Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-09-14

tendance. New York, headed by ". Bourke
Cochran. and Wisconsin were most numer
oUsly represented. The meeting took place
in Central Music hall and was called
TO order by Franklin H. Head, presi-
dent of the Civic Federation. The dele
gates listened to an address OF welcome
20 Illinois by Attorney General Akin, on
behalf of Governor Tanner, who by i'll
ness was prevented from appearing in per-
son. DR.. Howard S. Taylor, city prose-
cutor, welcomed the delegates to Chicago
on behalf of Mayor Harrison.
With the progress of the speaking it
became evident that many of the delega-
tiens had come with firm convictions for
or against trade combinations. The speech
of Mr.. Weoten. of Texas, delivered during
the afternoon, and hammering trusts in
a merciless manner, aroused the widest
enthusiasm in the ranks of the labor rep
resentatives and the delegations from
many Western and Southern states, while
the Fasteners generally smiled critically
and kept their arms folded.
The attempt to round the somewhat
shapeless mass of delegates into working
form resulted in considerable disorder.
Suggestions for the makeup of a committee
TO arrange a programme for the confer
ence came from every part of the house
cuty that the temporary chairman extract
ed the basis for resolutions which were
finally adopted. This was not accom-
plished until W. Bourke Cochran and Au-
gust CAM, a delegate representing the
Knights of Labor, had become the center
of a scene which provoked unrestrained
laughter, Mr.. Cochran joining. The head
of the New York contingent, in an en-
deayor to bring a little order out OF
chaos, arose, while Mr.. CAM in a very
loud tone was declaring that his delega-
tion was of more importance than that
of any state. When the New Yorker
began speaking, the labor delegate fshed
from hip pocket pair of opera glasses
and at short range contemplated the
speaker, comnlent....- occasionally in such
a way that the merriment attained vol.
ume which drowned the voice of the
Eastern orator.
1t was finally resolved that the Civic
Federation, through its chairman, Mr.
Head. should conduct the meeting to-day
and that a committee on programme bt
appointed, consisting of one man from eacf
state delegation and one from each organ.
ization national in its scope
John w. Hayes, of the knights of Labor
created something of a sensation by de
claring that '.he did not intend to b.
'ieSSSo "ASh sNt" StIStg utleGall0n
even If he did vote In that cradle Of
trusts"
The non-attendance of many delegate
was not unexpected, and Secretary Easle,
announced that probably 100 of the tard,
ones, including Governor Pingree of Mich
fgan, would be present at to-morrow's ses
sion. Among those present to-day wer,
w. Bourke Cochran, Albert Shaw, of th
Review of Reviews; Governor Atkinson. O
West Virginia; Ex-Governor Foster. o
Ohio; Professor John B. Clark, of Colum
bia university; Attorney General II. S
Smith, Of Texas: F. b. Thurber, of New
York; Professor Henry Carter Adams. q
the University of Michigan; Professor ]
w. jerks, of Cornell university; Professo
John Graham Brooks, of Cambridge. Mass
lecturer on political economy in the Uni
versity of Chicago; Professor E. W. Remis
late of Kansas; Lieutenant Governor Jones
of Ohio; Professor r. T. Ely of the Uni
rersity of Wisconsin, and Attorney Genera
Smythe, of Nebraska William Jenning
Bryan did not appear, but it is believed h
Will be present later in the conference.
Chairman Head delivered an address 4
explanation of the call for the conference
lie said in part:
This is not a trust or an antitrust con
ference, but a conference in search n
truth and light. With this end in view tb
attendance has been solicited of men a
every shade of opinion upon the genera