Show HEADS n VM B GRAVES TAILS HEARST POT PARTY Kansas Man Tries to Nominate Bryan and Barely Es Escapes Escapes capes Alive CONVENTION TAME IN OTHER RESPECTS WEST VIRGINIA DELEGATES WALK OUT NOT IN HAR HARMONY HARMONY MONY WITH PLATFORM Chicago July 28 President Thomas L Hisgen of or Mas Massachusetts Vice president John Temple Graves of Georgia The above ticket was tonight nom nominated nomInated by the Independence party part at Its first national convention The friends of or Mr Ir Bryan made an m effort during the night session to bring his lis name before the convention and the theman theman man who attempted It nearly produced a riot and narrowly escaped physical violence at the hands of the Indignant delegates The man who sought to place Mr Bryans Brans name in nomination was J I 1 Shepard of Fort Scott Kan He did not succeed in his mission for to upon being called to order by the con convention convention and questioned by Chairman Charles A Walsh Walh he admitted that ll 11 was his intention to name Mr Bryan Bran Hustled Out of the Hall That was the first and last time he mentioned the name of or the Democratic leader He H was promptly ruled out of or order by the chairman and under the guard of at several he was hustled out of the hall while some of the Incensed delegates vainly at attempted attempted tempted to strike him with fists and andone andone one of them swung at him savagely with a cane cam On Third T ird Ballot The nomination of Mr fr was made on the third ballot his chief com competitors competitors being Milford W Howard of Alabama and John Temple Graves of Georgia Reuben R Lyon L on of New NewYork NewYork York received a complimentary vote on he the first ballot and William R Hearst lad had friends who voted for him on the first two ballots The nomination of ot Mr Graves Graes was made nade unanimous all other candidate been withdrawn CONVENTION IN DETAIL Outside of the Bryan Incident Pro Proceedings Were Tame Tam Chicago Chicalo July 28 The credentials committee was late in bringing ing Its re Ie port to the convention hall and as a result the first session of or the conven comen convention tion of ot the Independence party was somewhat late In commencing work The chairman could not be found but buthe butth th he New York member of oC the commit committee tee wrote out a from mem memory ory or and it was promptly submitted and adopted It declared that only one con conrest contest test rest had been brought to It from fram the Fourteenth district of ot Massachusetts and added the report the contest contestant contestant ant was seated The successful competitor for the seat was not named however as the New NewYork Ne York member of the committee had not charged his memory with the Identity of ot the man Mr Hearst the actual temporary chairman was not nat on the platform and Judge Reuben R Lyon of New York presided He called at the conclusion of the report of or the credentials commit committee tee for that of the committee on rules order and permanent organization Walsh Takes the Chair This report named Charles A Walsh of Iowa as the permanent chairman The mention of af Mr name was received with cheers He was escorted to the platform and upon taking up the gavel delivered the following address as permanent chairman We have reached the parting of the ways wa s In the long years that have havo brought many of or us seared and whit whitened whitened ened down to the Irrevocable step which we are about to take we have followed with all aU the zeal all the loyal loyalty ty t all the honesty honest and energy which possessed us either the one or the other of ot the old party p standards glorying In their victories or unflinchingly facing their defeats watching with sadness the rise of unworthy leaders the up upraising upraising raising of new ideals the slow but steady wasting away awa of the vigor vi JO r which made the old parties the useful engines of our political activity We have hae fought f valiantly and hoped ar ardently ardently dently for a return to the old pathways for a of the old spirit but the years rears have rolled by and brought with them naught but black deSpair de until In the is born In Ina Ina a Jove of oC country transcending all bonds of ot party fealty we have taken the step that brings us together today united in a cause Republican Party Scored We W have seen the once nce great Republican Republican lican party turned Into a vast commer commercial commercial cial enterprise for tor the aggrandizement of the money mone power The party of or the tho trusts it has become the greatest of ot all the trusts itself with the national Continued on Page 2 HISGEN HEADS GRAVES TAILS S HEARST HE ST PARTY Continued from Page 1 house of ot representatives as Us Its directory directOr tory tOr and ind th r United States senate as Its executive committee We have seen It construct a L tariff wall around which the and their kind have been most concerned d and the Interests of or the tho plain people have been shunted aside legislation all contrived to benefit the men who from the bank banking lug ing houses of ot Wall Vall street absolutely control Its destinies Labor has been slighted the farmer for and the Interests of oC the peor e generally neglected Democrats Equally as Bad Bado Wo o have iUle seen the once great Dem Democratic party turned Into a wing or an annex anlIe nex lIe of oC this i party of ot the tho trusts Its tra traditions mocked its creeds Ignored its principles violated ruthlessly its old lenders leaders turned out at the back door while the front door was flung wide open for Cor the entrance of the Ryans and the who are today most potent in the council halls where once I s at a Jefferson a Jackson and a Til Tilden TIlen den en We have seen the Rockefellers and the Morgans the Ryans Rans and the tho Del Bel monts the Hills and the dominating forces of ot the two old par parties ties the board of ot the amal amalgamated political poll parties for tor revenue only breaking bread and drinking wino Iric together across tho same board And AmI then what Hearst An Apostle of Purity When after atter the constant and heroic proclaiming of ot the tho new Declaration of or Independence e heralded across the tho land landby by b your our temporary chairman William Randolph Hearst when after Mr Hearst had blazed In letters of oC firo the new lIew doctrine of or reform and the people had heard and lifted up their voices in Itt inn n mighty might demand demanda a cry that reached finally even to the banquet hall where that th t Bels feast of oC the pluto plutocratic cratic bosses boses was In progress those po political bacchanalians reading at last the handwriting on the wall seized upon the tho fundamental truths which Mr Hearst had voiced and behold they thc now present them as their own and once more mare bid the people follow In the wake of oC their harlot chariot wheels revile us joke and an laugh scornfully they say sa we have gone astray in pur pursuit pursuit suit of ot false gods and have departed from our own faith I say It IJ not true true It Is we who havo stood stead steadfast steadfast fast And there stands the national In Independence dependence party today We Ve have not retreated men of or the old parties It Is Isyou Isyou you who have fallen tallen behind Cheers for Hearst The address of or Mr Ir Walsh was heard with close clos attention and greeted with frequent applause his mention of or the name of ot Mr Hearst being inS loudly loudl cheered Tho next thing on the tho convention program was as the report of or tho resolutions committee and Chairman Walsh sent cent messengers to the Auditorium ho hotel hotel tel to ascertain at what timo It might toe be looked for tor The committee was not ready and the tho convention proceeded to kill time by the transaction of ot some routine matters and by listening to a n number of speakers pending the tho ar arrival rival of ot the tho committee The speechmaking continued throughout the greater part of oC the aft afternoon afternoon and It was not until that the committee on resolutions ex expressed expressed pressed itself its l as ready read to report Platform Read The Tho platform was read by Clarence ClarenceJ J Shearn of or New York as S follows We Independent American citizens representing party In states and two territories have met in national convention t nominate absolutely independent ofal at all other political l parties candidates 1 to r president and vice president t of oC th the United States Our action Is s based basci upon a determination to the con conduct conduct duct of lC public affairs from the hands hand of ot selfish Interests political tricksters trickster and corrupt bosses and make the gov government as the founders Intended ai an agency for tor the common good goodAt At t a period Of unexampled national prosperity and promise a staggering blow was as dealt to legitimate business by the unmolested sted practice r of watering and st g Multitudes des of t defenseless lessl investors s thousands of at honest business men am aman and an army armr ot idle workingmen are pay pa Ing trie uie penalty p Created 1 by y High H gh Tariff Year by year fostered by wast Cul Culand and reckless ss governmental garce by b the manipulation of ot trusts trust and by b a tariff th the cost costo of living mounts higher arid higher Day by day the control of oC the govern government ment drifts further away from the peo people pie and more firmly Into Int the grip o ot machine politicians and party bosses The Republican and Democratic parties are not only responsible fo tor these conditions but are committed ti to their Indefinite continuance Pr of or promises they are so barren of ot performance per performance that to a 11 new party of oC in independent Independent dependent voters oter the country must loo for the establishment of a anew new poll r and a return to genuine popular gov government government Looking Backward Our object is not to introduce Innovations or startling new s sWe We of or the Independence party look back as Lincoln did to the Declara Declaration tion of or Independence as the head of ot all nU political inspiration It I Inot Is not our purpose to attempt to revolt revolutionize the American system of or gov government emment but to restore the action o othe of the government to the principles o ot Washington and Jefferson and Lincoln It Is not our purpose either to effect a radical change in the American system tern tem of oC government but to conserve for foi forth the th citizens of ot the United States State their theli privileges and liberties won for tor then them by b the founders of this government and to perpetuate tho principles am policies upon which the nations great greatness greatness ness has been built builtA A Conservative Conser Force or e eThe The Independence party part Is there therefore tore fore a conservative force torce In American politics devoted to the preservation ol oC American liberty and Independence tc t honesty in elections to opportunity Ir In business and ana equality before the law Those who believe In hi the Independence party part and work It are convinced that a democracy should exist that a true republican form of ot govern government government ment should continue that the power powei of oC government should rest with the majority of oC the people and that the government should be conducted c ted fot Cor Corthe the benefit of ot the whole citizenship rather than for the special advantages of oC any particular class clasil Platform Adopted Mr Shearn read the platform force Cull tully and with dramatic emphasis e The lh declarations on the labor question on the tho currency for the creation of oC an Interstate commerce court for Cor a great greater jr er navy and for the tho popular election ol or both state and federal Judges were heartily applauded At tho conclusion of oC the reading Mr Sheard moved the adoption of ot the platform which he declared was the unanimous work of ot the committee The platform as read was adopted unanimously the delegates evincing unbounded enthusiasm as as it was doric done Adjournment was taken until 8 p in m Nominating Speeches Chairman Walsh on calling the night session of the convention to order an announced announced that the next business b would be behe he presentation pre of candidates for nom nomInation of or president of the United States and ind directed the secretary to call the roll oil Dr R n L Lr Fealy Feal of Alabama took the rostrum ostrum to place In nomination IV Howard of ot Fort Payne Ala AlaCi Ci yielded to Massachusetts and ind Rev Rolland D Sawyer of the latter state tata took the platform to nominate L Demonstration for Hisgen The conclusion of Mr 11 Sawyers speech was vas the signal for a yell ell from the Mas Massachusetts seats scats in which the California dele and a few from Minnesota and south Dakota Joined Two women in the enter center the first balcony Jumped to their feet and waved the men to greater reater efforts A big bis banner b bearing portrait was as brought to the platform where it was Joined by the tle California state flag After Arter two minutes Chairman Walsh began egan rapping for order The Minnesota standard was wag put in the procession then Illinois Washington and Nebraska Three minutes later the demonstration had sub subsided sided Colorado called the clerk Colorado yields to Indiana cam c me the No Candidate for President Indiana has no candidate for president dent shouted a delegate from that state but she has a very ven live candidate for or vice president The call proceeded until Georgia was cached and Barnard of ot Atlanta came ame forward to present the name of oC John Temple Graves The applause greeting the name of Mr Graves was neither so vociferous nor so 80 long as that which followed the presenta presentation lon tion of the name of Hisgen Kansas Man Starts Something ething The then progressed until Kan Kanias Kansas sas was reached J I Shepard of ot that state asked the chairman if IC It was pos possible sible to name a candidate for the nomina nomination lon tion who was not a member of oC the party part The reply was that the question had not ot et arisen whereupon hereupon Mr lr Shepard Shellard took ho the platform announcing that he ho had a candidate He lIe mentioned the candidate of f the Democratic lc party part and a storm of hisses and boos greeted the reference The han continued In an uproar for sev several ral eral minutes tho galleries persisting persiS In breaking Into Int the proceedings with Jeers and ind irrelevant remarks Mr Shepard was vas finally allowed to proceed He had but a lev eW minutes when the dele delegates gates ates broke In upon him Charles H of ot Illinois offered a point of or or order ler der saying it was evident that the speak speaker er r was about to nomination a anan aman nan man who was not a member r of oC the Inde Independence party part Ho He therefore asked that tho ho convention proceed to name a d late t of Its own Physical Violence Attempted A scene of 01 riot immediately followed several everal delegates attempting to reach the rostrum ostrum for the tho purpose of oC doing phy physical Ical violence to the speaker A number oC if the threw em selves elves acro s the aisle In front of ot the rostrum ostrum steps and held back the Infuriated ted men by sheer physical strength Mr Mitchell persisted In asking if j Shepard Intended to nominate a man who was iras not a member of the Independence party He Insisted upon a categorical cate n and Chairman Walsh saId Tho Irhe gentleman will answer the ques lon Of course I dont want to deceive you said aid Mr Shepard I Intend If Ir I am al allowed lowed awed to finish to nominate William J Bryan Howls of Execration The hall broke into a wild uproar a dozen ozen delegates again madly struggling In t the main aisle in an attempt to reach Mr Ir Shepard Canes and |