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THE EVENING BULI
xETIN
i V
VOLUME XXIII.
MAYSVILLE, KY.f SATURDAY, JULY 9, 1904.
NUMBER 195.
V-
JUDGE PARKER
NOMINATED.
Tie Was Selected as the Demo
cratic Standard Bearer on
the First Ballot.
NOMINATION MADE UNANIMOUS,
The Democratic National Convention
Adopted Lengthy Platform as Re
vised by William J. Bryan.
The Coliseum Friday Night Was Pack
y ed With People; Not An Aisle
Could Be Seen, Being Packed
j With Spectators.
St Louis, July 9.-5:39 a. m. Alton
B. Parker has been nominated for pres
ident. On the completion of the first
ballot he received a total of G58 votes.
Before the vote was announced, Idaho
changed her six votes.
Washington changed from Hearst to
Parker. This was followed by a mo
tion by Champ Clark to make the nom
ination of Parker unanimous. Scenes
of great enthusiasm followed. A mon
ster American flag was unfurled from
the dome of the building. The band
struck Up "Star Spangled Banher."
Patrick A. Collins, of Massachusetts,
took the stand to second the motion
to make the nomination unanimous.
Parker's nomination was made unani
mous. Convention adjourned until 2 o'clock
Saturday.
St. Louis, July 9. The democratic
national convention Friday night
adopted a platform by a viva voce vote
and listened to nominating speeches
for president. Judge Alton B. Parker
.was named by Martin W. Littleton
and William Randolph Hearst by D.
M. Delmas. Both orators were ap
plauded at length. Anti-Parker dele
gations attempted to create enthusi
asm for their candidates but the Par
ker men remained undisturbed and un
concerned. Hearst delegates paraded
the hall but the showing was small In
comparison with the Parker proces
sion which preceded It.
Nominating speeches for favorite
son candidates and seconding speeches
for both Parker and Hearst occupied
the convention for several hours. The
convention hall seats about 10,500 per
sons and from appearances hundreds
more had been admitted. The floor
and lower and upper galleries contain
ed thousands of sweltering men and
women oblivious to the fact that the
crowded condition of tne hall endan
gered every life.
The Coliseum Interior.
The Coliseum Interior looked like
a huge basin with bottom and sides
formed by closely packed persons.
Not an aisle could be seen. They
were filled by spectators who could
find no other place. Outside and in
the crowds were the same, except for
the fact those within the hall were
satisfied and those without were tur
bulent. As soon as the convention had been
called- to order Chairman Clark an
nounced that the report of the com
mittee on resolutions was ready. Sen
ator Daniel read the report as chair
man of the committee. The conven
tion qonfuslon was so great that not a
word could be heard ten feet from the
platform.
CLIMAX OF THE CONVENTION.
The Nomination of a Candidate For
President.
The great climax of the convention
the nomination of a candidate for
president followed Immediately upon
the adoption of the platform.
Chairman Clark proceeded to that
order of business without delay.
Alabama was called and yielded to
New York. Mr. Littleton's speech Im
mediately pleased his audience and
when ho concluded pandemonium
reigned. Flags waved, banners were
held aloft and great as was the crowd,
delegates carrying the standards of
the Parker states paraded through the
convention, pushing, trampling and
fighting all who obstructed their pro
gress. The scene was one of tremen
dous confusion. Then was enacted a
scene that recalled an Incident of the
democratic convention In Chicago
which nominated William Jennings
Bryan eight years ago. i
California, a Hearst state, was next
In order. D. M. Delmas, of that state,
waB recognized and there was some
cheering as ho made his way to the
platform, but it was not prolonged.
The hall was a bedlam when Mr. Del
mas concluded.
At 1:28 Saturday morning Maine
gave way to Missouri and Champ
Clark, of that state, took the platform
to place In nomination Senator Fran
cis M. ' Cockrell, of Missouri, for the
presidency. Clark was heartily cheer
ed and brought out great laughter by
his earnest and witty passage in turn.
Bryan Receives An Ovation.
When Nebraska was called at 2:25
there were loud cheers for Bryan.
After many calls Bryan mounted a
chair and received an ovation. Bryan
announced that Nebraska yielded to
Wisconsin.
"Massachusetts," called the clerk,
and Patrick A. Collins, of Boston,
made his way to the platform to noml
'nate Richard Olney, of the Old Bay
state.
When Wisconsin was called David
S. Rose nominated Wall, of Wiscon
sin. J. S. Williams, who was placed In
nomination, withdrew his name early
Saturday morning and seconded Par
ker. A nomination on first ballot is
considered likely.
The Platform.
The following platform was adopted
by the convention:
The Democratic party of the United
States, In national convention assembled,
declare devotion to the essential princi
ples of the democratic faith which bring
it together in party communion.
We, the delegates of the democratic
party of the United States, in national
convention assembled, declare our devo
tion to tho essential principles of the
democratic faith which bring us together
in party cummunlpn.
Under them local self-govcrment and
national unity and prosperity were alike
established. They underlaid our indlpend
ence, tho structure of our free republic,
and every democratic extension, from
Louisiana to California, and Texas to
Oregon, which preserves faithfully In all
the states the tie between taxation and
representation. They yet inspire tho
masses of our people, guarding Jealously
their rights nnd liberties, and cherishing
their fraternity, peace and orderly devel
opment. They remind us of our duties
and responsibilities as citizens and
Impress upon us, particularly at this
time, the necessity of reform and tho
rescue of the administration or govern
ment from tthe headstrong, arbitary and
ALTON BROOKS PARKER.
ipasmodlc methods which distract busi
ness by uncertainty and pervade the
public mind with dread, distrust and per
turbation. 1. The application of these fundamental
principles to the living issues of the day
constitutes the first Btep toward the as
sured peace, safety and progress of our
nation. Freedom of tho press, of con
science and of speech; equality before the
law of all citizens: tho right of trial by
lury; freedom of the person defended by
tho writ of habeas corpus: liberty of per.
sonal contract, untrammelcd by sumptu
ary laws; tho supremacy of the civil over
the military authority; a well disciplined
militia; the separation of church am
state; economy in expenditures; low
taxes, that labor may bo lightly bur
dened; the prompt and sacred fulfillment
of public and private obligations; fidelity
to treaties; peace and friendship with nil
nations; entangling alliances with none:
absolute acquiescence In the will of the
majority, the vital principle of republics
these are doctrines which democracy has
jstabllshed, approved by the nation, and
they should be constantly invoked, and
Enforced.
Wo favor the enactment and ndmlnlsi
tratlon of laws, giving labor and capi
tal impartially their Just rights. Capital
and labor ough not to bo enemies. Each
Is necessary to the other. Each has its
rights, but the rights of labor are cer
tainly no less "vested," no less "sacred,"
and no less "inalienable" than the rights
of capital.
Constitutional guarantees are violated
whenever any citizen is denied the right
to labor, acquire and enjoy property o:
reside where Interest of inclination may
determine. Any denial thereof by Indi
viduals, organizations or governments
Bhould bo summarily rebuked and pun
ished. We deny tho right of any executive to
disregard or suspend any constitutional
privilege or limitation. Obedience to tho
laws and respect for their requirements
aro allko tho Supreme duty of tho citizen
and tho official. The military should be
used only to support and to maintain tho
law. Wo unqualifiedly condemn its em
ployment for tho summary banishment
of citizens without trial, or for the con
trol of clcctlonsi
ir- a.-"v
We approve trie measure which passed
the United States senate in 1S9G, but
which a republican congress has ever
since refused to enact, relating to con
tempts in Federal courts and providing
for trial by Jury in cases of indirect con
tempt. We favor the liberal appropriations for
the care and Improvement of tho water
ways of the country. When any water,
way like tho Mississippi river is of suf
ficient importance to demand special aid
of the government, such aid should be
extended with a definite plan of con
tinuous work until permanent improve
ment Is secured. We oppose tho republi
can policy of starving home development
In order to feed the greed for conquest,
and the appetite for national "prestige"
and display of strength.
Largo reductions can easily be rnnde
in the annual expenditures of the
government, without lmparing the ef
ficiency of any branch of the public serv
ice, and wo shall insist upon the strictest
economy and frugality compatible wltn
vigorous and eillclent, civil, military and
naval administration as a right of the
people too clear to be denied or with
held .
2. The enforcement of honesty In the
public service, and to that end a thorough
legislative investigation of those execu
tive departments of tho government al
ready known to teem with corruption, as
well as other departments suspected of
harboring corruption, and the punlshmen.
of ascertained corruptlonists without fear
or favor or regard to persons. Tho per
sistent and deliberate refusal of both the
senate and house of representatives to
permit such Investigation to be made
demonstrates that only by a change in
the executive and in the legislative de
partment can complete exposure, pun
ishment and correction be obtained.
We condemn the action of the republi
can party in congress In refusing to pro
hibit an executive department from en
tering into contracts with convicted
trusts or unlawful combinations in re
straint of inter-state trade. Wo believe
that one of tho best methods of procur
ing economy and honesty In the public
service is to have public oillclals, from
the occupant of the white house down to
the lowest of them return, as early a3
may be, to Jeffersonlan simplicity of liv
ing. ,
3. Wo favor the nomination and elec
tion of a president Imbuded with the
principles of the constitution, who will
set his face sternly against executive
usurpation of legislative and Judicial
functions whether that usurpation bo
veiled under the guise of executive con
struction of existing laws, or whether it
take refuge in the tyrant's plea of neces
sity or superior wisdom.
Wo favor tho preservation, so far
as we can, of an open door for the
world's commerce In tho orient, without
unnecessary entanglement in oriental and
European affairs, and without arbitrary,
unlimited, Irresponsible and absolute gov
ernment anywhere within our Jurisdic
tion. We oppose, as fervently ns did
Georgo Washington himself, an Indefinite,
irresponsible, discretionary and vague ab
solution and a policy of colonial ex-
ploltatlon, no matter where or by whom
Invoked or exercised; wo believe, with
Jefferson and John Adams, that no gov
ernment has a right to make one set of
laws for those at home, and a
different set of laws, absolute in
their character, for those "in tho
colonies." All men under the Ameri
can flag are entitled to the protection of
the Institutions whose emblem the flag
Is; if they are Inherently unlit for those
institutions, then they nro Inherently un
fit to be members of tho American body
politic. Wherever there may exist a peo-j
pie Incapable of being governed under!
American laws in consonance with the
American constitution, the territory ol
that people ought not to be part of the
American domain.
We Insist that wo ought to do for the
Filipinos what we have already done for
Iho Cubans. And it is our intent, as soon
f" M can bo dono wisely and safely fot
'Iho Filipinos themselves and after aml
tablo arrangements withjthem concern
ing naval stations, coaling stations and
trade relations, and upon suitable guar
antees of protection to all national and
International interests to set tho Filipino
people on their feet freo and Independent
lo work out their own destiny.
Tho endeavor of tho secretary of war,
by pledging tho government's endorse
ment for "promoters" in tho Philippine
Islands to make tho United States a part
w In, speculative exploitation of tlw
archipelago, which was only temporarily
held up by the opposition of democratic
senators in tho last session, will, if sue-
ment from what would bo difficult to
sscjipc.
Wo congratulate our western citizens
nnnn tnA nnaanrrn nt .a M.nnn..A f.
as tho Nowlands Irrigation act for tho ir
Cjcallou. and. rccinmmatfop. of. the. orlil
land's of the west a measure framed by
a democrat, passed In vthe senate by a
non-partisan vote and prssed In the house
against the opposition of almost all the
republican leaders by a vote, the majority
of which, was democratic. We call at
tention to this great democratic measure,
broad and comprehensive as It Is. work
ing automatically throughout all tlinn
without further action of congress, until
the reclammatlon of nil the lands In the
arid west capable of reclammatlon Is ac
complished, rest-Vying the lands reclaimed
for homeseekers In small tracts, and rig
Idly guarding against land monopolies,
ns an evidence of the policy of domes
tic development contemplated by tho
democratic party, should It be placed in
power.
The democracy, when entrusted with
power, will construct the Panama canal
speedily, honestly and economically,
thereby giving to our people what demo
crats hnve always contended for a great
Inter-ocean canal, furnishing shorter and
cheaper lines of transportation nnd
broader and less trammeled trade rela
tions with the other peoples of tho world.
The democratic party has been, nnd
will continue to be, the consistent oppo
nent of that class of tariff legislation by
which certain Interests have been per
mitted, through congressional favor, to
draw a heavy trlbuto from the American
people. This monstrous perversion o.
these equal opportunities which our po
litical Institutions were established to se
cure has caused what may once have
been infant industries to become tho
greatest combinations of capital that the
world has ever known. These especial fa
vorites of tho government have, through
trust methods, been converted Into mo
nopolies, thus bringing to an end domes
tic competition which was the only al
leged check upon the extravagant profits
made possible by the protective system.
These industrial combinations, by the
financial assistance they can give now,
control the policy of the republican party.
Wo denounce protection as a robbery
of the many to enrich tho few, and Wo
favor a tariff limited to the needs of tho
government economically administered,
and so levied as not to discriminate
against any industry, class or section, to
the end that the burdens of taxation
shall be distributed as equally as pos
sible. We favor a revision and a gradual re
duction of tho tariff by tho friends
of the masses, and for the com
monweal, and not by tho friends of
Its abuses Its extortions nnd Its discrimi
nations, keeping In view the ultimate end
of "equality of burdens and equality of
opportunities," and the constitutional
purpose of raising a revenue by taxa
tion, to wit, tho support of tho Federal
government In all Its integrity and virili
ty, but in simplicity.
We recognize thnt the gigantic trust?
and combinations designed to enable capi
tal to secure more than its Just share of
the Joint product of capital and labor, and
which have been fostered and promoteJ
under republican rule, nre a menace to
beneficial competition, nnd an obstacle to
permanent business prosperity.
A private monopoly Is indefensible nnd
Intolerable. Individual equality of op
portunity and free competition are es
sential to a healthy and permanent com
mercial prosperity and any trust, com
bination or monopoly tending to destroy
these by controlling production, restrict
ing competition or fixing prices, should
be prohibited and punished by law. Wo
especially denounce rebates and discrim
ination by transportation companies.
We pledge ourselves to Insist upon the
just and lawful protection of our citizens
at home and abroad, and to use all prop
er measures to secure for them, whether
native born or naturalized, and without
distinction of race or creed, the equal pro
tectlon of laws and the enjoyment of all
rights nnd privileges open to them under
Jhe covenants of our treaties of friend
ship and commerce; and, if under existing
treaties tho right of travel and sojourn
Is denied to American citizens or recog
nition is withheld from American pass
ports by any countries on the ground of
race or creed, we fnvor the beginning of
negotiations with the governments of
such countries to secure, by treaties,
tho removal of these unjust discrimina
tions. We demand that all over the world a
duly authenticated passport. Issued by
the government of the United States to
an American citizen, shall be proof of
tho fact that he is an American citizen,
and shall entitle him to the treatment
du him as such.
Wo favor the election of United States
senators by direct vote of the people.
We favor the admission of the terri
tories of Oklahoma and the Indian terri
tory. We also favor the Immediate ad
mission of Arizona and New Mexico ns
separate states and a territorial govern'
ment for Alaska and Porto Rleo.
We hold that the oillclals appointed to
administer the government of any terri
tory, as well ns with the district ol
Alaska, should be bona fide residents at
tho tlmo of their appointment of the ter
ritory or district in which their duties ate
to be performed.
Wo demand tho extermination of
polygamy within tho jurisdiction of the
United States, and the complete separa
tion of church and state In political af
fairs. Wo denounce the ship subsidy bill, re
cently passed by tho United States Sen
ate, as an Iniquitous appropriation oi
public funds for private purposes and a
wasteful. Illogical and useless attempt to
overcome by subsidy, to the obstructions
raised by republican legislation, to tho
growth and development of American
commerce on the sea.
Wo favor tho upbuilding of a merchant
marine, without now or additional bur
dens upon the people, and without boun
ties from the public treasury.
We favor liberal trade arrangements
with Canada and with peoples of other
countries whero they can be entered Into
with benefit to American agriculture,
manufactures, mining and commerce.
We favor the maintenance of the Mon
roe doctrine In Its full integrity.
We favor the reduction of the army,
nnd of army expenditure to the point his
torically demonstrated to be safe and
sufficient.
Tho democracy would secure to the
surviving soldiers and sailors and their
dependents, generous pensions, not by an
arbitrary executive order, but by legisla
tion which a grateful people Btand ready
to enact. . , .
Our soldiers and sailors, who defend
with their lives the constitution and the
laws, have a sacred interest in their Just
administration. They must, therefore,
share with us the humiliation with which
wo have witnessed the exaltation of court
favorites, without distinguished service,
over tho scarred heroes of many battles:
or aggrandized by executive appropria
tions out of the treasuries of a prostrato
people, in violation of the act of con
gress which it fixes the compensation
and allowances of tho military officers.
The democratic party stands committed
to the principles of civil service reform,
and wo demand their honest, Just and Im
partial enforcement.
Wo denounco tho republican party for
Its continuous and sinister encroachment
upon the spirit and operation of civil
service rules, whereby it has arbitrarily
dispensed with examinations' for office in
the interests of favorites, and employed
all manner of devices to over-reach and
set aside the principles upon which tho
civil service was established,
Tho. race aueailon haa. brought, countr
less woes fo ffifs country. The calm
wisdom of the American people should
see to It that it brings no more.
To revive the dead and hateful race and
sectlonnl animosities In any part of put
common country means ccnfuslon, dis
traction of business, and the re-openlng
of wounds now hnpplly healed. North,
south, east and west hnve but recently
stood together In line of battle from
the walls of Pekln to the hills of San
tiago, and as sharers of a common glory
nnd a common destiny, we should share
fraternally the common burdens.
We. therefore, deprecate and condemn
the Bourbon-llko seinsh and narrow
spirit of the recent republican conven
tion at Chicago which sought to kindle
anew the embers of racial and sectional
strife, and we appeal from it to the sober
common sense and patriotic spirit of the
American people.
Tho existing republican administration
has been spasmodic, erratic, sensational,
spectacular and arbitrary. It has made
Itself a satire upon the congress, the
courts and upon the settled practices and
usages of national and International law.
It summoned the congress Into hasty
and futile extra session, and virtually ad
journed It, leaving behind Its flight from
Washington uncalled calendars and unac
complished tasks.
of congress, without its authority, there
by usurping one of its fundamental pre
rogatives. It violated a plain statute of
the United States, as well as plain treaty
obligations, International usages and con
stitutional law, and has Uone so under
pretense of executing a great public
policy which could have been moro easily
effected lawfully, constitutionally, and
with honor.
It forced strained and unnatural con
structions upon statutes, usurping Ju
dicial Interpretatiop, and substituting
congressional enactment decree.
It withdrew from congress their cus
tomary duties of investigation, which
have heretofore mnde the representatives
of the people and tho states tho terror of
evil doers.
It conducted a secretive investigation
of its own, nnd boasted of a few sample
convicts, while It threw a broad cover
let over the bureaus which had been their
chosen field of operative abuses and kept
In power tho superior officers under
whose administration the crimes had been
committed.
It ordered assault upon some monopo
lies but, paralyzed by Its flrst victory,
it flung out the flag of truce and cried
out that it would not "run amuck" leav
ing its future purposes beclouded by its
vaccinations.
Conducting the campaign upon thlp dec
laratlon of our principles and purposep.
we Invoke for our candidates the-support
not only of our great and time-honored
organization, but also the active assist,
anco of all of our fellow citizens who,
disregarding past differences upon ques
tions no longer In issue, desire tho per
petuation of our constitutional govern
ment as framed and established by the
fathers of the republic.
BLOWN FROM A BRIDGE.
Seven Workmen Killed and Two Seri
ously Injured.
St. Louis, July 9. A special from
Cape Girardeau, Mo., says: Seven
workmen were killed and two others
seriously Injured by being blown from
the second arch of the new railroad
bridge across the Mississippi river at
Thebes, 111., Friday night. The tor
nado struck a traveling crane, upon
which the men were at work and push
ed It backward for 200 feet. At the
second arch from the Missouri shor"
It struck an obstruction and was hurl
ed to the rocks below. A relief train
was hastily made up and the dead and
Injured brought here.
SALVATIONISTS AT JACKSON.
Citizens of the Town Donate a Sits For
a Building.
Lexington, Ky., July 9. Capt. Klutts
and five members of the Salvation
army from Cleveland passed through
here Friday en roule to Jackson, Ky .
where they will establish permanent
headquarters. They will live in a tont
revernl weeks until they can erect a
building, the site for which has been
donated by citizens of Jackson.
Capt. Klutts believes the work of
the Salvationists In Jackson last fall
and winter hns done much good to
ward the suppression of lawlessness In
the feud center.
THE FLOOD AT ABILENE, KAN.
Sixty Per Cent, of the Eottom Land
Is Ruined.
Abilene, Kan., July 9. The crest of
the Smoky Hill and Solomen rivers
was reached Friday nlgat, three feet
less than last year. It is estimated
that CO per cent. of. the bottom land
Is ruined and there will be a 30 per
cent, decrease In wheat yield of the
county. Tho loss of wheat will be
$300,000.
Mad Dog in Crowd.
Lexington, Ky., July 9. While a
large crowd of women and children
were waiting for a Chautauqua car af.
the street car center Friday a mad
dog appeared and tore the clothes from
several young glrls. He also ran
through a soda water parlor, where
another crowd was seated at tables.
He was followed by several men, and
when ho had left the place was shot
by Attorney Wallace Mulr.
Drank Carbolic Acid By Mistake.
Frenchburg, Ky., July 9. At Sandy
Run, Magoffin county, Mance Cantrell,
a well-to-do merchant, drank carbolic
acid. He had been on a spree for a
week, and took tho poison by mis
take. When ho discovered what he
had dono ho started on tho run from
his storo to his home, but died on the
road In great agony.
Frenchburg, Ky., July 9.- The four-year-old
son of Bony Mead, a farmer
of Toms creek, Magoffin countyLate Oj
lot of matches, and died