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/ The Press and Banner. BY HUGHWI1 .SON". AKKKVII'I.K. ?. i.:. ' THE DEMOCRACY. FIRST DAY'S PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL CONVENTION. Seuator Daniel, of Virginia. Kleote?l Temporary Chairman?The Proceeding" Market) With Good Order Throughout. - - ... Ilu.iinl. An Kloquent >i>e?cn nytnsiri'iou ? 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 i platform. The appearance of Chairman Harrity as he stepped forward to the desk attired in a slate colored summer suit provoked a round of applause from theEistern delegates, reinforced by many Southern and Western men. When Mr. Harrity commanded the convention to be in order his voice i * % * ' -li * ~ easily carried over trie lumuu LU LUC I farthest corner, testing the acoustic . qualities of the hall with most satis- < factory results. The figure of the chairman faced the assemblage for j several minutes while the ushers swept 1 the aisles clear of knots of conferring / delegates, 1 "Gentlemen of the convention will j rise for prayer," Chairman Harrity 1 sa;d, and there was a clatter of chairs { as the body of delegates in the centre I of the hall came up to its feet with t considerable confusion. The Chap- | lin, Rev. Edward Stirs stepped for- I ward and delivered an eloquent invo- ] cation. ( The Chaplin was a young man, j hardly thirty years old, with a smooth ] shaven, clear cut face and wearing the 1 black clerical coat buttoned to his ] chin. He held in his hand a roll of typewritten manuscript which after a 1 ' * ~ ' ? -J ? moment he laid on tne aesic ana piu&- i ed up slip by slip, reading from it the 1 prayer as he could do without exciting t comment, as a representative of the j Episcopalian Church. s As the convention seated itself i Chairman Harrity stepped forward t and after a short rap of the gavel an- ( nounced in clear tones the selection of t Senator David B. Hill for temporary j chairman. This announcement was t what the gold men were waiting for y and with a shout they leaped to their < feet and with waving arms they shout- 1 ed out their approval. Among the c spectators also there was a cheer of t approbation. Some enthusiastic dele- i gate yelled: "Three cheers for David c win i moM i?iwon with a t X>. mil, HUU IUCJ TTWW 6..v~ . will. I Senator Sheerin, of Indiana for secretary and John Martin for sergeant t at arms were also announced. t When the convention had quieted s down, "What is the pleasure of ihe i convention?"asked Mr. Harrity, calm- ? ly as if he did not know of the storm s which was follow- Mr. Clayton, the j members of the national committee ( from Arkansas, arose. Every silver I man and every spectator in the hall c knew that the gage of battle was to be t thrown down and they rose to a man s and cheered. As soon as he announced e that he deemed it his duty to present a g minority report the demonstration that < followed the announcement of the t selection of Mr. Hill's name was a s breeze compared to a cyclone. The j 600 odd delegates practically mounted f ' i ?L:i. / i tUeir chairs ana cneerea wmio iruui j the thousand throats in the audience ( came a hoarse roar of approval that t sounded like a roll of thounder. For > over three minutes the demonstration ] continued and it was renewed at sev- i eral points as Mr. Clayton read the i minority report nominating Daniel of i Virginia. As he he concluded with y an emphatic demand for a roll call s the silver men again cheered wildly. i After considerable debate the vote ( was taken. The convention was very < quiet when the roll call began. Breaks f were shown in two of the Southern i States, Alabama and Florida. The \ chairman of the first announced that t but for the unit rule Alabama would J give five votes for Hill; and Florida i was equally divided between Hill and < Daniel with four ayes and four noes. ] The announcement that Illinois and ] Indiana cast solid votes for the substi- i tute were cheered. The vote of Iowa j was challenged and resulted in a , showing of seventeen ayes and nine 1 noes, so that the twenty-six were recdrded aye. This Iowa roll call ne- ! cessitated the announcement of the J name of Horace Boies who is accred- < ited as a delegate but the Boies men i nnnAnhinittr for a dcmnn- I mittigu VUU HMUiBJ ~ ? stration and no cheer was heard. A moment later the call of J. 0. S. Blackburn of Kentucky was followed by an enthusiastic round for Kentuck's favorite. Mr. McKnight of Michigan challenged the announcement that his j State voted no, and the roll call showed twelve ayes and sixteen noes, i When New York was reached the ( chairman explained Senator Hill did not vote, so New York cast seventyone noes. Senator Daniel of Virginia managed to score a point upon his opponent, Senator Hill, for Congressman Jones, the chairman of the State's delegation, announced that all the votes of Yir gmia were cast a^e, wiiu iuceAw;puiiii ' 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 shout. The roll call was completed at 3:25. The announcement of the vote?r?5C to 449?was received with a brief demonstration by the silver victors. Delegates waved their hats and the spsctators in the galleries cheered. Mr. Ilarrity announced that unless objection was made he would regard it as the sense of the convention that -? - -* 1 i 1 i me majority repon iiau ueeu rcjeiaeu and Mr. Daniel selected. Senator Jones of Arkansas, It. P. Keaung of ftevadaand Senator White were appointed to escort Senator Daniel to the platform. As the committee appeared on the platform with the Virginia Senator ihe demonstrations of the silver men were renewed Senator Daniel having the appearance of an old-time statesman, smooth-face,long hair a d wearing the conventional lrock coat, lookf V>o/1 otanmi/1 nnf r\f cnmp CU iXS 11 uo iiau wv?w v* mwmw picture of the (Senate of the past. He Dowed profoundly in response to the ovation he received. Escorted by the committee, Mr. Daniel passed to the platform, where, when he appeared, he was received with an immense eruption of cheers and yells. The band helped the thing along with "Hail to the Chief," and there were more cheers. t / When order was restored Mr. Harritv said: "Gentlemen of the convention, I have the bono.- of introducing as your temporary chairman the Hoii. John W. Daniel of Virginia." While the delegates and everybody else in the house were yelling and cheering. Chairman Harrity passed the gavel over to Mr. Daniel who took it and spoke as follows: Mr. Chairman of the National Democratic Convention: In receiving from your hands this gavel, as the tempo rarv presiding officer of this convention, I believe I express a sentiment which I am sure is unanimous that no national convention was ever pre sided over with more ability or with more fairness than by yourself. (Cheers and cries of "Harrity!" "Har rity!") I can express no better wish for myself than that I may be able in snmfl wav to make my conduct by your model aDd to practice by your example. (Cheers) The high position, gentlemen, to which you have chosen me, involves both a great personal honor and a keen responsibility. For the honor I thank you. 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 3ause under whose banner we nave fought so many battles and which nrtw HftTnands of us such staunch de motion and such loyal seivice. I regret that my name should have been brought in even the most courteous ind serious complication with that of my distinguished friend, the great Senator from New York, (applause,) Dut the very fact that I have permit,ed it to be done refutes the suggestion ;hat has been improvidently made on ihis floor that either I or those whom [ have the honor to represent, would jver heap indignity upon that brave ind illustrious head. (Great applause.) No candid man,no dispassionate judgnent, gentlemen, can ever misinter sret your meaning. The Senator irotn tfew York himseif knows as you enow and as I know that there is no personality in the preferment which las been given to me. He must know hat the whole country watches these proceedings and must know that it is lolely due to principle that this great najority of Democrats stands for and hat they know I stand with them. Applause.) And that it is given in he spirit of the instructions received >y these representatives of the people, 'mm tViA rkonnlp whom all Democrats r?r?? vill ever bow to as the purest and >riginal source of all power. The >irth of the Democratic party was :oeval with the birth of the soverigny of the people. It cau never die mtil the declaration of American inlependence is forgotten and that sovireignty is crushed out. (Great ap>lause.) "I am happy, gentlemen, to know hat as the majority in this convenion is not personal, neither in any tense is it sectional. It blends the palnettoes and the pines of Maine and South Carolina. li begins with the ;un rise in Maryland and spreads into i sun burst into Louisiana and Texas. Applause.) It stretches in one un>roken column across the American iontinent, from the Atlantic shores of he Old Dominion and Georgia, and it ihows its silvery beams over the goldsn gates of California, (Applause,) it tends forth its pioneers from PJym1 J lU. >Uin rtOCK anu wavss over tuo ^uiuou vheat fields of Dakota. It has its itronghold in Alabama and Mississippi md its outposts in Minnesota, Florida tnd Oregon. (Applause.) It sticks ikeatarheel, (applause,) down in the >ld North State, and it writes sixteen o one on the saddlebags of Arkansas vith the traveler. (Loud applause.) !t pours down its rivulets trom the nountains of West Virginia and nakes a great lake in New Mexico, Arizona, Wyoming, Idaho, Utah, Nevada, Montana and Colorado. It itands guard around the national captol in the District of Columbia, cheers,) and it camps on the frontiers >f Oklahoma. It sweeps like a prairie ire over Iowa and Kansas, and puts ip a red light on the confines of Nejraska. It marshals its massive batalions in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Missouri. Last, but by far from least, ffhen I see this grand array and think >f the British gold standard that was recently unfurled over the ruins of Republican promises at St. Louis, I ;hink, too, of the battle of New Oreans, of which it is said: There stood John Bull in martial pomp, but there svas old Kentucky. (Applause) "Brethren of the East, there is no South, there is no North, there is no tftkc* tho?o io Watt in iliis iinriainc 3f 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 af 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 republic. Democrats as you have > ?* T . ?: il oeen,.uemocrais as i irusi you win cvo? 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 wilh you. (Applause.) Do not forget, gentlemen, that for thirty years we ha7e 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 oion/loK/l mAnfiTT nf f.VlA PH11 n t.1*V ff~>r otauuai v* IUVUUJ v* vuv } the coinage of both gold and silver without discriminating against either metal; and that the only question left open was the ratio between the metals. Do not forget?and I refer to the fact in no inferior sense?that just four 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 01 saver anu goiu at a ratio of 10 to 1. And if we are still for it, let it not be forgotten lhat 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 most gratefully remembered. We owe you much, gentlemen of the convention, and for what we owe you of the East is the force bill and the McKinley bill, and the Sherman law, the triple infamy of Republican legislation. The first was aimed not more at the South than at the great cities of the East and chief among them, the great Democracy of New York, with its maerniGcent patronage. That bill got its death blow in the Senate but there was not a sinele 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 op nonents themselves have abandoned them. There is none that can stand I between the union of hearts and the union of hands that Grant in his dying vision saw coiring on angels wings to all the sons of our common country. When Chicago dressed | Southern graves in llowers 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 is 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 onroir to if h (ho oilorit onH rpeifttlp.QS force of gravitation the annual profits of their enterprise and investments. They know too that the gold standard means contiaction 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 T)amrv<rai>v urora f?r?nrmlipfl 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? Dad the silver men had their way then instead of the gold monometalists, what storms of abuse would here today be emptied upon their heads; but the people, applying the power of memory and analysis alike to discover the causes of their ar - i _ J 1. resiea prosperity, neeu -aoi gu tu uuu 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 de* creaing revenue ana increasing expenditure, thus burning the candle at both ? j j anus HQU Luaniug lUC pcupio ?ia.jr ut least for the alleged free. From the joint operations of the McKinley 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 makeshift were already 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 government is concerned the Democratic party with but a slender majority in the Senate was not long providing ir 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 and presented to the country the issue of higher taxes more bonds and less money. It haa proclaimed at last, throwing away the disguises, the British gold standard. We can only expect should they succeed, my countrymen, a specimen of panic and a long protracted period of depression. Do not ask us then to join them in any of their propositions, lieast of all ask us not to join them upon the money question and fight 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 nations are going to the gold standard, renders it all the more impracticable that we should do ? *? ?!.? limitarl ct/v>lr nf irnlrl in thA SU, 1UI IUQ HUilb^u ?wvn Vi gvtvi ?u world would have longer division ind a smaller share for each nation. Previous predictions have been punctually refuted when prosperity was proph-; ecied to come upon the unconditional repeal of the Sherman law. Instead of protecting the treasury reserve, 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 " -? 1 1- ,1 to fiitxrope anu grtwuuttun uuk? auu 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 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 has further depressed them. Instead of multiplying opDortunities for employment this policy has multiplied idlers. Instead of increasing the prices of our products this policy has lowered them, and it is estimated at about 15 "o* in thxoa naarc fnctARrl of pet J" ? reviving confidence the policy has banished confidence. Instead of bringing relief it has brought vears of misery and for this reason it lias contracted the currency of the United States four dollars a head for every man. t woman and child since November 1, 1893. and with this vast aggrppatp contraction the price of laud and of manufactured goods and of all kind I of agricultural and mercantile produce has fallen. The public 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 fi- . nancial system of its own. (Great applause.) To pretend that this foremost and 1 richest and most powerful nation in I the world cannot coin its own money without. snincr fnr an international ] agreement at the courts of European j 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 had 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 ana to aaveruse 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 equality witti each other. (Applause ) And as our fathers in 1776 declared our national independence of all the world, so today has the great Democratic party, founded by Thomas Jefferson, the author of 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 tbe polls, that our country may be placed where she bv 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 cies for Mill. The JNew Yorlc Senator was j quietly eating a sandwich and showed no disposition to respoad. t Senator Jones, of Arkansas, an- ( nounced that on behalf of the sil ver delegates in the convention aDd at the j 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 j had presided over the convention. It c was adopted unanimously as was an- . other resolution offered by Senator j White of California, making the rules of the Fiftv-third House of Represen- ? tatives govern the deliberationu of the [ convention. t Tne roll of States was called under the customary practice and the selections for membership on the various * committees were announced. The del- 1 egates and spectators began leaving , rapidly at this juncture as it was well * understood that the convention would J immediately adjourn. General E. B. Finley of the Ohio delegation p rotes! ed against the selec- , tion of committee members by contest ed delegations but Chairman Daniel s ruled that until the permanent organ- ? ization was perfected the temporary ' roll was respected. At 4:43 p. m., on Senator Jones' . motion, the convention adjourned un- 1 til tomorrow morning at ten o'clock, t c Changed Assessments. \ The following changes for 1896 in i the taxable value of railroad property t in the counties named, as compared a with 1895, have been made as a result s of the action of the Railroad Board of ^ Equalization as to railroad assess- F ments: e Aiken. $1.022.760: decrease. $21,000. 1 Anderson, $532,850; decrease, $26,- t 430. i Berkeley, $1,173,930; decease, 127,- e 550. Chester. $669,003; decrease, $19,087. a Clarendon, $336,000; decrease, $43,- ^ 050. f Charleston, $678,130;increase, $119,- t 400. e Chesterfield, $53,725; increase, $9,- i 100, 1 Colleton, $1,141,215; increase, $10,- i 446. - t Darlington $242,465; increase, $4,- t 760. ? Edgefield, $630,250; decrease, $15,- c 150. t Hampton, $693,850; increase, $4,- 4 300. Kershaw, $255,250; decrease of $400. c Lancaster, $237,965; decrease of $4,- 1 800. Laurens, $746,175; increase of $6,- ' 100. Marion, $667,910; increase of $5,- 1 310. ; Marlboro, $267,930; increase of $23,- ; 720. J Newberry, $605,330; decrease of $38,- y 200. ; Oconee, $186,520; decrease of $24,- 1 600. f Orangebug, $1,461,785; increase of v $101,300. 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 the road with his gun in his band endeavoring to shoot at some crows that appeared to bs hovering or gathering near by. While thus engaged John Fleming with his wife and two children drove by. Lanford walked 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 can/1 i n rr thA wlioln C ui* uuai %iw ?w.w load of shot into the back of 1 the head and jaw of Mrs. Fleming, s killing her instantly, lacerating and 1 tearing her head and face in a fearful manner. Mr. Fleming nor the little i children were in jured at all. All the a parties are respsctable and of good 1 standing in the community and on c the best of terms with each other, f There is much sympathy in their be- ? half and many regrets for this sad and i terrible affair. " t ' " (iOLD VS. SILVER. FIERCE STRUGGLE BETWEEN CHAMPIONS OF THE TWO METALS. The Gold Men Again Downed?Annoucement of the Vote Seating the Silver I)ele. gates From Michigan Sets the Convention Afire?Wild Scenes. Chicago, July 8.?After passing through a listless morning session the Democratic national convention witnessed two scenes tonight which compensated those whose pent-up feelings had been given vent in the earlier aart of the day. Men and women joined in the demonstration for each >f the contending factions of the Demo:racy. They shouted and cheered, iang and stamped and fairly turned ;he great convention hall into a panlAmnninm At a few minutes before 11 o'clock, he temporary chairman called the ;onvention to order and announced ;hat its proceedings would be opened with prayer by the lie v. Thomas Edward Green, rector of Grace church, ^Episcopal) of Grand Rapids, la. The temporary chairman announced hat the first business in order was the eport of committees, as no business jould be done except by unanimous ionsent until committees reported. He called the first committee in orler, the committee on credentials, and here was no response, and after an in?rval of about 10 minutes it was anlonunced that the committee on crelentials were about to reassemble after heir long night's session. At 11:12 ex-Senator Martin of Kansas was recognized and moved an infornal recess of five minutes to permit Governor Hogg of Texas to address he convention. The motion was adopted, but a stray >anrl in thfi cftllflrv hpivrinrl rpj?v>n >f the chairman's bell, not hearing the lignals kept playing "Dixie" for neary 10 minutes before it could be stop>ed and the governor given a chance. Governor Hogg's "five minutes" vere stretched into half an hour, but itUl there were no tidings from the committee on credentials and amid rociferous cries for Hill, who was not )resent, the chair recognized Senatorsleet Money of Mississippi, who moved ;hac Senator Blackburn of Kentucky >6 invited to the stand. Mr. Black )urn, t&e iirst pronounced candidate .0 be .heard, was received with tumulous applause. As Senator Blackburn sat down, nore cries were raised for Hill, with>ut response. A motion to adjourn for half an lour was voted down, and the band vas started up to drown the confusion vhich prevailed. Mr. Henry of Mississippi moved .that he Hon. Mr Bryan of Nebraska be nvited to the stand. This was receivsd with every demonstration of ap>roval, but the chair announced that tlr. Bryan was not in the hall. Governor Altgeid of Illinois was hen called for and rising in the hall, ndicated a desire to give way to Senaor Hill. The chair stated that Governor Hill vas engaged with the committee on ^solutions and was not in the hall. Governor David Overmeyer of Kansas took the stand and declared hat yesterday the seat of empire was ransferred from the Atlantic States to he Mississippi valley. The day of the :ommon people had dawned and the 'dollar of our daddies" would be retored. This sentiment was received vith unbounded enthusiasm. The >ana once mori nnea up me lnieriuue o kill time. Governor Altgeld was. again called n requisition as a stop gap. His swarby visage, as it appeared alongside the shairman, was greeted with cheers, to irhich he responded by saying ?e did lot come here to make a speech, but o assist in nominating a President ind preparing a platform which hould bring hope to the people. He vas listened to with attention, as he >roceeded to discuss the cause of the listing conditions of distress, wbicn le summarized as the combined acion of the moneyed interests of the vorld to make money dear and propirty and labor cheap. Mr. George Fred Williams of Masachusetts was next called upon and vas greeted with aery of4'three cheers or George Fred Williams." He com>atted the assertion that the seat of impire had been transferred from the Atlantic coast to the Mississippi valley. Che seat of empire was where it ever vas in all the States of the union and he battle now being waged was for he restoration of the union'of the 3tates. He begged there might be no >ther word ?of sectionalism neard in his convention. The fight was not to ransfer the seat of empire from the >ast to the west, but to transfer the iontrol of the treasury and of your noney and mine from Lombard street o the centres of industry in the "T __ _ _1 r*i i. /T J \ jmteu Diaies. ^lkjuu uueera.; At this point, 1 p. m., the chair anlounced a partial report of the comn it tee on credentials, recommending hat each of the territories and the District of Columbia be granted six rotes. Second, after careful companion of the credentials as returned by he national committee, they found of ill them correct except from the States )f Nebraska and Michigan. In regard to Nebraska they were pleased o report that the delegates headed by he Hon. W. J. Bryan should be adnitted to seats. In regard to Michigan they asked further time. The motion to adopt the report was leclared carried by a viva voce vote, a lemand for a roll call which was at irst made by Governor Russell, being withdrawn on the statement of the :hairman of the credentials commitee, that the report was unamimous. At 1:10 the gold delegates from Ne>raska retired to a march tune by the >and, and their silver successors took heir places. The Bryan men, as they marched in leaded by silver topped spears and a >anner bearing Mr. Jiryan's name in ilver letters, were vociferously ap>lauded. Renewed calls for Tillman met with he reply ihat he was in attendance at he meeting of the committee on crelentials. Governor Altgeld moved that the ionvention take a recess till 5 o'clock, ["he proposition was met with loud houts of disapproval. ["he motion was adopted. The committee on credentials last light disposed of all the contests by roting to seat all of the silver men. !n the Michigan case that action turnid the delegation, under the unit rule, rom a solid gold to a solid silver deleration. and created a two-thirds silver najority iu the convention. Before be committee adjourned, however, a ! rpi Senator White, on taking the chair, "-^jj spoke of the convention as an assemblage of men from every State and J territory in the union, and said that - v3j he was prepared to extend fall, equal, absolute and impartial treatment to ? motion to reconsider the 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. 1 The effect 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-thirdf silver majority there. A minority "report was presented in favor of allowing the delegation to re Train as it was on the temporary roll Debate on the report was at once be gun. Mr. Brennan of Wisconsin advocat ed the adoption of the minority repori and said lie feared the effect of the adoption of the majority report upon the country. He entered into details of the facts involved in the contes and said the report in this case il adopted would establish the fact thai a majority in the firsflt flush of success might go into a sovereign State and upset tne action of a legal convention (Uheers.) He [charged that the con test originated only three or foui weeks ago when certain facts became apparent as to the majority in thif convention. He Had sinc?5 become ac quainted with that majority, and he appealed with confidence to then sense of justice and fairness. (Loud cneers.; Governor McLaurin of Mississippi, another member of the committee or credentials, gave a history of the elec tion of delegates in Michigan, assert ing that there was a clear majority ol 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. lie 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 flt th? larifirth nf Mr. WfTianrin's ft* 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 Michigan opposed the majority report beginning his speech witti the statement: ,JI am the. man who 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 on 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 in support of the majority. The gentlemen of the committee, he said, had given this case careful consideration, and they were here to testify to some, and only some, of the outrages perpetrated on the Democrats of Michigan. He asserted that the State of Michigan elected a majority of 200 to the convention in favor of silver and when the administration found this out, and Mr. Stevenson was sent to Michigan to upset the will of the people. ''There i? not one word of truth in all that," said Mr. Richardson from his seat. JlS 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 ]: ~ . 1CT1L.41 II- 1) "NT~ ? ^ ttuuiuie vuiuc; luaisu 11c. nu uutice was Uken of this interruption. Mr. Br acker of Miohigan declared that he had always been a free silver man, and that there were enough silver delegates ia the convention to nominate a President by a two-thirds majority without the necessity of commiting hichway robbery. (Applause and laughter.) Mr. C. S. Thomas of Colorado, a member of the national committee, next took the stand, but the audience was becoming impatient and raised loud cries of "vote." He held it would bo a mistake to elect a Democratic President by overturning the expressed will of a^sovereign State. He warned them that tfiey could not afford to strike down the State of Michigan simply for the purposs 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 (gold) members from the fourth and ninth Michigan districts in their seats. The vote resulted in the rejection of the minority report, yeas 308, nays 558, absent 4. The "'noes have it." said the chairman, "and the amendment is lost." It was now the silver men's turn, and they yelled and waved hats and handkerchiefs and displayed Bland pictures and made the night hideous for nearly as long as tne goiu men, the galleries, impartially assisting. The report of the committee on permanent organization was then presented by Mr. Finleyof Ohio, naming Senator White of California as permanent president of the convention, and Thomas J. Cogan of Ohio as permanent secretary. A committee of three was then appointed to escort Senator White, the permanent chairman to the chair, the committee consisting of Mr. Finley of Ohio, Mr. McConnell of Illinois and ; senator v est or Missouri. Senator Daniel, in retiring from the temporary chairmanship, expressed his deep senea of the honor which he enjoyed and introduced Mr. White as the "distinguished Senator from California." (Cheers.) all. . . ... Mr. Clark of Montana, rising in the body of the hall produced a silver ^ gavel from the mines of Montana, j| which he presented to the presiding officer in the name of the delegation ' from that State. . Senator Jones of Arkansas, chair* -la man of the committee on resolution!, Jj announced that the committee on -i t platform and resolutions would meet ri tomorrow morning at 9:30 o'clock. 5 ; This was taken by the heated and excited audience as an indication of an ^jjs i immediate adjournment, and for the ~ ? second time in the course of the day, 'M an incipient panic partially developed* jla| People in the galleries began to move out with a rush and a correspond. ing movement was started on the -Jj t floor. The means of exit from the rii ' , building are so utterly insufficient L that trouble might have followed but , that the sergeant at-arms, raising his | t big voice, commanded his deputies to J f | "stop those men." ?& t wnen some degree of order had ' '^| j been thus restored, a meeting to ad- j'Jm [ journ till 10 o'clock tomorrow morning was put at 9:36 p. nu was declared . -mm and the second day's convention end- * /ffl A HOT WEEK'S RECORD. Weekly Weather and Crop Bnlletia ln^|i.jaj by Observer Bauer. ' S Columbia, July 8.?The following , is the weekly bulletin of the conditioa 1 i of the weather and the crops of the State during the past week issued yee- "-;|| t terday by State Observer J. W. Bauer: ,V*^| xma yuucnuuuvoru tuc wctttUQrAUUj. - crop conditions for the week ending . | Saturday, July 4, and in its prepara-' [ tion were used reports from one or ' ,|h i more correspondents in each county : J9 of the State. I WEATHER. The week was a hot one. The mean -J3 temperature was, however, bnt one* . -3E half degree in excess of the normaL ^9 ; i Highest mean, 87, at Shaw's Forks; . ;|? | lowest, 75, at Reid. Average of 4$ ja| reports, 81.5, and the normal /or the. same period is approximately 8L ' Highest temperature reported, 100 on June 28, 29 and 30th, and it occu^ed at 8 places; lowest, 64 on the 30tk, at Clemson College. Showers prevailed during the latter ?1| part of the week over the State generally, but in a few counties left spots 1 |l very dry. The following heavy rains ^ were reported, viz: Pinopolis, 121: 'M Beaufort, 1.65; Charleston, 3.21; Lib* jia erty, 1.00; Reid, 1.00; Loopers, 1.75; Longshore. 1.05; Camden, 1.30; Ohes- : 5a*| terfield, 2.35; Qillisoaville, 1.04; MoColl, 1.00; Poverty Hill, 1.25; Allen* sd&A dale, 1.44; Greenwood, 1.59;. Kingstree, 1.38; 8t. George's, 1.29; 26 other ^ places reported amounts from 0.10 to -.s-JB 0.95, the average of 42 places being 0.64, and the approximate normal for the same period is 1.29. Note?Since correspondents1 reports }M were closed heavy rains have fallen ...J over the western portions of the Stateu $31 Early in the week the winds were ' ^ hot and drying, and injurious to vege^ tation, but during the latter portion ' 'J more humid conditions prevailed. The sunshine was about normal, except in the eastern counties, notably Berkeley, where the cloudiness was greatest, with about half the average ' ~|j| percentage of sunshine. xu geuertu. an cut? uuuig well, look promising and are much in v-sa advance of an average season. There i are local exceptions, due to want of X5yffl rain, or, in places, an excess of rain- "n tall. Thus while it is dry in Aiken, ! Edgefield and over portions of the western counties generally, the rains have been more copious than crops needed in Chesterfield, Berkeley and '.laH the eastern counties generally. Farmers are generally up with their work, and such fields as are being laid i by are in a well cultivated, clean con- ; ||n dition. ~ Old corn is about made and promis- 'M es good yields, except that locally in a few counties, notably Anderson, is Newbarrv. Aiken. Edgefield. Union. ^9 Clarendon, Ydl'k, Spartanburg, Lancaster and Lexington, it has Men too dry, and in a few of the lower counties it is firing badly on sandy land*. \ Later planting has generally agocxT, " healthy color and is wing laid by free ja from grass and weed in fine growing condition. The corn crop, as a whole, is now in a better condition than it v' was a week ago. Cotton, as a rule, continued the im- -",a provement noted a week ago. These was a few localities where it has not done well, but generally it is growing ^ and fruiting satisfactorily. In Ghee- - ^ tarfield, owing to too much rain, the lower 16 aves are turning red and dyRain was needed in a number of counties. Lice have about all left cotton, but it is apparent tnat iney tua .-3 considerable damage, especially in ^ Darlingten and Orangeburg. In . ^ Pickens, and the western countiea Y generally, it looks wonderfully green *3 and healthy. In portions of Greenville it is beginning to bloom on top. There was to little sunshine in Berkeley where it has a yellow color, blooming too early. The plant is large in York, and fruiting proportionately. 3 There are local reports of poor cotton, ^j but on the whole its condition is very ' ] promising. Sea island cotton is in good condition and growing rapidly. Tobacco has improved and is now doing well. It is in all stages of growth in Kershaw; curing has begun in a small way in Williamsburg, Florence and Darlington and will be quite geno nrnalr AF OA Ciai iu a nvw? vt wvt Melons are generally reported a poor crop; quantities of tnem but small and of inferior taste. Ihe vines are reported dying in Marlboro, Darlington, and Hampton, which, in addition to the places heretofore reported, indicates that the fungus disease has a firm hold on almo3t the entire eastern portion of the State and is spreading. Teas are doing well everywhere. Sweet potatoes growing well and premise to be a very large crop from present indications. Fruit prospects are worse than ever. j In Oconee there are some apples; no -1 peaehes. In Union apples are wormy as a rule. Grapes promised to be 4 plentiful, but are rotting badly in various sections. '3|# riipdens are improving generally, 4 but are poor in portions of Barnwell. Pastures have also improved. Cane and rice are in most excellent condition. Garden truck is flourishing in Charleston county.