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a&siori at DshveiV Colo., Proposed Bryan Platform With Resolutions Committee. ,f ', "'7' rtiis Week: A HAKES -ROOSEVELT AN ISSUE "WantsV -'Predatory h Wealth and 'Swollen Fortunes Dealt With o? Contains Anti-injunction ; Plank xae convention programiBje. v 4 . Denver, Col., Special.- The Ameri can eagle and the Democratic roos-, ter have vied with each other in giving Denver one of the-Jmost lurid Fourth of J uly . in its h strenuous5 ex istence. .Throughout the day streets were aDiaze.wun;. coior, an incessant -din' .of canton and crackers 4 has mingled wini the enthusiasm or ar riving political delegations, and long' 4i 4 jK Ins $ r 4 Vv5 -.-.v.iV.A William J. Bryan. ; . Planks of' Declaration. " . Stores Republicans t for re- treating from ' f the advanced pfr sition taken by, the f" titular leader."- , , i''?;' , . -Reaffirms faith in party prin- eiples. - . ' . -,; ' Declares for return .to govern- 'ment by the people. ' : Urges additional 'legislation to T curb-corporations and' publicity for campaign contributions. Opposes centralization of pow- . Favors election of Senators by7 by direct vote. - - ? Demands immediate revision of the tariff. - ; Comes-out- strong :forf an in- come tax and for means to ; keep down " swollen fortunes. 9 Advocates , government control of railroads. N . " ... Declares s for postal savings banks and an . emergency cur- rency. - " -.;. Insists upon a modification ; of the law relative to injunctions. Urges an eight-hour law aiid ' other labor legislation. Wants Philippine independence recognized. , ' ' r - resident. The declaration Vas made jof ' $500,000.' - It' is-' a' - permanent in - connection with a f discussion ? he indulged in' regarding i the action of the - Republican i National ; Convention in 'failings to" insert 7i such - a-rplank ?as he said' l after -President Roosevelt and Mn'-Taft had both d3clared themselves ; in favor of-, such . action, " and was, made" with" a . sincerity I that left no 'doubt i in - the minds, t of 'his hearers .thatjheV'meant'aU'ho' said -Split" Over Cleveland ..Charging ' that:Alton "ParkeT's resolution, of ! tribute to the memory o the late President - Grover Cleve land is a' clever move onfthe part! of the enemies of William, J;'; Bryan-to infuse factional feeling: 'into the national convention, . friends of:, the Nebraskan. . kre determined to pffer a" resolution of a character designed not to raiser controverted political, trains have crept over the prairie from every cYrection adding their .throngs and the clatter, of fireworks, here. At night the State Capitol and other public buildings loomed out of . the darkness in living fire with every outline marked by myriad lights, the streets pulsated with convention thongs and the clatter of fireworks ; the hotel lobbies were filled with pol- . itical leaders, delegates and onlook ers from every section of the country. It is estimated that 20,000 strangers are already here and 60,000 more ate expected in the next two days. The arrivals included the Missouri "delegation headed by the tall gaunt form of Senator Stone ; . part of the North Carolina delegation headed by Governor Glenn who promptly retired his candidacy for the vice presidency, "and ; straggling advance guards of many of the other delegations. These ith Judge Parker, the Democratic camVdate of 1904, Colonel Clayton, of Alabama, the silver-tongued South ener; ho will be permanent chairman of the convention; Chief Murphy, of Tammany Hall, and Governor Has kell, of Oklahoma, a likely candidate for chairman of the platform com mittee, are the chief figures of nat ional interest on the ground. Denver, Special. The platform sent here from Lincoln to the resolu tions committtee of the Democratic "National Convention has been com pleted. It follows closely the lines of the Nebraska platform, as written by Mr. Bryan last March, and is one of "the shortest enunciations ' of the kind in the modern political history of the country. . Opening with a sharp challenge to the . Republicans for failure to put into their platform specific declara tions upholding the policies ''pro fessed' by the Roosevelt admimstra tion and arranging the party for its retreat from the "advanced posits ion " : taken by the ' ' titular 1 leader during the last four years, the docu ment will contain, a fitting reference to the death of Grover Cleveland. Platform builders at Denver have these subjects approximately as pre sented above in condensed form to deal with as a basis for their opera tions. The Injunction Plank. Unless there is a decidedly greater leaders declare that before the com mittee on platform is appointed a substantial agreement wU have been reached and that the committee will be relieved of the necessity of a prolonged sitting. In Chieago the fight was against the insertion of any injunction plank at all; here, all ad mit the necessity of some declaration issues.". ' i AH Democrats,' without regard : to factional i amliations, applaud the suggestion " coming from New York that the national convention . should embrace the , first opportunity of honoring the memory of - Mr. Cleve land, but most of those . who , hpve expressed' themselves on the subject are of the opinion that the resblu tion$ adopted should not -contain any thing -over which there" could be the slightest difference of opinion. , Mascot Obtained. r , The Democratic party has secured its mascot for the approaching convention.- - It came in the shape of c Rock Mountain burro, which was presented to Chairman Thomas Tag gert of the national committee by the Denver Times.' Mr. Taggart was .unaware of the honor intended for h-m until " the animal was usnered in to his presence at "his headquarters in the third floor of the Brown HoteL It was duly labeled in large letters in paint, one side bearing the in scription:" ' 1 " ' ' "My name is Denver; ask me," the expression having reference to a large badge for residents " issued by the citizens' committee or the bene fit of the strangers, -reading: "I live at Denver, ask me." The other side was inscribed : "I belong to Tom Taggart." building, but ; it will be christenedi by the convention. - "Mi."" .Ml' 1 CONVENTION ORGANIZED J I ; TherAuditorium,: Denver, Co.; Spe cial The Democracy of 'East- and West ; joined '. hands within :,the shadows of the snow-clad Rockies to name Candidates' for President -ancS Vice Presic!3nti and : to formulate a set of policies upon which'; to appeal to the voters of v the nation. ' , - 'X ; For the first time in its history .the party had recognized the claim of the farWest in - the selection of a meet ing, place. - " Denver justly proud of the - honor ' conferred , lipon heV had provided a brand new auditorium, the best equipped of its ; kind in . America. The builc'i.ng:. cost . the , taxpayers - of the , city ' $600,000. . - Int addition . they subscribed a fund oi $100,000 for the entertainment; of "the delegates .and other- visitors, who Y have been pourv ing into the . town by ' tkf ; thousands in the past three days. - ' Long before noon, the hour set tor the initial session of the twenty-sec ond quadrennial Democratic conven tion, the streets in the vicinity! of , the big gold-domed building were; jam med' with people waiting ' for the mors to be thrown open J Trim, carefully-groomed v - Easterners, - clad in lonsr" coats, plus: hats and ; derbies, knocked elbows with less punctilio ously dressed representatives of . the mountain and Pacific Coast States. The Merry Widows of the Denver women and the ' Merry Cowboys 1 of the Western delegates lent pictur esquesness to the scene.' The total number of seats was 12, 000. The' space immediately in front and at the sides of the platform had been equippea for the use of the 400 newspaper correspondents who had. come to tell the world-all about it. As in the recent Republican convention at Chicago, the press associations were permitted to install in their res ervations telegraph operators 7 with soundless keys for the bulletining of important features of the proceed ings. WELCOME ARCH, DENVER, COLO., AT UNION STATION Which Blazed a Welcome to Delegates to the Democratic National Convention. A Leap Year Dilemma. . From the Washington Star. ' tendency towarti compromise than is now manifested the real fight will be over the injunction plank," but the Celebration at Oyster Bay. ' 1 Oyster Bay, N. Y., SpeciaL-r-Pr'esi-dent Rooseveltrcelebratec the-Fourth of Julv with his familv ..and a ffw friends at. Sagamore Hill"-and" at night the grounds around ' the Presi dent's summer5, homer blazed .with rockets, 'and- red "fire. No accidents of any kind marred the day at the President's home. . In the : evening tthe President had -a -beautiful dis- play of fireworks set off fro mthe bot tom of the -hill in front of the house." AUDITORIUM AT DENVER WHERE THE DEMOCRATIC NATION AL CONVENTION IS BEING HELD. - . but many oppose the pronouncement for previous notice in injunction pro ceedings. s There ha3 been much commnnion with Mr. Bryan on this point, but ap parently his attitude is not clearly understood, and probably it wijl not be until his draft of the , platform which he is understood to be prepar ing is read. It is known, ; however, that he would' use stronger langu age than is employed in the Republi can platform. That he is willing to go as far as the Federation of Labor demands none is disposed to say, but his closest friends assert that he docs not consider it necessary to make such a sweeping : declaration. They say that Mr. Bryan will himself sug gest what will be a concession to the conservatiYea7and they predict that in the enti his draft -"will .be accepted. Bryan Insists on Publicity Plank. Lincoln, Neb., Special.--William J. Bryan, in a speech before the Nebras ka Travelling Men's Club Friday night, made the significant "statement that unless - the Denver Convention incorporated inj. . its 'platform a campaign contribution- -publicity plank it might " look elsewhere than to Nebraska for a candidate for :: v New York Celebrates. " New York, Special. That patriot ism has kept pace with the, rapid growth of the country, during the one hundred and thirty-five years that have elapsed since the signing of the Declaration of Independence was evi denced " on Saturday by the noisiest demonstration in history. Blistered fingers and burned clothing character ized the majority of "800,000 of si of small: boys who participated in the ceieoration nere, but oh, what1 a time they had. - ,y j Bryan headquarters .were opened Monday at the Brown Palace Hotel. Charles Bryan, a brother of the can didate is in charge. v Snow to Cool Hall. n For the first time in the history of national conventions an attempt will be made in eonnection with the Democratic convention to, moderate the temperature of the hall by the use of snow, and preparations are already unefcr way for that experi ment. -: . ' The new Denver railroad, " known as the Moffat Line, crosses the conti nental divide 50 miles west of the city ' and runs through innumerable beds of rperpetual snow, and this line has been contracted! with to bring to the city large quantities of snow which will be distributed through the hall in barrels. The' confident expec tation is that it will vastly improve the atmosphere and at least prove a novelty to the visitors from v the States in which snow in the summer is unknown. - The hall will seat 12, 000 persons. ' - . Prooably the ' most marked . evi dence of prepefation to be found is in the' new convention hall, a magnifi cent structure which has been erected in the heart, of the city at a cost By 12 o 'clock the auditorium was packed from floor to topmost gallery, a majority of the visitors' seats being occupied by women. About 2 o'clock, when the ap plause following the "cowboy bands' renditicn of the " Star-Spangled Ban ner' had died away, Chairman Thom as Taggart of Inci.ana, head of the Democratic national committee, rap ped for order on the hardwood speaker's stand, and the business of the convention was begun. Secre tary Urey Woodson,, of the national committee, was introduced and read the call under which the assemblage had been convened. It was as fol lows: v 1 The Democratic national commit tee, having met in Washington on the 12th day of December,,1907, has ap pointed Tuescfay, the 7th day of July, 1908, as the time for holding the Democratic national convention. "Each State is entitled to represen tation .therein equal to double the number, of its Senators and repre sentatives in the Congress of the United States, and each Territory Alaska, District of Columbia, Hawaii and Porto Ricc shall have six dele gates. AH Democratic citizens of the United States, irrespective of past political associations and differences, who can unite'-with-us in the .efforts . for, a pure, economical, constitutional government, are cordially invited 1 to join with us in sending delegates to the convention. , When the reading of the call had been completed Chairman Taggart an nounced that the Rt. Rev. James J; Keane, Roman Catholic Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Wyominsr, would offer the invocation. As' the distinguished prelate . lifted his , hands the entire audience rose to its feet and remained standing during " : the prayer. . - ' ' " 1 Chairman Taggart then announced the names of the temporary' officers selected by the national., committee, the principle ones being; , v Temporary chairman, Hon. - Theo dore A. Bell, of California ; tempor ary secretary, Hon. Urey Woocteon of Kentucky ; ; temporary sergeant-at-arma, Hon. John I. Martin, of Missouri; official reporter, Milton W. Bloomburg, Washington, D. C. ; first assistant secretary,'? Edwin. Shefton, New York. -i-. ; - The selection of the 'committee were ratified by the convention with out delay arid Tageart : then appoint ed a special escort to pilot Temporary Chairman jBell to .the stand. - The Calif ornia' 1 statesman then sounded the "keynote of the convention. 1 Following the reading : of the com mitteemen s names, and the transac tion of-ssome minor routine-business the first . day sr- session 1 was, brought -to a close in an ' impressive manner. On motion of the delegation from New Jersey, home of thelate Grover Cleveland, the .'convention, by a rising votej adjourned until Wednesday, out of respect to i the memory of the ex- President," and - the " delegates and ADMIRAL7 TliOFtlAS DEAD Was Evans Second in Command on '; Fleets Painous Cruise..:, ; San- Francisco,"; SpeciaL-RearTAcV tniral CV-M. ..Thomas, United States' JSTayy, iuwho vwas:Vsecondin'.': command of the 'Atlantic fleet in ; the . ' cruise around South Ameriea, and' ;for. " a tey days ' commander-in-chief,' :, died at " Del 'Monte, Cal., Saturdays of ap-' oplexy. f He was walking- in the cor ridor of the Del Monte Hotel with his wife' when':he was "stricken."1 Car-, ried to his'ro'om he died at 8.30.' He went there after he isueceedeo'i Bear Admiral Evans '. as eommander-in chief on May 9. The strain of rep resenting the fleet in ..the illness of Rear-Admiral Evans 1 -told 1 on Rear Admiral i Thomas strength - and after hauling down his flag May 15 he went to Del Monte for rest. , ; He was an' officer of excellent . rec ord, whose tactful bearing in Latin American ports .made , the cruise a. large diplomatic success. Admiral Thomas was. born in Phil adelphia October 1 1846, and was ap pointed to the Naval Acactemy from Pennsylvania in 1861, graduating four years later. 'From 1865 to 1869 he ; served on the Shenriandoah, son' the Asiatic station, : and then went-to League "Island navy, yard and later to the .European station. He was made an ensign in 1866, a master two years later, and a lieutenant in 1869. He was on duty at the Centennial Exposition from: 1875 ,to .1877, and" later served on tne . bt. jlouis until 1878, t when lie was detailed to go with the Constitution to the Paris Exposition, in' the same - year. He was -made lieutenant-commander in 1880 and served at the Naval Aca demy until 1884, when he went to the Hartford j flagship of the. Pacific Station, until -1887, and commanded the steamer Patterson. . He became acommander in 1890 and caotain in 1899, attaining his rank ; as rear admiral January 12, 1905. " . ' " v SILVER SERVICE PRESENTED. The '"North Carolina? Receives Gift - of the State Whose Name it Bears.. ' , ' Moorehead ' City, Special. At sea, two miles off the. Carolina shore, the armored cruiser North Carolina, com manded by Capt. Marshall,' was, on Friday, formally presented with an elaborate silver service by the citi zens of the State whose name the vessel bears. The ceremony occurred at 3 o'clock in the. afternoon. Lieu tenant Governor Winston who made the prtsentation speech, was intro duced by State Representative Char les U. Harris, of 1 Raleigh, and Capt. Marshall made a brief address of acceptance. Later Lieutenant Gov ernor -Winston and his guests', num bering several hundred, who -braved the choppy seas, were 'entertained . at luncheon by .?; the - officers of the war ship.' To night the commissioned of ficers ; of - the Northl ' Carolina . were guests aV a banquet and "reception at the; Atlantic Hotel here. Ic connection with the" silver ser .vice'P ceremony" two handsome flags were presented to the ship , by the Daughters of. the Revolution. ; The lorth Carolinians here and their guests, the officers of the cruis er North - Carolina and, the : revenue cutters, Apache andi Seminole, cer tainly made a night of it; for it was 3 o'clock, Saturday morning when the banquet, at vwhich two hundred ladies j and gentlemen were present, came to an end with the last of , the toasts. The : ball was brilliant with twenty-five officers in uniform ' and other 'features. j v i The. cruiser left these waters Mon-: day for the Norfolk ' navy yard . to complete her equipment. Her- ofiicers are delighted at their reception.1 ILLLI Mim CAST Lcavcs Pacific Coast On Lon Journey Around the World f I ROYALLY RECEIVED ON PACIFIC The. Flower of; the1 American Nav, Leaves San1 Francisco on' the Loa V est Voyage Ever (Undertaken by -Such a Powerful Fleet : San' Francisco. SnpinlA oi.. picture of America's fighting strength op the sea was - presented Tnesdav When the sixteen battleships of th Atlantic fleet, led by, the magnificenf Connecticut with ; Rear Admiral Cbas S.-Sperry-v on othe bridge, headed out of the Golden Gate and bathed their bows in the blue Pacific. In imp0;j ing", arl-ay they passed beyond the headlands, out "of the vieAv of the thousands 4 of ' cheering watchers on shore ,anf"i started fairly on the lon vbyage : through five ; seas from Sao Francisco to . Hampton Roads -a striking demonstration of the power and efficiency of the United States navy. v : INCREASE FREIGHT RATES Scutheastern "Lines Increase Rates on r' Packing " House Products, Grai and Grain- Products v to Carolina Territory.1 - Washington, Special A few weeks ago, notice .was given by the South ern railways that an :. increase of the rates1 on fresh" meats would bs made into ; Carolina, territory : from Ohio and Mississippi crossing. ,v The Inter State commerce commission has now been informed that a general advance in rates, effective August first, will be made by southeastern lines on all commodities, 'of Southern classifica tion, taking classes C D and F from Ohio and Mississippi .crossings to all Southeastern points. : The increase amounts to three I cents per hundred on class R; two ' cents per hundred on "classes C and D, and four cents a barrel on class F. -. The increases are on ; packing house : , products, grain and grain products and flour in sacks and barrels. While no announcement is made with - respect to fresh meats, the rate "on them, now is based on 1( eents over the rate on class B com modities and it is likely that an ad cY tional increase on fresh meats eventually will be made. JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS DEAD. Six Killed in Collision. Oakland, Cal., ; Special. ;-The nar row gauge, local, bound from the Ala meda Mole-f or- Oaklandr struck' Santa Cruz train No. 57 at First and Web ster streets Saturday evening. The smoker of the Santa Cruz train was completely demolished and all of its occupants wre either "killed or injured. , So far, six dead and 30 in jured rhaye been taken .from the wreck. 1 - ' ' ' k Governor's Daughter to Christen the "South Carolina," New U. S. . Battleship. - - -. - Columbia, S. C, Special. On Sat urday, July . llv V the new r- United States ; battleship, ' ' to ' : be - named "South Carolina,' will be launched at the Cramps Ship YafcX Philadel phia, and christened by Miss Fred- spectators filed slowly from the hall, ' erica Calvert; Ansel, -, daughter : of while ithe-: soft - strainsof "Nearer, My God" to ;Theer ' floated out through the open windows, a tribute to the man who twice carried Democracy's standard to victory after battles. - at Missionary Conference Opens ! Asheville. v Asheville, ' Special. The . prelimi nary session of the Young People's. Missionary.; Movement " which meets for a ten days conference at Kenil- worth Inni "was held, about 250 dele gates being present. Dr. W. B. Lam beth, the presiding officer of. the asso ciation, delivered an introductory aci- I dress in which he outlined the work 01 tne conrerence arid its purposes: Dr. Lambeth .was" followed by Mr. M. W. .Ehnes, of New York, "who has charge of the conference. - . , 1 Summary of Late News. Five, persons were -killed and1r40 injured in New Mexico by a tornado; Secretary Cortelyou explains- the $60,000,000 deficit by stating that more " than $117,000,000 has been spent on permanent public works:, 4 Mr. William ,H. Taft and his fam ily, on aturday : went from Washing-' tan to Hot " Springs, .Val where 'they will spend the summer. . ."- - So far 214 bodies have been taken out of the Russian mine in which an explosion occurred, rescue wV a ing, stopped by fire. -5 Governor Ansel. Invitations to the 1 . launching have been issued . to quite a number. of people all over the: State and to -'manyxin Philadelphia find Washington. ' - ' - - ' - , - ' Famous Author, Familiarly Known as "Uncle Remus' Passes Away at His Home in Atlanta Editor and Proprietor of Uncle Remus'' Maga- zine. ; Atlanta,r Special. Joel ' Chandler Harris, familiarly known as "Uncle Remus' and an author of note,1 died at his home .in a suburb" of this city Friday night. Mr. Harris, whose health had been bad for some time, had only been confined to his bed for about ten days, suffering from cerrhosis o f the liver. - Complication set in, and yesterday, he grew. rapidly worse and continued to ' sink until the end came at 8 o 'cloak. Joel Chandler was born in Eatonton, Ga. December 9h, 1848. He was married in 1873 to Miss Essie LaRose, of Canada, and in 1873 moved ,to At lanta, joining the stan of The At lanta Constitution. It was while he was connected with The Constitution that his tales, ' ' Stories ; by ;. Uncle1 Remuii M first attracted attention. In 1900 Mr. 'Harris retired from active journalism . and until - last year when he became editor and proprietor of Uncle Remus V Magazine, spent most of. his' time at his surburban home. He is survived by a widow, four sons and two daughters. . Mr. Harris was buried in Atlanta. : Mmer. Gould Weds Prince. London, By 'Cable. Madame Anna Gould and Prince Helie,. de Sagan were married at a registry office in Henrietta street, off Cbverit ' Garden Tuesday., ' A. Subsequent ceremony was conducted at the French Protes tant church ' on Soho Square. There was absolutely no secrecy about the wedding; Fertilizer Trust Acquitted. , Nashville, 'Tenn., ' Special. In the Federal Court here Saturday in the case of the United States against ' the J Virginia-Carolina Chemical Company and , others,' Judge John E. McCall quashed, the indictment which5 charg ed . some - fifty-odd corporations v and individuals" with - constituting a : ferti lizer trust in violation of the Sher- man anti-trust law. Total Dead From Heat Number '! Thirty-One. New- York SpeciaL-A smart south erly breeze ! that, followed in the trail of a ; mild " summer v storm filtrat-' ed through . New York's , sunbaked streets and brought ' some re lief . from the tropical s"pell - that has " killec nearly, two " score 1 of persons, prostrated 'rhunoreds "rand held the city s population V helplessly ' ' in its burning Vf 0 Wss lor by er a ; week. Fourteen " nfirsons Riinr'nmhnd to the . . . A A . 1 '' I i f .1 P.. neait a xotaii or , acatns irom that .cause w within the ' last ; 36 hours. S. V. The Cruiser North Carolina : Arrives the. Norfolk Navy Yard. Norfolk, Va'.,' Special. The armor ed .cruiser - North Carolina arrived in Hampton : Roads from Morehea6 Cit3 , N. Cf whero- she last week-' received the ' silver seryice , presented : to her Jjy.the people. of the State of North Carolina. ' She . came 'tov the "Norf oik navy yard for repairs ; following her shaking 'down nin to ufatanamov Cuba. . " ' - ' '" - -
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