Nebraska Newspapers

    BLAND IS THE MAN.
MOST FEARED BY THE OTHER
CANDIDATES.
"Combination Against Him Dlfflcnlt to
Form—Will Attempt to Divide HU
Vote With the Favorite Son Scheme—
Bole* Hla Nearest Competitor—Alt
geldt Holds the Hep.
The Chicago Situation.
Chicago, July h.—Bland, to a cer
•tain extent, is tbe McKinley of the
•present situation. At St. Louis it
•was McKinley against the field. At
•Chicago to-day it is the field against
Bland. The other candidates recog
nize that Bland is the man most to be
feared, that with Bland defeated the
fight is,a more even one for all the
-others. The first effort of the opposi
tion, therefore, will be to divide the
Bland vote and prevent him from
reaching the nomination. Knowing
•that it is difficult to make combina
tions of this kind that will be effec
tive, the Bland managers are confi
dent- They point out that Bland is
the only candidate who has very much
of a backing. They claim for him 200
votes, distributed in the South and
Middle West. Like McKinley, be has
been quietly hunting delegates while
his rivals were preparing to load their
funs.
Besides all this, according to the
Bltfnd shoutera,there are several good
reasons why Bland, of ali men, should
be selected as the candidate to stand
on a silver platform. There is no
Democrat before the country to-day,
they say, who so thoroughly stands
for the silver idea as dees he. For
...•years he has talked and labored for
silver. He was the author of the law
which gave the country the Bland
silver dollar and he fouglit to the very
last to save silver from its enemies
and prevent it from being dropped as
one of the money metals. In addition
to all this, he is of the people. He is
. a son of tho soil.,r. He owns and works
a farm.
Bland's most formidable rival as
things look to-day is Boies of Iowa.
Against him is the fact that only quite
recently has he become a convert to
free silver. It was not so very long
ago that he was regarded as a staunch
sound money man and he gave no
countenance to the silver talk. He
will go into the convention with the
backing of his own State and some
other votes which cannot yet be very
definitely placed. Unless the tide sets
so overwhelmingly in favor of Bland
that a contest is only a waste of time,
he will bs able to make things inter
esting for the Missouri farmer. In
fact, it is predicted that the fight be
. .tween these two candidates may be
s come so warm ‘that it will prevent
either from winning the prize and
leave the road clear to some other
man who will start in the race heav
ily handicapped.
Both men are playing for the sup
port and influence of Governor Ait
geld, the man who will probably be
the most interesting personage of this
convention, and who threatens to be
its Warwick playing the role of tbe
president maker. Altgeld is said to
be for Bland and opposed to Boies,
but no one here can learn that he has
pledged himself or that lie has ex
pressed an open preference. Tho
probabilities are that his inclinations
lean toward Bland and he would be
glad to see Boies’ ambitions thwarted
for purely personal reasons. During
the great railroad strikes In Illinois
Altgeld's course occasioned consider
able adverse criticism, to put it
mildly, and Governor Boies did not
hesitate to freely and publicly express
his opinion of his fellow governor.
Altgeld remembers that little incident.
The candidacy of Senator Blackburn
of Kentucky, ex-Governor Pennoyer
cf Oregon and Governor Matthews of
Indiana are all as yet immaturu.
Blackburn has the Kentucky delega
tion behind him; Pennoyer can doubt
less command t» e Oregon delegation
and the Indiana men will come here
prepared to work for Matthews if they
think they see a chance for his suc
cess. One of these men m-ntioned
might, in certain contingencies, be
the nominee of the convention, but
those conditions are not likely to
arise.
Altgeld Wilt Not Take It.
Chicago, July 3.—Governor Altgeld
said that he would not accept the tem
porary chairmanship ot the Demo
cratic convention in case he should te
chosen by the silver forces. “I would
not have it under any circumstances,”
-he said. ‘-A presiding officer, if he is
an honest man, can be nothing but a
figurehead. I want to be where I can
do something, and would not surren
der my piace on the floor for the
honor, however great.”
1 Nominated on the l.OSSth Ballot.
Washington, Kin., July 3. —The
Republican convention of the Twelfth
judicial district, which has been in
cession here since last Monday, re
nominated Judge F. W. Sturges of
Concordia, the present incumbent, on
the J.OSsth ballot. The opposing can
didates were W. F. Dillon of Belle
Tille and Charles Smith of this city.
A Dig Fayette Company Involved.
Fayette, Mo., July 3.—The Bell
Hardware and Implement company,
one of the largest business concerns
of this place, closed its doors this
morning with J. B. Duncan as trus
tee. Preferred creditors for $2T,0U0
«re secured by the trust. Various
estimates place the liabilities at from
<35,000 to 840,000, with assets of about
the same amount.
An Argentine Leader's Suicide.
Buenos Ayres, July 8.—Dr. Alern,
leader of the Radicals, who was the
■chief opponent of ex-President Dr.
Saens Pena, who reigned In 1885, has
-committed suicide. He took part in
several revolutions against President
Pena, bat was pardoned.
A Gold Exhibition for Chicago^
Chicago. July 3.—Chicago is to have
* gold exhibit next fall, in which the
gold fields of every section of America
will be represented. Enough gold
has been pledged to start a national
hank.
V I- V
MR. BLACKBURN’S VIEWS.
The Kentucky Candidate Talk* About
the Situation. " '
Chicago, July 3.—A suggestion by
Governor Altgeld that the national
convention could be made a one day
affair, and should *o be made by the
controlling element, was not recived
with much favor this morning either
by tbe well known leaders who are
here or by the friends of the many
Senator Blackburn ot Kentucky
said: "While I don’t suggest or ap
prove delay in this matter, 1 must say
that I am utterly opposed to any gag
law or rushing. Lei this convention
be one marked bv fairness. We have
nothing to lose and much to gain. Let
us give everybody a fair hearing and
then act according to our best judg
ments. 1 think the cause of silver
would be aided by such action, and
that the cry of gag rule and unfair
ness could not be raised, no matter
what the result.”
Asked what his views were upon
the question of making Senator U ill
of New York chairman, Blackburn
said: "Senator Hill would undoubt
edly make a very impartial chairman,
but he is allied with the gold forces,
and it would be a roundabout way of
procedure for us to turn over to the
minority of the convention its organ
ization. It is not to be supposed that
the majority are going to jeopardize
their own work and chances. As for
Governor Altgeld, I never understood
that he was a candidate for temporary
chairman.”
"Then you do not believe that Sen
ator Hill will be chairman of the tem
porary organization, even by a con
junction of gold votes and such silver
delegates as favor him?”
"No, Mark this,” and the Senator
become emphatic, using forcible gest
ures to accentuate his point; “this
convention is in control of the silver
men. That is a fact beyond any ques
tion of doubt. On every question the
standing of the majority will be to aid
tlielr movement. Now, if the gold
men were in control, they would not
think of giviDg us control of the tem
porary organization. That would be
deemed foolish by them, and I don’t
believe that they will expect us to do
it Anyway, whether they do or not,
we shall not act in that way. A sil
ver man will wield the gaveL”
“Whom have you heard mentioned?”
“Nobody with any definiteness. I
can’t tell vou. There are many candi
dates, and I have not committed my
self to any of them. Jones of Arkan
sas would be a good man. Now, re
ferring to the matter of the pushing
through of our plans in a hurry. I
have talked with several leaders, and
we are not at all in favor of the least
bit of hurry. Every man in the con
vention or every movement should
have, a fair and impartial hearing.
Then we can go before the people
with clean hands and ask their ap
proval. I do not agree with Governor
Altgeld that there is any jeopardy in
such a course to our cause.”
Senator Blackburn was naturally
rather coy about saying anything
about Presidential candidates or their
chances, as his own constituency was
booming him this morning. "I have
heard,” he said, "that Governor Alt
geld has decided to assist Mr. Bland,
but it is a little early yet to talk of
chances.”
A CIRCULAR FOR BLAND.
Missourians Disseminate a Pamphlet
Lauding Their Candidate.
Chicago, July 3.—The Missouri del
egation has prepared for general cir
culation a long pamphlet setting
forth Bland’s claims. It holds that
the silver question is the paramount
one and that Bland would be the ideal
candidate on that issue. His Demo
cratic record and his public career are
dwelt upon at great length and his
title "Silver Dick,” declared a badge
of honor. His private life is lauded
and the objection that he came from
a slave state is denounced. In closing
"it says: "For the reasons stated above
it is our conviction that Bland should
be nominated. Circumstances have
conspired to his nomination as the
best and wisest possible. If nomi
nated he will be elected. As presi
dent he will be Democratic in the
highest and best sense of the term.
Although self-reliant, fearless, and
possessed of strong convictions,
he would not only be will
ing to hear but glad to
have the counsel and advice of
able and patriotic men upon any and
all questions of public concern, and
he would be found more than willing
to co-operate with such men in every
effort to promote the public good.
Confident in the absolute accuracy of
our position, we nsk the delegates
from other states to weigh well the
high merits of this great commoner as
the logical and most available candi
date the Democratic party can nomi
nate.”
BLAND AT HOME. •
Preparation* Betas Made In Anticipa
tion of 111* Nomination.
Lebanon, Ma, July 8_Blnnd's
friends here are supremely confident
of his nomination and are preparing
headquarters from which his cam
paign will be conducted. Three largo
rooms in the Greenleaf block have
been secured as offices. The Western
Union fifclegraph company has put in
two extra wires.
Mr. Bland's mail hits reached large
proportions and which takes half tlio
day for bim to dictate to his sten
ographer. Any one going out to Mr.
Bland's farm could scarcely imagine
to see bim going around his place at
tending to his farm work that he is
the man whose name is being shouted
by thousands of people in Chicago.
• "liucky” Baldwin Fired At,
San Fbancisco, July 3.—Lillian
Ashley of Boston, whose suit agrinst
E. J. (Lucky) Baldwin, the prom
inent capitalist and horseman, for
breach of promise of marriage,
has., been on trial in tho Superior
court here for several weeks, created
a sensation in tho court room tbia
morning by walking over to Baldwin,
drawing a revolver and firing at hia
head. A bystander knocked the
weapon aside in time to save Bald
win’s life, and the only injury was a
•light grazing ot the scalp.
CHICAGO CONVENTION.
THE8ILVER1TESPRESENT SOME
DEMANDS.
Chairman Harrltj of the Rational Com
mtttoo Makes Hla Appearance at tha
Palmer Boom—The Chairmanship
Inn—Nothing la Bottled na Vet—Only
One Notion of Contest and that From
Nebraska.
Getting Things In Order*
Chicago, July 2.—William F. Har*
city, chairman of the National Demo*
cratio committee, made hie appear
ance at the Palmer house a few min*
utea before 12 o’clock, the hour set for
the meeting of the executive commit
tee of the National committee. He
found the silver eommlttee appointed
to confer with his committee await
ing him, and gave them early an*'
die nee.
When asked as to the status of the
temporary chairmanship before ho
had met the silverites, Mr. Harrlty
said that he had no information to
give out on that question. “I can
only say,” he added, “that so far as I
am concerned, 1 have no man for the
place. Whether matter will be har
monized with the silver men or what
the outcome wil 1 be it is as yet entire
ly too early to attempt bo say. 1 have
had no opportunity to confer with the
leaders and will be able to say more
later.
The executive committee convened
at the Palmer house at noon, with
Chairman Harrity and Messrs. Wall
Sheerin, Sherly, Prather and Wallace
present, Mr. Cable being the only ab
sentee. The committee went imme
diately into executive session with a
cordon of guards at the various doors. ~
The silver committee, consisting of
Senators Jones, Daniel and Turpie,
and Governors Allgeld and Stone,'-'
were admitted and yvere closeted with
the executive committee for an hour
and a half when the silver men with
drew, leaving the national committee
men to continue their conference.
While there was no acrimony on either
side, the conversation was very earn
est. There were no formal speeches,
but the conference partook'of the
character of a general conversation,
"just as if we were sitting around a
log fire in the country,” said one of
the participants after it had closed.
The silver men first asked that it
should he definitely understood that
they did not come as the representa
tives of the silver committee, but as
delegates representing the majority of
the convention. They expressed a
desire to have an understanding upon1'
the various questions of temporary
chairman, seats for delegates and
alternates, procedure in regard to;
contesting delegations and the ar
rangement of the temporary roll call.
Referring to the temporary roll call,
the members of the executive commit
tee intimated that they would expect
to consider the contests as the na
tional committee had done on all pre
vious occasions and make the tempo
rary roll call. Attention was called to
the fact that there had bo far been no
notice of contest except in the one in
stance of Nebraska. The silver men
did not indicate whether this would
be satisfactory.
Chairman Harrity stated that he had
had no oppertunity for conference
with other members of the national
committee, and he did not feel pre
prepared to indicate the policy of the
committee. He said he would be
pleased to confer with the silver men
again and asked them to meet the
committee next Monday,if not before,
by which time he hoped to speak au
tlioriattively. He said he had no can
didate, but declined to sav whether
the committee would be disposed to
act upon their own responsibility or
accept the advice of the silver men.
ALTGELD AND STONE.
ft#, Missouri and Illinois Governors
Mold a Secret Caucus.
Chicago, July 2.—Governor Altgeld
•nd Governor Stone of Missouri break
fasted together and after they left the
dining room together they met other
leading free silver Democrats and re
mained in session the greater part of
the forenoon. There has been some
talk that Altgeld may be: chosen per
manent chairman, but the governor's
friends declare that be is not a candi
date for the honor and will not ac
cept it
It is not yet certain that there will
be a general disposition in the Demo
cratic n-tional convention to follow
the lead of the Illinois delegation in
declaring for the abrogatiou of the
two-thirds rule, hut there is unques
tionab'v a strong faction fuvorable to
that course, who contend, as did Gov
ernor Altgeld, that the rule is undem
ocratic, and who would like to sec it
canceled upon gets-al -principles. If,
however, it is abrogated, the action
will be due to the difficulty of secur
ing the necessary two-thirds to nom
inate with the rule still in existence.
It is contended by many tnat bv the
time the nominating stage is reached
the silver men will be able to com
mand fully two-thirds of the voting
strength of the convention, and they
argue that if this should prove to be
the case there would be no necessity
for changing the rule. .
BOIES ADHERENTS FEELING BETTER.
The boomers of ex-Governor Boies
of Iowa claim that they are now
stronger than ever. Boies headquar
ters were opened to-day at the Palmer
house. A strip of red, white and blue
bunting covers the walls of the room
and the American flag is conspicuously
displayed. A dozen pictures of the
man from Iowa are placed upon the
walls, and the tables are covered with
the stars and stripes. It is said that
Mr. Sovereign, the Knights of Labor
leader, has made up his mind to come
out squarely in favor of the nomina
tion of the man from Iowa
Vice President Stevenson arrived
in the city to-day. He is on his way
to his home at Bloomington, from Cape
Mav, where he has been since the
adjournment of Congress. He declined
to express himself in any way on po
litical questions, and said that he
would continue his journey to Bloom
ington to-morrow. He was called
upon during the day by a number of
prominent people who are in the eity.
MRS. STOWE NO MORE.
Tha A fad Aathor of “(JncU Tom'* Cabin”
Qooa to Roat.
Hartford, Conn.. July 9. — Mrs.
Harriet Beeoher Stowe, the venerable
author, was stricken with eon creation
of the brain and naralysis yesterday
afternoon and at once became an*
conscious. After lingering all night
and this morning in a comatose con
dition she diet, at noon Members of
her family were at her bedside.
Harriet Beecher Stowe, sixth child
of Dr. Lyman Beecher, was born at
Litchfield, Conn., June 14, 1811, Fol
lowing her mother’a death, which oc
curred when she waa 4 years old, the
?'irl was taken by relatives at Guil
ord, Conn, and there trained in
needlework, extracts from South’s
“Isaiah,” Buchanan’s “Researches in
Asia,” “Bishop Heber’s Life,” “Dr.
Johnson's Works,” the Bible, the
Kplscopal prayer books and hymns
and poems. When she was a bright
10-year-old pupil at the Litchfield
academy she “read everything she
could lay her hands on, sewed and
knit diligently and wrote compost
Mist Beecher prepared hei%elf as an
instructor in drawing and painting,
and attended her sister's school.
Three years more were passed in Bos
t ton, Guilford and Hartford, ’and then
the sisters, with their father and his
family, went to Cincinnati, Ohio,
where Dr. Beecher had accepted the
presidency of Lane Theological sem
inary.
The subject of slavery was brought
to Miss Beecher’s attention by a trip
into Kentucky in 1833, when she vis
ited an estate that afterward figured
as that of Colonel Shplby in “Uncle
Tom’s Cabin." Three years later she
was married to Professor Calvin R
Stowe, who held the chair of sacred
literature in the institution of which
her father was president Her liter
ary career was now fairly begun, and
• she wrote numerous sketches and
stories for the Western Magazine and
’ the New York Evangelist, hoe hna
: band being absent in Europe the
while. She also assisted her brother,
Henry Ward Beecher, with the editor
ship of the Cincinnati Daily Journal.
Mrs. Stowe’s attitude toward slavery
was not one of uncompromising hos
tility at this time. In 1830 she re
ceived into her family a colored girl
who had escaped from slavery, and
when complications ensiled Professor
Stowe and Ilenry Ward BeaCher drove
the colored gin in a covered wagon up
the country to a place of safety.
Professor Stowe accepted a chair at
Bowdoin college, Brunswick, Me., and
while his wife was there: with him
she received a letter from her sister
in-law, Mrs. Edward Beecher, one
passage of which read as follows:
•*Now Hattie, if 1 could usa a pen like
you can, T would write something
'that wonld make the whole nation
feel what an accursed thing slavery
;
4 Mrs Stowe read the letter aloud in
. the family circle and said: “1 will
write something. I will if I live.”
That was the Genesis of “Uncle
Tom’s Cabin.” The first chapter was
sent to the National Era, a weekly
anti-slavery paper, of which James G.
Whittier was one of the editors, in
April, 18.M. The serial publication of
the story was completed a year later.
Mrs. Stowe received for it 9300. It
was published in book form by John
P. Jewett of Boston, Mass., and 3,0o0
copies of the first edition of S.000 were
sold in one dav. One hundred and
twenty edltions'were disposed of in a
yeur, and Mrs. Stowe’s receipts in
royalties amounted to 910,000.
Twelve editions of the great work
were printed in London in 1652, and
w'thin a year no iess than eighteen
publishing houses were engaged in
supplying the demand which had set
in. Sampson Low, the English pub
lisher, has estimated the sale of the
book io Great Britain at 1,000,001)
copies. Translations were made into
Armenian, Bohemian, Danish, Dutch,
Finnish, Flemish, French, German,
Hungarian, Illyrian, Italian, Palish,
Portuguese, modern Green, Russian,
Servian, Wallachian and Welsh.
Innumerable dramatizations of
, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” have been pro
duced and by universal concensns of
opinion it is the most successful vol
ume of the century.
Among Mrs. Stowe’s other works
may be mentioned “The Key to ‘Un
cle Tom's Cabin,’” “Dick; a Tale of
the Great Dismal Swamp,” “The Min
ister’s Wooing” and "Pink and White
Tyranny.” In all, she published
thirty-two volumes.
HOBART MEETS M KIN LEY.
Tha Gx-Gorernor Greets Ills Now Jersey
Colleague at the Train.
Canton-, Ohio, July 8.—Governor
McKinley drove to the Fort Wayne
station shortly after 10 .o’clock this
morning to meet Garrett A. Hobart,
Republican nominee for vice presi
dent. A large crowd was gathered
at the station to witness the meet
ing, although the unfair was in
formal in every respect. He reached
the train ju,t as the car canrying
Mr. Hobart stopped in front of liim.
Mr. McKinley extended his hand and
the recognition was equally prompt on
Mr. Hobart’s part. The two walked
side by side to tbe carriage amidst the
appluuse of the crowd. They were
driven quickley to the MwKiuler
home. where a crowd of newspaper
men and photographers were waiting.
It is understood that at the confer
ence it was mutually agreed that, as
far as present intentions should bo
concerned, neither of them should de
part from their homes fur any cam
paign tour.
VEST TO NOMINATE BLAN P
Governor Stone to Be the Missouri Mem
ber of the Platform Committee.
Chicago, July 2.—The supporters of
Bland have decided upon a plan of
campaign. Every effort will he made
to capture the delegates when the
various states arrive, and to aid in
that work it was determined to have
headquarters at lie Palmer a* well as
at the Auditorium, where .,ie Mis
souri delegation will be housed. The
name of Bland will be presented to
the convention by Senator George
Vest in a speech which the Senator is
now preparing. He will be for Bland
and 16 to 1. Governor Stone will be
the member from Missouri on the
platform committee and Senator
Cockrell will be presented by his
State as a member on credent ials.
BLAND IN THE LEAD.
SHORT. HOWEVER, OP ENOUGH
TO NOMINATE.
Mm Appmra to be a Good Second—
Got. Altgeldt TV I* be A boat the Blr
*•»» Men In the Convention, end Were
I» Rot for Hie rorelfh Birth Would be
• formidable Candidate
The Ontlook tt ChlonSo.
Chicago, June 3a — The following
table, showing the poll of thk dele
gates to the Demoeratle national con
vention by the New York Herald, *as
published here this morning and at
tracted much attention: \
STATES.
Alabama.
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Arkansas ...
California..
Colorado ...
Connecticut
Palawan ..
Florida.
Georgia.
Idaho.......
ntlnoia.
Indiana ....
Iowa.
Kansu ....
kaatusky .
LomaUna.
Maryland.*.*!!"
Mkwaohusatta..
Michigan.
Minnesota..
foSfc::.
Montana.
‘Nebraska..
Nay-ita..
N M mpahlra..
New Jonoy.
New Yore..
N. Carolina.....
North Dakota.
Ohio...
Oregon.
PenniylrniliL. „
Rhode Island..
South Carolina
South Dakota.
Tennense..
l'esua .
Utaa.
Varmint.
Virginia .
Washington.
Woit Virginia...
Wisconsin.
Wyoming.
Dist. of Col.
Arizona.
New Mexico.,,,.
Oklahoma.
Ind an Territory
Alaska...
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Tonis..
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24
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Necessary to choice under two-thirdi rule,
BA
•Nearly all Nebraska delegatee hare express
ed a preference for Bryan, bnt seats of ail are
jontestod br gold men. Ohio is favorable to
John B. McLean and nine Mississippi delegatee
Are for Senator Tnrpie of Indiana.
ALTOEI.D WILL BE A POWER,
The Bland men now here claim that
be will have oycj- S00 votes on first
ballot, Missouri, Arkansas, Texas,
Oklahoma,NewMexico and the Indian
territory having instructed for him,
and support from Kansas, Colorado,
Oregon, Louisiana, Montana, North
Carolina, West Virginia, Washington,
Tennessee, Nebraska and Arizona be
ing claimed for him. The Bland men
place Boies’ vote 100 below him, and
declare that no other candidate has
aver seventy-five votea It is held
that Bland is so much in the lead that
the declaration of Illinois for him
would insure his nomination. It is
•aid that more than one Illinois dele
gate has pledged himself for Bland.
“If you can find out what Altgeld is
going to do you will have it worked
out,” said Colonel Prather of Missouri,
“Altgeld is going to be about the big
gest man in this convention. He holds
the key; if he had been born in this
eountry he wonid be nominated for
firesklent. Bit ere is not any donbt of
t. Altgeld meets the present peenliar
conditions exactly.”
“Colonel, what will move Altgeld in
the choice of a presidential candi
date?” was asked. “Will he be for the
man whom he thinks will most
strengthen the Democratic State tick
8t in Illinois?”
“No, I don’t think that will move
him. Altgeld already feels that there
isn’t the slightest doubt of his elec
tion. He is so sure of it, he knows it.
I have talked with men who have
•een Altgeld since the Peoria conven
tion, and they say that Altgeld feels
as certain of his election as he would
if the returns were in. I can’t say
what will move him to throw his in
fluence for any particular candidate,
but it is safe to say that the man Alt
geld is for will be the nominee. If I
was a candidate, and 1 knew Altgeld
wanted an orange, I’d find some way
to get the orange into Altgeld’s
pocket. ”
“Von think Altgeld’s fort}-eight
votes from Illinois will determine the
nomination?”
“Altgeld’s influence for a candidate
means a good deal more than the
forty-eight Illinois votes. He is going
to be a dominating character in this
convention.”
Savannah Bank Bobber Caught
Portland. Ore., July 1.— John Mo
Gin nor aad John O’Brien, both men
of many aliases and both notorious
bank robbers, were captured in Van
couver late yesterday afternoon by
Detective Joseph Day of this city, and
are now safely housed in the Clark'
county jail. A man giving his name
as Fred Martin, who was with the
pair, was also arrested. When cap
tured the trio were found to be
equipped with pistols, dark lanterns,
sticks of dynamite, fuses and caps, a
biff bunch of skeleton keys and several
pairs of new oarlocks. It is believed
that they intended to rob a Vancouver
bank last night, steal a boat and be
off down the river before daybreak
this morning. O'Brien is wanted m
Savannah, Mo., where with two ac
complices, he looted a bank safe of
814,000 worth of bonds.
PENNOYER IN THE LIST.
She Oregon Governor Will Be Boomed
as n Favorite Son.
Portland, Ore., June 30. — “Pen
noyer for president” will be the slogan
of the Oregon Democratic dele
gation to the Chicago convention.
It cannot be established that Pen
noyer has expressed any desire to
have it so; but there is little doubt
that his name and fame will be ex
ploited long and loudly among the
delegates The state Democracy is in
favor of the free coinage of silver.
BOIES TO WHITNEY.
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ernor Boies has made public this let
ter, replying to a message from a,New
York paper concerning the Whitney
declaration:
“Mr. Whitney is entirely right in
his conclusion that there is no disposi
tion on the 'part of those who will
represent the silver sentiment of tbs
South and West in the Chicago con
vention to further discuss the matter
at issue with men whose views are
diametrically opposite to their owa
on the currency question.
“He is entirely correct in his con
clusion that It la now too late to ac
complish any practical results by a
discussion of that character. Through
out the South and West that dlsene
*)# has been extended and thorough,
an« the views expressed by Mr. Whit
ney have been put forward by many
people who entertain them, and they
have 'been fully considered and
weighed, and, after all of this, the
judgment of an overwhelming ma
jority of the party in these sections la
evidenced by the class of delegates
who have been chosen to represent it
in the Chicago convention. Hot one
of these men can now disregard the
known sentiment of. those who se
lected him without betraying the
trust confided to him, and not one of
them, in my judgment, will ever do so.
“Mr. Whitney is entirely wrong in
assuming that free silver Democrats
are forsakipg the fundamental princi
ples of Democracy, or what he terms
sound money Democrats are defending
those principles in their endeavor to
commit their party to gold monomet
allism. Until the Republican party
met in St. Louis a few days sinee
there was never a line written in a
national platform of either of the
great parties that justifies the claim
that one or the other of these parties
was committed to that doctrine. Over
and over again the Democratic party,
in national convention assembled, has
put itself on record in the otearest and
most comprehensive language possible
to use, in favor of bimetallism, in
favor of the restoration of silver to its
place in our financial system as
standard money, and never for a mo
ment in the Congress of the United
States has a majority, or anything
like a majority, of the representatives
of that party wavered in their devo
tion to the principles so clearly enun
ciated in the party platforms To as
sume now that adherence to that prin
ciple is abandonment of an established
doctrine of the party is to defy his
tory and ignore the most plainly writ
ten of all its declarations of policy.
“It is useless to claim that a tender
of the good offices of the party to se
SV>re an internaypftal agreement for
the free coinage of siTvefls the fulfill
ment of its pledges so often made in
this respect To sincere believers in
b'metallism for the United States, an
offer of this character is little, if any
thing, less than unqualified violation
of a sacred pledge by a great political
organization. If this is all that Mr.
Wbltnev, and those who think with
him, can offer, it will be vastly better
to offer nothing.
“When Mr. Whitney says the main
tenance of our present gold standard
is essential to the preservation of our
national credit and redemption of our
public pledges he ignores a great truth
of which he cannot be ignorant. He
knows there is not a single obligation
of this government outstanding to-day
that by its terms is payable in gold
alone and knows that right upon the
face of the great bulk of the bonds of
the government it is written in sub
stance that they are payable in coin
of the United States of the standard
weight and fineness of its ooins before
silver was demonetised, and that
therefore, by their own express
terms they are payable in our
present silver dollars, if the govern
ment elects to so pay them. It lssinoe
the most of these obligations were is
sued that silver has been demonetised,
whereby, if they are to be paid in
gold alone, their value has been
doubled, and the burden of the great
industrial classes, who must provide
for their payment, has been increased
two-fold.
“To talk about a violation of na
tional honor, when no party in the
nation has ever suggested its failure
in the least degree to meet every ob
ligation it has assumed, according to
the strict letter of the contract it
made, has, to say the least, a strange
sound to those who heard the uni
versal cry of distress, occasioned, as
they believe, by doubling the pur
chasing power of money and cutting
in twain the market price of the pro
ducts of labor. If to undo what law
has done to add to the burden of those
toiling millions of this nation and
double the fortunes of the rich within
it is to disrupt the Democrrtio party,
disruption must come.”
A Beesptlon to Be as tor FMtlimr.
Chicago, June 30.—Senator Petti*
grew ot South Dakota left to-day for
his home at Sioux Falls, where be it.
to be accorded a general reception
upon his arrival to-morrow. The re
ception is the result of his action in
leaving the 8k Louis Republican na- ;
tlonal convention, and will be partici
pated in by people of all parties from
various parts of the State.
Shot Over Polities.
Rosed alb. Ran., July 1.—Ernest
Williams, colored, and Rev. Venable,
pastor of the colored Baptist ehureh,
got into a political discussion last
night, when the latter lost his temper,
drew a pistol and shot Williams just
over the heart, inflicting a fatal
wound. Venable fled but was cap
tured at an early hour this morning.
Morrill Moo Jubilant.
Topeka. Kan., June 80.—The man
tgers of Governor Morrill’s campaign
are feeling jubilant. They profess to
believe that their candidate Is now as
sured of a walkaway for renomina
tion, and point to the conventions of
last Saturday as the straws which
show which way the wind is blowing.
Yesterday Pottawatomie county fol
lowed with eleven delegates for Mor
rill and a resolution declaring him the
choice of the conn ty. - On Wednesday
Cherokee county will hold her cca
vention, and the delegates are oon
fldently claimed for MorrilL