The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 10, 1904, Page 21

e T At Rl ding THEE THEEATERS. Alcazar—*One Summer's Day.” California—“The Honorable John Worth.” Central—“Wedded and Parted.” Matinee To-Day. Chutes—Vaundeville. Matines To- York.” Matines T Orpheum—Vaudeville. Matines > To-Day. Tivoli—"Rakin Hood.” e , FORTY-EIGHT PAGES—SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, JULY 10, 1904 —PACGES 21 TO 34. PRICE FIVE CENTS. NOCAATS NONNATE HENRY EASSAWAY DAVIS FOR VE PRESIENT ST.LOUIS, July 10—The Democratic convention at 1 :15 o'clock this morning nominated Henry G. Davis of West Virginia for the Vice Presidency by acclamation after he had received only fifteen votes less than the neces- gary two thirds on the first ballot. The final session of the convention was the most stormy in the history of the patty. Yesterday a telegram was received from Judge Parker, in which he declared himself unequivocally comm the gold standard, and stated tt ard after they had won their fight to prevent a declaration of the kind being inserted in the platform. After a bitter quarrel, lasting many hours, the convention by a vote of 774 to 191 practically indorsed Parker’s stand by replyin his financi ted to he would decline the nomination for the Presidency if the convention refused to accept him in this attitude. The silverites, led by Bryan, regarded this as a subterfuge to commit the party to the gold stand- views did not render him objectionable as the party leader. CONVENTION S NCERED BY MESSACE Parker Wgrwhs That He s for e Gold | Bitter Debate on Form of Froposed Reply to Nominee, i ST. LOUIS, July 10.—The Democratic National Con- vention at 12:30 o'clock, by a vote of 774 to 191, ordered the sending of a reply to Judge Parker’s gold standard message con- taining these words: “There is pothing in the views expressed by yougn the telegram just received which wounld preclude a man enter- | taining them from accepting a nomination on said (the Democratic) platform.” This praetically commits the party to the gold stand- ard, despite its elimination from the platform. At 1:30 o’clock the conven- tion adjourned sine die. 9.—The conven- sion promptly ited for the night er number of es were in their h pitch of ex- ible events of that there sorts He did not for- on to order, but egree of qu been re: Governor Vardam Mississippi arose and hal recognition by the chair proceeded to address the convention on the subject of the mysterious telegram. The con- fusion of the rabble and the mob had characterized every hour of the con- vention since it began sitting, de- clared Governor Vardaman. “Let us find:out what this rumor he concluded, “that has created disorder in this hall. Let the leman from New York to whom egram is addressed read it. Let e read. Let the truth be know: end then let us proceed to business. PROTEST FINDS FAVOR. zuse followed the decla- | continued as Governor took his seat. Chairman wounced: as s00 ratio Vardam that the New York e member of that dele- s the telegram that has been rumored about this city read it if he had h a one—produce it and read it to this convention.” George Raines of New York asked that the motion be deferred until the | chairman of his delegation could be heard from. Governor Vardaman acquiesced. The band played “Dixie” and was awarded with the usual yells. While the convention waited, good order prevailed. Suddenly the clerk’s voice rose with the announcement that there “is a telegram at the desk for George Fred Williams.” A ripple of laughter began in the Massachusetts delegation and spread over the hall. The committee reached the hall at 9:35 o'clock and filed slowly along the crowd- ed aisle In the center of the convention fioor. Delegates thronged about them asking, “What shall we do?” “Keep your heads and behave” re- torted Senator Tillman, with emphasis, on or t gation who 5_ | ms, Govel Senator Tillman and Sena way to the plat- | message in conference Chairman ng by his side. announce in advance,” said t on this important shall have 2 full and | ow introduce John fississippl.” e as follows: r. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Convention: All of us were very much surprised and excited this afternoon, to use no stronger words, at what pur- ported to be cop of telegrams which had been inee to Mr. K s city. I want | >ut one telegram has Mr. Carmack not only | telegram to-day of the ed no character that was published, but never | received a telegram from Mr. Parker in his life. And nobody received a tele-| taining the language in that volunteer production. has come from Mr. Park- ehan, however, which I and it is so im- | U 1d know what it I have read it, I shall friend, the Governor of | Mr. Vardaman, and have| over again. When you shall ; have heard it you will note that there | word about requiring or | king or requesting that } e placed in the Demo- | (Loud applause.) that if there 11 {t is an error a too sensitive spirit | : a too sensitive | stood or placed | 1 of hono wish n a false or I shall now ask Governor Vardaman to read the telegram to you.” (Loud | cheering.) PARKER'S MESSAGE IS READ. Williams’ words were heard in a the surface of the earth has been so supersensitive about a matter of per- sonal rectitude and personal honor as to send a telegram asking a friend to decline a nomination for him if, as he seems to have been informed, there s been something in the platform which is not in accord with his opin- ion. “My friends, we purposely made this platform silent on’ the question of the | money standard, because we thought it was not an issue in this campaign. (Ap- plause.) And we all agreed, further- | more, that nothing should be placed in the platform which was not a cam- paign issue, and the consequnce was that in the resolutions committee mo- tions were made to table, and those motions were carried, every resolution on both sides which tended to bring up as an issue in this campaign the ques- tion of the monetary standard. “Now, my friends, Judge Parker ex- presses his opinion, for fear somebody might think that you did not know it. There was not in all this vast assembly one single man who did not already know that Judge Parker was a gold standard man. I have been one of the most consistent, persistent and perhaps radical er men in the United States, and I knew that he was a gold standard man, and he never made any attempt — G S D B MILLIAIS ASPIRANTS FOR THE DE; CON J - OCRATIC VICE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION, ONE OF WHOM HENRY GASSAWAY DAVIS, IS THE CHOIC NTION FOR SECOND PLACE ON THE NATIO) et OF THE ST. LOUIS AL TICKET. s | | when Williams interrupted him with | the remark: ‘““Here is a typewritten copy.” | “For which I thank Almighty God,” | retorted the Senator. He then read the following message to Judge Parker: | “The platform adopted by this con- vention is silent on the question of the ! monetary standard because it is not regarded by us as a possible issue in this campaign and only campaign is- | sues were mentioned in the platform. Therefore, there is nothing in the views expressed by you in the tele- gram just received which would pre- clude a man entertaining them from accepting a nomination on said plat- as probably injudicious. I think myself | it was entirely unnecessary, and while | my friend—and I am ready to accept his interpretation — has given it the| meaning of being the result of a highly | honorable and sensitive nature, unwill- ; ing to fight under false colors, I w: ready at once to deny and to denounce | this man as having attempted to re- peat what was done at Kansas City | four years ago: dictate to the party | what should be dts plan of battle. T| thought it might be said of this man that he was attempting to enlarge our | platform and to take the ‘liberty to/ write on to it something that was not already in it after we ourselves had completed it, but if you calmly con- to answer a question injected into the | discussion by former Senator Petti-| grew of South Dakota as to whether | Hill had stated in committee that he did not know Judge Parker’s views on | the financial question, Bryan came | into the hall. | Instantly there was an uproar. Calls of “Bryan,” “Bryan,” went up and the galleries cheered. Bryan went to his place in the pit, but as the cries of the Nebraskan's name, coupled with the vords, “Platform, platform,” con- tinued, Bryan made his way to the stage. His face was chalk-white. He walked | rapidly up the side aisle. His lip§ were compressed to a thin line and his brows were drawn straight. He nerVously | fanned his face and paid no attention to hands that were held out to him as he passed. Senator Newlands of Ne- vada also went to the speakers’ stand. | After a threat of the chairman to clear the galleries, where most of the disturbance came from, the noise ceased. Senator Tillman continued by saying that it he understood the present tem- per of the delegates the threats of the chair with reference to the galleries would bé carried out. | “Look out,” shouted a voice. | “You look out, or you will be put| out,” retorted Tillman, and instantly the police seized the offending specta- | tor and ejected him. As the Senator concluded there was a short-lived burst of applause, but it was evident the delegatesswere in no mood to waste time in demonstrations. SICK NEBRASKAN SPEAKS. Bryan then arose and came to the front of the stage. His face was pale and drawn with illness. His voice was weak and hoarse. He spoke with great effort, but quietly and with self-control. As the speaker went on his voice grew stronger and clearer and as he narrated the story of his effort to se- cure the insertion in the platform of a financial plank the flush of excitement covered his face and his gestures be- came more frequent and more em- phatic. His declaration that the sending of the telegram to Judge Parker was a declaration for the gold standard and — . PARKER’S MESSAGE THAT CAUSED A SENSATION d § silence so deep, so intense, that, not- withstanding his weakened voice, every word was distinctly audible in all parts of the hall. He then handed the tele- gram to Governor Vardaman, who, after requesting absolute quiet, read the telegram as follows: “I regard the gold standard as firm- ly and irrevocably established and shall act accordingly if the action of the convention of to-day shall be rati- fied by the people. As the platform is silent on the subject my view should be made known to the convention, and if it proves unsatisfactory to the ma- jority I request you to decline the nomination for me at once, so that an- other may be nominated before ad- journment.” A ringing cheer went around the hall, but it was brief, so anxious were the delegates to see what would fol- low. Williams continued: “Mr. Chairman—I think you will bear me out in what I said. This is the first time in the history of the United States that a man already nominated for the greatest office on to conceal it from anybody. He had supported our candidates and had said that, although he did not agree with us upon this plank, he was still a Demo- crat. (Applause.) “My friends, we purposely made a platform, so far as the monetary standard was concerned, upon which ‘William J. Bryan could have stood or Grover Cleveland could have stood, or anybody else who was with us in the pending live campaign issues could have stood.” (Applause.) TEXT OF PROPOSED REPLY. The speaker asked Senator Tillman to read the message that the leaders had drawn up as a reply to Parker, but there was a short delay, owing to the difficulty experienced by the Sen- ator In deciphering the handwriting of Willlams. The Senator asked for quiet, saying that he had undergone an operation on his throat and that his voice had lost “that nightingale quality that it once possessed.” He then proposed to read the telegram, form.” As Tillman concluded the reading of the message, Representative Richard- son of Alabama arose, as he said, “to dispassionately discuss the message to be sent to Judge Parker.” Chairman Clark said that he had recognized Senator Tillman, who desired to dis- cuss the matter. Richardson bowed and retired at once and Tillman pro- ceeded. g “To-night, when I became acquainted with the fact that a telegram had been sent here which seemed to be an insult and an attempt to dictate,” said Till- man, “I gought the gentleman to whom it was addressed; I read it hastily and I confess, fellow Democrats, that anger in' me which Is often too quick to rise, surged up in a flame, and I took it to be the idea of any man who has re- spect for himself and had been a free silverite that an indignity was being put upon us and that some one was at- tempting to trifle with us, and I swore by the almighty God that I for one would not endure it., Judge Parker's act has been characterized by Williams KEGARD the gold standard as firmly and irrevocably established and shall act accordingly if the action o the convention of to-day shall be raiified by the people. is silent on the subject my view should be made known to the convention, and if it prcves un= satisfactory to the majority I request you to decline the nomination for me at once, so that another | may be nominated be ore adjournment.”’s:sAiton B. Farker’s telegram to William F. Sheehan. | As the platjorm — o tha ONE BALLT ENIS SECON PLACE FICAT Convention Nominates Davis and Adjous Sine Die, —_— Delegates Demoralized by the Trickery of the Gold Facton, to The Call Special Disp ST. LOUIS, J turmoil the Der an early hour this morning no: Henry G. Davis of West Vi the Vice Presiden die. Davis was gi by acclamation after the fi had shown that, as the ch conservative leaders, oppo him would be futile. Unexpectedly a sensation which has few equals in American polit sprung in the National Convention last evening. Because there was nition whatever of the gold standard in the Democratic platform adop! here last night, Alton B. Park was nominated for P first ballot yesterd gram to William F. his belief that the gc irrevocable and that tain it if elected. 10.—After hours TP ratic conveat s was Sheehan ld sta he w stating The telegram added that Judge Par- ker believed it was due gates that they should k since the platform was subject, as they migh withdraw from the that his name be t Jority did not agree with CAUSES CONSTERNATION. No boit . from ated greater co telegram was was receiving na tion of Vice Pre likely that H Virginia, a e Gorman, wot Judge P by the De South Carc gia, Tennes Louisiana, Mis tucky, in which gans supported Br 16 to 1. These States did not want a reaf firmation of the Chicago platform, they wanted no reference to gold there at once seemed to be some lihood that Parker would be taken at his word and asked to step down. RESPECT PARKER'S CANDOR. There was started, on the ¢ hand, a strong movement on the par of Southern leaders to respect P: ker’s views and insert the gold pl which Hill and Bryan had agreed to leave out. The programme was helped by the appreciation in the Southern delegations of Parker’s frankness and candor in telling them before the c vention adjourned, instead of wa until he wrote his letter of acceptance, as Cleveland did on a similar occa- sider what is actually involved in these his statement that if the Democracy Sion in 1892 words 1 believe vou will reach the same conclusion that I have reached— that Judge Parker, possibly under the stress of clamor around him and in the | New York papers and by telegrams, has felt that he must make his position ! plain, whether we have or not, has sent | this telegram here. Giving him the| benefit of the doubt, as I myself would | want you to give it to me, I have reached the conclusion that the man’s action in sending these words in a dis patch was meant to give us the oppor- tunity, if we found that his views were so contrary to our own, to put some- body else at the head of the ticket.” While Tillman was speaking Repre- sentative John S. Williams proceeded from the platform to the seat of Rich- ardson and the two engaged in earnest were to adopt such a view it should be honest and say so frankly, were greet- ed with a shriek of applause from the galleries, and one man with strong voice yelled, “That’s right.” Ex-Senator Pettigrew interrupted to know if the Parker telegram did not declare that the gold standard was firmly and irrevocably fixed and was informed that he was correct. Loud applause greeted Bryan's remark that t was a manly thing in Judge Parker | to express his opinions before-the con- | vention adjourned, but his stalement; that it would have been a manlier | thing had he spoken before the con- | vention met was again cheered. He announced that he would propose an amendment to the message and took his seat amid loud cries of “Vote! conversation. Tillman’s remarks were followed closely by the whole audi- ence. His vehement declaration: “I swore by Almighty God that I would r * endure to be trifled with,” brought forth applause and cheering. As Senator Tillman was endeavoring vote! Hill!" DANIEL REPLIES TO BRYAN. | Senator John Daniel, chairman of | the committee on resolutions, was then recognized to reply to Bryan. lti The committee on resolutions was assembled and the proposition was to write a new plank. The committee de- cided not to insert a new plank in the platform, but to suggest that the con- vention, through Sheehan, send an an- swer to Parker stating that the money question was settled and was not re- sarded as an issue, that this was the reason it had not been inserted and that Parker and the party were not at variance. This was what was done to- night after hours of turmoil. TRICKERY IS SUSPECTED. There is a strong suspicion among the opponents of gold that the Par- ker telegram was a trick to commit the convention to Judge Parker's views on finance. Sheehan never lost the telegram and never had to make it public if he desired it to be kept secret. This telegram became public property within an hour after it was received, and even some of those who worked and voted for Parker suspect Continued on Page 23, Column 1. I Continued on Page 23, Column 4,