The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-07-16

cess was taken until 2 p. m
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 of the national committee.
William ]. Bryan presented a mi
nority report in behalf of the Illinois
contestants.
After a 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 a unit un
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.
1t was a sharp arraignnient of Republi-
can shortcomings and inconsistencies,
both in the party and administration.
Mr.. Clark said in part:
MIR. CIark's Speech.
Gentlemen of the Convention: The
principal part of the sp~eech-making 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 h be done without fear or favor to
them. King David said once in his haste
that all men are liars. IL he had been in
Chicago about the time Senator Henry
Cabot Lodge was reading the republican
and said that "All republicans are liars.
daughter and. prolonged a~pplause)
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.
monumental lie that a democratic tariff
always produces a bad time, and a re-
publican tariff always produces good
beginning his second term in the White
House, and the democrats had scarcely
enough votes to call the ayes n noes.
you HdQ q panic mat HldQe peOple , teStn
rattle from sea to sea: Oaughter) They
evidently believed in Mark Twain's die
tim, Blessed is the man that bloweth his
own horn, lest 1t be not blown Laugh
"They say 'we'-that is the republicans
fought a quick and successful war in
stated on the floor of the house when
they we're all there. and none of them
dared to deny it, that we took them by
tho scruff of the neck and dragged them
into the SnaniSh war And their diSin-
clinatIon to go into. and their disposition
to monopolize all giories, reminds me of
a Poland-China sow that my father used
to tell me about, that was so bashful you
had to pull her cars off to get her to the
trough. and so greedy you had to pull
her tail off to get her away. Naughter.(
a reasonable basis the monstrosities of
the Dingley tariff rates. We are in IA
vor of reciprocity. that reciprocates. APP
plause.) 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 were. We are in
president and his cabinet to what the
fathers intended they should be In the
and we believe in compelling
the executive department of this govern
legislative function that 1t has usurped
LAS far as my rulings in this convention
will be, they h be fair. If we so 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 you help. and that l So
licit that we may have good order, good
feeling and a great victory in the contest
to come" (Applause.)
Following the speech of Congress-
man Clark the convention adjourned
shortly after 6.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.