The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-07-16
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned By Telegraph and Mail.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
 TEE democratic national convention was called to order at Chicago on the 7th by Chairman Harrity, of the na- tional committee. Senator Hill was selected by the majority on the na. tional committee for temporary chair man of the convention, but the mi nority made a report to substitute Senator Daniel and the convention sustained the minority by electing Daniel by vote of 556 to 349 for Hill. Senator Daniel made lengthy speech on taking the chair and the convention soon afterward adjourned till the next day.
 GARRETT A. HOBART was waited on at Paterson, N. J., on the 7th by the committee appointed to formally noti- fy him of his nomination to the office of vice president of the United States.
 A WELL attended woman suffragist convention met recently at Guthrie, Ok, presided over by Miss Margarite Rees Terral, president. Miss Alma Carson delivered an address of well come, responded to by Mrs. Jane Kel- so, of Crescent City. Miss Estella Weymouth read a paper: "Why Wom- en Need the Ballot" The suffragists have already inaugurated a campaign to organize every county and be ready to take an active part in the election of legislature this fall.
 A SPECIAL from Cleveland, O.. on the sth stated that the national repu blican executive committee would meet at Mark Hanna's office in that city on July 14 to decide on the headquarters, to fill vacancies on the committee and to decide upon plan of campaign.
 THE national democratic convention at Chicago on the 9th adopted the plat form reported by the resolutions com mittee by a vote of CPS for to 3Ol against In the evening session speeches nominating candidates for the presidency were made.
 SENIOR MELLA, Carlist, speaking in the Spanish chamber of deputies at Madrid on the 9th, declared that the government ought to be energetic in preparing for the inevitable conflict between the United States and Spain, in which Spain would prove her vi- rility and her greatness.
 THE socialists labor party, in con- vention at New York, has nominated Charles II. Matchett, of Brooklyn, for president on their national ticket. Mathew Mcclure was unanimously nominated for the vice presidency.
 THE first state convention of the union bimetallic party of Oregon was held at McMinnville on the 10th. A full set of delegates was elected to the national bimetallic convention at St. Louis July 22. Instructions for Sem ator Teller were voted down.
 WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN, of Ne braska, was nominated on the fifth tallot by the democratic national con- vention at Chicago for president of the United States.
 TIE Chicago Staats.Zeitung, the leading German paper of the west, will bolt the Chicago ticket and plat form. The St. Louis Anzeiger des Westens also will not support the dem- oCTdliC tlChcJ anu pldlloTul anu duNO- cates third ticket to represent the gold democrats.
 THE Louisville (Ky.) Courier-Journal. the Baltimore Md Sun and the Even- ing News, the St. Paul (Minn.) Globe und the Buffalo (N. Y., Courier have announced that they would not sup port Bryan and the Chicago platform.
 HoN. FRANK H. HURD, eX.congress- man, lawyer and one of the most prominent democrats in Ohio, died on the 10th in Toledo, O., after an illness of five days. The immediate cause of death was apoplexy.
 AT a meeting of the state executive committee of the gold money dem. ocracy of Illinois, held in Chicago on the 10th, resolution was adopted in favor of the calling of national con- vention of the democratic party of the United States for the purpose of nomi. hating democratic candidate for the office of president and vice president upon democratic platform. It was resolved to appoint committee to pre- pare an address to the democrats of she United States stating the grounds and reason for putting a national dem- ocratic ticket in the field.