The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 6, 1896, Page 1

TVOLUME LXXX.—NO. 36. PRICE VE CENTS. GOLD MEN WILL WITHDRAW, Their Defeat at Chicago Means a Split in the Democracy. PREPARING TO DESERT THEIR PARTY. Will Fight to the Last Ditch and Then Retire Before the Conquerors. WHITE'S NAME MIGHT STILL THE COMBAT. Ca'ifornia’s Senator the One Silverite on Whom Warring Factions Could Uait.. “The Call’s”” Headquarters, Great Northern Hotel, Chicago, 111, July 5. Jupiter, Venus and the sun are in con- Jjunction in tlie house of the Bland boom —a wost (avorabie position of the stars— but Mercury, Saturn and Mars are in the ascendant in the house of New York. Senator Hill did not have time to attend church to-day, but remained in his apartments ng up jobs on Bland. United States Senator Stephen M. White of California is being groomed as a dark horse. He is the only candidate men- tioned thus far who would be acceptable to both factions of the warring Democ- racy, and in case the friction becomes (i1l be put forward as the ard-bearer. definitely understood that the gold men will bolt the convention, but they will fight desperately to the last hour and the last moment before they retire from the field. The California delegation arrived this morning in and with good spirits. Con- gressmun Maguire tells the readers of ““The Call’ in another column what he thinks of the situation. To-morrow Col- onel John P. Irish will be here, and will take off his shirt-collar in the cause of gold. JOHN PAUL COSGRAVE. it s WILL DICTATE OR BOLT. Single Standard Men Will Desert the Democracy If Beaten at Chicago. CHICAGO, Inr., July 5.—Sénator Hill did not go to church this morn- ing. He had too many worldly mat- ters on his mind to think about things celestial, and he remained in his rooms for the greater part of the day doing the very hardest kind of work—talking and being talked to. -He had a conference this fore- noon with several California delegates, and during the day there was a steady stream of sound-money people and others going to and comin- from his rooms. Hill 15 a persevering man. He will not acknowledge defeat until he lies prone and helpless on the field, so, with that pertinacity and indomitable energy which has made him a political power in his own State and one of the foremost Democrats in the Nation, he is fighting against the adoption of a straight out sdver 16to1 vlank. All his energies are bent toward the accomplishment of this object. He knows that the platiorm will be for free coinage. but he wants to have that plank made as mild as possible, and if he can make a sufficiently strong combination in the convention he can come pretty near defeating any one of the candidates now in who may be displcasing to him. Failing to get the sharp edge of the sil- ver plank filed down, he will endeavor to secure the nomination for the Presidency of some candidace who, aithough willing to stand upon a silver plank, will not bea crank upon that subject. Hill hateecranks and las therefore no love for Altgeid and his following. Of all the candidates whose names have thus far been mentioned, there is one who would beacceptable to both factions of the too great he stand It is now Democracy, and that one is Stephen M White of California. Senator Hill re- marked last night to a friend (not for pub- lication, but.the story leaked out) that if | he had to follow the party upon a silver platform he would rather have Senator White carry the banner than anybo:ly else whom knew; not that he had any idea that the Senator from California was not perfectly sincere on the free-coinage ques- tion, but that he knew White to be an able and safe man, and one to whose hands the welfare of tie Nation might be wisely intrusted. There is no boom yet for Senator White, nor is there likely to beone. Itismore than probable that when the friends of the many candidates get tired of pulling and hauling and of bickerings, the Senator from California will be brought forward at the opportune time as a dark horse on which the convention may ride safely over the rocks of factional discord. But neither Senator Hill nor any other prominent member of the gold wing has | yet announced that he would vote at the | polls for a silver nominee on a silver plat- | form. On the contrary, men high in the councils of the party have declared that | they will not vote for the nominee of this | convention if the programme of the West- | ern men should be carried out. They will stay in the battle until the last shot has been fired, and then, if their colors sink down into the dust of defeat and humilia- tion, they will accept their fate like brave soldiers of the old guard, and will die | with the words ““No surrender!” on their lips. The financial question is to them more than party. They deciare that a free-coin- | age platform would be a violation of the | tenets of Democracy—such a gross violation that no Democrat would be bound to fol- low its banner in the coming campaign. The signs of the times are propitious for a Democratic Donnybrook, no matter how affairs may turn out. This much is cer- | tain: The sound-money Democrats, not only in the convention but those in the country at large, will refuse to vote for the | candidate and will cast their votes for William McKinley rather than see the business of the country ruined, as they say it would be under a silver administra- tion., The California delegation arrived this morning, travel-stained and tired after its | tedious journey of four days and four | nights in the cars. Allof its members are {in good health and spirits, and they brought good spirits with them in the shape of 130 cases of California wines of the finest hrands and vintages that ever perfumed the lip of an epicure. They have established their headquarters in parior 38 in the Great Northern Hotel, and to-morrow morning, after having recov- ered from the fatigue of their trip, they will be prepared to dispense hospitality with that generous hand which every true Californian carries with him. Colonel John P. Irish stopped over in Nebraska to repair some political fences, and will be on deck in the morning to do battle for the cause of sound money. Irish is a born fighter, a clear and forceful writer, a logical reasoner and a graceful and persuasive speaker. He will make things lively in the Democratic camp as soon as he takes off Lis shirt-collar and begins to lift up his voice. By a humor- ous chance the delegation, which, as every one knows, is pledged for free coinage, came from California here in the Pullman palace-car El Oro (the gold). The delega- tion has been quizzed very rauch over the silver contingent being brought from Cali- fornia in a gold car. The badges of the delegation are both rich and beautiful, being of purple and rold, plush and satin, trimmed with gold bullion surmounted by a silver bear and a copy of the Great Seal of California done in silver. There will be as greata demand for those badges by visitors as there was for the badges worn by the Cali- fornia delegation to the Republican con- vention at St. Louis. The Republicans | had a simple strip of white satin ribbon printed in gold with a golden bear. A St. Lois newspaper reporter, misled by the ? weight of the bear, published in his paper that the bear and crossbar were of solid gold and cost $20 each, wholesale. This statement cansed a great rush to be made for the badges. Onme delegate, overcome by the muggy heat, fell asleep 1in front of his hotel, and when he awoke he found that his badge had been removed from the Continued on Second Page. Senator Cockrell of Missourl. GOVERNOR ALTGELD LVER T0 LEWD WL Democratic Leaders Confer With Respect to the Platform. BRIEF PLANK ON THE TARIFF. Mild Indorsement of the Wilson Bill the Extent of Its Scope. MAY AGAIN DECLARE FOR AN INCOME TAX. Anti-American Policy of the Present Administration Likely to Be Repudiated. Hrapquarters UNITED PRESS, Herarp Bumpine, } CHicAGo, ILL., July 5. It is conceded that Senator Harris of Tennessee will be the permanent chair- man of the convention, and bhe has made his arrangements. He will make but a very short speech in accepting the posi- tion, leaving it to the temporary chair- man to sound the keynote for the conven- tion. Free silver leaders who have been se- lected by the respective delegations as members of the committee on resolutions and others who will undoubtedly form a part of that important organization have to-day been conferring together with re- spect to the text of the platform and the subjects that shall be mentioned therein. As beretofore stated in these dispatches, this plank is to dominate the whole plat- form and all other matters are to be sec- ona thereto. The exact text has not been finally determined, but that is a matter of detail that can be easily ‘arranged when the committee gets together. That it will be a short, clear-cut, concize declaration for the free and unlimited coinage ot sil- ver at a ratio of 16 to 1is u foregone con- clusion. Two short sentences are all that will be necessary to construct this plank. The indications are tbat those who bave hoped the platform wonld ignore other matters will be disappointed. Well-known men among those in control of convention matters assert that the tariff question mnst not be overlooked. While there isa diversity of opinion as to the advisability of coming out in a flat-footed indorsement of the Wilson tariff act, that law, bearinz the stamp of Democracy, will be inci- dentally indorsed at least. If the United States Seunators are permitted to have their way the platform will declare that the present tariff law should remuin un-: touched until the exigencies of the occa- sion prove that its modification is abso- lutely necessary. ‘Whether the income tax, which was de- clared to be unconstitutional by the Su- preme Court, shall be referred to is a question upon which there is a very great difference of opinion. The majority of the leaders, however, appear to be in favor of recognizing the principle that be- came a part of the Wilson tariff act, and a determined effort is to be made by dele- gates from some of the Western and Southern States to secure an expression on the subject. If they fail it will be be- cause the agitation of the subject is not deemed to be expediernt, and not because the majority of the party are against it. The administration will not be men- tioned in the platform. Some of the more radical of the silver men want an emphatic condemnation of the financial policy of President Cleveland and Secretary Carlisle inserted in the platform, but it is believed that while the administration will escape censure the convention will likewise refuse to commend it, and that any substitute the gold men may offer will be voted down by the sohd free-silver vote of the conven- tion. There was a great deal of talk to-day favorable to a plank that smacks very largely of what is known as jingoism, In a conversation this afternoon a delegate who has been selected as a member of the committee on resolutions, and who will in all probability be its chairman, said that the Democratic party had alwaxs been the American perty, and it was oply during the administrations of President Cleveland that the Americanism of the party had been cast aside. It was therefore quite likely that the foreign policy of the pres- ent administration, by indirection at least, would be repudiated. If the programme agreed upon by these gentlemen does notgo amiss the sympathy of the Democratic party will be expressed for suffering Cuba and a demand made for the recognition of its independence. It is not impossible that the desire to ‘‘even things up” with the administration may lead to the adoption of a plank on this subject that will be equally strong as that adopted at 8t. Louis. P R SR MODERN SHIPPING LAWS. Commissioner Chamberlain Sub- mits a Paragraph for the Chi- cago Platform. CEICAGO, InL., July 5—Hon. E. T. Chamberlain, Commissioner of Naviga- tion, has sent to ex-Congressman Fithian, an Illinois delegate, the following para- graph to be inserted in the convention platform: We demand that henceforth modern and 1ib- eral policies toward American shipping shall take the piace of our imitations of the restrict- ive statutes of King George 111, long ago aban- doned by every maritime power but the United States. To this end we favor the repeal of those ob- jecuionable laws which now, to the Nation’s humiliation, have driven American capital and enterprise to the use of alien flags and alien crews, have made the sta an aimost unknown embiem in and have. virtually extinguished the race of American seamen. We oppose the pretense that discriminating duties will promote shipping; that scheme is an invitation to commercial warfare upon the United States, un-American in tne light of our great commercial treaties, offering mo gain whatever to the American shipping while greatly increasing ocean freights on our agri- cultural and farm products. feap s st g WANTS BUT ONE PLANK. John R. McLean Says ‘“Free Sliver and Less Misery” Should Be the Party Slogan. CHICAGO, IrL., July'5.—John R. Mec- Lean favors eliminating the tariff issue from the campaign. In an interview printed in a morning .paper here he says: “1f [ could write the Democratic plat- form it would be: ‘Free silver—get there. I would make it one bold stroke and quit right there. What the people want is more money and less misery. They care nothing about the tariff question; they are not worrying much about Cul they do not care a cent about the Nicaragua Canal. They want action on this money question and are looking to this conven- tion as a drought-stricken farmer looks for rain. “We don’t want a platform. All we ueed is a plank, and the briefer the plank the better. Declare for free silver at 16 to 1, name the Presidential ticket, go home and the peopls will do the rest. The peo- pie care for nothing else. Let ns not mis- lead them by adopting a platform with a ot of rot about Cuba, Armenia, China, Venezuela, the Monroe doctrine and all that sort of thing. Free silver, 16 to 1; more money, less misery, independence of ‘Wall street and England. That is the kind of an issue the people demand and this convention is zoing to give it to them. “A free-s ilver ticket will sweep @hio,” \ BEING ESCORTED UPSTAIRS AT THE SHERMAN HOUSE. EAGER FOR THE FRAY, Rival Factions Hasten the Clash Between the Metals. WILL FIRE THE FIRST GUN TO-DAY. Eastern Delegates Determined to Name the Temporary Chairman. SENATOR HILL'S NAME IS TO BE PRESENTED. If Recommended by the National Com- mittee the Action Will Be Voted Down. HEADQUARTERS UNITED PRESS, HeraLp BuILpine, } Curcaco, IlL., July 5. The crisis in National Democratic pros- pects will probably be reached to-morrow. It may be precipitated by the decision of the National Committee as to the tem- porary chairman of the convention. There is a well-grounded belief to-night that the sound-money men of that committee will recommend to the convention that Sen- ator David B. Hill of New York be the temporary presiding officer. The knowledge that this was the inten- tion of the committee is said to furnish the explanation of Mr. Hill's absence from the gold men’s mass-meeting last night. He has thus escaped the denunciations which the silver men at the Sherman House have iavished with unsparing tongues to-day upon ex-Governor Flower, Senator Gray, Mr. MacVeagh and District Attorney Fellows for their participation in that gathering. There is an openly expressed desire on the part of the silver men to force the fight in the beginning upon the temporary chairmanship, and George Fred Williams of Massachusetts, one of the latest acces- sions to the silver ranks, is spoken of asa desirable Eastern man to put forward in antagonism to Senator Hill. The sound money men are willing, and Senator Hill is said to be eager to have the fight opened on this issue. They assert that to antag- onize the recommendation of a National committee in the matter of temporary or- ganization would be such a breach of Democratic tradition and usage that no convention could reasonably be expected to sanction it by its deliberate vote. Senator Harrs of Tennessee appears to be generally accepted as the majorty’s choice for permanent chairman. If he should take the chair it is thought he will excuse himself from making any set speech on the plea that recent sickness has left his physical strength somewhat impaired. The leading booms continue in full view. “Silver Dick” Bland's trumpeters are making the most of the promised ac- cession of Iilinois’ forty-eight votes to their standard and claim his nomiration is assured. The Boies men are not here yet in full force. His boomers are to arrive in two sections to-morrow, when said Mr. McLean. *‘Ohio is not a gold-\| they will supply plenty of enthusiasm. standard State. The Greenbackers have curried Obio twice, and every Green- backer in the State is for free silver. I don’t believe the Republicans will elect three Congressmen in Ohio at this elec- tion.” Meantime, the Tellerites profess such absolute confidence in the nomination and election of the Colorado Senator (though his own State delegation stands commitied to Boies) that they are already bar- WHITE KILLS HIS OWN BOOM office between the original Teller men and their Democratic allies. Mr. McLean continnes to be named very extensively for either first or second place and has ap- parently gained considerable strength during the day. Considerable opposition is developing to holding of any caucus to determine in ad- vance of the meeting of the convention what shall be the course of the silver men. Supporters of Senator Blackburn’s can- didacy took the lead in deciaring their in- tention to refuse to enter any such caucus. They want the convention to settle the matter and they promise to abide by its decision. 2 a2 AL HILL WILL NOT YIELD. Determined to Permitthe Presenta- | tion of His Name for Tem- porary Chairman. CHICAGO, ILr., July 5.—Senator Hill was waited upon to-day by a mumber of prominent silver men, who used all sorts of arguments to induce the New York Sen- ator to withhold permission for the use of his name as temporary chairman by the National Committee. Among the cullers were Senators Vest and Cockrell of Mis- souri, White of California and Walsh of Georgia and other active silver men. Sen- ator Hill was told that it wou'd be unwise to allow his name 10 be presented only to be howled over by the silver majority, which is expected ta rule the convention. Hill listened respectfully to all argu- ments presented, and was unaffected in his position by what was said to him. He declined to make any statement for publi- cation as to bis attitude, but others close to him said that he was not the man to give up a fight on the eve of battle. It is believed that Senator Hill is the only man who can prevent a bolt by the sound-money men of the East ii a free- silver platform is adopted and a free-silver man nominated by the convention, and that if the Senator were to bow to the wishes of the silver leaders and refuse the | use of his name by the National Committee for temporary chairman he would no longer be in a position to check a boit of the gold aelegates. silver men may therefore be set down as ineffectual. If the National Committee at its meeting to-morrow decides to present the name of | Mr. Hilljfor temporary chairman it may | be authotitatively stated that Senator Hill | will stand, and that the overthrow of the programme mapped out by the National Committee will bring niatters to a head between the gold and silver men at the opening of the convention Tuesday. The gold men know a test vote must be met, and many of them believe it best to meet it on the selection of a temporary chairman, with all the precedents of regu- larity on their side, than to have the issue presented on more even terms later on. They question the ability of the silver men to hold their men together on a vote to overthrow the decision of the National Committee and to turn down a man who deserves so well of his party as David B. Hill. Such an irregular beginning to the convention, followed by other arbitrary acts by the majority, the gold men claim, would fully justify them in bolting and refusing their support te the nominee. Senator Hill shook hands with hundreds of nis friends during the day. He had a word of cheer and encouragement for all who are trying to stay the drift toward free silver. He said he believed the unit rule on States and the ‘twc-thirds rule on nominations—both the honored customs of the Democratic party—would stand in this convention. & He said all talk about there being one free silver man in the New York delega- tion was nonsense; that each and every man from the Empire State was for_ gold, and they would all vote for gold, even if the unit rule was done away with. The sound money delecates from Michi- gan called on Senator Hill at his head- quarters this eveningz. The Senator re- ceived the delegation very cordially. El- liott E. Stevenson, on behalf of the dele- gation, told Mr. Hill that the gold men of Michigan were with him and would fight for the cause of sound money to the end. Mr. Hill said he was glad to have such faithful advocates of the cause and hoped success would crown the fight. “We are all working to that end,” said the Senator, *“‘and we will at least put up a glorious fight.”” At the conclusion of the interview the Michigan delegates gave three cheers for. the New York Senator. 3 3 %2 i A The efforts of the | Refuses to Permit His Name to Be Presented in the Convention. MEETING OF CALIFORNIA DELEGATES. Dwyer Likely to Be -Named as Their Choice tor National Committeeman. .- JUDGE MAGUIRE SEES TROUBLE i DRAWING NEAR. Says a Bo't on the Part of the Gold Delegates Is One of the Probabilities. | “THE CALL'S” HEADQUARTERS, GrEAT NorTHERN HoTEL, } CHrcAGo, July 5. We arrived in Chicago at 8 o’clock this morning and plunged immediately into the fight. Its intensity has not been over« stated. Each side suspects the other and acts upon the suspicion. A majority of the National Committeeare gold men, and. they are determined to insist upon name ing a gold man for temporary chairman,, Senator Hill of New York was selected for the position. As soon as this became known to the; silver men they appointed a committeer consisting of Senator Cockerell of Mis- souri and Senator White of California to! wait upon Hill and warn him that they would resist and overturn the appointments | ot any gold advocate to that place. The committee, as diplomatically as: possible, said that in the present temper| | of the silver men his selection was out of' | the question. Hill thereupon declined thed proffered appointment, and the National Committee tendered the place to Senator White. This was a great surprise, and placed White in a very embarrassing posie. tion. To accept it after inducing Hill tos decline was out of the question, so he posi« tively declined the honor. I understand that the temporary chair~ man has not yet been selected. No apparent change bas occurred in the relative strength of the leading candidates for President. Bland is still in the lead, but not far enough to insure his nomida- tion. The Utah delegation met to-day and agreed to vote as a unit for Bland. The California delegation met, but took: no action on that question. It elected W.. W. Foote chairman and Harry E. Wise secretary by acclamation. I called up the resolution of the State convention instructing the delega- tion to present the name of White for President, if opportunity should offer. After considerable discussion, most of it | in favor of this action, Senator White took | the floor and vehemently protested against | the provosition to place him in nomina- tion, saying that the circumstances did | not justify it. “There is no apparent chance of suce ceeding,” said the Senator, “and in my opinion, viewed from a purely personal standpoint, it would not add to the great honor conferred upon me by the State convention to have the California delega- tion and a few goldbugs, or even many vote for me in the National con- In my opinion it would be a dis- aster to have our candidate, whoever he may be, nominated by the votes of gold delegates, and it certainly would not bs | much of an honor for an unsuccessful can- didate to be given votes from that source.’” The matter was thereupon dropped for the present by the delegation. The seiection of committeemen, includ- ing a National Committeeman, was post- poned until to-morrow afternoon at 2 o’clock. The fight for National Commit- teeman has narrowed down to Tarpey and Dwyer, with the chances very strongly in favor ot the latter. Joe has become very popular with the young men of the dele- gation and they are in control. Before adjourning the “delegation lis- gaining for a partition of the spoils of I T. O. Towles, Secretary of the Bimetallic National Committee.