The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 9, 1896, Page 1

XX.—NO. 39. VOLUME L PRICE FIVE CENT MOCRACY DIES VERY HARD, Proceedings Prolonged at the Divided National Convention. SILVER MEN RULE WITH THE HAND OF IRON. Feverish Speeches by Some of the Leaders While Reports Are Awaited: AS A VARIETY MORE GOLD DELEGATES ARE DEPRIVED OF SEATS. Music, Mirth, Hilarity, Cheers, Hoots, Hisses and Miniature Riots Characterize the Proceedings During the Unseating of Michigan Goldites. ““The Call’s’’ Headquarters, The New York delegation will not bolt the convention. Great Northern Hotel, 2 Chicago, Ili.,{July 9—2 A, M. It cannot afford to do so as such action would split the party in New York State and the Tammany machine would lose its local power. the Committee on Platform. He and Hill will present a minority report from Whitney have aiready drafted it. It upholds the gold standard and indorses the administration. Hill is expected to address the convention to-day. The gold men are much better organized than the silverites, in whose ranks personal ambitions and sec- tional jealousies are cropping out. Stevenson’s candidacy is being urged for- ward. Governor Stone said to me to-night that Bland would be nominated on the fourth ballot. Delegates and visitors despite the excitement and fatigue of the second day of the convention are still swarming about the hotel corridors at this hour. It is not thought possible that candidates for the Presidential nomi- nation will be balloted for to-day. Hill and Vilas will speak for gold and Tillmaun and Bryan for silver. Populists are urging Teller and Sibley with renewed vigor. ua told me to-night that the ~outh would not support any Populist or Repub- an with silver tendencies for the Presidency. b 1i Lomax of Ala- Burgess, a gold man from Mobile who has been on the State Executive Com- nittee for ten y: vs, declares the South will be divided »nd that business men are opposed to the free coinage of silver and may not vote upon a Presidential ssue The word has been given out that New York and New England will not vote for a Presidential nomivee. nominated on the first ballot. CHICAGO, ILL., July 8.—After passing hroush a less morning session the Democratic National Convention wi two scepes to-night which com- ted whose pent-up feelings it in the eariler part those D no v the san vention hall into a pande- | Democracy. It wa ing the rollcall of Statesona lopt the minority report of | ce on credentials that both | ions occurred. The majority | ee had submitted a report | s of the Michigan aold“ ding ths lver con- their pi Chair- | d put the question on the | the minority report dnd the | t was proceeding with a | e quiet and some preciseness. York was reached Chairman | rge frame loomed under the ted the locality of mocracy. There was | t ief second; then Mr. | ng ou ‘New York | -two votes aye.” | A great cheer went up from all parts of | he ball. The delegates on the floor ted | be applause, some of them rising to their | and women joined in the | for each of the contending | They shouted | ana stamped and fairly | In case this programme is followed Bland will be FRANK McGUIRE, feet to give better space for the display of gymnastics which their enthusiasm forced onthem. A man among the spectators rose and waved his hat and in an instant the audience was up, seemingly en masse, and people were cheering like madmen, Things began to quiet down after & few minutes, but the playing of the band broke in as though it were intended as a signal to renew the applause. Up again came the Eastern delegates and up came the spectators. In the midst of the New York seats a bearded man jumped on a chair and waved his bat. He shouted something to his fellow-delegzates and nearly every man among the New Yorkers leaped 1o his feet, many standing on their chairs and shouting like men gone wild in delirious joy. In that mysterious and indefinable man- ner which all those who have seen a great demonstration of this sort can appreciate, the cheering suddenly decreased in vol- ume and seemed to be dying away. But Hugh Grant knew his subjects, and through his lips came the name of David B. Hill, shouted with all the lung-power at his command. “Hill! Hill! David B, Hill!” became the cry of thousands, who had a moment before shown signs of abat- | ing enthusiasm. Up again came delegates and audience, and every man and woman / [Continued on Third Page,} x-Gongressman George Fred Williams, the Massachusetts Silver Man Who Made a Telling Speech Gombating the Assertion That the Seat of Empire Had Been in the Gonvention Yesterday, Transferred From the Atlantic Goast to the Miss'fssippi Valley. s e S e e o R AT o AN T R ] ——cee ! A\ (ILL TINE | WITH THLK, Silver Men Run Things as They Please in the Convention. SENATOR WHITE A FINE CHAIRMAN. .| Boss Altgeld’s Programme Being United States Senator Stephen M. White, California’s - Favorite Democratic Son, Permanent Ghairman of the Democratic National Gonvention. ORITYS MAD RULE, Colonel John P. Irish’s Ideas About. the | which they voted with ungrateful solidity Convention. ) OLD PARTY PRECEDENTS TRAMPLED. A Disastrous Programme of Dis- credit and Dishonor Car- ried Out. LEGALLY CHOSEN DELEGATES EXPELLED. N Conspiracy of the Senatorial Symii- cate to Have Teller Get the Nomination. A TrE CALL'S HEADQUARTERS, GrEAT NoRTHERN HoTEL, } Cricago, {11, July 8. A superficial view of the field this morn- | ing seemed to prove t! at thre convention was sobered by the effect of its work in the temporary organization. It had trampled on a party precedent foliowed for fifty-four years. The California dele- gation, ridden by its leaders, had helped brain the National Committee by voting for Daniel, and the young members were sarprised when they were told that in 1888 Senator White was made temporary chair- man at 8t. Louis in the same way against to-day. TUnder the temporary organization the majority proceeded without compunetion. Loot and pillage were virtues to ther lulstrict messenger boy. The practice After Daniel had laid down in bis spee 2 the programme of discredit and dishonor, the plan more disastrous to every public and private interest than would have been the successful division of the Union which he and his section attempted in 1861, the convention obeyed its riders to the end. When it adjourned the word went around that the two-thirds rule was to be respected, and the sound-money men rejoiced that responsibility had sobered the power-intoxicated majority. That this was a delusion was apparent when the credentials committee proposed to expel bodily the Michigan, Nebraska and South Dakota delegations, all elected as regularly and commissioned by as in- vulnerable party authority as that of Cali- fornia. It then dawned upon the radicals who needed the old rule to guard them against the fary of their own side that to- day the men who yesterday cut an equally. venerable, just and powerful party prac- tice to elect Daniel, would be found invok- ing the memory of their fathers, the an- cient practice and hallowed precedent of the party, to sustain the two-thirds rule because, 1f abrogated, Biand wou!d be nom- Inated on the first ballot. Some of them say they will prevent this, because Bland is in'alliance with Altgeld and has prom- ised ‘to make an anarchist Attorner-Gen- eral. Already the match of disorder, which yesterday they scratched so gayly, has kindied to '‘conilagration against every safeguard ‘of property and that fright- ens them. - Robespierre lost his head by the same knife on which the blood of Louis XVI had rusted but eighteen months. There is a growing suspicion that the syndicate of Senators is under contract to deliver the nommation to’ Teller, in ac- cordance with'a promise and programme arranged before his bolt at St.' Louis. Look at it! Senator Daniel, temporary; Benator White, permanent chairmén; Senator Jones, chairman of resolutions committee. This closes the Senatorial grip ou every instrument of the conven- tion’s power. The maker# of the constitution, giving the Senate concurrence with the President in treaties and confirmation of appoint- meunts, secured against puppetting ile Presideney by providing that when elec- tion by the people failed, thie chair shali be filled by 8 unit vote of States in the House. These Senators, sitting with Re- publicans in that chamber for years, have | seen them make an errand boy of the President. They have seen Johnson im- peached for revolting and Garfield mur- dered for refusing to wear the badge of a made each Senator a President within his jurisdietion. The crime called Senatorial courtesy, applied to confirmations, grew out of this custom. From the first Mr. Cleveland stood and at the end stands ‘against the usurpation of his office. Therefore, these Senators are syndicated to make their creature President; to make in the con- vention 4 collusion forbidden by the con- stitution. It means a radical change in our scheme of government, accomplished by, indirection, which will make the Sen- ate the executive authority and the Presi- dent a nullity. It cuts every check and destroys every balance of the constitution; substitutes for the single Presidency a paparchy, and, provides means. for final absorption of the House itself and an end of popular government, under a written constitution. The next few hours. will tell whether | this conspiracy succeeds now or is.de- ferred by invocation of the same forces of confusion in which it generated. Last night the old Democracy met in council under.the chairmanship of Sena- tor Gray. The room was crowded and the crowd indignant. Every Southern State was represented, some by the sound mi- norities of their delegations, others by Democrats delegated by business centers. Their attitude was one of the most aston- | ishing features of this astonishing time. They came asking the sound Democrats of the North to save them from Southern politicians, as the same Democracy saved them from Republican politicians of the North. Earnest men were they, deciaring that the majority programme will destroy the South by destruction of credit. " They spoke of the growth of dishonor from the repudiation seed planted by Mississippi sixty years ago, and declared that their own demagogue politicians are more their enemies than the Northern armies which lett a trail of ashes behind them in the civil war. They refused to submit to this thing, and declared that separate action is absolutely neces- sary to save their people and preserve their credit and honor. Some of these gentlemen have been, some are in Con- gress. Many are in business. All are patriots. They belong to the later school of Southern men and declare that Ala- bama, Tennessee, Kentucky and West Virginia, and perhaps old Virginia, will not give an electoral vote to this ticket which stands for repudiation and dis- bonor. They join their fortunes to every Northern' State in the council, led by Bragg, Ewing, MacVeagh, Coudert, Gover- nor Russell, Martin of Nebraska, aye, and men from Montana, Idaho, Oregon and all the Nortn: While the infuriates in the convention denounce goldbugs people wonder at the source of all this maddened display and the lavish expenditures which stage the tragedy. A weazened little man, on whose skeleton finger glitters a diamond known as the Montana kohinoor, is seen furiively gliding around hotels and seek- ing locked rooms. He looks like an emptied purse. It is Clark of Montans, the thirty-ply millionaire silver miner. He and twenty other silver millionaires are here merely in behalf of the toiling masses, ready to poultice their wounds with silver at $1 29 per ounce which costs 12 cents to produce. But then the profit on drugs was alwavs high, especi- ally when' the physician gets a commis- sion on the prescription. The ‘three States marked for expulsion were assassinated oné at a time. The knife was usea first on Nebraska. Life- long Democrats were sent out to the morgte and men who were never in the party before ‘sat in their places in a con- vention presided over temporarily and permanently by Senators who voted for the Pefter-Allen bill to repeal the resump- tion aci and suspend specie payment. The morning session was not piquant. When the Nebraska delegation was ex- pelled and the one seated by no right but might marched in an attempt was made to get up a demonstration, The un- elécted usurpers were led by Bryan, clad in-a silver mantle and following a silver bénner, which he regarded with that rapt look which a Mohammedan bestows apon his prayer rug. It was a failurer Nobody noticed it, and the zentlemen ex- pelled to make room for this tawdry play got the most attention. It is settled that California, per Mr. Foote, 18 to second Senator Blackburn's nomination for the Presidency. Whether the delegation can be forced into support- ing him is a much-discussed matter. The convention’s assassination of Michi- gan was followed by a war dance while the band played ‘“‘Dixie.” It has rapidly crystallized opinion and made more cer- tain & movement repudiating the repu- diators. Jonx P. Irsm. California, Cleveland Interested. BUZZARDS BAY, Mass., July 8,—With the exception of a few hours this alter- noon the President remained at Gray Gables all day. Bulletins from the con- vention hall were handed him by the operator, which he carefully read, and he followed the deliberations with much in- terest. Adhered to by the Men Who Rule. NEW ATTRACTION TO THE LAKE CITY’S DIME MUSEUM, Influence of “The Call” Shown at the Coliseum in the Distribution of Seats. Great Northern Hotel, Chicago, 111., July 8. Delegates were slow in arriving at the Coliseum this morning. While waiting for the report of the Committee on Cre- dentials the convention was addressed by several silver men, who hurled defi- ance at the advocates of gold. The gold delegates from Nebraska and Michigan were unseated and the free coinage contestants seated, giving silver more than the vwo-thirds majority re- quired by the rules for the nomination of a President. Senator White of California was made permanent chairman of the convention. The afternoon session, beginning at 5 o’clock, was mostly occupied with the debates on the adoption of the minority report of the Committee on Credentials in the Michigan contested case. Senator White made a very favorable impression. He Las a clear, strong, pen- etrating voice and has parliamentary tactics at his finger-ends. He was en- thusiastically cheered when he said that his rulings as chairman would be unbi~ ased and impartial. Hoss Altgeld’s programme has been faithfally followed thus far. To-mor- row morning the Committee on Plat- form will report. It will declare for the free coinage of silver at the ratio of 16to 1. There will be a fow planks, but they will be merely subsidiary. To-morrow the convention may com= plete its work. JOHN PAUL COSGRAVE, TR AS TOLD BY COSGRAVE. “The Call’s” Hendquatterl.; Lurid Speeches in the Convention Not Heard by Speclal Cor- respondents. TrEe CaLr’s HEADQUARTERS, GREAT NoRTHERN HoOTEL, % CHicAGo, ILL., July 8. Chicago offered one of her loveliest mornings to the Democratic Convention to-day. The refreshing breeze trom the lake had an invigorating effect upon the large number of delegates who haa not gone to bed until 3 or 4 o’clock this morn- ing and they were in rather a merry mood when they entered the convention hall. The delegates were late in arriving and it was nearly 11 o'clock before the con- vention was called to order. After the chaplain of the occasion had asked a blessing upon the gold and silver men alike, as the rains and the dews and the sunshine fall upon the just and unjust, the band struck up ‘“Away Down South in Dixie.” This enlivenea matters, the delegates from the South throwing their hats into the air and applauding. “The Girl T Left Behind Me” was then produced by the band, whereupon New York and the Atlantic Coast were heard from, there being a few gentlemen of Irish descent in the convention whohad Jeft several “gals” apiece behind them in New York and Boston. It was a morning of music. ‘While the convention was waiting for the report of the Committee on Credentials a Boies band outside struck up **Auld Lang Syne’” and several Democratic Caledonian yells went up on the inside. Then a Bland band marched in playing as a testi- monial of devotion to the Sunny South “My Maryland,”’ and the Democratic yell broke loose again. The silver men were in jolly good humor and enjoyed the music greatly, while Senator Hill.and a few gold friends were away somewhere in .seclusion humming tioe ‘‘Dead March in Saul,” relieved with a few snatches of the popular air, ““Do, Do, My Huckleberry, Do,” and that college song, **Adoo, Adoo, Kind Friends, Adoo,” the Senator and his frienas fully apprecie ating the fact that they haa been done to a wurn by Boss Aitgela and his push. The gold men in the convention were not in a very pleasant mood and they kept calling for ““Hill, Hill,” while Chairman White persistently rapped for order. 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