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every time the News Is ht2 Is It so com
pietcy q "Mc Too" as that?
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HOUSTON. THURSDAY. July %, 1906

"Never will | vote for Nc
Kinley Never will l vote
the republican ticket, or for
any man, even my brother.
who might be named there
on. Borrower CLEVELAND.
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PENDLEToN WON'T BOLT.
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Mr. e. Il Pendlcton Of Vaidosta. one OF
the strongest democrats IN south Georges,
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dor.-omcmt of Bryan. indeed but to his in
dorsemcnt without division OF the spoiis,
that a great deal Of the weight OF the
party-for- rrtn rple-only Irpposrion has
been irretr.evaby los, to the popuiis, or
e4ni2NtIou
win the other parties 1t has its fnli
complement Of common clay.
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Antonio Maceo Whites 20 the New York
word that he insurycn's can take care
Of themselves. Init tina. the enli,h' ',cd
continent u Amer. q and u rope shoulti
protest AGAINST tho hu'rh.ry Of the irno-
cents in Cuba hv the Stauiari4 An IN
ternatlonal code whoa NH allow ,he
slaughter # women an. children and ren-
comlst4n,s unItr any circumstances IS
too harharous for THIS age and ought to
he amenici By international conference
The bob, IN The Eaa; IS growing smaller
by degrees and beautifully less.
1'hc "Clcvclar1 disturbances" which We
ar. readlmg about Il must Ice remcmhcred
refer 70 tho labor troubles in cleveland.
ohio. Colonel lianna's home and M, to
that other Cleveland now located on Buz-
zatSs Bay III" latter Cleveland is no, IN
a state Of siege at AL. and IS seemingly
IN bhssfiil ignrrpnce OF the political and
Other worries NOW vextng the country.
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The labor uuions haze started ont in
dcud earnest to determine exactly what
is IN. matter with Hanna.
The acton Of Wall s;re-at banks IN stand
.nE by me government AMI placing 'h"'
.u'itl's- ihsm 10 arrlM for PATRIOTISM IN
truth y,a aha,l1 riaiSe INA .ti- M nds tr,t
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great country. aud that the only "auarch-
lists" w.. ever had vrr,. hum. Tong at.o
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Tho N,hraskt cine4 appear to be con-
uihn'ing their la"ns 70 the campo IN
with remarkable enthusiasm.
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I The Tammany Tiger Is whetiing its
claws for nnuh'r sprHG ~ the & .. p.
elephant. Ana the hide Ia going TO suffer,
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The republican SnaonaI committee wi,l
itpeni bon ihis campaign o. the MIGHTY
.pllnr There are reports and esllrnces
n q HAIR dozen l1ns Of tine ronn.rv
1gw tat the m RI viii be so openly and
90 IS buy the elections. VI neg Is pow
.tfll, bu not AL po~ertul-.u ild rnant
auh'c can neither be bought nor LIN.
1 l.d
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His elocution is of the order of stump ora
tory with forid gesticulation and much
shaking of clinched fists in the faces OF
his admirers. He made the mistake of
reading his speech from manuscript and
of prolonging it to upwards of half an
hour.
1t was no doubt very interesting to the
few hundred people sitting within ra-
dIus of fifty feet of him, but nobody else
could hear what he had to say. / could
distinguish the words "sound money"
and knew that he was talking for gold by
the way in which the Morton men ap-
plauded. Then l heard protection to
home industries, s'infamous Wilson
bill" Z" ''navy and merchant marine," and
knew that he must be reading President
McKinley's first message to Congress in
March, 1897.
Every one was so glad when he had fin
ished that the applause was general and a
man in the gallery uttered a prolonged
sound for all the world like a locomotive
whistle, in a melancholy minor key. That
made the delegates and the 500 members
of the press laugh and feel much better
after the speech they couldn't hear. These
were the only episodes that enlivened the
tediousness of one of the dullest and least
--teresting sessions in the history of Ma
tional conventions. The roll was called
and the delegations handed in their selec-
tions for members of the several commit
tees and an adjournment was declared un-
til 10 o'clock tomorrow morning.
could not help drawing parallel be-
tween the makeup of this convention of
nearly 1000 delegates and alternates Sc
lected from among the brightest poll
tIcians in every State in the Union, and
the personnel at the Republican State Con-
vention of 900 in California some weeks
ago. The i'm preston was forced upon me,
to my surprise, that, allowing for the vast
difference between thepopulation OF the
State of California and that of the rest of
the United States, allowing for the almost
imneasurably larger field from which the
delegates to the st. Louis convention were
selected, the personnel of the Sacramento
convention was higher in intellect than
this.
California has no Chauncey Depew. but
she has her General Barnes and score of
other political speakers, some of whom
are as graceful and as witty as New
York's favorte after-dinner orator. She
has equally as able tactitians and poll
ticians as New York though in a smaller
field and she can measure up inch Tor
inch with New York, Indiana and Ohio in
the matter of political grit and, energy.
She has no cause to feel ashamed of her
delegation in st. Louis, for they are the
peers of any on the floor in social standing.
in political sagacity and in adherence to
Republican principles.
Not alone can she produce the peer of
any Republican delegation to the Nations
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-17
NOW THE BIG BATTLE BEGINS.
Opening of the Republican
National Convention
at St. Louis.
FAIRBANKS INITIAL SPEECH.
Little Business Transacted Except
the. Naming of Com
mitteemen.
VERY FEW CONTESTS TO BE HEARD
Mckinley Delegates Are Growing Rather
Restive Under Mark Hanna's
Iron Rule.

was tall man with dark, closely cropped
beard and little bald spot on the top of
his head; a quiet-looking gentleman in a
Prince Albert coat, who took his seat
among the distinguished guests without
any mark or recognition from the general
crowd. He was Brigadier-G General G. A.
Wilson, who captured Jeff Davis, Presi-
dent of the Southern Confederacy.
Joe Manley was recognized with glad
shout by the Mckinley delegates when he
stepped upon the platform to read the
roll. The Reed men, whose leader he had
deserted on the battlefield, disdained to
join in the welcome, but cast scornful
looks upon him. If he were a veget able [
think he would have wiIted beneath that
scorching fire of unfriendly eyes. He
spoke in so low a tone, and the acoustics of
the big building were so bad that even the
sound of his voice was not heard fifty feet
away.
The introduction of Temporary Chair
man Fairbanks of Indiana was the signal
for more reneral applause than had yet
been observed. Mr.. Fairbanks is tall and
of scholarly appearance with a severe ex-
preston accehtuated by closely cropped
black beard and a high bald forehead.
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of our Republic, and above all illumined and
immortalized the 1ife OF the father of his coun-
try. Fill US with deep and abiding sense OF
the transcendent dignity and nobility of
American citizenship and of the sacred obli-
cations that should attend it, so that we may
grow from day to day in the beauty OF civic
virtue and our beloved land from hundred
harbored Maine to the vine-clad hills of the Col
denGate-from the bound north to the warm
and sunny south-may go from strength TO
strength until it achieves its destiny to become
the fixed and shining mark for every bark
bound for the haven of law and liberty Let
not the glory of our past be greater than the
present, nor let US come to shame and grief
by the worship of gods of gold and silver to
the neglect of those ideals of the nina and
the soul which alone worthy of free
mans homage and alone can secure the con-
tinued possession and enjoyment of civil and
religious liberty.
Remove from around us the din and noise of
insincerity and hollow-sounding shows; let
bitter strife and wrangling cease in joyous and
grateful exercise of our precious, divine birth
right, and as true and loyal Americans let US
rise superior to every prompting and preju-
dice OF sect and section so that firmly linked
in love of our common countryw we may realize
how good and lovely it is for brethren to dwell
together in harmony. Prosper thou the work
people, and when its message goes forth over
the land may its golden fringe bring to them
the glad assurance hatprosperitywill brighten
our home, and the immediate jewel of our
soul, the good name OF our people and the
credit of our Government, shall remain untar-
nished forever.
May thy grace, God, come upon us, and do
thou establish the work of our hands. Amen.
At the close of the cha plains prayer
Chairman Carter said: "This convention
is assem- bled in compliance with the terms
of call issued by the National Committee
on the 18th of December, 1895 which call
the secretary will now proceed to read"
The secretary complied in a voice that
was inaudible ten feet distant amid cries
of ''louder."
Chairman Carter said: Gentlemen of
the convention, by direction of the Ma
tional Committee 1 present for your ap-
proval for your temporary chairman, Hon.
Charles W. Fair banks of Indiana
Mr.. Sutherland, on behalf of the New
York delegation, moved that the selection
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Thirteen thousand people, visitors and
delegates. attended the opening of the Ma.
tional Convention at noon to-day. There
were chairs for 700 more and the vacant
places in she gallery. The failure to crowd
the large building was not because of the
scarcity of $5 pieces in ST. Louis, but be-
cause the first days work of convention
is usually of routine character and there
fore uninteresung. Tomorrow, when the
political giants of the country shall step
forth and make the nominating speeches,
the building will be found too small to
accommodate the sweltering crowd.
The massing together of large bodies of
men, actuated by 8 common feeling, is
productive of what is called magnetism,
and the heated air is full of it to-day. 1t
is the magnetism, the enthusiasm of Re-
publicanism, which had its birth in the
emotional breaking forth of sympathy for
the black slave toiling away his life in the
cornhelds of the South, and which sent a
million of brave men to face the fevers
and the foemen in the States in which the
clanking of the chain and the swish of the
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the locati to be occupied by the various
delegations. The row of seats imme-
diateIy fronting the president and chair
was assigned to the State of Maine, and
the two rows back of that to the State of
Massachusetts. Next behind Massachusetts,
came four rows assigned to New York.
Rows back of those were assigned the
States of Michigan and Wisconsin. The
chairs in the extreme back rows were
marked off for the delegates from the
Territories and the District of Columbia.
That disposed of the first section imme-
diately fronting the chair OF the presiding
officer.
With the exception of Iowa and Kansas.
to which back rows of the next section on
the right were assigned, and of Alabama,
| which had the front row of that section,
there were no other indications in sight of
where the delegations from the other
States were to be located. AS time passed
on, similar iron rods bearing the placards
with the name of the State painted in
white letters on blue ground, were placed
in position.
AT IL o'clock assignments were com.
pleted for all the States.
In the section Immediately to the right
of the platform were fixed the placards for
the States of California, Colorado, Con-
necticut, Illinois, Washington, Alabama,
Arkansas, Florida, South Carolina, Louisi-
ana, Nebraska, New Jersey, West Virginia,
Delaware-California and Alabama being
in the front rows, and the other States
coming behind them in the order named.
The other States were fixed in the sections
facing the platform on the left-hand side.
An hour was occupied by the assistant
sergeant-at-arms in instructing and locat-
ing his deputies ushers and assistant
ushers, and, in the meantime, band of
music in the gallery behind the platform
performed various airs. Tue doors were
not open for general admission until about
11:15 o'clock, and from that time on spec
tators made their way to the galleries, but
not in large numbers, the tickets for ad.
mission being put at the high figure of $40
for the set-that is, for every session of
the convention.
At IL :35 the delegations began to ar
rive-those of California and Maine being
the first to enter the hall. They did so
without demonstration. Other State dele
cations poured in rapidly, and soon the
Outside the clash of brass bands was heard
from time to time, denoting the coming of
the delegations. The Massachusetts men,
under the leadership of Senator Lodge,
wearing a smile of satisfaction on his face
and a rose-colored dahlia in his button
hole, took their seats quietly. Prominent
among the Colorado men was Senator
Teller, who chatted pleasantly with those
in his neighborhood and 'saw'' Mr..
Lodges floral challenge with a silver
white rose in his Duttonhole.
At II o'clock all the delegations had ar
rived and been seated without any special
demonstrations, except when Mr.. Platt of
New York was seen, and then some cheer
ing and other manifestations of admira-
tion took place. The spectators in the gal
leries-a fair sprinkling of ladies among
them-did not fill one-tenth of the space
The hour of noon was marked on the
dials of the two platform clocks and for
twenty minutes afterward, while waiting
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blzcksnake were a part of the law of the
commonwealth.
Before this magnetism of the masses,
whatever bitterness of feeling might have
existed because of warning interests, what
ever animosities might have been created
because of the rivalry of the different can
didates, melts away.
Only an Indication of this was observ-
able to-day. The strain of coming con-
test was still there, the question whether
silver was to be debased to the rank of
metal selling at so much a pound, or
whether the platform would ignore the
real issue and put IN what will be known
as a straddle plank on the currency ques-
ton.
Senator Platt of New York was there,
smarting under his recent wounds, but re-
venged and consoled by the reflection that
ne had forced the imperial Hanna to come
to time and agree to insert straight gold
plank. The men from New England were
there sore because their magnetic cham
pion, Tom Reed, had not larger follow
ing. The supporters of Morton, the big
New York delegation, were on hand early,
watchful for any symptoms that might
indicate that the Mckinley boom,
which started so early and ran so fast, was
getting tired and wanted to lie down in
the shade. The adherents of the good and
wise man, Allison, were also on the alert,
hoping even against hope that a political
tornado might strike Mckinley and take
off his roof. There were banks OF antipathy
that kept the Republican magnetism in
check. When the issues shall have been
decided and the candidate for the Presi-
dency shall have been nominated, the
strain will have disappeared and the old
time enthusiasm will burst forth, perhaps.
We shall see better later on.
It is a big convention, the delegates and
alternates numbering nearly 1000, and
when these are all seated on the main
floor the black and brown and red and
bald heads, and the flashes of faces that
bob up in that heaving sea OF palm leaf
fans make a spectacle unique with the I'M
pressiVeness of mum bers.
The band helped things along a good
deal. There is nothing like good band
in a convention. This fact was proved to-
day before the meeting was called to order
when "The Sidewalks OF New York made
the crowd keep time gayIy with its feet.
Otherwise it was a cold, dull, mechanical
session.
Same little diversion was caused when
Tom Platt. Marcus Aurelius Hanna and
Chauncey Y. Depew came in and were
greeted with hand-ciapping, but it was To-
cal merely. The New Workers clapped
palms and uttered approving cries for old
man Platt, while the rest looked on. When
Hanna appeared, the Mckinley men
cheered him. while Morton's New York
and Reeds New England friends looked
on with scornful glances.
Among the historical figures in the hall
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councils, but she can and does supply
Democrats who can uphold the good name
of her intelligence and her loyalty.
The California delegation will faithfully
adhere to its State platform on the silver
question, and at caucus held this morn
ing adopted resolution unanimously by
the terms of which the delegation will
join with the silverites in maintaining the
battle for silver plank in the platform.
1t was also decided to appoint Congress-
man Grove l.. Johnson to represent the
delegation in the big discussion which is
expected to take place tomorrow on the
financial question.
The action of the committee on cre-
dentials at their meeting this evening in
voting down a motion to allow the con-
testing delegations to plead their cause be-
fore the convention has created much dis
satisfaction among the delegates thrown
out arbitrarily by the National Commit
tee. The committee will resume its ses-
sion halfhour hence, and will take up
the pending motion to report the tempor-
airy roll TO the convention without allow
ing any debate upon it. If this scheme is
carried through in the interest of McKin-
ley it will endanger his chances, for should
a single disgruntIed delegation break from
the solid line there would be a stampede
that would end in the defeat of Hanna's
plans and of his candidate as well.
1t is known that there are many delega-
tions remaining under the Hanna rod, and
although they are willing to vote for Nc
Kinley, they are growing exceedingly
restlve under the domineering whip of
Mr.. Hanna. Mr.. MeKinley's is not such
magnetic name as Blaine's was, and it
would not require much more provocation
to snap the slender thread that binds
them, not to the man, but to the cause, of
the man from Ohio.
The mutterings of discomfort are grow
ing louder and louder, and if this dragoon-
ing continues there is a likelihood that
the Mckinley boom started early by Mr..
Hanna may get tired and fall by the way
side. Many of the Eastern States have
favorite sons who would be available as
dark horses should the Mckinley line be
broken by over-tension. Besides these,
Reed and Allison are growing in popu-
larity every day, and they will remain
menace to McKinley's chances until the
Presidential nomination shall have been
disposed Of Reeds friends are having a
big parade tonight, headed by brass
band, and whooping it up for the popular
statesman from Maine.
JOHN PAUL CosGRAyE.
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OF the committee be approved, and this
was carried without a dissenting vote.
Mr.. Fairbanks, tall and very slim
gentleman with dark, close-cropped
beard and mustache, came forward, and
in clear and distinct tone, with only oc-
casional references to his notes, delivered
the following address, which was fire.
quently appiauded
Gentlemen of the COMMITTEES: / am pro-
foundly grateful for this expire ssion of your
generous confidence. AS citizens we were
never called upon to discharge a more i'm
portant duty than that which rests upon US
the nomination of President and Vice-Presi-
dent OF the United States This duty is par
ticularly impressive one at the moment, for it
is already written in the book of fate that the
choice OF this convention will be the next
President and Vice President of this great Re-
public
Three years of Democratic admin istration
have been three years of panic, of wasted en-
ergy, OF anxiety and loss to the American peo-
pie, without a parallel in our history. To-day
the people turn 10 the Republican party hope
fully, confidently, and it is for us to meet their
citations; it is for us to give them those
candidates upon whom their hearts have been
centered, and to give them clear. straightfor-
ward, emphatic expression of our political
faith.
The Republican party is a party of convic-
tions; and it has written its convictions in the
history OF the Republic with the pen and the
sword; with it the supreme question always
has been not what is merely fpolitic.' but
what is everlastingly "right" The great men
We have given to the Nation and to history,
the mighty dead and the illustrious living, are
our inspiration and tower of strength. If we
are but true to their exalted example we can
not be false to our countrymen.
For third of a century prior TO the advent
of the present Democratic administration we
operated under laws enacted by the Republican
party. All great measures concerning the
tariff and the currency originated with it.
Tariff laws were formed upon lines which pro-
tected our'laborers and producers from un-
equal and unjust foreign competition, and
upon the theory that the best market in the
world is the home market and that it should
be enjoyed by our own countrymen.
Under the currency laws our currency was
made National The wildcat State bank
money of the democratic party was wiped out
OF existence. The unprecedented demands
growing out of the war were met by a paper
currency which ultimately became as good as