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R W VOLUME LXXX.—NO. 43. THE PRESS, Accessions Gained by the Bolting - Democratic Newspapers. LEADING JOURNALS GO TO MKINLEY. Denounce the Chicago Plattorm and the Men Who Ruled the Convention. DPEMANDS FOR AN OFPOSITION TICKET. Bryan Likemed to a Graceful Danseuse Who Pirouettes Her Way to Fame. DETROIT, Micr., July 12—The Free Press, the leading Democratic newspaper of Eastern Michigan, to-dsy announced that it will not indorse the Chicago plat- form or candidates. The Free Press says: Waiving any discussion as to the methods used in securing the adoption of that plat- form, we denounce the monetary, utterance as un-Democratie and fraught with serious men- ace to the country and its prosperity ing this, there is no alternative course possible for the Free Press but the sacrifice of honest conviction, and that sacrifice we cannot make. The Free Press declares itself to be hereaiter free from any party conuection. The Detroit Tribune (R.) had previously bolied the St Louis platform and de- clared for free silver. The Grand Rapids Democrat, the lead- ing Democratic newspaper of western Michigan, which favored gold before the convention, accepts the platform, declares that the platform is the accepted creed of the party for this campaign and says Democrats who don’t like it can find com- fort and company on the Republican side of the fence. CHICAGO, Irn., July 12.—The Chicago Chronicle (D.)in a double-leaded editorial says: ~It is necessary that the Democrats of the United Staies should call another convention. The one held in the Coliseum at. Chieago bhas been coutsolled by the foes of commerce, of labor, of sound finance and of Democracy. It has no claim to the title *‘Democratic.’” The duty devolves upon the Democratic leaders who have been ignored, reviled and scoffed at by the enemies of Democracy in the Coliseum . gathering to issue a call fora real Democratic convention. Ample time remasins for the assen.bling of such a con- vention. With proper concert of action among the leaders of Democracy in the various States the preliminaries can be arranged at once and the convention can be heid not later than September 1. The Democrats of the country have not been represented at Chicago. They have been delivered into the hands of their enemies. They tpust meet and organize against their forces. Let another convention be called.” NEW HAVEN, Cosw., July 12.—The New Haven Register says concerning the Bryan nomination: It was s characteristic performance from points of view. The platiorm, which isa reckless statements and false con- disclosed as nothing else could the sibility of the majority. It required aceful dancer to whirligig upon it to impart to it the atmosphere of romance and p:ssion, which it lacked of itself. The ac- complished dancer came in the person of Mr. Bryan. His graceful and sensuous movement, Lue charming poise of the limb, the fiash of the eye and the music of the voice set the on tire. ed to him from the older and stiffer dancer with the ardor and desire of fickle youth. Tt abandoned its old premiere dan- seuse, Mile. Bland, who for s0 many years irled on her siiver toes, 1o the uproarious delight of these same advocates of the political ballet. DAVENPORT, Iowa, July 12.— The Davenport Democrat will not support the free-silver ticket. An editorial printed to- day says: It is painful tosee & party which less than four years ago was indorsed by such an over- whelming majority in the election of itsleader to-the Presidency now sbandon the principles which led to this most signal triumph. OGDEN, Uram, July 12.—The Ogden Standard, the first paper in the then Ter- ritory of Utah to advocate the obliteration of Mormon and anti-Mormon factions in politics and’the dividing upon National lines and the paper which gave birth to the State Republican organization when the division came, this morning places the name of William J. Bryan at the head of its editorial columns and announces its allegiance to the Democratic party. NEW YORK, N. Y., Juiy 12.—The Sun- day Union, the Irish society organ in this city, in an editorial says: *“The Union is in close contact with the industrial masses of city and country and the almost nviversal disposition among working and industrial classes is to support Bryan square, straight and vigorously for the Presidency.” LACROSSE, Wis., July 12—This morn- ing’s Chronicle (D.) repudiates the Chi- cago convention. It calls for another con- vention and ticket. DEPENDS UPON'NEW YORK Administration Leaders Undecided as to the Launching of a Second Ticket. WABHINGTON, D. C., July 12—The administration leaders were fully prepared for a free-coinage platform, but they have notdecided what position they shall as- sume toward it. Personally, none of the men of influence who surround President Cleveland approve either the candidates or the platform adopted at Chicago. They do not hesitate 1n private conversation to say so, but they are undetermined whether it were better to nominate a sec- ond ticket representing sound money views or combine with the Republicans in support of McKinley. Generally speakine, a second ticket is thought to be inadvisable. It is thought that by dividing the sound-momey vote the cause itself would be placed in jeo- pardy. Itisargued, on the otherhand, that this would prove a source of strength to the gold standard, inasmuch as many sound-money Democrats would give their adhesion to such a ticket who might otherwise vote for Bryan as a matter of party loyalty. There is a disposition on the part of some of the administration leaders to await the report of the New Yorkers, particularly Messrs. Whitney, Flower and others, who returned Hast yesterday. Itisthought that since these gentlemen spent a week at Chicago, min- gling freely with representative men in both wings of the party, they are better fitted to judge the line of policy to be fol- lowed than those at Washington, who are dependent for their information upon the daily press. e CHICAGO’S QUIET SABBATH. Few Polliticians Found at the Scene of the Late Political Strife. CHICAGO, Irn., July 12.—The usual Sunday calm, more noticeable because of the contrast with the turmoil of last week, prevailed to-day in the big hotels where the delegates had reigned supreme. The gold and the silver representatives of ibe Democratic party, with few excep- tions, departed for their homes on the late trains yesterday and at all hours to- day. The multitude of visitors went with them and the scenes of political conflict were almost deserted to-day. Nearly all the prominent delegates bave gone, the principal exceptions being the members of the notification commit- tee and the National Committee, which have business to finish here. For the gold and silver leaders who re- mained in town it was a day of rest, the latter being mostly confined to driving with friends. Ex-Chairman Harrity spent the afternoon that way and there wasno effort made to hold any conference of the gold men. The intense heat was not conducive to indoor work aud there are not enough gold-standard delegates here to get up a respectable conference on the third-ticket question. Colonel J. W, 8t. Clair of West Virginia, who made an eloquent piea in the conven- tion for Senator Hill as temporary chair- man, although a silver advocate, said to- night at the Palmer House to a United Press reporter: *I do not think Hill will have anything todo with another convention. That is the impression I got from my last talk with him. There are extremists in New York and New England, nowever, who may force another ticket in the field. I have not any idea who would be put up. The Eastern delegates did not want to do anything hastily on such a srave ques- tion. It means the disruption of the Dem- ocratic party if another ticket is put up.” The coramittee of three, representing the gold-standard Democrats of Illinois, expects to have its public address in be- haif of another convention ready for pub- lication in a day or'two. . sttt I LINCOLNITES ARE ANGRY. Belleve That the NomlInees Shoutd Not Be Notified in New York. LINCOLN, NEesr., July 12.—There was a feeling of keen disappointment, not un- mixed with some resentment, among Lin- coln people when the news was read this morning of the action of the Democratic National Committee in determining to bave the two candidates of the party for- | mally notified of their nominations at New York City instead of at their respective homes. Citizens of Lincoin had aireaay begun planning for what it was confidently predicted would be an epoch in the ecity's history, and the action of the committee was an unpleasant surprise. State and local pride is at a high pitch, and it was hoped that the managers of Mr. Bryan’s campaign, or such of them as are on the notification committee, would befgiven an opportunity to see the enthusiasm which the action at the Chicago convention had aroused. This determination will not, however, have any effect on the demonstration and reception of Mr. and Mrs, Bryan on their return home, which promises to be the greatest of the kind ever held in the State, At the meeting last night it was agreed to make it an entirely non-partisan affair and this 1s emphasized by the fact that on the different committees leading Repub- licaps dominate 1n the membership. Ex- carsions will be run to the city from every point in the State and delegations will be present not only from Nebraska cities and towns, but from Colorado, Iowa, Kansas and Missonri. The nomination of Mr. Bryan was re- ferred to by pastors of the different churches to-day, notably in the First Presbyterian, of which the Democratic nominee is a member and where he is an enthusiastic worker in the Sunday-school. All reference to him wasof a congratu- latory nature. The city was not without its usual demonstration, on a subdued scale, being due to the arrival at 5 p. . of the Nebraska delegation from the convention. They were met at the depot by a large crowd and marched to heaaquarters with flags and Bryan banners flowing. It will be an unusually dull day in Lincoln from now until the novelty wears off when there is not some demonstration in honor oi the Democratic candidate. e IT MEANS REVOLUTION. Chairman Mark Hanna’s Views on the Platform Adopted at Chicago. CLEVELAND, Onio, July 12.—Chair- man Hanna of the Republican National Committee authorizes the following state- ment on the platform and Presidential nomination at Chicago: The nomination of ex-Congressman William Jennings Bryan of Nebraske at Chicago Fri- day afternoon was, I think, simply & climax— a filting one—to such & convention, controlled as it wes by a combination of the most radical and revolutionery sentiment in politics. The effect on_the country will be to bring to the surface the honest and peatriotic purposes of all good ana true citizens who think more of their country’s hounor and integrity than party affiliations. It will make this campaign one of seriousness, because the questions in- volved are the most important as affecting the interests of the country that have been before the Ameriean people since the Presidential campaign of 1860, The Chicago platform means revolution and repudiation. My judgment is tnat party lines will be broken up to the greatadvan the Republican party, which will stand for tlat is true and American in this issue. = —— —— i ,l;;,‘ : e i RETOUCHING THE FAMILY PORTRAITS. -1 G \mersyp 772 = D b o Y e > NG =< & 10 UNIT ON BRYAN, Address Issued From the Bimetallic ~ Union’s Headquarters. SILVER MEN URGED TO COMBINE. The Chicago Platform and the Nominee Declared to Be Satisfactory. DIVISION OF FORCES WOULD BE SUICIDAL. White - Metal Delegates ~Asked Ratify the Se'ection of the Nebraskan. to CHICAGO, Iuv., July 12.—After a two days’ secret session and conference with prominent members the executive com- mittee of the American Bimetallic Union adjourned to-day and formally announced its approval of the Democratic platform and candidates. The committee appeals to the silver organizations of the country who intend to send delegates to the St. Louis convention to unite the silver forces by indorsing the work donme in the col- iseum. Thirty odd members of the committee and outsiders of the union attended the council which reached this decision. Gen- eral A. J. Warner, president of the union, presided. There was no division of senti- ment as to indorsement. Following is the McKINLEY GAINS ADHERENTS DALLY Sound - Money Democrats Pledge Their Active Support. WANT NONE OF BRYAN. Letters From Western Men Give Assurance of Victory in November. COMPLIMENTED ON HIS SPEECH. Caustic References to the Chicago Platform Received Witn Approval. CANTON, O=io, July 12.—This will be a ‘week of more than ordinary importance at Canton. Major McKinley expects a good many visitors, representing various inter- ests, classess and organization. The event which is destined to attract the most attention, however, will be the com- ing of 600 or 800 representative women of Cleveland on Wednesday to congratulate Major McKinley on his nomination and to assure him that he has in a high degree their confidence, respect and admiration. The mails of yesterday and to-day brought Major McKinley in the aggregate more than 100 letters from sound money Democrats in various parts of the country. The writers make their communications in confidence, of course, but 95 per cent of these letters contain airect promises of support, coupled with vigorous observa- tions upon the action of the Chicago con- vention. A significant fact {n connection with this correspondence is that quite one- third of these letters are from Western States, where the inflation sentiment is supposed to be overwhelming. This evening Major McKinley received a number of telegrams complimenting him upon his speech of Saturday afternoon, in sehich he referred pertinently to the Chi- cago piatform. = AR TO PRESERVE OUR CREDIT. Major McKinley Says the Natlon’s Financlal Status Must Be Protected. CANTON, Onio, July 12.—Several hun- dred members of the J. B. Foraker Club of Cleveland came down on a special train last evening to call upon Major McKinley. In response to the remarks of greeting Major McKinley made his first speech since the Chicago convention and his references to the action of the convention lent interest to his utterances. He spoke as follows: “My fellow-citizens: Recent events have imposed upon the patriotic people of this country a responsibility and a duty greater than any since the Civil War. Then it was astruggle to preserve the Government of the United States. Now it is a struggle to preserve the financial honor of the United States. Then it was a contest to save the Union. Now 1t is a contest to save spot- less its credit. [Great applause.] Then section was arrayed against section. Now men of all sections can unite and will unite and rebuke the repudiation of our obligations and the debasement of our currency. [Applanse.] ““The currency and credit of the Govern- ment are good now and must be kept good forever. Our trouble is not with the char- acter of the money we have, but with the threat to debase it. We have the same currency that we had in 1892, good the world over and unquestioned by any peo- ple. Then, too, we had an unexampled credit and prosperity. Our difficulty now is to get that money 1n circulation and in- vested in produciive enterprises, which furnishes employment to American labor. [Great applause.] This is impossible with the distrust that hangsover the country at the present time, and every effort to make our dollars worth less than 100cents each only serves to increase that distrust. “What we want isa sound financial and industrial policy which will give courage and confidence to all, for when that is done the money now unemployed because of fear of the future and lack of contidence in investments will appear in the chan- nels of trade. [Cries of ‘‘You are right,"” and applause]. Gentlemen, the employ~ ment of our idle money—the idle money that we already have—in gainful pursuits will put every idle man in the country at work. When there is work there is wages, and when there is work and wages there are consumers, who constitute the best market for the productsof oursoil. [Great applause.] “Having destroyed business and confi- dence by a free-trade policy it is now pro- posed to make things still worse by enter- ing upon an era of depreciated currency. Not content with the inauguration of the ruinous po'icy which has brought down the wages of the laborer and the price of the farm products its advocates offer a new poliey which witl diminish the value of money and wages and products, [Ap- plause.] Against both of these we siand opposed. Our creed embraces an honest dollar, an untarnished National credit, ad- equate revenues for the usesof the Gov- ernment, protection to labor and industry, preservation of the home market ana reci- procity which will extend our foreign markets. - Upon this platform we stand and submit its declarations to the sober and considerate jndgment of the Ameri- can people.” [Applause.] ————— Two Tickets In Delaware. WILMINGTON, DEL., July 12.—The Higgins and Addicks Republicans have elected delegates to the separate State con- ventions of the factions which will be held next week at Georgetown and Dover re- spectively. KEfforts are under way to in- duce the two State conventions to unite on an electoral ticket. This may be ac- ‘complished, but double names for Gov- ernor and Congressmun are probable. CORPSES STREWN ALONG THE BEACH Victims of the Japanese Tidal Wave Buried by Thousands. FILL UNMARKED GRAVES Survivors Unable to Identify the Mangled Bodies of the Dead. DETAILS OF THE CATASTROPHE Where Populous Cities Once Stood Are Now Plains Black With ‘Wreckage. TOKIO, Jarax, June 26.—The horror of Japan’s calamity—the visitation of the tidal wave—grows as the details become known more fully. On the 15th of June, at 8:30 in the even- ing, a seismic wave struck the northeast coast of the main island throughout a dis- tance of about 200 miles, and in five min- utes 30,000 people were killed and 12,000 houses destroved. That is the whole story. In the case of inundations, cyclones, or even earthquakes, there is & record of more or less continuous mis- chief, and of more or less successful strug- gle against the forces of destruction. But in the case of a seismic wave, one stupen- dous blow accomplishes the whole calam- ity in an instant. At 8:30 the. inhabit- ants of numerous towns and hamlets along the coast were celebrating the “Boys' Festival’” on the fifth day of the fifth month, according to the old calen- dar; at 8:35, 30,000 of them had been swept out to sea or thrown dead upon the shore, ard 8000 of their homes had disap- peared or lay wrecked. Any one can identify the locality of the disaster by a glance at the map of Japan. From the island of Kinkwa-san, on the south (north latitude 38 deg. 15 min., east longitude 141 deg. 30 min.) to Hachinoye on the north (north latitude 40 deg. 30 min., east longitude 131 deg. 30 min.), the coast of Rikuzen and Rikushu provinces assumes a distinctly convex shape. Throughout the whole of this bow-like arc nearly every town and every, village was visited bv the wave, the portion be- tween Motoyoshi (north latitude 38 deg. 40 min., east Jongitude 141 deg. 28 min.) and Yamada (north latitude 39 deg. 28 min., east longitude 142 min.) suffering most severely. The general direction of the wave appears to have been north by east, for, after carrying devastation to the shore of the main island, it left Yezc on the west, touching that island at Yeérimo Cape only. There was nothing to presage the disas- ter. From 11 o’clock in the forenoon un- il 4:50 in the afternoon heavy rain fell. It | was followed by a fine evening and a dark, cool night. There is much difficulty in obtaining perfectly accurate statements as to the times of phenomena that pre- ceded the final catrastrophe; they were too insignificant to seem worth recording. Several accounts agree, however, that at 7:30 o’clock three or four shocks of earth- quake were felt; not violent shocks, though of the vertical kind that folks in Japan have learned to dread. The barom- eter gave, at the time, no indication of anything unusual. Some twenty or twenty- five minutes later a booming sound be- came audible from the direction of the sea. It appears to have been variously interpreted. Some construed it as the noise of a coming gale; others supposed that a buge school of sardines had reached the ofting, and others thought that there was a question of whales. Onlya very few suspected the real sig- nificance of the sound, and fled inland at the top of their speed. Rapialy the noise increased, until it assumed the volume and deafening din of a great park of ar- tillery, and then, in a moment, waves from 20 to 30 feet high were thundering against the shore. The place: where the actual totals of deaths reached the highest figures were not always those that suffered most in proportion to their population. Of the three prefectures visited by the wave—iwate, Miyagi ana Aomori—Iwate had by far the largest aggregate of disas- ters, its list of dead mounting to 26,000, Some of the details, however, convey a more graphic idea of the facts than any general statement can suggest. Kamaishi is a little seaside town, situ- ated at the head of a rocky inlet two miles deep and directly facing the Pacific Ocean. Behind it is a precipitous hill. The inhab- itants seem to have remained antil the lasc wholly unconscious of what was pending. At a little after 8 in the evening a moun- tain of sea was observed piling itself up at the mouth of the inlet, and in a moment, with & tremendous roar, waves 30 feet high swept over the town. Tiree times these avalanches of water rushed forward, the first incomparably the most terrible, and in less than two minutes the town was vir- tually annihilated. Out of 1223 dwellings only 143 remained standing, and out of a population of 6557 death had overtaken 4700 and 500 lay wounded. In complete- nessof destruction this record heads the list. Scarcely less appalling was the work of the wave in a bay some five miles far- ther north. There, in the village of Futaishi, only 100 persons escaped death out of a popu- lation of 790, and only two houses out of as many hundreds remained standing. At Yamada, 700 houses out of 900 were de- stroyed, and 3000 persons were killed out 0f 4200. At Toni, 250 houses were swept away out of 1269, and 1103 persons were killed and 82 wounded out of a total of 1206. In the Kissen district, one town and eleven villages attacked by the wave had 6380 persons killed and houses washed away or wrecked. At Hongo, the whole hamlet of 150 houses was tnniiflhted, and the sole survivors were a party of men Continued on Third Puge. address issned by the committee: To the members of the American Bimetallic Union and of all affiliated unions and leagues throughout the United States, and all other {riends of bimetallism: WHEREAS, The Bimetallic Union, being & consolidation of the American Bimetallic League, the National Bimetallic Uniom, the National Silver Committee and other bimetai- lic organizations, called & conference at Wash- ington,.D. C., on the 22d day of January last, at which conference it was determined that the people in the approaching election should have the opportunity to vote for candidates for President and Vice-President and for mem- bers of Congress committed unequivocally. to the restoration of the uncestricted coinage of both gold and silver on the terms of equality existing prior to 1873, and to muke this determination sure a convention was called by said conference to meet at St. Louis on the 22d day of July, there to place in nomi- nation candidates for President and Vice- President, in case meantime neither ot the two great parties—as then appeared doubtful—of- fered acceptible candidates on a platform com- mitting the party and the candidates to the restoration of the unrestricted coinage of both gold and silver, and whereas, the Demoeratic convention just'ended at Chicago has adopted a platform containing all that bimetallists | bave demanded, fully and unequivocally ex- pressed, and has nominated caundidates of lis- tinguished ability and long known as sincere advocates of our cause; therefore, be it Resolved, That in the opinion of this com- mittee but one duty remains for the friends of this great cause to perform, and that is to unite in support of the platform alopted at | Chbicago and the candidate nominated thereon and to work might and main untii the elec- tion in November to secure the success of the ticket. If this is done we sincerely oelieve that our cause wiill be won and prosperity be restored to our people. The only d:nger to be feared Is in the di- vision of our own forces, which we pray will not be allowed to take place. To divide our forces on the eveof the great contest before the world is unnatural ai.d suicidal; and for one to lead & revolt 1n such & cause and at such a time would comelittle short of being a pub- lic crime. We therefore appeal tc all members of the Bimetallic Union and of the affiliated silver leagues and all others opposed to the continuance of the single gold standard, re- gardless of party afiliations, to come to the support of the platform and the splendid ticket given us at the people’s great convention just held at Chicago. We further urge upon ail who agree with us upon this vital issue to join With us at St. Louis on the 22d of July, there to indorse and ratify the work so nobly begun, A.J. WARNER, President. R. C. CHAMBERS, First Vice-President. HeNRY C. MILLER, Second Vice-President, THoMAS C. MERRILL, Treasurer. J. B. GRANT, of Executive Committee. H. F. BARTINE. of Executive Commitiee, GEORGE E. BOWEN, Secretary. General Warner, just before leaving to- night for his home in Marietta, said to a reporter for the United Press: “The committee was unanimous for in- dorsement. Two-thirds of those present were Republicans. The silver convention in St. Louis will certainly support Bryan. The gold men can bave all the tickets they please; the more the better, but we must have only one silver ticket if we are to win. No silver man of National reputa- tion will accept a nomination from any other source. We want all the big silver guns to come to the St. Louis convention. The Democrats gave us all we asked for and more than we expected a year ago. If we had drawn the silver plank to suit the Democrats we would probably have made it a little more conservative. We must have a silver daily newsyaper in Chicago and I think there will be one here soon. “We expect to beat McKinley in Ohio. The people there are not for the gold standard. I live among them and know them. A lifeleng Republican in that State wrote to me after the St. Louis con- veniion and said he would not vote 10 sup- port such a platiorm, and that 100 other Republicans in his township would follow his example.” CRISP IS SATISFIED. He Believes Bryan, If Elected, Would Make an Excellent President. ASHEVILLE, N. C, July 12—It is doubtful if there is a man who is more ‘pieased with the Democratic nomination for the Presidency, or believes more strongly that the convention was judicious in naming W. J. Bryan as the Democratic standard bearer, than is Hon. Charles F. Crisp of Georgia, now here. “The nominee,” he said, '‘is a man of