Show one military hero opposed to the others nomination gen michael H de young colonel isaac trumbo and private samuel M as political prophets and their opinions on affairs of stale A party consisting of gen M II 11 do young of the san francisco chronicle samuel M col isaac trumbo and sir john paul cosgrove correspondent for the san francisco call were occupants of an east bound pullman car which passed through here yesterday morning the party was met at the depot by a reporter col trumbo was the only one of the party ho bad completed his toilet and was prepared to receive reportorial callers without embarrassment barras he said the party was on its way east to attend a republican con ference to be hed in stlouis on the ath of this month they were going prepared and with a determination to work and to fight tor tho of silver 1 I think he said that if the whole west will stand solid for silver and resolutely refuse to compromise that we can get a resolution favorable to silver bat we may as well agree to a straight gold bug platform and be done wilh it as to agree upon a straddle or compromise of any kind the western delegates must not back down from the demand for the enactment reenactment re of the coinage laws of 73 and the people of the west must bend men of known ability who will fight for free coinage from first to last and make it the paramount issue at the st louis convention the best interests of the wool men are inseparably identified with the free coinage movement because the eastern manufacturer while demanding protection for his wares is opposed to a tariff on raw wool it is the gold ring against the remainder of the country and the people of the west irrespective of party or line of industry engaged in must stand pat on the money question or all is lost let he people eay to their delegates demand 16 to 1 and accept no straddle or straddle bugs then they may hope for results major mckinley a gold bug on a gold platform dominated by eastern interests affords little hope for struggling industries I 1 trust that the peoples bert interests will be considered by their delegates at the st louis convention and hope they will consider well before voting for the nomination of a man who has so long been john shermana private secretary during the conversation mr cosgrove Cosa rove came in and at this point gen de young and samuel eril ered they were both a little timid at first but soon recovered their accustomed equanimity the general facetiously said that sam was on call and sam asked the reporter not to chronicle the fact they expressed themselves quite freely on nation 1 topics and were ut the opinion that MclE inley would in all probability receive republican nomination on a practically silver platform their views as to the best interests of the west and on the financial issues were in euti tanca the same as stated by col trumbo district court in the case of the state etc va joseph hobein bond was reduced to 1500 in the case of mortimer milner vs ogden furnace co ordered that depositions bo op eneil in the case oi J K W bracken vs emma B robinson et al judgment of for closure in the amount of waa ordered A new trial vaa denied in the case of jas ewell vs SP hunter et al motion of non snit was granted as to jas R beus in the case of lars P johnson vs ja beus et al the case of the commercial bank vs F B hurlbut was on trial during yesterday afternoon commencement Commence meat exercises of the weber stake academy the students and teachers of the weber stake academy are busily engaged makina for the commencement men cement exercises to ba held thursday and friday next they promise to be a rare treat educationally and artistically the program thursday afternoon will be and interesting several good musical numbers will be given also recitations edsaa and addresses with the 0 certificates to graduates in the evening an entertainment tain ment will be given in the fifth ward institute the exe wises in the academy hall thursday aller noun being tha most important por tant students attended any time together with their parents and all friends of education ara B invited lo 10 be present 10 bills seat portland ore june 6 martin Populist lc candidate for congress in the second congressional district will contest the election of W R ellson the ground that the have defrauded him out of his beat in the lower bouse 0 congress by an illegal count populist supporters declare that they can show where there has been ample opportunity to defeat bainn in four days canvass ot the vote for instance ia the ninth precinct in portland the last city precinct to be heard from oi tho votes cast onla votes being thrown out on alleged errors which invalidated ballots on the ground that tho difference between for ellig and lot can ba easily mado up the latter will dispute representative ellis to to congress |