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' to be — This pa the L per not | ken from rary.+++4 ta SAN FRANCISCO, THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 18, 1896—_TWENTY PAGES. PRICE FIVE CENTS. VICTORY FOR McKINLEY'S MEN They Show Their Strength by Adopting the Con- vention Roll. OTHER CANDIDATES’ FORCES ARE COMBINED. ; Strong Fight Made Against Accept- ing the Report of the Credentials Committee. MR. HEPBURN'S REMARKS ABOUT INJUSTICE TO CONTESTANTS. Danger in Establishing a Precedent Which Permits a Few Men to Pass Upon the Seating of a Large Proportion of the Delegates. “THE CALL” HEADQUARTERS,) Southern Hotel. ST. LOUIS, Mo,, June 17. § The Republican Convention completed its organization to-day, Judge Thurs- ton of Nebraska entering upon his duties as permanent chairman. The commit- tee on credentials reported, recommending that temporary rules as made up by the National Committee be recognized as those governing the convention. | Hepburn of Towa made a scorching speech in favor of a minority report re- | cubmitting the delegation contests to the committee for investigation. The ma- |* jority report was adopted by a good majority. The report of the committee was adopted, and the convention adjourned until 10 o’clock to-morrow moruing. | . The platiorm will be submitted first in the morning, and Colorado may with- draw from the convention altogether, with a few silver delegates. The next JOSEPH BENSON FORAKER OF OHIO. Senator Foraker, Who Is to Place the Name of William McKinley Beforc the Convention for the | Presidential Nomination, Is One of the Brightest and Most Aggressive Men in American Politics To- He Is Recognized as the Leader of the Younger Element of His Party in Ohio. | He Is Brilliant and Persuasive, at Times Rising Into True Eloquence. As a Speaker order of business will be the nomination of a candidate for President and Vice- | — debate on the financial report of the plat- Prosident. It is expected that the convention will end its labors to-morrow. | JOHMN PAUL COSGRAVE, |form may be protracted. The convention G o leaders hope that the platform may be adoptea and Mr. McKinley nominated ST. LOUIS, Mo., June 17.—Marcus A. | the National Republican Committee and | during the day, and that the Vice- Hanna’s desire aud sanguine expectation | adjourned until 10 o’clock to-morrow. Presidential contest may be settied by a that the convention would accomplish its | The first business of to-morrow’s session work and adjourn by midnight of the | will be the reception of the report of the | second day will not be fulfilled. The con- | committee on resolutions. ‘ ren of expected results considerable vention to-day adopted the report of the| The report may be adopted - without | doubt 1s expressed as to whether the busi- commitiee and the majority report | much debate, but it is suspected that | nesscan be finished before Friday. »i the committee on credentials accepting me delegates are loaded with “silver’” At 10 o’clock this morning, the hour set the temporary roll of delegates as fixed by | and “sound money” speeches, and the | for meeting, there were nov mare than late hour to-morrow; but as the first two W JOHN N. BALDWIN OF IOWA.’ If all reports be true John N. Baldwin, who is to place Senator William B. Allison in nomination before the convention, is an orator who has few superiors in the West. He is a man of massive phy- sique and massive rhetoric, and it is said that he suggests nothing so much as power and powerful- ness. He is a lawyer and resides at Council Bluffs, lowa. Twoyears ago he made a speech at the Repub- lican Convention of his State that made a most profound impression upon that body. That speech introduced him to the Republicans of Iowa as an orator who has more than rhetoric and more than gestures and words. In fact, he delivered his speech from one end to the other almost without ges- tures of any kind. His mere presence and his deep voice gave it all the emphasis it needed. daysof the convention have been so bar- | 100" delegates in the convention hall. Little by littie the seats began to iill up, butit was after half past 10 c'clock be- fore there was a sufficient attendance to justify temporary Chairman Fairbanks in opening the session. After a whack of his gavel praver was offered. Then a trim-built man arose on the east side of the space aliowed by dele- | gates. He was dressed in a natty business i suit, and wore closely cropped side whis- kers and beard. His appearance and nasal twang be- tokened the Yankee, and his dress indi- cated a young merchant of the New Eng- land style. 1t was Henry Cabot Lodge of | Massachusetts, a United States Senator from that State. As spokesman for the committee on resolutions, he announced, | amid cheers, that the sub-committee on resclutions had completed the rough draft |- of a platform and hoped to complete its labors in the afternocon. Further time was granted the committee. The report of the committee on perma- nent organization was not ready, and after a few angry expostulations by a delegate from Maryland, whose luckless name is “Mudd,” the convention adopted the re- port. Senator Sewell of New Jersey and | Sereno E. Payne of New York then escorted Permanent Chairman Thurs- ton to the platform. THE CALL’s read- | ers all know that John M. Thurs-, ton is a Senator from Nebraska. He | is a tall, sparely bullt man, wearing a | mustache and spectacles. As the trio marched down the aisle delegates and spectators arose and waved flags, hand- kerchiefs and hats. Then Mr. Thurston’s address was delivered in a voice that pen- etrated every corner of the great conven- tion hall. Tremendous applause greeted his utterances. g The address of the temporary chairman, Fairbanks, yesterday' was - very tame and tamely delivered in comparison. The convention did not recover from the frost of yesterday until Senator Thurman spoke to-day. His speech was magnificert. [t wroused the convention to a high pitch of enthusiasm, which continued throughout the morning’s session. At 11:23 the con- vention took a recess until 2 o'clock. The officers of the convention, delegates and spectators were slow in reassembling. At 2:25 not more than half the seats in the convention hall were occupied. The weather for the past week has been tolerable, and some days pleasant, and visitors to the convention had begun to congratulate themselves that the climate of 8t. Louis had been misrevresented, but by 2 o'clock it was oppressively warm. | The convention hall is very ioferior, both in comfort and architectural beauty, and the glorious climate of Missouri was not in evidence. An amusing. incident occurred at the main door of the convention hall. A tall, gaunt, spectacied individual, with a bundle of newspapers and a big wad of ‘“‘copy paper’”’ under his arm, wasstanding before the door set aside for officers of the con- vention, distinguished guests and press reporters, looking like a poor boy at a frolic. “They won’tlet me in,” said he, appealing plaintively to a CarL corre- spondent, who was properly badged and ticketed for admission. “This is ex-Senator Ingalis of Kansas,” explained thecorrespondent. The careful doorkeeper then made obsequious and profuse apologies and John J. Ingalls, once a shining light of the great Republi- can party, ouce an ornament of the Senate of the United States, wiggled his passage through the crowded doorway and taking a seat in the press gailery surrounded by his fellow newspaper workers, spread his vaper and sharpened his pencil prepara- tory to commencing his syndicate reports. This incident was commented upon as a the irony of fate. the pride of Kansas, was a few years agoa leader of the Senate, yet to-day as a scribe without proper credentials he was denied admission to the National Republican Convention unul vouched for by a fellow reporter. 2 The hands of the great clock pointed to 2:30 and the immense brass band had blown and pounded itseli warm and weary. About three-fourths of the chairs in the convention hall were occupied. The hall then began to fill up rapidly, and at 2:40 o’clock, when the convention was called to order, every available seat on the floor and in the gulleries was occupied. Then followed the chaplain’s prayer, at the close of which an enthusiastic and ir- reverent individual in the gallery cried “hip, hip, hurrah!” Judge Denny of Lexington then pre- sented Chairman Thurston with a gavel carved out of the wood of one of Henry Clay’sold ash trees, planted by Mr. Clay on his farm at Ashland, Ky. Mr. Madden of Chicago also offered a gavel of oak wood, which he explained was fashioned from an oak plank of Abraham Lincoln’s primitive dwelling-house. The report of the committee on cre- dentials was then submitted, after which Congressman Hepburn took the platform to offer the minority report of that com- mittee. The Iowan is a man of command- ing presence, and as he stepped to the front he was recognized by delegates and spectators. His purpose being surmised, Continued on Fourth Page. The Sunflower orator, | CONVENTION HALL, SACRAMENTO, CAL.,, June 17.—Chairman Gould’s first rap of the gavel was not heard in the conven- tion at 11 o'clock this morning, though 9 * | o’clock had been the hour set for calling it | to order. Gould evidently feared that the { Buckley people had repeated their trick of yesterday and had taken seats in the Junta reservation, for he requested all delegates assigned them to report to the cbairman coming. | tials was called for and was read by the chairman of the committee, Miles Wallace of Madera. It provided for the seating of A. R. Baum, George W. Dennis Jr., H. W. Bradley and Fred Wild in the contest White from the Third Ward of Oakland. It also, as was expected by every one con- versant with the situation, seated the en- tire Junta delegation. At its conclusion Battersby, one of the repudiated Democratic delegates from San chairman by his frantic gesticulations in the neighborhood of the Seventh District delegation and secured recognition. Be- fore the chairman had time to realize that he had conceded the floor to a would-be firebrand Battersby had hurled this defi- ance at the Junta: “We have been put out of the conven- tion, and now we give you yourfreedom to elect your ticket in San. Francisco.” A. J. Clunie of Solano, amid laughter over hie migratory propensities, movad that all the portion of the report referring to San Francisco be stricken out and that the members of both factions be given a half vote each. There was no second to the amendment, who could not find seats in the placas | and he would see that they were given their seats, but no complaints were forth- | The report of the committee on creden- | from Alameda Township and. of W. B. | Francisco, attracted the attention of the | ESILVER THEWATCHWORD Democrats at Sacramento Declare for the White Metal. STRONGLY PROTEST AGAINST FUNDING. Denunciation of the American Pro- tective Association in the Platform. BUCKLEYITES ELECT A CONTESTING DELEGATION. Refuse to Abide by the Decision of the Con= vention Giving Seats to the Junta Forces From the City of San Francisco. erence to municipal matters until Joseph M. Nougues of the Junta delegation inter- rupted to ask: | “How about the municipal ticket?” { Clunie evaded a direct answer by declar- | ing municipal politics should not be made an issue in a State convention. He wan- | dered somewhat from the question and | when called to order by Chairman Gould remarked with a feigned expression of res- | ignation on his face: “We have had so many shutoffs that I suppose this is only anothber.” His address in full was as follows: Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Conven- | tion—At the outset of the iew remarks that | Iintend to make I desire to repudiste the | statements that have gone forth that the San | Francisco delegatien of which I am s member intends to bolt the Democratit party no mat- ver what the decision you genticmen arrive at. That no matter whether you may turn us irom this hall ‘or may seat us with half a vote in this convention, we desire to say that we will g0 back to San Francisco and no matter what | you do we will work earnestiy—work morning, | noon and night—for the success of the man nominated at Chicago on the Democratic plat- form for President of the United States. [Ap- plause.] I'want to come here and repudiate the state- ment that has gone forth that this delegation which comes from San Francisco is under the | control or domination of Christopher Buckley | or any other man or set of men. I want tosay | that tnis delegation comes here headed by its chairman, and I for one, and speaking for the delegation, say that we are here to-day under | the leadership of that gallant ana noble Demo- | crat, the Hon. James I Stanton, the present Railroad Commissioner of the State of Cali- | fornis. [Applause]. So far as the personal matter of sitting with | you in this convention is concerned—of asso- | ciating with you, gentlemen—of course we | recognize it as a great pleasure; but we of this delegation who come from San Francisco are | ata great disadvantage. We left our places of | business and our families, and we come here and it was in danger of dying of neglect | simply out of our love for the Democratic when James H. O’Brien of Santa Cruz, | party; and I assure you it would have been better known as an anti-Junta man from | much more pleasant not to come, if we did San Francisco, came to the rescue with a | 1ot believe that the Democratic party of San second. This gave Clunie the opportunity to speak. He promised the support of his San Francisco delegation to the National | ticket, whether the delegation was given seats or not, but carefully avoided all ref- | Francisco should be harmonized and not torn | asunder by the factions that have arisen in that City. i san Francisco is the -banner Democratic | county of this State; it is the county which, at | the last election, when the psople of the in- o Amador. Us. G-vescy remarkable and pathetic iHustration of John Da 8st I n an argu-m:n talive mood [Sketched by @ “Calk™ artish] i Ja.eoh _Blake o Solano An Active Trio at Sacramento Whose Faces Are Familiar in Democratic Circles Throughout the State