The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 6, 1908, Page 1

LAS 10, NO, 114, VOL. Don't taerstand It Whet! It ls Spelled With | a Little “d” Steffens Afraid the Conservatives Will Get too Much. * ——<$_ wy LINCOLN STEFFENS. paper Enter. F Seems to be for a Democratic na to be democratic other—as for a Repub fastance. That ie partly; me so few as yet under “Wemocracy. To them it ts vague and cceult. They of it, and bave under they are for it, and some- imagine that this whole ton busi . this standing | fa hotel corridors, this tu-| Band shoutings of captains, | . manipulating and man . is it. Just think! Many | here In Denver and else imagine the noise they made y was patrictisem. To} , at any rate, democracy must led with a capital “D.” Spell} a little “d” and it confuses Then there are those who} i fear, distrust and hate de They think they under They think of It as some gill interfere with bust- | eas it would, expe-| s hes been con franchise grabbers | Re Politicians. / Be the old machine | Democrats with } of all. They neith-| All they know gs were all fixed nicely with both working in har winning elec winning with them, t losing but the people, along and breaks . They thought and they fought Row, after all these they have cot used to Worried him down and Gb, here come along new factors. Men are 0% Teprerentatives repre- On Democrats being dem: | ie iator havins its own; on having something to say Own government; on! hs far advanced as the ; on America be- onal as England or OF any ol monarch coun. Agnoys them, and they Sometimes irritable. the pleasant social few Rational convention that | convention. Just] ther, it is disturbed by | Of democracy / One “Situation.” Is to be noted of the | Ha! situation, which is; p there is, for Bry-| MatioM's 2 foregone con-| platform will have an | plank that will mean | Mhe Chicago plank, but , and all that remains President. There have} ans estions of candi-| #8 instance of the men | Believe tn democracy, we | coming .- Th atic judge of Brooklyn. ¥ and McCarren can! Bee ft. Some mention Tom | j Who, of course, could not} the vice because | to be making the great presidenc ructive experiment in de} in the United States today, | Job, in its ral meaning, ta! than that of dents. Of Democrats don't understand ve they don't understand Thowe tha io under BA democracy wi against ea for vice president Are All for Gray Add they are t And 6 At this time prett tair Gray will be ated with the "es is EDITION WM, JENNINGS BRYAN, - CONVENTION BULLETINS HIS BEST PHOTOGRAPH. (By United Press.) DENVER, Colo. July 6—The subcommittee in the New York Contest decided in favor of seating the Murphy delegates without going into the merits of the case. DENVER, Colo. July 6—Tammany will formally announce its surrender to Bryan this afternoon, when at the state caucus, a resolution will be adopted committing the state delegation, which ie controlled by Leader C. F. Murphy, to vote for the Nebraskan on tho first ballot. The slate was completed at a conference of the leaders this morning. it is as follows: National committeeman—Norman E. Mack. Member of committee on resolutions—Aiton B. Parker, — Member of committee on credentiaie—Daniel F. Cohalan. DENVER, Colo. July 6—The Pennsylvania delegation today, after a bolt by the Kerr contestants, elected Col. Jas. M. Guffey as chairman of the delegation and member of the national committee. Former Congressman Kerr himeeif ied the bolters. As they walked out they were greeted with s and Mors by the Guffeyites. One of the latter denounced them as cowards, and a Kerr man retorted: “Come down into the alley and see whether we are.” Guffey was nominated as national committeeman by P. J O'Boyle and received the votes of ali the 47 delegates who remained in the meeting. LINCOLN, Neb., July 6.—Wm. Jennings Bryan is leolated today at his Fairview farm, a rain and wind having cut off all communi cation with the outside world. The trotiey tine between Lincoln and Fairview is unable to op erate today, the roadbed being under water, which ie down hill like a mighty river. rushing DENVER, Colo. July. -The sub-committee having charge of the Silinols contests, this afternoon voted to seat the entire Sulli van delegation, knocking out the “Bobby” Burke contestant. ——_—_—_———- July, 6—Lincoin DENVER, Colo., js almost completely SEATTLE, WASH., MON FIGHT HARD FOR THE SEATS ‘Contesting Delegations at. | Denver Appear Before . ' National Committee. ‘Idaho and New York Offer Only Controversies of ” General Interest. BY JOHN &. NEVINS, ; Staff Correspondent of United Press | DENVER activity the Brown Pal center of party is 1 On the ot the na national com July 6.—The of the democrat h Aasembiln eve of the thonal convention the mittee ie hard the te &t work making up 1 of while bands are playtng « delegates porary F ide and delegations are chee as t mareh and march | about the streets Some of the contests are being hard fought and for the first time since the preliminary work of the convention was begun there are evidences of acrimonious feeling that may yet crop out on the floor! lof the convention. The committer was called to order by! | Chairman Taggart partors net aside for its use om the seoond floor of the hotel. Long before that hour, representatives of the | various agurieved applicants for seats as delegates were about the | corridors, buttonholing jand bringing every finfluence to bear to emphasize the | reason why their particular faction national | in the members possible bit of The Star Office and the "> incoin Steffens Will Write to The Star/The Star Has a Wire With One End in on Every Day of the Democratic Convention at Denver Other in Convention Hallin Denver DAY, JULY 6, 1908, BRYAN'S DAUGHTER IS , THE SEATTLE STAR PRICE ONE CENT ° HIS ROYAL GOOD CHUM © « each other GRACE BRYAN, CANDIDATE FOR | | | | | | | | | WHITE OUT” HONORS, JOHNSON NOT A FACTOR : n'a boom for the yaed day in his own ne hope of his nomination and t his suppor are keeping fight only as a matter of pri Formal assurances that John will be the nominee still b heard from his headquarters purpor The Johnson laying plane for 1912 dore Knappen, assistant man. of his campaign, and spokes prenid It was admitted eamp that the The axer | should be recugnioes pen for the Minnesota governor gatd | “We are the only real democrats, We know we can't win, but | was the burden of thelr ery, “and | Johnson's name will be nted |if you do not nize our claims, | te the convention ie. Maeied ie | the ‘ fight to stay in it to the finish, and hse cause will suffer. pall his talk about Johnson's with Sub-committees at Work | drawal is foo! We are going After Secretary Woodson had read the list of contests, a motion | was adopted that separate sub-com mittees should hear the evidence in| the contests from each state and report their conclusions to the maja} body. It was decided to appoint | these sub-committees at and then the committee adjourned until 4 o'clock, when the reports will be} received and the roll call of the opening session completed. The full Met of contests was ax lows once CASEY BUSY (By United Pr DENVER, Glo, Jt The Washington jelegatiog in out safe. s.) y 6 strong for a sane and barr Thoma of leas anti-injane J, Casey, of ion plank attle, secretary marooned, and it is believed Theodore Bell, of California, temporary Idaho, entire state delegation Be Casey, Of Seattle, seere : je Bryan voluntee here thairman of the Denver convention, conferred with Bryan today, | | Senne firwt cond, third, Fea: for the antiinjunction plank cannot get away in time to wield the gavel when the convention |ninth ‘and te nth Hatin Clabth, Fehat Iabor wants. Casey says that assembi: » »w York, second, third, fourth, /Gna® G. Heifner, member of the - @th and sixth districts Washington delegation and prom | Oblo, ninth and nineteenth dis | pent politician of . IN DENVER TODAY ©: Seine hat pa ea ' ' € Anized ntereste Pennuylvania, first, second, thirg,| S#Mnst organized labor ; eoording to Casey, Helfner has | fourth h and sixth district Acoording 4 , ° een notifying the delegates that (By United Press.) national committeeman, in favor of | District of Columbia, entire dete. | Been Se haber. Gana ane DENVER, Cole., July 6.—Today’s | James Kerr gation act 08 r convention news in a nutshell Caucus of New York delegation The grounds of contest range National committee threshing out to deciare for Bryan and name a from “irregularity” to allegations of, yajied over Bird Coler @nd the contests. or favorite for the vice presidency raud. | latte r a vote of full x tive counel! of American ‘ 5 el Dea ent Chast eatration of Labor framing up| Conynittes on arrangements de-| pring me Sew Ye Me a ae pores Sek cme planks for platform. cides to exclude “Merry Widows’ he und Mow Turk coutnars, ai lamrerder to eftend the influence of onvention hal daho and New York contests, 1, ){@ order to exten Johnson managers tay he has no from the convention hall } ner, ex-United States Sen, kif organization across the bridae h to win. John Mitchell says he would not hattan to Brooklyn, | onges ed T. Dubois was w aging from Manhattan neylvania delegation expected | accept the vice presidential nom.|'0r Fred 7. bubola enna ee cies oes ihe Yepalarty to oust Colonel James M. Guffy as. ination. 1 Rg le sg Bs iene a Gecetee in Winaa county = t it is wo cone ahd to replace them with delegate ir carry qt Mury b errr ete eee eee. eee eee ee ee the truth ¢ nght | willin arry @ut M 1 * jout, The contestan led | ding . » « rren narge . WHERE YOU MAY DO SOME GooD. * H. Nugent an Fos McCarrer bars Cha’ * * Q \ n pre the Murphy and State Chairman ” } 1 ' feCarren * The Star knows of a case of poverty in the olty of @ * ase for h contest ged | Conn declared MeCar i D *# attle where a family was enabled yesterday to procure * by rea (ft the ste convention had adopted. *# cent burial for a baby boy only through the arity of neighbor * 1 a with ate it ead * The iven In the Capitol hill district in a modest home. * ity inte arent majority |a re n hat the ae re Ae "a One of them died last Saturd: & log elected al were ur dulent, had i aoe t ed of * t a t t I « ar! lected dele "i ful condition of household and ‘ he#could. * The amed @ buneh of p « 7 ¢ e buried yesterda The far se still in & , el of ne t ¥ nd pira i r ” Ww The Star will be glad to accept for the worthy but # Ke 4 an ¥ ee. + o | byious reasons the name of the fami # |indicated that he had Hitle hoy "i hast * |winning out. He recited @e | fw tol oom ig iid ° ® # ltory of @he primaries ang. sta by 200 We Conteh Gud ons et kt TOTO IOI OTT tg Rg npn pape [that he and his followers had | MD yuro hw choke a ° * C) ° ° ) e () "e ° . ° to) . ° ° eo . ° ro @ ® ® ad ° g - § © 9 o @ @ through with it even though we recognize the fact that there is po hope of Governor Johns ing named as the party's nominee. When Bryan is nominated and de feated, aa he will be, there will be @ re-organtzation of the dem atic party, with Governor John Johnson's campaign probably Was not started right am of the opinion that if it had be n started several months earlier and the pe ad bad chance to out him, things would wen different Some of his advisers thought it better to hold ff the campaign until practically the last minute, That was the policy decided wpon and | think It was wrong, We know now we have not A chance to win, but we are going through with the game. a radic ‘injunction pl Heifner says he ‘ t w king against the plank, but that he and hin a modified not destre ne delegation wants ble to do with av If it is possible te let the antl-injunction matters pas: without 1 attention, the Califor nia delega will do so, If it is} will be for worded plank which wi everal degrees less radical than that in the Nebraska 4 Rird Coler answered MeCar He declared that McCarren friends were guilty of using Met n. He declared that the tu nvention was absolute iy Ww McCarren ad his r his mett in the 4d of New York Bell Is Defeated. )ENVER, ( j 6.—The ell Cole b of na 1 mitteeman fiche. ° ¥ THE. WEATHER FAIR TONIGHT; TUESDAY WARMER; LIGHT EASTERLY BREEZE, DEMOCRA rs ARE°READY FOR NATIONAL GATHERING AMANT IC FLEET AWAITS COMMAND ‘TO CLEAR FOR: ORIENT SAYS.DEMOCRATS .DOWT KhoW WHAT DEMOCRACY MEANS RAT FOUND ARE READY WITH THE 10 SAIL PLAGUE WET Dead Body Discovered at Battleships Have Stores Fighth Avenue and | and Men Aboard Waiting Madison. | the Final Order. ‘Dr. Crichton Puts Large Scores of Men Are Trping Force of Men Into the District. to Enlist, Believing War in Sight. 1 from bubonic plague, | was and th morning in a jot BY H. LEE CLOTWORTHY. not far from corner of Eighth) SAN FRANCISCO, July 6 and Madison sts With 1 o M : iscovery of the body was! n ir mechanical and made by a health office employe . worked up to Dr. Chapin, the U. § ent | State of almost perfect efficiency, exp t ia r the examina | the 16 great fighting machines con- tion of st ats, Dr. | stituting the battle: ee ae ism yond he battleship fleet, today Ramey fied oY stems are marking time, awaiting the sigs Three other infec al for thelr departure to the been caught by Hl tomorrow afternoon near the corne re va yey b nd of stores and am aikudied wr thon - s is stored away in the mag- jeal expert and nown to | *¥e steel bulls and, as thoroughly have been carr as. | equipped as though their great prows were to be turned out to Aw « “ i the east to meet an en nemy, covery health the fleet but awaits the signal t6 atfion ley eof $5 | holst or, which will flutter nen into the dis ehth | trop he Connectic 2 and Madison, unde of Dr.|. e Connecticut at 2 p. m, He ree with instruc » the rumors of a “probable acute oughly ¢ amine eve ble b situation in the east thig ing place of the © every fall, which have become more per possible mea . mi stent as the hour for the fleet's diately. All s er re draws nearer, have rey is ne od is being in the fleet's officers being the b office detach ed by hundreds of men seek f enlistment. The arrival of the The worst feature of this whole | Buffalo with several hundred re- jmatter,” said Dr. Crichton to The|cruits from the east to take the | Star, “is that bubonic fleas desert piace of all short term men, has the dead bodies of rats and fasten | brought the complement of every apon the first living creature that) ship up to the maximum, and the ce past, whether | rat, 408 applicants had to be refused hame or human being. This ts the state-| mocks on the battleship fi¢et ment ma by the governme@t * All the ships have been equipped perts, who have made th atter/ with perfect fire control station & subject of careful investigation. | during the past month and are pre Work in San Francisco. pared for the first time since leav- 1 have just had word from Dr,|!n¢ Hampton Roads, to go into ac Riue, who fs the government's ex.| tion at @ moment's notice. But one amt id ak tea tne eae oh ficer, Admiral Chas. 8. Spere uation in San Francisco, that the raised his pennant at Gitanaian thet t on Roads, will be with thé ‘whaed with fleet the rst of the coming year, ate be Pai Adn Wm. H. Emory, who will at work all over the eave here in command of the see r thggd ond adron, will lower his flag, owing to retirement during Decent. cost of his ending the firs be and Captain Wm. Potter, of amount to fully the Vermont, will receive his com. which the cit mission as rear admiral at the same he second and fourth dis vie 200,00 will leave under command vate citizens & Rear It is of the ut ght and § Shroeder, that the ¢ 1 whom will receive their renewed in July 19. thus alt eee eee eee eee ss nex ) me : = > » caine Praga ceaee * CHOSE COMMITTEEMEN. * Pacific coast cities wh * * 28 - - — Hig ated * (By United Pre ) * ye killed of we are to * DENVER, July €—The # tpl of a visitatic *W ngton delegation today ¥ ague * d the follow fe the * * ittee ‘ * * } Baldwin * 7 " R. Tetiow * . committee, W * * * * * PETITION TeTTTCCTTT TTT YT’ i h iis t have y 2,000 people sigt ; andl en hoy to have 4 and 3 were i he pet 18 when t were h the ur 1 i} t d the ple & : nd the y will bi ‘ , Despite i 4 R. B.D . i ‘ We eff to we pa , Gov« ber of signku Ta