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BRYAN IS OBJECT
OF BITTER ATTACK
Stanchneld, of New York, Calls Him "Money-Grab
bing, Selfish, Office-Seeking, Favor-Hunting,
Publicity-Hunting Marplot, From Nebraska."
Baltimore. Md.. July 1.?John B.
fStanchfleld, of New York, furnished
, the (sensation of the early convention
hours to-day, when, as the twenty
, seventh ballot was being taken, he
asked permission to explain his vote,
end used the. opportunity to launch the
bitterest attack upon William J. Bryan
heard during tho present convention.
/ fclanehfuld's attack was made In
.answering what ho termed the "Jn
j suits offered New York's delegates by
'.Bryan In the controversy growing out
' of the passage of tho Hyan-Belmont
*>Morgan resolution. Stahchleld'a speech
i was punctuated time and time again
!t>y cheers, hisses und catcalls.
In explaining his vote Mr. Stanrh
f.a'jl euggested that only twice In his?
tory has a Democratic President been
'elected without New York's electoral
; vole.
"Tho Integrity, the .manhood, the
personal and the political honor of
every delegate of the ninety from
, Now York." ho said, "has been Im?
pugned and Insulted In this conven?
tion. I am one of thoso who back in I
'the dark years of 1896 followed the I
,'flag of Colonel Bryan, und spoke In
i every city and village and hamlet In
I favor of h'.s election.
"In 1900 1 ran on the Democratic
i ticket for Governor with Colonel Bryan
I upon tho ticket, and he polled with me
: upon that ticket moie votes by up
: wards of a hundred thousand than he
i polled before or Since.
"In tho mnke-up of the delegation
? from New York we have here with
?us the Democratic Governor and the
. Lieutenant-Governor of she Slate, the
; president'al candidate In 1901; an ex
Justice of the Supreme Court of Now
? York, lawyers of repute, business men,
professional men, tho most represcnta- '
tlvo delegation that ever came to a
national convention from New York.
"If th's delegation was composed of
puppets of wax as des'gnated by the
gentleman from Nebraska, we say to
that money-grabbing, selfish, office- I
seeking, favor-hunting, publicity hunt?
ing marplot from Nebraska that ihey |
are actuated?." Mr. Slanchfleld w;us '
Interrupted by applause from the dele?
gates and the galleries.
"If the ninety delegates from New
York of the character that I have de?
scribed are within the, control and the
power of one man thoy are moved by
?wires of tremendous human voltage.
"New York is vital to success, and
no man can go forth from this con?
vention stigmatized and branded with
Bryanisrn and come within half a m'l
lion votes of success." (Applause,
fchoera and hisses.)
Amid e.rles of Bryan, applause hoots
and Jeers. Mr. Ptanrhflcld said no man
junong the New V'ork delegates la pro?
fessionally or otherwise under the In?
fluence, of Ryan, Morgan or Belniont
"Whei. he (Bryan) makes the state
?Tnent that thefe men. Morgan, Ryan
end Belnjont. are plutocrats of this
'convention he omits one name who pit
nil the delegates upon the floor of
this convention has been th;e most
powerful of plutocrat*, nnd ho Is the
.gcntlen-.nn from Nebraska.
I "If tho New York delegation Is to
idle prevented from voting for tho oan
j?Wpto-,ot tnl?-,cQAYoaU0n, -then, .thoro
ought to be passed a resolution de?
priving of a scut In this convcnt'on a
man who, for pay, has been writing
from the Republican convention in
favor of the election of Bryan's part?
ner and ally, Theodore Boosevelt. and
ought to be expelled from the floor.
(Applause and hisses.; Colonel Bryan
never Intended to support the candl
date of this convention unless that
candidate should be Bryan himself. |
"We have heard for months gone
by that Colonel Bryan by his voice and
Influence was supporting Woodrow
Wilson In oni place, supporting Champ
Claik In another. combntt'ng Harmon
here nnd Underwood thore, all of the
(line desiring and intending. In pursuit
of his own selfish ends, to produce a
deadlock In this convention in order
that he might be the recipient of the
favorB of this convention controversy "
Mr. Stanchfteld, concluding, said tho
New York delegation supported Cover
n?r Harmon so long ns It appeared to
the majotlty to be advisable, then'
voted for Speaker Clark, "because he
was the strongest candidate before this
convention," and favors "any man who
can be .til" candidate and the nom'nee
Of this convention."
Personally, lie said, his vote w;:s for
Wilson.
RIDICULE CLAIMS
OF UNION LEADERS
New York. July 1.?Developments to?
day in the coastwise seamen's strike
di<I not tend to cnrry out predictions
of leaders that more than a dozen
Steamships nt this port would be lied
up before nightfall Outgoing vessels
of lines against which the strike is
directed sailed OH time With improvis?
ed crews of negroes, when necessary.
Steamship officials to-night ridi?
culed claims of union leaders that 33,
000' llrenieii, oilers, checkers. boiler
men, workers and longshoremen, in
?ClUdlng 12.000 of the Atlas Steamship
Line, had struck. They declared that
while they were Inconvenienced, thelr
troubles wero but tciYiporury, and they
wero not looking forward to tho gen?
et al strike talked of by union lead?
ers. They raid further that tho re?
pents from their ofllcen In Oalveston.
Boston. Norfolk nnd Philadelphia In?
dicated that all their ships have boen
sailing on time, wit* strike breakers
ns crews. The steamship officials -aid
the longshoremen were not responding
to the strike order. It was said that
probably not more than too longshore?
men had milt in this city, mostly from
tho Clyde, Mallory and Havana line
1'ierp.
t'nnhlc in (jet Firemen.
Norfolk, Va., ,fu y t. ? enable to get
firemen, the naval colliers Brutus nnd
Sterling may not nail front this port
to-morrow. With a strike of firemen
and coul passers now In force h^re,
efforts by government agents to sign
a nro room crew for the colliers fft'l?
ed, <o-Jay.
(Continued from rir.it Page.)
tc-day. Ho was not the bo found at
his offices In tho Capitol and could not
be located at his home. Rumors said
he was 1:: Baltimore at tho home of
Mayor Preston, holding conferences
with his political advisers. His lleu
tinants hero simply said he was hld
irg away for the day getting some
j'icep. All efforts to rind him were
futile. So consistently did the Speak?
er keep In his retirement that he even
could not bo found to sign the Joint
congressional resolution extending
last year's appropriations Into the new
fiscal year, which began this morning.
In order that th? wheels of gov?
ernment might not stop at midnight.
Tho House placed Representative Alex?
ander, of M'ssourl, In tho chair as
Sp.-aker pro tlm. to slsn tho precious
document, which later was rushed to
thu White House, where President Taft
signed It before leaving for Phlladel
ph'a.
All the government departments
operated to-day In technical violation
ot tho law, which forbids voluntary
s< rvlco on the assurances of leaders
In Congress that a resolution to cover
their operations would be passed by
night. This was necessary because
many of tho big appropriation bills
[still remain to bo passed by tho Sen
: at-- and the Treasury could not pay
cut any money.
Francis Apologl/o?.
Baltimore. Md.. July 1,?a personal
apology was made to William J, Bryan
to-night by former Governor David R.
Francis, of Mtssoutl, who sa-d he was
not in the convention bsll during the
sfternoon when Clark adherents placed
I In front of the N'ebraskan c banner in
| scribed with Mr. Bryan's former eulogy
of tho Speaker. Mr. Francis said tho
action of too men with the banner
j was nn Indignity, and erpressed the
[opinion that it would not have happen?
ed had he been present.
I Although PpeaKer ClarV was known
i to have motored to Raltlmoro from
, Washington early In the day. and to
have remained* at the hums of a friend
: for several hours, he did not appear at
any political rendezvous to-night. It
was said there had been no conferences
between tho candidate and his man?
agers, except by telephone. The Speak?
er was reported as greatly grieved be?
cause of Mr. Bryan's attack on him.
nnd to bo In a highly nervous crmdl
j Hon.
wAitit.wT roit nonmtT ray,
j Former Ashevllle Man Charged With
Theft of Dlnniond Hroneh.
(Special to The Times-Despatch.)
I Rrlsiol. Tonn., July 1.?Robert Ray,
la young society mnn. who came here
recently- from Ashevllle, X. C, and who
had been associated with a local auto?
mobile establishment, disappeared last
.-.Ight. and this afternoon a warrant
was issued for his arrest charging the
theft of a diamond brooch valued nt
ISQ?. The brooch was tho property of
Mrs. S'mpsnn, wife of Captain David
;s. Simpson, a. conductor on the South
J'crn Railway, and was procured from a
'son of Mrs. Simpson, ostensibly for
using In having a picture made. It Is
s:>id that Ray borrowed money . and
brought fine clothes on cred't before
his disappearance. Chief of Police
Koller has wired the pollCo In other
.Aowjvj-and clties * floeorjpilou Of Hay,
TH?USANDSSTOR
CONVENTION HALL
(Continued from first Pago.)
the authorities were confronted with
a Situation so serious that reserves
jwere sent for arid the crowds driven
.back from tho doors,
i In front of the hall the street was
! roped off at each extreme of the
building and double lines of police sta?
tioned across the streets. No ono was
permitted through the lines without a
delegnto badge and t'eket or press
badge and ticket.
By 10 o'clock it was estimated that
j 25,000 persons were crowded In the
'streets clamoring for admittance, but
, none could elude the police. it was
j the first time since tho convention
I began tnat precautions were neces?
sary to avert pusslblo accident In the
{hall and at the door*.
! The police, orders were ao strict that
several delegates who had forgotten
their badges were excluded from the
' hall for nn hour before they could get
'word to the Inside and obtain Identi?
fication. 'The hall itself was tilled to
Its capacity, hundreds being permitted
to stand In the .ilsleB around the seats
'or on tho grour.t floor.
TREASURE CLEIIK ARRESTED,
Alleged Count erf eltlajf Conspiracy In
earthed b> secret .servier.
Washington, July 1.?An alleged
counterfeiting conspiracy, hatched in
tho United States Treasury, only a few
feet from the office of Chief Wllk'.e.
was unearthed by -tho Secret sorvlc-c
to-day.
I J. D. Atkins, fi clerk In the office of
i tho auditor for the Treasury Depfirt
I merit, was arrested here on a warrant
signed l>y Ontted .States Commissioner
i Bond, of Baltimore, charging him with
1 raising one doll; r notes to ten dollars.
This action followed the arrest In Bal?
timore yesterday of Percy it. Carman,
a fellow-clerk of Atkins, charged with
the samp offense. Tho two men are
alleged to naive nrppked ih concert.
Atkins-waiving formalities, left Wash?
ington to-night for JtaltLmore. Where
ho Will be .given a hearing to-n-.-.: ;?? tv
before Commissioner Bond; Carman,
according to sSoret service headquar?
ters here, has nude a statement laying
bare the, scheme.
Atkins, holding a ll.ooo clerkship,
was formerly deputy collector of In?
ternal revenue for th?- Strafe of Wash?
ington. Ca.rm.an. whosd salary is $300,
aas a wife and ihTeo children.
fl.000 VOIOBS IN CHOIll.
President ami Mrs, Taft Guests of
Honor lit Ihr SaengerfeMt.
Philadelphia. July 1.?A grand fes?
tival concert, participated 'n ny tho
thousands of memibers of societies con
sMt tiling the Xorthcas-torn SnengOr
liund. with President .an.! Mrs. Taft as
the gue-ts of honor, was tho crowning
fvent to-night <.n to-day'n program of
the twenty*-third Saengerf.?*t.
When the President and &Ers. Taft
t (reached Ftroad BCreelt Ktatlon at C
j o'clock to-n1ght, they wero greeted by
a German son.tr of welcome sung hy a
large chorus.
As the President and his wife cn
itoTod the vast auditorium, erected <x
pressly foi ihe oOcas'.oh, the chorus of
6.00J tKilned male voles, (ho |?:< k of
'.he leading <>.-man sloping societies
ir. the Enat, s?.n? the '^tar-Spangled
?Bn.nncr," whiln the, Immense o.udJenco
<rome.ln.ed. ?t?ndln?. - ? >?
RAISING MONEY
10 SUCCOR NEEDY
(Continued from FTrst Page.)
of the delegates were hard up, caused
the Jersey City men ta coma here to
make the'r offer.
"We. r.ro not going to permit Gover?
nor "Wilson's light for the. presidency to
fail at this crisis for lack of funds."
said Mr. Lud low after tho conference.
"We will bo prepared to pay tho
betel bills and other living expenses
which the Wilson delegates at Balti?
more aro unable to pay. We expect to
spend a: least |?,000 this way. If
necessary wo can raiao $50,000 In
twenty-four hours, and will do so. We
will pay any sum needed to keep these
men In Baltimore."
Mr. Ludlow said he and Mr. Bern?
stein will appear in Bult'morc by 6
o'clock to-morrow ready to succor tho
needy Wilson supporters.
"They nro coming as slowly as cold
molasses," wns Governor Wilson's
comment to-day upon his gain In
strength in Baltimore. "But at that,
we aro doing hotter than wo did last
week. During the. week wo gained
eighty-three votes; to-day alone up to
the present, wo have rained seventy
one The Wilson lines aro holding
solid; tho gain Is very satisfactory."
Governor Wilson has become so ac?
customed to tho suspense that ho does
not mind the sensation. To tho re?
porters who besought an expression of
his opinion on the situation, the Gov?
ernor declared that the only thins he
could say was that ho was making a
"riot of silence."
Durltug the .(afternoon ho sent a
telegram of encouragement to ids New
Jersey followers at the convention.
Governor Wilson, when asked to?
night about tho "Wilson fund," said
that the pla.h of Messrs. Ludlow and
Bernstellt had not been referred 'to
him at all, and that !t must >he under?
stood that if they went to Baltimore
they dftd so without his ofllcjol know?
ledge of tliftP mission.
GERMAN AVIATOR DIES
Wounds Received In Violent l/umilnu
Fatal to Benno Koenlg.
Altona. Prussia, July I.?Benno Koe?
nlg, the German aviator, died to-day
as the result of injuries he stiMnlnod
yesterday*! when he made a violent
landing In a clump of bushes, lie was
participating In the northwest aviation
circuit of 425 miles, which was re?
turned here yesterday after having
been postponed Juno 2, owing to the
deaths of Albert Buchstaetter. ono of
tho host known German aviators, and
his passenger, Lieutenant Stille, of the
German army, i;oon after tho start.
Tlireo other professional .aviators
taking part in the contest also were
I red by falls yesterday. They arc.
however, all expected to recover.
DM I OFFICI 11.8 I V FIGHT.
I Lie Passed Following lle-I?tectlon of
Police Justice Brown.
[Special to The Times-Dispatch 1
Xowport News, Vii., July 1.?Follow?
ing the re-election of Polles Justice J.
D. G. Brown to-nleht over his opponent
for that position. Mayor Mayrus Jones,
by the vote of thirteen to eleven, at
a joint meeting of the Hoard of Al?
dermen and Common council, and
growing out (,f that election. B. S.
Jones, president Of the Council, hurled
tin- lie at Dr. 1*. b Longnn, president
of the lionnl of Aldermen, and after
tho meeting adjourned 1.outran* return?
ed the lie and n tlKh* ensued Only
one blow was pasuAd, and tha hollger
cnts were separated . l ire any dam
ago had been don?.
CONVENTION SIDELIGHTS
Baltimore, July 1.?-Convention Hull
wais clean tills morning (when tho Con?
vention 'was called to order, ror tho
tittlmo slnco lest Tuesday noon,
when Chairman .Mack, of tho Demo?
cratic National Committee, called the
chins together for Che flr*t session.
Tho c'.eaningHitp process of yesterday
and tlvln morning1, however, swept many
tons of presidential hooms. In the shape
of circulars and handbills and posters
and pamphlets, out of tho hall. Every
day would seo some printed appeals to
delegates and visitors, carefully distri?
buted on .the chairs tn the armory or
?handed directly to those gathered In
the convention; and cvsry night would
tlnd those s.vme appeals making It more
uncertain whether or not thcro really
whs a floor on the hall, As each day
went on the uncertainty wna Increased.
AlbOUt the third morning of the con?
vention, a whole squad of men nnd
boys spent hours tn carnfully covering
the seats of all the chairs with pam?
phlets of v.nrlous sorts, .telling the dele?
gates and visitors thn.t n. Ivusiness
Democratic administration would be
assured by the nomination of only one
man 'n th,< United Stintes?Governor
Bugene Pos?, of Massachusetts. Many
of that distributing squad were busy
?he. next morning carting It our of the
hall?only then it was grimy with the
tramp of many feet.
And so It Is with thei literary ends
of other booms. If the managers of
ono campaign statt a distribution the
managers of the others must keep
pace. To be convinced how many
Democrats thero are, each of whom is
tho only logical, sure-winning, safe,
progressive candidate for first-pliico
honors, one has only to read the state?
ments ho accumulates on a walk
I through tho hotel lobbies and a visit
j to convention hall.
It's surprising, too, how quick a
Idark-horsebud will bloom with ban
: tiers, buttons, circulars and all tho
'other apparatus of a full-fledged cam?
paign. On tho opening day of the
convention not a Bryan button or
badge was to be seen. Now they are
Inumerous, and there nre reports that
[many silken banners with Bryan's
.name across them wero within handy
'reach, ready to be part of a Stampede
for the Commoner when the conven?
tion has exhausted Itself on other can?
didates.
Probably the most sensational of the
handbills distributed to the crowds
made Its nppe?ratlce last night. Print?
ed In red ink nnd addressed to Col.
W. J. Bryan. It started out with:
"Stop shouting at the thief, catch
him."
.Speaking ef stampedes, th?re wan
ncurly a stampede recently in tho din?
ing room of one of tho hotels which
Is the headquarters of many of the
delegations from the Southorn States.
Tile Southern Democrats, Including
Senator John Sharp Williams. Gover?
nor Vardaman, Senator Bacon and oth?
ers of tan cotton halt, were talking In
groups of candidates and deadlock
probabilities when a guest in one cor?
ner of the room summoned ft bellboy.
"Helfe boy," lie whispered to the
youngster, "page thin man here in the
dining room." An? he handed the hoy
n rurd with a name on It.
As the boy wofked over near the
centre of tho dining room, ho shouted
out:
Mr. Booker T. Washington."
Thero was a clatter of knives and
forks on plates.
Haw so many Wilson shouters came
to be in the galleries of the convention
hall during the early hours cf the ses?
sion has .benn somewhat of a mystery
to doorkeepers -who nr* supporters of
Speaker Clark. Many oraploycn of the
DenTXTiat-'tj Mtmnf. lia,vw been examln
Ing tickets ait tho entranco of the hall,
ana they aro practically all for the
Speaker. It was iui open secret that a
Clark man hud Ml easier tdno gotttiiK
Into the hall tlnnn did the suppocturs of
othe;. candidates, ajid the Wilson peo?
ple even went ao far at on* t'mo as to
charge that tho galleries wer,) packed
for Clark,
Hut the ch'ieirlntr of sovera! dayj In ?
dicated that the Wilson men w<-r0 very
numerous in the irailorles. so numerous
aa to suggest a deep-laid plot- How
many of them got Inside is Just be?
coming known.
When they rwent to the entrances. a?
they tell the story, wearing . the-r
? Win With Wilson" badires and but?
ton:', they wero told there were no
seatn left inside. Thoy had come there,
however, to cheer for Wilson, an)d
th?y wero not to he denied. They re?
mained oround the doors foe some
time?terribly outride?^vait'ng for an
Inspiration. After many minutes there
was a whispered consultation among
the leaders, and tho batches of "Wilson
men disappeared in the distance.
It -wasn't many minutes before large
groups of men, wearing conspicuously
"Chr.n-, ClaTk" badges, appeared at
tin- entrances. They wer-? tho Wilson
m ? \ and thoy say the Clark bndc.es
got tnem by the doorkeeper*. Inside
they buriod the Clark badges and re
.spondtd to signals to cheer for Wilson.
As - onvention hall was beinsr cleared
of lis thousands a.fter that all-night
session that broke up long after day?
light of Krida y, ono of tho policemen
found a delegate sound asleep In it
chair In a corner. He ga.ve the sleep?
er a shako and saw the eyelids ovn a
crack.
"You can't sleep hore," the ibhiecoat
remarked.
"Co on," drawled the delegate, "I
could sleep anywhere."
Governor Plalstead hnd waited long
foi his breakfast this morning, finish?
| ir.g a couple of morning papers and
- holding brief conferences with nc
qualntances who were In tho dining
room, but hin meal was not forthcom?
ing, He stormed at ths waiters near
I by, but all (if them null another wait
jer had taken tho order nnd was get
l ting It from the kitchen.
A couple of newspaper men at a
(nearby table saw tho governor's dif?
ficulty, and invited him ovor to share
their breakfast. Tho Governor moved
over to their table nnd began explain?
ing his long \?nlt. ant lie looked at
somo of the tettover chops end tho
omelet, .lust at that minute the wait
ci at the newspaper men's table saw
they had stopped eating and began
clearing up the dishes. Tho first ones
bo reached for wero tho platters upon
which tho real food was.
Hut the Governor reached the dishes
first.
"If I can't gat anything brought to
me from tho kltchon, you can't take
away what's before me. It Isn't beneath
my dignity to eat what Is left over."
"Well, It's true that the Clark head
Ounrlers have direct conpectlons with
Wall Street." remarked a visitor to the
Clark visitors' room, on tho main lloor
of the Kmcrson Hotel, this morning.
"What's thatf" challenged a Chirk
supporter, who overheard the remark.
"There's a stock ticker over there,
merrily rattling away." wus tho roply.
.lure enough, the stock ticker was In
the Clark room.
nut It was soon explained that whi n
rational conventions are not rncet(ng
In Hdltlmoro the room Is use* fdM *
business men's lunchroom, and the
I stock ticker Is ?h?re for the benefit of
the patrons. It had simply been left In
placo, and mighty few of ths Clark
men hv-re-neen looking at the *a.o? i