The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 6, 1904, Page 1

westerly wind. A G Forecast made at San Fran- eisco for thirty hours ending at midnight July 6, 1904: San Francisco and vicinity— Fair Wednesday, with fog in the morning and at night; fresh MoADIE, District Forecaster. fi_s__._qg. To-Day. Chutes—Vaundeville. Fischer’s—“The Mormons.” Grand—“Barbara Frietchie.” Orpheum—Vaudeville. Matines Tivoli—"Robin Hood.” - — XCVI—NO. 36. ‘ SAN FRANCISCO, WEDNESDAY, JULY 6, 1904. Il\[LI FIVE (I\'I\ RADICALISM IS DEAD IN NATIONAL DEMOCRACY AND HILL-PARKER FACTION RULES TRI UMPHANT 1 s aimalisi) ACHINESE MAIN BY HUNDREDS Dutch Troops Intllct Heavy Losses on Natives, More Than a Thousand Are Killed in Two En- gagements. Commander of the Expedition Loses His Iife in First Attack on Likat, 5.—A dispatch a (Capitol of Dutch East Ir says that the commander tion to North Achin attacked Likat on the ese loss was 4 es included ) sergeants 654 K 186 women n 49 wounded eight were taken T teh were a captain, we and gix codlies ’fi} TER AGAIN A FREE MAN President of Western Feder- ation of Miners Is Released I'nder Habeas Corpus Writ ries H err Bonds were Moyer and dur- | of that time| ullpen at Tellu “military necessit yer issued an order ghlng ant until August 1 to an-| No comment was made pro- also furnished here to- President J. C. Willlams Secretary James Kirwan Federation. The other | tive officers of the federation, all | luded in the informa- | filed at Cripple Creek, are not now; e St Secretary-Treasurer Wil- liam D. Haywood, it was announced, bes gone to Chicago, but will return in | m are in & few dcys, ST. LOUIS, July 5.—Governor Pea- body and Adjutant General Sherman Bell of Colorado and Captain Bulke- | v Wells made answer to-day to the| f habeas corpus issued Junme 15| dge Thayer in the United States by I Cir Court, commanding them to| produce Charles H. Moyer, president of Western Federation of Labor, | who was held prisoner in the bullpen | Tr or was issued 2t 2 p. m. and| ot 4 rnor Peabody declared | over and delivered Moyer | civil authorities. At the or Peabody, General Bell | Wells were served with er wae not in their cus- s not in their province | deliver him, so they | When martial law came to an end e N given into the custody of the She of San Miguel County, and e 17 was delivered to the Sheriff r County on a warrant charg- | ol with conspiracy to murder. | Governor Pe y justified his action, | th condition of rebeilion | stating existed and that martial law and troops were mecessary to supprems it | 2 i | GENERAL PIET CRON. . | WEDS SOLDIER “1"0\\'i Boer Hero Is Married to Coutry- | woman at Transvaal Camp i at the Fair. ‘ July 5—General Piet | of Boer war fame, was married | Mrs. Stertzel, the widow of | soldier. The ceremony was| performed in the Boer camp, on the| grounds, and was private. A publie re- ception was held after the ceremony. ballot if he continues to gain adherents as he has to-day. - JT. LOUIS, July 5—On the eve of the Democratic National Convention it is a certainty that Judge a foregone conclusion that the field will come in a poor seconil. for Vice President, dictate the platform and assume full control of the party, to the exclusion of the Bryan-Hearst element. Not only will the Parker faction nare the head of the ticket, but it will designate the candidate Alton B. Parker of New York will be nominated. It ig now Parker may be nominated on the first | EXTERIOR OF THE ST. LOUIS COLISEUM, WHERE THE NATIONAL CONVENTION OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY WILL BEGIN ITS DE ABERATIONS TO-DAY. Opposttton to New Yorker Dwindles to Insignificance on Eve of Convention. ST. LOUIS, July 5.—Radicalism has been killed in the national Democ- racy. Not ly will control of the nominations be in the hands of those Democrats who were in the minority in 1896 and again In 1900, but the con- servatives will dictate the platform and assume full charge of the party's destinies. In deflance of such handicaps as were created by the ambitious friends of Gorman, Cleveland, Gray, Olney, McClellan and “favorite sons” who had followings that divided the conservative columns, this element, which ad- vanced the claims of Democratic rehabilitation, struggled against the com- bined opposition of Bryan, representing the ruling Democratic force in the last two Presidential contests, and the personal campaign conducted by Wil- liam R. Hearst. Throughout the week the Parker forces received material accessions from one candidate or another until the opposition is now confessedly in the mi- nority and seemingly too unorganized to present a fighting front. The band ‘wagon seats are in such demand that the nomination is confidently predicted on the second ballot, and the surprise would be small if the first were deci- sive. Though the result of the contest for the Presidential nomination seems to be as good as settled, that spirit which moves factions to war against each other has not been so far removed that the convention will be lacking in en- thusfasm or interest. The changed position of those who are in power now and those who controlled four and eight years ago is attracting wide atten- tion from delegates and persons who are assembled as spectators. ‘Willlam J. Bryan is the most picturesque figure. Twice the candidate of his party for the Presidency, but running on a platform forced upon the nominating conventions by his compelling personality and which robbed him of harmonious party fealty, he is in the position of fighting for recognition against the element which has returned to power. For several days Bryan and the hand-tied Tammany delegates opposed to Parker have been working to one end—the defeat of Parker—but they have not moved in unison. The Tammany delegates are listed as con- servatives and the Bryan forces as radicals, and, in consequence, their work has been poor. Bryan was belleved to be with Hearst before the contest opened,, but after Parker’s strength was shown he suggested that the Pennsylvania delegation should put former Governor Pattison in nomination. That falllng to find favor, he has proposed Judson Harmon of Ohio. The Ohio delegation, though loyal to Harmon, looked upon the plan with some suspicion, and this idea fell upon barren soil. Tammany pursued its fight in attempting to foster the ‘‘favorite son’ campaign, and to-night was claiming 400 votes pledged against Parker. This number is more than the one-third, which would prevent a nomina- tion. But the Parker forces displaved no. alarm at the report that the votes were uniting in opposition to the New York candidate. Bryyan assert- ed that Parker had made no substantial gains and that the opposition was becoming better crystallized. There are many prominent politicians participating in the convention who were compelled to submit to the will of Bryan in the last two con- ventions who are taking unaffected satisfaction in the fact that to- day they are able to dictate terms. David B. Hill of New York, Ben T. Cable and John P. Hopkins of Illinois, former Senator Sgith of New Jer- sey, Patrick Collins of Boston, Hoke Smith of Georgia and Bourke Cock- ran of New York are among these. On the other hand, there are many persons taking minor parts in the proceedings for no other reason then that they held too much power in 1896 and 1900. Many of those who stood by Bryan then are not with him now. Some have returned to the con- servatives and others are watching in silence the working out of the party programme. It is certain that no convention in years will be more largely attended than the one which will open to-morrow. Seats are in great demand and Continued on Page 2, Columns 6 and % J'IGNALJ' THE EXIT OF BRYAN Convention Marks Former Leader’s Passing. | ST. LOUIS, July 5—An_interesting | feature of the day's proceedings was | the development the waning of | Bryan. The National Committee se- | lected four years ago by a convention | following his unquestioned leadership | to-day turned away from him in set- tling the Illinois contest. Bryan had made the fight against Hopkins his own, and the unanimous action of the | committee indicated clearly that he no longer wields his old-time marvelous | control. Many times durlnx the past few days the suggestion has been made that Bryan would swing his strength to this | or that candidate, and the Democrats who were anxious to organize a win- | ning coalition investigated and found | that outside of the Nebraska delegation | the former candidate had no following save the few scattered delegates who were bound by the unit rule and in- structed. Many visitors called at the Nebraska headquarters during the day and ex- amined the plaster cast of Bryan on the mantel, but these callers were not the men who are in tontrol of this con- vention, It is expected that there will be a clash with Bryan over the plat- | form, but that document is not pre- dicted to be a conservative utterance. Bryan is to be accorded a respectful hearing, but the dominating element in | the convention, it is frequently assert- ed, will not temporize or attempt to placate or conciliate. will adopt the platform and name the candidate for President will also name the Vice President, and this element has allowed it to become known that no concession to the minority, no vete catching expedient, is to be adopted in choosing the nominee for the second place. of aehogs L Oppose Joint Statehood. ST. LOUIS, July 5.—The Arizona and New Mexico delegations voted to- day against joint statehood. The Dem- ocratic platform will contain a plank pledging the immediate addition as States of these Territories and Okla- homa. i The forces which |’ Delegates flre J‘cramblmg to Get Aboard the Judge Parker Bandwagon. —- - ST. LOUIS, July 5.—All day long the anti-Parker men have tried to offer a candidate who would unite a third of the delegates, so as to have a rallying point when complimentary ‘ballots shall have been cast for “favorite sons.” The impossibility of uniting has been made manifest, and the most zealous opponents of Parker concede his nomination not later than the second baliot. The Parker opposition was disturbed but not routed by the action of Penpzylvania last night. The 68 votes of that State have been for wecks placed in the Parker column and are part of the 500 odd votes that have been claiined for him. They were not instructed, however, and if they could have been secured for any other candidate it would have been a serious blow to the Parker interests. Crit m of the action of Pennsylvania has been free and harsh among some of the anti-Parker men, but others say that a proposition made by one' of the Pennsylvania leaders is quite fair. It is said that after the action of the Pennsylvania delegation last night a member of the delega- tion held a conference with some of the anti-Parker leaders and said that Pennsylvania, notwithstanding the indorsement of Parker, would give 68 votes to any KEastern candidate—with the exception of Hearst— upon whom the opposition would concentrate enough pledged votes which, together with the 68 voles of Pennsylvania, would make.’2 votes more than the one-third of the convention. Among the candidates named who would have been satisfactory were Pattison of Pennsylvania, Gorman of Maryland, Gray of Delaware, Har- mon of Ohio, Olney of Massachusetts and Coler of New York. Upon this proposition some of the anti-Parker men have been working, but they have not been meeting with much succes. Cohesion of the anti-Parker mecn is apparently impossible. Hearst cannot transfer his delegates, and his supporters cannot promise the in- structed and pledge Hearst men for any man after Hearst is out of the running. Massachusetts will give no indication or pledge of her delegates beyond Olney. The same is true of Wall of Wisconsin, Harmon of Ohio and Cockrell of Missouri, although it is supposed that Missouri will go to Gorman should there be an opportunity. The Gorman men in West Vir- gihta, Maryland and the District of Columbia prefer Parker to uncer- tainty, and are chafing under the restraint placed upon them by the ven- erable Henry G. Davis, who clings to-the hope that something may turn up favorable to Gorman. Upon slender threads of various Kinds the Parker opposition has hung its hopes, while the Parker men have: been moving foerward with calm as- surance to other matters connected With the convention. Former Senator Smith of New Jersey, who has been holding his delegation in the leash, while it was anxious to go to Parker, said that Parker would be nominated unless the disagreement un the plat!osm should drive some State delega- tion from New York's candidate. A story was current that David B. Hill, lushed with the fruits of vie- tory, would undertake to force upon the opposition a platform so radical that some of the Southern delegates would break away from Parker. But the illusion was dispelled. It was to-night learned that Hill. would not be chairman of the resolutions committee but that John A. MacMahon of Ohio or Senator Bailey of Texas would be named and that Bailey had been se- lected to cross swords with William J. Bryan in the debate over the plat- form on the floor of the convention. Not the least of the efforts of the anti-Parker men has been directed toward preventing a stampede by delegations, whether bound by instruc- tions or otherwise. It is the rank and file that is pressing for bandwagon seats and, while the anti-Parker leaders speak disparagingly of the men who are so anxious to be on the winning side, they are aware that these delegates cannot be held together very long in the face of the compact Continued on Page 2, Columns 6 and 7, - | | THURRICANE - BLOWSTRAIN © OFF BRIDGE One Man Killed and Many Hurt in [llinois. Cyclone Sweeps Cars From i Track and Leaves Only [ Locomotive, {One Man Atlempts fo Jump and Ig Carried by the Wind to Safety. | Special Dispatch to The Call | PETERSBUR ., July | southbound passenger train on the Chi- | éago, Peoria and St. Louis Ra | due here at twenty minutes afte o'clock this evening, was blown ¢ a bridge near Oakford, eight n of here, by a cyclor~. One man was killed, one fatally hurt and a dozen persc injured The train had wed down to take the bridge, as usual at that peint. A strong wind was blowing and the passengers aboard feit the straining of the cars to }one side, but did not snspect the wind | was to blame. I Looking out of the window they saw & funnei-like cloud of inky black ward them with fea rapidity Every window was hasti put down and the ventilatorn | but almost before this ec a gust of wind gave the Then a weird whistling heard, there was anot then the third, which with frightful force By this time there | aboard. ¥ grabbed their lift of the wi the train | the tracks into the ditch P | over twice Thoma man, from Spring Ernest Lied of £ hurt A dozen others were thrown against the or cut by broken s dows. Among the i | Manager W. H | & fracture cf the sweeping was xce was wh | Relief trains were | the scene with a full corps « | cians and surgeons. | One man, whose ideutity | been ascertained, stepped out | door of the smoking-car, intending to Pleap from the train and take behind the abutments of the He was lifted bodily by wind, an adjacent fi as a mother ried into | down as gently place her child in a chair. Another man was pitched into a small ditch in such a way that he was | protected trom being crushed to death | by the car which rolled over him. ! J O — | FOURTH BRINGS DEATH TO TWENTY-FIVE PEOPLE CHICAGO, July 5.—The Tribune to- | day publishes a partial list of casual- ties resulting from Fourth of July cele- | brations all over the country. The list | gives the total number of dead as | twenty- -five; injured, 1384, and a prop- crl} loss of $177,800. A year ago the accidents reported on the night of July 4 were 48 dead and 3431 injured. In | twenty-four hours the totals had | jumped to 52 dead and 3665 injured. In Chicago this year's victims, re- ported early to-day, numbered one dead iand 82 injured. Chicago's figures a | year ago to-day were two dead and ur injured. Throughout the country the fire losses were generally smaller than in | former years. “ In Chicago 115 alarms were sent in during the twenty-four hours, fourteen | more than last year. The losses were | all small. The police in all parts of | the city made nearly 100 arrests during | the day. ————ee————— ?MO['.\'T WRANGEL IS AGAIN i BELCHING OUT LAVA | SEATTLE. July 5.—A letter from | Valdes, Alaska, says: | “Thé report reached this city last | night, June 17, by ‘mushers’ arriving Ifrom the vicinity of Mount Wrangel, | that the supposed extinct crater of that | peak was in violent eruption on the | night of June 11. For nearly twelve bours the mountain belched forth huge volumes of smoke and flame, while for a distance of six miles to the north the ground was covered with ashes. Barly on the morning of June 20 the flames subsided,-but smoke and ashes still con. tinued td pour out of the mountain.”