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TWB NJES RW0" ThlE PEE DE At the Meeting at Marion Thursda Judge Jones' Speech Was Aggre sive and Blease's, WFhich Followeg Was Largely on the Defensive Dillon For Jones. The meeting at Dillon Wednesda was perhaps the :nost satisfacto held in the State campaign so far. pleased, or should have pleased, a parties concerned since all the spea ers were in good form, the audient was large and orderly, and every c-^ didate w.s weil received. So gene ously demonstrative was the crow that %Gov. Blease prcbabIy accounte it a very good day for him, though was an unnmistakable Jcncs day. E en Mr. Duncan, who is inured b now to the experience of having h audicae depart as he arises, w accorded a respcti, if somewhat atentive, hearing and this not altc gether because he was sandwiche between the principai contenders fc the governcrship, Judge Ira 13. Jont and the ircumbeut, Cole L. Blease. An impresve maaestation < confidence and approval was given t the attorney general, J. Fraser Lyoi and this next to the warmIth of t grectings given Judge Jones was pe haps the most nzmorable and in portant feature of'the meet.in. About 1.200 rosrous-lookin citizens, with a number of ladie were aszambled in fhe large tobacc warehouses. vhe:e the m: ting w: he"ld. Excellent order was p)reserve after a few young 1rre)ressibl. perched upon the exposed joists ha been admonisld by the presiding ficcr, H. Mciae, who took the cha E~ substtt for the county chairma. W. T. Bethza. The attorney genaral, J. Fras; Lyon, at this meeting took up t assertion of an oppounent, J. R. Earl at Florence Tuesday that Mr. Earl had always "unheld and supporte Mr. Lyon in bis exposure and punis' mont of dispensary grafters," and u! dertook to show, by citations of M Earle's votes in the State senate, th: on the contrary Mr. Earle had ec: sistenly aligned himself with the pr< dispensary and reactionary forc which did their ut=-osL to prevent an then to hamper the revelation of til dispensary's rottenness. Mr. Ear devoted most of his period to a di fense of himself against this attac] B. B. Evans made about his u31u speech regarding alleged misappr priation of dispensary funds. Tho H. Peepies paid tribute to Mr. Lyon faithfulness and zeal, but said 1 thought it Mr. Lyon's turn to retir Nothing unusual distinguished i exchange here between other min< candidates from their encountei elsewhere. Judge Jones madec the best cat paign' speech he has yet deliverei Most of the candidates lcft Thursd; afternoon for Marion, where ti meeting. was held yester day. Othei spent the night in Florence, and wet to Marion in the morning. All cand dates were entertained in privat homes at Dillon. Jones Aggressive at Marion. Before 600 citizens of Maric county, gathered in the opera hous at Marion Thursday, the candidat-e presented their claims, and thoug the mercury was high, numerot electric fans kept the air in circul: tion. The meeting started at 1 o'clock with the candidates for A torney General speaking first. Thi county gave Feathierstone a larl majority at the last election, and was generally expected that the and ence at that place Thursday would 1 for Jones in sentiment. A "hors laugh" greeted J. R. Earle, and' sea oral "Hurrahs for Elease" were hur: ed at B. B. Evans. Attorney Gene' al Lyon was greeted with loud ni plause. Lyon assailed the attacks by Evar on the Murray dispensary co-mmissic and apologized to his henrers for "rf ferring to Barney," adding, "I den believe he could read the truth outc the Bible." Lyon said Earle had voi ed against the dispensary investigt tion, while Sen ators Weston, of CC lumbia, and Roeso arboro, ha strongly favored it. Judg'e Jones was grected with lot cheers. I1e began his speech wit the discussion of m~any problems fat ing farmers and employees. ar-d wht he expressed his favor of the Torre: system of' registration there we: cheers. He also cutlined his favor< a workmen's liability law. He als favored good roads. "I want to te vou that there's not a word of trut in the suggest'on that I r'aprese: corporatios,": said Judge Jones, ca phasizing each word, in der.ing tI "crporation" charge against him. go into office unbougit: and unbu3 judyge then stated: "Een~ Abne: cousin of the Go'.'rnor. lives in t 'white house' in South Carolina, an IEen Ahney :s headl cuni for tt Southcrn railway," anli he wentit a langthy charge that the Governe was a corpor'at'o a. The sta: mernts about Alm and theGver: or's corooration al'inswere we: reer.-ved by~ the cod "Gov.Bless ha af'r~ iden of h. administrative pwr.becan ti judne in his anc utercr the present Gove-"'oor. H called f harny~ in th.' goer'nn nd asl ed ho~w could this h~ had w.ithi tb ment' of the go'erne"t "If t Govero - s ri;' gie * a legisi; tare "'a' " 'li" cary ouais ideas. coni"e th -u' rn "oh went n ially his con rerswt'h t' Judge' Jones re'--l - he cha.' That Goy. Bles--advne h a' propriation forfred itoo diptherin antitos:n 'le ined "argument of :e ne- .: a'per ' s)Coke of the tn wh aor "graft Qrs" in South Car'ln' 'and who a: rlCt for law andl or:=er in the SMats Judge Jones s:at down amici arpians and he was presenedc with n'ers Goy. Blease took the stand ami umtea pnlase, nrobably the weakes has received at a campaign meet- b i:g. He went into a lengthy expla- 'I - -aion of the fact that "Ben Abney", c a coisia of the Governor lives in thell< 'white house' 4, and he told manylp 0fcts of family history, showing the kinship of Abney with the Governor. PARTY OF PROGRESS (Continued from first page.) had the right to do what it saw fit and declared the motion in order, 20 minutes on each side for de-' Mr. Bryan then began his argu 'meit for the resoiution. "This is an extraordinary SEssion, I and extraordinary conditions need jextraordinarY remedies," said Mr. t pyan, "We are now engaged in -y conducting a convention that will Tlace before the country the Demo [1 cratic nominee, and I ass1ne that y Il each delegate is here because he :-wants the nominee elected, and it is T e in order that we may advance the I- interes:s of our candidate. - "There are questions upon which r d we may assume the American people d jare informed," he continued, "and i there is not a delegate in this conven t ti-on who doies not know that an effortI Y is being made right now to sell the s Democratic party into the bondage of S the predatory interests. It is a most brazen, impudent-v and insolvent attempt to make the I nominee of this country the boondslave I Ir of the men who exploit the people of 1 s this country." He then d-nounced Ryan. Belmont, and Morgan as the. >' men involved. The convention cheer- I o ed the speanter to the echo. t 1,"Some ono has sug-sted," said I e Mr. Bryan, "that we have no right to discuss the delegates here." "I l-- said it," interrupted Cov. Gilchrist of Florida. who remained on the plat g form.- t s. "I a..y," retorted Mr. Dryan, "that 'these men are willing to insult 6, is 50,000 people. Democrats ought to d IPeak out against them and let them s know we resent the insult. d "I am not willing that Ryan and Pelmont should come here with their 1 r , paid attorneys and seek secret con ,Frnces with th e managers of the i arkty. NO sense o;, politeniess w2ll E r keep me from protecting my party." C Mr. Bryan said he could not speak e, for the dtelegates; they had their own K e resposibilities. If the delegates want- . d ed the men mentioned to run the con- t . vertion Mr. Bryan said he and those -who he represented wante'd a chance r to go on record. He refused to tale Lt the responsibility of doing otherwise. t -Up to the Su;. "I'll make you a proposition," said s Mr. Bryan. "One of the men-Mr. .d j Eelmot-sits with New York; theC e other-Mr. Ryan-with the Virginia te delcgation. If New York will take a poll of its vote and if a majority - not Mr. Murphy, but a majority of its delegates-w! protest against the w.ithdrawal of Mr. Belmont, and if x Virginia on roll call will protest the withdrawal of Mr. Ryan, te I iwill withdraw the last paragraphI e. of my resolution requesting their te withdrawal from the convention. Butc >r will not withdraw the first prt. :- which demands that cur can'didate : shall be free from entanglement with 1 these men." . L. "In the name of that sovereign SState of Virginia," shouted Flood, "I taccept the insolent proposition by the r ' only man in this convention who s it wants to destroy Democratic suc--( i- cess," This brought many delegates e to their feet with a roar. While the : disturbance was on Mr. Ryan arose from his place in the Virginia delega-c tion and got a shout of greeting from those seated near him. Mr. Flood, safter accepting the Bryan challenge, h retired.. t SIThe New York delegation had been _missing up to this time, engaged in ai State caucus. They came in while Ii t he uproar was going on and added * to the tumult. -\\Whil a dozen men were tryingt i from the platform to bring the con-c -.vention to order, Senator-elect Var- Ic edaman of Mississippi *ame to thel e front of the platform and made an I ..'appal for order. .jI . r Vardaman declared the Bryan V -resolution contained "in part some a' .merit." He approved the first par: but did not think the convention C sshould touch upon the right cf the I n States in the selection of delegates. I IJohn W. Price of Virginia also ask- i -ed time for Mr. Bryan to statement. On behalf of the State of Virginiaev protest as to the latter pars of the ! resolution," he said, "but no one will o moe heartily to the first part of M.Bryan resuming his argument, I sadhe would modify his resolution s~ as to \Virginia and the unseating of Mr. Ryan. "Does New York ask the r thrwal of the last part of the res olution? quesitioned Mr. Bryan. "No, sn.cae from the floor. "With- v -e :.i yourseli'," shouted some one. "I1 prefer to hear frcm New York her The New York delezation sat in ab soue s!!ence. "Then I yieldth right ta close the discussion," said! F ormer Gov. Will!ram A. McCorkle of West Virginia asked for an oppor e tuit to speak. "The resolutioe o I:'el is one upon which all Democrs e I ay' meet," he said, "but when t'hey ic meect it must be under circ-t sisnces which make such a measure o neesr. The Democratic party h5:t r .vr been controlled by any inte Xcheer and a hiss greeted this s ae~nnt."Iappeal to every Denm occrat in this country," said Mir. Me Cork"V-e. 5i not the resciution a sense-' .s a"-d icoish orC?" Applause andi caesgeeted him. "Go for him" shutd d--*a gate. "Illt him again," callied ano:her. Go". Mc(Tor:le hoped it would be e do'wn th resolution and not alienate tesstan tial interests of the coun O"Tnis r-sciution has no nee'd here s onight," he concluded. Representative Flood arose, he e said. to correct what he believ'd'n h 'a mnisapprehension on Mr. isrya-. epart. irginia asks nothing ofMr yn" he shouted. "We do not fe a'we have to go to him for adv ice o"counsel." A great cheer intr - nother Outbreak. c o mention of 1,000 Virginians " onst ren as William Jennings n * e-:- wa- began air Flod ad ::nc-ter t:-roar interrupted him. e, elected withour a dissenting vote homas F. 1,yan a delegate to this onvention." Another outbreak fol >wed this. Hisses came from several arts of the hall. "Wjen this remarkable resolution ras read." said Mr. Flood, "I came to bte platfrom at the suggestion of the irginia delegation to protest against 'm glad he proposes to withdraw .,at part of it which reflects upon the itcgrity, manhood and honor of Vir inia," concluded Flood and a cheer reeted his conclusion. When Mr. Flood had concluded Mr. ryan arose to close his argument. He aid it was not necessary for Mr. 'lood to deliver an eulogy of the tate of Virginia. It was there his ther was born and he would be the ist to raise a question as to the in egrity of its Democracy. "Nor Is it ecessary for me to defend my own )emacracy," "Boo, boo," came from contingent of the delegates. "Vote, ote," came a shout. Chairman James had the resolution ead as modifled by Mr. Bryan. It mitted all of the last paragragh de 2anding the withdrawal of delegates epresenting Ryan, Belmont or Mor an. The question then was put to sus end the rules and pass the resolu on. The vote was 8S9 to 196 In favor f the motion. The only states vot cg a majority against the motion rt-re: Georgia, Kentucky, Michigan nd Teniessee. At the conclusion of be roll call on his resolution Mr. iryan had the following to say in re ead to the vote: "This vote eliminates all of the re etlonaries and we can now proceed o the election of a porgressive, put im on a progressive platform and go ,t and win. There are some things 'hich I think it would be wise for h candidate to do, but they need tor be announced until his nomina !on." CLARK LOST VOTES . (Contiued from first page.) iderwood delegates. Underwood anners and Underwood pictures r-ere held far aloft. The band play d "Dixie". Clark Nominated. The call of the states then was re umed. Arizona yielded to Missouri, nd James A. Reed of that State took he platform to nominate Speaker hamp Clark. He was applauded as Le began. Senator Reed, in opening lis speech, referred enthusiastically o the Democrats' chances of success. "We are here," ho said, "not to ick a candidate but to elect a presi !ent." He said the Democrats must !issolve the partnership between monopoly and government", which Lad existed for sixteen years. He poke of Republican candidates' 'tricks of demagoguery," making pecfic roference to one who had dar d to "attack the courts of law and to ssail the fundamentals of our gov rnment." "We stand for government by aw." he said. For the great struggle t the times, he said, a man was need ed, "no summer soldier". He prefer ed, he told the delegates, a general rho had suffered all the hardships of he camp; the dangers of the field' vho had stood at the bloody angle.' He then went on to detail the ca eer of Speaker Clark, as one who has rood for progress. He spoke of Mr. lark's life long Democracy and or ds general popularity. He told of *r. Clark's triumphs In Missouri and dacent States during the primary ampaign. Concluding, he said: "The arnay of the Democracy is ormng In battle array. The sun of ope glorIfies the horizon of the fu ure, and sheds its splendor upon our anners. Above us bends the myr ad-hued bow of promise. We have en led to the very gates of success r a veteran grown gray in the ser ice. Let him continue to lead, and he celestial bow wi, become an arch f triumph, beneath which Democra y will march in glorius victory. "And so I nominate this man, who os fought a thousand battles ior )emocracy and not one against her'; cho has never lowered his flag nor sked for quarter; who has never de erted nor taken a furlough; who oes not know how to quit a friend or etray a party; whose back the ene ay has never seen, but whose breast Scovered with the scars of many a ard campaign; who leads to-day and rho should continue to lead--the on of Democracy, Champ Clark of issouri." As it drew past midnight a slow xodus began and the shufling of eet along the galleries, aisles and tairs made it dirlicult to hear Sena :r Reed. Frequently he was inter pted by the gavel trying to restore rder. Senator Reed concluded at 2:Z3 and a demnonstration for Clark, :as immedia~telS started. At 208 a. mt. the call of the States as resumed. Delaware yielded to ew Jersey. John W. Wescott of iat State went forward to nominate v. Woodrow Wilson. The Wilson ce did not wait for the speech to Jin' before beginning their demon traton. Hats were thrown in theI ir, there was a noisy din, both onj e floor and In the galleries. One i the Wilson banners was hoisted in~ Le Ohio delegation and road: "Ohio ivs 19 vores for Wilson." From a side entrance a parade ei inito the hall. Banners bearing ie names of 20 New York counties nd :he words "WilUson and win' orer carriei by the marchers. Wil on or,:mm'r of ;xvery description fell ato line. 'The New Jersey, Texas d Penznsyv\ania standards swung to the procession. At :1 a. mt. the Wilson demon tration passed the record made by Le Clark people early in the session. had been under way an hour and e minutes. At this time the noise gan to subside and the sergeants t-arms started in to clear the aisles, 'e police assisting. At 3:20 order ad been more or less restored. Then 'rue oeri brought an electric automo ihorn in the hall and pandemon-i :mi broke loose again. At 3:25 Mr. Me:t began his nominating speech "New .T.ersay. one bound, hut by the r er:orgy and intellectual great-! Sof a sinl soul now fgree, comes Sths grera: con vention in the glory f ier z'm~icpation to participate in our deliberations, aid in formulat :your judgme~nts and assist in ex-, urting your decrees. The New Jer-' r deltgatil~n is not empowered to: ship but is commissioned to repre sent the great cause of Democracy and to offer you as its militant and triumphant leader a scholar, not a oharlatan; a statesman, not a doc trinaire: a profound lawyer, not a splitter of legal hairs; a political economist, not an egotistical theorist; a practical politician, who constructs, modifies, restrains, without disturb ance and destruction; a restless de bater and consummate master of statement, not a mere sophist; a hu mantarian, not a defamer of charac ters and lives; a man whose mind is at once cosmopolitan and composite of America; a gentleman of unpre tentious habits, with the fear of God in his heart and the love of mankind exhibited in every act of his life; above all a public servant who has been tried to the uttermost and never found wanting-peerless, matchless, unconquerable, the ultimate Demo crat, Woodrow Wilson. "Again the eternal conflict between equal opportunity and special privi lege is upon us. Our fathers wrote the issue of that struggle In our con stitutions. They declared all men to be free and equal. In a single cen tury that principle developed the North American continent, leavening the world with its beneficence, inspir ed all nations with hope and made the United States the asylum of the world. Yet America, at this very hour, presents the most stupenduous contradiction in history-a people po litically free, while economically bound by the most gigantic monopo lien of all time and burdened by a sys tem of taxation which exploits mil lions to enrich a few. We have pre served the forms of freedom, but are fast losing its substance. The evils of this condition are felt in a thou sand ways throughout the land. Therefore, it is th3 t a mistake in our premises will be fatal. Therefore, it is that the situation, the national ex igency, the crisis, call for the right man. "New Jersey believes that there is an omniscience in national instinct. That instinct centres In Woodrow Wilson. How can his power in every State be expilained? He has .been in political life less than two years. He had had no organization, only a prac tical ideal-the re-establishment of equal opportunity. Not his deeds alone, but his matchless powers alone, but all combined, compel na tional faith and confidence in him. Every crisis evolves its master. Time and circumstances have evolved Woodrow Wilson. The north, the south, the east and the west unite in him. "If providence could spare a Wash ington to lay the foundation of the United States of America, if provi dence could spare a Jefferson to make Democracy a living reality; if provi dence could spare a Lincoln to unite the states In impregnable unity and brotherhood; New Jersey appears to this convention to give the nation Woodrow Wilson, 'that he may open the gates of opportunity to every man, woman and child under our flag, by reforming buses and thereby teaching them, in his matchless words to release their energies intelligently, that peace, justice and prosperity may reign. "New Jersey rejoices through her freely chosen representatives to name for the president of the United States the Princeton schoolmaster, Wood row Wilson." It was four o'clock when Wescott concluded and his peroration set off another demonstration by the Wilson forces. Ohio and Harmon. When Ohio -was reached M. A. Dau gherty rose to nominate Gov. Judson Harmon. Mr. Daugherty spoke in part as fol lows: "In the last decades In national Democratic convention Ohio was only a Republican State, with no impres sive voice in Democratic councils. - To you to-day Ohio pleads the right and prays the privilege of salutation from a Democratic commonwealth, redeem ed and regenerated by Ohio's great Democratic governor, who never lost a political battle, who never led his party to defeat, who always carried its banner to splendid victory, who transformed the State from the dead' sea of RepublIcanism to the paradise of Democracy, and not by any trans itory issue, permanently placed the State in the Democratic column con firmed by decisive numbers in two successive elections and firmly anch ored there by more than 100,000 Democratic majority; who crushed and strangled the Republican State machine, the mcst powerful and the most corrupt of modern days; who exacts absolutely honesty and rigid economy in public affairs; who has purified the public service In Ohio, driven corruption from its public life, stimlated and uplifted with new and' healthful tone and vigor and civic~ standard of its citizenship and under whose leadership Democracy in Ohio has become the protector and evangel of the aroused and dominant moral sentiment of its people, that senti mnt which is the onward and up ward and essential spirit of represen tative government." In concluding, Mr. Daugherty said: "Legitmiate industry will not halt. honest business will not tremble, but the sluggish currents of commerce and trade will leap and bound re sponslve to the pulsations of a new life when his nomination and election are annonuced, while trust and mo nopoly then will know that their1 death knell has been sounded. Ohio, iow names as your nominee for pres ident her gifted and brilliant son of quiet dignity, superb poise and spot less life, pre-eminent in leadership, in law, in statesmanship, In intellee tual and moral greatness. the greatest governor in all her history, Judson Harmon."401 First Ballot Taken. The result was: Clark 40% Wilson 324, Underwood 117%, Har mon 14S, Marshall 3-1, Baldwin 22, Sulzer 2, Bryan 1. Absent 2. As a two-thirds vote is needed there was1 ao nomination. Necessary to a cholcej 728. WIth the first ballot taken. the~ convention receded until four o'clock' Friday afternoon. Judge Jones saId that he heard ece of negroes In Columbia that thej negro should have his share of the prvilege tax. He pays about half that tax, amounting last year to $2, 200,000, hIs share would be about $1,100,000." Two negro papers ofi Columbia said the Governor imade the ahoe statement, and so far as we kn- ab o'vmanm, bne naaer ddnied I WISON 1 0AININf CONVENTION REPUDIATES CRE DENTIAL COMMITTEE CLARK LOOSES IELEATES Wilson and Bryan Won Fight to Ab rogate Unit Rule Wednesday Night and Thursday Wilson's Forces Re gains South Dakota Delegates Tak en by Clark's Comnittee. Delegates to the Democratic Na tional Convention filed into the con vention hall Thursday for a long and excited session. It was expected to be the climatic day, the end of the long campaign waged by the Presi dential aspirants. But as they came into the hall these delegates appar ently were as much at sea as ever as to who would be the nominee. Boom era of the various candidates were ready to start demonstrations and it seemed certain that the days would be such as to throw the actual ballot ing late into the evening. All sorts of rumors were afloat as to deals and combinations during the forenoon, but none of these seemed to have a trustworthy foundation. The supporters of Woodrow Wilson heatened by the so-called Wilson Bryan victory Wednesday night in their fight for abrogation of the unil rule that would have bound all the members of a State delegation to the views of a majority, were claiming that the New Jersey Governor would sweep the convention Thursday and secure the nomination. They ex pressed the hope that Mr. Bryar might be induced to come out square ly for Wilson and felt that if this could .be brought about ultimate vic. tory was certain. There was renewed talk of Mr. Bryan himself as the nominee Thurs day, some of the so-called conserva tives being quoted as saying that sc long as the naming of a progressive scemed inevitable it might be Just ai well to have Mr. Bryan lead the fighi for a fourth time. Some of Mr. Bry an's friends indicated that the Ne braskan was oontent with the posi. tion he now occupies In the conven tion, the right to name the candidat( being all but coneeded to him. Sup porters of Champ Clark were claim ing the nomination with as much out ward confidence as ever as they gath ered for the day's session. TherE has been and will be no desertior from the Clark strength, read a state ment out from the Speaker's head quarters. "Dark horse" talk died away a lit. tle Thursday and while many candi dates were mentioned, there appear ed to be a concensus of opinion tha1 the fight lay among the supporter. of Wilson, Clark and Bryan. Mrs. William H. Taft, wife of thE President, was a visitor at the con vention,. having a prominent place II the guest gallery. She was entertain ed .by Mrs. Hugh Wallace, wife of delegate from the State of Missouri The order of business as the con vention met was further consideratiot ot the report of the committee or credentials. Then the report of thE committee on permanent organiza tion was schduled to be taken ui with the convention ready to ratif) by acclamation the choice of Senator Elect Ollie M. James, of Kentucky as permanent chairman. These thing! disposed of, the delegates ''ooked for ward to the long series of nominat lg and seconding speeches ead fin ally to the balloting on the Presioen tial candidates. No one anticipated a choice on the first ballot, but the line-up on the initial vote was await ed wtih keen interest. At 12 o'clock Chairman Parker had not taken his place on the platform. A big squad of police filed in and the sergeant-at-arms stationed policemer 10 feet, apart in every aisle. A dou be row of policemen was placed in front of the press stand where the scuffie of Wednesday night occurred. Despite these added forces, the ser geant-at-arms was unable to preveni crowding in the aisles. Chairman Parker reached the plat form at 12:10 and conferred with Parliamentarian Crisp and Senator John Sharp Williams. of Mississippi, leader of the Bryan-Wilson forces. The South Dakota Steal. Before the convention was called to order there was an excited confer ence in the Missouri delegation. Sen ator Luke Lea, leader of the Bryan forces, former Senator Dubois, Sena tor Stone and former Gov. David R. Francis, of Missouri, were gathered in a group discussing what Senator Lea termed "the South Dakota steal". Lea, in no uncertain terms, took the Clark Missourians to task for their attitude toward the South Dakota contest, where the Wilson delegates were displaced by Clark men by the majority report of the credentials c'mmittee. When the group broke up, Senator Lea hurried to the plat form to plan the fight on the creden tials majority report. The South Dakota case was beIng discussed in every delegation. The 10 Wilson delegates had been unseat ed for the credentials committee and the Clark delegation submitted ,after the national committee had pt its seal of approval on the Wilson dele gates. The credentials conmmittee passed! its action upon the claim that two Clarks had togethe~r polled more votes than the Wilson ticket. The Clark delegation seated by the credentials committee appeared on the South Dakota ballot under the ead, "Wilson-Clark-Bryan Democra cy." It secured about 400 less votes than the Wilson ticket. A straight ticket headed "Clark for President" polled about 2,000 less than either of the others. Galleries and floors rose and stood as the band played "The Star Span gled anner." The heat grew more Intense and thle delegates grew rest less. The op.ening had already been delayed 40 minutes and the leaders were still talking together. Repre sentative Henry, of Texas, had joined ibe group. The crowd had steadily grown and every aisle in the galleries was filled. Under the galleries solid banks of spectatrs stood. Many climbed into the lower girders of the steel frame work supporting the galleries. The police worried by the size of Long before the presiding oficer made any effort to call the convention to order, Robert F. Crain, chairman of the Baltimore convention commit tee, reported at the platform that doors were being rushed, ushers and doorkeepers were helpless by reason of lack of organization and that the situation was dangerous. The police were unable to cope with the situa tion because of the convention au thorities would not consent to the closing of the entrances. Mr. Crain estimated that thousands crowded into the hall who were not entitled to admission. Ticket holders who had not arrived early found their seats occupied. There appeared little hope that the session could be con ducted with any semblance of de corum from the moment demonstra tions were started. A Missouri delegates with a bundle of Champ Clark lithographs went around the floor tacking the pictures to State standards. He placarded California, Colorado, Wyoming, and Arkansas. When he reached this point a shout of "tear it down, take it away", broke from rows of delegates. In a flash the pictures had been strip ped from the Wyoming and Arkansas standards. The anti-Clark forces raised a yell of triumph. Temporary Chairman Parker began pounding for order at 12:45. Five minutes later the delegates were lis tening attentively to the chaplain's prayer. South Dakota Contest. The prayer ended, the convention plunged into the South Dakota con tests, R. S. Morris, of Pennsylvania, submitting the minority report favor ing the Wilson delegates. Mr. Morris said he was sure the committee on credentials had misapprehended the facts in the case. He said it was re diculous that the committee should take the votes of two entirely separ ate sets of so-called Clark d4egates, add them together and thus claim a majority for one set of the Clark dele gates over the Wilson delegates. The national committee, he said, had thrown out he Clark claims with scant consideration and he -hoped the convention would do likewise. A nervous thrill went through the crowded armory as a photographer set off a flashlight directly under the gallery where Mrs. Taft was seated. The President's wife seemed much annoyed. Those in charge of the con vention Were fearful of anything that might start a panic, and orders against flashlights were given to the police. William A. McCorkle, of West Vir ginia, supported the majority report. He argued that the Clark-Wilson Bryan ticket had been publicly pledg ed to Champ Clark. When the third ticket, the second Clark, was placed in the field, Mr. McCorkle said, the Clark people endeavored to have it withdrawn and the vote concentrated under the second ticket. The Secretary gf State of South Dakota, he said, ritused to allow the ticket to be withdrawn, saying that both the second and third tickets were publicly known as favoring Clark and that therefore, the vote of both should be accredited to Clark. Mr. McCorkle concluded with a vig orous defense of the Clark action in South Dakota and Senator Luke Lea yielded to M. M. Crane, of Texas, for the minority report. As the debates on South Dakota continued it was seen that the line between the Clark forces on the one side and the Bryan-Wilson forces on the other side would ,be sharply drawn. The vote was impatiently awaited, and after the first two speches cries of "vote, vote" began to rise from the floor. Ex-Gov. Blanchard, of Louisiana, followed Crane. He spoke for the majority report. While Blanchard talked, the huge form of Senator elect 01.ie James appeared at the main entrance. He was stopped by several delegates who wanted to shake hands with him. Finally he retired to the rear of the ball. As the debate went on, the dele gates became impatient and 'the speaking was interrupted by great waves of cheering which swept the hail as the demonstration increased to a storm. Banners were borne through the aisles, delegates standing on chairs and madly waving hats, um brellas, an d flags. New Jersey, Penn sylvania, and Texas swung Wilson banners. Clark transparencies gain cd the point of vantage immediats1y in front of the platform. Underwood streamers were further back, and Mlassachusetts unfgurled a Foss ban ner half across the hail. The dem onstration lasted 22 minutes and gradually died out before urgent do mands for order. At 2:30 o'clock Thursday after oon the motion was put in the Demo cratic National Corfvention at Balti more to adopt the minority report in the South Dakota contest. The vote was taken as a line-up of the Clark and Wilson forces. The minority report favors the Wilson delegates and as the motion was carried by vote of 639 1-2 to 437 it was considered a victory for the New Jersey Govern or. A ROYAL WELCOME. Given William Jennings Bryan By Democratic Gathering. William J. Bryan was almost swept off his feet by the enthusiastic crowds that met him at Baltimore Teusday evening when he arrived from Chica go. The contest over the selection of a temporary chairman to sound the convention keynote has brought the Nbraskan into the centre of the ~stge on the very eve of the Democra tic gathering and all the events of the day seem to await his coming. Mr. Bryan reiterated the views he express in his telegram to the five cadidates and declared that he would fight anybody but a progressive chairmanof the convention "Person ally." he said "I have no objections to Judge Parker." The Nebraskan was expected at 3:30~ and at that hour the railroad staLtion was crowded with a throng that collected outside and in the lob by of the Belvidere hotel, wehre he' will make his headquarters during. his stay in Baltimoroe. It was 6 cclock' however, before he reached the hotel, and by that time the crowds had greatly Increased. There. was no organized welcome and none. of the leaders were at the station to meet him. Mr. Bryan had to shake hands with several hundred persons before he reached an automobile that4 took hIm to his hotel. In the hotel. corridor there was gof'n deon PARKER UELIVERS SPEECH UPON ASSUMING CHAIRMANSHIP OF THE CONVENT3ION. d b Says There Are No Longer Any But Progressives in Democratic Party b Now. d A rapid-fire routine session Tues- o day night closed the first day of the f Democratic convention, which began 0 wih the defeat of William J. Bryan J for temporary chairman Tuesday af- E ternoon. Scenes of disorder on the 8 floor, which made further proceedings 1 impossible; forced Tuesday night's s session and compelled Alton B. Park- a er to suspend his keynote speech un- s til the evening session. Tuesday night the delegates on the floor gave earnest evidence of their desire to do everything in a hurry and I get away from Baltimore. The lead ers had planned to adjourn the ses sion Tuesday night until two o'clock t Wednesday, and to have the commit- t tees which were appointed Tuesday night meet at ten o'clock in the morn ing. But the delegates would not i hear of this plan and disorderly pro tests from the floor forced an ad- t journment till noon and advanced the committee meetings so that they I were ordered to meet immediately af ter the session. William J. Bryan did not appear at th'e convention during the evening, and his failure to be on hand caused an almost Immediate adjournment of the resolutions committee, which met after the session in response to the delegates' demand for speed. It was practically certain that Bryan would be elected chairman of the commit tee. The other committees got to gether immediately yor organization. But a scattering attendance ap peared in the galleries at 8 o'clock, the hour set for convening the night session. There were hundreds of va cant seats in the delegates' section, while those who were in their seats gathered in little groups. Scattered handclaps greeted Chairman Parker as he made his way up the middle aisle through the groups of delegates. The -soft rain that fell at Intervals all day set in again toward nightfall, adding to the humid heat and the at mosphere of the hall was oppressive. As a result delegates and spectators stripped off their coats and rolled up their shirt sleeves, ready for the night's work. Mr. Mack introduced Judge Park er and the temporary chairman re sumed the speech which Tuesday af ternoon was interrupted. In his in troductory remarks Tuesday night, Judge Parker commented on the Re publican Convention at Chicago, where, he said, the words "liar," "thief," "robber," "corruptionist," and "briber" were freely used. "We will have nothing like that in this convention," he said. "We had a little difference here to-day, but there was nothing said by anyone to be unkind. If I thought that the chief speaker was a little bit barsh, I remembered those three great struggles he had made for the Democratic party in this country. I realized that this meant much to him and that, if he was mistaken with ref erence to my position, I believed it was my duty, and yours, to forgive it and to stand with him in this conven tion. "There Is one place in this conven tion that he Is wanted, where he Is capable of rendering great service. That is .the chairmanship of the reso lutions "committee, and I hope, and believe, every member of the resolu tions committee will honor himself by casting his vote for Msr. Bryan for chairman. No Reactionaries Now. "My fellow-citizens, there are no reactionaries; whatever they may have been once, there are none now. The Democrats are progressive. Now it may possibly be true that here In this great convention, with all these able men coming from every section of the country, It may be true that all of you will not be able to agree that a single highway constitutes the only road to progress; but you will all agree upon- this one proposition, that the voice of the majority of this convention, spea~ng through its committee on resolutions and by the adoption of the committee's report by the convention, shall speak the will of every Democrat in this land."1 Judge Parker concluded at 9:13 and was given a round of applause. Before the applause had died away the routine proceedings were gotten under way. A resolution introduced by Joseph E. Bell of Indiana provided that the rules of the last Democratic convention should govern this con vention. The resolution went through under the gavel. Will Be Reclaimed in Time. It gives one a good idea of the vast range of climate and soil cond-itlons in this ceuntry that while in some parts of the land the great need Is to get rid of so much water In other parts there is an equally great need of getting more water. The swamps of some of the eastern and southern states are matched by the arid and semi-arid sections of the west and .mountain states. Doubtless the time -will come when through wise recla mation efforts the needs in every sec-i 'tion will be met and the vast I stretches of land now practically worthless, and, in some cases, posi tively Infurious to health, will blos om as the rose and be the homes of many thousnands of contented, indus trious and prosperous settlers. What already has been done along this line warrants the most sanguine expecta-< tions. In such pro1hcts the whole country gains for the productIons of such regious thus made habiable and fer-tile benefit people generally. Newspapers Are Alright. Judze Jones says no man not a I crook need fear the newspapers "Who dreaded the Influence of the splendid press of Seuth Carolina? I What the commonwealth needs and must always have for its safety Is a press that will tell the truth courage usly and dare that no honest man, ~ o crook, shall ever occupy high pos itions in publie life."' The Judge Is' right. No honest man need fear the newspapers and consequently have no a cause to abuse them. Judge Jones made it very plain at e the Bennettesville meeting F'riday i' that that he did not propose to allow b imsae wet I a aSie noSitint , JONES ROUTES THEM (Continued from 11ret page.) emonstration by his supporters, the lost remarkable of the campaign to ate, and yells and hoots from Blease ackers which were of amazing vol me considering from how few iouths they came. Judge Jones had ardly commenced speaking when a etergnined effort to howl him down ras commenced by a compact group f men who had stood directly in ront of the stand from the opening f the meeting. This effort failing, udge Jones was subjected to the iore- trying ordeal of individual ibing or heckling, but his good hu ior was so unfailing, and his retorts o pat and mirth-provoking, that in , short time he had won over to him ome of those who had been among is most persistent antagonists. 'hese were sholkly to .be heard rally ng their late companions, with re aarks like, "Well, what do you fel ows say to that?" Judge Jones managed, in spite of he many interruptions, to discuss all he points touched on by Gov. Blease, Landling each after the same manner x elsewhere, and to submit the tel,-. raphic correspondence between hinrL elf and Judge Memminger, in rela ion to the Horry court, which has >een mentioned -above. This correB ondence wa's in full as follows: 'Judge R. W. M(emminger, Charles ton, S. C. "With reference Horry court, Gov. 3lease stated In speech to-day that rou said you were disengaged. You ,emember you wired me you were too i to serve. Please wire answer .eorgetown so I can correct false im pression. Ira B. Jones." "Conway, S. C., June 28." 'Hon. Ira R. Jones, Georgetown, S. C. "Referring to Horry court, I wired vou that under orders of Dr. Man :ing Simons I was too ill to hold that :ourt and stated same thing to Gov. Blease in answer to his long distance Inquiry whether I had any other :ourt to hold then. - "R. W. Memminger." "Charleston, S. C., June 29." Gov. Blease had said at Conway that he had declined to commission Paul Quattlebaum of Conwayas spe :ial judge to hold the Horry court, because he knew two circuit.judges to be disengaged, as he was aware Judge Copes was free and Judge Vemminger- telephoned him from Charleston that he also was disen gaged and available for special duty. Judge Jones had declared that neith er of these regular judges was avail able and that Gov. Blease's refusal to commission Mr. Quattlebaum. though the latter was regularly ap pointed, had entailed & heavy and needless expenses on Horry county. OO3MtUITY SPIRIT Andrew Carnegie Talks of Advantage of Cooperation. Andrew Carnegie knows something about business and the principles up on whilch business success depends. The great cry altout -the 'domination of corporatione has .blind~d some peo ple to the fact that some forms of or ganization are more powerful and efficient than the corporation. Mr. Carnegie organized his business -as a partnership and he has laughingly said that he made all of his partners millionaires. "In speaking of business competi tion Mr. Carnegie said, "I don't bee ieve any corporation can manage a business like a partnership. When we were partners I felt that we could run around corporations. You take thirty-five young men interested in watching a leak in a spigot and no corporation 'can compete with such an organization in any business." Organization that develops instead of stiflIng Individual initiative Is the kind that is .Invincible. If all the people of this community organize and unite to build it up no influence can withstand their power. If all the merchants of this 'town "watch the spigot" no mail order corpora tion "ean compete with such an or ganization as this in any business." Buying by mall Is an unnatural and unsatisfactory - met-hod of buy ing. It violate substantially all the laws of commerce. Just why so many people do It is the one thing the mer chants of this town want to know. [f the fault lies in themselves or in their methods they should be as quick to overcome the fault and reform the methods as if the blame were else where. A little self examination may tirow some light on tbe subjiect. The mail order house's chief claim is low prices; the mail oraer bayer makes t-he same claim. Are. ihey right? Some, perhaps all, of our merchants will say that, quality con aidered, they igive better value than the mail order -house. But do they? -and If they do lieve they convinced or undertaken in a systematic and persistent way to convince the buyers ,f this community that they can buy a~s cheaply of home merchants as by maii. Would Help Some. The suggestion that all passenger steamships should carry government rcrutineers to see thet the legal re puiremnts as to speed, safety and oth er features are met is worth consider ug. The custom Is followed by rac ng yachts. On every such craft there a a man whose duty it Isto see that LII the rules governing the contest tre compiled with, and his presence a accepted as a matter of course. If it s necessary on a race boat how much nore necessary Is It that ocean and ake steamers should have such an >ffiefal to assure the safety of the >assengers. In fact two would be iecessary--one for the captain's ratch and one for the chief officer's. Aiding Flood Refugees. Several dozen ot flood refugees Lave been given quarters of the Unlit d States naval station at Algiers at few Orleans, La., and provisions has >een made to provide government atins. Algiers and Gretna are still h~reatened by flood waters from Ha zelia and the leaves back of these owns are being constantly patrolled. Bryan Is Loudly Cheered. At Chnicago William J. Bryan was center of attracties in the pre -ein ention scene Mondt and though ap earing at the headquarters of lead r-a ef a rival party as a newspaper sporter, was given a demonstration