The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 14, 1896, Page 1

" VOLUME LXXX.—NO. 14. SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 14, 1896_THIRTY-TWO PAGES. PRICE FIVE CENTS. PLATT'S UNEXP CTEDVICTORY Defeats His Enemies in the Con-= test Before the National Committee. McKINLEY MEN WILL CHOOSE THE VICE- PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE. The Choice Lies Between Evans of Tennessee, Hobart of New Jersey, Dingley of Maine, Hawley of Connecticut and Mor= ton of New York. ST. LOUIS, Mo., June 13.—The princi- pal feature of to-day’s developments was the unexpected victory won by the Platt forces in the contest before the National Committee over the delegates from the Fourteenth New York City District. By a vote of 22 tv 25 the committee decided that Cornelius Bliss and 8. Van Ren- selaer Crueger (anti-Platt) were not en- titled to a full vote each. On the motion, however, that Messrs, Carroll and Barnes (Platt men) were prop- erly elected, so strong a division of senti- ment was created that it became apparent that an all-might session might be neces- sary to complete this and the two other New York cases. The only element of uncertainty in the Presidential race, besides the financial plank, the convention’s choice for second place. Ex-Senator Warner Miller of New York refuses to permit the use of his name and advances reasons why he could not and would not accept the nomi- nation. Henry Clay Evans of Tennessee is & strong canaidate and will probably re- is ceive a large vote in the convention. Mr. Hobart of New Jersey is also well regarded, and the New Jersey politicians are working earnestly in his behalf. It is obvious, however, that the Vice- President will be named by the McKinley forces. They are easily masters of the sit- ution, and the man of their choice will be the man to whom this honor will be given. At present they are undecided as to the course they shall pursue. bere is a general disposition among them to select an Eastern man, and it is for this reason that an ancient “boom” was started by some of the number to-day for ex-Governor Dingley of Maine. Senator Hawley of Connecticut is well regarded by them, but at present they are more inter- estnd in the platiorm and other matters of detail than the Vice-Presidency. So faras the platform is concerned there is apparently no doubt that it will declare | against the free coinage of silver, except by international agreement, ac any ratio, and for the maintenance of the present standard. On such a platform Chzuncey | M. Depew says New York State can be carried by 200,000 majority. s MANY SEATS CONTESTED. The Natlonal Committee Kept Busy Settling Disputes. ST. LOUIS, Mo., June 13.—When the National Committee met at 10:30 to-day the Tennessee cases were taken up. There were three contests from this State, H. L. W. Cheatham and J. B. Bosley (colored) of the Sixth District being challenged by J. C. Crawley (colored) and Dan W. Spof- ner. In the Ninth District the credentials of David A. Nunn and Henry E. Austin were claimed by John R. Walker and Robert E. McKeely. Both contests were based upon alleged irregularities in the calls for and the proceedings of the dis- trict committees. In the Sixth District, on motion of Mr. Manley, Cheatham and Bosley were seated. The Ninth District case was productive of elaborate argument on both sides, after which Nunn and Austin were seated. They are McKinleyites, as are the contest- s. Only five minutes were devoted to the contest in the Tenth District. The regular delegates, William A. Randolph and Zachary Taylor, were seated. They and the contestants are McKinleyites. At 11:30, by special order, the considera- tion of South Carolina cases was taken up and a large delegation of whites and blacks filed into the room. The contest was be tween the “Regulars’ and the so-called ‘Lily Whites.” Colonel Ellery L. Melton of Columbia, 8. C., the recognized leader of the *‘Lily Whites,” opened for himself and his ass ciate contestants, taking the position that the disfranchisement or otherwise of 80,000 South Carolina Republicans depended upon the action of the committee. The State, he said, was enthusiastic for protec- tion, and while this contest was not cne of preferences, yet a favorable decision to his side would bring the State into line with Repubiican Kentucky Ex-Congressman Thompson of Ohio, general counsel for the contestants of Mc- Kinley preferences, submitted the facts in the case of the opposing delegation, which inctuded Robert Smalls, the well-known colored leader, and Eugene Webster, for years at the head of the domigant Repub- lican faction in South Carolina. In his own bebaif Mr. Smalls madea bitter attack wpon his opponents, The | “Lily Whites,”’ he insisted, had no stand- ing in the State. They had no excuse for existence and they were entitled to neither the recognition nor the respect of the Re- vublicans of the Nation. In the city of | Charleston Colonel Melton had said 2500 white men were ready to join the “Lily ‘White” party. The facts were, said Smalls, that perhaps that number of men or more were willing to join—not so much the Re- publican party as any party that would help them to ‘‘down” Tillman and hisdis- pensary law and give them free rum in their city and homes. Committeeman Brayton, also a con- testant, spoke in his dual capacity. He was repeatedly interrupted by Senator Thurston, who at one point asked whether or not the “Lily Whites” had not adopted the “‘club” (or black and white club) sys- tem. Colonel Brayton replied in the af- firmative and Senator Thurston rejoined, “Neither the Republican party nor the convention will tolerate an organization that does not permit every mau to ‘take part in all preliminary proceedings.” “What about the League of Republican Clubs, of which you have been presi- dent'?” retorted Colonel Brayton. “That’s another matter,” replied the | Senator, and a laugh went around the room. | Tne rival delegations having withdrawn, | Long of Florida promptly moved the seat- | ing of the Webster-Smalls party. Colonel \‘Seltle. proxy for Cowles, of North Caro- J. EDWARD ADDICKS OF DELAWARE. Mr. Addicks is one of the Delegates-at-large from the State of Delaware, whose seat is contested by ex-Senator Anthony Higgins. Over this case quite a sensational dispute arose before the National Committee at its session on Frida Senator Thurston exclaimed: “I y, and it was of Mr. Addicks that would not vote for him if his vote was needed to make the next President of the United ttates.” After considerable discussion it was decided to refer the whole matter to the National Convention. supporter of McKinley. CHARLES W. FAIRBANKS, WHO HAS BEEN SELECTED AS TEM- PORARY CHAIRMAN OF Mr. Fairbanks is one of the delegates-at-large from Indiana, and is recognized as an ardent His selection for the temporary chairmanship renders it reasonably certain that the organization of the convention will be conducted in the interests of the Ohio man. 1HE CTONVENTION. lina, proposed as a substitute the seating of the Brayton people. | A vote resultea in the rejection of the substitute by 29 to 21. This was first blood for the anti-Lily Whites, but when the | motion to seat the Webster-Smalls delega- | tion was about to be put Fessenden of | Connecticut movea that the Delaware precedent be followed and both sides be excluded from the temporary roll. Delegate Catton of New Mexico moved that each delegation be selected with a half vote each. This was defeated 16 to| 32. The question recurred to Fessenden’s motion to exclude both delegationsand re- | ter the issue to the convention. Another roll was demanded. Arain the Lily Whites encountered defeat, 16 to 34. Then the minority gave up the fight and the Web- ster-Smalls delegation was seated on a viva voce vote with about ten noes. This takes out of the convention a total of sixteen delegates who are noted in Mr. Hanna’s handbook as having “Reed preferences.” At 1:40 a recess of twenty minutes forlunch was ordered. The first business of the afternoon ses- | sion was the selection of temporary offi- cers, after which the committee resumad consideration of the contest cases. All the Webster or regular delegates from the several districts in South Caro- | lina were seated. All are for McKinley. The Texas contests were then taken up, and a regiment of white and negro Re- publicans from that State was ushered into the room. As outlined by Chairman Carter the contest was a three-cornered one, there being three delegations atlarge of four members each, with contests in each of the twelve Congressional districts, several having two sets of contestants. Of the rival delegations at large one headed by John Grant was instructed for McKin- ley, the second, headed by Nelson W. Cuney (colored), is divided between Alli- son and Reed, and the third, headed by H. F. McGregory, hasits preferences given as two Allison, one Reed and one Mc- Kinley. Mr. McGregor, whose party is variously known as the ‘“Regulars,” the ‘‘Reform- ers” and the “Lily Whites,” opened what proved to be an all-round, free-for-all de- bate. John Grant, State chairman of what he also claimed to be the regular organiza- tion, characterized the others as frauds. There was a buzz of surprise when Colonel Grant declared that charges of fraud and corruption against the Texas delegation to the Minneapolis convention of 1892 were 2 part of his case, and that the facts would 4 be found in affidavits which he threw on the chairman’s table. No questions were asked on this point, however, and the affi- davits are untouched upon the table. The case for the “Black-and-Tans,” as Grant's party is known, was further ar- gued by Hon. G. H. Terrell, Minister to Belgium under President Harrison, and that for the McGregorites by C. N. lLove (colored) of Galveston. The first question to De decided was which of the two delegations represented the regular party organization, and the vote was in favor of the Grant (McKinley) faction. This much settled, the claims of the latter to seats in the convention were challenged by the rival delegation, headed by Nelson W. Cuney, the colored member of the National Committee. Ex-Minister Terrill made a second argu- ment, this time supporting the Cuney delegation, of which he is a member. The committee went into executive ses- sion and discussed the case for three- quarters of an hour. A motion to seat the Cuney delegation was defeated by 17 to 25. Then Mr. Fessenden of Connecticut moved that both sets of delegates be excluded from the temporary roll. This proposi- tion was favored and the question as to who are the proper delegates at large from Texas must be settled in the convention. At 5:40 o’clock Mr. Manley announced that there yet remained twenty-iwo con- tests, involving forty-eight delegates. Al- lowing a half hour to each case it would take the committee eleven hours to com- plete this branch of its labors. The room in which they were meeting, he saia, would have to be surrendered ir twenty minutes, but the New York delegation had | offered the use of the ladies’ ordinary, of | which it had possession until 6 p. M. to- morrow. Several urged an all-tight ses- | sion until that hour, but no action was taken, and the First Texas District contest was called. in this district the claims of David Tay- lor and M. D. Dawson (both colored), with | McKinley preferences, were recognized, and their names placed on the roll. In the Second District the Reed contestants, G. W. Burkett and J. H. Brinkley (col- ored), claimed that Colonel Webster Flanagan, who resides in another district, came to their convention and controlled it upon alieged proxies from. counties in which no organization existed. Colonel Flanagan, who was called from the anteroom by order of the committee, denounced this as an ‘‘unmitigatea lie,” whereupon William McDonald (colored), who represented the contestants, threw a package of affidavits down at Flanagan’s feet and dared him to repeat the state- ment. Flanagan held bhis peace and kept his temper, and the committes quickly disposed of the case by seating H. B. Kane and T. T. Pollard, the regular (McKinley) delegation, A few moments after {he committee re- convened to-night, a decided sensation was created by the appearance of Senator Mathew 8. Quay of Pennsylvania. With anod and a smile for the frierds that he recognized on his right and left, he walked with a jaunty air up the aisle, shook hands with Mr. Carter, seated himseif at a corner of the secretary’s table, reached for a sheet of foolscap and commenced to write rap- idly. He had hardly finished writing when Colonel Perry Carson, the colored National Committeeman from the District of Columbia, came rapidly into the hall and found his way to the rear of the Penn- sylvania Senator. The latter ceased writing on the moment and Colonel Carson, taking the pen from his hand, attached his signature to the sheet ‘upon which the Senator had writ- ten. Thereupon the colored committee- man withdrew. A few moments later it developed that the document was a proxy, under which Senator Matthew 8. Quay was “authorized to sit in the National Committee as the proxy for Perry Carson, until such proxy was withdrawn.” The Senator took a seat in the front row of the committee and listened with interest to the presentstion of the remainder of the Texas contests. #Yes, I ar a committeeman for the time being,” sair the Senator, in response to an inquiry. “I am here on sufferance, as it were, as I hold . the proxy of Perry €arson. I .shallstay bere duting the con- sideration of the contests from Pennsyl- vania and maybe longer, if Oarson does not put me out.” “I am foot-loose for the rest of the night,” said Colonel Carson, a few mo- ments later, “and am glad of it. Thave given my proxy te Mr. Quay and he can use it as long as he wants to. He can stay there until they adjourn sine die before I am likely to put him out.” Consideration of the Texas cases was re- sumed. The contestants in the Third, Fourth and Fifth districts failed to put in an appearance and Webster Flanagan, J. W. Batier, C. M. Ferguson, H. C. Gore, C. A. Lyon and William Johnson, McKinley- ites, were placed on the roll from these districts. In the Sixth District J. M. Mc- Cormack and Robert Armstrong, McKin- leyites, were seated, while in the Seventh W. F. Crawford and B. F. Wallace (col- ored), both supporters of Mr. Reed, were seated over the McKinley delegates, in both contests the decisions were based upon the evidence concerning the irregu- larity of the conventioms at which the delegates were selected. In the Eighth District the regular delegates, Marion Mul- ling and W. J. Wasson, were placed upon the roll, the'contestants failing to appear. There was a warm contest in the Tenth District, the Ninth baving been passed, between the alleged regular delegates, Henry G. Green aad G. L. Seabright, both Continued on Second Page. LEW WALLACE ON PRINCIPLE Believes the Republican Platform Should Be Short, Sharp and Decisive. S8T. LOUIS, Mo., June 13.—Bright and early this morning I called upon General Lew Waliace in his hieh and airy room on the eighth floor of the Planters’ Hotel. A gentle bass voice responded to my knock and bade me enter, and the next moment 1 stood in the presence of the author of “Ben-Hur,” a romance destined to endure as a tall and shining monument marking the greatness of American literary genius. The General is a man of medium height and symmetrical build, very plainly dressed in a suit of dark biune. His hair, of that dark olive tinge seen in moldy straw, was brushed down over his fore- head in a neglige bang. The strong eye- brows, formerly jet black, are now streaked with gray, giving them the appearance of having been powdered. They arch above a pair of black eves, not of the narrow, piercing, Indian kind, in whose inky depths may be seen the glow of hidden, volcanic fires, but tender with the sad and kindly dreaminess of the poet. As they look at you through the specta- cles worn by the author and diplomat you feel disappointed. Instead of the light- ning flash and the burst of flame from the mountain peaksof a mighty soul you be- hold the soft glow of the rose reflected in the peaceful pool. The chin of the poet is concealed by & gray imperial, closely cropped and topped with a pair of flowing mustachios, also gray. These, with an aquiline nose not too long for symmetry nor yet too short for strength, impart a military air. His appearance, however, is the only thing military about him. and chapeau fall off and the gown of the student stands reveuled. So with the bass voice. The ear that listens to it expects to hear the thunderous tones of & dommand to charge, but instead there Issies from beneath thesc martial mustachios a voice soft and low and desti- tute of that quality which makes the echoes answer. So it is also with the hands, the backs of them browned and freckled by the sun, just like the soldier's, who on Arizona’s scorching sands swings his saber over his head, swishing it in a circle of glittering light. But the fingers are plump and tapering, the kind with which poets and artists are born. The most noticeable deviation from the normal in the makeup of General Wallace is his ears. They are very large and very .broad above the horizontal middle line, and set modestly close to the head. Of the phrenological significance of a large ear of that kind, I am ignorant, but when it is found on the head of a man like General Wallace, I should say that the ear was built- to minister to the cravings of the mind at one of whose gates it stands, and that its office was to receive, in their fullest tones, the sweet songs of nature, inaudible to the soul that sleeps in grossness, but resonant as 10,000 choirs to him whose lips the muses kissed before the eves awakened to the light of life. The General held a fragrant cigar be- tween his fingers and puffed it with the satisfaction of one who enjoys the pleasant things of earth. This was in keeping with the Bohemian character of his bang, and with the silver -stoppered wicker - flask which stood handily near on a small table and which no doubt contained smelling- salts or perfumed water to counteraci the VA Al GENERAL LEW WALLACE, DELEGATE AT LARGE FROM INDIANA. One of the most interesting characters seen on the floor of the convention will be Lew Wallace, soldier, author, diplomat and poli- tician. He says that a politician to succeed must be honest. He be- lieves in a gold standard, and asserts that nothing can preveat the nomination of William McKinley. Viewed at closer range the soldier’s cloak | FIRST IN ORDER IS A FIRM DECLARATION FOR THE GOLD STANDARD. Harmony, Urges the Veteran Soldier and Diplomat, and Not the Use of Deceptive Phrases, Will Achieve Success for the Party. southern heat that lurked threateningly on the hazy horizon. ‘When asked as to whether he had done any literary labor lately the general, with a smile, remarked that! he had just com- | vleted a work, and that he had placed it in cold storage. At the end of five or six months he would thaw it out ana see how it looked, and if he was satisfied with its keeping qualities he would give it to the world. “Is it a romanceor a polemic?"’ I asked. “Never mind,” he replied, with a twinkle in bis eyes, “I shan’t say what it is, ex- cept that it is a new departure for me.” As the general has written all his poetry thus far in prose it is not unlikely that the volume on ice is poetry in meter. His reticence, however, did not extend to politics, for when I put on my skates and asked him what was the chief requi- site for success in politics he answered without the slightest hesitation: “The chief requisite for success in poli- tics is an honest, straightforward declara- tion of principle—no ruetoric in it, but the shortest, simplest declaration that can be put into words clearly expressive of the exact idea, in order that it may go to the people to consider as they will consider it. That is the first thing. “The next in importance is that the Republican party all over the country— on the Pacific Coast and on the Atlantic Coast—wherever there is a fragmentary organization should be united in princi- ple, in work and in harmony. If these | two things can be brought about orac- complished we can win gloriously, but if there is any attempt to deceive the people or to cover up by mysterious expression or use of uncertain or dece}:tive words there will be danger. “There isa mighty great doubt abroad in this eountry.’’ continaed the general, “‘with respect to this entire platform busi- ness. Platforms a column or two or two or three columns in length mean ruin at this particular crisis. Nobody wiil stop to read them. There should be no argu- ment in a declaration of principles in a platiorm, for argument weakens a declara- tion of principles. If a declaration is not of itself sufficiently clear to be understood without a historical statement and with- out rhevoric it would be better left out altogether.” General Wallace added emphatically: “The highest and most absolute requisite to gain the confidence of the people and to achieve success in politics is to be hon- est. You remember the stilted Minne- apolis platform? Well, I venture to say not a fourth of the great mass of Republi- cans in this country have read that plat- form from beginning to end or with the slightest care.”’ General Wallace was next requested to state what, in his opinion, were the two most important issues before the people, and he replied that the first was to get ————————————————————— NEW TO-DAY. 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