Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1898-02-02
SCENES OF disorder.
CONTINUED from first pagel

the average liability of those failing
is the smallest known in the past
twenty-five years: and
Whereas, Official reports show
that over 100000 men are now EN-
ployed who were idle one year ago
and
Whereas, The gold reserve is now
above $l64, ,000, 900 and constantly in
creased and President Mckinley has
discredited all the Populist prophets
by Stubbornly refusing to issue any
more bonds; and
"Whereas, The farmers of the
northwest have wiped out several
millions of dollars of Indebtedness
during tue past year, aud our whole
sale and retail dealers have reported
the holiday trade for 1896 aud '97,
upon the whole, the best they have
ever known; and
Whereas, The cattle and the
sheep and the wool Of Eastern Oregon,
ano the grain and the hops of the
Willamette valley, have advanced
about 100 per cent, in the past eigh-
teen months, IN defiance of the pre-
dictions of VIM. j. Bryan, and the
carefully prepared tables of Pop. Soet-
beer aud Sauerback, and in spite of
Uut ldCU UlldU bil6 vi
1873 is still unavenged: aud
"Whereas, The only ray of comfort
for the Populists heart comes from
the fact shat the expressive produc.
tion and manufacture Of cotton in the
south, where labor and raw material
is 25 per cent cheaper, has closed the
cotton mills of New England; there
fore be it
Resolved, That we tender to the
aggregation consisting of the Popu
list party, the Bimetallic party, and
the disorganiZed fragment of what
was once known as the Democratic
party Of the state OF Oregon, our sin
cere condoleuce that the 'accursed
gold standard has brought about con-
ditions that so badly interfere with
a successful dissemination of the
gospel of woe and that we commend
to their consideration the reflection
that their loss is the peoples gain,
and congratulate them that they, as
citizens Of a common republic, are to
share, equally with US, the beniticeDt
influences of Republican administra-
tion for full generation to come"
At O'Clock partial report Of the
credentials committee was received.
1t was the report of the first congress
SiOnal district.
The fight for president of the
league again waxed warm, g. W.
Fulton, Of Astoria, having been
brought out, but Claud Catch, the
choice of the Marion county Republi-
cans, and the idol of the young mem
berS of the party in the valley, easily
led.
During the interval before the ere.
dentials committees report was read,
Hon II. T. Geer was called for ana he
appeared on the rOstrum and made
few remarks counseling harmony
g. W, Fulton was next called out
and this champion Of 4publicanism
responded with a rluglug speach In
favor of party unity and harmony,
was watching every move of the Re-
publicans, and that only by harmony
could success attend the efforts of
the Republican party in Oregon.
His speech was great factor in bet
tering the feeling.
EVENING SESSION.
Reassembling at 1880 O'Clock in the
evening the crededtials committee
announced that it was ready to report.
Johnson, of Linn, read the report,
which showed that 2,0lS delegates
were entitled to seats. 1t was pre-
faced with the following:
"In view Of the loose provisions of
the League constitution, in regard to
a scertaining the qualifications of del
e gates or the number Of members ac-
tually upon the rolls of the clubs,
upon which representation is claimed,
we are compelled to report that the
following delegates have prima facie
rights to seats in this convention.
Your committee feels that it must
call the attention OF the convention to
the apparent stuffing of the rolls of
the clubs for the sole purpose of repre-
especially in Multnomah
county, by which that county has
about double that
claimed, and that it deems
that it is unjust TO the clubs of the
outside counties, TO come with a gen.
uine representation aud have it offset
by paper clubs and fictitious member
ship in Multomah county.
1t therefore recommends that such
of the league constitu-
tion be adopted as shall cOntine the
in league conventions
TO clubs regularly organized to do
Republican work, whose mbershiD
shall have been filed with the Secre-
tary of the league. The delegates
were divided as follows:
"First district, 1873 clubs and 1856
delegates.
"Second district, 126 clubs and 1862
delegates delegates from Multno-
NAH county, $685."
johnson moved the adoption Of the
report as read, but number of mo-
tions intervened to throw out the vote
of Multnomah county on account of
fraud. Wallace McCamant anti
Mitcheil) named four clubs which he
said had no right to seats IN the con-
vention.
w. T. Hume(M Mtchell) called atten-
tion TO the McKinly and Hobart
league, Of this city, from which Nc
Camant was delegation, and de-
clared that it had no standing as a
club, and ought not to be represented
in the convention Hump admitted