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'fhl*r iii^agaMilJS^^ i^f^wj the republican party has been "a.party which did things," and did them safely. Th orator hoped to have the country 'lose sight of the fact that is now, in both of its legislative branches, a party lof passivity, of non-action, of obstruction 'to reform and progressin a word, a party whose only sacred precept is the Shibboleth which maketh them known, one of them to the other a shibboleth drawn from the gambler's table "stand Jear iat," a prophet born of cowardice and to move. Mr. Williams took up the repub lican platform, which, in speaking of the access of the republican party to power after Mr. Cleveland's second administration had expired, used this language: W then found the country, after four years of democratic rule, in evil plight, oppressed with misfortunes and doubt ful of the future. Public credit had been lowered, revenues were declining, the de bt was growing, the administration's Attitude toward Spain was feeble and mortifying, its standard of values \va- threatened and uncertain Labor was un employed. Business was sunk In the de pression that succeeded the panic of 1893. Hope was faint and confidence was gone. Paraphrased Republicans. The speaker paraphrased in great detail, applying the paragraph to the Harrison administration and the con ditions when Cleveland succeeded to the presidency in 1893 Going from the repeal of the Sherman purchas ing act which repeal he termed a nostrum applied to the panicky con ditions of the time, Mr. Williams de clared the gold basis "was established by the demociats, "aided by repub lican legislators who thought they saw in it the final disruption of the democratic party." traced the ri se in wheat prices, which, he declared, Sleeted McKinley. went on. A greater falsehood was never uttered than that wheat, or anything else, went up because Mj McKinley was elected. Let the republican party beware and let all men who love their country beware of carrying this doctrine of government- created prosperity any further. If the idea is once firmly imbedded in the human mind there will be no saving its teachers from the wrath to comestate socialism. Antitrust Plank. Let us see what the republicans have to say for themselves in connection with the great trust question. This is the lan guage of the platform: "Laws enacted by the republican party and which the democratic party had failed to enforce have been fearlessly enforced." What has the republican party done in this legard? One of the chairmen at the republican contention (I have forgotten whether it was the temporary Or permanent chairman) says it has en joined the beef trust W would not have known it if somebody had not told us. The injunction does not seem to have any practical effect upon the beef trust or upon the price of beeksteak. I think it was the permanent chairman of the republican convention who said that the democrats killed trusts with wind and the lepunlicans with law Where are the corpses? There is but one that I know of. and it properly belongs to Governor Va Sant I is the spoil of his sword and his spear. Tariff Matters. I read from the republican platform again: "Tariff rates should be readjusted only when conditions have so changed that the public interest demands their alteration." "Public interest" in this connection, considering the voice which has uttered the words, is good Public interest," from the man who wrote it and the convention which adopted it, really means protected interests. How can public inteiest dema nd the alteration? Ho can it make the demand heard? There is only one way that I know of to make a demand of that sort heard, and that is to vote down the men who say that all is well enough and that the gospel of humanity, as far as the tariff is concerned, is all Included in the phrase, "stand pat. Will any sane man say that Ameri can public interest has not already "de 1 mand ed some alterations" in the tariff1 The trouble is and will be as long as the republicans are in power that private in terests won't allow any. The curious thing about a man who Is obtaining benefit by special legislation is that he insists upon playing two antag o nistic roles. One day he is an industrial baron, boasting of having "conquered the markets of the world" and of being able to keep them, because his goods are bet ter or cheaper. Th _next day he Is knocking at the doors of the committee rooms of the national legislature begging a continuance of "protection" against the pauper labor of the very mark et in which he actually sells his goods What sort of "condition" is it that will justify pub lio interest in demanding an alteration? Suggests a Plank. Suppose the following plank iiad been presented to the republican convention, does anybody believe that it would have been adopted? namely "Demanding a reduction of tariff taxation upon trust produced articles to the point where for eign competition may enter the American market whenever trusts and combines seeking a monopoly had raised their prices to the American consumer above a just and reasonable profit, thus using Ameri can law as a shelter to protect them In extortion upon the American people while jthey charge them prices higher than those charged foreigners for identical articles." Suppose that an actual condition of that sort had been shown, as it has been, would anybody advocating anythi ng I have indicated with a view to meeting that conditi6n have obtained any hearing from that convention? Elective Franchise. With regard to the republican plat form's plan for congressional action to determine whether, by special dis crimination, the elective franchise in any state has been unconstitutionally limited, Mr. Williams made the charge of duplicity. said: Whether or not the suffrage has been 1 "unconstitutionally limited" is a matter for the courts to determine, and a report of a republican committee on elections In the last congress so confesses it. If a man be "unconstitutionally" denied the suffrage, then, after a determination to that effect, he can votethat is his rem edy and the: right remedy. Having voted, of course, there could be no reduction of representation on this account. But all this deceives nobody. Th real object of the republican party is to reduce southern representation, without reducing that ot Massachusetts, Connecticut and other states. Mr. Williams predicts that this re publican plan will serve to unsettle business generally and disturb affairs in the south. calls it the "enter ing wedge to a new period of southern reconstruction." What Democrats Will Do. Closing, Mr. Williams said: But enough about the other party. Some things about ourselves one thing the OOKatry can rely upon, the democracy will A Bad Stomach [lessens the usefulness and mars the-hap plness of life. It's a weak stomach, a stomach that can not properly perform its functions. Among its symptoms are distress after eating, nausea between meals, heartburn, belching, vomiting, flatulence and nervous headache. Hood'sSarsaparilla Cares a bad stomach, indigestion and dys pepsia, and the cure is permanent, Accept no substitute. 4^* ML, A^JS JH iBBVaKBBB* Wednesday, Evening, -(-*1^* ^ST.LOU.J gSTATESMEN:ATI DAVID B. HILL SAYS SENATOR J. K. JONES, Arkans as Has-Be en Who Called Con vention to Older. nominate for president a man trained in the ways of the constitution, who^lll not usurp legislative or judicial functions, who will not recklessly violate international usages, even with the weakest nation, no matter how tempting the profit to be reaped by it who will not keep people guessing about what he is going to do or say next it will norninate him upon a platform ignoring dead Issues and deal ing with every present live issue in tones certain and unmistakable, favoring econ omy of administration* enforcement of honesty in the public service, a wise and business-like revision and reduction of the tariff by the friends of the masses and of the commonwealth and not by tariff beneficiaries and their representa tives alone, a reduction which shall aim at equality of burdens and equality of op portunities and whose ultimate object shall be to raise a revenue by taxation to support the federal government in virility but in simplicityan object to be reached in a business-like, conservative and com mon-sense way, with due regard to exist ing conditions, and by steps constituting in themselves an object lesson for their own justification and for the justification of further reforms. It will not falter wh en it comes to de claring for a reduction of tariff taxation of trust-produced articles to the point where foreign competition may enter the American market, when combines, seek ing monopoly, raise their prices to thfe American consumer to the point of ex tortion, nor will It falter in declaring for reduction where American concerns hab itually charge American consumers higher prices than those charged foreigners for identical articles. For Reciprocity. It will come out flatfooted for amicable rathev than retaliatory trade relatidns with the other nations of the world, and especially for generous reciprocity with Canada. A democratic administration will find In our treatment of Cuba an example of American courage, justice and magnan imity, an example to be imitated as soon as it can be wisely and safely done In the Philippines, ultimately leaving them, and giving them the promise now thus to leave them, free and independent, to work out their own destiny in accordance with their own race traits, tendencies and capabilities The democracy, in my opinion, believes that the white man will have trouble enough to maintain In its full integrity the white man's civilization in all par ts of his own country, and it is neither his duty nor his right to superimpose his civilization by force upon the brown man in the brown man's country A democratic president, such as he whom we shall nominate, will devote him self to the faithful execution of the laws of the United States as they*are written, without executive construction or usurpa tion, whether under the pretext of neces sity or under the pretext fsuperior wis dom, and will leave to the legislative branch of the government the duty of making and unmaking and amending laws. A democratic administration once in power will put an end as far as it can be done, and as quickly as possible, to all ex isting iniquitous partnership arrange ments between the federal government and favored special interests. It will re duce the revenues of the general govern ment to a sum adequate to the needs of economical and constitutional administra tion, plus a safe working margin for con tingencies which cannot be foreseen It will speak out unmistakably against the republican policy of starting home de velopment In order to feed the schoolboy appetite of national prestige and more display of strength. I will bring about the upbuilding of a merchant marine, and bring It about without new or additional taxation upon the people and without bounties from the public treasury, sim ply by a recurrence to those laws which were in force wh en we had a merchant marine of which every American citizen was proud. Rights of labor. .Under a democratic administration the rights of labor will be recognized as no less "vested," no less "sacred," no less "inalienable" than the rights of capital, and both will be dealt with justly and impartially according to their right. Above all, and in conclusion, a good 1 "Platforms are like sauscges. W sometimes appreciate them less when we THE ELOQUENT COCKRAN AND know how they are made." THE GOOD-NATURED MARTIN ~*MamMaaaMaaMaaaaaaa*aaaaaMaaaaaaaaaaaaaaM democratic administration will ponder and practice the simple precepts of Jefferson's first inaugural address. I Is the political "sermon on the mount" for democratic republicans. Gentlemen, it is in the power of no man or party to assure success. I Is In the power of the humblest to serve it. God grant that we may have it. Le us by the character of our platform and the char acter of our candidate deserve it Let us trect a standard to which all good men may repair. With that Injunction, gentle men, I declare this convention ready for business. A 2 06 p.m. the band played the national anthem, the entire convention and the spectators being on their feet. The playing of "Dixie" by the band later developed a tremendous out burst of shri ll cheering. A 2 60 p.m. Convention adjourned until 10 a.m. tomorrow'. 0 MHHMHHM W JAPS DARE DEATH AT PORT ARTHUR Togo Sends Pour Torpedo Boats Into HarborOnly One Escapes. St. Petersburg, July 6.A few nights a'go Admiral Togo attempted to repeat the Japanese explo it with torpedoboats at Wei-hai-wei during the Chino-Japanese war by sending torpedoboat. destroyers into the har bor of Port Arthur for the purpose of sinking ships at their anchorage, but the attempt ended in disastrous fail ur e. Four torpedoboat destroyers suc ceeded in creeping into the harbor, which was not protected by booms, but only one escaped. Two were sunk by the shore batteries and one was crippled. The reckless bravery of the Japan ese in going to almost certain destruc tion excited nothing but admiration here. The channel at Port Arthur is so tortuous and strewn with wreck age without, that evidently it was re garded as unnecessary to use a boom. O account of the difficulty of getting into the harbor, the feat is consid ered in naval circles to be fully as daring as that of the Japanese at Wei-hai-wei, where Japanese torpedo boats, in a storm and covered with ice, were jumped over the booms pro tecting the harbor and destroyed Chi nese warships. A far as known, the Japanese torpedoboat destroyers did not even succeed in launching tor pedoes. The exact date of the attack is not ascertained, but it is said to have been Saturday. I is believed other de stroyers participated in the attack. Only four, however, succeeded in get ting in. A dispatch received here from Vladivostok this afternoon does not mention the Russian squadron. I was announced from Tokio, July 8, that a belated report from Admiral Togo recorded a desperate and suc cessful torpedo attack at the entrance of Port Arthur during the night of June 27, in which a Russian guard ship and a Russian torpedoboat .de stroyer were sunk. RUMORS O SEA FIGHT Siberian Fleet Said to Have Won a Victory. Liao-yang, July 6.There are per sistent reports in circulation that a hot engagement occurred yesterday northward of O-en-san, between the Russian Vladivosto k, and the Japanese squadrons, which ended favorably to the Russians. General Oku's army is retiring, evi dently with the object of "concentrat ing on Port Arthur. Siege guns are being placed in position at Kin-chou. The departure of two additional di visions for the seat of war isr -reported from Nagasaki. The heavy rains which fell all day yesterday have converted the Tai-tse river into a wild, swirling torrent, making it a defense against the Jap anese. Today the sun is shining and the temperature is 40 degrees centi grade. Some of the Russian detachments are performing remarkable marches in spite of the bad roads. General Kuroki's forces include many men armed with the old pat tern rifles. JAPS HEM I N 20,000 Russians Said to in Serious'Plight at Mukden. New York Sun Special Service. St. Petersburg, July 6.According to reports from Liao-yang it is rumored there that a force of 20.0Q0 Russians is surrounded by the Japan ese at Mukden and is in a very serious position. A greater portion of the garrison at Port Arthur has, it Is stated, made a sortie and was com pelled by the advance of a large force of Japanese to retire, after suffering severe- losses. LONG-PARTED BROTHERS MEET, New York Sun Special Service. Wlnsted, Conn., July 6 Eben S. Gibbs of De Moines, Iowa, aged 72, Is visiting his brother, Wesley Gibbs., who is 62 .and whom he has not seen in forty-two years and believed dea& ^nu '^U^*- THE MINNEAPOLIS' .JOURNAL. PARKER'S FOES TO VOTE FOR TOWNE Movement Against Ju,(|ge clared t^Iifekke-^^Iuii 'dried Delegated-^\ 11 aMaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaasaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaMaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaMaaaaaaa COLONEL J. JVL-QUFFEY, Pennsylvania Leadfer Whose Delega tion Swings to Parker. lJW'Wgk1 ajiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaai 1 Tg?g? ST,', EQUIS! CAUGHT BY* WING'S PENCILS: CHARLIE TOWNE EXPLAINS THE SI TUATION TO OTHER TAMMANYITES. TWO TYPICAL. SOUTHRONS. *& From a Staff Correspondent. St. Louis, July 6.The drift towards Judge Parker continues, and while the developments of the 'past twenty-four hours have not insured his nomina tion beyond controversy, they have added considerably to his prestige. The anti-Parker forc es claim today to have made goodf with their plan of yesterday to get together 400 dele^ gates in opposition to the Parker can didacy. These delegates are not pledged to anybody fpr the preslden tial nomination. The alliance wMl be over as soon as Parker^is defeated. A prominent .Tammany man said to me this morning th ak the 3 o'clock conference yesterday afternoon had borne good fruit and that Parker could not be nominated. "Of course," he added, "people may be lying to us but on the face of things we will have enough votes to prevent Parker from winning." informant added, that it was the purpose of some of thase 400 to vote for Charles A. Towne 6ri the first bal lot, this plan being the only one under which they could be swung against Parker. Towne, it is understood, con sented to this arrangement with some reluctance, for he does not desire to pose as a presidential candidate. has been very busy for two days, and is one of the leading,men of the anti Parker crowd. 'Distrusted with Gorman. Mr, Towne, with others, is dis gusted at the failure of Gorman to keep his promise and come to St. Louis. One of the reasons advanced for Gorman's bad faith is that he has been promised the chairmanship of the national- committee in case Parker is nominated. If this is the case, he has been cap tured by the Parker people, just as former Senator Turner,of Washington has been. If Parker is the nominee, Turner will have the lead for second place, provided he can swing the mountain and Pacific states, except ing California. If Parker is defeated, Turner will drop out of sight, so far as second place is concerned. The money plank of the convention promises to be the substance of the plank adopted by the Mississippi state convention, and drafted by John Sharp Williams. I says the silver question has been r&moved from the field of politics by the timely discovery of gold in large quantities in Alaska and elsewhere, but there is nothing in it hinting at an indorsement of the gold standard nor of apology for the democratic position in 1896 and 1900 Other Honors Considered. With the presidential nomination so nearly in Judge Parker's hands as to permit the politicians a moment for consideration of some of the other matters which ffre to come up in the national convention,-the vice presi dency and the chatrmanship of the na tional committee are (doming in for some consideration. The cards were put up several months ago for Torn- Taggart of In diana as national chairman, and it was with the understanding that he was to be chosen that he wentt to work and carried Indiana against Hearst, after a contest which, for underground and dark-lantern methbds, equaled anything that was done in Wisconsin by the contending factions there or by the Dunn men who bolted in Ramsey and Hennepin counties la st week. Taggart was encouraged in the be lief that he was to manage the cam paign and it was not until the Indiana delegation reached S Louis that the sincerity of the consfeffvative leaders wa -questioned. Now these leaders ar&- dealing -with^Taggar* precisely &a Turner's Chances. But for this situation, the candi dacy of Senator Turner of Washington for second place on the ticket would be good. I may be that Turner's case will be good despite this Indiana com plication, but as yet the Parker lead ers have not made peace with the Indiana leaders. O the surface the Turner candidacy is leading, but it will not do just yet to count too heavily on it. Turner is fortunate in having for his friend practically every democrat who was a United States senator, with him. Pettigrew of South Dakota, Can non of Utah, Harris of Kansas, ex-sen ators, Senator Dubois of Idaho, Hoke Smith of the last Cleveland cabinet, the senators from Louisianathese are some of his ardent supporters. Turner will be nominated by Conrad Robinson of Spokane, and when the roll of states is called, in alphabetical order, Alabama, the first state on the roll, will yield to Washington, in or der that he may be placed before the convention. The state of Washington, however, is not a unit in Turner's support, and here may grow up a stumbling block in his pathway. The delegation con tains Parker and Hearst men, with the latter in the majority, and they can't quite agree as to whether the state shall support Turner. The dele gation met twice yesterday to talk it over, but could not agree, and is to meet again today. Unless this row can be straightened out the Turner candidacy may not get the send-off which his friends want. The Turner candidacy carries with It the plan to throw all the mountain and Pacific states, except California, to Parker, and it is this which is causing the trouble in the Washington delegation, which is instructed for Hearst. Opposition to Turner. The chief opposition to Turner comes from certain conservatives who say that If Parker is nominated and elected his life will be the only thing standing between the presidential of fice and a man who came into the democratic party only a few years ag o, thru the popullstic gate, on an issue which is now dead and whose policy as president nobody can fore cast. Senator Turner's friends deny that his candidacv is inimical to Hearst. They know that his candidacy Is be ing encouraged by many of Parker's backers, and this fact, they think, has led to the report that Turner was being used as a catspaw by the Parker leaders to pull the mountain and Pa cific states into line for Parker. The Washington delegation today decided to support Turner loyally. W. W Jermane. PACKERS CONFRONTED BY STRIKE THREAT St. Louis, Mo July 6.Thirty-five hun dred packing-house employees in East St. Louis have voted that the wages of the laborers employed at the packing plants must be increased from 15 cents an hour to 184 oents. The resolution adopted announces the purpose of them to strike in case the demand should be refused. Similar meetings have been held in Chi cago, Kansas City, St. Joseph and Omaha. The resolutions from each city will be forwarded to the union headquarters, from which the packing companies will be noti fied of the time in which the demand must be met Th packing-house employees represent the various department* of all the plants in East St. Louli W ^^y^ W r'!^S^y? W aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaai some men deal with a woman of whom they have tired. They don't dismiss her peremptorily, and yet all their ac tions go to show that they wish she were out of the way. The Indiana men have not been able to get any satisfaction out of either Sheehan or Hill since reaching St. Louis. The situation finally became so strained that the Indiana delegation at a caucus held yesterday appointed a committee of three to wait on Hill and Sheehan and feel them out as to Taggart. N Pledge for Taggart. All that the committee got was a red-hot jolly. Many pleasant words were spoken of Taggart and the work he did irt keeping Indiana from going to Hearst, but never a word was said about making him national chair man in case Parker should be nominated. Indeed, the New Yorkers refused to discuss this matter at all, saying that the question of who was to be national chairman would come up late r, after the presidential nomination had been settled. There was not time to look into it at pres ent All of which leads the Indiana men to believe that it is the plan of the Parker managers to select Gorman or some Tammanyite for national chair man. This may be the reward Gor man is to receive for staying away from the national convention. But what is to be done for Indiana? Here is where the boom for Kern of Indiana for vice president comes in. This boom is not fathered by the In diana men nor do they profess to know anything about it. I has originated with the New Yorkers, who probably think Indiana will be sat isfied with anything "equally as good." Butr.a$parently it wilPhot be The Itidianans are sullen and are watching the drift of events, to'see where they get off. July 6, 1904. "*-P aaaaa.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaai J. R. CORRIGAN, Minnesota Member of the Committee on Credentials. A HEARST MEN RIDE OYER JOHN LIND Continued From First Page. Fals, and the debate was threshed all over again, and settled by the same vot e, except that Llnd and Vasaly re fused to vote, the count standing 11 to 9. The Hearst men then carried other committee places on the slate without opposition, as follows: CredentialsJ. Corrigan, Min neapolis. RulesFrank Larabee, Minneap olis Member of Committee to Noti fy Nominee for PresidentDr. W W Mayo, Rochester. Committee to Notify Nominee for Vice PresidentCharles D'Autremont, Duluth. For National Committeeman. The anti-Hearst men then wanted to defer the selection of a national committeeman, and C. A Nye voted with them, but the vote being thus a tie, the motion was lost, and nomina tions were made. The Hearst men named T. Hudson of Duluth, and John Lind then proposed Orville Rine- C. E. VASALY. Minnesota Member of the Committee on Resolutions. hart of Minneapolis, one of the Hearst managers, who helped beat him in Hennepin. extoll ed Mr. Rinehart as a political manager of great capa bility, who had never lost a fight, but anything with a Lind endorsement was doomed to defeat by the doughty dozen of Hearst men, who voted solid ly for Hudson, and thus ended the sessi on with one more turning down for the party's three-time standard bearer. Mr. Lind's friends are free to say that this revival of the factional fight is a calamity to the party and will injure its chances this fall. The Hearst men seem quite satisfied, how ever, with the evening's work. Minnesota's Vote. Minnesota's vote for president will be divided on the first ballot among at least three candidates, unless the situation changes materially. The present outlook is eight votes for Parker, eight for Hearst and BIX for Charles A. Towne. Delegates who were on both sides of ,the contest la st night have agreed to get together and vote for Towne, not considering date, but as the logic al stopping: place for the Minnesota vote until the situa tion develops further. The Hearst men are jubilant. All they are trying to do now is defeat Parker, and they have strong hopes of doing- it. 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Thanking you for my complete recovery and recom mending Swamp Root to all sufferers, I am, Very truly yours, I. C. RICHARDSON." You may have a sample bottle of this wonderful remedy, Dr. Kilmer's Swamp Root, sent absolutely free by mail, also a book telling all about Swamp Root. If you are already con vinced that Swamp Root Is what you need, you can purchase the regular fifty-cent and one-dollar-size bottles at the drug stores everywhere. Don't make any mistake, but remember the name, Swamp Root, Dr. Kilmer's Swamp Root, and the address, Bing hamton, N T. on every bottle. argains We want to close out several hundred pairs of odd lots in boys' and youths' can vas oxfords with leather coles and 160 pairs of men's tennis oxfords with rubber soles, in lot are all sizes, at, pair Also 182 pairs of children's patent leather and kid one strap slippers in sizes 8% to 11, value 79c, at, pair 25c 39c Homemade Shoe Store 219-n? Nicollet ballot, but they will not go to Parker, nor will all go to Hearst. W don't care for Hearst now. What we want is to beat Parker, and we are going to do it. Mr. Corrigan and myself are the only ones from Minnesota in structed for Hearst." Frank A. Day and Buck have agreed to vote for Towne, and three or four others are inclined now to fol low their lead. They are ready to go to John Sharp Williams if he shows strength. The anti-Parker leaders of Minne sota are in close touch with the steer ing committee of hastily formed anti Parker organization here and they have done their work well. Towne is not considered seriously as a candidate and does not expect to get many votes, but he is willing to be used as a hitching- post to tie delegates who are unattached and must be kept away from Parker. Minnesota has attracted little atten tion here, having no headquarters. The state's delegation has figured lit tle in calculations of strength of dif ferent candidates. Charles Cheney. NAMED THE DAKOTAS North Dakotans to Vote for William*. South for Hearst. From a Staff Correspondent. St. Louis, July 6.The North and South Dakota delegations caucussed la st evening and selected their chair man and members of committees. North Dakota, which had been evenly split between the two factions, but bound by unit rule in case a majority should be found, compromised be tween Hearst and Parker, and de cided to cast eight votes on the first ballot for John Sharp Williams of Mississippi. This outcome was en tirely pleasing to the Hearst men, as it cut off three or four possible Parker votes. E E Cole of Fargo was elected chairman of the delegation and Siever Serumgaard of Devils Lake, a Hearst man, went on the resolutions commit tee. Charles T. Bade was made a member of the committee on creden tials and the other committee places were filled as follows: Rules, William Woods, Bottineaunotificatio of nominee for president John Fried, Jamestownnotificatio of nominee for vice president, T. Merrick, Ham ilton. Mr. Merrick was alternate for J. Birder of Park River, killed in Wabash wreck, Sunday, and so takes his seat as regular delegate. South Dakota caucussed in former Senator Pettigrew's room and re turned his hospitality by electing him chairman of the delegation and mem ber of the committee on resolutions. Other committee places were filled as follows: Credentials, Chauncey "Wood, Rapid Cityrules W Bren nan, Lake Preston notification of nominee for president, John A Stran sky, Pukwananotificatio of nom inee for vice president, Henry S. Volk mar, Milbank. Considerable amusement was caused by contest filed against the Hearst delegation from South Dakota by Smith of Armour, who sent in a list of eight contesting delegates. Mr. Smith made a contest on his county in the state convention, and now, without holding any state con vention, has named a delegation of his own. Two of the men he has named as delegates are here attending the fair, and say they have nothing to do with the contest. Charles Cheney, PARKER 18 HIGH GUN Minneapolis Man Wins First Place fW Amateurs at Winona Shoot. Bpeoial to The Journal. Winona, Minn., July 6.The Interstate association shoot ended at noon today. L. E. Parker of Minneapolis wo first place as amateur, with 470 out of ft pos sible 495. C. O. Lecompte was the first profes* sional, with a score of 473. GENERAL J. H. LEWIS DEAD. Frankfort, Ky., July 6.General Joseph H. Lewis, famous as commander of the "orphan brigade" in the confederacy* dropped dead today. was chief jus tice of the court of appeals over twenty years. Rich Gray Matter!is makes Bright Ideas Grape-Nuts makboth. ^frtefe' A