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Democratic Nominee for Vice President of the United States.

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The scattering votes were: Stevenson, 2 from Massachusetts, 2 from Minnsota, 2 from North Dakota and 2 from West Virginia; Turpie, 1 from West Virginia; Hill, 1 from Massachusetts.

Harrity of Pennsylvania received 3 votes from Delaware and 8 from Rhode Island.

Nine votes of Massachusetts cast for G. Fred Williams of Massachusetts.

One vote of Pennsylvania cast for Pattison of Pennsylvania.

Bryan's Career.

William Jennings Bryan was born in Salem, Marion county, Ill., on March 19, 1860. At the age of 15 he entered Whipple academy at Jacksonville; in 1877 he entered Illinois college, and graduated valedictorian in 1881. For the next two years he attended the Union Law college, Chicago, studying in the office of Lyman Trumbull. After graduation he began practice at Jacksonville.

In 1887 he removed to Lincoln, Neb., and became a member of the law firm of Talbot & Bryan. He was elected to congress in the Arthur Sewall of Maine Named for First Nebraska district in 1890 over W. J.

Vice President.

The name of Arthur Sewall of Maine was placed before the convention as nominee for vice president by William R. Burke of California and seconded by C. S. Thomas of Colorado. There were five ballots taken, the

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Connell of Omaha, and was re-elected in 1892 over Allen W. Field of Lincoln. In 1894 Mr.

Bryan declined a third nomination, and was nominated by the Democrat state convention for United States senator by the unanimous vote of the convention. The Republicans, however, had a majority in the legislature,. and Bryan was defeated for the senatorship. Since Mr. Bryan's congress term expired he has given his time exclusively to spreading the doctrine of free silver.

He first appeared in the political arena of Nebraska in the campaign of 1888, when he stumped the First district for J. Sterling Morton, nominee for congress. The same year he declined a nomination for lieutenant governor. On July 30, 1890, he was nominated for congress and wrote a platform on which he ran. Nobody but himself thought he could be elected. He stumped the district on the tariff 2 issue, and won fame as a political orator throughout the state. This beautiful language has been used by an admirer to describe his graces as an orator:

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"Bryan neglects none of the accessories of oratory. Nature richly dowered him with rare grace. He is happy in attitude and pose. His gestures are on Hogarth's line of beauty. Mellifluous is the word that most aptly de7 scribes his voice. It is strong enough to be21 heard by thousands; it is sweet enough to charm those least inclined to music. It is so modulated as not to vex the ear with monotony, and can be stern or pathetic, fierce or gentle, serious or humorous with the varying emotions of its master. In his youth Bryan 8 must have had a skillful teacher in elocution 20 and must have been a docile pupil. He en72 riches his speeches with illustrations from the classics or from the common occurrences of every day life with equal felicity and facility. Some passages from his orations aregems and are being used as declamations by boys at school. But his crowning gift as an orator is his evident sincerity. He is candor incarnate and thoroughly believes what he says himself."

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ard P. Bland and was recognized as one of the free silver leaders. He again served in the ways and means committee and the claim is made that he was the first man to suggest the income tax clause in the Wilson tariff bill.

After his second term Mr. Bryan assumed editorial charge of an Omaha paper, which advocated free silver. He was a candidate for senator from Nebraska, but John M. Thurston was elected.

Mr. Bryan is a member of the Presbyterian church and quite prominent in Young Men's Christian association circles. In personal appearance the Democratic nominee resembles to some extent the late Samuel J. Randall of Pennsylvania when the latter was of Bryan's age. He is well built and smooth faced.

Mrs. Bryan's maiden name was Mary E. Baird, who lived in a neighboring town in Illinois, called Perry, when Mr. Bryan married her at the age of 24 years.

After the birth of her first child Mrs. Bryan

studied law and was admitted to the bar. She did not practice law, however, but took the course of study in order to keep up with

her husband.

Mr. Bryan lives well in a commodious dwelling in the fashionable part of Lincoln. His family consists of Mrs. Bryan; Ruth, aged 11; William J., jr., aged 6, and Grace, aged 5. The study, in which both Mr. and Mrs. Bryan have desks, is a very attractive room. It is filled with books, statuary and mementoes of campaigns. There are busts or portraits of noted men and there are two butcher knives which Mr. Bryan used in the campaign with Field to refute the latter's boast of the effects of high protection.

Last year Mr. Bryan was asked if he had any aspirations looking to the White House and he said: "No, I have no wish to be a presidential candidate, neither now nor in the years to come. My whole thought now is centered on my family and my profession so far as my own personal desires go. I was brought up in the country and I wish my children to have some of the same rearing. They are now of the age when they need a father's care and I wish to get into practice again, for I very much enjoy the law, which has been necessarily abandoned during my four years in Washington."

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Mr. Bryan's father was Silas L. Bryan, born in Culpepper county, Va., at the foot of the Blue Ridge mountains. He was Democrat. He came to Illinois when 18 years of age and settled at Salem, graduating at McKendric college, Lebanon, as a lawyer.

In 1852 he was elected state senator and served eight years. In 1860 he was elected circuit judge and served until 1872. He was a member of the constitutional convention of 1870. He was a strong man and a finished public speaker. He died in 1880.

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since 1823, when William D. Sewall opened the small shipyard on the banks of the Kennebec, next to the family homestead. He was succeeded in business by Clark & Sewall. These two earlier firms built twentynine wooden vessels between 1823 and 1854.

The firm of E. and A. Sewall was dissolved. in 1879 by the death of Edward Sewall. This firm, in its twenty-four years of existence, had built forty-six wooden vessels. In 1879, Arthur Sewall, his son, William D. Sewall, and his nephew, Samuel S. Sewall, a son of the late Edward Sewall, formed the firm of Arthur Sewall & Co., which is still in existence. This firm has built many wooden vessels, among them being the Rappahannock-since burned at sea, the Shenandoah,. ships ever built and the Roanoke, the largest the Susquehanna, three of the largest wooden wooden sailing vessel afloat.

To meet the conditions of the present time.

Arthur Sewall & Co. began some years ago

to equip their shipyard with a plant for making steel vessels. They built the first steel American clipper, Dirigo.

Mr. Sewall was for many years prominent. as a railroad man. He became a director of the Maine Central Railroad company in 1875, and in 1884 was elected its president, serving. in that capacity until the election of Mr. Wilson several years ago. During this time also president of the Mr. Sewall was Portland, Mount Desert and Machias Steamboat company. Mr. Sewall has been a director of some of the branch lines of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad, a director of the Mexican Central railway in 1884-5-6.. He is also president of the Bath National bank.

Mr. Sewall came out for free coinage of silver in June, 1895, a fact which contributed to the refusal of his fellow delegates to Chicago to continue him on the national committee. Mr. Sewall was the Democratic candidate for United States senator at the session of the Mainelegislature in 1893. Mr. Sewall has always made his home at Bath. He married Emma Crooker of Bath, a daughter of the late Charles Crooker, who also was long and actively identified with. shipbuilding at Bath, on March 20, 1859, and has had three sons, Harold M., who achieved distinction in the diplomatic service in Samoa during the first Cleveland administration, and who has since joined the Republican party; William D., a member of the firm of Arthur Sewall & Co., and Dumner, who died in infancy.

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The Sewalls are of an old and illustrious fam-ily on both sides of the water. The first American Sewall came here in 1634, and was born in Coventry, England, in 1614, so that he was. a young man to come into the wilderness. sons were Samuel, John, Stephen and Nicholas. Samuel was the judge of witchcraft fame. John was the direct ancestor of the Sewalls in Maine. Dumner Sewall, the grandfather of the first shipbuilder, came to Bath from York, which was also in the district of Maine, in 1762, and purchased the tract of land on which to this day stands the Sewall yard and the houses. of the Sewall family.

William D. Sewall owned the whole of this of the Kennebec, and in 1823 cut down some of large tract of the forest primeval on the banks the trees, sawed them in a little mill and built. the first ship to carry the Sewall flag. She was. a brig of 196 tons burden and was launched on November 5, 1823.

Mr. Sewall has been a vigorous opponent of the repeal of the present navigation laws. He said in an interview late in 1894:

"Our steel and iron has become so cheap in cost and so good in quality that it leaves the British only the advantage of lower cost for labor, but as our labor is superior and our system of buliding better, if we are allowed to build tonnage five years longer we will build as cheap as on the Clyde.

ver brought forth the following from the editcr of the Eastern Argus (Dem.) of Portland, Me., something over a year ago:

"Mr. Sewall, Democratic National committeeman from Maine, does not represent the sentiment of the Democracy of this state in his approval of the action of the Illinois free silver convention. There are silver Democrats in Maine, and they are not despicable in point of numbers, but the great majority of the party stands by the Cleveland administration on this question, and holds that free silver coinage is unwise, unless undertaken by international agreement. Most of the silver men in Maine belong to the Populist party, though some are to be found in both the Democratic and Republican ranks. Mr. Sewall's utterances have very little significance to anybody but himself. It is a long time since he voiced the sentiments of the Maine Democracy. He is not in sympathy with them on the tariff question or the currency question or the free ship question. Not a Democratic paper in Maine upholds Mr Sewall's attitude in regard to free sil- the silver heresy."

"But if for no other reason than keeping our flag afloat, the present navigation laws merit the support of every American citizen. Why, it seems to me that it ought to be worth millions to us to have our flag carried around the world. From the patriotic standpoint, aside from that of commercial expediency, I cannot see how the thought of an American flag flying over anything that is not American can fail to be offensive. No matter what kind of a bill is passed by the friends of the so-called 'Free Ship laws,' owners will put their ships under which ever flag will best suit their purposes, and so, in case of war, the advantage will be wholly on the side of the foreign owner."

PROHIBITIONIST CONVENTION.

The prohibitionist national convention was called to order in the city of Pittsburg on May 27. The session was one of the most tumultuous ones in the history of the party, the financial question serving as the bone of contention and eventually leading to a bolt of 200 of the delegates. On the evening of May 28 the convention nominated Joshua Levering of Maryland for President and Hale Johnson of Illinois for vice president.

The platform finally adopted was confined to the issue of prohibition alone, the question of free silver and woman's suffrage having been dropped.

It was the seventh national convention of the prohibition party. The temporary chairman was A. A. Stevens of Tyrone, Pa. The rebellion of the free silver minority broke out early in the first session on the substitute minority nomination of Edward J. Wheeler for temporary chairman. A scene of wild confusion and disorder followed, which subsided only when Mr. Wheeler withdrew his name. Again disorder came when the name of Oliver W. Stewart of Illinois was offered for permanent chairman, and was met by the minority recommending the continuance of Mr. StevFor half an hour the wrangle continued,

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and then Mr. Stevens withdrew his name and Mr. Stewart took the chair.

The minority report on platform contained this financial plank:

ernment only and without the intervention of any Resolved, That all money be issued by the gov-. private citizen, corporation or banking institution. It should be based upon the wealth, stability and integrity of the nation, and be a full legal tender for all debts, public and private, and should be of sufficient volume to meet the demands of the legitimate business interests in this country and for the purpose of honestly liquidating all our outstanding obligations payable in coin. We demand the free and unlimited coinage of silver and gold at a ratio of 16 to 1 without consulting any other

nation.

The other points on which the minority asked action were: Preserving public lands from monopoly and speculation; government control of railroads and telegraphs; favoring an income tax and imposing only such import duties as are necessary to secure equitable commercial relations with other nations; favoring the adoption of the initiative and referendum as a means of obtaining free expression of the popular will.

A heated debate and more disorder followed, with the result that the platform finally adopted contained nothing beyond the prohibition plank.

THE POPULIST CONVENTION.

The national convention of the Populist | of sixteen to one, without waiting for the conparty convened at St. Louis on July 22. The sent of foreign nations. sessions that followed up to Saturday evening were turbulent in the extreme, the terest of sentiments having been engendered by the middle of the road men who were opposed to indorsing the Chicago ticket of the Democratic party.

3. We demand the volume of circulating mebit-cient to meet the demands of the business and dium be speedily increased to an amount suffipopulation and to restore the just level of prices of labor and production.

It was not until Saturday afternoon that William J. Bryan, candidate on the Chicago platform, was finally nominated over Colone! S. F. Norton of Illinois.

4. We denounce the sale of bonds and the increase of the public interest bearing debt made and without authority of law, and demand that by the present administration as unnecessary no more bonds be issued except by specific act of congress.

5. We demand such legislation as will preAr-vent the demonetization of the lawful money of the United States by private contract.

The convention refused to indorse thur Sewall, the Democratic candidate for vice president, and nominated Thomas Edward Watson of Georgia for the office.

The total vote on nominees for President was 1,375, divided as follows: Bryan, 1,042; Norton, 321; Eugene V. Debs, 8; Ignatius Donnelly, 3, and J. S. Coxey, 1.

Populist Platform.

The platform adopted by the convention was as follows:

6. We demand that the government, in payment of its obligations, shall use its option as to the kind of lawful money in which they are to be paid, and we denounce the present and this option to the holders of government oblipreceding administrations for surrendering gations.

7. We demand a graduated income tax, to the end that aggregated wealth shall bear its just proportion of taxation, and we regard the rethe income tax law as a misinterpretation of cent decision of the supreme court relative to the constitution and an invasion of the rightful powers of congress over the subject of taxation.

The people's party, assembled in national convention, reaffirms its allegiance to the principles declared by the founders of the republic, and also to the fundamental princi-established by the government for the safe de8. We demand that postal savings banks be ples of just government as enunciated in the posit of the savings of the people and tɔ facili platform of the party in 1892. We recognize that, through the connivance of the present tate exchange. and preceding administrations, the country has reached a crisis in its national life, as predicted in our declaration four years ago, and that prompt and patriotic action is the supreme duty of the hour.

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Railways and Telegraph.

Transportation being a means of exchange and a public necessity, the government should own and operate the railroads We realize that while we have political in the interest of the people and on a nonindependence, our financial and industrial partisan basis, to the end that all may be acindependence is yet to be attained by restor-corded the same treatment in transporta

ing to our country the constitutional con- tion, and that the tyranny and political powtrol and exercise of the functions necessary er now exercised by the great railroad corto a people's government, which functions porations, which result in the impairment, have been basely surrendered by our public if not the destruction, of the political rights servants to corporate monopolies. The influ- and personal liberties of the citizen, may be ence of European money changers has been destroyed. Such ownership is to be accommore potent in shaping legislation than the plished gradually in a manner consistent voice of the American people. Executive with sound public policy. power and patronage have been used to corrupt our legislatures and defeat the will of the people, and plutocracy has thereby been enthroned upon the ruins of democracy. To to restore the government intended by the fathers, and for the welfare and prosperity of this and future generations, we demand the establishment of an economic and financial system which shall make us masters of our own affairs and independent of European control, by the adoption of the following

Declaration of Principles.

1. We demand a national money, safe and sound, issued by the general government only without the intervention of banks of issue, to be a full legal tender for all debts, public and private; a just, equitable and efficient means of distribution direct to the people and through the lawful disbursements of the gov⚫ernment.

2. We demand the free and unrestricted coinage of silver and gold at the present legal ratio 3

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2. The interest of the United States in the public highways built with public moneys, and the proceeds of extensive grants of land the Pacific railroads, should never alienated, mortgaged or sold, but guarded and protected for the general welfare, as provided by the laws organizing such railroads. The foreclosure of existing liens of the United States on these roads should at once follow default in the payment thereof by the debtor companies; and at the foreclosure sales of said roads the government shall purchase the same if it becomes necessary to protect its interests therein, or if they can be purchased at a reasonable price; and the government shall operate said railroads as public highways for the benefit of the whole people, and not in the interest of the few, under suitable provisions for protection of life and property, giving to all transportation interests equal privileges and equal rates for fares and freights.

3. We denounce the present infamous schemes for refunding these debts, and demand that

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