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The Commoner.
VOLUME 8, NUMBER 2
Delegates to the Denver Convention
Tho following table shows the result of the various democratic state
conventions as reported to this office; also the dates of the conventions yo
to bo held:
2
Robort W. Spoor, democratic nom-
;. inoo. was ro-oloctcd mayor of Denver
over Horaco Pholps, republican, by
The houso of representatives
pnssod a bill appropriating $1,G00,
000 for tho Japaneso International
exposition of 1910.
Govornor Sparks of Novada died at
9 o'clock, May 22, after a long ill
ness. Ills term would oxplro In 1910.
DonS. Dlckorson will become gov
ernor of Novada. Ho Is 34 years old
a'nd will bo tho youngest governor
Novada over bad.
A Washington dispatch says:
"Congress took an important stop
looking to tho paymont of ship sub
sidies, tho conferees on tho postofflco
appropriation bill having agreed to
accept tho amondmont by the sonato
authorizing tho postmaster general
to contract with steamship lines run
ning to posts of South America,
Philippine islands, Japan, China and
Australia for tho carrying of tho
mails and to pay vessols of tho sec
ond class the samorates that is now
paid on American vessols of the first
class to Europe and to vessels of tho
third class rate now authorized for
vessels of tho second class. There
are no American lines of the first
class to tho countries and the effect
of this legislation will be to oncour
ao the establishment nf .VcX
&U&MteSs lines to ports of
ithoso countries."
An Associated Press dispatch un
der date of New York, May 21, fol
lows. "The case of Mao C. Wood,
tho Omaha woman who sued Unitod
States Senator Thomas C. Piatt for
divorce, camo to a sudden and sensa
tional end this afternoon when Jus
tice O'Gorman, of the supreme court,
dismissed tho complaint and directed
that tho complainant be committed
to, th city prison Under $ 5,0 00 ball
,on a charge oe poraury, miss wood
ly'as taken to the Tombs. Tho cli
max came after tho introduction in
evidence of the deposition of a man
who manufactured tho blanks upon
one of which the alleged Piatt-Wood
certificate had been prepared, in
which he declared that the blank
form in question was not litho
graphed until three months after the
marriago of Miss Wood to Piatt is
alleged to have occurred. The sen
ator's son, Frank H. Piatt, also testi
fied that it is his belief no such let
ters over had been written to Miss
Wood by his father as wore repre
sented in alleged copios offered in
court by tho complainant. The case
has attracted exceptionally wide at
tention on account of the prominence
of the aged senator and tho names
of other widely known pnrsons whom
Miss Wood Involved In her sensa
tional charge in support of her complaint."
cuss it. Tho southern members, in
particular, woro bitter in their de
nunciation of tho apportionment pro
vision of the bill. Mr. Williams, tho
minority leader, was especially vig
orous in his attacks, characterizing
tho bill as being an attempt to re
vive the conditions of reconstruction
days. After tho Crumpackor amend
ment tho democrats voted against
tho bill in its entirety., In brief, the
provision regarding publicity of cam
paign contributions is made appli
cable to tho national committees and
tho national congressional commit
tees of all political parties and all
committoes, associations or organiza
tions which shall, in two or more
states, influenco tho result of an
election at which representatives in
congress are to bo elected. Mr. Wil
liams (Miss.) made a vigorous speech
against It. 'The groat old party,' ho
bogan, 'has resolved itself into a
charged tho republicans with not
daring to face any public question
in a fair and straightforward way,
by combining several propositions in
ono bill. 'What are you trying to
do?' he inquired. 'Does the gentle
man from Indiana think ho can turn
tho hands of the clock of time back
half a century? Does he think he
can produce the days of tho carpot
baggor and reconstruction in the
south once more? Does he think the
business Interests of the north will
stand for a recurrence of the sat-
ttfefuv? Tho roaucTicSiir-Ttmror
sentation,' he declared, had been
added to defeat the publicity bill.
'You have no idea of reducing tho
representation of California, Massa
chusetts or Connecticut because they
disfranchise illiterates.' The people
of tho south, he assorted, were will
ing to take the issue. If, ho said, it
was desired to ignore tho fifteenth
amendment arid the republicans were
willing to restore td Mississippi the
power to nx nor suffrage along1 racial
linos, the people of that state were
ready for tho gauntlet. 'Throw it
down whenever you please,' ho ox
claimed. 'As to the reduction of
our representation in congress,' ho
said, 'in God's name take it and wel
como to it; but be' honest when you
do it.' Discussing the publicity feat
ure of tho bill, Mr. Williams said:
It will damn your republican party
and he worse for you than tho force
bill which defeated Harrison,' and he
said to tho republicans: 'Like chil
dren you are playing with fire in a
powder magazine.' Ho closed by ask
ing the republicans if thoy were
fools enough to believe that the
south would again submit to the pol
icies to which. she submitted when
she was weak and helpless."
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Kansas. . . ,::r't:riT:atV(
Oklahoma -!orti? ''-
Nebraska. . . ..:.::,:.:;..:.:
North Dakota. .-..-.! .
Rhodo Island. ..'jr-v,-.-.--, .. .
Indiana. .... .-- ;:!.)'
Iowa -. ,--., ,
Philippine Islands. ...f. ,rf. .
South Dakota ,.x . ,
New York ............ .;-. .
Delaware. . . , ,'.-... . . . . ,v . .
Illinois. ....' '.' rr'
Connecticut. . . -.r.T.-.,c. ,
New Jersey. .-. -..-., . .v.'. .
vjnio ......... '. . . ji i
Massachusetts. . ..-.-...-. ,:.y. .
Minnesota. . . ..-..-. , '-vr.r. .
Wyoming. . . .:,:.'.:. . .-.-.r.-...
Washington. ..-,.-. .-.-.. -.-.ts
Hawaii. .... - -' -.rr
California. . ...r..... . .r.:.:.t.'.
MISSOUri. . . , ,-.-.-.. . . , .r..r,.
Michigan. r.. .-.'.-. :-
PonnBylvanla . .... .-.-... .-.
South Carolina t w.'..
District of Columbia. . . ,:.x .
Alabama ...-. ..-.-..
Alaska ..-. .v.,
Texas .' .
Now Hampshire -.-.-.e'
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West Virginia ...-..
New Mexico ,r
Porto Rico. ......'... ...'..
Nevada ,2 '.
Idaho
Louisiana. -.:;.'
Maryland
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Arkansas v. . . i . .f.r '
Montana ', . .v'. .!. : ''. . .
Virginia
Kentucky ....
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Oregon
Florida
Tennessee
North Carolina
Vermont
Georgia t .
Maine
Mississippi
Total
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20
14
16
8
8
80
26
6
8
78
6
54
14
32
22
6
10
6
20
36
28
68
18
6
22
6
36
8
6
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6
: 6
6
6
18'
16
6
18
6
24
26
10
8
10
24
24
8
26
12
20
1008
26
20
14
16
8
30
26
6
8
54
46
22
6
10
6
20
36
28
40
18
6
22
6
10
12
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Mayl2C
May 27
May'28
May 28
May 28
May 30.
June 1
June
June
June
Jure
June
June 10
June 11
June li
June 15
June 16
June 16
Jane 17
Juno 24
June 26
June 27
Total instructed and uninstructed for Bryan 51'i
Total for Johnson , 22
Total for Gray .' ' 6
Choice unexpressed and uninstructed 127
Total delegates so far elected ' 666
Necessary to a choice under two-thirds rule 672
An Associated Press dispatch un
der date of Washington, May 22,
follows: "A campaign contribution
publicity bill, embodying an amend
ment by Mr. Crumpacker (Indiana)
providing for a reduction in tho rep
resentation in tho house of repre
sentatives in those states having dis
franchisement laws, was passed by
tho house today by a vote of 160 to
125 following a lively debate. Tho
measure was brought up under sus
pension of the rules, and forty min
utes were allowed in which to dis-
A HARBINGER OP SPRING
Glorious spring isn't the only
blessing that's coming to us these
days. Right along with the lilacs
and the violets and daisies, redolent
with sweet and tender memories, in
spiring with their symbolic promise
that the bleakest, bitterest winter
that ever was or will be must yield,
eventually, bofore tho splendor qf
beneficent summer, comes Colonel
Henry Wattorson, writing editorials
laboled "To Your Tents, O iBrael!"
It's good, indeed, to see Colonel
Wattorson budding with tho johnny-jump-ups.
It's good to see that ho,
like thoy, was only sleeping. And
now that wo find him, as in tho fine
old days, mounted firmly on tho edi
torial tripod, pouring forth his soul
in all tho resistless eloquence with
which he once wooed the Star Eyed
Goddess, singing the praises and the
glories and the hopes of 'tho immor
tal democratic party, wo feel that
democracy, too, is marching right in,
along with spring, and that the frui
tion of democratic hopes will come
in overflowing measure with that of
the apple blossoms, in November!
Things haven't seemed just right
during alLthese years that the great
est of Kentucky colonels has either
been sulking in his tent, like the
mighty Achilles, or been roaming
barren hills aliea to democracy
searching after and wooing strange
gods and imbibing at the fountains
of heretic creeds. Wo have had
Bryan, it is true; but, greedy after
good things, our hearts have ached
for the love of our tender youth
we've yearned for our Wandering
Boy of Old Kentucky to come homa.
And he's coraoj His golden, mel
low voice is reverberating up and
down the Ohio valley, and penetrat-
ing far into the magnolia groves of
the sunny south. It's singing the
song of democracy and Bryan, and a
million democratic pulses will leap
as that never forgotten music falls
on democratic ears, "To Your Tents.
O Israel!" it calls.
Dinna ye hear the slogan; the slo
gan of Watterson and the spring?
The slogan of democratic hope and
promise? There have been fine
springs before, but never a ono that
had for its harbinger so sweet-throated
a Kentucky cardinal. Omaha
World-Herald.
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