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The Press and Ban ner. RYHUG1I \VI1 .SON " ~THE DEMOCRACY. " FIRST DAY'S PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL CONVENTION. Senator Daulel, of Virginia. Kl?ctt<l Temporary Chairman-The Proceeding* Marked Willi Good Orikr Throughout. An Kloquent Speech by Citairiuitu Chicago, July 7.?The Democratic National Convention met today a little after noon. The gavel dropped at ten minutes before 1 o'clock upon a hall that had a dozen rows of empty seats at the edges farthest from the platform. The appearance of Chairman llarrity as he stepoed forward to the desk attired in a slaie colored summer suit provoked a round of applause r?ikaVicia,.,, reinforced I rum buc , by many Southern and Western men. When Mr. Harrity commanded the convention to be in order his voice easily carried over the tumult to the farthest corner, testing the acoustic qualities of the hall with most satislactory results. The figure of the chairman faced the assemblage for several minutes while the ushers swept the aisles clear of knots of conferring delegates, Ii/Y? /?nn*rf?Tltirin will IXUllLigUiCU V/i tuv ? rise for prayer," Chairman flarrity sa;d, and there was a clatter of chairs as the body of delegates in the centre of the hall came up to its feet with considerable confusion. The Chaplin, Rev. Edward Stirs stepped forward and delivered an eloquent invocation. The Chaplin was a young man, hardly thirty years old, with a smooth shaven, clear cut face and wearing the black clerical coat buttoned to his chin. He held in his hand a roll of typewritten manuscript which after a ? i /-\n ho Hcalr and nick UiUUlCUb ug lam vu uiv mvmm r ed up slip by slip, reading from it the prayer as he could do without exciting comment, as a representative of the Episcopalian Church. As the convention seated itself Chairman Harrity stepped forward and after a short rap of the gavel announced in clear tones the selection of Senator David B. Hill for temporary chairman. This announcement was what the gold men were waiting for and with a shout they leaped to their feet and with waving arms they shouted out their approval. Among the spectators also there was a cheer of approbation. Some enthusiastic delegate yelled: 4'Three cheers for David B. Hill, and they were given with a unll Senator Sheerin, of Indiana for sec retary and John Martin for sergeantat arms were also announced. When the convention had quieted down, "What is the pleasure of ihe convention?"asked Mr. Harrity, calmly as if he did not know of the storm which was follow. Mr. Clayton, the members of the national committee from Arkansas, arose. Every silver man and every spectator in the hall knew that the gage of battle was to be thrown down and they rose to a man and cheered. As soon as he announced that he deemed it his duty to present a minority report the demonstration that followed the announcement of the selection of Mr. Hill's name was a breeze compared to a cyclone. The 600 odd delegates practically mounted their chairs and cheered while from the thousand throats in the audience came a hoarse roar of approval that J-J III 1 I EVw,. suuuueu ii&t) a ruu ui wuuuuu. ?> over three minutes the demonstration continued and it was renewed at several points as Mr. Clayton read the minority report nominating Daniel of Virginia. As he he concluded with an emphatic demand for a roll call the silver men again cheered wildly. After considerable debate the vote was taken. The convention was very quiet when the roll call began. Breaks were shown in two of the Southern States, Alabama and Florida. The chairman of the first announced that but for the unit rule Alabama would give five votes for Hill; and Florida was equally divided between Hill and Daniel with four ayes and four noes. Tne announcement that Illinois and Indiana cast solid voies lor me suosutute were cheered. The vote of Iowa was challenged and resulted in a showing of seventeen ayes and nine noes, so that the twenty-six were recorded aye. This Iowa roll call necessitated the announcement of the name of Horace Boies who is accredited as a delegate but the Boies men missed the opportunity for a demonstration and no cheer was heard. A moment later the call of J. C. S. Blackburn of Kentucky was followed by an enthusiastic round for Kentuck's favorite. Mr. McKnight of Michigan challenged the announcement that his State voted no, and the roll call showed twelve ayes and sixteen noes. *TJ1 XT <r 1. ha YY XltJU X1CW JLU1& WM icauuwi fcuo chairman explained Senator Hill did not vote, so New York cast seventyone noes. Senator Daniel of Virginia managed to score a point upon nis opponent, Senator Hill, for Congressman Jones, the chairman of the Slate's delegation, announced that all the votes of Virginia were cast aye, with the exception of John W. Daniel, who voted no. The Virginia partisans were quick to seize upon this act of chivalry and rewarded it with a shrill shoutThe roll call was completed at 3:25. The announcement of the vote?550 to 449?was received with a brief demonstration by the silver victors. Delegates waved their hats and the spectators in the galleries cheered. Mr- Harrity announced that unless objection was made he would regard it as the sense of the convention that the majority report had been rejected and Mr. Daniel selected. Senator Jones of Arkansas. R. P. Keating of Nevada and Senator White were appointed to escort Senator Daniel to the platform. As the committee appeared on the platform with the Virginia Senator the demonstrations of the silver men were renewed Senator Daniel having the appearance of an old-time states man, smooth-face,long hair a d wear ing the conventional frock coat, look ed as if he had stepped out of some picture of the Senate of the past. lit oowed profoundly in response to the itvatinn hft rpppirwl Escorted by the committee, Mr, Daniel passed to the platform, where, when he appeared, he was receivec with an immense eruption of cheers and yells. The band helped the thin$ along with "Hail to the Chief," anc there were more cheers. triple infamy of Republican legisla-1 tion. The first was aimed not more at the South than at the great cities of the East and chief among them, the great Democrscy of New York,with its mapnificent patronage. That bill got its death blow in the Senate but there was not a single Democrat in New York or New England to vote against it. No man, gentlemen, in this high noon of our country's fraternity can revive force bills now in this reconciled and reunited republic. Our opponents themselves have abandoned i hom Thpr? iq tV-iof nan ctnn/1 ' When order was restored Mr. Harritv s^id: "Gentlemen of the convention, I have the hono.- of introducing as your temporary chairman the Hon. John W. Daniel of Virginia." While the delegates and everybody else in the house were yelling and cheering. Chairman Harrily passed the gavel over to Mr. Daniel who took it aud spoke as follows: Mr. Chairman of the National Dem ocratic Convention: In receiving from your hands this gavel, as the tempo rarv presiding otlicer of this convention, I believe I express a sentiment which I am sure is unanimous that no national convention was ever presided over with more ability or with more fairness than by yourself. (Cheers and cries of "Harrity 1" "Harrity!") I can express no better wish for myself than that I may be able in some feeble way t? make my conduct by your model and to practice by your example. (Cheers) The high position, gentlemen, to which you have chosen tne, involves both a great personal honor and a keen responsibility. For the honor I thank vou. The responsibility I would wholly"be inadequate to bear did I depend upon myself but your gracious aid will make it easy and its burden light. That aid I confidently invoke from you for the sake of the great cause under whose banner we have fought so many battles and which now demands of us such staunch devotion and such loyal service. I regret that my name should have been brought in even the most courteous and serious complication with that of my distinguished friend, the great Senator from New York, (anplause,) but the very fact that I have permitted it to be done refutes the suggestion that has been improvidently made on this floor that either I or those whom I have the honor to represent, would ever heap indignity upon that brave and illustrious head. (Great applause.) No candid man,no dispassionate judgment, gentlemen, can ever misinterpret your meaning. The Senator from New York himseif knows as you know and as I know that there is no personality in the'preferment which has been given to me. He must know that the whole country watches these proceedings and must know that it is solely due to principle that this great majority of Democrats stands for and that they know I stand with them. (Applause.) And that it is given in the spirit of the instructions received hv tJmqpi rpinrftsrantatives of the neople. from the people, whom all Democrats will ever bow to as the purest and original source of all power. The birth of the Democratic party was coeval with the birth of the soverignty of the people. It can never die until the declaration of American independence is forgotten and that sovereignty is crushed out. (Great applause.) "I am happy, gentlemen, to know that as the majority in this convention is not personal, neither in any sense is it sectional. It blends the palmettoes and the pines of Maine and South Carolina. It begins with the sun rise in Maryland and spreads into a sun burst into Louisiana and Texas. (Applause.) It stretches in one unbroken column across the American continent, from the Atlantic shores of the Old Dominion and Georgia, and it shows its silvery beams over the golden gates of California, (Applause,) it sends forth its pioneers from Plymouth Rock and wavss over the golden wheat fields of Dakota. It has its stronghold in Alabama and Mississippi and its outposts in Minnesota, Florida and Oregon. (Applause.) It sticks like atarheel, (applause,) down in the old North State, and it writes sixteen to one on the saddlebags of Arkansas with the traveler. (Loud applause.) It pours down its rivulets from the mountains of West Virginia and makes a great lake in New Mexico, Arizona, Wyoming, Idaho, Utah, Nevada, Montana and Colorado. It stands guard around the national capitol in the District of Columbia, (cheers,) and it camps on the frontiers of Oklahoma. It sweeps like a prairie fire over Iowa and Kansas, and puts up a red light on the confines of Nebraska. It marshals its massive battalions in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Missouri. Last, but by far from least, when I see this grand array and think of the British gold standard that was recently unfurled over the ruins of Republican promises at St. Louis, I think, too, of the battle of New Orleans, of which it is said: There stood John Bull in martial pomp, but there was old Kentucky. (Applause.) "Brethren of the East, there is no South, there is no North, there is no East, there is no West in this uprising of the people for American emancipation from the conspiracy of European kings, led on by Great Britain, which seeks to destroy one-half of the money of the world and to make American manufacturers, merchants, farmers and mechanics mere hewers of wood and drawers of water. "There is one thing golden, which, permit me, in the same good humor which has characterized your conduct, to commend to you here. It is the golden rule to do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Forget not the greed of devils and that an absolute acquiescence in the will of the majority is the vital principle of the pawMiV l^Qmnpyofc act vaII liflVG beeVidemocrats as I trust you will ever be, acquiesce gracefully in the will of the great majority of your fellow Democrats and only ask to go with them, as they have often gone with 1 you. (Applause.j Do not forget, gentlemen, that for thirty years we ha?e supported the men that you have named or President, Secretary SeymoUr, Greely, Tilden and Hancock, and twice Cleveland. Do not forget that we have submitted cheerfully to your compromised platform and to your repeated disasters to their fulfillment. To get at the last convention of the Democratic party in 1892, you proclaimed your services to be in favor of the use of both gold and silver as a standard money of the country, for the coinage of both gold and silver 1 without discriminating against either metal; and that the only question left ? ? ? ? ? ? Viot oruan t Via mflfolo upcu was LUC 1 atiu kuu Uivvn'a. 1 Do not forget?and I refer to the fact ' in no inferior sense?that just four i years ago in a Democratic convention ! in this city the New York delegation stood here solidly and immovably for a candidate committed to the free and unlimited coinage of silver and gold 5 at a ratio of 16 to 1. And if we are > still for it, let it not be forgotten 1 hat i we owe it in some measure to their teachings. (Applause.) That we owe . you much, gentlemen of the East, is , readily acknowledged and will be ever i most gratefully remembered. We 5 owe you much, gentlemen of the conr vention, and for what we owe you ol I tht> Kant is the force bill and the Mc 1 Kinley bill, and the Sherman law, the HUW1M. ? V biiot uau Obauu between the union of hearts and the union of hands that Grant in his dying vi&ion saw coming on angels wings to all the sons of our common country. When Chicago dressed Southern graves in flowers she buried sectionalism under a mountain of fragrance. When Southern soldiers yesterday cheered the wounded hero of the North in Richmond the South answered back: 'Let us have peace; peace, union and liberty now and for ever.' "As the majority of Democrats i& not sectional neither does it stand for any privileged or class legislation. The active business men of this country, its manufacturers, merchants, farmers, sons of toil, in counting room factory, field and mine, know that contraction of the currency sweeps away with the silent and resistless force of gravitation the annual profits of their enterprise and investments. They know too that the gold standard moans contraction and the organization disaster. What hope is there for the Democracy unless the views of the majority here shall be adopted?Do not the people know that it was not silver legislation but legislation dictated by the advocates of the gold standard that has caused and now continues the financial depression? Do they not know that when their demands upon the Democracy were complied with in 1893 and the Sherman law repealed without a substitute that the very States of the East that demanded it turned against the Democracy who granted it and swept away their majority in a torrent of ballots? Had the silver men had their way then instead of the gold monometalists, what storms of abuse would here today be emptied upon fKaii* K11+ iVtCk nAr>nla annlcinff WUUii UVt4Vta J l/UV UUW Auy^ the power of memory and analysis alike to discover the causes of their ar rested prosperity, need not go to find them. They do not forget when De mocracy came to power in 1893 it inherited from its Republican predecessor the tax system and the currency system of which the McKinley law and the Sherman law were the culminating atrocities. It came to power amidst a panic, which fitly followed upon their enactment with strikes, lockouts, riots and civic commontions, while the scenes of peaceful industry in Pennesylvania had become military camps breakfast. Besides manifold oppressive features the McKinley law had thrown away fifty millions of revenue derived from sugar under the sceptral plea of a free breakfast table and had substituted bounties to sugar planters, thus decreaing revenue and increasing expenditure, thu j burning the candle at both ends and making the people pay at least for the alleged tree. From the joint operations of the McKinlev law and Sherman law an adverse balance of trade was forced against us in 1893, a surplus of one hundred millions of dollars in the Treasury was converted into a deficit of seventy millions in 1894, and engraved bonds prepared bv a Republican Secretary to borrow money to support the government, were the ill omens of the pre-organized ruin that awaited the incoming Democrats, and a depleted Treasury. More significant still, the very authors of the ill-starred Sherman law maicesniit were aireaay at confession upon the stool of penitence, and were begging Democratic help to put out the conflagration of disaster that they themselves have kindled. - So far as revenue to support the govenment is concerned the Democratic party with but a slender majority in the Senate was not long providing it and had not the Supreme Court of the United States reversed its settled doctrine of the 100 years, the income tax, incorporated in the tariff bill, would long since have abundantly supplied it. The Republican party has now renounced the creed of its platform and of our national pledges gnd presented to the country the issue of higher taxes more bonds and less money. It has proclaimed at last, throwing away the disguises, the British gold standard. We can only expect should they succeed, my countrymen, a specimen of nanir. and a loner nrotracted neriod of depression. Do not ask us then to join them in any of their propositions. Least of all ask us not to join them upon the money question and light a sham battle over a settled tariff, for the money question is the paramount issue before the American people and it involves Americanism more than any economic issue that was ever presented at a Presidential election. We pray you, no more makeshifts and straddles. Vex not the country with your prophecies of smooth things to come from the British-Republican propaganda. (Applause.) The fact that the European nation's are going to the gold standard, renders it all the more impracticable that we should do so, for the limited stock of gold in the world would have longer division ind a smaller share for eacn nation. Previous predictions have been punctual' ??4-J ?Uam ?\MAnnanUn TT7 n n ^ ly rtiiuteu WUOU piuopcuij m0.0 jjivypuecied to come upon the unconditional repeal of the Sherman law. Instead of protecting the treasury ieserve, as was prophecied it would do, an unprecedented raid was promptly made on it and two hundred and sixty-two millions of borrowed gold have been inefficient to guarantee it security. Instead of causing foreign capital to flow to us it has stimulated the flow of gold to Europe and greenback notes and Sherman notes which are just as much payable in silver as in gold have been used to dip the gold out of the Treasury of the United States and to store it in i the strong boxes of the war lords of Europe. Instead of reviving business this policy has further depressed it. Instead of increasing wages this policy * * 1 xl T A. 1 nas iuriner uepresseu mem. lusieau of multiplying opuortunities for employment this policy has multiplied i idlers. Instead of increasing the prices of our products this policy has lowered i them, and it is estimated at about 15 i per cent, in three years. Instead of . Hnirinlnn nr\n fiflon 01* flia nnlioir lias I^TlTlUg wuuvtvuwv ???w f/Viivj i banished confidence. Instead of bringing relief it has brought years of mis' ery and for this reason it has contract ed the currency of the United States ? lour dollars a head for every man, \ woman and cbild since November 1, 1893. and with this vast aggregate contraction the price of land and of manufactured goods and of all kind of agricultural and mercantile produce has fallen. The pu blic revenues have fallen, wages of labor have fallen, and everything on the face of the earth nas fallen but taxes and debts which have burden, while on the other hand their liquidation has been diminished. No nation calls itself free and independent that is not great enough to establish and maintain a financial system of its own. (Great applause.) To pretend that this foremost and richest and most powerful nation in the world cannot coin its own money without suing for an international agreement at the courts of European autocrats, who have none but primary interests to subserve, has for many years been held out at Presidential election; have made use of such an agreement and have failed afterwards and we have never in our history had an international agreement upon a money system and none of the founders of this republic ever dreamed that such an agreement was essential. We have bad three international conferences in order to obtain it and to wait longer upon them is to ignore the interest of our own people and degrade our national dignity and to advertise to all mankind our impotence and our folly. The majority of this convention maintain that this great American nation, without dependence upon European nations for anything that they produce, and with European nations dependent upon much that we produce is fully capable of restoring this constitutional money system of gold and silver at pnnalitv with PAP.h other. (Applause) And as our fathers in 1776 declared our national independeuce of all the world, eo today has the great Democratic party, founded by Thomas Jefferson the author nf that declaration. appeared here in Chicago to declare the financial independence of the United States of all other notions and'to invoke all true Americans to assert it by their suffrages at the polls, that our country may be placed where she by right belongs as the freest, as the foremost, as the most prosperous and happy nation that ever blessed the life of mankind upon this globe. When Mr. Daniel finished and announced that the convention was ready for business there was loud cnes for Hill. The New York Senator was quietly eating a sandwich and showed no disposition to respood. Senator Jones, of Arkansas, announced that on behalf of the silver delegates in the convention and at the request of many of them, he would move the adoption of the resolution. The resolution extended the thanks of the convention to Chairman Harrity for the impartial manner in which he had presided over the convention. It was adopted unanimously as was another resolution offered by Senator White of California, making the rules of the Fifty-third House of Representatives govern the deliberationu of the convention. ' Tna roll of States was called under the customary practice and the selections for membership on the various committees were announced. The delegates and spectators began leaving rapidly at this juncture as it was well understood that the convention would immediatelv adjourn. General E. B. Finley of the Ohio delegation protested against the selection of committee members by contested delegations but Chairman Daniel ruled that until the permanent organization was perl ected the temporary roll was respected. At 4:43 p. m , on Senator Jones' motion, the convention adjourned until tomorrow morning at ten o'clock. Changed AaaeflBnienta. The following changes for 1896 in the taxable value of railroad property in the counties named, as compared with 1895, have been made as a result of the action of the Railroad Board of Equalization as to railroad assessments; Aiken, ifl,U22,76U; decrea3e, ^L,UUU. Anderson, $532,850; decrease, $26,430. Berkeley, $1,173,930; decease, 127,550. Chester, $659,003; decrease, $19,0S7. Clarendon, $336,000 ; decrease, $43,050. Charleston, $678,130; iucreasa, $119,400. Chesterfield, $53,725; increase, $9,100, Colleton, $1,141,215; increase, $16,446. Darlington $242,465; increase, $4,760. Edgefield, $630,250; decrease, $15,150. Hampton, $693,850; increase, $1,300. Kershaw, $255,250; decrease of $400. Lancaster, $237,965; decrease of $4,800. Laurens, $746,175; increase of $6,100. Marion, $667,910; increase of $5,310. Marlboro, $267,930; increase of $23,720. Newberry, $605,330; decrease of $38,200. Oconee, $186,520; decrease of $24,600. Orangebug, $1,461,785; increase of $161,300. Spartanburg, $1,128,725; increase of $13,000. Sumter, $1,003. 835; increase of $22,155. Union, $393,910; increase of $35,320. Williamsburg, $726,310; increase of $1,000. York, $889,497; decrease of $6,000. Accidentally Killed. Woodroff, S. C., July 8.?Saturday Mat Lanford was passing along tbe road with his gun in his hand endeavoring to shoot at some crows that appeared to be hovering or gathering near by. While thus engaged John Fleming with his wife and two chilJ? U r? T llTrt 1 lr A/1 ureil uruvo uy . uauiviu natacu along just behind the buggy, thinking in that way to get near the crows. He carried his gun in his hand which probably was cocked ready for shooting the crows when by some means unknown to Lanford the gun was discharged, sending the whole load of shot into the back of the head and jaw of Mrs. Fleming, killing her instantly, lacerating and tearing her head and face in a fearful manner. Mr. Fleming nor the little children were injured at all. All the parties are respectable aud of pood standing in the community and on the best of terms with each other. There is much sympathy in their behalf and many regrets for this sad and terrible affair. GOLD VS. SILVER. FIERCE STRUGGLE BETWEEN CHAMPIONS OF THE TWO METALS. The Oold Men Again Downed?Anuoucement of the Vote 8eatlng the Silver Delegates From Michigan Set* the Convention Aflre?Wild Scenes. Chicago, July 8.?After passing through a listless morning session the Democratic national convention witnessed two scenes tonight which compensated those *hose pent-up feelings naa been given vent in the earlier part nf the day. Men and women joined in the demonstration for each of the contending factions of the Democracy. They shouted and cheered, sang and stamped and fairly turned the great convention hall into a pandemonium. At a few minutes before 11 o'clock, the temporary chairman called the ' convention to order and announced that its proceedings would be opened with prayer by the Rev. Thomas Ed ward Green, rector of Grace church, (EpiscopaJ) of Grand Rapids, la. The temporary chairman announced that the first business in order was the report of committees, as no business could be done except by unanimous consent until committees reported. He called the first committee in order, the committee on credentials, and there was no response, and after an interval of about 10 minutes it was annonunced that the committee on credentials were about to reassemble after their Ion? night's session. At 11:12 ex-Senator Martin of Kansas was recognized and moved an informal recess of five minutes to permit Governor Hogg of Texas to address the convention. The motion was adopted, but a stray band in the gallery beyond the reach of the chairman's bell, not hearing the signals kept playing "Dixie" for near* i ly 10 minutes before it could be stopped And the governor given a chance. ' Governor Hogg's "five minutes" were stretched into half an hour, but still there were no tidings from the ! committee on credentials and amid i vociferous cries for Hill, who was not present, the chair recognized Senatorelect Money of Mississippi, who moved that Senator Blackburn of Kentucky 1 be invited to the stand. Mr. Blackburn, the first pronounced candidate 1 to be heard, was received with tumultous applause. As Senator Blackburn sat down, more cries were raised for Hill, without response. A motion to adjourn for half an hour was voted down, and the band was started up to drown the confusion 1 which prevailed. Mr. Henry of Mississippi moved that the Hon. Mr Bryan of Nebraska be invited to the stand. This was received with every demonstration of approval, but the chair announced that Mr Rrunri was nnt. in t.h? Via 11 Governor AltgeJd of Illinois was then called for and rising in the hall, indicated a desire to give way to Senator Hill. The chair stated that Governor Hill was engaged with the committee on resolutions and was not in the hall. Governor David Overmeyer of Kansas took the stand and declared that yesterday the seat of empire was transferred from the Atlantic States to the Mississippi valley. The day of the common people had dawned and the "dollar of our daddies" would be restored. This sentiment was received ' with unbounded enthusiasm. The band once mors filled up the interlude to kill time. Governor Altgeld was again called ! in requisition as a stop gap. His swar- j thy visage, as it appeared alongside the J chairman, was greeted with cheers, to which he responded by saying he did j not come here to make a speech, but , to assist in nominating a President j and preparing a platform which should bring hope to the people. He was listened to with attention, as he , proceeded to discuss the cause of the 1 existing conditions of distress, which he summarized as the combined ac- j tion or the moneyed interests 01 tne world to make money dear and property and labor cheap. Mr. George Fred Williams of Massachusetts was next called upon and was greeted with aery of "threecheers ] for George Fred Williams." He com- batted the assertion that the seat of J empire had been transferred from the 1 Atlantic coast to the Mississippi valley. 1 The seat of empire was where it ever ' was in all the States of the union and the battle now being waged was for 1 the restoration of the union of the ] States, ne begged there might be no other word ?of sectionalism heard in ] this convention. The fight was not to 1 transfer the seat of empire from the 1 east to the west, but to transfer the 1 control of the treasury and of your money and mine from Lombard street : to the centres of industry in the United States. (Loud cheers.) At this point, 1 p. m., the chair announced a partial report of the committee on credentials, recommending that each of the territories and the 1 District of Columbia be granted six 1 votes. Second, after careful compari- ' son of the credentials as returned by i the national committee, they found of all them correct except from the States of Nebraska and Michigan. In recard to Nfthraska thf>v werA nlnasftd to report that the delegates headed by the Hon. W. J. Bryan should be admitted to seats. In regard to Michigan they asked further time. The motion to adopt the report was declared carried by a viva voce vote, a < demand for a roll call which was at first made by Governor Russell, being : withdrawn on the statement of the chairman of the credentials commit- ' tee, that the report was unamimous. I At 1:10 the gold delegates from Ne- ' braska retired to a march tune by the band, and their silver successors took their places. The Bryan men, as they marched in headed by silver-topped spears and a banner bearing Mr. Bryan s name in silver letters, were vociferously ap- i nlotulaH Renewed calls for Tillman met with i the reply that he was in attendance at i the meeting of the committee on ere- j dentials. ] Governor Altgeld moved that the ' convention take a recess till 5 o'clock. ] The proposition was met with loud shouts of disapproval. ] The motion was adopted. ] The committee on credentials last < night disposed of all the contests by i voting to seat all of the silver men. i In the Michigan case that action turned the delegation, under the unit rule, 1 from a solid gold to a solid silver dele- ] gation, and created a two-thirds silver < majority in the convention. Before]l the committee adjourned, however, a ] motion to reconsider tbe action on the Michigan case was adopted. The convention reassembled at 5:15, with a full attendance of delegates and with crowded galleries. Senator Daniels of Virginia was in the chair as temporary chairman. At 5:30 p. m., the committee on credentials presented its completed report, admitting to seats the contesting delegates from the Fourth and Ninth congressional districts of Michigan and recognizing the right to their seats of all the other delegates from Michigan. The elt'ect is to transfer the delegation to a silver delegation by 15 to 13, and as the unit rule prevails, it gives Michigan a solid silver vote of 23 in the convention and creates a two-thirds silver majority there. A minority "report was presented in favor of allowing the delegation to remain as it was on the temporary roll. Debate on the report was at once begun. Mr. Brennan of Wisconsin advocated the adoption of the minority report and said be feared the effect of the adoption ot the majority report upon the country. He entered into details of the facts involved in the contest and said the report in this case if adopted would establish the fact that a majority in the first flush of success might go into a sovereign State and upset the action of a legal convention. (Cheers.) Hefcharged that the contest originated only three or four weeks ago when certain facts became apparent as to the majority in this convention. He nad since become acquainted with that majority, and he appealed with confidence to their sense of justice and fairness. (Loud cheers.) Governor McLaurin of Mississippi, another member of the committee on credentials, gave a history of the election of delegates in Michigan} asserting that there was a clear majority of Democratic voters in that State in favor of silver, so that there was no issue here to throttle the will or stifle the purpose of that majority of Demo crats. Ho spoke of the orders issued from Washington to Federal office holders in Michigan to carry that State at all hazards for gold, and he said that it was a question for the convention to decide whether the men who represented the majority of the Democracy of that State were to be driven out of the convention. The audience manifested impatience at the length of Mr. McLaurin's ex- i planation, and broke into constant cries for a speech from Hill, but notice , was given that if these interruptions were persisted in the galleries would be cleared. The notice was of little avail, for hardly had Governor McLaurin taken up the thread of his story again when the shouts for Hill broke out afresh. Mr. Stevenson, member of the national committee from the Stete of i Michigan opposed the m'aj jrity report beginning his speech witn the statement: "I am the man wha they say stole Michigan. Even so (laughter) I do not desire to discuss the financial question now, but to assert the rights of the delegates elected by a sovereign State to sit in a Democratic national convention. (Cheers.) "The convention," he added, "has no right to sit as a committee on credentials oh a State convention. It may answer its purpose now, but it would be making a precedent which will return to damn you some way. (Cheers.) The only safe Democratic : doctrine is to stand by precedents and to seat the delegates who held the only < credentials that have been issued from those districts. { Mr. McKnight of Michigan, a member of the committee on credentials, asked the support not only of the silver men, but of the entire convention j in support of the majority. The gen- j tlemen of the committee, he said, had i Sjiven this cajse careful consideration, j and they were here to testify to some, ; and only some, of the outrages perpetrated on the Democrats of Michigan. ] Se asserted that the State of Michigan i sleeted a majority of 200 to the con- i mention in favor of silver and when the administration found this out, and u. * Hif:?u: ulli. uwYcuauu vvaci acut tu iiiiuuigau to upset the will of the people. < '''Acre L? not one word of truth in ill that," said Mr. Richardson from [lis seat. As Mr. McKnight proceeded further with his statement of alleged facts, Mr. Weadock, one of the delegates at large, seated in the front row immediately facing the speaker, said in an audible voice: "That's a lie." No notice was tiken of this interruption. Mr. Br acker of Michigan declared that he had always been a free silver man, and that there were enough sil- i ver delegates in the convention to nominate a President by a two-thirds majority without the necessity of com- ] miting hifihway robbery. (Applause and laughter.) < Mr. C. S. Thomas of Colorado, a i member of the national committee, ] next took the stand, but the audience was becoming impatient and raised i loud cries of "vote." He held it would be a mistake to elect a Democratic ( President by overturning the express- , ed will of a?sovereign State. He warn- , ed them that they could not afford to strike down the State of Michigan simply for the purpose of obtaining a two-third majority. Mr. Powers of Utah, a member of the committee on credentials, argued in support of the majority report. State Senator Thomas F. Grady of New York spoke against the majority report. The vote was then taken on the minority substitute of the credentials committee, which retains the sitting j (gold) members from the fourth and ninth Michigan districts in their seats. < The vote resulted in the rejection of j the minority report, yeas 3(58, nays < 558, absent 4. The "noes have it," } 3aid the chairman, "and the amend- , meniisiosi." n was now luosiivci men's turn, and they yelled and waved ] hats and handkerchiefs and displayed { Bland pictures and made the night j hideous for nearly as long as the gold ] men, the galleries, impartially assist- < ing- < The report of the committee on per I manent organization was then pre- < sented by Mr. Finleyof Ohio, naming s Senator White of California as permanent president of the convention, and I rhomas J. Cogan of Ohio as perma- ] aent secretary. I A committee of three was then appointed to escort Senator White, the permanent chairman to the chair, the committee consisting of Mr. Finlev of Ohio, Mr. McConnell of Illinois and Senator Vest of Missouri. Senator Daniel, in retiring from the temporary chairmanship, expressed 1 bis deep sense of the honor which he 1 snjoyed and introduced Mr. White as i the "distinguished Senator from Cali- I fornia." (Cheers.; < Senator White, on taking the chair, . 1 spoke of the convention as an assem- ~?g| blage of men from every State and territory in the union, and said that j he was prepared to extend fall, equal, | absolute and impartial treatment to Mr. Clark of Montana, rising in the | body of the hall produced a silver gavel from the mines of Montana, t which he presented to the presiding' J j officer in the name of the delegation 3 from that State. I Senator Jones of Arkansas, chair man of the committee on resolution*, j announced that the committee on ' M platform and resolutions would meet tomorrow morning at 9:30 o'clock. This was taken by the heated and excited audience as an indication of an j I immediate adjournment, and forth* second time in the course of the day, .-Jjma an incipient panic partially developed. . People in the galleries began to vj? j move out with a rush and a correspond* ing movement was started on the. -3 floor. The means of exit from the -1i<m building are so utterly insufficient that trouble might have followed but .'JgM f.Viof oonoMiAnf of.Q?ma vaiaincf hi. ? big voice, commanded his deputies to Jig "stop those men." , jj When some degree of order had JSM been thus restored, a meeting to ad- 'Wm journ till 10 o'clock tomorrow mornlag was put at 9:36 p. m. was declared and the second day's convention end- JjP A HOT WEEK'S RECORD. _JM Weekly Weather and Crop Bulletin 38 by Observer Baaer. 39 Columbia, July 8.?The following | is the weekly bulletin of the condition t -Mi. of the weather and the crops of the >*3-' State during the past week issued yes- - '^ 5 terday by State Observer J. W. Bauer: This bnllfttin r?/wAra t.Vi? waaIHaf and <$ ' crop conditions for the week ending - Saturday, July 4. and in its preparation were used reports from one or xsB more correspondents in each county ' M of the State. WEATHER. The week was a hot one. The mean ; oH temperature was, however, but one* . half degree in excess of the normal. 'ffaM Highest mean, 87, at Shaw's Forks; lowest, 75, at Reid. Average of 42 :'J|s reports, 81.5, and the normal for th? same period is approximately 81. Highest temperature reported, 100 oil June 28, 29 and 30th, and it oocufed at 8 places; lowest, 64 on the 30th, at , jM Clemson College. Showers prevailed during the latter part of the week over the State generally, but in a few counties left spots -jig very dry. The following heavy rains ;5ja TffAM ?Anntifa^ triit PinAn/\lia 101 -'$9 TVOig icpvittu, V Lid X 1^1) V'Y?lM Beaufort, 1.65; Charleston, 3.21; Lib- ' >. erty, 1.00; Reid. 1.00; Loopers, 1.75; Longshore. 1.05; Camden, 1.20; Ches- '3aB terfield, 2.35; Gillisonville, 1.04; Mc- .^8 Coll, 1.00; Poverty Hill, 1.25; Allen- ' .-'JJ dale, 1.44; Greenwood, L59; Kingstree, 1.38; 8t. George's, 1.29; 26 other places reported amounts from 0.10 to 0.95, the average of 42 places being . 0.61, and the aproximate normal for the same period is 1.29. Note?Since correspondents' reports were closed heavy rains have fallen -jg over the western portions of the State. 3 Early in the week the winds wen hot ana drying, and injurious to vegetation, but during the latter portion more humid conditions prevailed. The sunshine was about normal, '<:$m except in the eastern counties, notably Berkeley, where the cloudiness was greatest, with about half the average percentage of sunshine. In general all the crops' are doing well, look promising and are much in advance of an average season. There ire local exceptions, due to want of rain, or, in places, an excess of raintall. Thus while it is dry in Aiken. Edgefield and over portions of the iraofnun aaiih4ioo /vonawolltr fit A waino vrtowiu wvuubigo aiijy tuo ACUUO have been more copious than crops needed in Chesterfield, Berkeley and the eastern counties generally. Farmers are generally up with their work, and such fields as are being laid by are in a well cultivated, clean condition. Old corn is about made and promises good yields, except that locally in a few counties, notably Anderson, Newberry, Aiken, Edgefield, Union, Clarendon, York, Spartanburg, Lancaster and Lexington, it has been too 'A dry, and in a few of the lower coun- i! ties it is firing badly on sandy land*. Later planting has generally a good, healthy color and is beiiig lftfd by free from grass and weed in fine growing condition. The corn crop, as a whole, is now in a better condition than it was a week ago. Cotton, as a rule, contir ued the improvement noted a weak ago. There was a few localities where it has not lone well, but generally it is growing and fruitinesatisfactorily. In Ches terfield, owing to too much rain, the lower leaves are turning red and dyin g. V| Rain was needed in a number of counties. Lice have about all left cotton, but it is apparent that they did considerable damage, especially in Darlington and Orangeburg. In Pickens, and the western counties generally, it looks wonderfully green and healthy. In portions of Greenville it is beginning to bloom on top. There was to little sunshine in Berkeley where it has a yellowcolor, blooming too early. The plant is large in York, and fruiting proportionately. There are local reports of poor cotton, ^ but on the whole its condition is very promising. Sea island cotton is in food condition and growing rapidly. Tobacco has improved and is now Joing well. Jt is in all stages of growth in Kershaw; curing has begun in a small way in Williamsburg, Florence ind Darlington and will be quite genjral in a week or so. Melons are generally reported a poor crop; quantities of tnehi but small and of inferior taste. The vines ire reported dying in Marlboro, Darlington, and Hampton, which, in adiition to the places heretofore reportid, indicates that the fungus disease las a firm hold on almost the entire jastern portion of the State and is jpreading. ^ Peas are doing well everywhere. Sweet potatoes growing well and premise to be a very large crop from sresent indications. Fruit prospects are worse than ever, [n Oconee there are some apples; no peaches. In Union apples are wormy is a rule. Grapes promised to be plentiful, but are rotting oacuy in various sections. -j Gardens are improving generally, j: but are poor in portions of Barnwell. Pastures have also improved. .Cane ind rice are in most excellent condition. Garden truck is flourishing in Charleston county. - - * - ft -