The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-08

n interrupting the speaker were also
put out of the hall by the police.
/ Senator Martin, of Virginia, rushed
up and ordered that 1.-THE black
| guards be hauled out" and the po-
lice responded quickly
i Mr. Bryan then arose to conclude
and was again given a warm welcome
of cheers. Raising his hand he made
| the requ est that the convention should
not take his time.
i Immediately there was silence.
When he declared he had been in
the committee room at o'clock in
the morning and knew more about the
| details of the case than those who &C
cused him of ignorance, he was cheer
ed to the echo.
Mr.. Bryan spoke in his most earnest
manner. He concluded with an ex-
| preston of Willingness for unity, add
ing:
But God forbid that it should be
under a soiled banner"
snappy outburst of applause fol-
lowed. but was not prolonged, the
whole body, delegates and spectators
showing plainly the WEAKNESS born
of the intense heat and long session.
Head Charges at Bryan.
Chairman Head Of the Credentials
Committee, who followed, accused Mr..
Bryan of contributing little to the har-
mony he was advocating. Mr.. Head
| admitted there were things done in
| Illinois which should not have been
| done, but he said the committee had
| weighed the facts and it's decision was
| fair, unprejudiced. Before he con-
Guided conversation had throughout
the hall, the convention was growing
| restless.
| There were loud cries of question"
and vote" as Mr.. Head retired.
1.-The question" said the chairman,
| sis on the substitution of the minor
! ity for the majority report"
The noes were in heavy majority
| and before the chairman could an-
| nounce the result of the vote Mr..
Bryan, who was on the platform, de-
manded q roll call. The demand was
promptly seconded and the clerk pro-
ceeded with the call. 1t was the first
| test of the strength in the conven-
| ton and was listened to with intense
| interest.
Defeat OF Bryan and Hearst.
The Hearst people cheered every
vote in favor of the substitute and
| were supported by those parts of the
gallery which had so frequently in
| terrupted the anti-Hearst speakers
A break in the Parker strength came
| when Kentucky voted soldly for the
substitute. Illinois was requested to
| be passed when it's name was called.
Missouri's vote for the substitute
was wildly cheered. but this was
whisper to the roar that went up
when New York voted solidly against
| the substitute. The vote adopted the
| report of the committee and defeated
| the substitute.
Pennsylvania voted as New York
| had voted The final vote was SAT
| to 800 against the minority report.
The question then required on the
adoption of the majority report. By
a viva voce vote there being no votes
against it, it was adopted amid such
| confusion of conversation and visiting
that the proceedings were hardly in
| telligible.
1t was exactly six o'clock when de-
mand was made by the chairman
for the report of the Committee on
Permanent Organization. Represen-
tative Hugh Dinsmore, of Arkansas,
chairman of the committee, made the
report The mention of the name
of Champ Clark as permanent chair
man was received with applause and
the report was unanimously adopted.
Chairman Williams appointed Sena-
tor j. w. Bailey and Representative
cort Mr.. Clark to the chair.
With his hat in hand. Temporary
Chairman Williams presented Mr..
Clark as permanent chairman, and as
Mr.. Clark bowed in acknowledgement
he was heartily welcomed.
CLARK'S SPLENDID SPEECH.
Mr. Clark at once plunged into his
speech. He was greeted with APP
| IL md rrfxT 10 fI1I a a n
He said:
'In his haste, King David said that
all men are liars"
Had he been in Chicago while Sen
ator Henry Cabot Lodge was reading
the Republican platform, he would,
no doubt have pronounced the same
opinion more leisurely, for surely
there never was more mendacity pack
ed into the same space in any docu-
ment purporting to be a grave state
paper. Shakespeare says:
Thrice is he armed. that hath his
quarrel just:
And he but naked, though locked up
in steel.
Whose conscience with injustice is
corrupted"
In the impending conflict our quar-
rel is just and we are in the right be-
yOIlu oil ICtll
To state it in a general way, our
contention is that the government
shall be restored to the Democratic
Republican basis on which the faith
ers of the Republic intended it to rest
and shall be made once more a gov
eminent of the people, by the people
and for the people, instead of gov
eminent of the classes, by the classes
and for the classes.
To state it, with more particularly,
we insist that exorbitant taxation
shall be reduced to Just and reason
able rates; that extravaganza in APP
preparations shall cease: that economy
shall prevail in all the transactions of
the government; that all the depart
ments shall be thoroughly investigated
from top to bottom by Congressional
comm. Gtees; that all eMl-doers of
whatever degree shall be driven from
the public service and properly pun
ished; that the trusts shall be pro-
ceeded against by indictment as are
common and smaller criminals; that
the Constitution accompanies the
American flag into our new posses
SionS.
Teddy is Not the State.
The proposition that we must sup
port President Roosevelt's Philippine
nOIicv-if he has any, right or wrong