Evening Star Newspaper, July 8, 1896, Page 2

THE EVENING STAR, WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 1896-TWENTY-TWO PAGES. RICHARD P. BLAND. credentials has reopened the case of the Michigan delegates. The committee decid- ed at daylight this morning to throw out the gold delegation of Don Dickinson, neck and crop. I understand that Hill and Whit- ney made such an emphatic and effective protest as to cause a reconsideration of the case. Reports come to the hall of a conflicting nature from the conference of the New Yorkers. It is said they will not bolt, but will stay in the hall without participating in the proceedings. Another report says they will not at- tempt to perfect a separate organization after this convention, and will put a second ticket In the field. ‘The convention is drifting upon its oars. An ineffectual attempt is made to cause a recess, and for half an hour nothing Is done. Then the audience grows restless and Chairman Daniel, familiar with the democratic appetite for oratory, Introduces ex-Gov. Hogg of Texas to make a general speech. Gov. Eogs concludes, and a cyclone of demands for “Hill, Hill,” sweeps through the hall. The people cry down the chair- Francis G .Newland and Hallet Kil- beurn. cle, ieago Chi man for a few minutes, but he finally gets the upper hand of the disorder and an- he name of Senator Blackburn of the naw popular K platform of Hill and raises a ery for the n. He ts escorted to the and the audience rises In a body to him ator Blackburn starts out in fine fettle, and his powerful voice rings throughout the hall, stirring the audience to increasing enthusiasm. Silver is the burden of talk, and he rings a merry chorus to his sentiments. The people i upon having Hill speak to them. They appland Senator Biackburn az he concludes, but immediately raise a great howl for Hill It’s a magnificent tribute to the popularity of the New Yorker from the people who were compelled to vote him down yesterday. The chairman suggests a recess of half an heur, but the convention will not have it. They either want to talk or do business. A motion is made that Gov. Altgeld be to address the convention. Mingled hisses and applause follow the an- nouncement. Gov. Altgeld stands upon his chair, and the moment he becomes visible the hisses inc to a storm of disapproval. Gey. Altgeld moves that Senator Hill be eallet upon to talk, and thereupon sits down. The cries for Hill keep up, and the chairman announces that he is not in the hall. The Altgeld incident has created a sen- sation. The demonstrations against the governor were too emphatic to be mis- taken. The Illinois people renew their calis for Altgeld, and the governor advances to the platform. He is hissed and cheered alter- nately as he comes, but pays no attention to the hisses. He starts off in his speech in moderate manner, but quickly gets down to woes ef the masses. Gov. Altgeld has a tremendous audience to address, for there are but few unoccupied seats in the hall. He makes himself heard throughout the place, but produces only meager applause. He talks silver largely and the oppressions of Wall street. The British money lender is a favorite topic, ! and he tickles the rural fancy by castigat- ing the owners of British gold. “Shall we finally surrender to English greed?” erles Gov. Altgeld, at the end of a vigorous denunciation of the Engltsh money lender, and the rural delegates rise in a crowd and answer ” in stentorian voices. George Fred Williams, ex-Congressman from Massachusetts, now a free silver man, makes a hit with a radical free silver speech and an attack on Lombard street. Then the announcement is made that the committee on credentials is ready to report and the convention braces up with a mur- mur of anticipation. When the announcement is made that the District of Columbia shall have six votes the local delegates raise a cheer. Nebraska Gold Men Retire. The unseated gold delegates from Ne- braska give up their seats and retire to the rear of the hall, while the New York and the Pennsylvania delegations shout to them net to go. The Bryan delegates are now being seated. N. O. M. TAMMANY OPPOSES BOLTING. Convention Managers Give Eastern Mem All the Excuse Needed. Special From a Staff Correspondent. CONVENTION HALL, CHICAGO, II., June 8.—The managers of this convention intend to give the gold men all the excuse they want to Lolt. They will not hesitate at anything for fear of offending their op- ponents. The spirit of defiance which showed itself at the start has become even more pronounced. A lot of the extremists would like to see the gold men get out of the convention. But a belt is nowhere in the plans of cool-headed leaders of the east. Many of their lieutenants and fol- lowers are angered to the point where t! are almost beyond control. The actio the credentials committee in the Michigun cases was irritating almost to the extreme, yet Whitney and Hill say “no bolt.” Th Sreat power behind them in this position Tammany. Tammany doesn't care for th administration men of Michigan. The flut- ter of Don. M. Dickinson in the Chicago breezes does not give them palpitation of heart. They don’t care much for gold ex- cept in ‘their own pockets. If the orders Were to shout for silver they would do so about as readily as they are shouting against. What they care for !s Tammany. ‘That means party organization first, last and all the time. They are violent and noisy, as they always are, but, as is al- ways their misfortune, their sincerity is questioned. When they fought night and day with the recklessness of seeming despair against Clevelard four years ago, predict- ing dire disaster and begging on bended kree that they should not be “thus de- stroyed,"” no one believed in their sin- cerity. They were suspected of being clever “play actors,” with Bourke Cock- ran as the star. The convention admired and applauded Cockran as they would have Edwin Booth, and said one to the other, “It is almost like real.” They are less dramatic and attract less attention now, but neither their prayers, their professions of anger and their threais tor their predictions of disaster have any influence. The convention winks the other eye at everything Tammany says or does, and says, “Oh, of course, that is what they are here for, but they are not up to the mark; they are not doing as well as usual.” They cannot get any credit for sincerity, so thelr threats Inspire no fear. The private talk of rank and file as well as the known efforts of Whitney and Hill in- dicates plainly enough that Tammany does not want a bolt to occur, and that all the influence they can exert will be to Prevent one. What the long-headed lead- ers propose !s to nominally keep in the party, to maintain the democratic organ- ization in the east, to hope, pray and work for the defeat of the national ticket of their own party, and then, {f it is crushed in November, to gather up tho fragments and get the organization in shepe again the best they can, with themeclves at the head of it. Hill Not for Defeat. Hill must be excepted from among those who want to see the party defeated this fall. He ts too much of a partisan to want the organization destroyed on account of JOHN R. McLEAN, nothing but a mere principle. Even the tusn-dowm be got yesterday has not in- spired resentment beyond the point of a desire to get in his say on this occasion and Iny the lash on some who have fought Lim. He knew from the first what was go- ing to happen to him, and there is not that indignation which fa provoked by an af- front which is a surprise. The game play- ed on him yesterday is one which he has always reccmmended as wise in politics. I have heard him say that 4 successful old- time politician taught him a maxim when he first entered politics, which he has al- ways since found to be wise. This maxim is: ‘Never let your opponents get the tem- Porary organization.” He loves to dwell on the merits of thts bit of wisdom, and it was he who taught it to the men who ap- plied it to him yesterday. He must, in the midst of his annoyance at the result, take some pride in the apt- ness of those who have studied politics at his feet. Whitney and Fellows Ineffectual. Whitney and Fellows have been surpris- ingly ineffectual. There is something more than the fact that they are on the unpopu- lar side. They seem to have lost much of their natural shrewdness and force and forgotten how to handle men. Both, but particularly Fellows, lost their temper ear- ly in the contest, and then had to take the weak position of trying to get It back again. Whitney has become less persua- sive and more dictatorial, and the thrilling metallic ring has gone out of Fellows’ voice. He wilts his own collar without arousing the audience. His voice chokes up and the veins in his face swell. They have not been able to put the swing and dash Into their fight that is characteristic of them. Will is the stand-by of the whole eastern section. White is being talked of as something of a dark horse. He has al- ways wanted the California delegation to present his name for the presidency, but at the start there did not seem to be any chance for him. He has made a good impression among the delegates during the week, preliminary to the convention, and now that dark horses are being talked of he fs naturally thought of. His selection by the commit- tee on permanent organization as perma- nent chairman of the convention was not due to any rivalry between him and Sena- tor Harris. Harris had virtually been se- lected, but when the committee met he sent Col. Bright, who is one of his closest friends, to announce his declination. The reason was that he did not think it wise under the circumstances that both the tem- porary and the permanent chairman should be from the south. The presiding office ts not a good place for a candidate for nomi- nation to occupy, but the conditions of White's candidacy, should it arise, would be such as to make his being a chairman a matter of little consequence. He would not be formaty placed in nomination, and his being veted for would come as the result of a deadlock. . Candidates of this sort are bobbing up from every quarter, and many man un- thought of is looking over the field with the thought in his mind that he himself ought to have as good a chance as any. There is a perfect swarm of little bees statement was put out by the talkers that the Ohio delegation would quit McLean after the first béliet and go to Bland. That is not the present plan of the Ohio delegation. While there are a few dele- gates from Ohio who are anxious to show their independence of McLean, they. are not enough to jeount for anything. The overwhelming rity are the persenifi- cation of loyalty!to their chief, and they @re not apt at any time to vote otherwise than as he desires, They will try to serve his interests as fdr as possible, and in the end to get him ‘on the tail of the ticket, if he does not get,t¥e first place. At present he is more mentioned for Vice President than any other‘man. There may be some significance in thd fact that such devoted friends of McLean's as L. Q. Washington, who is an extremely shrewd political ob- server, and is on confidential terms with the senatorial circle here, and Ike Hill, who mingles with the rank and file, insist that the strongest ticket that could be nominated would be Teller and McLean. The McLean Boom. This may be an indication of what the McLean men are thinking of. It is not to be inferred, however, that any combina- tion ofthat sort has as yet been made. McLean has simply given it to be plainly understood that he will not go on the ticket with a weak candidate. There is a great deal of surface talk about Stevenson developing strength at the close, but there ts nothing substantial in it. One thing that must not be lost sight of is that this convention cannot be driven to the nomination of any one but a most radical silver man. Even personality does not enter into it. The two require- ments are that he shall be extreme on sil- ver and seem to have a chance of election. The men who will have most influence in deciding what man best fulfills these re- quirements have been too busy with the organization and in arranging things so that the gold men should not steal a march on them to be able to devote the necessary censideration to candidates. Incidentally they have been trying to get themselves in @ position to make their decision effective when it Is reached. The work of last night and of this morning's session of the con- vention has left them freer to take up the question of candidates, not the selection of @ man, but the prevention of such a selec- tion being made until the ground could be more thoroughly gone over. The leaders are not exactly opposed to Bland, but they are dissatisfied with him, believing that a better selection might be made. If they come to the conclusion that it is practical to make a selection more to their liking they will not hesitate to go over to the Missourian and give him their earnest sup- port. At present, however, they are in- clined to think that they can do better, and they want to prevent Bland’s nomina- tion until they can make a more thorough study of the situation. They do not expect any nomination today or tonight, though that is what the Bland people are looking for. The Balloting. In fact, the program in conterplation leaves it doubtful whether there will be any balloting at all before tomorrow. The Lean's natural tendency is toward some one else, and this accounts for the reluct- ance of the southern men to go to the support of Bland, as they were expected to. Blackburn’s Boom. Blackburn is booming a good deal. Ap- Farently he ts encouraged to the hope that it may come his way yet. Jack Chinn, who got a national reputation out of his fight for Blackburn during the sesston of Kentucky legislature, is here with a num- ber of his friends, putting in licks for the Kentucky cavalier. His coming was in- spired probably, as “much as by anything else, by the belief that the gold men were going to try by physical force to capture the convention in spite of the silver ma- jority. He came to oppose his bulky form to any such attempt as that. It turns out that there is no cccasicn for that sort of campaigning, and he is devoting himself to the peaceable occupation of telling dele- gates what a fine fellow “Joe” is, and that he is the very ideal silver camdidate. He is also putting in a blow or two against Bland. The Teller Movement. The Teller business is just about where it was yesterday. The Colorado delegates are expected to vote for him on the first ballot, withcut his being put in nomina- tion, but it is not intended that any other delegation shall vote for him until a situ- atior developes which looks a deadlock among the candidates. Several delegations wont start at once for him, but this is ad- vised against as long as the tangle among the cther candidates keep up the Teller men are satisfied. If there is anything like @ consolidation of forces on any one of the present candidates they will be apt to regard the game as up,. and not try to do anything. As yet nothing has occurred to shake their confidence that the conven- tion cannot agree on any other, and that Teller will be nominated. They have got to skate over some very thin ice in spite of all the promises they have. Every hour the present situation keeps up the ice gets thicker. EX-Gov. Their prayer is for confusion and delay.| tions, was introduced and delivered the So many other interests will be served in the same way that they sre getting assist- ance that is not intended for them. The Indiana people ure showing some signs of panic. Quite a number of the delegation are friendly to Bland, and they are afraid he may be nominated without their having a chance to get onto his band wagon. The delegation is still keeping up a bold front to the outside world, and declaring that things are shaping so as to make Matthews’ nomination possible. In the general estima- tion Matthews is placed in the same cate- gory with Stevenson. J.P. M CONVENTION PROCEEDINGS. Details of the Occurances in Today's Session, CHICAGO, July &8—The crowds began pouring into the Coliseum shortly after 9 o'clock this morning, but the heavy-eyed delegates, many of whom had an all-night vigil, were late in arriving. A fresh, green fern-lank. crowned with bright roses, grac- ed the edge of the platform. The sunshine J a ih pf ds oe INTERIOR OF THE COLISEUM SHO WING DECORATION AND THE SEATING ARRANGEMENTS. singing their honeyed songs Into willing and foolish ears. Cry for Sibley. Hot cry hag been started for Sibley of Pennsylvania. His friends are working to assemble all possible strength for him. They say that before the balloting is over the Pennsyl- vania delegation will come to his support. His nomination fs represented as being as acceptable to the populists as would be that of Teller. Some of the populists who are at variance with their acknowledged leaders have declared that Sibley ts the favorite of populists, and it is being urged that he should be selected because he is a democrat. It is known all the while, how- ever, that Sibley ts not unfriendly to the selection of Teller, and heretofore it has been said that he was working for Teller. He may be yet. Sibley practically jumped out of the democratic party while he was in Congress because the party would not make a suitable organized fight against Cleveland. He then appeared as a silver champion not allied to any party, and he was taken up and made the nominee of the silver party, at the head of which was Senator Stewart and A. J. Warner. It was annourced by Sibley at the time of his nemination that 28 soon as some other good silver man was put in nomination on a silver platform by any party he would withdraw. He has a strong support before this convention from outside influences, much after the manner of Teller’s support, though nothing like as well organized. Sibley is conducting his own canvass from his private rooms in the Auditorium. A. constant stream of visitors havo been go- ing in and out of his rooms during the past thirty-six hours. Secret conferences are being held, and there are all the signs of @ serious canvass, The situation as to the relations of the candidates has not materially changed. Bland stil is recognized as the leader, and the rest are combining against him. The hope of his friends that the south would be pretty solidly for him does not as yet give great promise of realization. The Postage on The Star. The rate of postage on The Evening Star is one cent for 12 pages, two cents for from 14 to 26 pages, Bland people are not claiming the nomiaa- tion of their man on the first ballot. The making of the nomination still Mes with the attached delegates, and the effort that is being put forth by the anti-Bland peo- ple is to commit these delegations to eny one who can hold them away from the Missouri man. In this they are meeting with considerable success, but not enongh to relieve them entirely from anxiety. A Bit of By-Play. A pretty bit of by-play in the contest is the rivalry for superiority of influence be- tween the Ohio and the Iliinois delegations. They are the two big delegations that are well organized and for silver. Each is am- bitious to be the potential factor in nam- ing the candidate. The Ohio people are working on the southern delegates, while Secretary Sheerin. Altgeld is more successful in the west. The southern people do mot seem to take to Altgeld and they show a disposition to avoid his influence. This is because there ig something in the southern mind that re- volts at anything that smacks of social- ism or anarchy. They are radical on sil- ver, but very conservative in other respects. McLean is more in touch with them. They yield more to his influence. They like in him the combination of bustness conserva- tism and devotion to silver. This they re- gard as consistent, and they repei the in- sinuation that free silver should be asso- ciated with general social and business Gisorder. Altgeld being for Bland, Mc- sifted through the air spaces in the vast dome and glittered among the gay trap- pings. The band kept up a fusilade of live- ly airs, while the people bubbled up through the entrances and melted away in the acres of seats, and the scene early became brilliant and animated. A few minutes be- fore 10 the delegates began to arrive. They came with their loins girded for the fray. The developments of the night put every man on his mettle, for this meaat hard fighting all along the line. The first of the censpicuous leaders to arrive was Governor Altgeld. He stalked moodily to his seat, and immediately became the center of a group. Nervously his lean fingers sought his short, brown beard as, with inclined head, he listened to the latest reports of his lieutenants before the engagement opened. The air was rife with rumors, much of {i hovering about the question of a gold bolt. ‘The arrival of the New York delegation, which was still in conference on this sub- ject, was anxiously awaited by some of the old democratic warhorses among the silver men, but many of the radicals expressed utter indifference as to the course of the gold wing. The silver leaders entered the arena with their program pretty well map- ‘ped out. They intended to charge the gold army and give them, as far as possible against such stubborn resistance, as mas- terful generalship could offer. At 10:15 the Iowa delegation appeared in a body and marched to their seats behind a Boies ban- ner. Their appearance was greeted with a ripple of applause, punctuated with a rat- tle of cheers, which, however, quickly died away. Chairman Daniel, with his long black hair falling to his shoulders, held an in- formal reception on the stage. At 10:30 a.m. a man in a tow suit bear- ing a banner of the W. J. Bryan Club of Nebraska rushed up through the south en- trance followed by a coupie of hundred Nebraskans. They cheered wildly. A brief demonstration for the boy orator of the Platte ran round the hall. Tom Johnson, the Ohio free trader and single taxer; his colleague, Mr. L. E. Hol- den, with gray beard and smooth upper lip, and Congressman Jones of Virginia formed an interesting group with their heads together in the main aisle. Eastern Men Absent. At exactly 10:50 Senator Daniel rapped for order. The minions of the sergeant-at- arms had some difficulty in clearing the aisles. When all were seated and order was obtained it was found that the spaces reserved for the New York. Massachu- setts, Maine, Maryland and New Jersey delegations were practically vacant. The threat of a bolt came home with a realiz- ing sense, but it was explained that these delegations were still in conference dis- cussing the situation. Rev. Francis Ed- ward Green, an Episcopal minister of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, who has the distinc- tion of having prayed for peace and har- mony at two previous democratic conven- invocation. The minister’s voice was strong but of pleasing timbre, and the vast audience — and listened attentively to his plea ‘or The reverend gentleman's prayer follows: “We praise Thee, oh Lord; we acknowl- edge Thee to be the Lord; all the earth aces worship Thee, Father Everlasting. We adore Thee as the king of nations, for by Thee they are and have their being. We worskip Thee as the God of wisdom and truth, for of Thee cometh every good and perfect thing. We adore Thee as the great all-father, for of ono blood Thou hast made all peoples of the earth. Reveal Thy- self to us, we beseech Thee, alike as Cre- ator, as father, and as guide rule Thou over us, for Thou art mighty. Teach us, for Thou alone doth know the secret things of eter- nity. Still the voices of our contention, for Thou alone are infinite good. Especially giant Thy blessing, we beseech Thee, to this great convention, gathered together from all parts of our fair land. In the days that are gone Thou didst guide our fathers; teach us, we pray Thee, their children. “Oh, Thou who alone canst rule the un- rly wills and affections of sinful men, dcminate our minds for good, for humanity and for God. And as these, Thy servants, meet for the high concerns of state, grant them wisdom, we beseech Thee, that that which they do may tell in the years to ccme for the advancement and the lifting up of our human kind. Save them from error, cleanse them from prejudice and passion, end may righteousness by their action ‘triumph over wrong; may liberty ever drive away oppression; may virtue ever dominate our voice, and for Thy kingdom ccme and Thy will be done on earth so may the great truth dominate the good of all people, the sublime philosophy of the commoner of Nazareth everywhere prevail; may Thy blessing be upon us and upen our children now and forever more, amen.” CredentinIs Committee Not Ready. Senator Daniel was a commanding fig- ure, as he stood by the flag-draped desk, announcing that the first business of the day would be the reports of committees. A hitch in the machinery appeared at once, for the committee on credentials, which always reports first, was not ready with its recommendations. In the mean- time, while the convention was waiting, a diversion was furnished by the band which was brought to Chicago by the Bland Marching Club. The convention band was pounding away in the high gallery over the platform, when a counter blare was heard in the far western end of the hall, to the right of the delegates, and the Bland band came into sight, filling up the long aisle to the topmost row of seats, playing the pyro- technic strains of “Dixie,” which never fails to affect a democratic convention like a match dropped into a powder barrel. It produced the customary explosion of enthusiasm, the Missouri delegation, with many of their supporters, climbing into their chairs to shout. “Marylanr, My Maryient* inspired another demonstra- toa. Then Chairman Daniel put a motion that the convention take a five minutes’ recess, and be addressed by Gov. Hogg of Texas. The motion was carried. Gov. Hogg Talks. The former lone star governor, who is best known to the world-at-large through his fight against the railroad ccrporations in his state, is easily the biggest man in the cenvention. His weight is not less than 300 pounds, and he stands some inches above six feet. He has lost the beard which he wore last summer during his in- vasion of Well street to lure northern cap- ital southward, and faced the friendly au- dience with a round, smooth face. He pro- ceeded with a voice like the bass of a church organ to hurl thunderbolts against He began by con- ention in the proud epportunity before it. The tactics of demo- crats, not bolters, he declared, should pre- vail, In accordance with the time-honored democratic doctrine of majority rule. He spoke of the preservation of the liberties of the people from the yoke of republican rule. The party, he said, had made a mis- take feur years ago which would not be re- peated. If the republican party returned to power it foreboded a nation of minions and millionaires. If democrats would stand to- gether that party could this year, he said, be forever laid out on the hillside of de- spair. He denounced the growing tendency of centralizing the government, which, he said, must evehtually mean the oppression of people by the bayonet and the destruc- tion of their liberties. He drifted thence into a discussion of the tariff question. His purpose was sim- ply to hold the attention of the conven- —————— tion until the credentials committee was Prepared to report. Guests on the Platform. Among the distinguished guests on the platform were Don M. Dickinson, Sena- tors Dubois and Pettigrew, Congressman Towne of Minnesota and Colonel W. H. Hepburn of Iowa, John Allen of Tupelo, Miss., the wit of the House of Representa- tives; ex-Congressman Phil Thompson of Kentucky, ex-Senator Butler of South Car- olina, who was defeated for re-election to the Senate by Ben Tillman. Among the ladies on the platform were Mrs. U. 8. Grant and Mrs. Potter Palmer. Texas ex-governor’s attack on the republican platform met with hearty sym- pathy from the audience. Some of the gold men, however, showed openly that they were exp! % When ex-Governor Hogg had finished Senator White assumed the gavel tem- rarily, while the crowd cried for Hill, ryan, Blackburn, Altgeld and others. Delegate Money of Mississippi moved that Senator Blackburn be requested to address the convention, and the crowd yelled itself hoarse in approval. With Proud step the gallant Kentuckian mount- ed the stage. His appearance set the con- opposed to some of his extreme 5. Amos J, Cummings. vention wild. He is one of the silver idol and it wes apparent as soon as his fe! oratory was launched that he had pil ana gallery with him. The democratio party, he said, was in convention to cor- rect its grievances and right its wrongs. “Be temperate, be conservati " paid 4 “but do not forget to gather the splendl fruits of the victcry you have so splendid- ly won. You have captured the skirmish ine, but the inner citadel still etands. Do what you were sent here to do, but wheth- er you favor a gold standard or a double standard, let every one remember that he is a democrat still. I pin my faith to the principles and loyalty of my party. A new day is dawning,” he conciuded, “whose effulgence will mark the return cf Jemoo- racy to power. I beg you gentiemen to make a platform that will tell the truth, and then rally as one man to vindicate its utterances.” During the progress of Senator Black- burn’s speech the 15,000 people in the hall were aroused to a high pitch of entha- slasm, and as he closed they went wild. For two minutes they waved their ap- rroval. Then they began to shout for uther favorites. Loud yells for Bryan were heard. Another demonstration almost equal to the one bestowed on Blackburn occurred when the chairman inquired if Mr. ryan of Nebraska was in the hall. Delegates and spectators jumped to their feet and waved their hats and handkerchiefs, vut they were disappointed, for the young ora- tor from Nebraska could not be found. The chorus of demands for Hill was rais- ed again louder than ever. While the tu- mult was at its height Delegate A. W. Hope of Illinois pushed his way down to the steps of the platform and with out- stretched arm pointed toward Senator White clamoring for recognition. Finally the chairman saw him and was able to hear him cry, “I move that Goy- error Altgeld of Illinois address the con- vention,” although no one twenty feet avey could catch the purport of the de- mand. Senator White beat a sharp, penetratiag click with his gavel until the convention consented to subside a trifle, and then he ernounced that Governor Altgeld of Il- lir cis was called for. Altgeld a Central Figure. Gov. Altgeld has many warm friendg ip Illinois and many enemies, and they sprang to their feet to voice their senti- (Continued on Eleventh Page) ——= —s SENATOR BLACKBURN.