were the little coterie of silver senators |
who bolted the convention at St. Louis. |
At present without a party, they seek en-
trance to the Democratic party on condi-
on that it select Mr. Teller. General
hn B. Weaver and other Populists and
silverites, like Senator Stewart, were also
there, all watching closely the reswlts of |
the delfberations of the convention. Al-
though many well known faces were miss
ing, it was a distinguished gathering.
The invocation of the boyish chaplain, |
Dr. Stires, an Episcopal divine, with its |
appeal for peace; had hardly ascended to
the throne of grace before the contending
hosts met in the shock of battle. The gold
men carried out their program of pre-
senting Senator Hill for temporary chair-
man, but the silver leaders also held to
their resolution and immediately antag-
onized him with Senator Daniel. For two
hours the oratorical gladiators of the op-
posing forces fought it out upon the plat-
form. Allan McDermott of New Jersey,
John I. Waller of Connecticut, John R.
IRS VICTOR
In the Xational Convention ot
the Democratic Party.
. GRAY MEER,
Democratic State Ticket.
FOR CONGRESSMEN-AT-LARGE.
JOHN M. BRADEN,
Washington county.
BENJAMIN C. POTTS.:
Delaware county.
FOR ELECTORS-AT-LARGE.
WILLIAM M. SINGERLY,
Philadelphia.
JAMES DENTON, HANCOCK,
Venango.
A. H. COFFROTH,
DEFEAT OF SENATOR HILL.
' The Convention Selects Daniel for
Temporary Chairman,
PERMANERT CHAIRMAN WHITE
The Delegates Override the Selection of
Somerset. the National Committee, and Choose the als of New York and General or
GEORGE W. GUTHRIE, Clair of West Virginia championed Mr.
3 N ated Hil of oh !
Pittdhnrg. Man Who Nominated 1 for the Presi Hill's cause, and C. S. Thomas of Colo- |
dency Four Years A8o—The Temporary | rado, M. F. Tarpey 6f California, C. A.
Chairman's Ringing Silver Speech—Sena- Ladd of Illinois, Delegate Marston of
| : Louisiana and National Committeeman
I tor James K. Jones, of Arkansas, Se- Clayton of Alabama insisted upon his
overthrow. Colonel Fellows appealed for
mercy. He pleaded with the majority to
do a generous thing and show that it did
not place too much reliance on the force
of numbers, but in the rightcousness of
their cause. Mr. McDermott was even
driven to threats. General St. Clair, who
is a silver man, opposed the defeat of Hill,
whom he had supported four years ago,
and whose defeat then he expressed his |
profound regret for. . i
But the silver men, most of whom had
also been for Hill in 1892, and who re- |
called the fact with evident pride and |
with expressed great regret at the neces- |
sity which compelled them to take this!
course, contended that the election of a
FOR DISTRICT ELECTORS.
Samuel Dickson, John M. Carroll,
Albert M. Hicks, Chas. J. Reilly,
John M. Campbell, J.P’. Hoffar,
James J. Ryan, Lucien Banks,
John Hagen, A.J. Brady,
John H. Hickson, - George W. Rhine,
John B. Storm, John (. Patton,
Thos. A. Haak, William Weihe,
Chas. F. Reninger, Judson J. Brooks, |
Chas. H. Schadt, John J. McFarland, |
Thomas R. Philips, C. H. Aikens, |
Charles F. King, Seymour S. Hackett, |
John K. Royal, Harry Alvin Hall. ;
William Stahler. {
lected to Head the Committee on Reso-
lutions—The Platform, \While Not Nam-
ing President Cleveiand,“Condemns Traf-
ficking with Banking Syndicates,” Favors
Independent Tree Coinage, Denounces
Federal Interference in Local Affairs,
and Favors a Constitutional Amendment
Providing for an Income Tax—Creden-
Demnocratic County Ticket.
‘tials Committee Seats the Michigan Sil-
FOR CONGRESS.
J. L. SPANGLER.
Subject to the degision of the district conference. {
{ JAS. SCHOFIELD,
ver Delegates—Gold Men Talking of a
Bolt.
CHICAGO, July S8.—In the magnificent
For Assenbly— {ROBERT M. FOSTER. | 2nd capacious Coliseum in Jackson Park, | temporary chairman in harmony with the
“or Sherif—W. M. CRONISTER. beneath clear skies, with a cool, invigorat- | majority was of vital importance. The |
: . is ing breeze snapping at the flags and tip- temper of the delegates was plainly appar- |
For Treasuwrer—C. A. WEAVER. pings and the blue waters of Lake Michi- | ent from the salvos with which they |
For Recorder—J. C. HARPER. ee Spee is to the oa 2 Sh io firm utterances. It was no- |
: : A DRIER emocratic national convention met yos- | ticenhlo that neither side put its giants |
For Register—GEO. W. RUMBERGER. terday. After a brief but decisive battle | forward,
‘D ND
ForCommissioners— { Dg ie MAN.
For Aunditors— ! DR
For County Surveyor—J. H. WETZEL.
For Coroner—W. U. IRVIN.
in the arena the silver men indicated their |
supremacy. They wrestedifron: th» hands
of the gold phzlanxes the contri! of the
| convention and gathered the reins of
power into their own hands. | lenged the vote of the stateand uncovered
There was a reminiscence of that other | seven gold votes. Mr. Haldeman did the
great Coliseuin whose fall maried the ce | same thing in Blackburn's Kentucky dele- |
struction of an empire, where men weve | gation, and Mr. McKnight, a silver Mich- |
, butchered to make a Reman ho 1lll.v. | jgan delegate. showed twelve silver votes
The work of the largest and most nota- | in his delegation which were locked up by |
| the unit rule. The result of the roll call |
showed 536 votes for Daniel and 849 for
Hill, practically the strength of the two
sides.
Although this did not show a two-thirds |
| majority, the silver leaders displayed no |
; anxiety on this score, as the Nebraska '
' gold delegation of twenty-six will be un-
sei.ted and the representation from the |
te~riteries will be increased from two to |
six cach.
Senator Daniel's Speech.
Senator Daniel, who assunied the duties !
of presiding oflicer, is an impressive figure
and a most eloquent orator of the old
school. He sounded the keynote for sil-
ver in a ringing speech, but the fact that
he spoke from notes was rather disappoint- |
ing to his friends. He spoke in part as
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vw hen the vote came to be taken W. J. |
Stackhouse, one of the administration’s |
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federal cfficizls in Iowa, in order to flaunt
the divisions in the Boies delegation, chal- |
THE CHICAGO CONVENTION.
ble gathering of Democrats that has ever |
been held in the world will possibly end |
to-day.
The Chicago convention, the embodi- |
ment of the Democratic sentiment of the |
United States, is now holding its last ses-
THE CHICAGO COLISCUM.
about it ali. A champion who has so often
| entered the lists to do battle in Demoe-
| racy’s cause, amid the ringing shouts and
sions and has given to a free people a presi-
dential nominee and a presidential plat-
the wild acclaim of his party. was put to
the sword that silver might be supreme. It
was with reluctance that many of the
friends of Senator David Beanett Hill
turned their thumbs downward, as the ar-
rogant patricians of the empire that ruled
the world did when the populace cried for
mercy. But. like the gladiators who en-
tered the arena to the blareof the trumpet
and the clang of steel, the silver men beat
back their syinparhies and hardened their
hearts that the issue might be squarely
drawn and decided, even though it in-
volved the doom of one whom they had
delighted to honor in the past.
By one of those strange, fateful coinci-
dences it was Senator John W. Daniel,
who four years ago, at the Wigwam, nom-
inated Mr. Hill for the presidency, who
was selected to give the fatal blow to the
man whom he would have exalted to the
The nominee is eminently qualified | first place iu the republic. No more elo-
quent commentary on the rovolution
for the high position for which he has | which has divided the party and made
2 a | this convention so memorable could be
He is the logical stand- | needed. It was not without a wail of
agony, however, that some of the specta-
tors who could not fathom the mysteries
of political mancuvering and the necessity
of grinding men beneath the heel saw the
old champion, whose slogan and proudest
boast was “I am a. Democrat,” go down.
Even after Senator Daniel had reached
the platform and essunred the gavel they
called loudly for the defeated leader, but
the experienced general, who has tasted
the bitterness of defeat before, as well as
the sweetness of victory, only smiled
mly.
ghuly An Inspiring Sight.
The convention itself was an inspiring
gight. Nevér before since the present sys-
tem of national conventions was inaugu-
rated by the old National Republican
party in Baltimore, in 1831, has a conven-
tion met in such a capacious and admira-
bly adapted structure. On the north side,
where the platform and the president's
chair are situated, the galleries rise one
above the other, while in front from all
sides of the railed inclosure where the del-
egates sit, each state marked by the neat-
est of staffs, slope away the wilderness of
seats in gentle terraces to the most remote
limits of the Coliseum, which are almost
400 feet in direct line from the chairman’s
table. The hands of the big clock oppo-
site the platform cannot be discerned, yet
the acoustic properties of the building are
so perfect that every word. could be dis-
tinctly heard.
- The decorations are simple, but effective.
From the lofty girders which hold up the
arched roof flutter gay trappings. The
galleries in front are entwined with na-
tional colors, while at regular intervals
large crayon portraits of the patron saints
of the party, Jefferson, Jackson and others,
lcok down upon the successors to their
faith. A large portrait of Mr. Cleveland
is off to one side, the only one displayed of
a living Democrat. With the vast space
filled. almost to the outermost walls, with
a forest of people, an unusually large
number of whom were ladies, the scene was
a brilliant one. There was no demonstra-
tion during the day for any of the candi-
dates, but manyfof the leaders, like Hill
and Whitney of New York, Blackburn of
Kentucky, ex-Governor Russell of Massa-
chusetts, Daniels of Virginia and Harrity
of Pennsylvania, were the recipients of
individual ovations. The followers of both
sides took every opportunity t¢ cheer cp
their champions.
On the platform were the members of
the national committee. Among the dis-
tinguished guestgseated in their rear were
a number of gold leaders who have been
conspicuous in previous conventions, but
who were swept aside by the silver cohorts
in their states. These included General
Gordon of Georgia, Senator Liddsay of
Kentucky, ex-Congressman Bynum of
Indiana, ex-Congressman Outhwaite of
Ohio, and others. But strangest of ailon
she platforiz of a Democratic convention
form that will prove, in November, that the
interests of the masses are nearer the vitals
of dur free government than are those of
follows:
In receiving from your hands this gavel as
the temporary presiding officer of this conven-
tion I beg leave to express a sentiment, which
I am sure is unanimous, that no national con-
vention was ever presided over with moreabil-
ity or with more fairness than by yourself. I
trust that I may be able in some feeble way to |
model my corduct by your model and to prac- |
tice by your example. This position, gentle-
men, to which you have €hosen me involves
both a great personal honor and a keen re-
sponsibility. For the honor I thank ‘you, and
by your gracious aid will make it easy and its
burden light. 7 : .
I regret that my name should have been
brought in even the most courteous and seri-
ous complication with that of my distinguished
friend, the great senator from New York. But
tho very fact that I have permitted it to be
done refutes the suggestion that has been im-
providently made on this floor that either Ior
those whom I have the honor to represent |
would ever heap indignity upon that brave
and illustrious head. The senator from New |
York himself knows, as ycu know and as I |
know, that there is no personality in the pre-
ferment which has been given to me. He must
know, and the whole country that watches |
these proceedings must know, that itis only |
due to the principle that this great majority |
of Democrats stand for and that they know
that I stand for with them.
There is one thing golden, which, permit me, |
in the same good humor which has character |
ized your conduct, to commend to you here. It |
is the golden rule to do unto others as you |
would have them do unto you. Democrats as |
you have been, Democrats az I trust you will |
ever be, acquiesce gracefully in the will of the |
great majority of your fellow Democrats, and |
only ask to go with them, -as they have often |
gone with you. Do not forget, gentlemen, that |
for thirty years we have supported the men
that you have named for president—Seymour,
Greely, Tilden, Hancock and twice Grover
(Cleveinzd. Do not forget that we have sub-
mitted cheerfully to your compromised plat-
form, and to your repeated pledges of bimetal-
lism, and have patiently borne repeated disap- |
pointments as to their fulfillment. Do not for-
get that just four years ago, in a Democratic
convention in this city, the New York delega- |
tion stood here solidly and immovably for a
candidate committed to the free and unlimited
coinage of silver and gold at the ratio of 16 to 1.
The active business men of this country, its
manufacturers, merchants, farn.ers, sons of |
toil in counting room, factory, field aad mine, |
know that contraction of the currency sweeps |
away with the silent and resistless force of |
gravitation the annual profits of their enter- |
prise and investments. They know, too, that
the gold standard means contraction and the
organization of disaster. What hope is there
for the country and what hope for the Democ-
racy unless the views of the majority here
shall be adopted? Do not the peaple know that
it was not silver legislation, but legislation die- |
tated by the advocates of the gold standard, |
that has caused and now continues the finan- |
cial depression?
The people do not forget when Democracy |
came to power, in 1843, it inherited from its |
Republican predecessor the tax system and the !
currency system of which the McKinley law
and the Sherman law were the culminating
features. It came to power amidst a panic
which fitly followed upon their enactment with
strikes, lockouts, riots and civic commotions, |
while the scenes of peaceful industry in Penn-
sylvania had become military camps. Besides
manifold oppressive features, the McKinley
law bad thrown away $X.00).000 of revenue de-
rived from sugar under the sceptral plea of a
free breakfast table and had substituted boun-
ties to sugar planters, decreasing revenue and
increasing expeaditure, thus burning the can- |
dle at both ends and making the people pay at
cast for the alleged free breakiast.
So far as revenue to support the government
is concerned the Democratic party, with but a
glender majority in the senate, was not long
providing it, and had not the supreme court of
the United States reversed its settled doctrine
of one hundred years the income tax incorpo- |
rated in the tariff bill would long since have |
abundantly supplied it.
The Republican party has now renounced the
creed of its platform and of our national
pledg=s. and presented to the country the issue
of higher taxes, more bonds and less money.
It has proclaimed at last, throw
disguises, the British gold star
only expect. should they succowd
SHYLOCKS of Wall street.
The very foundation of Democracy, the
principle that the majority shall rule, has
prevailed and no one who cannot accept the !
out-come dare claim the distinction of be-
ing true to the convictions that have guid-
‘What is the Demo-
ed him in the past.
cratic party if not the creator of its Nation-
al Convention ?
been named.
ard bearer of the sentiment incorporated
in the platform upon which he has been
placed and is a man of clean cut ideas, in-
tegrity and courage to uphold an issue that
has sprung from a tiny flicker into a flame
that will entirely consume Republicanism
and the discredited NAPOLEON whom it is
trying to foist on a people already suffering
from the idiocies of his tariff bound brain.
No nominee has yet been named for Vice
President but it is certain an able man will
be selected to-day for the high honor and
it is probable that that man will be Hon.
John R. McLean, of Ohio.
The Democratic party of the United
States has declared for the free and unlim-
ited coinage of gold and silver at the ratio
of 16 to 1. This declaration must be the
issue and the battle must be fought on. it,
no matter shat the out-come\
The Major Talks Absurdly.
Major MCKINLEY’S knowledge of the
monetary question must be very limited,
judging from the reticence he maintains on
that subject, and his acquaintance with his
pet hobby, the tariff, must be equally ecir-
cumscribed, if we may judge from some of
his expressions in regard to it. For ex-
ample, in his address to the notifying com-
mittee he made the absurd remark, in sup-
port of the tariff policy, that ‘‘our foreign
trade, so precipitately cut off by adverse
legislation, (meaning the WILSON tariff
bill) must be reopened for our surplus ag-
ricultural and manufacturing products.’’
It is characteristic of tariff advocates
that they blather away without the least
regard to facts. The major indulged in
this remark in the face of the fact that his
tariff was an impediment to the exporta-
tion of American manufactures to foreign
markets ; that while it was in operation
such exportation was reduced toa mini-
mum, and that since the WILSON tariff law
has been in force the export of our manu-
factures abroad has undergone a most re-
markable development. It is natural that
it should be so, for liberality of trade on
the one side begets liberality on the other.
The major made an unfortunate allusion
when he spoke of his tariff policy as a pro-
moter of the export of American produets.
£ away the |
We can
. ny country:
| It Declares for
| night.
| upon by the majority is in substance as
men, a specimen of panic and a long protracted
period of depression. Do not ask us, then, to
join them in any of their propositions. Least
of all ask us not to join them upon the money
question and fight a sham battle over settled
tariff, for the money question is the paramount
issue before the American people, and it in-
volves true Americanism more than any eco
nomic issue that ever was presented to a presi-
dent at a presidential election.
No authority has ever been conferred by
congress for the issue of any bonds payable in
gold, but distinctly refused. The specie re-
sumption of 1875 gave the surplus revenue in
the treasury, not gold only, the money of re-
| demption. Provision made by the Bland act of
1878 added to our circulation some $350,000,000
of standard silver money, or paper based upon
it, and all that mass of silver money is sus-
tained at a parity with gold by nothing what-
ever on earth but fhe silver in it and the legal
tender functions imparted to it bylaw. We
have no outstanding obligations in the United
States except the small sum of $44,000,000 of
gold certificatqs which are specifically payable
in gold, and they, of course, should be so paid.
As we have $20.000,000,000 of public and private
debt, it would take more than three times all
the gold in this country to pay even one year's
interest upon it.
‘We pray you, no more makeshifts and strad-
dles. Vex not the country with your proph-
ecies of smooth things to come from the Brit-
ish-Republican propaganda. The fact that the
European nations are going to the gold stan-
dard renders it all the more impracticable that
we should do so, for the limited stock of gold
in the world would have longer division and a
smaller share for each nation.
Instead of increasing wages, this policy has
further decreased them. Instead of multiply-
ing opportunities for employment, this policy
has multiplied idlers. Instead of increasing
the prices of our produce, this policy has low-
ered them, and it is estimated at about 1§ per
cent. in three years. Instead of reviving ¢onfi-
dence, this policy has banished confidence. In-
stead of bringing relief it has brought years of
misery, and for this reason, it has contracted
the currency of the United States $4 a head for
every man, woman and child since Nov. 1, 1893.
The public revenues have fallen, wages of labor
have fallen and everything on the face of the
earth has fallen except taxes and debts, which
have grown in burden, while on the other hand
the means of their liquidation has been dimin-
ished.
But the peonle now do well know that the
conspiracy of European monarchs, led by Great
Britain, has for its purpose a war upon Amer-
ican silver money. With their credit they seek
to enhance the purchasing power of thousands
and millions which is owed to them all over the
| world and which you owe to them. They draw
upon the United States of America for their
food supplies and raw material, and they seek
to get it for the least money.
No nation culls itself free and independent
that is not great enough to establish and main-
tain a financial system of its own. The pretense
that this, the foremost, richest and most power-
ful nation of the world cannot coin its own
money without suing for an mternational
agreement at the courts of European antocrats
| who have none but primary interests to sub-
serve, has for many years been held out at
every presidential election. To wait longer
upon them is to ignore the interests of our own
people and degrade our national dignity and to
advertise to all mankind our impotence and
our folly.
The majority of this convention maintain
that this great American nation, with a natural
base of fixed cmpire, the greatest ever estab-
lished by man, with more territory and more
productive energy than Great Britain, France
and Germany combined, without depencdonce
| upon European nations for anything that they
produce, and with European nations dependi:t
upon much that we produce, is fully carahie of
restoring this constitutional money system of
gold and silver &t equality with each other.
And as our fathers in 1776 declared our ni
tional independence of all the world, so today
has the great Democratic party appearel here
in Chicago to declare the financial independence
of the United tates of all other nations.
THE DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM.
Frec Silver and the In-
come Tax.
CHICAGO, July 8.—The committee on
platform met immediately after the ad-
journment of the resolutions committee,
and were at work until long after mid-
The platform as finally agreed
follows: :
Recognizing that the money question is
| paramount to all others at this time, we
invite attention to the fact that the fed-
eral constitution names silver and gold to-
gether as the money metals of the United
States, and that the flrst coinage law
| passed by congress under the constitution
made the silver dollar the unit of value,
and admitted gold to free coinage at a ra-
| tio measured by the silver dollar unit.
We declare that the act of 1873 demone-
tizing silver without the knowledge or ap-
, proval of the American people has re-
: sulted in the appreciation of gold and a
corresponding fall in the prices of com-
modities produced by the people; & heavy
| increase in the burden of taxation and of
. all debts, public and private; the enrich-
ment of the money lending classesat home
and abroa |; paralysis of industry and im-
poverishment of the people.
We are unalterably opposed to the single
gold standard which has locked fast the
prosperity of an industrious people in the
paralysis of hard times. Gold monometal-
lism is a British policy founded upon Brit-
ish greed for gain and power, and its gen-
eral adoption has brought other nations
| into financial servitude to London. It is
not only un-American butanti-American,
| and it can be fastened upon the United
| States only by the stifling of that indom-
itable spirit and love of liberty which pro-
claimed our political independence in 1776
and won it in the war of the revolution.
We demand the immediate restoration
of the free and unlimited coinage of gold
i and silver at the present legal ratio of 16
! to 1, without waiting for the aid orcon-
sent’ of any cther nation. We demand
that the standard silver dollar shall be a
full legal tender, equally with gold, for all
debts, public and private. and we favor
such legislation as will prevent the de-
monetization of any kind of legal tender
money by private contract.
‘We are opposed to the issue of interest
bearing bonds of the Uniwed States in
times of peace, and condemn the trafficking
with banking syndicates which, in exe
change for bonds and at an enormous
| profit to themselves, supply the federal
treasury with gold to maintain the policy
of gold monometallism.
Congress alone has the power to coin
' and issue money, and President Jackson
| declared that this power could not be dele-
gated to corporations or individuals. We
therefore demand that the power to issue
' potes be tiken from the banks, and that
all paper money shall be issued directly by
the treasury derartment.
There would have been no deficit in fed-
| eral revenue during the last two years but
for the annulment by the supreme court
of the income tax law placed upon the
| statute books by a Democratic congress.
| The obstruction to an inco:ne tax which
the supreme court discoverv.. in the con-
stitution after it had lain hidden for a
hundred years must be removed. to the
end that accumulated wealth may be made
to Lear its just share of the burdens of the
government. We therefore favor an
amendment to the federal constitution
that will permit the levy ¢f anincome tax.
We hold that tariff duties should be
levied solely for purposes of revenue, and
| that taxation shoull le limited by the
needs of the »vernment, honestly and
economically administered. We denounce
as disturbing to business the Republican
threat to restore the McKinley law, which
has been twice condemned by the people
in national elections, and which, enacted
under the false plea of protection to home
industry, proved a prolific breeder of
trusts and monopolies, enriched the few
at the expense of the many, restricted
trade and deprived the producers of the
great American staples of access to their
natural markets.
‘We denounce the profligate waste of the
money wrung from the people by oppres-
sive taxation and the lavish appropria-
tions of recent Republican congresses,
which have kept taxes high while the la-
bor that pays them is unemployed and the
products of the people's toil are depressed
in price till they no longer repay the cost
of production.
We denounce arbitrary interference by
federal authorities in local affairs as a
violation of the constitution of the United
States and a crime against {ree institu-
tions, and we especially object to govern-
ment by injunction as a new and highly
dangerous form of oppression by which
federal judges, in contempt of the laws of
the states and the rightsof citizens, be-
come at once legislator, judge and execu-
tioner.
The platform further opposes life tenure
in public service, and declares that no man
should be eligible for a third term as presi-
dent. It is likely that a Cuban resolution
will be added by the general committee
A minority report will be presented.
PERMANENT CHAIRMAN WHITE.
Senator Hill Receives Six Votes in the
Committee on Organization.
CricaGo, July 8.—The committee on
permanent organization met in tke Col-
iseum immediately after the adjournment
of the convention. General E. B. Finley,
of Ohio, was made chairman and J. P.
Brown, of Georgia, secretary. A recess
was then taken and the silver men retired
nent organization was fully agreed upon.
The committee then adjourned until 8
o'clock, when it reconvened at the Sher-
man House. In the evening the silver
slate went through as follows: Permanent
chairman, Stephen M. White of California;
sergeant-at-arms. John I. Martin of Mis-
souri; secretary, Thomas J. Cogan of Cin-
‘cinnati; assistant secretary, Louis D.
Hersheimer of Chicago; reading clerk, E.
B. Wade of Tennessee.
The name of Senator Hill, of New York,
was presented by the zold men for perma-
nent chairman, and he veceived six votes
to thirty-three for Senator White. The re-
mainder of the organization as presented
by the silver people went through by ac-
clamation, the gold men making no nom-
inations. Judge Prentiss, of Illinois, was
the chairman of the silver caucus.
There is little change in the situation as
to candidates. Bland still has a strong
lead, but the possibility of all sorts of
complications which may blockade his
way to the coveted prize have made his
followers anxious, and the talk of abrogat-
ing the two-thirds rule in his interest has
been revived. There is, of course, the
natural disposition to crowd on to the
band wagon, but the calmest observers
cannot yet figure out how he can win.
They still look for Boies or a dark horse.
" The use which the gold contingent will
make of their votes complicates the situa-
tion, and many believe that, in the present
disorganized condition of the silver men
as to a candidate, the gold men can force
a compromise. Stevenson is most promi-
nently spoken of in this connection. To
forestall the gold men, concerning whose
plans in this regard there ismuch mystery,
the silver men intend to hold a caucus as
soon as a deadlock develops.
The gold men held a meeting last night
and adopted a resolution that each dele-
gate select a man to return.to his state,
to the chairman of the meeting, Senator
Gray. This may mean a bolt. Therc were
150 delegates at the meeting. Every sug-
gestion of a bolt was received with ap-
plause. \
THE RESOLUTIONS COMMITTEE.
Six United States Senators Assist in Con-
structing the Platform.
resolutions met last night at the Palme
House. Senator White, of California, was
elected chairman of the committee. Be-
fore he could take the chair a committee
from the commistec on permanent organi-
zation called upon him and notified him
of his selection for permanent chairman
“of the convention. Senator White accepted
the permanent chairmanship, and, return-
ing to the room of the committee on reso-
lutions, stated that it would be impossible
for him to act as permanent chairman if
the convention should ratify the choice of
the committee on permanent organization
to serve as chairman of the committee on
resolutions. Senator James K. Jones, of
Arkansas, was then chosen chairman of
the committee on resolutions.
A sub-committee of nine was appointed
to draft a platform of principles and re-
- port to the full committee today. Mr. Mc-
Dermott, of New Jersey, wanted the sub-
committee instructed to take no action on
finance, and made a vigorous gold speech,
in which he intimated that New Jersey’s
d 'cgation would bolt or refuse to support
a silver candidate or platform. Senator
White responded hotly, saying: ‘Let the
traitors secede if they want to. The ma-
jority of the party is here with a fixed pur-
pose, and determined to carry it out.”
The following gentlemen were appointed
as the sub-committee: Senators J. K.
Jones of Arkansas, F. M. Cockrell of Mis-
souri, J. Z. George of Mississi ppi, Ben. T.
Tillman of South Carolina, D. B. Hill of
New York and George Gray of Delaware;
Hon: John E. Russell of Massachusetts,
N. E. Worthington of Illinois and Mr-
Owen of Indian Territory.
At the meeting of the committee on cre-
dentials last night it was voted to scat the
four contesting silver delegates from Mich-
fgan. As Michigan has enforced the unit
rule this will make its delegation solid for
silver.
Continued on page 4.
——Lock Haven had a great time on the
Fourth. Besides exciting races in the
morning they had a grand civic and iu-
dustrial parade in the afternoon that was
said to be the largest ever seen in that city.
There was a $1,000 display of fire works in
the evening. Nine fire companies were in
line with four brass and four martial bands,
five camps P. O. S. of A. and Co. H., N. P.
P. In the industrial division there were
twenty-four floats. The street car lines
reported the collection of $650 in fares on
Saturday and Sunday. The prize for the
finest uniformed company was given to the
Citizens hose company, of South Williams-
port, and the ‘‘Blackvilles,”’ of hat city
were given the prize for having the largest
number of men in line.
and held a caucus, at which the perma- |
get the views of his party, and report back :
ChICAGO, July 8.—The committee on | d
SERGEANT-AT-ARMS MARTIN.
How Hill Was TurnediDown.
The following tabie shows the vote for Senators
Daniel and Hill in the contest forthe temporary
chairmanship :
States. Daniel Hill.
Alabama 22
Arkansas
California
Connecticut ues
Colorado ..... 8
Delaware 6
Florida 4 4
Georgia 26 =
Illinois 48 -
Indiana 30
lows ..... : 20
Idaho 6 a
Kansas 20 -
Kentucky 26 os
Louisiana 16 2
Montana 16 -
Maine 2 10
Missouri 34 oe
Maryland. . 4 12
Missisrippi 18 a
Massachuse vo 39
Minnesota 7 11
Michigan re 28
New Mexico 2 sre
North Carolin 22 ee
North Dakota 6 =
Nebraska Hr 16
Nevada 6 rs
New Ham xe 8
New York os a
New Jersey oo 20
Oregon 8 os
Ohio ..... 46 ov
Pennsylvania irs 64
Rhode Island re 8
South Caroling 18 i
South Dakot:f s er 8
Tennessee 24 -
Texas 30 0
tah... 6 i
Vermont ur 8
Virginia 23 1
Washington 5 3
West Virginia 9 3
Wisconsin oe 24
Wyoming 6 pee
Alaska |... a 2
Arizona... 2 oo
District of Columl 2 we
Oklahoma ............ 2 -
Indiana Territory ........cccciiiviennnnns 2 ie
When New York was called Senator Hill did not
vote. On the call of Virginia Daniel voted for his
opponent. The votes of Jowa and Kentucky were
challenged, and the unit rule upheld.
el eg
——Dr. J. C. McEntire is exhibiting an
“Xray machine” in town this week
and while there are very few X rays
about it the owner has raised several Xs
by it.
Leaders in the Convention