The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1904-07-15

Afternoon Session.
| The first test of strength of the
| factions in the convention came at
! the afternoon session, when the re-
| port of the credentials committee was
made. The majority report favored
the adoption, with one exception, of
the action CT the national committee.
William J. Bryan presented a mi
nOrity report in behalf of the Illinois
! contestants.
After strenuous appeal by Mr..
| Bryan, who spoke for thirty minutes
in behalf of the Hearst-Harrison dele
gates, the roll call showed CAT votes
against and 299 for the adoption Of
| the report for which he had vainly
| battled.
! Illinois, on request of National Com
mitteeman Hopkins, was passed on
! the roll call. The twenty-eight votes
| of Michigan and the sixty-eight of
! Pennsylvania were cast as unit I'M
| der Chairman Williams ruling.
Hon. Champ Clark, of Missouri, took
| the gavel as permanent chairman of the
| convention late in the afternoon SeS-
sion, and delivered his speech as such.
can shortcomings and inconsistencies,
both in the party and administration.
Mr.. Clark said in part:
MIR. CIarI<'s Speech.
Gentlemen of the Conventions: Tho
principal part of the experimenting by
the chairman in this convention has been
accomplished. My business is to run this
convention so that the nominees of it will
be elected next November (applause) and
1t shall he done without fear favor q
them. King David said once in his haste
that all men are liars. If he had been in
Chicago about the time Senator Henry
Cabot Lodge was reading the republican
platform. he could have taken his leisure
and said that 'All republicans liars.
daughter and prolonged applause.)
They dragged out the old free trade
DOGGY, and expect to scare men with that
in the coming campaign. Men in the frame
of mind that the democrats are this year
can not be scared.
'They declare-the republicans dO-the
monumental lie that a democratic tariff
always produces bad time, and re-
beginning his second term in the White
House, and the democrats had scarcely
you had a panic that made peoples teeth
rattle from sea to sea. CLaughterO They
evidently believed in Mark Twain'S die
tim, Blessed is the man that bloweth his
own horn, lest it be not blown Laugh
teri
"They say 'we'-that is the republicans
fought a quick and successful war in
favor of Cuba. when the truth is, as 1
stated on the floor of the house when
they were all there, and none of them
dared to deny it, that we took them by
the SCruf of the neck and dragged them
into the Spanish war. And their diSin-
clinati0n to go into. and their disposition
TO monOpolize all glories, reminds me of
a POland-China SOW that my father used
to tell me about, that so baShful you
had to pull her ears off TO get her to the
trough. and so greedy you had to pull
her tail off to get her away. Laughter.Q
I'VE are in favor of cutting down to
a reasonable basis the monstrOsities of
the Dingley tariff rates. We are in IA
vOr of reciprocity that recfprOcates. Gap
plauseD We are in favor of getting rid
of the Philippine islands at the first IA
VOrable opportunity. They are not worth
a baUbee and never We're. We are in
favor of restricting the functions of the
president and his cabinet to what the
fathers intended they should be in the
constitution, and we believe in compelling
the executive department of this govern
ment to abdicate the large part of the
legislative function that it has usurped.
las far a my rulings in this convention
will be, they shall be fair. If we con-
duct ourselves that all of the various
elements of public opinion that are OPP
posed to the Roosevelt administration has
brought together, we will mop them off
the face of the earth from sea to sea in
the coming election. (Applause.l can
not do any good presiding over this con-
ventiOn without your help, and that I So
liCit that we may have good order, good
feeling and Il great victory in the contest
to come" (Applause)
Following the speech of Congress
man Clark the convention adjourned
shortly after o'clock until 10 o'clock
Friday morning.
The adjournment was made neces-
sary by the inability of the subcom-
mittee of the resolutions committee to
complete its report.