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4 Pkl SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, JULY 11, 1896, In 1887 he removed to Lincoln, Nebr., and formed a law partnership with a fellow classmate. *‘I don’t think that fellow knows much law,” said a veteran practi- tioner concerning Bryan soon after .the latter began to practice, “‘but he can talk like the devil.” Bryan supported J. Sterling Morton for Congress in 1888. The latter was defeated by 3500 votes. [n 1890 Bryan himself ran in the same district against the same opponent. He challenged his adversary to a series of joint debates, and made so brilliant a showing that he carried the district, which had gone 3500 Repablican at the former election, by a majority of 6700 votes. The fame he gained in these joint de- bates, of which' thé tariff was the theme, induced Speaker Crisp to appoint Bryan on the Ways and Means Committee, an bonor which many Congressmen have schemed years to secure. On March 12, 1892, he scored his first. great oratorical success in Congress in a speech on the tariff. The reapportionment in 1891 di- vided Bryan's Congressional district in such s way that it made his canvass en- tirely new, but Bryan was elected, turning a Republican majority into a Democratic plurality of 140. That the Democratic Presidential eandi- date possesses the gift of eloguence in a rare degree nobody wino has heard him will deny. When he toured the leading States of the South and the West last year in behalf of free silver he received gener- ous notices from the press for his silvery- tongued oratory. His visit to San Fran- cisco last September was made a prominent oceasion by local adherents of the white metal, and he did not fail to enthuse the large audience which gathered to hearhim at Metropolitan Temple. During that visit Mr. Bryan delivered addresses on the silver question at Berkeley and Stanford universities, and the 'students of those universities gave him. warm receptions and applauded his outbursts of eloguence. The. silver qnestion ds Mr. Bryan’s favorite theme,-but he can stir a congre- gation of church people with a sermon as easily as he can.move a convention with sounding platitudes. He frequently preaches lay sermons in one church or an- other in his Nebraska home, ana the re- ligious folk thereabout have often ex- pressed the belief that the pulpit lost a most effective exborter when Bryan took to law and politics. In the last State campaign in Nebraska, in 1894, Brysn posed as a candidate for the United States Senate, and stumped the State in behalf of the Democratic leg- islative ticket. The avowed candidate on the part of the Republicans of that State was Hon. John M. Tharston. Bryan challenged Thurston to a joint debate on the issues of the day, and the speeches of these men created much interest at the time. The joint debates occurred at Omaha and Lincoin. Bryan was eloquent, as usuzal, but Thur- ston was more than his match in sound logic, and at all events a Republican Legis- lature was chosen, and to-day Mr. Thur- ston wears the Senatorial toga for which | ‘William Jennings. Bryan strove in vain. The subject of this sketch is sometimes alluded to as a journalist. The reason for this is that his name has appeared as editor-in-chief of the Omaha World-Her- ald. His duties have not been wearine or, exacting in that vosition. In fact, he has never performed any newspaper work of any description worth mentioning, but he was an_excellent advertisement for the ‘World-Herald, the management of ‘wkich pay him a salary for the use of his name, and he has been used to boom the weekly edition of that publication. In religion Mr, Bryanisa Presbyterian, but he remarked once that he had never read the confession of faith, and although he did not know much about the religion he was born in that faith, and would stay in it Mr. Bryan belongs to the anti-Cleveland faction of the, Nebraska Democracy, and his elections to Congress have been se- cured through combinations with .Popu- hists. It was the Cleveland wing of “the Nebraska Democracy that was responsible | for Mr. Bryan's lack of desire for a third term in Congress, and even before the committee on credentials of the present Democratic National Convention the rega- lar Nebraska delegation was anti-Bryan, but it was in favor of gold, and the free- silver committee turned it down and gave the Nebraska seats to the contesting deie- gation led by the man whose flow of lan- guage subsequently created a tidal wave which engulfed his opronents 1n the con- vention, and on the top of which he rode into a candidacy that will make his name known in history as the young man, who represented the dving Democracy when it received its deathblow n November, 1896, at the hands of the triumpbant champion of protection—William McKinley of Ohio. Mr. Bryan married, in 1834, Miss Mary E. Baird, the daughter of a merchant of Perry, Ill. She wasastudent in the an- nex of lLllinois College while Bryan studied in the college. They graduated simul- taneously, being valedictorians of their re- spective classes. She studied law and was admitted to the bar in Nebraska, Sheisa writer of much ability and president of the Lincoln Sorosis. They have three chil- dren—Ruth 11, Wiiliam 6, and Grace 5. In a recent interesting sketch of W. J. Bryan, Champ Clark, the Missouri orator and statesman, after drawing a compar- ison between Samuel J. Randall and gflr. Bryan, thus describes the latter: °_“In four years’ service Bryvan estab- lished a far greater reputation than did Randall in the same length of time. In- deed, it may be said without any extrav- agance that when Bryan quit Congress he had as widespread fame as Randall had when bedied after twenty years of Con- gress. Whether the Nebraskan plowed his ideas as deep into the minds of men as did the Pennsylvanian is an entirely dif- ferent question; for as late as 1394 the line of cleavage made by Randallin the Democratic party on the fariff was easily discernible to the naked eye, when seven- teen of his disciples bolted the Wilson bill, and several others had the will to bolt, but lacked the courage. y Sm is a_collegiate scholar, and has | J stowed away in his capacious cranium ‘much of the golden grain of wisddm and little of the husks, and it is all there for use, either as argument or embellishment. Some men are so ugly and ungainly that it is a positive advantage to them as pub- lic speakers. Some are so handsome and graceiu! that they are on good terms with the audience before theyv open their lips. Of the latter class Bryan is a shining ex- ample. His appearance is a passport to the affections of his fellow men which ali canread. He is the picture of health, mental, moral and physical. He stands 5 feet 10, weighs about 170, is a pronounced brunette, has a massive head, a clean- shaven face, an aquiline nose, large under jaw, ugunu chin, 8 broad chest, large ‘us- trous dark eyes, a mouth extending almost from ear 10 ear, teeth white as pearls and bair—what there is left of “it—biack as midnight. Beneath his eyes is the pro- tuberant flesh which physiognomists tell us is indicative oi fluency of language and which was on: of the most striking {eatures in the face of James G. Blaine. “Bryan neglects none of the accessories of oratory. Nature richly endowed him with rare grace. Heis happy in attitude and pose. His gastures are on Hogarth's line of beauty. Meilifluous is the one word that most aptly describes his voice. It is strong enough to be heard by thou- sands. Itis sweet enough to charm those the least inclined to music. It isso modu- lated as not to vex the ear with monotony and cen be stern and pathetic, fierce or gentle, serious or humorous, with the varying emotions of its master. In his youth Bryan must have had a skillful teacher in elocution and must have been a docile pupil. He adorns his speeches with illustrations from the classics or from the common occurrences of everyday life with equal felicity and facility. Some passages from bis orations are gems and are being used as declamations by boys at school— the ultimate tribute to American elo- quence. ‘‘But his crowning gift as an orator is his evident sincerity. He is candor incar- nate, and thoroughly believing what he s himself it is no marvel that he makes others believe. “Bryan’s first_speech in the House—the one on the tariff in 1892—fixed his status as one of the great orators of this genera- tion. It astonished old ers, electrified the country and stimulated the ambition of every young man in the land. Envious carpers lugubriously, predicted that he could pever duplicate that far-resounding performance; that he would be like a ‘wasp; biggest when first hatched, and that his Congressional song would be pitched in diminuendo instead of crescendo. But he utterly confounded these jealous Cas- sandras by delivering 8 speech on silver which must forever remain as a classic in Congressional literature. “If it did not increase his fame as much as did his initial effort, it was for the all- sufficient reason that there was not so much room for him to grow in. If Daniel ‘Webster himself could have come back to life he could not by twenty years of cease- less endeavor increase his fame as an ora- tor; for while here before he butted his lofty head against the stars. But Bryan went on to the end, making speeches stronger and ever stronger, manifesting new powers every time he arose. Perhnin his later addresses lacked something in effervescence, brilliancy and piquancy, but they grew constantly more logical if less rhetorical.” The following extracts from some of Mr. Bryan’s speeches in Congress have been much quoted by Democratic campaign orators, and did much to establish his fame as one of the leading exponents of the income tax and free silver theory: “They call that man a statesman whose ear is turned to catch tne slightest pulsa- tions of a pocket-book, and denounce asa demagogue any one who dares to listen to the heart-beat of humanity.” * ® ow “The poor man who takes property by force is called a thief, but the creditor who can by legislation make a debtor pay a dollar twice as large as he borrowed is lauded as the friend of a sound currency. The man who wants the people'to destroy the Government is an anarchist, but the man who wants the Government to de- stroy the people is a patriot.” 7wl “Some, who are ready to use the power of the Government to limit the supply of money, in order to prevent injustice to the creditor, are slow to admit the right of the Government to increase the cur- rency when necessary to prevent injustice to thedebtor. I denounce that cruel in- terpretation of governmental power which would grant the aathority to starve, but would withhold the authority to feed our people—which would permit & contraction of our currency, even to the destruction of all prosperity, but would prohibit the ex- pansion of our currency to keep pace with the growing needs of a growing Nation!” W e ““The gentlemen who are so fearful of socialis, when the poor are exempted from an income tax view with indifference those methnds of taxation which give the rich a substantial exemption. They weep more because $15,000,000 is to be collected from the incomes of the rich than they do at the collection of $300,000,000 upon the roods which the poor consum-. And when an attempt is made to equalize these burdens, not fully, but partially only, the people of the South and West are called anarchists. “I deny the accusation, sirs. 1t is among the people of the South and West, on the prairies and in the mountains, that you find the stanchest supporters of gov- ernment and the best friends of law and order. “You may not find among these people the great fortunes which are accumulated in cities, nor will you find the dark shad- ows which these fortunes throw over the community, but you will find those will- ing to protect the rights of property even while .they demand that property shall bear its share of taxation. You may not find among them as much of wealth, but you will find men who are not only willing to pay their taxes to suprort the Govern- ment, but are willing whenever necessary to offer up their lives in its defense. “These people, sir, whom you call an- archists because they ask that the burdens of government shall be equally borne, these people have ever borne the cross on Calvary and saved their country with their blood.” * e = “I may be in_error, but in my humble judgment he who would rob man of his necessary food or poliute the springs at which he quenches his thirst,” or steal away from him his accustomed rest, or condemn his mind to the gloomy night of ignorance, is no more an enemy of his race than the man who, deaf to the en- treaties of the Four and blind to the suf- fering he would cause, seeks to destroy one -of the moéney metals given by the Almighty to supply the needs of com- merce. . * » “The line of battle is laid down. The Presidént’s letter to §Governor Northen éxpresses his opposition to the free and unlimited eoinage of silver by this country alone. Upon that issue the next Congres- sional contest will be fought. Are we de- pendent or independent as a Nation? Shall we legislate for ourselves or shall we beg some foreign nation to help us pro- vide for the financial wants of our own people?” * * “You may think that you have buried the cause .of bimetallism; you may con- gratulate vourselves that you have laid the free coinage of silver away in a sepul- cher, newly made since the election, and before the door rolled the veto stone. But, sirs, if our cause is just, as I believe it is, your labor has been in vain; no tomb was ever made so strong that it covld imprison a righteous cause. Silyer will yet lay aside its grave clothes and its shroud. "It will vet rise, and in its rising and its reign will bless mankind.”” . * * = “Alexander ‘wept for other worlds to conquer’ after he had carried his victori- ous banner throughout the then known world. N-Eoleon ‘rrarranged the map of Furope with his sword’ amid the lamenta- tions of those by whose blood he was ex- alted; but when these and other military heroes are jorgotten and their achieve- ments disappear in the cycle’s sweep of years children will stil! lisp the name of efferson and freemen will ascribe® due praise to him who filled the kneeling sub- ject's heart with hope and bade him stand erect—a sovereign among his peers.” P P TWO WOMEN’S AMBITIONS. Mrs. Bryan’s Exultation and Mrs. Russell’s Chagrin Over the Convention’s Action. “THE CALL'S” HEADQUARTERS, Grear NortAERN HoTEL, } Carcaco, L., July 10, One of the remarkable jieatures of this remarkable convention were the actions of two notable ladies. Seated with the Massachusetts delegation, in the front row mext to the grand . stand, just after the marvelous speech of W. J. Bryan, the boy orator of the Platte, was a lady whose eyes ever and anon filled with tears. Her face flushed and she bit her lips vexatiounsly. Beside her sat that other boy orator of the con- vention, ex-Governor Russell, and the in- formation was soon conveyed to the spec- tators ranged in front that the lady was none other than Mrs. Russell. In a moment many curious eyes were gazing at her, but there was from all a delicate recognition of her position, and these eyes were soon withdrawn, The row of Massachusetts delegates sat stolidly .surprised, but with an air of resignation, The lady continued to glance furtively toward the stand. When George Fred Williams, the hive silver man of the Massachusetts delegation, took & seat near her ske scarcely noticed bim. It is said that Williams is looked upon as a traitor by the Massachusetts people. Their general treatment of him indicated this. Doubtless, Mrs. Ryssell anticipated that her husband, the widely ndyerthed boy orator of Massachusetts, might be nominated for the Presidency. Instead of that, the convention placed the wreath on the brow of the orator of the West. Is it any wonder she was vexed, and that her vexation was in evidence? All the hopes of years were dashed to earth, and her hubby all but without a party. On the stage to the right of Senator White there sat with three or four friends another lady whose tace was livid with expectancy and bright with happiness. Like Mrs. Russell her hair is dark, almost black. She is of somewhat slighter build and her eves are dark, while her features are regular and her face in every way pleasant. She chatted gaily and smiled. Mrs. Bryan is her name. She is the wife of the man about whom everybody was talking because of his famous speech. Life appeared to her brighter than to the lady of the Bay State and her great happi- ness well showed it. Later when her husband was nominated and when every- body went wild with the joy of it Mrs. Bryan sat in nearly the same place and expressed her gratitude to her friends. She was composed in a way, but her voice trembled. C. M. Cos. SSANE AREEE TELLER IS NONCOMMITTAL Not Disposed to Say Much Until After the Conference of the Bolters. PUEBLO . Covo., July 10.—Senator Tel- ler stated to-night to a representative of The United Press his views regarding ex- Representative Bryan in the following in- terview: *What do you think of Bryan’s nomin- ation?”’ “I consider the nomination an excep- tionally strong one. Bryanis an able man of high character, a strong iriend of silver and close to the people. He will make an excellent President.” “Do you think he can secure the support of the silver men who left the St. Louis convention?”’ “The men who left the Bt. Louis con- vention will make the silver question par- amount to all others. It is not a question of politics with them, but of principle. I am not at liberty to speak for them at this time, as I bave received several telegrams concerning a conference to be held within a day or two and asking me to withhold any expression of their views until after such conference.” “I believe you have said that if a silver man was nominated at Chicago all the friends of silver should act togetber in his | support.’’ “Yes, I said we must for this campaign at least overlook all minor differences and put the country on a sound financial sys- tem that recognizes gold and siver as the money of the constitution. To that end all the energies of silver men should be bent. I am still of that opinion and hope | to see that done, and if itis I feel confi- | dent of success.” AT, SOUTH DAKOTA POLITICS. Twenty Siiver Delegates Withdraw From the State Republican Con- vention at Aberdeen. ABERDEEN, 8.D., July 10.—The Repub- lican State Convention adjourned at 6 o’clock yesterday morning after continuous session of eleven hours. R. 8. Gambleand C. L. Crawford were nominated for Con- gress. The following Btate officers were nominated by acclamation: Governor, A. | 0. Ringsrud; Lieutenant-Governor, D. T. Hindman: Secretary of Stats, W. o Ruddle; Treasurer, K. G. Phillips; Audi- tor, H. E. Mayhew; Attorney-General, 8. V. Jones; Land Commissioner, John Lockhart. Twenty Sioux Falis delegates withdrew from the convention rather than subscribe to the gold plank of the platform. LS s e New York’s Silver Convention. NEW YORK, N. Y., July 10.—Delegates to the silver convention to be held week after next in St. Louis, in connection with the National gatherings of Populists, will be elected at the State convention of advo- cates of the white metal, which opened in this city to-day. The intention is to select four delegates at large, with alternates, | and sixty-eight delegates from the various Assembly districts. 54N FRANCISCU’S CONVENTION. Christian Endeavorers Will Hold Their Next Meeting in California. WASHINGTON, D. C., July 10.—It is settled that San Francisco will nave the convention of the Christiau Endeavorers next year. That much was announcec officially to-day by General Secretary Baer. To say that the Californians here in at- | tsndance are happy wouid be stating the case mildly, In speaking of the matter, Rotla V. Watt, chairman of the delegation, who had labored so faithfully in-the cause, said that 50,000 Endeavorers should be cared for, if necessary. He believes the trip across the continent will be an educa- tion to every Endeavorer, and wants all to come and ';mm“" a hearty welcome. “Not only will the Golden G opened to weicome you, but the gates of our hearts and our homes,’”” he said earn- estly in conclusion. Ia honor of the selection of San Fran- cisco, the bades of the Golden Stateare in demand, and the favorite song of the Cali- fornians. *‘Sunshine in the Soul,” is heard on every hand. The singing has become one of the marked characteristics of the convention. The delegates are beginning to sing in the streets and in the cars as they go from point to go(m in their sight-seeing. Tkheir example is contagions, and Washington- ians ere aiready beginning to learn the refrains of such songs as “‘Seatter Sun- shine” and the “Light is Come." The visitors have been officially esti- mated at 32,000, and the total regisiration of'the convention is about 42,000. There are not quite as many here as were ex- ted, but enough to make a great gather- ing, filled with enthusiasm, philosophic over the damp weather and firm in the be- lief that the United Society of Christian Endeavor is the greatest orgzanization in the world, a beliet that is shared by many of the people of the Capitol City. Among those who deliversd addresses at Tent Endeavor this evening was Giles Kellogg of 8an Diego. —_— Valkyrie to Race the Meteor. NEW YORK, N. Y., July 10.—Valkyrie I1I 1s not going to San Francisco, but will return to the Clyde in charge of Captain Dixon and a crew which is now on its way to.this side. There is no doubt thatshe will be put in order and raced ngainst the Meteor. The former has been tried against the Defender, and she would make & very pretty race with the Meteor. s g National Grand Army Encampment. BT. PAUL, Mix~., July 10.—Notwith- standing the fact that this isa Presidentiai year, the indications are already that the National Grand Army Encampment, to be beid in this city during the first week in September, will not be fess successful in m& (fi!hnunh-n than that of 1895 at svi e BARRY'S STAR asks why the blackmallers are not jailed? - YN TS SHALLOW, The Democratic Nominee Only a Clever Elo- cutionist. - LOOXS AND ACTS LIKE A TRAGEDIAN. David B. Hill and the New York Delegates Rebuke the Convention. ALTGELD AND STONE KILLED POLITICALLY. Defeat of Senator B'and Due to the Action of the A. P. A. Sympathizers Tae CaLL's HEADQUARTERS, GREAT NorTHERN HoOTEL, } CHIoAGO, [iL, July 10. White-faced and sullen. her bosom heav- ing with indignation, her eyes flashing with anger and clutching in her tightly closed hand the seventy-two votes that she refused to give to the National Democracy New York State sat silent to-day among her jubilant sisters. Her dignity had been outraged and in- sult had been added to injury. While the big ball wasa tumultuous mass of men and women, standing on their chairs n the midst of a fluttering of handkerchiefs and waving of flags, New York sat in the center and did not once clap her hands or raise her voice. Senator Hill, her great sachem, wore his white mask and smiled at the yelling mob. He and his colleagues kept their seats, so that there appeared to be a crater in the center of the hall. It was the volcanic crater of discord smolder- ing with rancorous fire. New York’s Democracy and her delega- tion were insulted yesteraay, first by that political blackguard, Tillman, beof the evil eye, and later by William J. Bryan, the Populistically popular young orator of Nebraska, and ali the time by the jeers and taunts of the majority, simply because the New York delegates remained true to their convictions and their piedges. To-day, when that delegation announced | that it declined to vote for any candidate who would stand upon a silver platform, the two-thirds majority hooted, hissed and jeered. Some silver men shouted that New York's seventy-two representa- tives should be expeiled from the floor of the convention. David Bennett Hill smiled a smile that concealed a dagger. It was a smile of de- fiance, a threst more ominous than a There was more phos- phorescence than usual in his light-blue eyes and & boldness that challenged to combat. Other members of the delega- tion gritted their teeth and mutterea dur- ing that rain of hisses, that snowstorm of denunciation, that whirlwind of hate. | When the second ballot came round and | the name of New York was called all eyes turned that way and a stillness fell over the scene, New York closed her lips and would not answer. There was & moment’s pause, and the chairman gazed steadily at the group in the center seats. Then realizing that the delegetion had determined to repay insult with contemptuous silence, the chair | passed on to the next State, and the storm of hisses barst forth. The majority in the State of Wisconsin and other States with gold delegations announced that they declined to vote, but New York slapped the silver convention in the face with the hand of dumb con- tempt. The convention felt the blow and smarted under it, and smarted the more because of that wicked, cruel glittering smile with which the slap had been ac- companied, and four times the thing which had been slapped hissed its hate like an angry snake., Next to S8enator Hill, General Bragg of ‘Wisconsin was a target for the scorn of the silver majority. A courtly gentleman he is, his bair touched lightly with the snows of many vears. He responded for the State of Wisconsin by announcing that the majority of that delegation de- clined to vote, for a reason similar {o that advanced by New York. He was hissed and greeted with coyote yeips and owlish hootings. Theminority of the delegation, being silver men, were aliowed to cast their votes, for all is fair in love, war and polities. Every majority or minority of a deleza- tion that declined to vole was insulted. The rabid silverites bissed even their own friends. Thus, when Colorado voted for her favorite son, Henry M. Teller, the Colorado Republican was hissed so noisily and persistently that a delegate who had red blood in his veins arose and declared that it was not good Democracy to hoot at the name of any person voted for in that convention. He also was subjected to the indignity of the execration of a mob, drunken with power and spurred on by the demagogy of a Tillman and a Altgeld. The sound-money minority did not bolt. Tts members made a sive resistance, and sat with folded hands while the thing which they had declared would be the disruption and ruin of the Democratic party was being done. They did not boit by walking bodi'yout of the hall,but they were just as mach out of the hall and out of the convention while sitting in the midst of the others as though a thousand miles away. 1 ‘The votes which they would not give as delegates they will not give as individuals. The voices which they would not raise in the convention on behalf of the ticket are the same voices which they will not lift on the stump for the Democracy in the coming campaign. Let it go down in history that they did not bolt. Let it be recorded that tney rejected and Jenounced the platform, but that they did not com- mit the unpardonable political sin of bolt- mg. A g There were several picturesque scenes in the hall to-day. The thunder-storm of enthusiasm which broke forth when the announcement was made that the young and shaliow stump-speaker fromNebraska had received 286 votes was one of them, It was a mignty roar of yells and shouts and cheers from the throats of 10,000 wildly excited men and women. The interior of the hall became at onces whose waves were hnl,'h-u. parasols, ?:'nnon, flags and handkerchiefs, and in the midst of this sea, rising from above the waves, stood two fair girls, one of 18and the other of 16, years, attired in simple costumes of pink, with inflated sleeves and collars of white lace about their necks and shoulders. Their heads were bare, showing light brown bair, which the light from the windows kissed with gold. The elder gently waved & large Americen flag to and fro. The younger had a smaller flag and leancd close against the shoulder of her who looked like her sister. The pose was most artistic, and 1ts graceful curves were enhanced by the tumultuous background. It was the result of long practice, copied from some good painting and imitated under the watchful eyeofa Delsartean proféssor. The split Democracy may be congratu- lated on both sides on the ‘fact that Boss Altgeld of Illinois and his oolitical pal, Governor Stone of Missouri, were placed to rest where grow the daisies of defeat. Bland was their man, and they lost him. Some of Mr. Biand’s friends are very sore because of the recognition of the A. P. A. by the con- vention. Members of this organization scattered pamphlets among the delega- tions to the effect that if a confessional was wanted in the White House they should vote for Bland. His friends say that he is a Methodists, but that the A. P, A. does not like him because some of his relatives, whose souls are not in his keep- ing, are Roman Catholics. There can be no doubt that it was an A. P. A. under- current that swept Silver Dick off his feet. The best speech with the poorest deliv- ery was that made yesterday by Senator Vest when presenting Mr. Bland’s name before the convention. The poorest speech with the best delivery was that of Bryan of Nebraska yesteraay on the silver ques- tion. Yet it gave him the nomination for the Presidency. There was no reasoning init. There was no argument init. It was an exulting over a prostrate enemy and a cheap defiance directed against a crippled foemen, A few pretty and not original sentences, such as that one about the crown of thorns on the iaborer, who has to carry a cross of gold, and thatabout destroying the cities and their rebuilding by the farmers, caught the ear and the heart of the convention, and because their eyes were pleased with his fine presence and their ears tickled with cheaply gilded words they bestowed upon him the doubt- ful honor of being stood up to be knocked down and out by Mr. McKinley of Ohio. The partiality of the A. P. A. delegates for Mr. Bryan was ngt unnoticed by the friends of Mr. Blana and some of them are saying that there may be good reason to suspect that the boy Populist socfalistic orator from Nebraska, who now captains the sinking ship of Democracy, is a mem- ber of the American Protective Associa- tion and that he wiil receive the hearty in- dorsement of that organization. The Democracy has wisely chosen for its candidate for the Presidency an elo- cutionist. In its tee-hee age of maiden- hoed it hasallowed its old and moch-worn affections to be won by the glitter of cheaply gilded words and the tinsel of high-school sentences, so that when the dear old thing shall die it will have some one left to shed a dramatic tear over its grave and to utter some beautiful though not original thinklets. 'Tis a consolation to be assured of a sen- timental funeral oration, but the difficulty is the more than likelihood that the chap- lain and the deceased will be buried to- gether and that the words of consolation to the living will be uttered by a gentle- man from Canton, Ohio, who was not nominated on Friday. I have had several looks and several listens at the prominently unfortunate Mr. Bryan during the past week. He is not like his pictures, which represent hini with a fat, short head. He is above the medium height, just nice looking enough and tall enough to be a popular actor. Like Major McKinley, he is a brunette. If bis shapely nose did not fall short he would have a classical face. His lips are thin, closely set and drawn down at the corners, and his smooth- shaven face gives him the appearance of a juvenile tragedian. He has a beautiful voice, clear and mellow, with no trace of faisetto or shrillness. It is what I would call a barytone, without the usual vibrato. ‘When I said that Mr. Bryan was an elo- cutionist, I described the man’s mentality. He is a showy, shallow man, with woras as his stock in trade and owes hisnomina- tion to his elocution. very flatly on the reader when they are divested of the stage costume of gesture and accent. Jonx Paur CosGRAVE. AR S S Bryan Mot an 4, P. A. OMAHA, NeBr., July 10.—Upon Mr. Bryan's personal assurance, it is stated that he isnotan A. P. A. He is a Presby- terian, Knight of Pythias and a member of the Modern Woodmen of Ameri¢a. THEIR TENT BLOWN DOWN. Misfortune of the JIntermational Chris- tian Endravor Convention. ‘WASHINGTON, D.C.,July 10.—The col- lapse of the big white tent, “Williston,” this morning, due to & hevy fall of rain last night and the severe windstorm that followed, is what disconcerted the commit- tee of arrangements with regard to the formal opening of the fifteenth annual in- ternational Christian Endeavor conven- tion. Arrangements were hastily made to occupy Central Hall until the “Williston”’ can be dried and re-erected. Promptly at the .nmlnnd hour the exercises began in the other tents with song and prayer. Then came a hzmn of welcome written for the occasion by John Hay. Addresses of welcome were piven by Chairman Smith, Rey. 8. H. Green and Commis- sioner Ross of Washington. Responses were made by Dr. Servica of Detroit, with Bishop Walters of New Jersey and Pro- fessor Anarews of New Brunswick. e EX-CONGRESSMAN HURD DEAD, One of the Most Prominent Pubdlic Men in the Buckeye state. TOLEDO, Omio, July 10.—Hon. Frank H. Hurd, ex-Congressman, lawyer and one of the most prominent Democrats of Ohio, died here this morning after an illness of tive days. The immediate cause of death was n'pofilexy. Frank Hunt Hurd was born in Mount ‘Vernon, Ohio, December 25, 1841. He was graduated in Kenyon Colle @ in 1858, Aiter his admission to the bar he became County Prosecuting Attorney in 1863, and a Btate Senator in 1866, In 1874 he was elected B&&rmnhnn in Congress as a Democrat from Ohio and served one term, being defeated in 1876. He was again elected in 1878 and in 1882, but was de- feated in 1880 and 1886. Hurd bad been conspicuous &s an active advocate of free- trade doctrines. He codified the criminal laws of Ohio in 1868, . pi s SIS Educational Field Day at Ruffalo. BUFFALO, N. Y., July 10.—This was a field day for the delegates to the conven- tion of the National Edueatfonal Associa- tion. This morning, after an address by Professor Small, Professor Earl N. Rarnes of Leland Stanford University delivered an address on ‘‘The Pupil as a Social Fac- tor,” and President James H. Canfield of the Obio State University dwelt upon “The Teacheér as a Social Factor.”” Both papers were discussed at length. His speeches fall | SCENES OF ENTRUSIASM ‘Congressman Maguire De- scribes Bryan's Nomi- nation. CALIFORNIANS HELPED HIS CAUSE. Illinois’ Desertion of Bland Started the Nebraskan Stampede. PROCESSION OF STANDARD- BEARERS, The Nomination Declared to Be Upanimous in a Shout That Shook the Roof. THE CALL's HEADQUARTERS, } GREAT NORTHERN HOTEL. CHICAGO, 1LL., July 10. The great fight is over and the promi- nent hero of the occasion has been nomi- nated for President. He came as a con- testant for a seat in the convention to fight for the adoption of a silver plaiform and the nomination of a silver candidate. His success in the matter of the platform was signal and he should certainly be satisfied with the candidate. His nomination has started a wave of popular enthusiasm here, which bids fair to grow. I was present at a large single-tax meat- ing this evening, which was attended by Democrats, Republicans and Populists. The mention of Bryan’s nomination was greeted with general and repeated ap- plause. The California delegation voted solidiy for Bryan on the fifth ballot, and he was the choice of a majority of the delegation from the beginning. On the first four bal- lots members of the delegation cast com- plimentary votes for other candidates, but the first, the real break in favor of *‘the boy orator of the Platte,”” came from Cali- fornia. The convention was finally stampeded by the delegations from Alabama, Cali- fornia, Colorado and by the announce- | ment during the fifth ballot that the Iili- nois delegation, whish had previously cast | 48 votes for Bland, wished to retire for consultation before voting. It was well understood that Bryan was the second choice of the delegation, and the an- nouncement of its motion for consultation was practically & notice to the convention that it woald change 1ts vote from Bland to the Nebraskan. This knowledge created great excitement on the floor and caused many of the delegations fo go to Bryan'as the probable winner before the vote. of Tllinois was announced. At this point, when his nomination seemed assured, the standards of twenty- | two States were wrenched from their places by excited men, carried to the cen- ter of the convention section and waved aloft for fifteen minutes. Then a pro- cession of the standard-bearers formed, and, amid the shouts and cheers of del- egates and applause of 20,000 visitors, marched repeatedly around the hall. When this great outburst subsided the names of Bland, Boies, Matthews and | McLean were withdrawn and the votes that had been given to them were trans- ferred to Bryan, giving him a clear two- thirds majority. 3 Senator Turpie of Indiana moved to make the nomination unanimous. When the motion was put a great affirmative shout went up that must nave shaken the rafters of the amphitheater. The noes being called for New York and the other dissenting delegations remained silent. The nomination was declared unanimous and then for the first time in the history of this remarkable and memorable con- vention the silver men of the West ap- plauded the golden silence of the men of the East. The nomination of a candidate for Vice- President has been postponed until to- morrow morning at 10 o'clock. It is believed the session will be short and that the nomination will be given toa representative of the Middle West, either Obio, Indiana or Iilinois. My personai preference is Adlai Stevenson, but a ma- jority of the delegation favors either Mat- thews of Indiana or McLean of Ohio. The delegation held a very pleasant final meeting this afternoon and agreed that, notwithstanding the friction naturally at- tending attempts to harmonize differences of opinions in the heat of such contests as we have had in this convention, all of the members of the delezation are jolly good fellows and have conscientiously dis- charged their duties. JaMES G. MaGUIRE, OREGON'S SILVER PARTY, First Convention of the Bi- metallists Is Held at McMinaville. Free Coinage of Silver Demanded and Delegates to St. Louis Elected. . McMINNVILLE, Og., July 10.—The first annual convention of the newly formea Oregon party—the Union Bimetallists— was held yesterday. Over 300 delegates ‘were present, representing eleven counties of the State. Great enthusiasm’ prevailed, and free-silver Republicans, Populists, Democrats and Independents ‘participated in the convention and united in forming the platform. Besides the work of extending the plat- form reported, the convention elected’ seventeen deiegates to the St. Louis con- vention, ali of whom are Populists ana Belgnbhcanu. excepting one Democrat. . P. Thomoson of Portland was made temporary chairman and the meeting then proceedea to discuss the money ques- tion and allied interest. Goldbugism was denounced. Judge J. B. Waldo of Portland was alteua permanent chairman; W. V. Spencer of McMinnville, secretary, and Children Cry for Pitcher’s Castoria. - % Gien O. Holman of Portland, assistant etary. “%rh::xyzended platform, as adepted this afterncon, contains an unequivocal de- claration for free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 t0 1, and indorses the action of .Teller in bolting the Repub- i 'onvention. hell‘:ecconvemion contained as delegates a cousin of Willham Lloyd Garrison, the only living son_of John Brown, and the only living son of the Sueriff who exccuted Jobn Brown. This trio was c,lled to the platform and “John Brown's body lies moldering in the grave'’ was sung by the convention standing. i ZLos Gatos McKinley Club. LOS GATOS, CAxL., July 10.—The Repub- licans of Los Gatos have organized a Mec- Kinley Club. D.D.Bowman was elected president; E. N. Davis, secretary; M. F. Blank, treasurer. The club starts with a good membership, and a committee was appointed to canvass the town for new members. i gt s TRADE WITH GERMANY. It May Be Stimulated by Sending bales- men There. NEW YORK, N. Y., July 10.—William D. Warner, the United States Consul at Cologne, has written the Stute‘ Depart- ment that he has many inquiries from American exporters as to European trade. He says all complain of a lack of rss!}lu. Mr. Warner says this is due principally to the fact that American business men rely almost entirely npon circulars. They plaster Germany with grmbed matter, all of which is ignored. The only way to en- gage in trade is by direct negotlanops by personal work. He advises the sending to Germany of good agents, intelligent men acquainted with both the English and German languages. He warns Americans also not to stop with the establishment of relatious with German agents at the sea- ports, but to send men into the interior and sell direct to merchants of the inland cities and towns. ——————— MINING FEVER IN INDIANA, Valuadble Vein of Lead Ore Struck im Clark County. INDIANAPOLIS, Ixp., July 10.—Great excitement prevails in the vicinily of Memphis, Clark County, over the finding of a valuable vein of lead ore while work- men were digging a well. A quantity of the ore was taken to a blacksmith’s forge, where the yield of lead proved to be very heavy. The only doubt is as to the extent of the vein. Every farmer in the neigh- porhood is prospecting. Already there has been a rapid adyance in the price of holdings. —_— Vancouver Oarsman’s Challenge. VANCOUVER, B. C,, July 10.—Before Duplissia beat McCausland for the ama- teur oarsman’s championship of the Pa- cific Coast “Bob” Johnston of Vancouver challenged McCausland for a $500 trophy and the championship. McCausiand ac- cepted, but now that he has been beaten he will not row. 5 Johnston comes out with another chal- lenge to row against any amateur on the Pacific Coast, Duplissia preferred, a mile and a half straightaway at San Franeisco, for the championship of the coast and a $500 trophy. Johnston is the amateur champion of British Columbia, and if ar- ranged the race would take place in August. Ri i tga Baseball in the Eaat. PITTSBURG, Pa., July 10.—First game: Pittsburgs 2, Brooklyns 4; second game: Pitts- burg 11, Brooklyns 6. CHICAGO, ILL., July 10.—Chicagos 11; New Yorks 5. ST. LOUIS, Mo., July 10.—8t. Louis 12, Bos- tons 11. . CLEVELAND, O=Hro, July 10.—First game: Clevelands 12, Baitimores 0. Second game: Clevelands 6, Baltimores 9. LOUISVILLE, KY., July 10.—Score: ‘villes 10. Philadelphias 8, CINCINNATI, Onro, July 10.—First game: Cincinnatis 9, Washingtons 6. Second game: Cincinnatis 12, Washingtons 4. Louls- s et Introduction of “Royal”’ Cucling. CHICAGO, Iri., July 10.—The national circuit meet of the Associated Cycling clubs, which opened this afternoon at the Athletic Park with Fred Gerlach as referee, promises to be of national interest from the fact that tbe game of ‘‘royal cycling” is to be played for the first time in public. B g Grand Parade of Elks. CINCINNATI, Omro, July 10.—The annual Elks’ parade in connection with the convention of the Grand Lodge took place this morning. . It was an immense and novel affair. Several thousand Elks werein line. Many unique banners and other designations were carried. This afternoon is being spent across tme river in Kentucky, the visitors being the guests of the Covington and Newport lodges. s S e Execiting Race From Honolulu, NEW YORK, N.Y.,July 10.—~The Ameri- can ships Kenilworth and Henry Villard, both from the Sandwich Islands, arrived in port yesterday, one hour apart, after an exciting race. The vessels were in com- pany to the last twenty-three days of the voyage. The Kenilworth dropped anchor first, but she left Honolulu some hours before the Viliard. Body Fo at Spokane. SPOKANE, Wasx., July 10.—The body of A. M. 8. Hilgard, a prominent young attorney of this city, who committed sui- cide in April by shooting himself and fall- ing from a bridee Into the river, was found to-day by & fisherman. Hilgard was s nephew of Henry Villard. ) } NEW TO-DAY! FHBIG CUT K ST 16 TEA Wiy o Fruit Jars 45c PER DOZ. PINTS 55¢ PER DOZ. QUARTS 75¢ PER DOZ. HALF GALLONS 30c PER DOZ. JELLY GLASSES DEERP CUT PRICES Crockery, Chinaware and Glassware, Come and Get Posted. (sreat American [mporting Tea o, MONEY SAVING STORES: 1344 Market st. 146 Ninth st. 2510_Mission 218 Third st. 140 Sixth st. 2008 Fillmore st. 617 Kearny st. 965 Market st. ?n'u’mm?-y ave. i‘::‘.&sm-d. s:.n - Hayes st 3259 Mission st. 52 Market st. (Headquarters), S. F. 1053 Washington st. 616 E. Twelfth st. 31 Pablo ave. 917 Broadway, Oakland 1355 Park st., Alameda. PRESIDIO ATHLETIC GROUNDS. SUNDAY, JULY 12, AT 2:30 P, M. BASEERAY.I,! ERIALS—vs——PACLFICS. L PENNYRGYAL Pilis Teliabler LADIES aek FY R -‘W 1 s o Serionart Sombocain ook A e