The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1904-07-16

tlaiS not DelnB ready TO report re
cess was taken until 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 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 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 arraignment of Republi-
can shortcomings and inconsistencies,
both in the party and administration
Mr.. Clark said in part:
Mr. ClarlS's speech.
"Gentlemen of the Convention: The
principal part of the speech-mak king by
the chairman In this convention has been
accomplished. My business Is to run this
convention so that the nominees Of 1t will
be elected next November (applause) and
it shall be done without fear or favor to
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 IAN republicans are liars.
daughter and prolonged applause.)
They dragged out the old free trade
bogey, 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
publican tariff always produces good
times. And yet, in '73, when Grant was
beginning his second term in the White
House. anu the democrats naQ SCdfCely
enough votes to call the ayes and noes,
ycu had panic that made peoples teeth
rattle from sea to sea. Q.aughter) 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
fought quick and successful war in
favor of Cuba. when the truth is. as I
stated on tho floor of the house when
they were all there, and none Of them
the seruff of the neck and dragged them
into the Spanish war. And their disin-
clination to go into. and their disposition
to monopolze all glories, 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. Usaughter.l
1--WE are in favor of cutting down to
a reasonable basis the monsfrosities of
the Dingley tariff rates. We are In fa-
vor of reciprocity that reciprocates. (A?--
plause) We are in favor of getting rid
of the Philippine islands at the first fa-
vorable opportunity. They are not worth
a~baubee and never were. We are In
favor of restricting the functions OF the
president and his cabinet to what the
fathers intended they should be I'm the
constitution, and we believe in compelling
the executive department of this govern
legislative function that 1t has usurped
''As far as my rulings in this convention
Will be, they shall be fair II 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 viii mop them of
the face of the earth from sea to sea in
the coming election. tApplause.) | can
not do any good presiding over this con-
vention without your help. and that So
lcit that we may have good order, good
feeling and a great victory in the contest
to come" fApplause)
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.