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THE EALEIGH. -EVENING TIME
VOLTJUE 80.
RALEIGH, N. 0., WEDNEDAY, JULY 8, 1908.
PEICE 5 CHITT3. - ,
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Has Been ift Session Since 9 This
Morning, Hearing Arguments for
and Against Pldnksf-Tariff, Anti
Injunction and Physical Valuation
of Railroads Greatest Sticking-
Points in Deliberations of Men
Now grafting Statement of Party
Principles Interest in Vice-Pres-idency
Grows More Intense Every
Moment-Gray Saidto Have Wired
Manager MarvelThat if Forced to
Run With Bryan He'd Throw
Down Nomination andOpenly Re
pudiate N'ebraskan New York,
Now for Bryan, Can Name Sec
ond Place on Ticket and May
Propose Harrison.
(By W. G. P. PRICE)
Denver, July 8 Unless all signs fail, and, the weather
is not particularly dry for Denver today, there will be a
fighit on ' tb e floor of the democratic viuatioiifi convention,
which was called to order in its second session at the Audi
torium at 12:22 p. m.
The news which came from the credentials committee
after its all-night session, that Col. James M. Guffey, for a
generation, almost, ruler of the democratic party in Penn
sylvania, had lost his fight and his contested delegates and
that, as a result, his place on the national committee, was
taken to mean a fight, and a red-hot one, on the floor of the
convention. While the Pennsylvanian realizes the hope
lessness of fighting the committee's action in (the conven
tion, he is a fighter, and he proposes going down, if down
he must go, with colors flying and guns blazing.
And that means a fight when the credentials commit
tee reports. Idaho. may appear in the minority report, and
one or two of the other states. Therefore, unless all signs
fail, there is liable to be a lively time in the Auditorium
before a recess is taken.
Tammany showed Denver what a first-class political
machine looked likeithis morning. There is an Indian camp
at one of the parks here. A score of braves, real Indians
in war paint, were secured and this morning bright and
early Tammany men were marshaled more than 600
strong. Headed by the Indians, the men of Tammany
marched to the convention hall. Big Chief Murphy
flanked by Tom Smith, Lewis Nixon, Dan Cohalan and
Tom Grady, were in the front ranks and each assembly
district leader had his men behind him in company forma
tion. ' They made a fine showing.
Nearly all the political clubs who are here marched to
the Auditorium this morning, and the streets of Denver
were lively with music and bright with badges. The audir
jtorium filled earlier today, so far as the galleries, were con
cerned, and when, shortly before noon, Chairman Bell
appealed on the platform, there were not many vacant
spaces in the great hall. V"
Announcement is made
MicBJgan delegation! has losit its Bible and a reward is
offered for its return. T , ".;'
The chair recognizes Ollie James, of Kentucky, who
makes the announcement that the committee on creden
tials will not be ready tb report until 8 o'clock. A motion
is made to adjourn until 8 o'clock. Cries of "No, no, ho."
- The chair calls on the band for music. It is now 1
o'clock. .. ':':--'.
The chair serves notice that he is not going to use his
lungs to preserve order. Time, 1:03 p. m.
"Maryland, My Maryland" Makes Usual Hit.
' "Maryland, My Maryland," gat the first applause
today.. This and "Dixie" may, always be depended on to
start the crowd yelling. : - ; ; , ' -1 S
About 12:15 Chairman Bell, Secretary Woodson and
four or five1 other leaders wtre in earnest consultation on
the stand. It was impossible to find out what the confab
was about, . : . -
The contention was called to order at 12 :22 by Chair
man Bell. It was several minutes, however, before order
by the chairman that the
EOTIRT
A Group of Dominating Dkmbcrats at
Denver
BURGLARS BLOW
TWO SAFES OPEN
Get Plunder Worth from $25,
000 to $30,000, New York
Police Believe
(By Leased Wire to The Times.)
New York, July 8 Burglars blew two
safes in the offices of the Diamond
Point Pen company, occupying the
third and fifth floors of the building at
Pearl and Beekman streets some time
before 4 this morning and secured plun
der worth between $25,000 and 430,000,
according to the police estlmat.
: The thieves entered Nos. 88 and 100
Beekman street, the building adjoining
103, where the robbery took place, and
went to the fourth floor. There they
bored through masonry .26 Inches thick
and then through & partition, got into
the other building, went up a floor and
penetrated another wall.
. I Powerful Explosive Does Job.
With a powerful explosive they then
opened the safes and got away with
their loot, the value of which the po
lice cannot learn fully until members
of ths firm, who were at ones sum
moned, make an investigation. . ,
(By teased Wlrs to The Times.)
' Denver, July 8. Ths Georgia del
egation today rescinded the unit rule,
ft li Understood that three ot ths
delegates are for Bryan and S3
against him If there IS a chance to
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Today
At the to;i is a recent photograph
of Supreme Court justice William J.
Guvnor, a leading candidate for the
vice-presidentiid nomination. Mr.
Gaynor is wry popular in his home
state of New York. Below Is a snap
shot taken at Denver showing, from
left to right, Norman E. Mack, ot
Buffalo, John Osborne, Thomaa Tag
gait of Indiana, Roger Snllivan and
Urey Woodson. At the bottom is a
photograph of Henry D. Clayton,
permanent chairman of the demo
cratic national convention.
NEW YORK'S HOT WAVE IS
TO BEACH ENDING TODAY
(By Leased Wire to The Times.)
New fork, July 8. With a record of
IS dead and almost 100 prostrated dur
ing the last 24 hours, the hot wave
which had New York in 1U grip the
past two weeks will come to an and
today. Continued cool weather is prs
dlctsd by the weather bureau.
. Despite ths drop in temperature, two
deaths and several prostrations were
reported by the police.
The relief oame about midnight, at
which time the thermometer registered
8. All during the early hours a steady
decline was recorded, and a still further
decline ' was predicted for this after
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FRANCIS' WON'T ALLOW
USE OF NAME FOR 2D
(By Leased Wire to The Times)
Denver, Coto.,v5lily S.TBe name of
ex-Gov; David R. Francis, or St. L.ouis,
-wilt not o presented to the convention
for Wccrip'reaidentfal' nomination by the
MiBouri delegation. This decision has
been reached after the repeated state
ments from Mr. Francis that he is not
a candidate. ;
'Some of the Missouri delegates
think Francis's name should be pre
sented,"., declared a close friend; "but
Gov. Francis, better than the rest of
us.necognlzes the futility of such
proceeding, and so, fearing that our
efforts may be misunderstood, it ap
pears to be best to let things run along
without placing him In nomination."
NEMAHA RIVER IS GRAVE
OP FIVE IX FAMILY,
(By Leased Wire to The Times.)
, Unadilla, Neb., July 8.-Five per
sons, all members of one family,
were drowned In the Nemaha river
near here yesterday. The dead are
John Doyle, Mrs. John Doyle and
their three children.
A flood following a v cloudburst
lifted their house from its founda
tion and carried it to the swollen
river. '
Doyle got out of the house and
started for help. - but fell from a
bridge into the torrent.
COURT
HERE NEXTWEEK
Docket Composed of .Smaller
Cases-No Capital Cases
Placed Yet.
There .will probably be but one
capital case tried at the next term of
Wake county superior court and none
has yet been placed on the docket. If
John Evans, the young negro accused
of killing his father, is sent to jail by
Police Justice Badger . tomorrow, and
if Boots Brown, a negro accused of
murdering a negro woman in this city,
Is ready for trial, there will be two
cases; otherwise the docket will bo
made up of smaller cases.
Officer F. M. Barnum, of Norfolk,
Va., is en route to Raleigh with Boots
Brown, wanted here for the murder of
Sarah Davis several years ago. He will
reach ths city late this afternoon and
will reoelvs a reward of ttOO. ' It is Im
probable that Brown will be tried at
this term of court. . -
There are now on the docket 118
cases and most of these are for lar
ceny, some are for housebreaking,
others for carrying concealed weapons
and still others for' numerous : petty
crimes. ' ' -
Criminal court will oonvens next
Monday for two weeks with Judge j
Walter H. Neal, of Laurlnburg, pre-j
siding. .v. '' , I
SUPERIOR
LAID TO R
Johnson and Gray Managers? at
Length Realize Complete Futility
of Anti-Bryan Men's Causes But
.Jim Guffey Has to Have Last
Word "Won't the Commondr's '
Crowd Kick Some More?" r
The first day was a fatal day fop the Johnson boom and the
Gray boom and likewise for Tom Johnson.
The Minnesota governor and the Delaware judge were laid
away, so to speak,' beneath the Colorado snow. And Cleveland's :
mayor was kicked off the national committee and superseded on V
that body by Harvey Garber, Columbus lawyer, chairman, of the
Ohio state committee, ardent anti-Tom Johnson man, and so on.
Judge Alton Brooks Parker, the strong swimmer from Esopus,
also got a little crib cut put for him in those gigantic snowbanks ot
the Colorado capital. His Cleveland resolutions were read, but his
Cleveland resolutions were not the Cleveland resolutions that the
convention adopted. The Bryan chairman recognized the 'Bryan
resolution reader, Mr. Dunn, of Omaha, and after the Dunn resolu
tion had been read and carried the Esopus judge was permitted to
go on the platform and read his screed about the last president ;
the democracy presented to the nation. At the end, he seconded i
the motion to adopt the Dunn resolutions and sat down. This vriU
be abont all the Parker there is likely to be in the Denver con. ;
ventlou. v'-i
(By SAMUEL G. BLYTHE)
, Denver, July 8 They brought
down a couple of tons of slightly
soiled but perfectly good snow from
the mountains and dumped it on the
street near the convention hall, as a
tmfcr? jB-ftsirt?si tte- PTy jjCidjo and
the Johnson boom.
Any person who passed was at lib
erty to make a anow'jall nnd keep it
as a souvenir of au occasion v hen two
sterling patriots, a leading jurist of
Delaware and a l?atimc proletarian of
Minnesota, was refrigerated l;y the
celebrated Bryan cooling process un
til there was brine on them a foot
thick. Frost is too torrid a term to
fit in any description of what has hap
pened to these great popular upris
ings for Gray and Johnson. Take all
the snow on all the mountain vithln
sight of Denver and pile it in a heap,
and that would be a seemly monu
ment.'. .''''?
There were vague whispers that
three states instructed for Bryan
would bolt and go for one or the
other of these forlorn hopers; that it
three did not holt, one surely would,
and other rumore even more rain
bowy. The ordinary visitor can see
for 60 or 80 miles in this rarifled at
mosphere, but the an-i -Bryan people
have greater powers of vision. They
can discern a flyspot as far away as
Pike's Peak, and it looks like a loud
of hay to them. And, when they
Hobson Sticks
That We'limvetoFighmp
War, He Tells Resolutions Committee, la Not Only Possible f
But Inevitable, Wherefore
tleships Built to
(By ERNEST ELI ROESER.)
Denver, Col., July 8. Captain Rich
mond Poarson Hobson, erstwhllo hero
but now on the threshold of statesman
ship, went bnfore the commlttoo on
resolutions and painted a picture as he
aw it. The members of the commit
tee went with him into the future; they
wore fascinated by his prophecies and;
when he finished, they sighed involun
tarily like the audience of a theatre
does on the rending of a tense dramatic
situation,
Hobson painted ths picture of war.
A yellow man, powerful, grinning with
confidence, with blood ot conquest still
dripping wet, lips thin and drawn with
Cruelty and syss like burning , cOe.li
with the territory greed that glowid
within them, was ths allegorical rep
resentation Hobson displayed to de
mocracy. The figure of war was Japan. Its
creator justified Its place in a politi
cal convention by ths fact that ths next
party in power, according to his vli-
Ions, must .cope with ths ravages f
this yellow giant,
that ths platform-bulldsrs ef .ths
mnr
chase up to it and find it is a flyspo
they are not cast down, for jn these
stirring times it does not take' ttuCh'.;:;!
to cheer up a Gray or a Johnson
hnnmAP tnnemilph . a a tllft ,VmmfUll flrA v
' Beat Tom JAiyTLjo iti. tC
The day started' pleasantly, with an S
early meeting of the Ohio delegation -; ?
wherein the delegates, while doclar- '. rj
ing in triple tremolo their Mnsw'ervtog ,:'
loyalty to Bryan and their undying. I
friendship to all his policies and most fA 1
of his politics, gayly took lurge hick j
ory clubs and beat that bosom friend i. j
of Bryan's, Tom L. Johnson; into J
pulp. '.-.' V'';i'-i I
It was not that they loved Bryan.-;;
less, hut that they ardently desired s .':
chance to macerate Mr. ; 'Johnson
which . was done amid loud cheers.
punctured now and. again by "a, tow 7-'
piercing shrieks from Johnson, who.
after the festivities were over, 'Was
snapshotted several times while pos-
ing as a martyr, a not altogether sue-1
cessful performance, for no martyr; ;
ever weighed more than 200 pounds. ' ;
After Mr. Johnson's ease had been, -f t
attended to, the city was all agogovejf ,!
the arrival or non-arrival of the tent-'
porary chairman,' Bell. . ' 'i j'5
Finally, the local papers Issued x i i
tras, saying that Mr. Bell had corns r
in on a handcar, or on toot, or soma- ( -(Oontined
on Pane Seven.) ,
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to Belief
Left Have Those Extra Bat- ;
Police the Paciiic.
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democratic, party, attached Importanoa f
to the evil prophecies to which ' tney ,
listened, and that they believed ths fu- .
ture of democracy depended utwil
what action should follow, ths .'.warhirtg .77i
Hobson uttered, was evidenced by 4li .'
fact that they gave to him mors ttttia
for boosting his plank . providing tor f j
coaat defenses and more " battlesMps 1 1
than was allotted to the ' men,,; wlf ,. '
pleaded for the provision in , th' nit! ', '
form for . improvement of ths Hkm "
and harbors of ths country. '.
Hobson told ths committee on rwil.i- f
tion that 'war alone la not inevitable, ,l
but that it is now, ImmlMnt The pat
ty now in power Is tesbonsibls for tYitt -present
conditions of coast ;deft'i,t '
but that will not relieve ths party in
cumbent in war-time from responsible
ity for the outcome. ,y ; ,
"Ths lack of preparation' sntalls t
laliaHon." said CapW Hobson. fit '
not unlikely that war will oofr bet
ths 4st democratic' national ' ccn"'
tion is held, and It Is rnore thxn 1'
that our party will be V tf powor
that war oomes. That war, If It f
j( Continued on Paga C )
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