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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JULY 5, 1896. 3 PROTECTION N ISSUE Gold Men Find a Weak Spot in the Armor of the Silverites. LEADERS SPEAK AT A MASS-MEETING. Perplexities of Managers in Deal- ing With a Plank Relat- ing to Tariff. ADVOCATES OF THE SINGLE STANDARD HOPEFUL. Developments Show That They Will Receive More Courtesy Than Was Expected. HEADQUARTERS UNITED PRESS, | HeraLp BuILpIxG, r Cricaco, 1L, July 4.) The climax of to-day’s ante-conventional developments was the mass-meeting of the gold men in the Auditorium this evening. The speeches of ex-Governor Russell o! Massachusetts, Senator Gray of Delaware and District Attorney Fellows of New York were vigorous enough in their de- punciation of the line of action which the convention is bent on taking on the silver question, but they stopped short of sug- gesting a remedy or any plan by which the “sound money” advocates could hop« to stem the current.now setting so strongly nst them. Governor Russell’s remarks particularly brought out in strong relief the difficulty which is b ining to loom before the sil- ver managers—what to do with the tariff. Nearly all the bolting Republican dele- gates at St. Louis declared thattheir States were solid for free silver and protection. Governor Russell seized upon this point and asserted that if Republican protection it in principle then silver legisla- was equally so; but if protection was in principle, unlawful and op- ve in practice, as the Demaocratic part; ad ever declared and still declared, then silver legislation was equalty so and ought to receive equally emphatic con- demnation. This point was obviously di rected against the arguments advanced in favor of the selection of Senator Teller as the free-silver standard-bearer, he being also an earnest advocate of protection, and as such its force was appreciated. The effect will undoubtedly be to aug- ment the perplexities which the managers are finding in dealing with the tariff plank of the platform. The gold men took some courage from the developments of the day, and to-night express a confidence that they will re- ceive much more ‘consideration in the convention at the hands of the silver men than they had heretofore felt wasto be their portion. Controller Eckels said: *“The silver men have been talking to- jesire to secure harmony in the , and eral gold men with y have talked tell me thatin their opinion there will be a material mod- ification of the programme that has been announced by some of the radical silver There wilt be no attempt to cut off sion — no single-day convention, based upon the idea that oniy silver men are to take part in its proceedings. They recognize, I thirk, that there is an election to be held befére the decreesof the conven- can be executed. Harmony is what need.” 1 the constantly changing estimates as probabilities of success of the va- rious candidates, the boom of the Iowa ex- Governor, Boies, assumed much promi- nence to-day. It transired in the course of the day that the telegram which brought ex-Governor Boies to Chicago was closely connected with the reported revolt in the ranks of the Iilinots delegation against the alleged dicratorial policy of Governor Alt- geld. Itis asserted that under the leader- ship of Delegate William Prentiss of the Seventh Illinois District the support of thirteen Illinois delegates has been ob- tained for the Iowa man. Some prominent Ohio men this evening were circulating the statement that John R. McLean was not to be considered in the field for second place. “The ticket I include John R. McLean,” said Beriah ins, with a sigmificant emphasis, *‘and don’t you overlook it.” The action of the Indiana delegation in refusing to send a representative to the silver conference at the Sherman House last night bhas aroused a feeling of an- tagonism to Governor Matthews’ candi- decy, and has also set afoor a movement for a caucus of al! the silver forces for Monday ne. This movement is being pushed by Senator-elect Money of Missis- sippi, ex-Congressman Casey Young of Tennessee, National = Committeeman Thomas of Colorado and Delegate Haynes of Idaho. They desire to thus agree upon a full clate of officers and candidates to be voted for by the silver forces. Delegate Cockran of Missouri expressed the sentiment of the extreme silver element when he declared to-day that for a silver man to be nomi- nated by aid of “goldbugs” would cast a “-blight upon the ticket and disparage its nominee in the eyes of truegsilver men.” As the power to call a caucus is vested in Senator Jones and his sub-committee, great pressure is brought on the commt. tee. The Matthews peovle are opposed to such a programme and are fighting it at every stage. With all these diverzing interests clash- ing it will readily be perceived that thus far the securing of the Democratic free sil- ver nomination on this glorious Fourth of July remains anybody’s fight S “SOUND MONEY’S” FRIEND. Franklin MacVeagh and Ex-Gov- ernor Russell Speak at a Meeting. CHICAGO, 1L, July 4—A public meet- mg of the friends of the “‘sound money’’ cause was held tbis evening in the Audi- torium, a theater connected with the he- tel of that name and capable of holding | about 7000 spectators. There was not a vacant seat to be had when the serious business of the evening began, the hour between 7 First Regiment. On the platform were seated Senator | Gray of Delaware, John R. Fellows of New York, Franklin MacVeagh of Chicago and mauny other prominent supporters of the sound money cause and a iarge num- ber of ladies, while Mr. Whitney occupied a seat in one of the boxes. The meeting was called to order by ex- Governor Flower of New York, who, after a short speech, introduced as the first speaker Mr. Franklin MacVeagh as “the prominent financier of Chicago.” Mr. MacVeagh said this great assem- blage had gathered because the Nation and the Democratic party were brought face to face with an impending crisis. Thirty-six years ago—in 1860—a memora- | ble Democratic convention had met. | Then also the Nation and the Democratic party stood face to face with an impend- ing crisis. Then the unity of the Nation was at stake. Now its honor is at stake. That honor had to be pre- served. The agonies and waste of war, | North and South, would turn to wanton- ness in the pages of the Nation’s history, if the country should have been preserved only to become a defaulter and to pay its debts with fifty-cent doilars. Continuing, MacVeagh said: £ “Many of us are earnest bimetulhs‘:s, eager to see silver and gold made equu{ in the coinage of our country. That wnich for this crisis unites bimetallists and gold monometallfsts is the awful specter of silver monometallism ; for the free coinage of silver at 16 to 1 by this Nation alone is silver monometallism—end by all the un- changeable laws which govern the economics of nations, it must be that and nothing else. The fact that silver mono- metallists will not argue for silver mono- metallism, but use the arguments of bimetallism, makes their propaganda | misleading and dangerous; but it does not change its aims, nor would it change the dreaded resuits. We cannot hope to ap- peal with success to all the silver dele- gates. The great body of them would not listen to even persuasion. The wild character of the movement is shown in its fury and anger. But there must be many <silver delegates who find themselves out of touch with fury and recklessness, and who can siill be made to see where this passion and excitement is carrying them and their party and possibly their country. To their sober reason this meeting is an appeal. ‘‘Unless the silver men with conserva- tive tempers intervene, unless those inter- vene whose patriotism 1s more precious to them and whose Democracy is more precious to them than adherence to a single idea, this majority will sweep the convention. Where will it sweep to? It will sweep it into hostility with the abid- ing sentiment of the people—that. senti- ment which is the sincle ‘defense of the Nation. It will sweep it into hostility with the abiding conscience of the Nation —that conscience whose sober rigor wil! sbate ail sophistries which make against the honor of the Nation. “For what will the aim be—what will the proposition be? To pay the Nation's debt in 50-cent doilars. And that 1s Na- tional dishonor. For quibble as we may— quibble as Horace Boies has lately been quibbling—the National debt is payable in the equivalent of gold. That is the bere business fact, backea by the conscience of dispassionate Americans and the con- science of the world. *‘Silver monometallism means havoc, it meansruin, it means the prostration of ali business, all finance,all manufacturing—by a cycloneof panic. There is but one class of men who could be benefited. The silver miner could not be, for he would throw away for a temporary and irresponsible outlet in this market all his hopes of that permanent and responsible outlet which is only obtainable throngh the consent of the leading nations. The farmer would not be benefited, for if he got a silver dollar for his 50-cent wheat his dollars would be worth only 50 cents. There is, 1say, but one class who would be bene- tited, and that class was described by Ali- reld in his speech at Peor’a when h spoke openly of himse!f as a man with a great deal of property covered by a great deal of debt. “It will defeat the Democratic party. That is the faith of the business world— and for that faith they thank Heaven daily. The Democratic party can stand defeat in a worthy cause, if necessary; it can stand extinetion, for it has a glorious history that will live. What itcannot stand is the odium of silver monometallism and of pal- tering with the honor of the Nation and the prosperity of the people. “If the convention declares for free | coinage at 16 to 1 by this Nation alone, that action will not be Democratic action. It will be Populisticaction. A Democratic convention may turn Populistic and many Democrats may turn Populists, but a mil- lion Democrats will remain Democrats. No wave of Populism can sweep them off their feet.” Mr. MacVeagh closed, with introducing to the meeting as the man who, under other circumstances, might have been the Presidential nominee, the Hon. William E. Russell of Massachusetts. [Cheers.] Ex Governor Russell then addressed the meeting as follows: “We have met on theeve of our National Convention to take counsel together for | the promotion of the welfare of our party and our country. We meet with no per- sonal ambition to serve, with no threat upon our lips and with no purpose toques- tion the sincerity or honesty of any Dem- ocrat, however radical the differences render to Republican protection and throw that mantle over silver its discarded shield, nor to sbandon our position as the people’s party to become, like the Repub- licans, a porty of class and of section. “For the first time in its history the Democratic party is urged to make the cardinal principles of its faith and the leading issue of its campaign silver mono- metallism—a new and depreciated stan- dard of value. The demand is for free coinage of silver at 16 to 1, which means that the power ana force of Government are to be invoked to change our unit of value and to substitute fifty cents of silver for a dollar in gold and then to adjust the business of the country, all wages, earn- ings and savings, all debts and credits, all public obligations and the Natioral honor to this depreciated standard. The de- mand comes from a section and a class and appeals to a paternal government to give value where none exists. Is this de- mand a sound Democratic principle? Does it accord with the teaching and record of our party, with the faith of Jef- ferson and Cleveland, with its unflinching vosition always in favor of sound and hard money, with its opposition to paper legal tender and Sherman silver bills, with its constant, undying enmity against pa- ternalism and protection and its proud boast of being the people's party, broad as the Nation, controlled by no class or section of selfish interest. May thedele- gates here gathered to proclaim our old Democratic faith put this question to their consciences before plunging us into heresy and schism. *‘Never yet has this demand been a plank in any National Democratic plat- form. It was expressly repuaiated in the convention of 1876 and thereafter aban- doned. Three times in twenty years we have elected a Democratic President with candidate and platform hostile to such doctrine, yet cordially supported by a loyal and united party. If free coinage of silver is Democratic doctrine it is such doctrine in the vear of our Lord 2896, never in any year before, nor likely to be in any year hereafter. *“It is notonly a new but a radical de- parture. It destroys our present standard of value and ends all hope of a bimetallic standard. No power under heaven has established and maintained, or ever can, a bimetallic standard at a rstio where one coin is given double its intrinsic value. To make 50 cents of silver by force of government equal to a dol- lar in gold will, by inexorable laws of pature, over which government is powerless, drive out gold, contract our currency, depreciate our standard, unset- tle business, impair credit, reduce all savings'and the value of all wages. Anda the masses of the people will be the heaviest losers and the greatest sufferers. Five millions of our people, with nearly $200,000,000 in our savings banks, will be paid their claims in a depreciated cur- remcy; 2,000,000 of our people with life insurance policies, 8,500,000 who have made payments to co-operative and frater- nal associations, nearly 7,000,000 of members of industrial companies—these and many more, with the millions depend- ent upon them, all will suffer in being paid in money of less value than they parted with. And every wage-earner paid in depreciated money will suffer a reduc- tion of his wages; payment of his present wages in a 50-cent dollar would reduce them just one-half. The masses would suf- fer and the great corporations owing these debts and employers of labor would reap a benefit at the expense of the people. It is the old principle and expenence of pro- .ection over again, the power of Govern- ment used to give value and make wealth for the benefit of the few to the burden and expense of the many. Surely this principle has no place in our Democratic creed. “This new doctrine, Republican in prin- ciple, is in line with past Republican pol- icy, only just discarded in the hope that the Democratic party may be deluded into putting on Republican cast-off clothing. Only six years ago, coupling protection with silver, the Republican party passed, against Democratic protest, the Sherman law, which soon brought panic and dis- aster, and was repealed upon the unani- mous demand of the conservative and bus- iness interests of the country. But four years ago the Nation permitted its free- silver leaders, upon their own confession, to grant and declare the Republican be- lief upon this vital question. Protection again made its bargain with silver, deceiving the people with a straddle and cheating its partner to the trade. And now it has nominated as its candidate one v hose record is more shaky even than its own, and whose cowardly silence is ominous to future trade and commerce. Can our party of to-day with any sincerity or apon any Democratic principle follow ia these Republican footsteps? Can it lope for any success in repudiating i cvn honorable record? Can it even main- tain its honor and its life in this depart- ure from its own faith? “May I in closing say a word of the po- | litical results? I am not here to utter any threat of any section of our party. But I | state an evident fact when I say that if our party takes this false step it will lose much of its National character, abandon some of its great principles and there will be thousands and tens, yes, nundreds of thousands of its old soidiers who cannot foliow it as it pursues its will o’ the wisp under its new and radical leaders. As a Northern and National Democrat I within our ranks; but we are painfully conscious of the palpable fact that for the first time within a generation, and for the second time only in 1ts hundred years of bonorable life, the great National Demo- cratic party is on the point of sectional and geographical division, with its untold miseries and disasters. The door is open for derision, defeat, dishonor; we see new faces and new principles urging us on, but we have not yet crossed its threshold. May God save us from the fatal step. “In a spirit of unfiinching loyalty to a party which for a lifetime has been to many of us a guiding faith, of deepest love to our compmon country for whom all would give their blood and life, we ask the representatives of our party to pause and without prejudice or passion to con- sider well before committing Democracy 10 a radical and novel policy which we be- iieve affects our Nation’s honor and we know mustbreak the ties which bind South and North, East and West, together in an enduring and triumphant Democracy. “‘The glory of our party has been in the past and ought now and forever to be its broad National character. It has been and is the people’s party. Within its ranks thus far there has been no room, thank God, for sectional prejudice, proscriptive bigotry controlled by selfish interests, or any intluence which would divide us on goographical, religious or class lines. Rights, not favors; the people, not classes; our country, not its sections, are the max- ims of our Democratic creed. “Has the time come when we are ready to surrender these the cardinal principles of our faith, to reverse the established policy of our pariy, to look to a paternal Government, to add value to any commod- Lemocracy? We are not ready to sur- implore our brethren in the West and South, by whose side we would love to fight, whose vprinciples we have jointly held, for whose interests we have labored and suffered and in whose victories we have done our part, 1 implore them to save our party from a course which will rudely break the closest ties and send us, divided and discredited, to a greatand lasting defeat.” Mr. Russell was frequently applanded. When Mr. Russell resumed his seat, amid much cheering, Mr. MacVeagh intro- duced to the audience Senator Gray of Delaware. Senator Gray defined the meet- ing as a protest against the promulgation of a dangerous heresy and a departure from the ancient faith of the Democratic party. He said there was not a silver- standard country in the world to-day where the laboring man received fair pay for a day’s work. ‘When Gray concluded there were loud calls for Senator Hill. Mr. MacVeagh, however, informed the andience that Sen- ator Hill was not in the hall. He intro. duced Colonel John R. Fellows of New York, and at the close of his speech (11 7. M.) the meeting was declared adjourned. —— MecKinley’s Quiet Day. CANTON, O=mro, July 4 —Major McKin- ey spent a quiet Fourth, the greater part of the morning being taken up by the nominee in signing the enormous number of letters which his secretaries prepared for him. The only decoration on the Mc- Kinley house was a large American flag. ety eet Stevenson Welcomed. CLOOMINGTON, Inn, July 4.—Vice- President Stevenson addressed an immense and 8 being tilled up by select | ity in the interest of class or section, and | crowd at Courthouse square this after. pieces of music given by the band of the |as the result of such foliy to destroy the | noon, receiving a hearty welcome. His | National character of a broad and tolerant | address was simply patriotic, alluding in COLORDO POPULISTS They Favor a Union of All the Silver Forces of the Nation. BUT THE PARTY MUST BE MAINTAINED. Waite’'s Men Being Shut Out, They Elect a Rival Dele- gation. WILL FIGHT OUT THE CASE AT ST. LOUIS, Teller’s Policy as to Coinage Indorsed by the Leaders of the Con. vention. DENVER, Coro., July 4.—The State Convention of the People’s party, held at the Broadway Theater to-day, selected a delegation to the *St. Louis convention that will favor a union of all silver forces, while maintaining the party organization and platform. They will work to secure an indorsement of the Democratic party nominee 1n Chicago if he is known to bea free silver 16 to 1 man. The complexion of the delegation is such as to secure the councils and advice of Senator Henry M. Teller, whose wishes will be consulted be- fore the delegation goes to the National Convention. The vpiatform, which is short, indorsed Senator Teller's course as consistent to the last, advised the adoption of a plank favoring direct legisiation and is fally ex- plicit on the financial question, claiming the glory of the silver issue as coming from the People's party. The platform is as follows: Resolved, By the People's party of Colorado, in convention assembled, that it acheres to the time-honored principles of the party as here- tofore declared and abates not a particle of its loyalty to those principles, nor to the grand organization which has put them forth. We the Populists of Colorado learn with pleasure that the great principle of free coinage of sil- ver at the ratio of 16 to 1, declared first by the People's party, has become the one distinct and pronounced issue of the day, and we in- vite the co-operation of all citizens to the end that the principle may become a fact em- bodiea in the statutory law of the land. Real- izing that the settlement of the financial question is the paramount issue now before the American people, we favor such action by our National Convention as will unify the sunport of all parties upon a candidate for the Presi- dency who is unqualiiedly in favor of the free and unlimited coinage of gold and silver at the ratio of 16 to 1, without waiting for the action of any other nation. Resolved, That the mission of the People’s party has but begun, and that the organiza- tion should be perpetuated, strengthened and ket intact to the end that the great princi- ples for which 1t stands shall ultimately tri- umph. ‘The last two resolutions were eulogistic of Teller and declaring for the adoption ot the initiative and referendum. State Charrman Clark, in calling the con- vention to order, made a personal explana- tion in defense of allegations made in a leaflet distributed in the convention hall by the followers of the Waite faction in this (Arapahoe) county, and he did it humorously, to the evident enjoyment of the delegates. As the Waite faction were contesting for seats the chairman request- ed delegates from Arapahoe County to re- frain from participating in the preliminary organization. ‘W. J. Kerr of Pueblo was made chair- man. After the usval committees were se- iected, while awaiting the result of the hearing of the committee on credentials on the Arapahoe County contest, Hon. Lafe Pence and Judge Joha H. Bell, mem- ber of Congress from the Second District, addressed the convention, both urging a union of all forces upon the financial question, leaving other Populist ideas alone until that issue had been settled. The Populists must go to St. Louis as patriots and not as partisans, was Judge Bell’s view of the situation. The credentials committee refused to seat the Waite delegates by a practically unanimous vote and no Waite follower was recognized in the selection of dele- cates. A strong fight was waged against Mayor Nicholson of Leadvyille as delegate to St. Louis because he was chairman of the State Convention two years ago which was ruled by Waite, but Nicholson was finally named by a large majority wvote. I'he women delegates held a cancus and then demanded representation, which was granted in the Congressional conventions held later in the day. Ex-Governor Waite asked to be permit- ted to address the convention, and, after considerable opposition, upon an urgent plea of T. M. Patterson to grant Waitea bearing be was given the floor. Waite formally announced a protest to the action of the convention in refusing his adher- ents seats and he gave notice that an ap- peal would be made in St. Louis. Then calling upon his friends to foilow himn he departed to hold a convention downtown, where delegates to St. Louis were named. The delegates at large are T. M. Patter- son, John C. Bell, Myron W. Reed, J. D. Hooper, C. H. Conant, 8. D. Nicholson, H. C. Bolsinger, J. H. Voorhees, W. J. Kerr, H. G. Clark. Twenty delegates from the Becona and fifteen from the Kirst Con- gressional District were also named and the couvention then adjourned. _—— WANT A FUSION TICKET. Washington Sllverites Offer a Com- bination for Consideration at Chlcago. SPOKANE, WasH., July 4.—The follow- ing circular, promuligated by the free- silver forces of this State fror all parties, bas been issued. Ten thousand copies were sent to Chicago, where they will be stamped with the approval of the Wash- ington delegation: Without & union of all silver forces success is impossible. The action of the National Re- publican Convention makes such a union im- yossiple and impracticable without saerifice of principle. Nominate for President a Demo- crat whose loyalty to the principle of free and unlimited coinage of gold and silver atthe ratioof 16 to 1 is pronounced and unques- tioned. Tender the nomination for Vice. President to W. V. Allen of Nebraska. He isa patriot and statesman. Declare by resolution in favor of John T. Morgan of Alabama for Secretary of State and in favor of Henry M. no way to politics, except very generally. l Telier of Colorado for Secretary of the Treas- ury, positions for which they are eminently fitted. The country venerates them for their courage, integrity, ability and patriotism. In this crisis precedent must be subordi- nated to patriotism. Thisis the way to unite ull forces that are opposed to the single stand- ard, to high-tariff monopoly, to corruption monopoly, to trusts and other unlawful com- binations. Do thisand the ticket will receive the electoral vote of the following States: Alaska, Arkansas, - California, Colorado, Florids, Georgia, Iilinois, Iowa, Kansas, Ken- tueky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Ne- braska, Nevada, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington and Wyoming, a total of 237, to which will be added three votes from Michigan districts, making a total 0f 240. e HOLDS A BIG LEVEE. Governor Altgeld Has Particular Business With the lllinols Delegates. CHICAGO, July 14—The Chief Magis- trate of Illineis held a reception, political and private, in his parlor to-day at the Sherman House. He had more callers, by appointment or otherwise, than any other silver Governor or Senator or Congress- man who has his headquariers at that hotel. John P. Altgeld had particular business with his fellow-members of the Illinois delegation. He wanted to know if their minds had become crystalized during his address in Springfield on the all-impor- tant question of their choice of candidate for President. He absorbed all the infor- mation vouchsafed on that and any other subject, but said little or nothing in return as to how be stood, except that he favored a caucus of all the silver delegates to the convention. Illinois delegates were not the only poli- ticians whom Governor Altgeld received behind closed and carefully guarded doors. Silver leaders from the North, West and South passed in and out at frequent inter- vals, and from them the Governor learned the exact status of the situation to date. Representatives of all the Presidential can- didates came to see if the Governor would indicate by word or sign his preferences Presidentially, but he was cautious to the point of silence. Toward the close of the Governer’s busy day he said to a reporter of the Unitea Press: “The majority of the Illinois delegates with whom I have talked to-day are in- clined towards Mr. Bland. A few of them are for Senator Teller and Mr. Boies, but they will not count for mnch. I do not expect much definite development from to-morrow’s caucus of the Illinois dele- gates, but Monday the delegation will get together again and decide whom to sup- port for Pres ident. I shall do nothing to influence their discussion, and Mr. Bland will be as satisfactory to me as any other candidate if the delegation so wills.” “What will the delegation do toward meeting a general caucus of the silver delegates?” “The delegation will favor the caucus. The gold men have organized and we | should keep pace with all their counter movements. We would get acquainted with each other in caucus if nothing more. 1 met delegates from other States, but they did not tell me who they in- tended to vote for, except that it would be 216 to 1 man.” . INDIANA ORGANIZED. Much Opposition to the Re-Elec- tlon of Secretary Sheerin of the Natlonai Committee. CHICAGO, ILL., July 4—Indiana’s was the first State delegation to meet for or- ganization, assembling at 3 o’clock this afternoon in their headquarters, Palmer House. Senator Turpie presided and was chosen chairman of the delegation. Un- usual interest centered in the meeting be- cause it involved the continuance of 8. P. Sheerin, who has been for sixteen years secretary of the National committee as the member of that body from Indiana. Ovposition to his re-election developed for the reason that he is not a free-silver man and the State delegation is over- whelmingly so, twenty-six to four. Gov- ernor Matthews, it is said, desires Mr, Sheerin’s re-election. There were twenty- eight of the thirty members of the dele- gation present at the meeting to-day. When the selection of National commit- teemen was reached it was voted to post- pone action until Monday. FOR A GOOD DEMOCRAT. But Colonel McGraw Is Decidedly Opposed to the Nomination of Teller. WHEELING, W. Va., July 4.—From the tenor of interviews given out to-night by five of West Virginia’s twelve delegates who left for Chicago to-night, the State delegation will oppose the nomination of Teller and the abrogation of the two-thirds rule. In an interview Colonel McGraw said: “I am for the nomination of any good Democrat who suits the logic of the situ- ation. Boies or Stevenson would perhaps suit me better t an the others, Iam op- posed to the nomination of S8enator Teller, for I thinkga Democratic convention should nominate a Democrat. As to the two-thirds rule, I don’t think it should be abrogated. It has stood the test of fifty- two years and has become an unwritten law of the party. I don’t think Mr. Whit- ney and his Eastern men can stem the siiver tide now. It is too late.” IRISH AND BRYAN DEBATE. They Debate the Currency Ques- tion In Eloquent Style at the Crete Chautauqua. LINCOLN, NEBR., July 4—Ex-Congress- man Bryan of Lincoln and Colonel John P. Irish of California debated the cur- rency question at the Crete Chautauqua to-day, Mr. Bryan upholding the cause of silver, while Mr. Irish argued for the gold standard. There was an immense crowd, the fame of the two orators Bringing dele- gations from all over the State. Both speakers were warmly applauded, and when an incidental reference was made to Bryan as a possible Presidential candi- date the cheering was prolonged. Each speaker stoutly maintained his side of the question, and the arguments advanced were of suggestions on the leading politi- cal issue of the day. The debate was the feature of the celebration. et Missourl Delegates Caucus. CHICAGO, IrL., July 4—At a caucus of the Missouri delegation to-night Senator Cockrell was made the member for that State on the committee on resolations. The conference did not adjourn uatil a very late hour. Many speeches were made and plans outlined for meeting delegates and presenting the claim of Mr. Bland for the nomination. A further meeting will be held Monday morning, at which the remaining members of the various conven- tion committees will be agreed upon. —_—— Cady Nominated for Congress. NORTH PLATTE, NEBR., July 4.—After an exciting contest of ten hours, A. C. Cady of St. Paul was late last night nomi- nated for Congress by the Republicans of the Sixth district. It took forty-three bal- lots to nominate, Judge Aaron Wallace of Loup County being the strong opponent of the nominee. The platform reiterates the St. Louis declarations. i NEW TO-DAY. Three Store Crowders ! e A A e Three Prices, any of ’em gems. Three prices that represent val- wes that double the money won’t buy like goods in other stores. Facts, mind you, not on paper alone, but in the store. COST IS NOT CONSIDERED or even thought of. Three Star Specials for to-day. That pretty Swit like picture on the side, in Steel Gray and Dark Oxford Mixtures, in Ha- vana Brown, in Blue and Black Twill Serge Cheviots, cleverly tailored sarments, One of the Three at 50.00. Those natty and real swell Scotches, in those fashionable Overplaids that're so swell, some of those right smart and stylish Double and Twist Homespuns, in Blue and Black Twill “Ban- nockburn” Cheviots, in Single or Douwble Breasted Sacks and, Cut-- aways. One offhe - Three at $1.60. We'll just overwhelm yow with pretty sarments at $11. Black Clay Worsteds, pretty Twill Worsteds in fanecy overplaids, in neat checks, right swell suitings. No word painting can describe ’em. In all styles; very dressy, high-grade goods, tailored up to date. The Gem of the Three at 511.00. Don’t you. From a Big Store”? It's a valuable : awd to those that shop by mail. Your : address, please, and we'll send it to you. : (Incorporated), THE FRISCO BOYS, 9, 11, 13, 15 Kearny St., DANCING OR DRLL MUSC An Argument That Caused a Lively Row at a New York Picnic. During the Fighting One Hundred Persons Were Injured and Sev- eral May Die. NEW YORK, N. Y., July 4—An argu- ment as to whether dancing music or drill music should be played at the picnic of the Independent Order of the Late Scl- diers of Russia, held in Sewell’s Park, in Maspeth, L. L, to-day, caased a fight which resulted in the arrest of fifty-nine of the members and the probable fatal injury of two Constables. It is estimated that 100 persons were more or less hurt. The organization is di- vided into two factions, the regulars and the independents. Both factions were marching to the picnic attended by their families and they began to fight just as they reached the grounds. The men took sides with their leaders and a wild conflict ensued. They cut and slashed each other until Mr. Sewell, pro- prietor of the park, called upon Sherif Dohl. The Sheriff summoned fifty depu- ties and hastily sent them to the park. By the time the officers arrived the ma- jority of the men had gone outside the en- closure. Others were still fighting inside the gates. The fight waxed hot for nearly an hour after the deputies arrived. They arrested a number of men. Constable Sherry had a very bad stab wouad in the abdomen, which, it 1s thought, will kill him. Officer Bowman was found to have sustained stab wounds, | but hopes ar2 entertained for his recovery. HANGED BY A4 #)B. How a Maryland Murderer Celedrated the Fourth. ROCKVILLE, Mp.,, July 4. — Sidney Randolph (colored), who was confined in the Montgomery County Jail here for s, brutal assault upon the Buxton family of | Gaithersburg, Md., made at their home on ‘ June 25, as a result of which Sadie Bux-' ton, a nine-year-old daughter, has since died, was taken from jail at an early hour this morning by a mob of twenty or thirty people and hanged. Randolph protested his innocence and begged for his life, but his pleas were un- availing. The mob was apparently well organized and the entire affair was con- ducted quietly and quickly. The motive for Kandolph’s assault on the Buxton family has never been learned, but it was generally believed that it was in revenge for Buxton’s testimony in a case agrinst the friend of Randolph. Lmo T DRAMATIC SUICIDE. Young Colombian Shoots Himself at the. Grave of His Wife. TERRE HAUTE, Inp., July 4—J. A. Parra, son of one of the foremost men of| the United States of Colombia, shot hime sclf dead on the grave of his wife in this city this afternoon. Parra came here six years ago to attend the Polytechnic Insti- tute. Two years ago he was married to Miss Angie E. Bell of this city. A month later she died. At the church services Parra clung to the casket until forcibly re- . moved and at the cemetery tried to jump into the grave. He held a good position at Helena, Mont., but has been afflicted | with brain trouble since the death of his | wife until he had decided to return to Cen- tral America. He was on his way home when here to-day. b OTSORE e San Franciscans Sail for England. § NEW YORK, N. Y., July 4—S8ailed to- day, per City of Paris for Southampton¢ Mr. Backer, Mrs. Beattie, Mrs. H. Focke, Paul Newman Jr., Mrs. A. A. Piretti, all of San Francisco.