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rr VOL. XIII. BRYAN DECLARED That the People Must Now Combine to Crush Militarism. ? HE WA^l^S THE DEMOCBATS That, tfit* Speech nl Kx>Oov. llluclt Nominating BtyiRTcIt Wan a Monaco to Christian K Civlli/.at Ion. The following speeeli was made on the floor of the Democratic Con volition by the Hon. W. J. BryauWL four | o'clock Saturday morning, .July B, after an*all night session. Mr. Bryan || spoke as follows: Gentlemen of the Convention: Two nights without sleep, and a old, (makes it dltllcult for me to make myself heard. 1 trust that It will be easier In a moment, but as 1 desire to speak to the delegates rather than to the visitors, I hope that they at least can hear. Eight years ago a Democratic convention placed in my hands the standard of the party and gave mo the commission as lis candidate. Four years later that commission wus renewed. 1 H come tonight to this Democratic con vention to return the commhslon and to say that you may dispute whether I fought a good fight, vou may dispute whether l linlshed my course, but you cannot deny that I have kept the faith. As your candidate I did all I could to bring succtssto the party. Asa private citizen today J am more interested in Democratic success than I ever was when I was a candidate. The reasons that made the election of | a Democrat desirable were stronger in 1900 than in 1890; and the reasons enat mase the election or the Democratic candidate desirable are stronger ' in 15)04 than they were In 1000. ]* ui.ACK'S Sl'KKCIl on kooskvklt. toL The gentleman who presented New York's candidate at the Obicago o >n vcntlon dwelt upon the danger of militarism, and did not overstate the dangers. Let me quote the most remarkable passage that ever occurred or that was ever found in the speech of nomination of any candidate for aident. Kx-Oov. Black of New York, In "" presenting the name of W Theodore Roosevelt to the Republican W convention, used these words: "The fate of nations is still decided by their wars. You may talk of orderly tribunals and learned referees. You may sing in your schools the gentle praiscsof the quiet life. You may strike from your books the last note of every martial anthem, and yet out in the smoke and thunder will always be the tramp of horses and the silent, rigid, upturned faces. Men may prophesy and women pray, but peace will eoro? hero to abide forever In this ? earth ordy when the dreams of ehild r hood are the accepted charts to guide the destinies of men. 10vents are numberless and mighty, and no man can tell which wire runs around the world. The nation basking today in the quiet of contentment and repose may still be on a deadly circuit and tomorrow writhing in the tolls of war. This is the time when great llgures must be kept in front. If the pressure Is great the material to resist It must be granite and Iron." r.M ILITA HISM A M KNACK. This is an eulogy of war. Th's Is a declaration that o ho time hoped for, prayed for, of perpetual peace will never come, thus eulogizing the doctrine of brute force and giving denial to the hopes of the race. And this president, a candidate for reelection, is presented as the embodiment of that ideal, the granite and the Iron, to represent the new idea of militarism. Do you say you want to defeaWthe . military idea? Friends of the fyuth are you trying to defeat the military idea? Let me tell vou that not one of you, north, east or south, more fears the triumph of that idea than 1 do. If this is the doctrine that our nation is to stand for, it is retrogres sion, not progression, it is the lowering of the ideals of the nation, it Is the turning backward to the age of force. More than that, it is a challenge to the Christian civilization of the world and nothing less. CHRISTIAN DOCTU1NK OF I'KACK. ^ Twenty-seven hundred years ago a prophet foretold the coming of one who was to be called the Prince of Peace. Two thousand years &go He - c%me upon the earth and tut song that was sung at His birth was: "Peace on earth, good will toward men." For 2,000 years this doctrine of peace has been growing. It has been taking hold upon the hearts of men. For this eloctrlne of peace millions have given their lives. For this doctrine of peace thousands have crossed oceans and given their lives ;among the savage tribes and among foreign nations. This doctrine of jpeace, the foundation of Christian civilization, has been the growing ihope of the world. And now the exgovernor of the greatest State of the nation presents for the office of president of the greatest republic of all B history a man who is 'granite * and fc^^iron." 4; But, my friends, If 1 failed with six million and a half to defeat the Republican party can those who defeated me sucoeed in defeating tluc Republican party? If under the, leadership of those who were loyal in 189<< we failed, shall we succeed under the leadership of those who were not loyal iu 1890? GOD OK WAK OR A GOD OK GOLD. If we are going to have some other god beside this war god that is pre aented to us by Qov. Black, vthat kind of a god is it to be? Must we choosr between a god of war and a god ol #old? Is there no choice betweer them? If there is anything that com pares in hatefulness with mlllitarlstx Is it plutocracy, and 1 Insist that th< Democracy, and I insist that tin Democratic party ought not to Its compelled to choose betwetn mill tarism on one side and plutocracy or the other. STANDS ON TIIK PLATKOHM. We came here and agreed upon 1 platform. Wo were in session l< hours last night, if you can put 1( hours into a night. We entered th< committee room at 8 last evening aiu left it at 12 today. But, my friends lllllj^UieTer spent Hi hours to better pur pose Id my life. because 1 helped to bring the party together so we could have a unanimous platform to go before the country on In this campaign. How did we get It? It was not all that I would have desired. It was not all that your eastern Democrats desired. We had t-o surrender some things that wo wanted in the p'atform. They had to surrender some things tiiey wanted in the platform. Hut by mutal cone ssion and mutual surrender wo agreed upon a platform and we stand on that platform. Hut, my friends, we need more than a platform. We have to nominate a ticket, and that is the work of this convention. Had you come to this convention instructed for any man to the extent of a majority, 1 not oidy would not have asked you to disr- gard your instructions. 1 would not if 1 could have prevented it permitted you to disregard your instructions. 1 believe in the right of the people to rule. 1 b lieve in the right of the po >plo to iu>tiuct their delegates, when a delegate is Instructed it Is binding upon him. Hut, my friends, not a majority came instructed for anv candidate. That, mcjuw that. you were left upon your responsibility to se'ect a candidate, and a grave resonslbility it Is. Grave is the responsibility resting u^on these delegates in tliis convention. Din NOT ATT KM I'T TO 1MCTATK. 1 have not come to ask anything of this convention. Nebraska asks nothing but to be permitted to light the battles of Democracy. Some of you have called me a dictator. It is false. You know it was false. How have 1 tried to dictate? I have suggested that 1 thought certain tilings ought to be done. Have not you exercised the same privilege? Why have 1 not a right to suggest? (A voice: "You I have.") because I was your candidate am 1 now stopped from ever making suggestions? (Cries of "No! No!") Why, sir, if that condition went with a nomination for the presidency, no man worthy to ho president would ever accept a nomination, for the right of a man to have an opinion and to express it Is more important and sa crcd than the holding of any ottiee, however high. 1 have my opinion aiKHit tiie platform. 1 make my suggestions. Not all of tiiem were rereceived. 1 would liko to have seen the Kansas City platform realiirmed. 1 am not ashamed of that platform. I believe in it now, as 1 believed in it when I was running upon it. Tnen i was your candidate, but the people In the Democratic pirty did not agree with me, aud their will was supreme. When they veto my suggestions 1 have to accept. There is no other court which 1 can appeal to. I have not attempted to dictate about candidates. PLEADS KOK A GOOD TICKKT. I have not asked the Democrats of tliis nation to nominate any particular man. 1 have said that there were many in every State willing to be president, and 1 iiave said that out of 6,600,000 who voted for me in both campaigns we ought to lie ab e to tind at least one go id man for president. 1 have made these suggestions only in a general way. 1 am here tonight as a delegate from Nebraska. I have not confidence enough In my own opinion to tell you that 1 can pick out the man and say thai this man must be nominated or we shall lose. I have. 1 think, a reasonable faith in my own opinion; at least 1 have tills faith: that 1 would rather accept- my own and stand by them, If 1 believed them right, than to ae.ept anybody else's if 1 believed them wrong. Nebraska Is not here asking for the nomination of any man. We now have a platform on which wc all cin stand. Now give us a ticket behind which all of us can stand. (Prolonged cheers.) llOKSN T IIELIEVK IN STATE l'KI DK. You can go into any State you please and get him. 1 have not as much faith as some have In the value of a louawty. i nave never neon a great stickler for the nomination of candidates from a doubtful State on the theory that personal popularity would elect them. I have had so much faith In the virtue of Democratic principles that I thought a Democrat ought to vote for a good man from any other Siate before lie would vote for a bad man from ills own State. 1 do not believe much In this doctrine of State pride, aud I found that when people come with a candidate and tell us first that we must carry a certain State, and that that man Is the only one who could carry tire State, they do not put up a bond to deliver the goods If they are accepted. And. anyhow, a State that is so uncertain that only one Democrat can carry It cannot be relied upon in a great crisis. Now, we have our platform. Select your candidate. If it Is the wish of turn convention that the standard should be placed In the hands of the gentlemen presented by California (Hearst), the man who, though be has money, pleads the cause of the people, the man who Is the beloved, 1 think 1 can safely say, among laboring men of all the candidates proposed, the one who more than any otb^r, represents opposition to the trust Question, web and good. WOULD TAKK A GOLD MAN. *. If you eastern Democrats who hav< " insisted th it your objection to me w&j my belief in free silver, If you Demo ' crats are willing to take a gold man 1 5 am willing to let you have your waj ' on that question In this man, for ] will trust his honesty in all questions But, my friends, 1 do not, Nebiaski ' does not, demand that. I only men . tion this cand.d itc as an Illustration I SKCONDS COCKKKLL. 3 I come here to second the nomlna ' tlon of a man and I come to seconc 1 his nomination not because 1 can as ' sort, to you that he is more ava'labli 1 than any other person who might b 3 named but because I love the man an* 3 because on the pi at form -we hav< 3 adopted I don't think there is an; " good reason why every Democrat h 1 the east might not vote for this man I come to second the nominati jn o Senator Cockrell of Missouri, i He is the nestor of the senate. He 1 i experienced in public affair*. He i ) known; lie has a record. He can b 5 measured by it, and, my friends, ] would be willing to write my endorse , ment on his back and send him out t . the world willing to guarantee every (The thing he did. They say that he comes from the south. What If he does? 1 do not share that feeling that some people have, that the Democratic party cannot take a candidate from the south. They say he was In the Confederate army. What if he was? 1 d n't share the belief of those who say we cannot nominate an ex Confederate. My frleds, that war?that cruel war was 40 years ago. Its Issues are settled; Its wounds are healed. The participants are friends. We have got another war on, and those who know what the war between plutocracy and Demceracy means will not ask where a mau st >od 40 years ago; they will ask where djes lie stand today in th's war? PLUTOCRACY Til K 188UK. My friends, I believe that the great issue in this country today is plutocracy versus Democracy. You have said that 1 have only one idea, the silver Idea. Well, a while bick they said 1 I had only on?, but then it was the tarilT idea. There is an Issue greater than the silver issue, it is the issue between plutocracy and Democracy, whether this is to be a government of the people, by the people and for the people, administered in behalf of the pooplo. It is either this or it is to be a rule of the moneyed element of the country for their own interest alone. : The issue has been growing. WHAT ROOSKVK.LT STANDS FOR. I want you Democrats here assembled to help us meet this question. You tell me the Republican candidate AT I.* ? aiiuiun iui iiiiuiim ir?iu. i t\->, uui lit: aisu stands for plutocracy. You tell me he delights in war. Hut there is another objection to him, and that is that he does not enforce the law against a big criminal as lie does against a little criminal. The laws are being violated today, and those laws must be enforced. The people must understand that we are to have equal rights to all and special privileges to nom. NO NKKI) TO 11UV VOTKS. Wo have had the debauchment of elections. It was stated the other day that in the little State of Delaware $2.jt),000 was suit into the State in one day just before the election of 189i> Some say that we must have a great campaign fund and go out ami bid against the Republicans. My friends, 1 want to warn you that if the Democratic party is to save tills nation it must not save it by purchase, but by principle. Every time we resort to purchase we cultivate the spirit of barter, and the price wi I constantly~lncrea>e and elections will go to the highest bidder. MUST Al'I'KAL TO CONSCIKNCK. If the Democratic party is to save tills country it must app ;al to the conscience of the country. It must point out the dangers of the republic, and if the party will nominate a man?I care not from what part lie come?who is llMt tlm m.nHlrlt.)., o ?? ik/u viiu wwuiviatv ui a iav immi, wnu ift not the candidate of an element, but the candidate of a party, the parcy will stand by him and will drive the Republican party from power and save this country. My friends, 1 believe that you could take a man from any southern State who would go out and make a light that would appeal to Democrats, all the Democrats who love Democratic principles and Republicans who begin to fear for their nation's welfare?take such a man and 1 believe that he would poll a million more votes than the candidate of any other faction whose selection would be regarded as a triumph of a part of the party over the rest of the party. I am here to discharge a duty that 1 owed to the party; 1 knew before 1 came to this convention that a majority of the delegates would not agree with me in my tinanclal views. I knew that there would be among the d legates many who did not vote f >r me when 1 rorely needed their help. I was not objecting to the majority against me, not to the presence of those who went away and came back. Rut, by friends, I came, notbrcauie 1 thought 1 would be delighted to be in the minority in opinion, hut because 1 owed a duty to the H,000,000 brave, loyal men who sacrillced for me. 1 came to get them as good a platform its 1 could. I have helped them to get a good platform. 1 came to help them to get as good a candidate as I can, and I hope that he will be one who can draw the factions together, who can give to us who believe in aggressive, positive, Democratic reform, something to hope for, and to those who have dilTered from us on the main question, that he can give them something to hope for, to >. 1 clo;e with an appeal that 1 make from my heart to the hearts of those who hear me. Give us a pilot who will guide the Democratic ship from militarism, the Soylla of militarism, without wrecking her udou the diiarvhrtis of commercialism. Woman Shot to Death. Information readied Dublin, Oa., ' of the killing Wednesday of Mrs. itobert Floyd In Lowry district, that county, by Malcom Currie, the 13i year-old son of Mrs. Elmira Currie. s Currie shot Mrs. Floyd six or seven i times and then shot Mrs. Thomas I Floyd, his sister in law, indicting a serious but not dangerous wound. The row started by Mrs. Currie en, deavorlng to get her child, which for I flhmA una ra hao hnon i r? f Ka a# J ?v/u?v J\>WkO I1UO LA^UII 111 UIIU LI1AI Lit her son, who married a daughter of Mra. Floyd. It is said that Mrs. Floyd starded toward Mrs. Currle with a knlje, when the boy began shooting, killing her Instantly. No arrests have yet been made. It Is said however, that Mrs. Currle and her son Malcolm will bi arrested. CliAraw To (let New Depot. * As a result of a prearranged confer' ence Tuesday on tne part of the rail' road comm sslon, a committee from 3 the town of Cheraw on the Seaboard 3 road and officials of that road, the reI presentatlves of the railroad agreed tc u let a contract for a new depot at dies' raw within 00 days. The new depot II will cost about $9,000. f Mystery (Solved. The police report the And log Weds nesday in the Ilarlem river N. J., ol s a body believed to be that of Henrj e Baxter Klngs'ey, the wealthy young 1 Vermont man who has been missing > since last November from the home ol o his cousin, Hugh H. Baxter, In Flftt . avenue, that city. liotr CONWAY, S. C.. T THE FARMERS BOY Who Bote to be the Leader of a Great Party. HOW THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE ????? Htutllod at NlK'itH, Taught School, Took up Law and Pushed IIIh Wav U> the Front Hank. Horn on a farm, living on a farm, the son of a farmer, married to the daughter of a farmer; plodding school teacher, shrewd country lawyer, st adily su xjcssful politician, chief judicial ofllcer of the greatest State in the Union These, in two sore words, are the two sides to the life and character of Alton Hrooks Parker, the has: and elevation of the man chosen by the Democrats as nominee for President of the United States. It is the typical American story that has been broadened into a hundred biographical libraries and whose features arc so similar that they might be stereotyped. Judge Parker comes from close to the American soil and he comes, too, from old American stock-for there was a Private Parker In one of Washington's New York regiments, and that private was the great-grandfather of the present Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals. IIK IIEI.IKVKS IN ANCESTRY. It is to be noted here that while Judge Parker might uot hand down a dissent,im/ onlninn If Mm mimii-nKnoori term "self-made man" were applied to him, he puts a good deal of trust in ancestry as a man-maker, and In the library of his house at Etopus hangs a framed emblazonment of the Parker coat of arms. It Is not on record that the warrior spirit of the Parkers disturbed any of the Judge's forebears after the days of the Colonial private. At any rate Alton 13.'s father, John Brooks Parker, was a farmer who lived a little way out of Cortland, N. V. There Alton B. was born May 14, I8f?2, which would make him just past the lifiy two year mark. The elder Parker had married llar1 rlett Stratton, and the old mother, she Is past eighty, by her vigorous frame and strong mentality shows that her j son came of good stock on both side* of the family. She is now enjoying the mother's supreme triumph of seeing her boy a famous man. The suddenness of his later rise has somewhat overpowered her, but in the estimates that she has been induced to give of her son's early years there is no inclination to make him a prodigy. A PASSION KOll BOOKS. "Alton was a strong boy and a good boy," the mother says, "but he was not so go ;d a boy that 1 did not think 1 could make a better one of him. So when he needed it 1 switched him and switched him soundly, lie help! prl hivi fiit.lipr ahAnf thn fn.nr. ...? uuuuu VI1U mi ill (II LCI hours when he came home from the district school which he attended. He had Ills chores to do In the morning and In the evening. During the Summer time he worked in the ticlds according to his years and In his youth he did a big day's wark without a murmur. Yes, he was a cheerful and dutiful son." It was his father's wish that his son should be a farmer and grow up to work the homestead, but while Alton liked a farmer's life lie could not limit liis ambition to the iield fences, lie always wanted to learn things. His chores over lie sought his books, poring over them so long and late that Ids parents were obliged to drive him away from them and to bed, and when lie outgrew the books of the district school lie took up those of the Academy in Cortland. Tlwn he thought lie would like to open books to others, and so attended the State Normal School, where he studied to be a teacher. TnUASllKD SCHOOL HULLY. His years of hard work in tlie open fields and the good stock before referred to made young Alton a strapping youth and when he was sixteen lie was almost as big as he is now, and he stands over six feet high, and has shoulders like a Columbia oarsman. The school ommlttee of Ulster, N. Y., had a district school at Naoanoch, where the older boys were in the habit of making It so extremely interesting for the teacher that he usually found one term suillciently exciting to last a lifetime. The committeemen looked at young Parker's Inches and solidity and gave him the distinct ion of being schoolmaster for the troublesome district and three dollars a week to boot. The troublesome pupils also looked over their young teacher and, though one or two of the bolder tried to keep up the reputation of the district, it was a failure. The bully of theRchool was smashed and the school teacher was a success. He tried teaching for two years and at the end of that time, though the committee raised his salary to the princely sum of $20 a month, young Parker concluded that he had had enough of school boys and school books and would t.alro nr? 1 .. VM.v. VM?V U|/ VI Ui ULIC ItlW. There was a tender side to this determination, It must be confessed. The , last school In which he taught was at "Accord, and In Accord lived Moses I. Shoonmaker, and Shoonmaker had a daughter, Mary. COURTS AND COURTSHIP. The Schooomakers are of the early Du'ch settler period and trace back their ancestry as far as the Uocsevelts or Stuyvesants or DcPeysters, and those of Moses I. Schoonmaker branch have been yeomen gentry for generations. School teaching may bean eminently respectable occupation, but it is not surpassingly remunerative in the i country district grades. There is I more money in law, and one of Mary . Schoonmaker's relatives, Augustus by i name, had a law oftlce in Kingston, and oddly enough, a vacancy was found there for young Parker, and when young Parker began to do well at law, after his admission to the bar, in 1872, Moses I. Schoonmaker, as well as Mary, smiled on him. And so ' the young folks were married. ' Parker took another partner?a law ' partner and the firm of Parker it I Kenyon opened for business in Kingf ston. Put the Parker member of the > tirm had aspirations beyond practice. Ills tastes were judicial, what might O" IIURSDAY. JULY ! be called the politically judicial, and his tlrst opportunity came In 1877, when he defeated a popular Republican candidate for the otllce of Surrogate of Ulster Couuty, and when his term expired he was re-elected, 1879. 1IK TAKES UT POLITICS. By this time the young lawyer was recognized as a factor in the politics of ^Ulster County, acd in 1893 the nomination for Secretary of State was offered him by the Democratic leaders. In 1884 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention which nominated Cleveland for President, and when elected Mr. Cleveland offered Parker the appointment of First Assistant l\>stmaster-General. In 1885 he was made Chairman of the Democratic State Kxecutive Committee, which had charge of David B. Hill's campaign tor the Governorship, and Mr. Hill wanted him to run for Lieutenant-Governor. But Parker stuck firmly to his Idci of the bench as the proper step to preferment. So when there came a vacancy in the Supreme Court Judges, by the death of Judge Westbrook, Governor Hill nominated Parker to the ollloc and ho was nominated for the full term of fourteen years in the electiou of 1880. A curious thing happened at the election, and one which illustrated the quiet but powerful popularity of the man. Judge Parker was only thirtythree years old, yet he was unanimously nominated for the Supreme Court bench by the Democrats, and the Republicans felt so certain of his election that they refused to nominate an antagonist or to oppose him. So it happened that not a vote was cast against him, yet he was not elected by any plurality. He served in the Supreme Court until his election as Chief Judge of the Court of Appleals, in 189>, by a . plurality of about <>0,000. That election practically assured a judicial position for %twenty-two years, or until the end of his life, for, recent precedents prevailing, in the final year of his fourteen-year-term of ortlce In 1911, ho would almost surely be renlminrl f/?t* u fl no 1 ?v? ??'L L.l. ....... 1 -1 Uivvvuu mi ? uum ICI 111, WHICH WUUH1 carry him over the retiring age of seventy years, In 1U2I. WHAT ms DKCISIONS SAY. This brief record covers the political history of Judge Parker. It shows him to he a man of fixed Ideas, of undoubted popularity and as a political manager of much executive ability. So far as his political opinions are concerned lie has always made his judical position the excuse for not discussing them. Put in the decisions of Judge Parker there is much that is political and it is by the persual of these that one may find how the nomluee stands on many of the great questions of the day. On tire vital issues of the relations of labor and capital he holds that "if an organization strikes to help its members the strike is lawful. If its purpose be to injure non-members it is uulawlul." lie recognizes the right of one man to refuse to work for another on any ground that lie may regard as sullicient, and declares the employer lias no right to demand a reason for it. lie has ruled against contracts which threaten a monopoly whereby trade in a useful article may be restrained and its price unreasonably euhanced, even if the price be so moderately advanced that the sum exacted is not burdensome. All fan/'lticno lio ??An *?.?* Awtjv* liV/ U'QV/Uil U?lj Vyi J III t* from the State; the right to make contracts is restircted by legislation, public opinion and public policy; and above all does he insist that the three great departments of government? the executive, legislative and the judical?should be confined each to its own constitutional functions. ON KHANCHI8EH AND LAllOK. With judicial ease and growing means for comfort, Judge Parker's first love reasserted itself, and one of the greatest moments of his life was when he bought the old Gill farm, a mile or so out of the little town of lOsopus-on the-Hudson. lie has named it Rosemount, and there, when his judicial duties do not require his presence in Albany, he spends his days of pleasant labor and his nights of quiet comfort. The estate is of ninety acres, anl in the working of it J udge Parker actively assists. The house, a pleasant and and commodious old farm house, overlooking the river, is hospitably open U* fiier.ds and acquaintances from far an near. Judge and Mrs. Parker had two children, a son who died when seven yearsold, and a daughter, Rertha, who is the wife of the Rev. Charles Mercer Hall, rector of the Church of the Holy Cross at Kingston, to which church the folks at Rosemount drive in Win* ter and sail in their launch during the Summer months. Mr. and Mrs. Hall have two children and these two! grandchildren are as much at Rosemount as at the rectory. Romping with these little ones, galloping over the country-side on ono of his big horses, sitting at the head of his long dining room table, around which is dally gathered a welcome and Jolly company, helped by his devoted wife and counseled by bis wise mother; loving Nature and the hard work that Is needed to subdue her; a sun-browned, wind-tanned man nf hnae Hnild Hrm chin, high check bone and bright brown eye?amid these surroundings and In these <iueit, almost patriachlal pursuits judge Alton B. Parker waits the will of the people. Woman In I'oiHOned. Minnie Ilardorf, 27 years of age, a hair dresser, of N. Y.,ls dying from the effects of poison alleged to have been administered by an unknown woman. Miss Bardorf was brought home by the mysterious woman who left her on the steps of the house In a state of collapse. The woman called some children who were playing nearby and leaving her victim with them hurried away. Thlel Oonfe?netl. Robert R. Taylor, of New York, who confessed to stealing unsigned bank notes to the amount of 96,720 from the Citizens' National Rank, of New York, Wednesday made restitution. This, however, will make no difference In the prosectlon of the i case as the United States district attorney says Taylor will be tried in , November. n*<t id* 21, 1904 PRESS ASSOCIATION. Meet at White 8tone Springs in Large Body. ATLANTA EDITOR SPEAKS. Many KxprpHttiuns of Affection for l<ato Col. Hoyt anil Mr. Drew, A IMcaHant Trip to Union. The llan<|uet. The Columbia Suite's correspondent writing from White Stone Springs Wednesday, where the State Press Association is now in annual session, says: The newspaper men of South Carolina?a goodly number of these faithful workers, at least?have laid cumbering cares aside and mce more assembled In fraternal communion. These are good citizens, they are in a most, charming retreat, they have a line programme and the proprietors are leaving nothing undone that will contribute to their pleasure. Only one business meeting has been held so far and this was a particularly interesting occas'on. On motion the followlug resolution was unanimously adopted: ''That this association, through its president, convey to Judge A. B. Parker its hearty congratulations and express our faith in the ticket and the party in November." Though only a brief session has been held, alTectlonate reference has many times been made to the memory of the late lamented J. A. lloyi, one of the ex-presidents of this association, a prominent and honored member, a useful and patriotic citizen. ^ President Aull road a letter to the association from which tills extract is Is made: "Mrs. Jas. A. Hoyt and children wish to extend to you, and through you to the South Carolina State Press Association, their sincere thanks and appreciation for the honor and attention shown to their beloved dead. i lie i*r? ss Association was very dear to him and will ever be to us and their last loving attention to him will never be forgotten. The lovel> ilowers have faded * * * t,iit the warm hearts and loving hands that placed them on his bier are still beating true to his memory." This breathes the spirit of him whom the members have lost and their words will be heard with grateful apprcciatson by all. TI1K W KI.COM K. The formal proceedings began this morning with a full attendance. That staunch and veteran newspaper man, Mr. Charles Petty, who has wielded a Spartan pen of Inlluenoe for many honored years, welcomed the members in behalf of the proprietors of White Stone. He also extended a broader welcome for Spartanburg county and was most happy in extending welcoming words that left no doubt of their genuine sincerity. President Aull spoke in titting response for his brethren and the .'10th annual meeting of the South Carolina State Press association proceeded to business. The annual report of President Aull lirst engaged the attention of the brethren. This included mention of the annual trip, paid feeling tribute to the late Col. J. H. Hoyt and Mr. T. J. Drew, expressed gratilication at the continued interest manifested by the members and expressed appreciation of the continued honors bestowed upon him. The new members received were as follows: I lev. II. it. Murchlson. Southern Home; Ceo. M. Kohn, The State; A. W. Kn'ght, ilamberg Ilerald, Rev. C. A. Freed, Lutheran Visitor, Messrs. .1. C. Peurifoy, W. W. Colton, and P. 11. Fike. The courtesies of the association I were unanimously extended to Mrs. J. 11. White of the Augusta Chronicle. The president announced the following committees: A. i\ Ford, E. J. Lide, J. M. Knight, C. A. Freed and It. L. Freeman on programme. To report suitable resolutions on the death of Col. J. A. Hoyt: It. It. Hemphill, J. B. Towill, A. Kohn, J. M. Knight and W. K. Stringer. On death of T.J. Drew: C. W. Briehmore, J. C. Mace, N. G. Osteen, J. L. Sims and J. E. Norment. On otllcers'reports. Ed II. DeCamp, A. W. Knight, J. L. Stppleblcn, L. W. Cheatham and J. II. Buchanan, j At the afternoon session, Seoretary Langston read nls annual report. Tills was full and interesting and also contained heartfelt reference to the loss sustained by the association in the death of the lamented Col. Hoyt, and I litting reference to the recent death of Editor T. J. Drew. TilK AFTERNOON SESSION. At the afternoon session papers on business subjects were read by Editor A. W. Kuightof the Bamberg Herald and Editor It. L. Freeman of The Advocate. Brother Knight's subject was: "The Job Oftlce in Conjunction With a County Newspaper," and Brother Freeman rbad a paper on "The Necessity of Having Fixed Advertising Itates and Standing by Them." These subjects were well handled, familiarity with the subjects being clearly shown in the strong, terse speeches. Interesting discussion followed the reading of these instrucI iun ni rvnro M aauA 117 t/..i vnv pifbio, UIO.WIA. /V. YY . IMIIKIIl. N. G. Osteen, J. L. Sims and Kd. II. DeCamp participating. At ? o'clock Wednesday night, Hon. John Temple Graves, the distinguished Georgian, delivered the annual address before the members and every guest of the hotel. Mr. Graves has all the gifts of the born orator and to these he adds a strong personality. Illssubjeot, "The Press of America," was most appropriate and was handled even as befitted the reputation and fame of the gifted speaker. From the discussion of journalism in its multiform and varied aspects; from the changes wrought by the telegraph and cable; from the power of news agencies and associated press, the speaker came back to the man behlndQ the pen?the editor. "Hut torhorrow brings back the man," he said. "Tne great editor looms once more upon the horizon. The ruling force, the guiding intelligence, the imperial mind that sways shall once again be throned In the sanctum rather than wrapped In the statemah's toga or magnified In the politician's wiles." The editor grows with a growing world and the press leads the world's advance, the press heralds the world's thought and the cumulative influence Is hard to overestimate. The great rd.tor is the great man of the world's future. If he but knew his tools, if he but comprehended his power, If he but magnify his calling, If he shall always tell the truth and if, while he looks with shining eyes upon magnificent opportunity he be sobered always with a solemn sense of his splendid, vast responsiblity. Thus reasoning the distinguished editor and speaker argued tliatbehlnd all theory, back of all Ideals and be yond all editorial pages stands the man. The great editor will reach his full statue and Influence when he lays down forever the habit and the hope of h ldlng ottlce. The press shall be faithful without b.ing fierce, loyal without lying, true to its friends, just to its enemies and as splendidly fair as it shall be splendidly free. The brief synopsis but Imperfectly and fragmentarlly outlines one of the best and most eloquent addrtsscs ever made before tills association and Is a rare and splendid tribute to ideals that have been lived up to by some Sjuth Carolina journals. The address was listened to most attentively and was most enthusiastically received. The gathering now looks like a large family aiTalr and all seem to be enjoying themselves. amonu tih 18k f'kksknt. Among these now present are: J. C. Mace and wife, Miss Theolosla Jones, Miss Lizz'e Ragsdale, a. w. Knight, wife and children, J. L. Sims, J. lzlar Sims, II. K. Sims, 11. S. Sims, N. G. Osteen, Miss Monet a Osteen, Miss Louise Murray, Mrs. it. (). Hrlstow, Miss Mristow. Miss McCullongh, John M. Knight, Mrs. John M. Knight, Ar thur Knight, John It ill Towlll, Miss Towlll, C. W. blrchmore, wife and children, .James T. Bacon, L. W. Cheatham, E. II. A nil, Mrs. E. II. Aull, Jas. L. Aull, Miss Al ee Anil, Master Humbert Aull, Miss Sarah Howseal R. L. Freeman, Miss Oorrio Freeman, Rice 11. Harmon, Koel F. Oswald, ltobt. It. Hemphill, Miss Grace Hemphill Chas. C. Langston, Miss Norma Clinkscales, A. B. Cargile wife and child, E. .1. Lide, Charles Petty, \V. K. Stringer, Ed II. DoCamp, .Jos. L. Stoppelbein, August Kohn, Mrs. August Kohn, J. E. Norment, Hugh It. Murchlson, John H. Buchanan, Mrs. VV. A. Corkell, Mrs James Hamilton, W. K. Stringer, F. II. McMaster of The State, L. G. Young, Union Times; Mr. and Mrs. Chas H. Henry, Spartanburg Journal, and G. E. Moore of the lionea Path Chronicle. THE UNION TK11*. -t required two trolly cars to carry the party to Union, in response to an Invitation from the Union Business league. This invitation and the manner In which it was cirrted out was a genuine exponent of the life and progress of one of the 11 nest of the thriving young South Carolina cities. The lion. It. L. McNally, mayor, and Messrs. L. G. Young, B. F. Arthur, It. P Harry and It. E. Browne came over to White Stone on a special car to escort the party over. Nearly every member wont on the trip, which was decidedly one of the most pleas ant features of this annual meeting. TIIK SOUVKNIKS. Souvenir Invitations, gilt edged and unique, carried the party to the handsome store of the Union Drug Co., where Ices, cream and delicious soft drinks were numerously served to all. Union has done many things well as her record Droves, but this triD of the South Carolina State Press association will Ion# be remembered by every participant as a crowning evidence of the grace and tinish of Union's hospitality and courtesy. TUB KLBGAMT BANQUKT. The banquet was indeed the tln'shing touch to a most enjoyable meeting. Tlie iiandsome dining room was beautifully decorated and brilliant witli light and beauty. Not by any means the least consideration, was the feast, its preparation, decoration and service. Everything sped merrily and well, all enjoyed the fraternal communion and ''blest be the tie that binds" was the music In the air. The following toasts and responses brought forth applause and added materially to the spirit of the evening. "The State of South Carolina"? Lieut. Gov. J. T. Sloan. "Our Association"?President E. H. Aull. "Our Hosts"?Mr. A. Kohn. "The Press"?Mr. J. M. Knight. "Woman"?Mr. J. E. Norment. The pleasures lasted until a late hour. The guests, friends and fellow citizens all enjoyed the moments so swiftly speeding. Then came the deserted festal board, pleasant dreams and the anticipation of another pleasant morrow. Stuck Gun in His Face. At Greenville Mr. P. S. liutler, who has charge of the routes and carriers of the Dally News, was held up by three negroes about 2.30 o'clock Sunday morning on the upper end of Pendleton street and relieved of his watch and his purse which contained a small amount of cash. Sunday afternoon one of the thieves was caught. He gave his name as Dan Wright, and huiu i/iic oiner two negroes wno took part In the hold-up were Bruce Williams and Joe Bagby. They were employed as brakemen by the Southern railway and lived in Gainesville, Ga. Five Bather* Drowned. A Warsaw, Va., special says Miss Helen, aged 20 years; Miss Ada aged 19, and Harriet, aged 25 years, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kemmon of Washington, together with Mrs. James Hubbard and child, of Meter, Va., were drowned at Edgewater, near Meter, Westmoreland county, Thursday afternoon while bathing. Their bodies were recovered. Itooked tho Train. At Sumter, thirteen crowded coaches of colored excursionists arrived in the city Tuesday morning from Columbia. As the first section of the excursion train was leaving the tank beyond the southern depot at 9.16 Tuesday night seven or eight negro boys rocked the train and broke several windows. * . ia* 3.; * x M = DEMOCRATS HOPEFUL Parker Will Gain Strength. as Campaign Progresses. TILLMAN TO TAKE THE STUMP. WANhiiiKton Dcmuoratw Holler? That a Strong Ticket lias Iloon Named, Which Will Appeal to Sober Interests of tlio Country. % A Kp clal from Washington sayssovcral distinguished Democratic members of Congress have been In Washington this week en route from the great Democratic gathering at St. Louis. Without exception all who have been seen speak In the highest terms of the candidates, and of the ? platf rm adopted by the party, and ( they declare that the outlo >k for party success in November next Is brighter than it lias been at any time since the memorable campaign of 1892, when Cleveland was triumphant* cv?r President Harrison. Without exception they express the belief that New York will swing in line forjudge l'arker on November 8th, and that Connecticut and New Jersey and Indiana will follow the example of the Empire State, and that the result of the election will not be in doubt. Parker, they tay, v.lll grain strength rather than lose support as the campaign progresses. He L)OSNBSSPHIlimUt,lAH Mlflv rWlnro will commend him to the sober judgment of the people. The nomination of S.nator Davis for the Vice-Presidency Is very satisfactory to this section of the country, and will beyond doubt result In the placing of both Maryland, his native state, and West Virginia, his adopted state, lb the Democratic column in November. T1 I.UMAN TO TAKK STUMP. Among Democrats In Washington back from the St. Louis convention Is Senator Tillman, of South Carolina. The Senator took a leading part In the convention and Is enthusiastically in favor of the ticket and platform nominated by the convention. He says that In his Judgment Parker and Davis will be elected. "It had been my Intention to take no part In the canvass, for my throat is In bad condition," said Senator Tillman, "but now, unless the doctor forbids It, and If the party wants mo, 1 will work as hard as 1 did In 18!M? and IbOO. Theu I was a silver man; now I'll work for?well, work to beat Roosevelt. 1A nti- Roosevelt' Is my platform. I am for a return to constitutional government and law. I'm tired of Imperialism at home, as well as abroad." SENATOR CULHEU90N CONFIDENT. Another prominent southern senator, who was one of the southern leaders at St. Louis, Is Senator Culberson of Texas. Senator Culberson has Just been re-nominated for another term In the United States Senate, which Is very pleasant news to his many friends In this section of the country. The senator Is one of those who have full confidence In the party's chances for victory In November. 4 A Dying Stable Hoy. I King Edward Thursday added one 1 more to the / .any informally democratic bidder s that have marked his relations wtf his poorer subjects since he came to ?e throne. Slipping away 1 from the crowded Newmarket race ^ track London where he had l>een watching his own horses run, the king drove to a neighboring poorhouse. In the poorhouse hospital his majesty noticed a mandolin on a bed where a stable boy lay dying of cancer. In answer to the king's question If he could play It, the boy said ho would like to try the national anthem. "Let us hear you," said the King Edward, J and summoning all his remaining i strength the boy sat up in bed and played "God Save the King," His majesty stood by the bedside until the familiar air was finished. What the flW king said to the dying boy is not Mv' chronicled, but newspapers say that when the king strode out and the hos- ? pit.;il ward relapsed to its usual silence, 9 ^ the stable boy lay back on his bed and said: "I can die happy now." Claims Junk Dealers lOatatc. Mrs. Geo. F. Abbott, widow of the?J|||j| aged Junk dealer whose body wasfound^^^^p by . tlremen called to put out a fire Chapel alley, Brooklyn, Tuesday, Ashevllle Thursday to lay claim to fortune of $100,000, alleged to have ^R|jg been left by the aged junk dealer. In that city Mrs. Abbott was known as "Madame Monk, clairvoyant," and she ' ? was supported last winter by charity. The body of the dead man's son George is buried here there He came to Asheville with his mother some years ago and died there two month* ' Mrs. Abbott always claimedv v utterly penniless, but it Is generally believed that she possesses much money. Now Steamer Burned. The new steamship San Jancinto, which was recently built for the Ocean Steamship Company, destined for service between New York and Galveston, was almost destroyed by tire shortly after 2 o'clock Tuesday morning while in the dry dock in Koaohe's Ship Yard. American Poaches lor Kngland. England is in the American market for peaches, and arrangements are under way for the exportation of part ^ # at 1 ? - a ? ? t?i wie mrgc crop mat lias ween produced here. The peaches frofn the Ozark mountains seen to tie most a favored for export. A Oldest Georgian Dead. A special from Annlston, Ala., says Wiley Davis, of Bremen, Haralson q| county, Georgia, Is dead here, at th? age of 115 years. He lived In Haralson county nearly all of his life and had been a very active man until a few yeara ago. He was considered the oldeebwan In Georgia. v 1 - Plokonrf**Jfew Graded School. The board of trustees for Pickens dlBtrictNo. 31 Wednesday let the contract for building a modern graced sohool building. The town will invest about $10,000 in the new building. A feature of the building will be a large auditorium with elevated seats, arranged in amphitheatre style. A A \ ' Jm