Even Eric admits [Edit: link was to a comment on my old blog] it. (Whether that means this is the last Bee for a while, I don't know.) On to today's paper:

The photo:

JOINT DINNER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AND THE AMERICAN NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS' ASSOCIATION AT THE WALDORF-ASTORIA LAST NIGHT

Top stories:

1. William Jennings Bryan and Charles F. Murphy have worked out a deal: the New York delegates "selected arbitrarily at the state convention" last week will be recognized as the state's "regular" delegates at the national convention. In exchange, the New York delegates will vote for Bryan on the first ballot and will apply "the utmost pressure" on other delegations to make Bryan's nomination unanimous. Update: Murphy was apparently part of the Tammany crowd and Bryan was expected to deny reports of an agreement. A fair amount of intrigue.
2. The New York state Senate passed a new rapid transit bill.
3. The city of New York has sent a bill for $78,220.95 to the Brooklyn Rapid Transit company for street work the city says the company should have done.
4. A member of the New York Historical Society has come across 200 old wills, dated between 1670 and 1730.
5. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. took a balloon ride from Washington, DC to Delaware yesterday.
6. A report on the AP and publisher dinner photographed on the front page. In a speech, Bryan "urged the publication of bipartisan newspapers."

Previous Tribunes: 1, 2*

*Technical note: I have created a category for these, but I noticed that this blog's theme does not display anything more than the post titles when you click on the category and archive pages. So I'll probably switch to a new theme. Update: Done.