may insert them once each week in the Daily Pioneer for the allotted number of weeks, which will give you a legal publication, as desired, The Pioneer is the ONLY paper in Beltrami county which can do this—as no other daily is a legal \ publication. SEE THE PIONEER | | DAILY PIONEER FOR YOUR LEGALS - Joseph Allward, a painter, fell te his death from a scaffold hung at the tenth floor of the Postal Telegraph building at Chicago. The coal miners of the Birmingham (Ala.) district have declared a strike. The sheriff has appointed deputies in anticipation of trouble. Prince Helle de Sagan has given notice at the registry office in London of his intention to marry Madame Anna Gould. The date upon which the marriage is to occur i8 not given in the notice. George -Maley Read, commander of Crocker post of the Grand Army of the Republic and treasurer of the . Brotherhood of American Yeomen, ia dead at Des Moines, Ia: He was sixty- elight years old. MR. JOSEPH MONTRY OF MAHNOMEN. MINN. Writes Letter Which May Be of Great Interest to Skin Suffer- ers of this City. Mahnomen, Minn., 1-27-’08. Only a few lines to let you know that I have had a bad leg with the weeping Eczema for 35 years. I spent quite a bit of money on doctor bills but I could never find relief. I spent over $100 for the medicines that I bought until I found your advice about your D. D. D. Prescription. 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