The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 28, 1896, Page 1

‘ ‘t,he Library. + This Pé;;er not | | to be taken from +te e VOLUME LXXX.—NO. 28. SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 28, 1896—THIRTY-TWO PAGES. FIVE CENTS. JEMOCRACY SORELY DIVIDED, Leaders Grow Alarmed by the Cheers Coming From Canton. WARNINGS ARE GIVEN| IN VAIN, ; The Delegates to the National | Convention Breathe Threats of Fury. STRIFE AND DISRUPTION NOW | FACE THE PARTY. Silver and Gold Not the Only Conten- tions Upon Which Factions Will Clash at Chicago. CHICAGO, Iin., June 27,—The Demo- | cratic leaders are alarmed because of the | cheers and shoutings coming from Canton | and Paterson for McKinley and Hobart | and protection. The people seem to have | risen enmasse to voioe the sentiment of | protection to home industries. The | Democracy is divided against itself and is a riotous mob rather than an army pre-| paring for a decisive battle. Hill, the bald-headed war eagle, shrieks a | warning from Manhattan, Cleveland is | denounced in Democratic councils as a iraitor to his party and to the people, and | the delegates now gathering from all parts of the Nation for the great war talk are| breathing threats of fury that bode inter- necide strife and disruption. Hov the mighty have fallen! It was only afew days ago that Ruben Turney in the Oho Democratic State Convention de- mandel that Cleveland’s portrait should be throvn out of the hall, and referred to the Pretident as ““That arch traitor; that Benedic Arnold of the Democratic party.” And amid all the shouting of this ais- organizel army we hear the thunder of the captains, Whitney and Hill of New York, in tie far East, and in the Middle West the yoice of Boss Altgeld is heard rallying. tle panic-stricken host. They | bave fallen back on that old Democratic utopianism,a tariff for revenue only. I saw an oldapple-woman sitting by her stand, barehaded in the rain in Park Row, New - York, last Thursday morning, | and I askd her what she thought of the Denvecratic doctrine of a tariff for rewenue mly, and she replied that she nad el eedslic 1o get any” revenue out of it and she wouldn’t swap her apple cart for the vhole Democratic party. I asked a Hungrian woman who was sell. ing papers onthe Bowery, bareheaded in the pelting strm, and her reply was that the tariff had!'t given her enough revenue to buy & two-it straw hat or an umbrella. Yet the Demeracy having nothing left to shout for, iiftiup its voice and hasthe old song. The Dmocratic organs are in a quandary sil wer the country. They are seizing every ittle op that seemsto prom- ise them the 2ast comfort. The Detroit Free Press “Illinois, ajectedly as it has surren- dered to Reputican and Populist notions of fiatism, clngs to tariff reform with commendabletenacity. ‘We favor tariff for revenue oly,’ the platform reads, and declares tha/ the Government should collect no moe taxes than are necessary to defray the xpenses of the Government honestly and economically administered. This has the ight ring. There is no prin- ciple that wilinspire the Democracy with greater zeal aid enthusiasm than this.” True it has he right ring of Democracy, and I opine hat should there be any lack of orators to p upon the stump to extol the virtues ¢ Democratic tariff in the East the wgl-growers and raisin-pro- ducers of Califrnia will furnish an army of speakers. io0 doubt Collector of the Port John H. Vise of San Francisco will gladly take a vicalion and explain to the Easterners and the Westerners how the wool-raisers am waxing fat under the Wilson bill, and how after they have sheared their fidks they kill them for mutton and dont have to pay so much for the Worc;Zenhiu sauce which Johnny Bull sedis over to flavor them with. Then, if Hr. Wise should not be enough, the Austalian wool-growers, who are getting rich ulder the Wilson bill, will raise a subscripton to send a hundred speakers over ber if needs be. The man- ufacturers 1 Shiffield, Manchester, Bris- tol, Liverpool an| Glasgow will also send their quota, for'they are all true-biue Democrats and pelieve in an American tariff for Britia revenue only. The raisin-grower mg dig up his vines and plant corn and 'taters, as they do out ‘West and East, bcause he can buy all the Spanish raisins It wants cheaper than he can grow them. [he cheap-goods shibbo- leth of cheap-Jion Democracy means cheap labor, and joth are the logical out- come of the doctme of a tariff for revenue only. Then withe solemnity that is side- splitting the Prds winds up its editorial with the followirg: “Temporary ditractions, like the cheap money madness,may arise, but there is no danger that tie Democratic party will veer very far frop the course that has led to its notable tiumphs the past twelve years.” “Its notable tlumphs during the past iwelve years' isfunny. The New Yor Journal correspondent says of the New [ork convention: “Nothing abou the convention is likely to create any pry glowing hope of the success of the Nw York delegates in the fight they propgse making at Chicago. Enthusiasm wagwholly lacking. A plat- form, which in ts essentials was strong and commendn"e, was heard by the dele- gates almost in fil vote which wasL unanimous.” In another plce the same writer says that the dominkt sentiment of the con- vention was depair. Many of the dele- gates left withjut waiting for the after- neon session. [hose who remained ap- proved the profamme of the leaders and dispersed, sayilg to each other that the ence, and adopted by a perfunctory as it was | California fight they were undertaking was almost lost already. In the manufacturing centers of the Eastand West and in the farmingdis- tricts the people are clamoring for protec- tion. It means bread and butter to them, and when a man makes up his mind to vote for bread and butter it is a very dif- ficuit matter to change him. That is the ey note of the McKinley boom. That is why his plaster bust is given a place of honor in every business house, restaurant, shop and saloon in Canton and Niles, and why his portrait can be seen in every pub- lic place in the country. It is business that the peopie want and they mean busi- ness, so that there is an element of bur- lesque in the reiteration of the Democratic State conventions of the old tariff doctrines, the very thing against which the people are most resentful. The Democracy can get no consolation out of the silver sword. It cuts the hand that wields 1t. The tariff will be the issue in the coming campaign, and protection will be the battle-cry. An- ger glows in the ranks of the silver Dem ocrats and they will come to Chicago frothing at the mouth. The two-thirds rule which was artfully contrived to choke them off will be thrown to the winds, for silver has the majority, and a body such as & National convention is the sole judge of the qualifications of its own members and it is the sole maker of its own rules. This requires the silver men to furnish 620 delegates. The following list shows that they have but 584, or thirty-six short of two-thiras. For gold—Connecticut 12, Delaware 5, Florida 5, Kentucky 2, Maine 12, Maryland 16, Massachusetts 30, Michigan 28, Minne- sota 18, New Hampshire 8, New Jersey 20, ew York 72, Pennsylvania 64, Rhcde Island 8, South Dakota 8, Vermont 8, Washington 4, Wisconsin 24, District of Columbia 2. Total 346. For silver—Aiabama 22, Arkansas 16, 18, Colorado 8, Delaware 1, Florida 3, Georgia 26, Idaho 6, 1llinois 48, Indiana 30, Iowa 26, Kansas 20, Kentucky 24, Louisiana 16, Mississippi 18, Missouri 24, Montana 6, Nebraska 16, Nevada 6, North Carolina 22, North Dakota 6, Ohio 46, Oregon 8, South Carolina 18, Tennessee 24, Texas 30, Utah 6, Virginia 24, Washing- ton 4, West Virginia 12, Wyoming 6, Dis- trict of Columbia 4, Oklahoma 6, Indian Territory 6, New Mexico 6, Alaska 6, Ari- zona 6. Total 584. The Michigan delegation stands thirteen | for silver to fifteen for gold. The Demo- | cratic State Convention instructed for gold and adopted the unit rule, so that the entire delegation would be compelled to veto as the majority willed. But the sil- ver men have started contests in two districts now represented by gold men. By unseating two gold delegates the silver men will have a majority of the whole delegation and Michigan's twenty-eight votes would then change the silver col- umn. ‘The silver men may ‘thus obtain by force two-thirds of the National Con- vention. The ‘numerous contests in this and other States will provoke much bitterness of feeling and will help to hopelessly widen thatlittle Democratic rift within the lute. If the National Committee should adopt high-handed measures and give the contested seats to the gold delegates there will arise a roar beside which that of the bull of Bashan will be as gentle as the cooing of a dove. Exciting scenes are looked for when the convention meets and when the Democratic yell startles Lake Michigan into a spasm of squalls. The cloud with a silver- lining is funnel- shaped, and there will be a political tor- nade. Every one here is expecting it. Although but few of the delegates are yet on the ground, letters have been received by prominent Democrats here which fore- shadow the storm. The feeling is one of vindictiveness—of desperation. Governor ‘Altgeld, which name, strange to say, means ‘‘high money,’* will be the promi- nent figure of the convention. His hands already grasp the reins of control. He is a millionaire two or three times over, is abused twice a day by the press, but is idolized by the peoole. He is rhinoceros- hided as to criticism, and instead of fol- lowing Mr. Vanderbilt’s example and damning the people, he damns the news- papers.’ His hold on the Democratic ma- chine is strong, and he will not take any dictation from Hill, Whitney or any of the rest. He says that the tail has been wagging the dog for more than thirty years,and that he proposes to give the dog a chance. His complaint is that the people of the East have heretofore domi- nated Democratic National conventions in the interest of the East and of its indus- tries, and that it is time the West and the South should have a voice in Na- tional affairs. To show the desperate straits to which the Democracy is driven I will refer to a resolution offered by ex-Governor Flower of New York in the Saratoga convention: WHEREAS, Party division at Chicago on the silver question will endenger Democratic suc- cess at the polls; and, whereas, Republican ascendency in the Nation would undoubtedly be followed by another attempt to establish minority rule in the Democratic Southern States by means of a force bill; therefore, be it Resolved, That the Democrats of New York appeal to the Democrats of the South, in the name of thewr political liberty and their properties, to avert the possibility of a force Dill by uniting with the Democrats of the East and West in framing 8 platform on which we Democrats can stand and the united support of which will lead to a glorious Democratic vic- tory. And this in tke year 1896, prolific in free schoois, intelligence and ciyilization! Ex- Governor Flower .seems to have a very poor opinion of the intelligence of the people of the South when he thinks that they can be scared; by a bugaboo of that kind. A force bill to force election officers to fulfill their oaths and count the ballots correctly is no bugbear to honest citizens, but it shows at what slender straws the desperate Democracy is clutching in order to save 1itself out of the present whirpool. The Illinois delegation will meet and organize in this city next Tuesday. Gov- ernor Altgeld will bs with them. and they will decide upon a plan of action. Jonx PAuL COSGRAVE. R S ALTGELD IS DICTATOR. May Name the Nominee of the Chicago Convention for the Presidency. CHICAGO, IrL., June 27.—Sénator John M. Palmer came into town to-day. The Senator came not on & political mission, but for the purpose of attending the fun- eral of his life-long friend, Lyman Trum- bull. He and the late jurist had been as- sociated in politics in Illinois from an early date, and the Senator felt it incum- bent upon himseif to follow {he remains of his old friend to the grave. Senator Pslmer was adverse to discussing politics. He deplores the drift, however, of the Democracy, av least the Western wing of the party, to the free-silver cause. He realizes, however, that it will be next to impossible to check the stampede of West- ern delegates into the ranks of the silver- ites. He does not believe that Senator Teller's candidacy will be indorsed by the Democratic Convention. Personally he is opposed to Teller; not only . upon the grounds of the Colorado man's liking of the white metal, but he is one of those hard-headed Democrats who believes that there is Presidential timber enough within the party without inviting an outsider, especially a Republi- can of the Teller stripe, to the premiership of the organization. “This silver wave," said Benator Palmer, “is nothing more than a drift toward Pop- ulism. It is much like the greenback craze, and, like that financial epidemic, will react in the course of time. During the hard time of the last few years the people have grasped at most every fallacy that promised relief.” Senator Palmer will return to Spring- field to-night. Governor Altgeld is a very much talked of man these days. He is an active ag- r_‘____——._—--——w—— ——— BRAWNY BRITISH LADS HAVE AN OUTING. [ R r—— =2 5 ooy s I i i — lgresuiva person, and his devotion to the silver cause inspires the hatred of the gold men as pronouncedly as it does the love of those Democrats who believe in bi- metallism. The Governor has been resting quietly at Springfield since the Peoria convention, which he controlled abso- lutely. He dictated the nominations and wrote the platform. Every delegate in the convention-hall bowed to his absolute will. He is a man of strong character, great determination, and thoroughly 1n- formed upon all politicat movements in so far as his party is concerned. The Gov- ernor’s popularity in Iilinois is phenom- enal. It will be remembered that when he pardoned the anarchists the people generally were amazed at his conduct and censured him severely. A wave of derision swept over the whole State. Altgeld for the time being was politically dead. But he rose again, and is to-day the silver god of the Democratic party. His friends declare that he will come pretty near dictating the Presidential nominee of the convention. It is said of him in Chicago to-day that he is planning a coup to secure the nomination of ex- Congressman William R. Morrison for the head of the ticket, but the Governor denies this story. Anyway Morrison 1s a gold man. Altgeld has sent out an emphatic protest from Springfield declaring that any statement to the effect that heis working for any particular candidate has no foundation. He denies having had a secret conference with Colonel Morrison at Pontiac, as stated in some of the Chi- cago papers. He is also credited by a Chicago paper with being in collusion with certain other party leaders to secure the nomination of Judge Samuel P. Mc- Connell of Chicago for the Presidency. This story the Governor also denies. There is no question, however, that in addition io his determination to have the silver plank adopted in the platform he is working in the interests of candidates who will be accept- able to that faction of the party, but whether it is Bland, Boies, Matthews or Stevenson no one seems to be able to fore- tell. The Governor is a secretive man, a shrewd politician and keeps his own coun- sel, but it is thought in certain quarters that he will come out for Stevenson in order to aid 1n pulling himself through in this State. The Governor will be here early next week and will open up head- quarters. He has directed Chairman Hin- richsen to call the members of the Illinois delegation to a conference at the Sherman House on June 30 to outline the plan of campaign. Fred Dubois, United States Senator of Idaho, and first lieutenant of the Teller silver brigade, arrived iu town late to- night. He had been over at Springfield visiting relatives and quietly building silver fences. He will open up head- Scene In Richardsons Bay, Off Sausalito, Yesterday, Showing the British Ship Orlon and Several Other Ships Gayly Decked With Bunting, During the Rowing Regatta. A Number of Boats Are shéwn Lined Up for a Race on the Starboard Side of the Vessel. McKINLEY HONORED AT HOME quarters here and will make a strong effort to secure the indorsement of Teller by the Democratic convention. He realizes that the Democrats will adopt a silver platform, and is anxious to haveit a silver conven- tion. In case the gold men should bolt the convention, he would be much better pleased, as it would then be a battle between the old parties upon the lines which the people of his kidney most desire—that of gold and silver. Colonel John I. Martin, sergeant-at-arms of the Democratic National Convention, is a picturesque character. He comes from Missouri, and it is an old story thav the man from Missouri is different irom other people. The colonel was born in St. Louis May 24, 1848. He attended the public schools of that city in his youth, but only had gathered the crumbs of an education when his father, who was a boss teamster, drafted the boy into his service as a dray- man; but young Martin was ambitious; he was brainy, too, and so while he drove a dray about the city of St. Louis during the daytime he studied at night. Finally he became a clerk, later a saleman and then a merchant. But being of a philo- sophical turn of mind he read law and in 1878 was admitted to the bar, and as he passes down the streets of his native city his admirers point him out as one of the most capable lawyers of his day. He has been a prosecuting attorney and a Judge of the Court of Crim- inal Correction. This is the man who will marshal the forces at the great Coli- seum in Jackson Park on Tuesday week. The Coliseum is splendidly equipped for convention purposes. This is espe- cially true as regards the facilities for the correspondents. Secretary Sheerin, who has charge of press accommodations, has already received some hundred applica- tions for seats in the press circle. The space underneath the platform has been allotted to the telegraph companies, and bulletins and news matter can be rushed through rapidly. There will be 906 dele- gates in the convention. The hall proper is 250 feet wide by 335 feet long. Theseats will be arranged in rectangular instead of in semi-circular form, as was at first planned, The speakers’ stand will be at the north end of the hall. Below and immediately in front of this will be 1000 seats for the delegates and alternates. The press seats will flank the platform and behind it will be the section reserved for the members of the National Commit- tee and for distinguished guests. In pro- viding for all these something like 3000 seats in all are taken up. Twelve thou- sand chairs will remain for the spectators, These seats will rise in tiers on three sides of the building—the north, south and west—to a height of forty feet. A gallery thiriy-five feet wide will encircle the entire building. The seating arrangements on the three sides mentioned will be carried up into this gallery. There is still another gallery ten feet wide, higher up, for the use of which no plans have been made. The acoustic properties gre perfect. The Bland headquarigrs will be ocpened up next Monday at the Auditorium annex. The Missourians will. occupy a row of rooms within earshot of the apartments reserved for W. C. Whitney, the leader of the gold element. Colonel Nicholas M. Bell, Colonel Joseph J. Lickey, Colonel George W. Allen and several other colonels who will manage the Bland boom will reach Chicago on Monday morning and open up the cam- paign for Silver Dick, who is now quietly cutting hay and sawing wood on his Mis- souri farm and saying nothing, The Matthews headquarters will be opened up at the Palmer House on Mon- day. With the Bland, Boies and Matthews “roosters” in the field, the Democratic powwow of 1896 may virtually be consid- ered on. E. E. Wall, National Committee- man from Wisconsin, and John G. Pra- ther, National Committeeman from Mis- souri, came into town to-day. F. W. Har- rity, chairman of the National Committee, will arrive on July 1. There are persons in Chicago bold enough to predict that the convention will eclipse - Donnybrook in every respect. Certainly the elements are not lacking to make it intensely spectacular. There are gold Democrats, silver Democrats, free- trade Democrats, Cleveland and anti- Cleveland Democrats, Democrais who are Populists and Populists who are Demo- crats—all chasing phantoms and worship- ing strange gods. Thereis talk of a bolt among some of the gold men, should they fail in drafting the platform and thus di- recting the destiny of the party for the next four years. Others again favor a compromise measure, while not a few would be willing to straddle the issue; but the silver forces, with determined and un- compromising men in command, de- clare they will win their spurs upon the battlefield on lines of action orig- inaily mapped out. They will accept no half-way treaty. It will be the free and unlimited coinage of silver at a ratio of 16 to 1 or nothing, and this independ- ently of all the other nations of the world, Already they claim 642 delegates, and langh with derision at the efforts of the gold men to curb their sway. On the other hand, the gold men are equally confident. National Committeeman Sherley of Kentucky—and, like the other delegates from the Blue Grass State, ““A colonel, sir”—sends TuE CALL this statement: “I have heard a great deal of talk and have given the National situation consid- erable study, and I have come to the con- clusion, personally, that a gold platform will be adopted, I believe that the plat- form will be just as pronounced on the money question as is the plank of the Repubiican party. I think there will be a. practically unanimous agree- ment on the New York platform. I will venture to predict that there will be almost entire barmony in the Demo- cratic convention. There will be no boit, and the one question of currency will be adjusted in a manner satisfactory to all. I am not familiar with the local situation, and speak only from my knowledge of the National one. I expect Illinois to play an important part in the proceedings, but in order to do so it will haye to put a candi- date in the field who is a man of National reputation. It will not do to try to come out with some local silverite like McCon- nell, or whatever his name is. I never heard of him before. With a man like Stevenson or Morrison Illinois might still be able to dictate the Presidential nomi- Continued on Second Fage. An Outpouring of People to Greet the Republican Standard-Bearer. JOYOUS CROWDS INVADE CANTON. Telling Speeches at the Meeting to Ratify the Popular Nomination, MEN OF MANY STATIONS GREET THE NEXT PRESIDENT. Then They Listen to a Ringing Ade dress by the Champion of Protection. CANTON, Osro, June 27.—The nomina- tion of McKinley was ratified with pomp and ceremony this afternoon. The out- vouring of people from Cleveland and other cities of Eastern Ohio was very large. All day long crowds hung about the Mc- Kinley residence and a lively stream of callers poured in at the gate. The speaking this afternoon was from a stand erected at one end of a large vacant lot. The meeting was presided over by Judge W. R. Day of Canton, who maae a pleasant speech and introduced Presideat ‘Walcott of the Tippecanoe Club of Cleve- land, who made an address. Mr. Wolcott, who is a brother of Senator Wolcott of Colorado, saia: To-day as we have assembled to ratify the nomination of our Republican standard-bearer, I'am reminded of a story about one of my nephews. He was trying to tell the story of the good Samaritan. He started in all right about the man going down the Jericho road and how he fell among thieves, who stripped him of his raiment and wounded him and departed, leaving him half dead, and how & Levite who came along looked at the poor fel- low and then passed by on the other side. Then when it came to the Samaritan my nephew got a little confused. He did not know anything about Samaria, but he did know something about America, and §0 in telliug the story my nephew said: “A good American came along who took pity on the poor fellow; and bound up his wounds and took care of him.” I can see a very evident application of this story as my nephew told it.” Four yearsago | this country did,perhaps we might literally say, fall among political thieves, who robbed her of her prosperity, wonnded her and left her for dead. Then the Fifty-fourth Congress came slong and it iooked at the sad condition of this country, and then passed by oa the other side and wouldn’t even pass any tariff law or any; currency law. But now we can take courage, for there is coming slong a good American, or a good Samaritan, whichever you want to call him—most people call him “Bill McKinley.” He is the man we've been looking for. He will heal up our National wounds and send our country on its way re- joicing. As president of the Tippecanoce Club the pleasant duty falls upon me of expressing the joy which the members of the club ieel over the work of the Bt. Louis counvention, and no better place for doing so could be found than right here in Canton. Here Major McKinley has recelved the loving congratulations of wife and parents, blessed and hallowed as we know they must be by kisses and tears of joy and affection; here iriends and necighbors have grasped his hand as they have poured forth their hearty and sincere gratulations; here congratulatory messages have been received from all parts of the Union—{rom the East and ‘West and from both sides of Mason and Dixon's line and from all kinds and conditions of men, from political friends and political foes, from those great in power, and, better still, from NEW TO-DAY. 1 EVERY DOT PORE BECOMES CLOGGED Inflammation and Irritation set in causing PIMPLES Blotches, blackheads, baby blemishes, and falling hair. 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