The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-09-11
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned By Telegraph and Mail
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
JOHN DILLON and several other dele
gates to the Irish convention at Dub
lin were hooted and attacked on the
street by gang of toughs and had to
seek refuge in a hotel. 1t could not
be said on the Sd that the convention
had been a success and the delegates
were as far from agreeing upon plan
for unity as when they first met.
AT a conference between Senator
Butler, Thomas E. Watson and other
populist leaders at Atlanta, Ga, it was
decided that Watson should speak
twice in Kansas, twice in Nebraska
and twice in Colorado and that Viii.
liam J. Bryan and Thomas E. Watson
should be notified of their nomination
BY letter some time before Septem bel
10.
The gold standard democrats, in ma.
tional convention at Indianapolis, Ind,
on the Sd nominated Senator John NJ
Palmer, of Illinois. for president. and
Gen. Simon B. Buckner, of Kentucky
for vice president. After Adopting 8
platform the convention adjourned
sine die.
Ex.Gov. FRANCIS, of Missouri. took
the oath of Office as secretary of the in.
terror on the Sd. The oath was admin
istered by Associate Justice Harlan, Of
the United States supreme court, in
the room of Secretary Carlisle. There
were present Secretaries Lamont and
Carlisle, besides several newspa per re-
porters.
The national committee of the gold
democrats held a meeting at Indianap
oils, Ind, Immediately after the con
vention had adjourned on the Sd and
selected w. d. Bynum for chairman Of
the executive committee and John p
Frenzell, of Indianapolis, for treasurer
Mr.. Bynum was authorized to select
the other mem bers. A regular politi
cal campaign will be conducted.
THE New York Commercial Adver.
tiser printed on the 4th dispatch
from Arthur Sewall, the vice presiden-
tial nominee of the democratic party.
stating that he had not the remote>t
intention of withdrawing from the
ticket.
EX-SECRETARY JOHN w. FOSTER en-
tertained Ii Hung Chang at dinner at
Washington on the 4th, a select COM
pany being present, including three
cabinet members and the general COM
handing the army.
A WASHINGTON dispatch of the 4th
stated that the populist party, follow
ing in the wake of the repu blican,
democratic and silver parties, had de-
cided to organize clubs in every pre-
cinct in the United States
CHAIRMAN BYNUM, of the executive
committee of the national democratic
party, has appointed the following as
members of the committee: w. B. Hal
deman, of Louisville, Ky; L. c. Kraut.
hoff, of Kansas City, Mo-; f. w. M.
Cutcheon. of Minnesota, and John C.
Built, of Philadelphia. Mr.. Byuum
has also announced that headquarters
will be located in Chicago with a
branch in New York.
JAMES L. NORRIS, the assistant treas
urer of the democratic national COM
mittee at Washington, has issued an
appeal for campaign funds
DIR. GEORGE B. Brown GOoDE, assist
ant secretary of the Smithsonian insti-
tuition and probably the leading au-
thority on fish and fisheries in the
United States, died at Washington on
the 9Th Of bronchial pneumonia, aged
45 years.
Mr.. BRYAN spoke to crowd of from
5000 to 10, 600 people at Milwaukee on
the 5th. On account of rain both
speaker and listeners had to put up
their umbrellas.
WESTERN delegations numbering
over 5000 people visited Maj. Mckin-
ley at Canton, O., on the 5th.
A LONDON dispatch said that the re-
cent Irish national convention at Dub
| lin, as means of promoting unity in
the Irish parliamentary party, was the
biggest failure on record and only
served to widen the breaches existing
among the various factions. Even the
liberal newspapers, which for years
have had the cause of Ireland at heart,
admitted this.
| GEN. DAN w. JONES, of Little Rock,
was elected governor of Arkansas by
from so, 600 to 60, 600 plurality, the en-
tire democratic state ticket being sue.
cessful at the polls.
| HENRY B. PAYNE, ex-United States
senator, suffered stroke of paralysis
at cleveland, w., anu litCIe nope was
entertained of his recovery. He is
nearly 80 years old.
Mr.. BRYAN reviewed the Labor day
parade at Chicago and then spoke to
about GO, 600 people at Sharpshooters'
park.
SENATOR TELLER, of Colorado, de.
livered his first speech of the campaign
at Morrison, ILL.,. on the 7th.
! THE convention of the National AS
ISOLATION of Democratic clubs, called
to meet at ST. Louis on September 80
has been postponed until October 2
and will last through the Sd. This j:
done to insure the attendance O
Messrs. Bryan and Sewall, who would
not have been able to be present OF
the date first named.
MISCELLANEOUS.
THE bicycle racers which left Sar
Francisco on August 25 at IL O'Clock
arrived at the Journal office in New