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ISLAND ARGU VOL. XLIV. NO. 338. BOCK ISLAND, ILL FRIDAY, JULY 24, 1896. PMCE THSE3 CENTS. ROOK STILLtIO BREAK MADE Conventions at St. Still Louis. FIGHT ON COMMITTEE REPORT Free Silverites Ready to Join Them. ONLY AWAITING A CHANCE.' Will Probably Go Over in a Body. Other News of the Gatherings of the Hour. ' wishes of the present administration re ' s.irlinif the convention and third ticket, l ami It w uVirod to (rive him all pouible i oitirtuult.T to my what Cleveland desired I without It butt) ir too extensively adver-U-miI. It wi ffi-uerally admitted that the VJnnuin,T w,"h-''' of ,h administration would go far i'uri uL'it-riiiiuiuK itneiner or noi Caere shuulil be auothcr ticket in the field. Mm of Tkow Wh. War PmeaU But many visiting Drmocrats had no ht'iltation in saying that the ticket would be it up in spite of everything. Among the anti-fr-e silver Democrats present were representatives from Kentucky, Ohio. Miifcuiuri and Xt-hraiikii wtrh thM PopulistS Have an Animated UHo In IViuni raticloaura from Illinois , c I John 1'. Hopkins and C. A. Ewing. From JCbbiuu. i u iM-onmn: uonral k. s. Braes. Sena tor Vdi and Kllis Usher. From Iowa: folon.-l J. M. ilartin, Marshalltown; J nil in- French, Davenport; Thomas Bow mini. Council llluffs; Henry Vollmer; E. W. Boynton; E. M. Sharon, Davenport. t: ki'L t all, to Make Appearanre. Tfbv;rnms were rerolved and read at the confiT -m-c from prominent Democrats all over the country strongly indorsing the mov-iiient for another ticket. Comptrol-1-r Eckel did not apticur, and the meeting, after waiting mine time for him, went into sion mid General E. S. Iiragg, of Wis- ron-iin, was tin-tea chairman, and C. A. Kwiiift, of Illinois, secretary. The con- f.rrein-e dcllnitely ducitled that a conven tion Hhouul lie called, the only question be ing whether the meeting last night should l4iie the call, ami on this a lively debate ensiieii. Vila. iniM' Immediate Action. O. M. Davis of Kciituckv, r resented the prinelial resolution, calling for the con vention to be held on Sept. 1, in Detroit. II. S. Itohblns, of Illinois did not favor the Ussue of a call by the meeting, and K. AN . Knott Kpoke strongly in favor of call ing theconventionat once. Senator Vilas violently' opposed issuing a call bv the conference!. His mieerh was frequently cheered, although the general sentiment of tlrs meeting sevnifd to incline the other way. He rahl : "If wo ure to have an ur- Kanluition which shall represent the Dem ocrat ie party we must recruit it from every state in the I'nion. Wo must not Hsue n call from a body too narrow to bo poteuli'il. Want, .til the Male. Itrprrwntvri. "1 think tin? Nwt way is to appoint a commit uv to fh-lwt nMiresentatives from very state. I d.in't lielieve that each state (ImiiiM hold a state convention. Lot a mass meeting lie held ill e.iih state and let tlutu Humiliate delegated to a national convention. It is too late to hold state conventions in the regular way. This con ference should not issue a call. We want nil the stutcrt represented when tle rail goes forth fur the convention then we are sun of our ground nnd our strength." Ilmulntioii. Iur a Convention. After a long del ate a resolution was adopted to the effect that it was the sense of the Inivtlnir that a Democratic conven tion should lie I12I1I, a Democratic plat form rnuunctuTcil, and candidates for presidi nt and vice president cho.cn. and that stid convention should he held not later than Sept. 3. A committee of one from cadi state represented was appointed by iUj chairman in draft the cull tor a convention, with orders to report to a general meeting lit 11 o'clock this morn ing. . I ieti'Tat Bra;rg s lid after the adjourn ment of tlr- conference nt 1 o'clock this morning: "There is no longer any doubt that the pild standard Democrat inenn business. We all d.n-iils:! that the W-st thing was to c.i'.la convention and put a ticket In the llel.l. ' lkrl. tteanl from i'.n ltnnte. I'tTTMU lMieliily 21. Comptroller Eckels pastil through the citr last niuht en mute to Chiengo to attend the Demm-railo gold ronvention, 'He said a great many of the most prof on il thinkers nnd 11 nan iersof the country had made a request f r such a convention. Tho outcome of the (fathering, lie said, would certainly be the issuing of a call for a national con tention to nominate a ticket on a gold pVit form and on a plan suited to real Dem ocrats. Kinler. and the present course of the lie. pnbuiicans Is tending to make it imposel-J ble. I ABBREVIATED TELEGRAMS. t-mitn .Nicholas was Kiiieu, ana tnner "If thev continue in this line ono thing 1 Stringer fatally injured by the fall of a will certainly happen the sound money j derrick at the old postolliee building. Chi- democrats will nominate a third ticket and thus divide the sound money vote in the great battle ground of the middle St. Lot is. Jul 24. Not more than half the delegates to the popu list convention were in their seats when Permanent Chairman Allen rappoil for onlnr at 10:05 this morn ing. It was drizzling outside, and not over three hundred people were la the galleries. Ue W. (i. Wil liams, Methodist, offered prayer. The chairman then Introdnced Mrs. Marlon Todd, the populist speaker of Michigan, who announced the death of Mrs. K. M. Emory, of Michigan, a prominent reform worker, and of. ferod a resolution of regret. (leorpo (jaithor, ot Alabama, said Mrs. Em-rj's hook, "Seven Financial Con spiracies," had been largely respon sible for the growth of populism in his state. The resolution was unan imously adopted by a rising vote. A committee to confer with a sim ilar committee from the silver con vention was appointed including one from each state. Text refused to natue a member of tho conference committee. The committee 1m med ia elv retired to-met the silver com luittre. The chair exclaimed that anv action bv the committee was ubieet to the will nt the convention The minority ot the report of the committee on rules was then read. recommending the nomination of tUe vice president before the president. This was nsrt of the middle of the rood program. A motion was raado to lav the minority tcport on the table. Donnelly, of Minnesota, protested violently against the proposition or the committee on rules. Judge Green, of Nebraska, replied vigor ously, and Congressman Howard, of Alabsma, spoke hotly fortheslraigLt outs. The convention was then addressed for and against the minority report by e rge Abbot, of Nebraska: CV clone" Davis, of Texas, and l'atter ana, ot Colorado. Jerry Simpson followed and created unbounded en thusiasm among the straight outs by declaring that Kansas would cast her 92 votes for a southern man lor vice president. The S)ll Convention. St. Lulls, July 21 The silver con ventinn was called to order at 10 40. A meeting of the conference rnmtnittce with the populist conference com tulttoo was announce! for 1p.m. On motion it was decided to defer action on the platform, nominations ttc. nnlil 3 3') p. m, when the report nt the conference committee is ex- tiected. Senator Stowart. of Nevada, spoke at lesirih eulogising thaChiesgo-con vention and liryan and urging it as the duty of the American peap!c to I In the cast a realizing scr.se elect the silver ticket in spilt ot I and sincerity of the fre millions raised by the 'gold bugs' to corrn rt the voter of tho United Stales." It is understood the silver convention will wait till the popu list a4opt the platform and nomin ate candidates, and then if ltrtan and Snwkil are successful will indorse them and go ia a body and join the west to save the vote from drifting back to the Chicago ticket. Tho Republicans will need in N ovember all the aid they can obtain from sound money Democrats. If they think they can hold their natural strength through the middle west, or even in some -irts of the oust, by the single tendency to jtirty allegiance they are mis taken."" 1 THE I K.UI AGAINST IXtSALLS. Specimen of 'li" Talk Tlint Is Relng Used Against Him iu Kansas. Tol'EKA, July 24. The light bythe gold- standard KcpuMicans of Kansas against ex-Senator Ingalls H hitter but fruitless. He declines to say that he will stand on the St. Louis platform. For live years he has denouured the gold standard idea and iefended silver oinago bv siieechnnd pen. leading UeptiMieaiis opiosed to Ingalls's return" to the senate are circulating his Seecho9 and interviews throughout the state, but this work has not checked the tide toward him. Wednesday Iniralla ca:- tutvd a half dozra legislative conventions. To Mem the lag.ills tide the following from one of his kite interviews is being circulated : We cannot disguise the truth that we are on,thn vcr-re ol a revolution. On one id.) is capital, formidably tntrenehW in privileges. iiT..g;nt, doiuanding new con cessiotis. enriched by domestic levy, and adjusting all values to its own standard. On the other side is labor asking for em ployment, starving in the cities, but de termined to overthrow a system by which the rich art? grov ing richer and the poor p:rer; a system which gives Vanderbilt wealth lieyond the dreams of avarice and condemns the poortopovcrty whichhas no re!tig.? from starvation but the grave." Hut that is just what, the average voter in Kansas In lieves to be true. cago. which is being iKen uown that a new postoflice may be erected on the site. The big" passenger steamer L uique, with a full loiid of passengers, went aground on the head of Hurson's island, off Algo nae, Mich. She was finally released and her passengers landed at Port Huron. 1a. L. Leach &; Sons, of Chicago, wore awarded the contract for the erection of the new postoflice at Pa wt ticket, H. I. The midget baby which was born to Mr. and Mrs. Darwin SeoUeld, of Plain- field, Wis., a few weeks ago is dead. The hild was ihe smallest baby ever born in the state, and perhaps in the United States, having weighed at birth one and three-quarter pounds. Cornelius Vauderbilt's physicians be lieve that he has passed the crisis and is now out ot danger. The steamboat Paul Tulane, of N'ew Orleans, struck a log in the Mississippi river and sank rapidly. The passengers and crew narrowly escaped. At a country wedding near Saitinaw. Mich., drunken Germuus threw a bomb. completely shattering one side of the house of Farmer Hussell. Ihe crime was the result of a feud of long standing. M. Eugene Soulier, the French poli tician, journalist and Author, is dead. aired 01. Obituary: At Milwaukee, Miss Clara Perry, of Port Huron, Mich.; at Clinton, Ills., Kev. Joshua J. Miles; at Brooklyn, X. Y., K-v. Dr, Halsey W. Knapp, T7; at Larrallton, Ills., John Clough; at Earl- viile. Ills.. Mis. Jane Alcorn. 03. Missouri l!eMilican Convention. :ri:i';FIKi Ii, .hi!v St The Missouri Republican convention indorsed the St. I.ouis p'atiorm and t icket nnd nominated U. K. Lewis, of Henry county, for gov ernor. CLEVELAND'S CELEBRATION. New Kiiland liny Urines Out Eulogies for tl:e I'uritau ( harnrtcr. Cl.KVKI AM, July 21. Yesterday was Xew England I3:'y at the city centennial celebration, the feature being the New llagland dinner. liolh Setiator Hawliy and Alderui'iu .1. Kennedy Childs,of Hurt forxl. Conn., spoke at the dinner. Senator Hawley simi!:o of the Puritans who settled the Western licscrve tis men who were probably not J sour nnd sever. jss they h.td lioen paintcj. lie s.:nl they had at all events a belief ill something, and as for himself ho had Kit her have a mistaken lie- 1 1 i f for which h; would lie willing to spe ik. and if need be light, than to he one of the negative men wh i abound in the present day and have no belief on nnv subject. He said that when he saw these p.iMi-bclieving m.'n he wanted the Puritan back again wit h all his disagreeable char acteristics, if he had any. Chihls' sjioke of the gratification with which the Hartford people had accepted their invitation to Cleveland and treated laughter nnd applause bv saying that the amount of (lower bills accumulated nt Hartford headquarters indicated th-it Hartford and Cleveland might lie united bv ties other than of blood. He Mid that even the Democrats in the Hartford party admired McKinley for his put. lie record and his pure home life. Major McKinley also spoke in praise of the Puritan charac ter. GREAT LAKES SHIP CHANNEL. Absolutely Pure. A cream of tartar bal live Dowder. nichest of all in leavening strength Latest United States Government Food Report, Rotai, Bakixs PowDXHto . Kkw York Cm I H'l M ON- or V. V. WHITNEY. populists, The roll of tUe convention was called to determine the number of armv veterans In attendance in favor of silver. The noil showed 196 union veterans. IS ex-confederates and four Mexican war veterans. C. K Scott, of Omaha, then addressed the convention. At the conclusion of Scott's speech thr.'e cheers were given for Urysn and the convention adjourned till 3;30. SSI St HEAT tlftYAX. rraU Wk A-a r.t tiart t. Cttic ..., .l;i'.y Tho mei-tln of gnlil st.iu.lar I D-ttio-T.ts calUl lo cons'.d T the Jv;iliiliir of l-su'mr a nil for a nj tinal conTenf.an wus fceld la: night at the AiMlitoriu-. Anuex. Th uniting eonri'TMsl pltorlW after S o'rtork and w.w helit in secret, the public and rro b.-lng tvebidiil. The chief cnuse of the seeier y was that Corn pt roller tickets, who arrived lost Tru ing front Wellington, was generally un sUrstwwd isi cajrr la JUs vest jtxat Um Says the JK.-ptililiran YLcii'lnrs llava Made the sutnwtliin Worse. ,kw Yoi:k. .lulv Ll Mr. W. C. Whit ney wns askdl yesterday if in hisjudS' metit there would be a third ticket nnml tinted by "sound money" Democrats. He replied: 'I think events nnd the course of the Kepuhlican leaders are making it in evltaMe. The sit nation Is far worse today. In mv opinion, than it was ten days ago. The Uepublican managers and candidates have shown no rcaiizinssensenf the situa tion. They have failed to avail them selves of a great opportunity for benefiting the country. If the- present condition of affairs ciuitinues for anv length of tune sound motiev Demo-rats are bound toor- pmiennd it ciU'.not be prevented. 1 he truth is thcn does not seem to tie of the serious- free silver move ment, i on may call it a craze, hut it has raptur.il the imaginations of tho great mass of people throughout the entire west nnd south, and it has a much stronger following in some portions of the east not closely nllicd to large commercial renters than is generally supposed. It I the result of reading nnd agitation. It ha become a fixM opinion and an un reasoning one. I think it may be accepted as it fact that the vast majority of free fil ter lielievcrs nt this time arc not open to con v in Ion. 1 heir minds are made up. He then said that the duty of the hour devolved upon the Iicpuhlican party and Its candidate. Tho Kepublicans should have been the first to welcome sound money Democrats to a non-partisan union, subordinating all other tbinirs to this question of national honor. "What has been the course of the Republican leaders and the HepuMican prcssf They have insisted up;n putting the free silver enthusiasts and the sound money Demo crats in one class and denouncing all to gether under the name t national De mocracy. Mr. McKinley continues todis- n the tariJ. which ha ceased to be an I actual Issue in this campaign as com ' ptctcty a Ma very; and the Republican : pre and ler.dcr persi.t in deriding au l Democrats en missj. -' . . , . i i. inovjecrai i.-unwracy ana yet auiuu that the doubtful state are th jsc where litfiKihlicanuMii ha been dominant for thirty year. Such a f'cy persisted in ran have but one effect- It will arouse the Innate party loyalty ot patriotic Dem ocrat: it will make thcra angry and will result in drawing sharp party lines. It is difficult enough fur a Democrat to con template the iMsstbUity of votimt fur Mo- Colonel Ly decker lienor! What Wu Done Thereon Last Year. WasiiinoToX, July 24. Colonel O. J. Lydecker, Iu charge of tmprovements on the ship channel connecting the waters of the great lakes reports that durlui the past year the work of surveying ana exca vation was continued. Section No. 2 on St. Mary s river has nearly been com pleted. Tho entire channel through the n-ef m st. Marv s river abreast of seniors Kncr.mpment island will be completed in tk-tolnr. The cast half of the channel at the foot of Ijike Huron has been thrown open to navigation. 1 he west half proli- alily will lie completed in Septemlwr. The channel through Grosse lViinl fiats, Lake Clair, probably will lie entirely com pleted this season. The eastern half the channel through the barnt the mouth of the Detroit river has been thrown open to navigation. 1 he Mississippi river commission in its annual report to the war department says that the surveys under the direction of the secietary of ihe commission have been suecesslully continued during the year. Sevwity-two miles of the river was surveyed l-csides taking bydrographic and topographic observations. Ihe majority of the s.ieeial committee of the couun sion HpjHiinicd to prepare a statement for the information of congress ot the amount and cost of permanent banc protection reports that it is lielu ved a type of liank protection by revetment and supplement- nry work has lieen developed which iscap- able of g'l service, loiter improvement huvc increased the cost from vll to fjo jjer lineal loot. Srurc on the I'lrKL Chicago, July 21 Following are tl scores reporteil by Ieague base ball clubs At Louisville Washington 7. Louisville at Cleveland I'hihilfiphia 1. Cleveland at Pittsburg Xew Vori l, Pittsburg (s.-cond pimc) New York 3. Pittsbura li at Cincinnati Rain; nt Chieagj it tin. Western Icngut: At St. Paul In dittnanolis 2, M. Paul 2 ten innings same culled to permit tha teams to catc trains; at Minneapolis Columbus 3. Minneapolis 8: at Kansas City Detroit , Kansas City l-- Westcrn Association: No games It'.iu Conimim Keeps Ijtte ilnnrsL 11 Loxkon. July 1. 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