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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-05
Steyenann,s Rnon,.

CHICAGO, July 4-Some of the admin
istration Democrats are advocating the
nomination of Adlai Stevenson for presi-
dent. They have as yet received no en-
couragement from the free silver advo-
Gates and are to all appearances making
no Roadway. Governor Altgeld said that
Mr. Stevenson could not carry a single
silver state.
". H. Hinrichsen, chairman of the state
central committee, iconcurred in this as
sertion. However, pelos P Phelps, assist
ant treasurer of the United States in
charge of the sub-treasury at Chicago, is
OF the opinion that President Steven
son is the strongest man for the head of
the ticket.
"Adlai e. Stevenson" he said. "can
unite the contending factions of the
Democratic party. He should be accept
able to all Democrats for he has been one
all his life. His views on the money ques-
ton are we'll known. While he was in
congress he voted on the silver question
just as Bland voted.
CAS- to Bland the Democrats since 1889
have felt, it unwiss TO nominate a man
from the south for place on the presi-
Dental ticket. If their Judgment has
proven wise in the past there is no reason
why they will not find it so in the present
instance. This is especially true now that
they will have to draw votes from the
Republican party to win the battle. With
a good man for the second place, I think
Stevenson can beat Mckinley without
difficulty"
When asked who he thought would be a
good running mate for Stevenson, Mr..
Phelps replied that ne thought Campbell
man. .tf ~
Il think" he added, that the south
would stand solid for Mr.. Stevenson be-
cause of his free silver standing and that
the east would support him because Of his
standing as a true Democrat and as a
sterling man.
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GOLDBUGS.
PENNSYLVANIA DELEGATION FOR
SOUND MONEY.
All Votes viii Be Cnst in Accord
ance with the Platform Adopted
at st. Louis-strongly Against
Free silver.

CHICAGO, July 4.-There has been
| talk that there is a division in the
Pennsylvania delegation upon the cur
rency question. There is apparently
no truth in the story. At the Penn
sylvania headquarters at the Palmer
house R. E. Wright, one OF the dele
gates at large from Pennsylvania, and
chairman of the Democratic state CEN
trail committee, was seen. He said:
The platform of the Pennsylvania.
state convention. adopted without a
dissenting vote on the 29th of April,
was unquestionably the most advanced
| statement on the sound money ques-
ton sent from any state convention to
either party 1t represented the prac-
tically unanimous sentiment of the
Democratic party of the state, and
the sixty-four votes of Pennsylvania
in the national convention will IN
doubtedly be cast in favor of sound
money and for the strongest declara-
! ton in that direction that could be
made.
The Pennsylvania position as de-
clared in the action of her state con-
vention is enphatically and strongly
against the free coinage of silver, in
favor of the retirement of greenbacks
and the enforcement of the govern
ment from the business of banking.
and in favor Of a paper currency. abso-
lutely secure against all possibility of
loss to the holder redeemable at all
times in gold and ample in volume for
all the requirements of business
These propositions will be as firmly
and unanimously expressed by the
votes of her delegates in the national
convention as they were in the state
convention. Apart from questions of
principle and considering only matters
of expediency, we believe that the
Democracy of New York, New Jersey
and Connecticut, without whose votes
no Democratic president has ever been
elected, afford a suTer promise of Dem
ocratic success than can be had in the
Republican states of the west that
have never been found in the Demo-
cratic column.
If this convention proposes to wor
ship strange gods it must be without
the approval of the half million ar
Democratic voters in Penrc-,I,-onio
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The y. S. Govt Reports
SHOW Royal Baking Powder
superior to all others.
TORTURED FOR MONEY.

Burglars Apply Fire to the Feet of
m Aged Couple.
At an early hour in the morning re-
Gently two unknown fiends broke into
the residence of Mr.. and Mrs David
Berkey, an aged couple, who reside near
Rummel postofice, Pa, TO rob them.
The couple were considered to be
wealthy. The plundeFers entered the
room occupied by Mr.. and Mrs. Berkey.
and tied them to their beds with ropes
and demanded their fortune. Mr.. Ber-
key refused to give them anything.
whereupOn they immediately applied
the flame of lamps to their feet: burn
ing them horribly. Then they took a
knife and cut Mr.. Berkey's lips in Sits
threatening to kill both him and his
wife If they would not deliver up their
money. Mr.. Berkey told than where
they could find $12S in cash all the
money in the house. but they were not
satisfied, and continued their atrOci-
ties, further mutilating Mr.. Berkey's
face.
No alarm was given until several
hours later. when Mr.. Berkey succeed
ed in freeing himself. A posse started
after the bandits an hour later, but
they had made their escape by stealing
two horses from William Horner's sta
BILE and riding to the mountains. The
condition of both Mr.. and Mrs. Berkey
is critical.-Exchange
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they believe that they would be able to
adjust their affairs in their state much
more satisfactorily than with a straight
Democratic candidate. The silver Repub-
icans have determined TO have Teller in
the race whether he is nominated by the
Democrats or not. 1t is understood that
some of the bolters of the Republican
convention who are now here viii leave
for Denver as soon as they find that Tel
Ter cannot be nominated. They will urge
him to accept an independent silver nom
nation. They. say that any other man
than Teller running against Mckinley Will
be defeated and the chances are that the
silver men will lose the senate. If Teller
runs independently it is claimed the silver
men will still be able to control the sem
ate and the fight for silver can continue.
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Proposed Shipping PI,,lx

CHICAGO, July A vigorous plank
touching upon American shipping has
been prepared by the commissioner of
navigation at Washington for submits
sion to the resolutions committee when
1t meets. The plank is understood to
have received the approval of Score
tary Carlisle. It reads as follows:
We demand that henceforth mod
ern and liberal policies toward all shin
ping shall take the place of our imita-
lions of the restrictive statutes of
King George III, long ago abandoned
by every other maritime power but
the United States. To this end we
favor the repeal of those navigation
laws which, to the nations humilia
ton, have driven American capital
and enterprise to the use of alien flags
and alien crews, have made the stars
ana stripes an almost unknown en-
blem in foreign ports and have vir
tually extinguished the race of Ameri-
can seamen
We oppose the pretense that dis
terminating duties will permit ship
ping; that scheme is an invitation to
commercial warfare upon the. United
States of America. in the light of
our great commercial treaties offering
no gain whatever to American ship
ping while greatly increasing ocean
frefghts on our agricultural and manu-
featured products"
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TarritorisI Representation.

CHICAGO. July 4.-The admission OF
six representatives from the District
of Columbia. Indian territory and Ok
lahona, is believed by the delegates
from these places to be an assured
fact. promises to the effect having
been made by large majority OF the
national committee. The programme
7xed mon this committee is to admit
to the convention the full delegations
of six members sent by the District
of Columbia. Indian territory and Ok
iahoma. TO give to each man one-third
of a vore and to recommend to the
convention that the delegations of six
be seated. AS Indian territory and Ok
lahoma, sends six free silver delegates
and five of the six representatives from
the District of Columbia. are silver
men. the national committee might not
be disposed TO give them this increaS-
ed representation. but it happens that
the committee took a stand on the
question at its last meeting, from
which it could hardly recede now If
il desired to.
In the convention Of 1892 the terrific
ries of Arizona and New Mexico were
granted an increase from two to six
in their representation. and the ma
tional committee al its meeting in
Washington last spring recommended
that the same increase of power be
given to the District of Columbia and
the remaining territories. The COM
mittee has no power to seat the six
delegates, each from the three terri
tories with full voting power, but will
admit them all to the convention, Civ
ing a third of a vote to each man. As
the convention will probably be for
free silver man and as the delegates
to be seated will be in accord with the
majority there seems to be little doubt
the convention will ratify the commit
tees recommendation on the matter
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are favorable. and it is believed they
will be. to next take steps to ascertain
how the delegations stand both on the
pia torn and the nomina ton. This
Will be accomplished, if possible, by a
canvas of the delegations separately
by their representatives on the general
silver committee. If it IS found that
this plan will not work satisfactorily
a caucus will be held.
A majority of the delegates now in
the city are apparently favorable to
the caucus idea, but most of the recog-
nized leaders are disposed to stave it
off as long as possible. They seem to
prefer that if caucus is held at ali
that it should be postponed until after
at least one or two ballots shall have
been taken. Many delegates are tied
up by instructions and would not feel
free to act as they might feel to be
desirable until after they had had an
opportunity to discharge their obliga-
tons to their constituents by voting
for the candidates covered by their in
structions. The action of Governor
Matthews supporters, in declaring
against a caucus has had the effect of
increasing the feeling in favor of such
a proceeding. The idea is being in
dustriously inculcated that those who
oppose a caucus are contempla ting the
possibility of union with the gold
men.
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Governor McCork1e Arrives

CHICAGO, July 4-Governor Nc
Corkle, of West Virginia, whose name
has been listed among the possibilities
for second place on the ticket was one
OF the new arrivals. He comes as an
on-looker, having no official connection
with the convention, but was the CEN
trail figure of the gathering of West
Virginians.
OF the vice-presidential question the
governor spoke modestly, saying: 81
am in no sense a candidate for the
Vlce-presidential nomination"
Speaking OF the situation, he said:
Sixteen to one is very prevalent in
West Virginia. Ours is one of the
pivotal states, the Republicans hone
to carry it, but with a strong ticket
and platform the Democrats can win -
The position of your state on the
tariff question has considerable inter
the Wilson bill" the Associated Press
the Wilson bill, the Associated Press
representative suggested.
We want a plank in the platform
giving the old Democratic doctrine. a
tariff for revenue" the governor re-
piled. eve are not for high protection
nor are we for free trade, but we
stand by the old party doctrine"
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Boies Missionaries.

CHICAGO, July 4-The Boies men
have organized for a vigorous mission
ary campaign among the uninstructed
delegations. They have divided tbeir
forces into squads of workers and each
squad has been assigned to duty at
certain delegation headquarters. These
missionary squads viii endeavor to
find out the sentiment of the delegates
as to their presidential choice. and, If
possible. get the delegation as a body
to give them an audience. when speak
ers will be furnished TO plead the cause
of the Iowa candidate.
Fl. c. Evans. a delegate from OF
tumwa, said that the Iowa men claimed
to have more votes for Boies than
BANDS followers claimed for him
''The majority of our votes he
said, ''are from uninstructed delega-
tions, and we are not at liberty to
quote them. We merely have their
assurances that they will vote for
Boies'
Continuing, he said it was hard to
judge at present just what
THE ACTUAL STRENGTH
of any PARTICULAR candidate is. There
were. so few as vet and the majority
Of them seemed to be at sea. This
gave encourag cement to the Boies forces
to believe they could accomplish much
by missionary effort
In regard to the Illinois delegation.
he did not know what to make of it.
1t seemed 20 be their policy to say
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CHICAGO, July 4.-Senator John P.
Jones Of Nevada is among the recent ar
rivals He is ranked as a Populist, but
he has been circulating among the silver
Democrats freely. He tells them that if
they will only nominate silver man
upon whom all the silver men can unite,
he will be with them for the nominee.
What we want" he said lis the uni
fication of the silver forces and that
cannot be secured except upon candi-
date who will be acceptable alike to sill
yer Democrats, silver Republicans and
Populists. don't care as to the name
OF the man, but he must be such as TO
render it unnecessary for the Populists
and silver men to make nomination at
st. Louis. We will make ourselves ridi-
culous by having two candidates. Moth
ing would please the gold people more
than for US to be divided and 1 hope such
a thing will not occur. The Democratic
party has an opportunity now to put
itself in condition to control affairs in
this country for forty years, but if it fails
to avail itself. of the opportunity offered
Senator Jones had a long conference
with Governor Altgeld during the after
noon.
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STRENGTH
New EngIand Tardv.

CHICAGO, July 4.-This is the first
Democratic convention within the me-
mory of the old timers in which New
England Democrats have not held a.
conspicuous part in the manouvering
of the beginning work All the promo
ton of arrangements of preliminary
campaign matter which has begun to
wax very warm has been carried on
up tc this time without the participa-
ton of the northeast. No New Eng
land delegation has yet established
headquarters and New England has
been without a voice and apparently
without an interest in the pre-
hminaries. The only prominent New
Highlander here is Ex-Governor Russell,
of Massachusetts who had a presiden-
tial boom for a time. He came with
the New York party. Since the Russell
boom was withdrawn New England
has had no candidate and there has
been no reason why his representatives
should make any effort to get here
early, except to take part in the fight
of the east for the gold standard.
which has brought Governor Russell
here before the rest of the delegation,
The New England party slated to
arrive first is the New Hampshire dele
cation, which will come today and all
of the other New England states are
expected to make their appearance on
Sunday.
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IN THE CANYON.
Power Dam Employee shoots Him
self and He VIII Proba bly, Die.

Especial to The Herald.)
OGDEN. Utah, July 4.-Last night in
the canyon at camp No. 2. an Italian
named Joe Casida shot himself twice in
the mouth with probably fatal result.
Three J men, julius Kriegle. Peter
Gornallo and Ernest Bonardemarn were
near at hand when the shots were fired.
Casda and gone into the. bunk house.
presumably to go to bed. when a light
report. like that of firecradker was
heard. They paid no attention to it but
went in to go TO bed. when they noticed
some one wrapped tightly in blankets and
writhing about in the Italians bunk. One
of them stepped over and tried to pull
the blankets off the man. Noticing blood
on them. he called the other men and they
pulled the blankets off, but as they did so
the man raised the gun to his head and
again fired. 1t was his own pistol
42-caliber, that made frightful wounds
No one about the camp knew the man,
as his foreman is in Salt Lake and the
timekeeper was away.
Contractor Harkins, hearing that there
was trouble of some kind, drove down in
haste for a doctor, going back with
Doctor Graves. In the canyon he met
seven men coming down with the I'M
fortunate man who was still alive. The
doctor saw the wounds must result
fatally in short time. No motive for
the deed was known. The man was quiet
and uncommunicative and had been more
so all day. He wrote letter which he
said was to his father and gave it to
man coming into town to post. The men
brought the man down to the hospital.
Here he revived a, little and talked in
coherently. His name was first learned
from his own blood-stained lips while ly-
ing at the hospital. The event gave rise
to the most extravagent rumors here in
Ogden and at other camps. A telephone
message from camp No. 1 stated as re
suit of d Fourth of July carousal a
shooting scrape had occurred at Camp 2
and that three men were dead and a
number Of others injured. The sheriff
and 4 number Of deputies went at once
to the scene of the supposed deadly duel
only to find this one man dying from
self-infiicted wounds.
Casida appears about 80 years of age
He can hardly recover.
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they all like him very we'll He says that
Senator Hill is one of the ablest men the
gold men could name and the silver men
are afraid that he would manipulate the
convention to their disadvantage. 1t is
known that Mr. Hill Will accept the offer
of the national committee and allow the
convention to vote him down if they do
not want him.
Ben L. Cable. member of the committee
from Illinois, has raised the point that
the convention has no right TO say who
snail be temporary chairman, as 1t is d
matter wholly within the direction of the
national committee and that the conven-
ton is under the control of the committee
untll the permanent organization is affect
eo. lie says that the refusal of the silver
men 10 accept the man put forward by the
committee will be revolutionary and con-
trary to all precedent. Mr.. Gable is in
favor of the committee naming a tenn
porary chairman of its choice and the
convention cans do as it pleases about ac-
cepting him.
The friends of MI Thomas continued
their efforts during the day and met
much encouragement from all quar-
tiers.
The names of Senator's Blackburn
and Daniel were also sprung during
the day and Mr.. Blackburn's name
came into special prominence Senator
Daniel declined to allow his name to
be considered in connection with the
selection, saying that he was more
concerned to have Senator Harris made
permanent chairman than to have him
self given the temporary office.
The permanent craftsmanship is con-
coded to Senator Harris on all hands.
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Arouses Criticism.

CHICAGO, July 4.-Considerable per-
sonal feeling has been aroused by the ap-
pearance of Governor Boies and the man
ayers OF other leading candidates who are
openly declaring that it is contrary to
precedent for a candidate for the presiden-
cy to personally attend the convention
Whlle Senator Blackburn and John r.
Mclean are here they come as delegates
at large OF their respective states, while
Mr.. Boies is not on the Iowa delegation.
AT the Bland headquarters the statement
was made with emphasis that Mr. Bland
would not SO violate precedents and pro
priefies as to come to Chicago during the
convention. Mr.. j. D. Showalter, one of
the delegates, said Mr.. Bland would fol-
low the invariable precedent observed by
Democratic candidates of remaining away
from the convention.
From the commencement of this can
vass," added he, BLAND has done a,bso-
lutely nothing to personally advance his
candidacy He opposed instructions by
the Missouri delegation and did not want
instructions from other states. He is now
a his home and will remain there pur-
suing his ordinary avocations''
AT the Indiana headquarters, Senator
Turpie said with emphasis that Governor
Matthews would not come to Chicago to
take any part in his candidacy The
friends of Mr.. Teller made the same OBJ
SeryatiOn.
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HE TRAMPs FOR REST.
And Carries Only Hymnbook and
Cooking Kit.

His hair was long. his beard was tan
gled. his skin was tanned to a rich
red brown He was so gaunt that ne
looked as if his stomach might be
glued to his backbone.
His back was bent, his mellow, brown
ewes were wild and wandering, and his
long, bony fingers kept constantly a.
twitch.
His legs were attenuated. and his
feet-wonderfuliy small feet, taking
everything into consideration-wer
cased in almost square shoes OF the
brogan type. held together with copper
nails instead of waxed ends or wooden
pegs.
Broadway fashion, and his luggage
was of the burlaps variety.
He drifted into the office of the
World, and, like the ancient mariner.
he stoppeth one of three and told the
tale that he must tell or die.
He said he was Hughey Hughes, once
a. Welshnan, the repudiated child of
unnatural parents. for "a years a wan
derer I'D and down the earth, know
ing no rest save such as he could get
from the little Bible and hymnbook
which have been his constant conpan-
ions during no less than nine prone
nades across the North American con-
tinent.
Il am Is years old said Hughey
Hughes in a faraway, faint voice. Il
was born somewhere near Flint and
Chester, North Wales. 1 was knocked
about by everybody when l was a.
child. In 1868 I drifted to the Silver
republic South America.
In 1872, while working in corn
field in the province Of Santa Fe, wnere
I was one Of the Welsh colony, l was
bitten on the ankle by what the Span
iards call a snake with the cross a
beautiful reptile with a mahogany back
and a cross on its head, whose bite al
ways kills.
"Oh, that it had killed me! For ever
since that day have been obliged to
wander up and down. 1 have had a
cold nature, loving no one. have had
terrible dreams. No affection and full
of gloom. And so I walk.
II took a colony of nine Welsh fanli-
lies by train to Oregon in 1874. but
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Daniel Does Not Want the VICE
Presidency.

CHICAGO, July 4.-The name of
John W. Daniel, of Virginia, will not
be presented to the convention as q
candidate for second place on tbe
tlcket. This statement was made to-
day by Congressman Swanson. dele
gate at large, and Mr.. Frank Hume.
an alternate
The Virginia state convention in
s SIT the delegation to urge Daniel
thought best and consultation With
me senator has led to the decision not
to present his name. nv
MT Swanson said: Senator Daniel
mas asked US not to nominate him for
the place and we will follow his wishes
ne ~, prefers MS seat in the senate where
ton and exercise his power as an ora
Tor TO any position which will remove
MIN from an active part in affairs,