The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 13, 1896, Page 1

"VOLUME LX X.—NO. 13. PRICE "FIVE CENTS. PLATT DECLAR IR GOLD. Issues a Manifesto for Morton and a Single Standard Plank in the Platform. RENEWAL OF THE STR UGGLE OF CONTESTING DELEGATES TO THE CONVENTION. the McKin and the Meanwhile ¢ Finance”’ ley Men Are Shouting Adherents of Allison, Reed and Quay Are Quietly Working for Their Candidates. THE UNITED PRESS HEADQUAR- TERS, SOUTHERN HOTEL, ST. LOUIS, Mo., June 12.—This has been a day of in- ertia in the Republican camp. Even the arrival of Senator Quay to re-enforce the presence of ex-Senator Platt failed to gal- vanize the anti-McKinley movement back semblance of vigorous life. The the room where the onal Committee went through its notonous routine of deciding prelim- y contests were never uncomfortably thronged at any period of the day. What the decisions of the committee would be appeared to be taken for granted in a b rity of cases. Some eccentric depar- tures in the Louisiana contested cases from the ordinary course of rulings ly served to give zest to otherwise proceedings. the New York contests are to-morrow or Monday interest Some of Mr. Platt's inti- to a corri around N ors scar tas When reached may revive. mates continue to make veiled threats of | bolting if the New York contests are de- | cided on the same principles that are alleged to have controlled the committee but Mr. Piatt himself has ded committing himself to carefully av such & course. Late this afternoon some very decided | indications were given as to the course which the McKinley men would probably take on the financial question. Hitnerto the Platt men have shouted | “sound money” and the McKinley men ve shompted “tariff,” and neither side has fanifested any disposition to adopt the war cry of the other. Now all thisis changed, and the McKinley men are shouting finance. A suggested platform fted. by Mr. Kohlsaat of Chicago was nitted to Mr. Hanna and other close friends of Major McKinley and was taken under con- n. The proposed financial while following in the liny of the Indiana platform, goes an important step farther and speci- declares for the “gold standard.” the same time, however, ion was submitted the suggestion made that if this platform were adopted by the committee on resolutions it should be with the distinct understand- ing that if it were reported to the conven- tion by the committee on resolutions the chairman should entertain & motion to | that this | | strike out the words “gold standard,” the plank to be so framed that this could be done without interfering with the context or the sense. Such a motion being enter- tained, the proposition would be subject to debate, and could be finally settled by the convention ona test vote. 1t is under- stood to be Mr. Hanna’s judgment that the words “gold standard’’ ought not to appear in the platform. | Ex-Senator Platt to-day issued over his signature the following statement: “‘Governor Morton wil be placed in nomination and cordially supported by his friends. Speaker Reed and Senator Allison will also receive the votes of their supporters, all reports to the contrary notwithstanding. I am hopeful that the convention will recognize the wisdom of making Governor Morton our Presidential candidate and declaring uneguivocally for | a single gold standard. He is essentially | the gold standard candidate as his record | demonstrates. “From a cursory observation duriny my | brief stay here I am sanguine thata ma- | jority of the delegates favor the continu- ance of the existing financial system as interposed by Republican aaministrations. | The New York delegation will certainly do ali in its power to puta gold plank n the platform, for New York 1s for gold. “T. C. PraTr.” Senators Allison’s friends, who have hitherto remained so silent that the impression gained ground thathe had | been withdrawn from the race, are now | asswning an aggressive attitude and as- gert that ne will be supported by vigor- ous oratory and many votes when the con- vention proceeds to nominations. L ADDICKS IS DENOUNCED. Stinging Words Characterize the | Struggle of Rival Delegates. ST. LOUIS, Mo., June 12.—*I would not | vote for J. Edward Addicks, if his vote | were needed to make the next President of | the United States.” This declaration, uttered by Senator Thurston of Nebraska at 10:30 o’clock to- night, as he stood in the center of his fellow-National Committeemen, with up- lifted arm and clenched fist, was the climax of one of the most sensational scenes ever | witnessed in a meeting of a similar body | on the eve of a National convention. For | two hours previously the committee had | been listening to the presentation of the cases of the rival delegations from the THOMPSON FATHER OF THE CONVENTION. Mr. Thompson is the only surviving member of the Indiana Legis- RICHARD WIGGINGTON lature of 1834, and the only living OF INDIANA, WHO WILL BE THE member of the Congress of 1841, Beginning with Andrew Jackson, Mr. Thompson has known, more or less intimately, all our chief magistrates. During his first term in Congress he met Abraham Litcoln, and the acquaintance grew into a friendship which endured until the death of the latter. He cast his first vote for General Harrison in 1840, and nearly fifty years afterward his loyal support materially aided the grandson in secur- ing the Presidential nomination first and the clection afterward. | ish ambition. THOMAS C. PLATT, THE GREAT REPUBLICAN LEADER, OF THE GREAT STATE OF NEW YORK. Mr. Platt is a veteran in the councils of the party. He is one of the few members of the famous Grant phalanx that voted for the hero of Appomattox thirty-seven times in the Convention of 1880 who will sit in the 7, Louils.Convention next week. It is an interesting fact that Levi P. Morton, whose candidacy for the Presidential Nomination Mr. Platt iIs now urging, was also one of the famous *306” in the Convention of 1880. State of Delaware. That headed by ex- BSenator Anthony Higgins claimed to be the reguiar delegation, and was instructed for McKinley, while the six entered upon Secretary Manley’s records as contestants were headed by J. Edward Addicks, and Senator Quay was given by one of their pumber as their preference for the Presi- dential nomination. Personalities were freely exchanged in the presentation of the respective cases between ex-Senator Higgins, State Chair- man Caleb R. Layton and Mr. Addicks himself, but it was not until the parties in imterest had retired that the storm broke forth. Then Senator Thurston, first gain- ing the flogr, commenced an impassioned speech. He reviewed the evidence elicited in the Dupont controversy before the United States Senate and declared that it exposed a state of affairs unprecedented in the history of any State Republican party in the country. Addicks, he said, had been proved a traitor to the cause of Republicanism. When that party had forty-four Senators in the Capitol at ‘Washington and but one more was needed to give it the majority over the Populistic- Democratic element it was Addicks who, by the 2id of a Democratic (Governor, brought about a deadlock and prevented Delaware from receiving its proper repre- sentation in the Senate of the United States. “Talk to me of honor and decency in politics,” said the Senator. *I tell you here and now that I would not vote for J. Edward Addicks if his yote was needed to make the next President of the United States and if necessity demands I will re- peat thai statement upon the floor of the National Convention.” Two rounds of applause, the first demon- stration of the kind that had marked the proceedings of the committee, followed the Nebraska Senator’s declaration. ‘When the rival delegations, headed respectively by Higgins and Aadicks, were ushered into the comm ittee-room the excitement on the’partof the com- mitteemen was intense and they moved their chairs forward until they formed a ‘semicircle about the contestants and the presiding officer. Without preliminary ex-Senator Higgins plunged into the case in behalf of himsed and his associates. Mr. Addicks sat close beside him and at times it looked as though the two men might come into personal collision, especially as Mr. Higgins denounced Ad- dicks as the principal of the conspiracy against law and honor and as a man who regarded neither. Mr. Higgins was followed by Washing- ton Hastings, who was equally emphatic. Turning to Addicks, who sat with a sar- castic smile on his face, he shook his finger under his nose and ejaculated: “This man is governed by a base and self- I say it to his face as I have said it before. His name is Addicks. Little as heunderstands the language of a gentleman, be doubtless understands what I say.” Addicks made no response. The principal address on the other side was made by Caleb R. Layton, chairman of the convention which nominated the Addicks delegation, who entered a pro- test against the washing of the dirty linen of the Delaware Republicans before the committee. He also made a bitter attack upon the motives of ex-Senator Higgins, whose political fortunes, he said, had been made by Addicks. Then Mr. Addicks made a brief address in his own behalf. He claimed that he had been indorsed by the people of Dela- ware and had destroyed the worst ring that the Republican party had ever known. Mr. Higgins replied. He alluded to Addicks as “that creature,” and said that his speech showed him to be the ““moral idiot” that every one in Delaware knew he was. R. C. Kerens moved that all of the Ad- dicks delegation, with the exception .of Addicks himself, be placed upon the tem- porary roll, Senator Thurston declared thaton the floor of the convention he would speak and vote to unseat the entire delegation. Numerons speeches and motions were made, all taking the ground that Addicks was not a Republican, and should not be recognized as such. Finally Senator Carey of Wyoming moved that the Hig- gins delegation be plac=d on the temporary roll. The vote was 10 ayes to 39 noes. Then the committee. on motion of Mr. Sutherland, voted, 41 to 9, that it was not willing to place either delegation on the temporary roll, and referred the entire matter to the National Republican Con- vention. Before the Delaware case was taken up there was a long discussion on a motion by Delegate Catron of New Mexico to the effect that six delegates each be placea on the roll for the Territories of New Mexico, Arizona, Oklahoma and ‘the Indian Terri- tory. It was finally adopted. L g SETTLING THE CONTESTS. Natlonal Committeemen Make Short Work of the Disputes. ST. LOUIS, Mo., June 12.—Every mem- ber of the National Committee was in his seat or represented by proxy when the committee reconvened at 10:30 o'clock this morning. Just as soon as Chairman Carter haa called his associates to order Committee« man N. B. Scott of West Virginia asked the committee to give its serious attention to the fact that while this was the third day of the session only sixty contests had so far been passed upon and 108 still remained upon the order of business. He moved that from now on each side in the contested delegations be allowed but ten minutes for presentation of its case, and it was carried. Secretary Manley announced that the contest in the Bighth Virginia District had been withdrawn by letter and the names of W. B. G. Shumate and H. Y. Wayle were placed upon the temporary roll. Both are instructed for McKinley. Consideration of the Mississippi contests was resumed, the Sixth being next on the calendar. Ex-Congressman Lynch ap- peared for the contestees, J. W. Randolph and Sam D. Young (colored) and General Thompson of Ohio spoke for the contest- ants, C. A, Simpson and George F. Bowles (colored). There was no debate in com- mittee and the two last named were promptly seated, by a unanimous vote. With equal celerity the contestants in tne Seventh Mississippi district, James M. Matthews, Sr., and George C. Granberry (colored) were placed on the role to the exclusion of J. Meredith Matthews and Thomas E. Richardson. In each of these cases both contestees and contestants were McKinleyites. Next the committee took up the case brought from the First district of Ala- bama and which had been laid over from ‘Wednesday afternoon. Here the coatest- ants were S. M. Murphy and D, H. Pren- tiss, both colored and favoring Reed as two hours. first choice and the contestees, Samuel 8. Booth and John Harmon (colored) both for McKinley. After the statements had been heard Committeeman Sutherland of New York moved that in view of the conflicting statements the affid. vits in the case be submitted to a sub-committee of five. This was ruled out on the ground that the committee had previously refused to refer contests to sub-committees. Settle of North Carolina then proposed that both contestees and contestants be excluded from the temporary roll, but it was defeated. The committee then refused to seat the Reed delegation by a vote of 12 to 31, and Booth and Harmon were placed upon the temporary roll. Senator Gear of Iowa declared that this vote ‘‘would have a bad effect upon the country.” At the afternoon session the contest from Delaware was called, but it was an- nouncea that Mr. Addicks would not ar- rive until 2 p. M. and it was postponed for Meanwhile - the contest upon the delegates-at-large from Lou:siana was taken up. . In this case the representatives of the regular Republican party of the State, comprising Wiliiam Pitt Kellogg, Albert H. Leonard (wbite Reedites), and Henry Demas and J. Madison Vance (colored McKinleyites), claim to be entitled to be placed upon the roll. Against them are the nominees of the National Republican Sugar-Planters’ Convention, A. A. Mec- Ginnis, E. N. Cornany, Anthony Doherty and R. H. Hackney, all white McKinley- ites. In addition Leonard’s seat isinde- pendently contested by Andrew Hero Jr. The McGinnis quartet had. an advantage in a certificate from the chairman of the State committee setting forth that it was regular, and its proofs were presented and argued by William Belian of New Orleans. ‘Without calling upon the other delega- tion to reply, the committee went into ex- ecutive session and promptly seated the Kellogg delegates by a unanimous vote. It was suggested, however, by several members of the committee that this sum- mary proceeding might do injury to the Republican caunse iu Louisiana by alienat- ing the sugar-planters’ element, and the respective delegations having been called back, Chairman Carter made a pacific ad- dress pointing out that the action taken had been based upon the statement of Belian himself that the organization he represented was not reguiar, and suggest- ing that the Committes on Credentials of the National Committee was a court of last resort. R The contestants accepted the fi:ggecuon and announced as they withdrew that the case would be carried to the convention. Although the seating of ex-Governor Kellogg and his associates was regarded as disposing of all the contests in the six Louisiana Congressional districts, it was decided to take them up seriatim and hear, arguments. In the First district, ex- Governor Henry C. Warmoth and Walter L. Cohen (colored), instructed for McKin- ley, and C. W. Boothby and_G. W. Dever- zin (colored), instructed for Reed, were the rival delegations. ‘Warmoth and Cohen were seated with- out a rollcall. This was a victory for the sugar planters or National Republicans and a practical reversal of the position taken by the committee on the preceding contest. In the Second district the contestees — Continued on Second Page. TRUMBO ARGU OR SILVER Leads the White-Metal Champions of the West Who Are Defiant and Aggressive. DEMAND TADE THAT THE REPUBLICAN PARTY BE PLACED SQUARELY ON RECORD. Next in Importance to the Protection of American Industries Come Questions Relating to the Coinage of Precious Metals in Proper ST. LOUIS, Mo., June 12.—Now, that the matter of the Presidency is about set- | tled and that the contest of the Vice-Presi- | dency is narrowing down, the question of | protection is coming to the front and is | being discussed in the hotel lobbies to-} night. It is conceded that one of the | strongest planks in the platform must be that of protection to American industries. Unlike almost any other issue before the, | political parties to-day. the demand for protection is universp.. There is not a State in the Union that does not clamor | forit. While Republicans may be divided on matters of policy respecting finance Ratios. and other issues, they are a unit in the be« lief and are unanimous in the demand tbat American labor must be protected from the cheap slave lador of Earope. This ery for relief comes from Maine to the south- ernmost rim of Florida, from Washington to the Mexican border, and is echoed from all the States that lie between. 1n this interest has come to St. Louis Henry T. Oxnard, founder and proprietor of the beet-sugar factory in Chino, Cal. Mr. Oxnard sees great possibilities in store for 'sugar-beet culture in California and other States whose soil and climate may be adapted to the production of this vege« CHAUNCEY IVES FILLEY OF MISSOURI, ONE OF THE DELEGATES AT LARGE. Mr. Filley is one of the notable political characters of the country, and will be sure to attract attention on the floor of the convention. He belongs to the old guard and has sat in every Republican National Cenvention since 1864. In that year he, with other members of the Missouri delegatign, did the queer thing of voting for Grant when every other delegation recorded itself for Abraham Lincoln. He voted in four different National conventions for General Grant, and in 1880 cast his ballot for the great commander thirty-seven times. He is the proud possessor of one of the “306” medals, and often wears it upon his breast.