Evening Star Newspaper, July 10, 1896, Page 17

THE EVENING STAR. = ————— PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY, AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, 1101 Pennsylvania Aveaue, Cor. 11th Street, by Star N ar CO ree EE GAUPFMANAS Prose New York Odice, 43 Potter Building. ‘The Evening Star fs served to subscrivers in the ity by carriers, on their own account, at 10 cents per week. or 4 cents mouth. Copies at the qeunter 2 cents cach. By wail—sayw ju the United States oz Canada—postage prepuid—50 cents per month. Saturday Cuinteple Sheet Star, $1 per sear, with foreign postage added, §3.00. Entered at the Post Office at Washington, D.C, es secoml-class mail matter.) C7All mall subscriptions must be pald tn advance. Rates of advertisinc made known on application. NAMES PRESENTED - Democrats Put in Nomination at Chicage, > VES? SPEAKS FOR BLAND F. E. White of Iowa Recommends Horace Boies, Ee GOV. MATTHEWS URGED BY TURPIE Merits of the Candidates Glow- ingly Portrayed. THE FULL The delivery of the nominating and sec- onding speeches in the democratic conven- tion last right was another oppor- tunity for the display of oratory that has characterized the convention. Senator Vest of M Bland in nomination. Governor Overmyer of Kansas and J. W. Bailey of Texas seconded the nomination. F. E. Write of Iowa presented the name of ex-Governor Horace Boies of that state and Senator Turpie that of Governor Mat- Oscar A. Triplett of Califorr‘a seconded the nomination. souri put Mr. thews of Indiana. Senator Vest's Specch. Me. FF dent and Gentlemen of the Conventic Revolutions do not begin with the rich and perous. They represent the pro! who are suffering from present c ons and whose demands for relief are dencunced by the beneficiaries of unjust 1 oppressive legislation. “When a profound sense of wrong, evolv- ed from years of distress, fastens upon the public mind in a free country and the peo- ple are determined to have redress, a leader is alwa: found who is a platform in hin.- self and to whom they instinctively turn as the log: exponent of their hopes. The people are not iconoclasts nor false to their convict s. They followed Jefferson when he assailed the centralizing and monarc! i s of the old federalists, and was denounced 2 a communist and leveler by the wealth and culture of New wlan and New York. Th followed Jackson when he took the United States bank py the threat and w:s prociaimed a tyrant and ruffian by the usurers and money kings. They followed Lincoln when he at- slave power a declared that could not exist ‘half slave and “The great movement for bimetallism— the free and unlimited coinage of gold and silver ai the ratio of 16 to 1 and the res- teration of silver to its constitutional stat- us is “No sapling chance sown by the fountain, Blooming at Beltane, in winter to fade.” It has come to stay. It is a protest against the wrong and outrage of 1873. when, with- cut debate and with knowledge of only a few men in Congress, the silver dollar Wes stricken from the coinage and the red $ to all val- remen of t with form- allie mon . in order to establish the slay- merica that the Un draw from the cons| ed to <lestre of the wor! ited States mu ery of sreed and usury, more degrading | than the tyranny of armed forces. It is the stern demand from unrequited toil, bankrupt enterprise and ruined homes for a change in the m system which for years has brought disaster and desolation. “In this crisis of our country and party we must teke no step backward in plat. | ferm nor candidate. We ant no uncertain } nor doubtful leader; no ‘laggard in peace, | or dastard in war:’ no latter-day silver | saint, but a grizzled and scarred veteran who has horne the heat and burthen of tne | and whose breast ts marked from edge word and point of lance on a hundred i Battle Regan Twenty Years Ago. “Twenty years ago the Lattle for silver was begun in the halls of Congress by a modest, unpreterd brave man, not an iridescent nor meteoric statesman, but of the people and from the people, who has never faltered for an instant in the great | struggle. Others doubted and wavered, some yielded to blandishment and patron. age, and are now hold-ng office under the gold power; others misrepresented thzir cnstituerts anc have been provided for in the national infirmary of the present ad- ministration, bat Richard Parks Bland stands now where he stood then, the ing, breathing embodiment of the silver eztse. He struck with steel point the gold skield of the money monopolists, as did Ivanhoe that of the proud tempiar in tke lists at Ashbu' and has neither asked nor given qvarter. or is he a narrow, one- ideaed man. For tweny-two years jn Con- he fought in the front ranks for ratic principles and policies as taught Jefferson. He stood by the side of Ran- all, and risked health and life to defe: the first force bill. He opposed ably and earnestly that crowning tariff infamy, the McKinley act, and again was among the fcremost cpponents of the last force bill, which passed the House, but was defeated in the Serate. He introduced the first free coinage measure in Congress, and was the author of the seigniorage bill, which pass- e@ both heuses and was vetoed-by Pri dent Cleve! Whence Comes the Man. “If this be an obscure record, where can be found the career of any public servant deserves the plaudits of his coun- trymen? The democrats of Missourt, who ed through the fiery furnace of Tiption seven times heated, whcse state flag has always been piaced beneath the great oriflame of the national deinocracy, make no apology nor excuse when offering such a candidate for the pre: If you ask ‘whence comes our we answer ‘not from the | ustrers’ den, nor tempie of mammon, where the clink of gold drowns the voice of patri but from the farm, the werkshop, the mine—from the hearts and homes of the people.” To reject him is 0 put a brand upon rugged honesty and un- daunted courage. and to chill the hearts and hopes of those who during all these years have waited for this hcur of triumph. Tc nominate him is to make our party again that of the people and- to secure success. “Give us Silver Dick, and silver quick, And we will make McKinley sick In the ides of next November.” F. E. White’s Nominating Speech. “Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Con- vention: | flood has ever been I am authorized of the democracy of Iowa to present to this convention, for the nomination to the high office of President, the name of Horace Boles of our state. I want to assure this convention in advance that this is not a result of any question of mere local pride, nor is it the result of ar consideration of the question of meré vailability. We ask you to nominate the candidate of our choice upon far broader grounds, upon the broad ground that Horace Boles is emphatically a broad man. Those of us who know him best, do not hesitate either -here or elsewhere to de- clare with all the confidence that a thor- ough knowledge of the truth can inspire that he is a man of the stanchest char- acter, possessing a powerful -personality and equipped wita a combination of mental lities that will make him, if elected, an ideal executive. Knowing as we all do that the political situation of the country is a grave and ominous one, this conven- tion must not ignore nor evade the re- sponsibility this situation creates, which is to give to the American people a candidate, the menticn of whose name, wherever known, will carry with it an overwhelming strength and stand in case of election and an_ unqualified guarantee for the entt safety in the management of all public af- fairs, the just settlement of every pressing stion and the speedy inauguration of a igorous reign of exact justice. Not a Sensational Man. Neither in formulating 2 policy nor in the execution of the same, nor yet in pre- senting an argument upon the merits or demerits of any public question, has Gov. Boies ever striven in the least degree to create a sensation, to his everlasting honor it must be said that in the doing of these things he has never failed to make a deep impression. This is the ideal test by which pacity of a public man should be ; this is the highest standar@ b, which a statesman’s reliability and use- fulness should be ascertained and deter- mined. If you select Gov. Boies as your » and the people ratify your de- on in November, we can promise you ho pyrotechnical display from the White House during his administration, there will be no rockets sent up, the explosion of which will frighten the timorous or furnish a subject for foolish talk for the sup There will be no sensational per- res upon the political trapeze at the Executive Mansion while Herace Boles is its occupant; he will write you no startling messages upon excitable public topics; we Promise you none of these performances, but I will tell you what we can and do Promise you, and that is the inauguration and faithful execution of a policy that will commend itself to every philosophic mind, and be applauded by every sincere patriot, a policy that will be characterized through: out by the invigorating course of hard common sense and be all aglow with the everlasting sunshine of noble intention—a policy the primary object of which will Le not the creation of opportunities for the unnatural increase of the already exces- sive fortunes of an avaricious class, but the strict maintenance of the natural and constitutional right of every citizen: care- fully including that great body of our popu- lation, the laboring class, the people who Produce our national wealth, who never tire of their devotion to the Constitution, who never desert their country’s cause any stage of any peril, who are al true and steadfast, even in the very midst overwhelming crisis, who furnish the teer soldiers and sailors In time of war, and earn the wherewith to pay the vost of the war when it is over; the people who are the very mainstay of free govern ment, to secure to these a larger share ¢ the fruit of their labor; to secure to them impartial justice, be one of the card nal principles fully developed in the pol of, the Boies administration “To secure to him who earns a dollar the dollar he earns is a task that will be y exacted of the statesmans future. That type of statesmanship Which so persistently and successfully Plotted to pliifer frcm the industrious that the idle may thrive will he given tts death blow next November, if you men here are wise in your counsels and provide the op- portunity to the people to strike the blow. ¢ Boles’ Career. Boles was born in New York State, and came to Iowa in nis early man- hood. He came not as an adventurer, but with the fixed purpose of building up a Permanent home, which he did at the town of Waterloo, voluntarily and reso- lutely incurring all the inconveniences of a frontier life. The result 1s that in his mature years the people of his state have loaded him down with the richest honors and reward in their power to bestow, and he is today an inseparable factor in a con- spicuous part in the phenomenal history of our state. Let me beg of this convention tlege of one glimpse of Iowa his- As to the question of Iowa heing a great state, concerning the capacity of her soil to produce uniformly abundant crops, I will not deal. It is enough to say that the diploraas awarded to Iowa by the man- agement of the Columbian exposition are the official declaration which secures to us what had been before conceded by Viz: The crowning glory of standing the ural Neither drouth nor Powerful enough in Iowa to constitute what in other localities Was a natural calamity. I have raised fifty bushels of solid corn per acre, upon which not one drop of rain fell from the time it came up until the ear was fuliy grown. There is, perhaps, not another spot in this wide world where such a thing was possible. “But while we are easily supreme in the cornfield, our democrats have a hard row to hoe in politics. The torments inflicted by the seven plagues of Egypt must have been -a solid chunk of comfort compared to the treatment accorded Iowa democrats by the sixty, seventy and eighty thousand uninterrupt republican majority which for more than a generation delighted in maktug an annual picnic out of the election day, and just for the fun of the thing trampled the Iowa democracy into the very earth. This huge army of republican voters dominated by the spirit of the inexpli- cable fanaticism, and the more we com- bated this spirit the flercer it grew. Nat- urally democrats became disheartened and sc When this republican recklessness was nearing the culminating point, and through sumptuary legislation every ‘guar- aniee of personal liberty was endangered, when acts which throughout the civilized world are regarded as natural and treated as lawful were in lowa defined as crimes and compared to capital offenses. When the constitutional protection of trial by jury, which for centuries had been esteemed the very climax of all the glory of Anglo-Saxon civilization, when this was about to be eliminated from our judicial system, and the cold, barbarous system of Russia was about to be substituted—in fact, when the whole machinery of our local government, the greatest of all dem- cratic principles, the principle of home rule, was about to be swept out of exist- ence; when every lover of freedom was on the point of despairing; when there was ho democratic leader anywhere in sight wise and bold enough to face the crisis, there was heard the voice of one as speaking in the wilderness; it was the magic volce of Horace Boles, summoning disheartened men to heroic action. He it was who leaped boldly to the very front and alone defied the seemingly irresistible column of an exultant foe—a foe that had never been chastened by defeat. He accomplished what all men united in declaring the im- posible, for in the two contests which fol- lowed, which in many respects have no parallel in the history of American p tics, Horace Boles came off victor, ‘and thus did he forever avert the danger of having a veritable despotism planted upon the fruitful soil of a free state. - “A soldier can show his courage only in battle, a sailor his fearlessress only while a storm fs raging; the firemen in a great city can only exhibit that sublime type of heroism which we all so much admire dur_ ing the time of an actual conflagration, wher property fs to be saved and imper- fled lives are to be rescued; so a statesman can only show his real capacity, can only demonstrate the full measure of his wis- dom and power during a crisis; it is only during an actual crisis that the higher qualities of statesmanship can be developed and tested. That Horace Boles possesses at head of the long column of agricnlt states of this nation. this rarest of ‘ali human czpacities, tne power" to rise equal and supertor to a crisis and control it, is attested by this history of our state and cencurrent testimony of political friend and foe. ‘This is the man who stands vefore the American people. equipped with these supreme qualifications, that we ask this convention to nominate. Botes and the Currency. “Upon the overshadcwing issue of this campaign Governor Boies stards upon an invulnerable platform, the Constitution of his couatry. Inasmuch as tne Constitution, in defining what the state shall use as ‘legal tender in the payment of debts’ des- ignates not gold or silver, but gold and silver, Goverror Boies believes that the bimetallic system thus provided for in the tundamertal law of the land is the system the democratic party must indorse and up- held. He believes that so tong as the Con- stitution remains unchanged that Congress has no power to demonetize either metal. Hence, in common with the great mass of American people, he belleves that the de- monetization of silver was not an ordinary political blunder, but an actual crime, and he can conceive of no condition which can possibly arise that would justify the dem- ccratic party in justifying that crime or tn helping to rerpetuate its direful results. Governor Boies does not believe in a dis- honest 50-cent dotlar, as it would work an injury to the creditor class, neither does ke belleve in the 200-cent dollar, which ts still more dishonest, as It unquestionably tr- velves the bankruptcy of the debtor class. Governor Boies believes in an honest Amer- ican dollar, authorized not by the British parliament, but by a law of the American Congress and coined for use among the American people. He belleves in a gol dollar of 22.2 grains of gold and in a silver dollar just sixteen times heavier. “Having rebelled against British “influ- ence over a century ago, winning the fight when a -nere weakling Having now de- veloped into the strorgest people on earth, Clearly entitling us to the leadership among rations, it would be not merely a pitiable cowardice on our part, but actual treason to tae people should we now capitulate to English greed. “The finger of a kind fate points to the election of Horace Boies. History seems to be anxious to repeat itself. Give us the man from Waterloo and allies will flock to his standard which will destroy Mark Han- na’s Napoleon No. 2 as effectually as the European allies destroyed the French poleon No. 1.” Oncar A. Trippett's Speee! “Gentlemen of the democratic conven- tion: California is the greatest gold-produc- ing state in the Union, but netwithstanding this great fact, and the advant she would obtain by reason of a gold standard, she Is not jealous of her silver-producing sister states and joins with the demand of the people for a free and unlimited coin- age of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1. In recognition of the wish of her people the republican party of that great state sent to the recent convention at St. Louis a delegation instructed in favor of the free and unlimited coinage of silver. ‘That dei- egation returned to their homes in de- feat and disgrace, wearing the gold badges yy Wall street and the money sharks of Europe. “The democracy of California recently assembled in the largest and most enthu- siastic convention ever held within the state and that corvention also unanimous- ly Instructed its delegates to this conven- tion te vote as a unit for the free and un- Mmited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1. “The delegates to this convention will re- turn to their homes flushed with victory to receive the plaudits of a grateful people. “At St. Loufs was heard the voice of Wall street, at which Ergland rejoiced. Today is heard the voice of the people of America, and John Bull will groan. “How often have we heard fram the re- publican platform the denunciation of the democratic party for a fancied alliance with England, and now this same purty with singular inconsistency nas joined heart and soul with England aga demands of a suffering pecple. “This convention having adopted a plat- form which declares in favor of the hon- est money of our forefathers, the dclege- tion of the empire state of the Pacific coast desires the nomination by this convention of a man in harmony with the principles announce. ‘This great state extends her hand toward the Atlantic seaboard ant asks to be met half way and that a west- ern man be seiected as the nominee of this convention. Without wishing to say aught disparagement of other gentlemen, names have been presented to this ition, I take great pleasure in sec- onding the nomination of Governor Mat- thews of Indiana. “This {s a convention of the people, and what is more proper for the convention to do than to select as its standard bearer a man who springs from that great class of American pcople--the farmers of the United States? “Like a Cincinnatus, he was called from the plow to preside over the destinies of the great state of Indiana, and £0 fully has he met every expectation that he h sprung Into national prominence and re- spect more rapidly than any other man of generation. “I think with ether delegates coming here from the Pacific slope that if this con- vention will nominate this distinguished citizen of the great middle west, he will lead to victory, the democratic cohorts in November.” J. W. Bailey's Remarks. “Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Con- vention: For the first time since the close of our unhappy civil war, a large majority of those who vote in the coming presiden- tial contest will be governed in the casting of their ballots by their convictions upon a great economic question. This convention has already adopted a platform, which de- fines with admirable force and clearness the position of the democratic party upon that question, and it is our duty now to perfect our work by nominating a man whose words and deeds are better than a written pledge that he will faithfully keep. the promise which our platform makes. Who most completely fulfills this supreme re- quirement? If I should ask this audience, or if I should ask any audience assembled on the American continent and under the American flag, what democrat among the many splendid leaders in our party best represents the issue which today d vides the American people, and which must be decided at the polls on the 3d of next November, I would be answered with the name of Richard Bland. And, gentlemen of the convention, he not only best typifies the paramount issue in the next election, but he has been a fearless and consistent advocate of all of those immortal principles which our democratic fathers cherished and defended. ““Those who doubt the wisdom of his nomi- nation sometimes venture to express the fear that he is not great enough to be our resident. To taem I say, examine his record. For twenty-two years he sat in the federal House of Representatives, and during all those years he voted right as often and he voted wrong as seldom as any man who ever occupied a similar station for an equal length of time. No ordinary man can safely pass this crucial test, and the intelligent voters of this land are’ will- ing to believe any man who is wise enough always to be right ts wise enough to be the chief magistrate of this republic. But. bet. ter even than his unerring common sense, is his rugged and unylelding honesty. “In his person he unites the highest quali- ties of an ideal candidate. He 1s so patriotic that he has always put the love of country above the love of self; he is so honest that no tainted dollar ever touched his hands, and he is so firm that a legion of his coun. try’s enemies could not drive hime from his place of duty. The nomination of Mr. Bland will proclaim to the millions who“are proud to own their allegiance to democracy that the public good is again to be exalted above selfishness and private greed; {t will ree assure the doubters, recall the democratic wanderers and inspire the masses with hopeful courage. Nominate him, and € every home, whether palace or cablry t 1 party will be told how a great and successful has crowned with its highest honor a private citizen because he has been true to his own conscience and loyal to the best interests of his countrymen. “But, fellow democrats, whether your choice shall be Bland or Boies, Matthews, McLean or Kentucky's gifted son, the im: perial commonwealth of Texas, with her more than one hundred thousand majority, | will take her place at the head of your vic j torious columns.” Mr. Overmyer's Speech. “Mr. President and Gentlemen of ‘the Convention: “In the name of the democracy of Kan- sas; in the name of the farmers of Kansas; in the name of the farmers of the United States; in the name of the homeless wanderers who throng your strects, in quest of bread; in the name of that mighty army of the unemployed; in the name of that mightier army which has risen in fi: surrection against every form of economic despotism, I second the nomination ef that illustrious statesman and patriot, that Ti- berius Grachus, Silver Dick Bland of Mis- sourl. A man who understands the sig- nificance of the fact that the American de- mecracy took the Constitution when it was a mere commission of public authority and added to it the ten great amendments which stands forever as an impassable bar- rier against the invasive instincts of power a man who knows that If power is not re- quired to stop :omewhere, power will stop nowhere; that the first lesson of Mberty is Jealousy of power,and that the first maxim of liberty is that safety lies in distrust of bower; a man who knows that no nation ever enriched itself by taxing itself; that no tax 1s either constitutional or just ex- cept It be levied for a purpose, and that any tax which places the burden of govern- ment upon the backs of the poor while ex- emptng the rich {s iniquitous; a man who knows that there are things dearer than gold—character, exalted character, man- hood, unconquerable manhood, honor, im- mortal honor—and that these high quali- ties cannot long be retained by man men- aced with mortgages, dominated by land- lords and bowed down under the bitter and hopeless bondage of political debt; that ali which dignifies, all which elevates, all which exalts our mortal life, must wither and perish under the desolating touch of gold. “Ii fares that land,to hastening {lls a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay, Prince: and lords may flourish or may fade, A breath may make them as a breath has made; A bold yeomanry, their country’s pride, When once destroyed can never be sup- Dlie “A man who knows that money is the life-blood of the body commercial, and that no man or set of men can ever have a right to ligate the limbof that body or to arrest or impede the normal circulation of that blood; a man who knows that money coined from either of the precious meta® is sound money, as attested by the exper- fence and wisdom of all ages past; a man who knows that the money of the Con- stitution is sound money; that money which is good enough to pay every private debt is good enough to pay every public debt; that money which was good enough to pay George Washington for his expenses Incurred in establishing our liberty is good enough @ pay Ickleheimer or Morgan or any other man in the wide, wide world: that the money of Jefferson, of Jackson, of Madison, of Monroe and of Benton is honest money, and that he who says it is not, insults the memory of those ‘dead but sceptered sovereigns who rule our spirits from their urns.’ A-man who knows thal international agreement ts a mere device to appease the people and once more dis- appoint and betray them; and that they who would place this nation under subjec- uon to Great Britain jin the matter of the standard of value are uo friends of their country, or their kind, and that the true ratio between the metals is sanctioned by time, 16 to 1. “A man who knows that this nation's honcr is not in the keeping of that preda- tory and piratical element, that leagued and confederated scoundrelism which loots the treasury, stifles commerce, paralyzcs industry and plunders the world: a man who cannot be ruled by consolidated mc- nopoly or aggregated diabolism: who knows that no nation ever pros where agriculture has ; that commerce has never languished wher agriculture hes prospered. That a vast majority of the Americen people are farm- ers: that when prosperity shal) return it will come first to these dust-covered mil- lions whose hard, sun-browned hands never touch a polluted dollar: who work in the fields under the cper sky, under the burn- ing sun of summer, and through the frosts and storms of winter, from the time the sters grow dim in the east till they rise in the west. That when these prosper all who trade and all who transport, all who buy and all who sell, will prosper, and that until this happens none can prosper except those who speculate in human mis- ery. A man who is in sompl-te sympathy with the common people. who knows the tragedy of poverty and ihe pathos of the short but simple annals of the poor. A man uround whose simple rural home is no wall of iron to keep out his fellow men: a man who needs and who has no body. guard, but whose shield and protection are the love and sympathy of his fellow-men. “Such a man is Richard P. Bland. Ie is as patient as Washington, as sympa- thetic as Jefferson, as brave and as just as Jackson and as wise and sagacious as any tan who ever occupied :he presiden- tlal chair. He can command the suffrages cf more democrats than any other man standing upon a free silver plat‘orm, and he can command the suivrayes of ‘more silver democrats who are not democrats than any other democrat. He can carry every state in the south; he can carry the Prairie states and the mountain states and the Pacific states, and he can carry more States of the central and castern part of the country than any other man standing in the position which the great democratic party has here taken. Nominate him and he will be elected by such a majority as has never been witnessed] before in this ccuntry. Then will be fulfilled the Califor- nian’s “prophecy, “That land from out whose depths shall rise the new-time Prophet, tlat wide domain from out whose awful depths shall come all clad in skins, with dusty feet, a man fresh from his Maker's hand, a singer singing ever sweet: a charmer, charming very wise, and then all men shall not be dumb, may not be dumb, for He shall say, “Take heed, for I Prepare the way for weary feet.” * The eyes of the whole country, the eyes of the whole world are upon us. ‘The great heart of mankind beats with anxious ex- Pectation of the issue of this convention. Upon that result hanxs the future weai or woe of this country. By the ashes of your ancestors, by the memories of your Breat and venerated dead, by the love which you bear to your children, by the duty which you owe to posterity, in the name of all that men hold sacred, I ap- peal to you to resolve this great ssue aright, and there is one name the very ut- terance of which is a coniplete solution, Bland, Bland, Blani.” — GREAT FLOODS IN JAPAN. a mau ered, 1 languishel, « Thousands of Houses Swept) ‘Aw: and Many Liven Lost. Disastrous floods have occurred in the prefectures of Toyama and Shiga, on the West coast of Japan. Three thousand houses have been destroyed. The loss of life is not stated, but is supposed to be ex- tensive. co+____ Only Wounded This Time. Gen. Linares reports that country people from Stengoes, who have recently reached Santiago de Cuba, ass that Maceo was wounded in the head-and breast by two bullets in the recent engagement at Loma Geltao, when the itisirgents retired with numerous losés, whioh included several officers of different tabks, ———<_sie+ Suggested’ Lynching for President Cleveland. Enthusiasm for free silver has led to the arrest of Dr. J. I. Fearon of Council Bluffs, Iowa, on the charge .of having used the mails for the rurpese of making defam- atory and Incendiary utterances of and concerning one Grover Cleveland, President of the Uuited States, and John Sherman, a Senator of the United States. He intimated on a-postal card to a friend that Judge Lynch would make short work of Grover Cleveland and John Sherman un- der certain conditions. THE STAR BY MAIL. Persons leaving the city for any period can have The Star mailed to them to any address in the United States or Canada, by ordering it at this office, in person or by letter, or bosial card. Terms: 13 cents per week; 25 cents for two weeks, or 50 cents per month. Invariably in ad- vance. Subscribers changing their address from one Post-oifice to another should give the last address as well as the new one. First Ballot of the Democratig National Convention, Efforts of the Various Managers to Secure Success. THE WHAT CONVENTION HALL, CHICAGO, July 1 —The first ballot for President by the dem- ocratic national convention failed to nomi- nate any candidate. BEFORE THE BAL Talk Among the Delegates Before Roll Was Calle. CHICAGO, July 10.—The decks were cleared early this morning for the balloting, which began when the democratic national convention reassembied at 10 o'clock today. The struggle opened with wrought to an intense pitch over the sensa- tional developments of yesterday, when the Bryan wave swept through the convention and threatened for a time to stampede it then and there. It disturbed all calcula- tions and has thrown the ranks of other candidates into confusion. The day opened with a continuance of that deliciously cool weather which has attended the convention from the start. The wind came off the prairies toward the lake, yet 1t was as balmy as that of early spring or late fall. There was a haze in the alr like that of Indian summer. Ligh:, fleecy clouds kept off the glare of the sun from the great crowds which were early on the march toward the convention hall. LOOTING. The sensation of yesterday and last night | had been contagious both within and with- out the convention hall, and the public at large was eager to see lis expected deveiop- ment when the convention opened today. Chairman White and other executive cfti- cers conferred early in the day as to the desirability of closing the doors against the unruly crowd, in case of the repetition of the disorder and discourtesy of last night | when Senator Turple, Senator Vest and others who made nominating speeches bat- tled in vain against the confused murmur of hurrahs and cat call: While there was no disposition to check the expression of exuberant feeling at proper moments, yet there was a deter- ton not te permit it to take absolu sntrol of the convention and prevent the transaction of business. The rush at the doors was greater than it had been at any previous sex As the balloting was about to begin it was felt that one of two conditions would be showa, either that the enthusiastic ele- ment would dominate and would swiug delegations into line with one accord, or else that a condition would be shown which would make a protracted deadlock in- evitable. The Bryan Forces. The Bryan forces were making the most of the phenomenal rise of the young orator from Nebraska yesterday. The adjourn- ment early this morning had given the lead- ers of other candidates an opportunity to rally their forces, and it served also to give a few hours in which cool counsel could pre- vail against the wave of sentiment, which was at high tide last night. But the con- vention hall continued to be full of Bryan rumors. The Nebraska man had given by his presence on the platform that magnetic touch which had thus far been lacking. His personality is an engaging one to | those who come here fired with the senti- ment that silver is the watchword of the plain people. One of the orators had re- ferred to him as Tiberius Gracchus, the tribune of the people; another had siyled him the “Cicero fit to meet the Cataline of today; another had seen in him “the American Cromwell,” ready to grapple with the royal power of wealth. Mr. Bryan had remained away from the convention hall after concluding his speech. He had received bulletins detailing the Progress of the movement in his behalf. He conferred last night and early today with the leaders in charge of his interests, and advised them on the steps to be taken. It had been his judgment that his name should not be formally presented through a nominating speech, but should await such developments as the balloting might bring. What Bland Men Say. The Bland managers, while admitting the danger of the impetuous Bryan movement, declared that it was the result of adroit generalship, and that it had failed in its purpose to carry the convention off its feet. They still held their strongholds of Missouri, Arkansas, Illinois and Texas, and were smilingly confident that the actual figures of the ballot would take from the Bryan movement its element of popular en- thusiasm. The Bland men still counted on the west and were hopeful of winning ac- cessions {tom the south after the first bal- lot. ‘The Botes and Matthews forces were sat- isfled that no nominaticn could be made on the early ballots and that Bland and Bryan would disappear after their full stren;z:} had been registered and had been founu insufficient to nominate. The lesser candi- dates were playing a waiting gqme, believ- ing that the time would come when the convention would in desperation turn from its first favorites and seek others on whom strength could be concentrated. Great interest centered in the course of the New York and other gold delegations. ‘Their conferences had failed to bring about { , Charge, | | of the candidates are in order as follows: | part of New York to refrain from taki | conclude its | between Bland and Bryon, PROSPECTS ARE determination to bolt, except in a few in- dividual instances, but the purpose on the part in the ballot had an ominous sug- gestiveness. With this were coupled reports from many €astern localities that the democratic news- papers had declared against the silver plat- form adopted yesterday. ‘The silver leaders aid not seek to belittle the importance of th attitude by the eastern men and th press, but they labored to develop a spirit j Of conciliation before the convention closed. the delegates Should the presidential nominaticn be made todzy, the convention will doubtless labors tonight by hurrying through the nor ation of the Vice Presi- dent. There is but little hope among the leaders, however, that the full ticket can be perfected today. The General Situation Unchanged. Col. Chas. H. Jones of the St. Louis Post- Dispatch said there was no change in the genera! situation in relation to the different candidates for the presidency. “The carefullyprearranged program of the Bryan men,” he said, “failed to stampede Bland’s boom. Bryan's “weakness was demonstrated by the fact that the banner: of the supposed Bryan men failed to join the procession behind the Nebraska crowd when they publicly started the Bryan boom. Bryan is a western man, and no western state joined the Nebraska proces- sion except South Dakota, which is repre sented by a gold delegation. The other states which joined in the demonstration were all from the south. “The significance of this is that the west is the battle ground, and not the south. On the other hand, Bland has the suppoct of all the other central west and far west states. “Nevertheless, I think the nomination lies This has been the most interesting national conv n of either party since 1860. The issues ure more momentous and the intcrest keener and more intense. Here the people are in At St. Louis it was the bos There everything was dull and iifelcss. You could hear the creaking of the ma- chine a_ it ground out its work. Here noth- ing is prearranged; nevertheless the man- date of the voters is carried by men who are intensely in earnest.” CHICAGO, IL, July 10.—Morning papers pretty generally agreed that the chances Bland, Bryan, Stevensen, Teller. It was said that the gold men would like- ly issue a manifesto and might call a vention to consider the situation. ing is intense on both sides. 10:15.—There seems to be a slight weak- ening among gold men. Delegate Creamer of Kansas: “I am sorry to say that three or four of our men will vote.” Similar ru- mcrs are in effect regarding New York. 10:19.—Gov. Altgeld of Mlinois arri looking refreshed and earnest. But few netables have yet arrived. There being 930 votes in convention, 620 will constitute a two-thirds majority. 1 ) a.m.—The galleries are half fila, but the deiegates are coming in slowly. It will be fully a half hour before the chair- man can call to order. on- ‘The fecl- 10:32—There is considerable Gemonstra- tion throughout audience in favor of Bland. Governor Flower and Mr. Bissell of New York arrive. Music continues. 10:35.—Boles’ banner fronted, with portrait, files through aisles; plause. 10:37.—Chairman Harrity is in his place surrounded by excited delegates. Caucus- ing going on in Iowa seats. Chairman White arrives; he will preside morning. oil faint ap- 1u:40.—Lieut. Gov. Sheehan, New York, and Senator Vest, Missourl, arriv: A rush of delegates; seats rapidly filling. lW:42.—It is stated that the New York delegation has withdrawn from the con- vention. Hill has not arrived, and his associates, Delancy Nicoll and Francis Bartlett, say he will not again come to the hall. They held a burried conference to arrange for leav- ing the hall in a body. 10:45.—The first business in order is the ballot for President. There seems to be some doubt as to whether a two-thirds vote of all states is required to nominaie or simply two-thirds vote given. Best au- thorities say latter. These bulletins will be bascd on that supposition, as rules of last convention, which govern this, say “two-thirds of vote given.” There are in all 30 votes, but it | 1s expected a number will refrain from vot- ing. 10:48.—Ex-Secretary Whitney, New York, arrives, and is warmly greeted by fellow members. 10:52.—Tillman will go to Bryan on sec- ond ballot. He is for Blackburn on the first.- Called to Order. 10:57.—Convention called to order. Earnest caucusing in all sections. In New York Secretary Whitney is the central fig- ure. Pennsylvania's seats are partly filled. 11 a.m.—Prayer was offered by Dr. Green of Iowa, who officiated yesterday. {tines Mr. Harrity name for President. It is predicted by some prominent 4: sates tHat after Bryan and Bland havi expended their strength on each other thr will be a break to Steven Blar "s Name Presented. presents Pattison’s a committee to Mr. Hill's ho’ come to the convention, Pennoyer of Grego Alabama— Arkansas—Bland, 16. California—Matthews, bell 1; Bryan, 2; absent, 3. Colorado—Passed. Connecticut—Russell, Delaware—Pattison, voting. Florida—Bland, 2; Bryan, 1: Boies, 1: 7 tison, 1; Blackburn, 1; Matthews Georgia—Bryan, 26. Idaho—Bland, 6. Minois—Bland, 4 Indiana—Matthew lowa—Boies, 26. Kentucky—Blackburn, 26. Kansa: nd, 20, Louistana—t Maine—Patt not voting, Marylanc ing, 1. Massachusetts Passed. Michigan being polled vote under the unit ruk jority for any one n 4; Bland, 5; not voting, 10. There is a row in Michigan. Delegatior challenge the right of McKnight to vote Minnesota—Koles, 4: Bryan, 2: Blackburn i; Towsen A. Pattison, 2; not voting, & Mississippi—Pryan, 18. Missouri—Bland, 34. Montana—Bland, 4; Blackburn, 2. Nebraska—Bryan, 16. Nevada—McLean, 3; Matthews, 2. New Hampshire— Pattison, 1; not voting,’ New Jersey—Declines tov Cheers and hi - New York—Dy Cheers greet Hisscs follow the The roll call order Boies, 2; Camp. nem voting, 10. Bryan, 1; no 30. Bryan Pattison, 11; Bryan, 4; not vot Michigan does not as there fs Bryan, 9; no ma Be Hines to vet ew York's ax ch Pattison, pnt. rule gives 46 to Mc Including Ohio, voi + Bland, Boles, 70. Matthews, MacLean, Bryan, 1 Oregon-Pennoyer, *. Peunsylvania— Uson, Rhode Island—Pattison, ¢: not voting, 2 South Care Tillman, 17. South Dakotu—Bryan, 6; Patterson, 1; voting, 1. Tennessec—iland, no votes were fer Bryan, but, under the unit rule, twenty-four votes go to Bland. Texas —Blan Utah—Rian * . 6. Not voting, 4; Bryan, 4. slackburn, 24 ton—Bryan, 1; Bland, Virginia—Rlackburn, onsin—Declines to vote There is a row in the Wisconsin de! tion, which resulied in a roll call of the state, Gen. Bragg announces “We decline te vote. Delegate Hogan says: “The unit rule does not exist,” mands his right to vote. eneral Bragg says, under their instruc- tions, the majority has absolute power in the matte There was a big row over the Wisconsir vote. Dockery claims the right to vote. Ohio joiis in the debate. Chairmar and de- White makes an angry protest against in terruption. Chairman White rules that Wisconsin's elegates can vote. Bryan, 4; no District of Colum>ia—McLean, 5: Boles Arizona—Bland, 6. Alaska—Bland, Oklahoma—Bland, 6. Indian Territcry—Bland, 6. Colorado--Teller, 8. Hiss Celifernia—Add two vot omit absentees. Michigan—Add 1 to Bryan and deduct : from absentees. nd sto Bryan cheers, anc Totals. 5 (Wnofficial « Bland, 233. Bryan, 13%; Boies, McLean, 54. Blackburn, Pattison, Matthews, Tillman, Stevenson, 10, Pennoyer, &. Teller, &. Russell, 2. Campbell, 1. ected.) se. PENSACOLA STORM-S Vessels Wrecked and Driven A Extensive Losses, The Italian brig Diadem, S Svea and Norwegian bark blown ashore in Pensacola bay Wednes |: The wind blew from the northeast at s enty-two miles an hour, and then change: to the northwest and blew 100 miles hour, Pensacola being the center of the storm. The Merchant Hotei, on Palafox strect the Methodist Church and nearly every business housc was umtroofed. The streets Were made impassable by the fallen trees. No street cars are runni All wi down, the nearest telegraph stat ing being at Flomaten. The Pen: dish bark Ludvig were ar Atlantic division of the Loulsvi Nashville is hed out in dimage is fully $250,000, oie ooo. Eilon uspected Murderers. Two young men named Milburg and Kek- erbee have been arrested at Dubuque or suspicion of being the murderers of Minnie Keil, whose body was found in a pasture near Bellevue Saturday. The streets ary crowded and there are many threats o lynching mede. The prisoners tell contra dictory stories.