The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 4, 1896, Page 1

\-—fi This Paper not | | to be taken from | | the Library.++++ | VOLUME LXXX.—NO. 34, PRICE FIVE CEV’I‘S._‘ UST LIKE A IME MUSEUM, Some Democrats Disgusted With the Exhibit at Chicago. PAID SPIELERS LABOR INDUSTRICUSLY. Tactics That Cause the Big Gath- ering to Be Styled a Hay- seed Convention. BYNUM NOW PREDICTS DEFEAT FOR THE PARTY, | Says the Nomination of a Silver Candi- date Will Be as Far as the Democrats Will Go. The Auditorium, Chicago, I11., July 3 Bland is still on top. Interest is now beginning to develop on the Vice-Presi- dency. Ex-Governor Pennoyer of Ore- gon and United States Senator Stephen M. White of California are prominently mentioned, White having preference be- cause of his sonnd conservatism, good business sense and uncompromising De- mocracy. If a nominee for Vice-Presi- dent should be selected from the Pacifio | Coast Senator White will undoubtedly | be the man. “The Call’s” Headquarters, z Democrats who have fought, suffered and bled for their party are disgusted with the dime museum now being ex- hibited as the Democratic Nutional Con- vent They say that, composed as it is of an advisory board of Populists, Re- publicaus, socialists and anarchists, it cannot appeal to the loyalty of the Democrats of the Mation with the voice of authority. on. though it were the proper thing, and not even a whisper of protest is heard save from such lifelong sturdy and self-sacri- ficing Democrats as Congressman W. D. Bynum of Indiana and cthers of the same character who never bolted their party, and in earnest voices, though few, are de- manding the reaftirmation of the oldtime Democratic principles and the return to time-honored and respectable methods. Congressman Bynum spent the greater part of to-day in the headquarters of the Indiana sound-money delegation in the Palmer House. Of th= thirty delegates from that State twenty-six favor free coinage and four are for the present gold standard. But these four claim to rep- resent the true Democratic sentiment of their State. They have accordingly flung their banner to the breeze, baving en- gaged the finest parlorsin that aristocratic | hostelry, and have gathered around them a handful of representatives of the old party—men whose words must be listened 10 with respect if not with aasent. Among the leading gentlemen is Con- gressman Bynum. I had a talk with him to-day and found him to be very outspok- en as to his opinion of the nondescript character of the present convention. He is a big man physically as well as mental- ly, and stands high in the regard of the people of his State as well as his fellow- members in Congress. He is such a man whose words woula have great weight in a Democratic convention, but in the present revolutionary committee it is not likely that he will be given a hearing at all. He was especially severe on the element which controlled the Indiana State Con- vention by which the present silver dele- gates were chosen. He said that the State Convention was made up of Populists, cranks and disgruntled Democrais, who dominated the convention all turough, while they turned down every honest, self- sabrificing Democrat of any prominence of the State. “The men who are here in the sound- money cause,’”’ said Bynum, “‘are the men who have carried on the battles of De- mocracy and who have helped it to suc- cessin the State of Indiana. They were not given a voice in tha convention to show how they disregarded all sheir party obligations. I will say that they ousted the chairman of our State committee and will not allow him to be a member of the Congressman Bynum of Indiana told me to-day that if the Democrats, adopt a Iree silver platform and nominate | silver men for President and Vice- President that will be as far as the so- called Democracy of the present con- will get that the ticket would be defeated. The ignoring of the tariff is sure in the present dis- cussion, Mr. Bynum declared, to be a fatal political error. Senator Hill of New York arrived to- | night. When the reporters called upon | him he exhibited alarming symptoms of paresis, alleging that he was fatigued. He muy be less fatigued to-morrow. JOHN PAUL COSGRAVE, vention He meant —_— CHICAGO, ILL., July 3.—The menagerie of Populists, Republican bolters and dis- gruntled reformers from_the Democratic ranks was in full cry to-day, and made the air in the lobby of the Palmer House as hot and muggy as that of a steam bath. The paid spielers were out in the full force of their chizs, each the center of a per-| spiring crowd, each very hot, very angry and with a very menacing attitude, em- phasized by the brandishing of a clenched fist in front of the nose of the person ad- dressed. The name of Jackson or Jefferson is not mentioned once. The spectators on the balcony in the entresol catch occasionally arising from the hubbub the names of Tel- ler, Bland, Matthews and Hill, but the word ‘‘tariff” is not on the Demoecratic campaign list this year. It is simply a silver-plated sheet of brass full of sound and shining which signifieth nothing. 8o couspicuous, indeed, is the spurious and miscegenated complexion of this con- vention and its hungry camp followers that it has becoms 2 common subject of remark not only on the part of outsiders, but of that of the delegates themselves. James H. Eckels, United States Comp- troller of Currency, who is here in the in- t of the sound money men, says: *If Democracy 1s to be given over to Popalism, Socialism and Farmer Alliance doctrine it o & manner which makes the outrage Shameful and unprecedented.” c s delegation in bowing down before the dictation of Governor Altgeld and agreeing torescind the two-thirds rule, and he predicts that thedictatorial spirit of the Illinois delegation and of Governor Altgeld will be resented by a majority of the convention. He deplores the fact, also, that more attention is now being paid to the advice and wishes of undemocratic organizations and individuals who never bave been Democrats than to organiza- tions and individuals who are now and always bave been loval to the party. He reasons correctly when he savs that this introduction of a mongrel elementinto the Democratic convention will be repudiated by all good Democrats at the polls, Mr. Eckels is not alone in his opinion of the present gathering and its methods. By almost universal consent the affair which is advertised to tauke place in the Coliseum next Tuesday is being called the hayseed convention. This appellation is accepted by the friends of the Senator from Colorado, himself a disgruntled Re- publican; by Senator Stewart of Nevada, a Republican, and Senators Lee Mantle and Dubois, both of whom were Republi. cans up to the nomination of Major Mc. Kinley and the adoption of the protection plank, and who left the party for the party’s good. Otherwise they would never have had the audacity to intrude their suggestion into the Democratic party, much less to ask that a Democratic National Convention should nominate a Republican as its Presidential candidate. But that is what they are doing, and nobody seems to be offended because of this cpld-blooded proposition. It seems to be looked upon as a matter of course that anybody on the outside, whether Republican, Populist, socialist or anarchist, may walk into the Democratic circus like a little man after paying his money at the door. Hence Mr. Teller's friends have pitched their headgnarters i convention. National delegation from Indiana to this We are here to represent the solid Democrats of our State, for it seems to me that Republicans and Populists are the leading spirits here. They seem to have a greater voice in the affairs of the Natipnal Democracy than men higher up in the party who were born Democrats. | You know whom I mean—Dubois, Petti- grew, Stewart of Nevada, Congressman Schaffner of Colorado and others of the same political complexion—all of them Republicans, They have set up their headquarters here in the Democratic camp and are booming & disgruntled Republican for the Presidency on the Demoeratic ticket. What ought to appear stranger still is the fact that their advice, instead of being repudiated and ignored,is on many points of procedure and policy ac- cepted with thanks.” **There is another organization here, not a Democratic one, but a hodge-podge of Republicans, Populists and other people of the same fry, called the Bimettalic League, an organization tormed in the in- terest of the silver miners. It has also set up its tent in the doorway of the Demo- cratic council-chamberand is assisting the nondescript politicians of this peculiar convention in ignor.ng ail the time-hon- ored and sound tenets of the Democracy. There seems to be no disposition to re- form the very undemocratic mannersof the political dictators. The same men who were here four years ago shouting for sound money and Cleveland are shouting coinage of silver. The reason for their change of tune is that most of them have been disappointed in their political ambi- tions, and they have now started on a cam- paign of rule or ruin.” *“What will be the upshot of it all?” T asked. “They will adopt 2 16 to 1 free coinage platform,” responded the Congressman, ‘‘and they will nominate their candidates for President and Vice-President.” The speaker paused here. “Well?” Mr. Bynum reflected for a few seconds and then said: “That is as far as they will get.” The speaker added that the substantial men of the Demoeratic party were not ready yet for the free coinage of silver., “It is a departure from Democratic principles and the platform. The tariff is a very important issue at this time with the working people of the United States. Many new and thickly settled manufac- turigg centers have been recently devel- oped in the gas belt, and the tariff will be an issue of considerable importance to them. If there was not a deficiency in the revenue of the Nation that issue would not cut any figure at all, but because of the deficiency the tariff proposition has forced itself to the front.”” “Do you think that the people of the United States have been and are satisfied with the operations of the Wilson bil1?"” was my next question. Bynum replied: ‘“Some manufacturers are satisfied with the Wilson billand some are not. Wooléen manufacturers are com- plaining more than any others. The whole woolen industry is complaining more than any other I know of. Tie iron men don’t seem to complain any, nor do the glass men. “Our object in coming here and estab- lishing headquarters 1s to raise our voice in protest against the threatened disrup- tion and destruction of the Democratic party by the Populists, Republicans and anarchists, who seem to be in control of 1ts organization. We have united our forces in order 10 effect a concerted action in the crisis with which the Demoeracy is now confronted.’’ From what 1 have heard and observed around the different Democratic camps since I bave been in Chicago I am of the opinion that the voices of such steadfast, determined and respectable Democrats as Congressman Bynum and his associates will not be heard, and that the gag will be applied by the silver men in accordance with the programme prepared by Gover- nor Altgeld. Major Towles of the Bimetaliic League, vear the center of the Democratic ring, and are flaunting their banners defiantly in- the face ot the Democracy just as one of the nicest old gentlemen connected with that organization, told me half an hour later that from all he had been able against him now and in favor of the free. to learn he did not believe that anybody but prenounced silver men would be al- lowed to serve upon any committee or in any capacity whatever in the convention. He qualified this statement with great par- ticularity by saying that he did not spesk ex cathedra, but that was his impression. It was his impression also, not derived from any particular delegation or person, but absorbed from the environment, that if the National Committee should appoint & temporary chairman who was not a pro- nounced silver man, he and the committee would be turned down by the big silver majority in the convention, and another man of the convention’s own choice seated in his place. New York's gold headquarters were opened this morhing in parlor S'of the Paimer House, with a brave display of flags and’ buntine, interspersed with por- traits of Hill, Whitney and other promi- nent leaders of the Democracy of that State. At present it is their intention to offer Hill asa vicarious atonement upon the altar of gold as the temporary chair- man of the convention. This will be done for New York by the gold majority of the National Committee, and ‘they expect that the convention will erown Mr. Hill's bald forehead with a garland of roses and seat him on the throne in the big Colisseum, that grows like a thing of beautv out of the gray sands of the shores of Lake Michigan; but the presentation of his name will give the friends of sound money ar opportunity of discussing the proposi- tion upon the floor of the convention and of warning the Democracy of the Nation of the peril in which. it stands by its repu- diation ot sound money. But notwithstanding this carefully pre- pared plan I do not think that the advo- cates of sound money will be given a hear- ing atall. The Aitgeld gag wiil be applied to them, The chairmanof the convention and the manipulators of the silver fighton the floor will so arrange matters as to choke off debate upon every proposition, | andthey will dothis in parliamentary man- ner as well. For instance, should’ s’ gold man offer an awerycien it the platfora some silver lesder immediately after the question has been stated by the chair will move to lay the amendment of the gentle. | man from New York on the table. -A-mo- tion to lay on the table not being debat- able, the question will be put, the gotion will be carried with a whoop, and the gentieman from New York will taks his | seat with a very red face and a bewildered air. Inany other case the previous ques- tion will be called for and debate will thius be cut off. By such tactics s these very carefully prepared Governor Altgeld and his col- leagues expect to rush the business through within two days. The Governor does not believe in a grand-stand finish. | He prefers the Napoleonic tactics of mass ing all his forces upon the enemy's weak- | est point and crushing him at one charge. This programme will be carried out to the | letter, notwithstanding the protest and re- monstrances - of . the advocates of sound money. There can be only one result. b ime conscientious Democrats who will-;- thus dragooned and trampled un- 3ot (while they may not walk out of the T uvention as did some of these con- = advisers in St. Louis) will go home and [ udiate the candidates and the plat- forusZ, shioned in such an un-Democratic way -5, ‘ice-President Stevenson 1s still in the 32.t. His managers are to impress upor = e minds of the silver delegates that he it 35 1d always has been in favor of free €oin o ; but practically there are only two ey the fight—Bland and Boies. The th “7s may come in for a Vice-Presiden- tial 1 %, “nation. N¢-2; tbstanding that all the political hay ¥ been cut with Boss Altgeld’s sick! =2 1d dzied ready.for use, the coming conv [ on will losé none of its interest. It is .3, mated that it will be attended by ¢ 721 test number of peovle that Lave ever '3 aded any convention in the life of th =~ ation. Telegraph operators tell he St. Louis’ convention was dis- 1 over all its predecessors by the s guantity of dispatches tele- tingu oJy enoni ™ =4 graphed by the newspaper correspondents to the journals represented by them, the number of words sent in such special let- ters running away up into the millions. They add that from present indications the Chicago convention will beat even this record, and I have no doubt that the San Francisco CArn will be an important factor in this race, so far as the Pacific Coast is concerned. The political cartconists are still en- gaged in having fun with this most re- markable gathering. Tne Inter Ocean por- trays Boss Altgeld with an old-style re- volver in his belt labelea ‘“‘Ambition” tying a bunch of enormous free-silver and bossism firecrackers 1o the tail of the weary Democratic mule. Backof himisa barrel with Debs’ face drawn upon it filled with firecrackers. The subhead is “Democracy’s enfant terrible; he doesn’t care whether he brings up in the hospital or not if he can oniy sky that neighbor- hood.” The jocose grin on the face of the Governor is in striking contrast to the weary, sleepy expression ot the disgusted mule. ‘ The Tribune has a strip running across the page representing incidents 1n the career of ‘‘Pitchferk” Ben Tillman of South Carolina. In one place he is repre- sented with bis pitchfork trying to pry up the silver dollars cemented to the floor of | a fashionable saloon. In another place he is seen with the same instrument fishing | for the cherry in the bottom of his cock- | tail glass. Delegates arfiving from the Eastern sea coast and high altitudes and from the balmy West are suffering very much from the heat and many cases of prostration have been reported at the hotels. Yester- day cight well-seasoned residents of Chi- cago were sunstruck on the streets. One of them died instantly and the others | were taken to the hospitals, and yet the mercury did not rise above 87 degrees | Fahrenheit. This would be counted very cool weather in many parts of the San Joaquin Valley in California, where men and women pick grapes all day with | the mercury standing between 102 and 110 in the shade during the whole season and where sunstroke is unknown. THE CALL's i staff of correspondents are feeling very | well and keeping as cool as possible. JouN PAuL COSGRAVE. e GARLAND HAS BACKERS. The Ex~Attorney-General’s Name Added to the List of Silver Can- didates for the Presidency. CHICAGO, IrL., July 3.—The name of A. H. Garland, Avtorney-General under Mr. Cieveland’s tirst administration, has the Democratic silver Presidential nomi- nation. The Garland boom is not of the instructed sort, but in.the Arkansas dele- wation, which is instrueted for Blana, the Kentucky delegation, which is instractea for Blackburn, in the Tennessee delegation and other delegations, it is claimed that he has personal friends who are puttingin been added to the list of candidates for | LLER'S CHANCES ARE SL Will Not Be Able to Gain the Support of the Democrats. MUST RUN INDEPENDENT IN THE RACE. The Ch'cago Convention Will Not Go Outside the Party for a Torchbearer. BLAND MEN DO NOT FEAR THE COLORADAN, Gold Advocates Make a Poor Showing and May Eventually Take to the Woods. THE CALL’S HEADQUARTERS, THE AUDITORIUM. % CHicago, 111, July 3. The vigor with which the Teller men are urging his candidacy for the Demo- cratic Presidential nomination by the Na- tional Democratic Convention is causing much specuiation among the other forces. It is not believed possible, however, that the Colorado silver statesman can secure the coveted prize. There are too many white-metal candidates in the field for the Democracy to sesrch outside for a chief torchbearer. Still the matchless energy of the Teller people must be admired; even if they do not succeed in having him nom- inated for President by the convention they will have considered that they have | won a great victory, and will doubtless gracefully retire and go before the country on an independent silver platform. It was lately thought that the Teller boom bad been puncturea, but when Senator ‘;Slewan of Nevada got into town he | plugged up the holes, filled the balloon up full of fresh air and started Teller up afresh. Seunator Stewart was asked if he would have the Democracy boom the silver party i of the country and he replied : | “It was a silver party under Jefferson |and Jackson. If you mean by a silver party a party which is in favor of the free and unlimited coinage of both gold and siiver at a ratio of 16 to 1, without asking permission of the mother country, then this would not prevent the Democratic { party from returning to the usages and | customs of the better days of tho Repub- lic by repudiating the usurpations of ) Cleveland, which are consolidating the | powers of the Government in the execu~ quiet but effective work in his behalf. His supporters only intend to name him as a men become so deadlockea that it may be deemed the part of wisdomu to cast them all aside and take up some new man with no antagonisms and adverse record to contend against. They claim that ex- Senator Garland was an original silver man with a clear record on that subject in the United States Senate and that he gained a wide acquaintance with pubhc men and affairs during his service in Washington, which fully qualified him for the nomination. A THE NATIONAL COMMITTEE Chairman Harrity Calls a Meeting for Monday to Settle the Tem-~ porary Organization. CHICAGO, [rn., July 3.— Chairman Harrity bas called a meeting of the Na- tional Committee for Monday next, at which the matter of the temporary organi- zation will be settled. B. B. Smalley of Vermont, replving to the question, ‘“What will the committee do?” said: “Why, do as they have always done. The members can do nothing else. convention, but I don’t propose to be told by anybody how I shall discharge my | duties as a member of the National Com- | mittee. I have Jo responsibility after that is done. I recognize the fact that I am but one of a small and powerless mi- nority, which can only wait and see what the triumphant majority will do.” R TR BOIES LOOKS CONFIDENT. With Beaming Countenance He Departs for the Scene of Strife at Chicago. WATERLOO, Iowa, July 3.—Governor Boies left for Chicago to-night at 7:30 o’clock unescorted. nothing to say, but his countenance beamed with a smile that betokened con- | fidence in the resnlt of the convention. Mr. Boies has spent the past week hand- ling and answering the great volume of | mail matter thatis arriving from all sec- | tions of the country. Itis understood that he will not enter the convention as a dele- gate at large, having delegated t'at duty to Judge Van Wagenen of Grand Rapids. BLACKBURN’S AMBITION. Would Probably Be Satisfled With Second Place on the Demo- cratic Ticket. LOUISVILLE, Ky., July 3.—While it is generally believed that Blackburn’s name will be presented for first place on the ticket, the Kentuckians will keep an eye out for combinations by which they may receive second honor. It is known the Senator would be content with this recognition, and not only that, but would be glad to haveit. It may be expected that the bulk of effort by his friends in Chicago will be directed to this end. Gentry Must Hang. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., July 3.—Judge Yerkes, in the Court of Oyer and Terminer to-day, overruled the motion for a new trial in the case of James B. Gentry, who | was convicted on Saturday last of the murder of his fiancee, Margaret W. Drys- dale—known on the stage as Madge York —and sertenced Gentry to be hanged. The prisoner bore every appearance of great suffering and cried bitterly while the Judge was pronouncing the death sen- tence, candidate in the event that the leadingv’ 1 am going to support the nominee of this | As usual, he had! tive, nor would it interfere with the ree | turn to an economical and honest admin« | istration of the Government. All these things would be done by the true Democe | racy, which would return to the money of | the constitution and follow the teachings of | Jefferson. This ougnt to be done willing- {1y oy every Democrat in the land unless | he can discover something in Cleveland’s | administration which would have been approved by Jefferson. In short, if Dem- ocracy is instrumental in rescuing the United States from the government of an alien gold syndicate through the instru- mentality of banks, money-changers, stock-jobbers and gold gamblers it must repudiate not only the administration of the man from Buffalo, but also that of his predecessors for the last twenty years, and become a Jeffersonian party by observing the principles which he inculcated and repudiating the alien rascality and imbe« cility of the servants which the money of aliens has been putting in the White House for-the last two decades.” *Do you find much sentiment here in favor of Senator Teller’s nomination 2’ “Neuarly every man I met here was for Teller if the other fellow was, but he did i not know what his neighbors thought | about it, and he did not want to say until somebody else had said before him. This | is the language of the multitude, but later in the day I saw a goodly number of men who seemed anxious to have it known that | they were in tavor of Teller and success and opposed to taking any chances of de- | feat. T think when the delegates get to- | gether and talk it over they will come out all right and nominate a candidate who will make Hanna think his candidate has the habit of the crawfish, which crawls backward.” The Bland men are not very much alarmed over the turn the boom has taken. They still believe that their candidate, who is now in the lead, will have no trouble in winning out. Consequently they look with indifference upon the as- | pirations of other candidates. “We are not worrying over the senti- ment which is being developed in favor of | Teller,” says Senator Farns, the Bland boomer of Missourl. “Now, he is a great man, and should he ever become President of the United States, the bimetallic sys« tem of money adopted by the Democratic fathers in harmony with the constitution { would be restored as early as possible. The election of Mr. Teller would be a great victory of the masses over the classes, and no man would rejoice more over the triumph than Mr. Biand. If the free-silver delegates to the convention think that he (Teller) is right on the financial question, | and that he would poll the largest vote, Mr. Bland’s personal interest will not stand in the way of success. But the friends of Mr. Bland believe that he is the sirongest man before the country to-day and feel that he can be elected.” W. A. Clark, the Montana millionaire and chairman of the delegation from that Btate, arrived at the Auditorinm Annex to-day and engaged an expensive flat on the parlor floor of that magniticent Lotel. Mr. Clark is mentioned as a Vice-Presi- dential possipility. When I saw him to- day, however, he casually observed that Montana had no candidate. The mem- bers of the Montana delegation, however, would be very glad to have Mr. Clark nominated for the second place on the ticket. He is a liberal spender and would not be averse to going down into his sack to help the Democratic cause, especially because of the party stand upon the finan- cial question. There are six delegates Irom Montana and they come unpledsed i