The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 7, 1896, Page 1

VO LUME LXXX Y MORNING, JULY 7, 1896. PRICE FIVE CENTS. HILL NAW 10 PRESIDE, Expressed Wish of the New York Senator to Be Gratified. FIGHT ON TEMPORARY ORGANIZATION. Silver Leaders to Demand That Daniel of Virginia Be Chosen to Preside. AN UNPRECEDENTED SITUATICN IN THE CONVENTION, Action of the Naticnal Committee to Be Set Aside by the White Metal Champions. HEeapqUuARTERS UNITED PRESS, Herarp Buinning, } Caicaco, Iil., July 6. Senator Hill’s expressed desire is to be gratified. The first fight between the sil- ver and sound money forces will occur on the question of temporary organization of the conven when Chairman Harrity calls it to order at noon to-morrow. Ac- cording to present appearances the praver ly part of the preliminary In no vious great National conven- tion has the recommendation of the duly chosen National Committee in regard to emporary iding officer been antago- d by & ity report and a demand for a vote, but the present gathering is an nal one and is likely to break in u precedc in more respects than one. By u vote of 27 to 23 the majority of thefNational Committee decided to recom- mend Senator David B. Hill as temporary chairman of the convention. C. 8. Thomas of Colorado gave notice that a minority report would be presented recommending the selection of Senator John W. Daniel of Virginia, and that the convention would be asked to make a choice between the two nominations. It is a curious fact that at the last Demo- cratic Convention held in this city, during | the memorable ht session which re- sulted in the nomination of Grover Cleve- | land, Senator Daniel, with dauntless cour- age, faced for over an hour a hostile audi- | ence as the especial champion of Senator Hill, the man to whom, by the irony of | " poiitics, he is now ant zed. The method of proceeding to-morrow will probably be as follows: When Mr. Harrity calis the convention to order as the representative of the National Com- mittee and recommends the selection of Senator Hill as chairman, a minority member of the National Committee will offer a substitute offering Senator Daniel. | er all forms of parliamentary law a 1bstitute must first be voted upon, and the only open question in this case seems to be whether or not Mr. Harrity will recognize one of the silver associates for the purpose of offering this substitute, the convention not having been organized, and no roll of the delegates having been passed upon. The silver men claim that the chairman’s act in recommending a temporary chair. man for the approval ot the convention i “an admission that the convention is quali fied to act upon it. If this be true in the one case, they assert that it must be so in the case of the substitute. Should Mr. Harrity refuse to put the motion for the adoption of the substitute, some silver member of tne National Committee on Platform will put the question himself, and the mish between the gold and silver iactions will be precivitated. &I know very little about mentary status of the matter,” ator Tillman to-night, “but I do claim to be possessed of a little common sense. know that Senator Daniel will be the tem- porary chairmean of this convention and that he will make the speech. If the goid men think that their 300 votes form the majority of this convention, just let them the parlia- ? said Sen- | servative spirit seemed 1 | whom the contending delegations could M < i mf////:u i VAR M \L/‘ S 3 b N BT ¢ . : THE GRAND DRILL BY THE NAVAL FORCES FROM THE FLAGSHIP PHILADELPHIA AND MON ADNOCK AT LYCEUM PARK, MONTEREY, CAL., YESTERDAY. Sketched on the spot by @ member of * The Call’s” Art Staff. try it. The silver men are running this | affair, and they propose to run it after | their own fashion. If the gold men don’t like it, let them bolt. I hope they will.” During the early hours of the day a con- to pervade the | more radical of the silver men, and the de- | sire was expressed by many to avoid if possible a clash in the convention. The conclusion ot the committee to rec- ommend the selection of Senator Hill has caused a sudden drop in this conservatism, and the feeling between the two tactions of the party now seems to be more bitter than before, if such a condition be pos- sible. As to the probable choice of a Presiden- tial candidate to represent the free-coinage platform, the day’'s developments have met with no marked change in the sitna- tion. Bland’s friends are doing most of the claiming and shouting. Efforts to get the silver men to caucuson the nomina- tions in advance of the meeting of the convention continue to meet with failure, some of the prominent silver leaders de- claring their fears that the result of such caucus would be to create dissensions in heir ranks and aid the “gold bugs” in | their efforts to disorganize them. 1 The California defegation appears to be determined to present the name of Sena- | tor White of that State despite the pro- | tests of the Senator that he is not a can- | didate and does not desire his name to be | considered. At the meeting of the dele- gation this afternoon the matter was dis- cussed, several delegates stating that they | believed the time would come in the con- { test when the convention would turn to | Senator White as the only man upon | unite. For this reason they proposed to keep him as their candidate. Senator L ‘White, who was present, entered an em- Continued on Second Page. SENATOR DAVID BENNETT HILL OF NE' COMMITTEE TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN W YORK, CHOSEN BY THE NATIONAL OF THE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION. LR | THE L. | { That Is the First Business | of Silverites’ Radical Wing. CALIFORNIA FOR A FREE- COINAGE PLANK. | Aside From White the Dele-| gates Are Not Agreed on a Candidate. COSGRAVE TELLS OF HILL'S CRAFTY PLANNING. The Crowding State of the Conven- tion Week Is Initiated at Chicago. THE CALL'S HEADQUARTERS, GREAT NorRTHERN HOTEL, CHicaco, 111., July 64} Senator Hill was chosen by the Na- tional Committee to-day as temporary chairman, and the radical wing of the silver party declare that the first busi- ness of the convention wili be the level- ing of that Hill. Delegate E. E. Leake of California says that about half of the California delegation are sonnd money men, but that they will vote for the silver plank in accordance with the instructions of | the State Convention. Delegate James V. Coleman inquires as to the ideniity of the person or the influence that has projected Governor Altgeld into the management of the National Democracy. He declares also that only Caminetti and Maguire are for Bland, and that the remainder have no candidate. Colonel John P. Trish is here with col- lar and button, but no necktie He pro- poses to make things lorid and will sear many pages of manuscript with thoughts that burn. State street for several blocks is im- passable by Teason of great crowds as- sembied to witness the political menag- erie in the Palmer House. JOHN PAUL CROSGRAVE. i SR HILL’S CRAFTY PLANNING. ver Men. THE CALL'S HEADQUARTERS, The results of the crafty planning by the mind of David Bennett Hill. of the It Gains Friends for the New Yorker Among Some of the Sil- GREAT NorTuerN HoTEL, Caicaco, 111, July 6. mauttered conferences behind closed doors, of the comings and goings of delegates to and from the apartments ¢1 the man e" the high forehead, the fruits of remaining | away from church on Sunday and doing politics instead of praying, have become apparent during the last twenty-four hours. Among these results may be men- tioned the fact that some of Governor Alt- geld’s Illinois delegates have had the temerity to express a preference for some candidate other than “Silver Dick,” and the equally significant fact thata large number of the silver men who had here- tofore said : “*Get thee behind me, David,” have talked with David in front of them and have gone away with the opinion that David 1s a pretty goocd Democrat after all. The big result is Senator Hill’s selection by the National Committee as temporary chairman. Even Governor Altgeld has walked into the trap laid by the wily New Yorkers, and has taken a sniff at the toasted cheese on the bait hook. He no longer regards Senator Hill with the dyna- mite eye of the anarchist. The whole aim of Senator Hill’s efforts is in the direction of the defeat of any too pronounced silver candidate for the first or second place, and also to prevent the 16 to 1 ratio from being inserted in the platform. In the absence of no bread he would be willing to takea half-ioaf in the shape of any mitigation in thatregard. It now appears that Hill's absence from the gold meeting at the Auditorium several evenings ago was de- liberate with malice and aforethought. BSome of the silver men with whom he has been wrestling politically are saying that Senator Hiil is not such a rabid goldbug after all. The Senator himself has given them to understand that there is ground for this opinion; that what he chiefly desires is the success of the Democratic party, and that he does not wish to jeopardize it by any too radical utterance in the platform on the iinancial issue. He has pointed out to them the danger of unnecessarily estranging from the party the large pro- portion of the influence of sound money Democrats in all parts of the United States, and he has assured them that it would give him the greatest pleasure and that it would be the proudest work of his life at this time to keep the party intact, without taking away from the advocates of free coinage any of the fruits of victory which they could harvest in the conven- tion by the large majority of votes con- trolled by them. If the convention does not revoke his appointment to-morrow he will be given the vast power dwelling in the intelligent gavel. He has been so smooth-spoken in the matter that many silverites who had come to Chicago with silver bricks on their shoulders and foaming at the mouth gave the Senator a respectful hearing in their calmer mood. In this way he has made a perceptible inroad into the radical faction of the party and has even secured a hear- ing for his claims for the temporary chair- manship. The declination of that honor by United States Senator White of Cali- fornia, which declination was made after Mr. Hill bad several secret conferences with prominent members of the California delegation, removed the most serious ob- stacle from the pathway of the Senator from New York. He has this advantage among all the turmoil and jarring of the rival factions with respect to their favorite candidates for the Presidency—that the gold men are solidly united in the com- mon cause and that thev have no favor- ites, the cause in their estimation being higher than any men or number of men; but after all this scheming and subtle weaving of cunning webs I doubt whether the wily Senator from New York will suc- ceed in his attempt to break down the 16 to 1 clause, which is really the life blood of the present convention. But it is Continued on Third Page, | U0 RUNS VERY HIGH, | ical candidate of the Democracy. John P. Irish Scores the Syndicate of Southern Senators. TREACHERY IS RAMPANT AT CHICAGO. Is Tilden’s Prophecy of Eighteen Years Ago to Be Now Fulfilled? IMPRUDENT TALK AS TO POETIC JUSTICE AND REVENGE. Logical Candidates of the Present Day Not Good Enough for Pallbearers of the Past. “TrE CALL'S” HEADQUARTERS, } GREAT NORTHERN HOTEL, CHICAGO, [LL., July 6. Until Saturday night the area of the po- litical storm pressure was over Iowa and Missouri. The Boies and Bland pickets boarded all incoming Western trains at Omaha to pick off straggling delegates. Nebraska was never so divided since the Ogalalias and Omabha tribes scalped each other before the Nebraska bill turned the land over to their white successors. On Saturday the Boies pickets informed all political pilgrims that Bland was a geod man, but being a Catholic could never be President. The same day Alt- geld’s organ scratched Bland out of the race because he is a Southerner. Then rose a cyclonic yell that Altgeld and Boies had combined, while thought- ful men wondered if out of this gathering of the tribes that knew not Israel would issue twin furies of sectionalism and re- ligious intolerance, against which Jeffer- sonian Democracy has canonized for near a hundred years. The scene in Chicago is wild beyond de- scription. Feud runs high. The ruling spirits are the syndicate of Senators, mostly Southern men, who are in charge of the free-silver fight. Eighteen years ago Samuel J. Tilden said to me that the Democratic party would rally and elect one man to the Presidency and pass away, because that victory would bring the South to the front and the public men of that section could neither lead nor follow wisely. Was it prophecy and are these Southern Senators resbonsible for the re- vival of sectionalism even in the silver ranks? A listener in these crowds hears dis- quieting and imprudent talk of the poetic justice of historic revenge of the West al- lied to the South against North and East, as should have been in 1861, and thought- ful men reflect upon what would have hap- 1 pened then and what may come now. But the leaders of the South in 1861 lead here now and ride down all opposition with a hard hoof. In constant consultation with Harris, Vest, Morgan, Tillman and Daniel, Cock- rel, Jones and Berry are Stewart, New- lands, Duboise, and Hartman, who form- | erly rode in the Republican palace car, but have recently been kicked off the brake eam of that train, and are here as politi- al tramps declaring Teller to be the log- Everybody asks, “What's the matter with the South ?"’ The spirit of betrayal is so rampant there that the National committee men ; from Missouri who is assistant Attorne General at Washington, proposed to join the silver force on the committee to de- | prive Michigan of her chosen delegation. Just sucn an offense was committed at the | Baltimore convention of 1848, which caused Tilden, Church and William L. AONOR THE 0LD FLAG Spanish Families Join in the Celebration at Monterey. BARBECUES TO FEAST THEIR GUESTS. Quaint Adobes Are Fantastically Garbed After the Manner of Years Ago. DANCING IN DWELLINGS AND ON THE STREETS. ‘White-Clad Marines From the Cruisers Land and Drill at Lyceum Park. MONTEREY, CAr., July 6.—There are really two celebrations of the semi-centen- nial anniversary of the raising of the Stars and Stripes in old Monterey. One is by the descendants of the old Spaniards and the other is by the late comers—the Americans. But after all they are only different ways of celebrating the same event, and as both sides are good-natured the combination is a most successful one. The Spanish element choose to cele- brate the event by the spoils of the past, and they have decorated their houses much as they would have done seventy- five years ago. On all of the vacant lots in the center of town establishments for the barbecueing of meat have sprung up, and dozens of expert cooks have been kept busy all day turning the meat with pitch- forks over beds of glowing coals. The sa« voiy odor of well-cooked pee! filis the air, The most fantastic establishments are those for the manufacture and sale of tamales, tortillas, enchellades and other fiery combinations of red pepper, meat and cornmeal. These places are all put up for the occasion and are truly pictur- esque. Nearly all of them consist of wooden framework covered with boughs of evergreens. The green is put on so generously asto almost exclude the light, so tite interior looks like a cave. On the inside there are rough wooden tables and penches, and the floor is covered witk pine needles that fill the air with a sweet odor as well as deaden the sound of foot« steps. All day long crowds have filled the places and enjoyed real old Spanish cook- ing. In afew places a specialty wes made | of dishes prepared according to recipes that have been preserved in families for centuries. In the exterior decoration of their. | houses the Spanish have not forgotten | Uncle Sam. No matter what they may use, it is only as an embellishment to the red, white and blue. And they love the | red, white and blue. The girls, with their | bright faces and dancing eyes, wear it on | their dresses and twine it among their dark tresses. | There has been no chance for ennui to- day. From early morning the streets have been filled with crowds of people on b MISS FLORENCE SHAUFFLE, / THE GODDESS OF MONIEREY. Marcy to bolt the nomination of Cass, and call the Buffalo convention. But it is not written that any of Polk’s appointees turned traitor to the administration. The platform is sufficiently fore- shadowed. It will call for free coinage at 16 to 1, and by direction or indirection demand the repudiation of all existing gold contracts. Listening to the wild talk one is impressed that something like this would fitly express the sentiment of the convention: *‘Resolved, That we want free silver, free paper and a liberal circulation of well- executed counterfeit money.” One delegate wants Cleveland and Queen Victoria personally denounced in the plat- form. When I said to him: “Victoriais an old woman, has raised a large family and | was always a lady,” he answered :;“I don’t know about that, I've heered stories about her.” So these crowds chew and spit Continued on Second Page. ) pleasure bent and such life has never be- | fore been seen in old Mont rey, not even when the flag was raised over fifty years ago. That is what many old men say who in decades agone heard their mothers tell of the great event that gave them a new Government. The pleasure-seeking crowds first had their attention attracted this morning toward the two white warships out on the bay. The beating of drums on the Phila- delphia told of preparations for the day’s festivities, and soon the ships’ boats were seen heading toward the landing laden with members of the white battation. From that hour the day was a continual round of amusement. The crowd followed the boys in white to Lyceum Park and saw them drill and then followed them back to the wharf. By this time the preparations for the fire department contests were under way. After they were over the crowd again turned its attention to the Lyceum Park